occult fiction

Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird settles in at the House of Night, a finishing school for fledgling vampyres; but when a series of murders is traced back to the school, Zoey begins to think about the connections that still exist between her old and new worlds.

With the battle for the Great Azure Pavilion finally over, Hyacia vows to help Rey gain more of the powers of Ban-go, the creator god within him; and Shouren, the Sword Sage, begins to regain his confidence--and power--as he deals with his past.

Rey Yan's group of warriors continues their assault on King Wansun's tower in the hopes of preventing the Heavenly Realm from sealing the Human Realm inside, but Shyao's ability to perform her task is threatened when she encounters a familiar face.

After her father's sudden death, fourteen year old Rose Rives finds that sixteenth century France is a dangerous place for women, when some greedy, vindictive men charge her mother and others with being witches.

Odd Thomas, a young fry cook who has the ability to communicate with the dead, is led by his dreams to a small California coastal town where he is faced with a darkness that seems to be stalking the entire world.

Jamie Carpenter, dragged into the government's secret agency, Department 19, following his mother's kidnapping, is glad to see they have the tools he needs to find her and kill the vampires that are out to get him, but unfortunately Department 19 is about to face a foe it cannot defeat.

Presents three novels in Cate Tiernan's Sweep series--The Calling, Changeling, and Strife--in which Morgan Rowlands struggles to control her magical powers and stop a dark force that threatens the entire world.

Collects three stories in the Sweep series, including "Dark Magick, " in which Morgan, having discovered, with the help of Cal, that she is a real, ancestral witch, comes to the realization that she cannot trust him; "Awakening, " in which sparks begin to fly when Morgan--still grieving over Cal's betrayal--and Cal's half brother, Hunter, investigate the return of dark magick to Widow's Vale; and "Spellbound, " in which Morgan, awakened to the power of Wicca, faces some difficult choices when she learns that she is adopted and that her birth parents were both witches.

In alternating chapters, ambitious Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of Scotland for her husband, and Albia, their daughter who was banished at birth and raised by three weird sisters, falls in love, learns of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny in this tale based on Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Sports reporter Paul Faustino reluctantly investigates the disappearance of a young soccer star from San Juan who has not been seen since he missed a winning penalty kick during a big game, and unknowingly the journalist becomes entangled in a world of slavery and the occult.