Caine, Rachel

"The opening moves of a deadly game have begun. Jess Brightwell has put himself in direct peril, with only his wits and skill to aid him in a game of cat and mouse with the Archivist Magister of the Great Library. With the world catching fire, and words printed on paper the spark that lights rebellion, it falls to smugglers, thieves, and scholars to save a library thousands of years in the making . . . if they can stay alive long enough to outwit their enemies"--Provided by publisher.

"Zara's street smarts may not be enough when their enemy could be anywhere, destroying civilizations and picking his teeth with the bones. With human enemies, alien creatures, and mechanical stalkers on her tail, it's down to the wire for Zara to save the galaxy-and the people she calls home-before the godking consumes them all"--Provided by publisher.

In spite of a harrowing past still haunting her, Gwen Proctor is trying to move forward. Until a new assignment gives her purpose: the cold-case disappearance of a young man in Tennessee. Three years missing, no clues. Just Ruth Landry, a tortured mother in limbo. Gwen understands what it?s like to worry about your children. Gwen?s investigation unearths new suspects; and victims. As she follows each sinister lead, the implications of the mystery grow more disturbing. Because the closer Gwen gets, the closer she is to a threat that looms back home.

"The corrupt leadership of the Great Library has fallen. But with the Archivist plotting his return to power, and the Library under siege from outside empires and kingdoms, its future is uncertain. Jess Brightwell and his friends must come together as never before, to forge a new future for the Great Library . . . or see everything it stood for crumble"--Dust jacket.

Morganville's human population is taking up arms against the vampires and college student Claire Danvers has ties to both sides of the conflict.

In Morganville, Texas, a small college town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers discovers that her new roommates are vampires and all hell breaks loose as the living party with the dead.

When she pledges herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town, Claire is faced with a past stalker, murder, and an ancient bloodsucker who extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home.

While working for the most powerful vampire in town in order to protect her friends, Claire trains under Myrnin, a strong but mentally unstable vampire, and faces off with Mr. Bishop, who seeks to wreak havoc at a formal ball.

Vampires and humans coexist in harmony in Morganville until the arrival of the evil vampire Bishop, an event which forces Claire Danvers and her friends to join an underground resistance movement to stop him from destroying all the inhabitants of the town.

When his mission to save one of their own goes awry, Jesse Brightwell is forced to chose between his friends and family as his band of allies go on the run to escape the clutches of the Library's deadly automata.