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Sustained by a deep religious faith, Jason Harrow has built a stable family and become a pillar of principle and patriotism in the Midwest. Then the phone rings, and his past is on the other end of the line. A woman with whom he once shared a life of violence and desire claims her daughter is missing - and Jason is the one man who can find her.

Marcus Aquila and his patron Rutlius Scaurus have fought a superior enemy force to a standstill in Thracia, gaining the favour of the gods but paying a grievous cost in their family's blood. Battle-weary and mourning their losses, they are tasked with rooting out a spy ring operating in the lands into which their imperial master Severus's armies are advancing. Hunting down informers operating under the skilled and ruthless command of their sworn enemy Sartorius, spymaster to the usurper Niger, will not be easy.

A new civil war has begun: with the emperor Pertinax's murder Marcus and his protector Scaurus have escaped Rome, seeking sanctuary for their familia in the East. But they are soon pressed back into service by Septimius Severus, the ruthless commander who has seized the imperial capital and who holds the military balance of power over his two rivals. Niger, the would-be emperor in the East is on the march with six legions, and Scaurus's legion is ordered to Thrace as a sacrificial advance guard, tasked with delaying them. Whatever the cost.

The Korean War rages on in this thrilling alternate history sequel to Beat the Devils: Morris Baker, now a private investigator, must solve a missing persons case in the midst of an endless battle. December, 1959: The Korean War rages on. Protesting the bloody conflict, a Korean-American man by...

I was known as the traitor's daughter. When I was five years old, my father was tortured, branded with the letter Z, then beaten and left for dead. The grueling punishment for his crime was a reminder to all others who dared threaten the Russian's reign. I was the young girl left behind. A living piece of the traitorous puzzle the Russian leader tried so diligently to ignore - until I grew up. No longer could he deny how much my existence had always been intertwined with his. And in order to survive the life I was thrown into, I was forced to learn my place inside of it.

Der Vampir Chase Blood und sein Kumpel Stoney sind im Auftrag des Fürsten Radvanyi unterwegs. Drei feindliche Vampire aus Philadelphia haben sich in New York eingeschlichen mit dem Ziel, New York allmählich in das Fürstentum Philadelphia einzuverleiben. Chase und Stoney sollen diese feindliche Übernahme verhindern, indem sie die drei fremden Vampire vernichten. Die Aufgabe erweist sich als schwieriger als erwartet. Die fremden Vampire sind keine gewöhnlichen Vampire. Sie besitzen die Fähigkeit, sich in Ratten zu verwandeln und können sich dadurch leicht verstecken.

Als Chase Blood zu einem geheimen Treffen mit dem Stadthalter des New Yorker Vampirimperiums, Big Tom Ybanez, gebeten wird, erwartet er nichts Böses. Ybanez kontrolliert die Gangs von East Harlem und da gibt es immer mal wieder Uneinigkeiten bei den Bandenmitgliedern. Chase vermutet lediglich, dass es ein paar kleinere Probleme zu besprechen gibt. Doch Ybanez Absichten sind alles andere als friedlich und vermittelnd. Er empfängt Chase mit einer Armbrust bewaffnet und einem Dutzend Holzpflöcke im Gürtel. Offensichtlich hat Ybanez vor, Chase nach bester Vampirjägermanier zu töten!