The Vanata The Skald

For five years, Mal and Tess meet as children outside the gates of the Northern Keep. When Mal is forced to leave, they promise to return on a certain date. Ten years later, Mal comes back and thinks the girl he remembers was only in his imagination. But he learns that he’s wrong when Tess arrives at the Northern Keep in search of him and is captured by the Usur Guard. Mal learns that she’s a Vanata, a human hybrid and a member of the planetbound rebels. Mal is now the skald, destined the rule the Vanata world, and they’re on opposite sides of a war. Even so, he’ll do anything to keep her safe. “Tess’s lips were soft under his, her breasts soft against his chest, her cunt soft around his cock, for a moment feeling like he was sinking into her. “Tess.” His breathing was deep, his heart pounding, looking down at her. She was not human, not fully. She just wasn’t. He’d never experienced sexpleasure like that.

Ione Canosh stands on the gallows. A mob stretches at her feet. Tatus have won the uprising against their Panitus oppressors, and Ione is about to be executed by Kye Min, a Tatus rebel. Instead, Ione is secretly taken captive by Kye Min and when she wakens, she’s bound and at his mercy. As a Panitus Maiden, Ione was engaged to marry Beshiel Dvorak, the Captain of the Panitus Legion. Beshiel Dvorak brutalized Kye Min’s wife before he murdered her, and Kye wants revenge. Still believing everything that she’s been told about Tatus, Ione meets Romy, Kye Min’s son and learns the true nature of Panitus oppression. Reluctantly, Kye Min yields to the growing friendship between Ione and Romy. When Ione begins to teach Romy to read, Kye Min sets up a school for her, gives her a place at his estate, and in his bed. However, the new Tatus government is hunting her down with the intent to hang her, even as Beshiel Dvorak is waiting for an opportunity to take her back.

For three hundred years, the men of The Fifty have sworn to sacrifice themselves to defend the border of Calthus from their enemies. Hawthe, the high-ranking military officer of The Fifty, is patrolling when he finds a strange, small animal in a smuggler’s wagon. It is injured, with cruel clamps piercing its shoulders so it can’t fly. He helps the animal and brings it back to Anwen Citadel, where his men adopt the creature. The animal lives with them for a year, becoming a part of the lives of the soldiers who live in the Citadel. One day, an eagle attacks the animal. When Hawthe catches up with the eagle and the creature, he finds a beautiful woman unconscious on the ground. He brings her back to the citadel, where he interrogates her, and soon gives in to his desires. She says her name is Argen. But there is a spy in The Fifty who wants them all dead, and Hawthe isn’t sure what Argen wants at Anwen Citadel—or with him.

Winter and Isidor are two sexy Siblin brothers have been sailing the world in search of searching for their father, Maren. They take their ship, The Singsong, through the dangerous Brecca Strait where sirens have been singing to sailors and wrecking ships for over two hundred years. They In the mouth of the Strit is Nanine Island, where they find their father’s ship, The Wandering Eye. There, the brothers meet Soule, a beautiful red-haired siren their father adopted when she was a child. There, the brothers also learn that Soule is their anthata, a lifelong bond between a woman and two Siblin brothers. Isidor and Winter take Soule to try to persuade the Siblin Council to recognize her as their anthata. But they are opposed by two Siblin brothers whose parents were killed by a siren. Winter and Isidor resolve to go back to the Brecca Strait to learn how to stop the sirens who are still wrecking ships. Sailing in The Singsong, Winter and Isidor take Soule to Halit Island near the Brecca Strait, pursued by Havish and Leet. On the island, a flash flood comes. Winter is swept away. Isidor lies unconscious at the bottom of a deep fissure. Soule is alone with the brothers who have sworn to kill her, and the water is rising fast.

Maledom Vampire. Dmitri has wandered the world for forty years, seducing women to feed his secrat’s need for blood. His venom gives women pleasure in exchange for what he requires. Like all thesals, Dmitri is plagued by his secrat’s tortured dreams of tall black gates and beautiful women with dark hair and eyes so light they are almost white. Dmitri’s secrat urges him into the vast, uncharted forest of the north. Risking starvation on animal blood, Dmitri travels for weeks, finally arriving through an underground passage to a mysterious island surrounded by a lake. There, he meets and seduces Aria – beautiful, nocturnal, and very like the women from his secrat’s dreams. Her people are the Mank, who were driven out of their city generations ago by the Cotsul, who still keep them prisoners. Dmitri resolves to help them, but he can’t defend the village during daylight hours. It’s forty-three days before the Veshtan Guard can arrive, and Aria is locked inside the village gates. Those gates must hold, but unknown to Dmitri, the Cotsul have a secret way in.