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Les vampires ont été réduits en esclavage... Nicole Martin n'avait que huit ans quand les esclaves vampires se sont rebellés. À présent, elle consacre sa vie à débarrasser la planète de leur engeance maudite. Riker, un vampire renégat, brûle de venger les siens asservis par la famille de Nicole. Pourtant enlever la jeune femme ne tourne pas exactement comme il l'avait prévu. Les deux ennemis jurés se découvrent une attirance mutuelle. La haine devient obsession, désir... peut-être même rédemption. Mais Riker pourra-t-il dompter cette fougueuse jeune femme qui pourrait l'anéantir ainsi que toute son espèce ?

Les vampires ont été réduits en esclavage... Nicole Martin n’avait que huit ans quand les esclaves vampires se sont rebellés. À présent, elle consacre sa vie à débarrasser la planète de leur engeance maudite. Riker, un vampire renégat, brûle de venger les siens asservis par la famille de Nicole. Pourtant enlever la jeune femme ne tourne pas exactement comme il l’avait prévu. Les deux ennemis jurés se découvrent une attirance mutuelle. La haine devient obsession, désir... peut-être même rédemption. Mais Riker pourra-t-il dompter cette fougueuse jeune femme qui pourrait l’anéantir ainsi que toute son espèce ?

Do vampires exist among us? Of course. For centuries, an underground society of vampires has thrived in darkness, hidden from the public gaze and forever shrouded in secrecy--until now. Plunge deep into the heart of vampirism as renowned vampire expert Arlene Russo dispels centuries-old myths and unearths shocking revelations, from the startling discovery that Prince Charles is a direct descendant of Vlad the Impaler to the fascinating evidence that Robin Hood was a vampire. Be entranced by dozens of true accounts, real-life stories, and candid interviews with actual vampires who reveal their strange rituals and intriguing practices. Sink your teeth into the truth as you learn how modern-day vampires feed on blood and psychic energy, how they awaken to their true nature, where they live, and a horde of other chilling facts that will leave you beguiled and begging for more. "We vampires are here. And we have been watching you humans for quite some time . . ."

December 1999 marks the 10th anniversary of the overthrow and execution of Rumanian strong man Nicolae Ceausescu--the only Communist dictator to be violently overthrown during the 1989-91 fall of East European Communism. Controversy persists to this day as to whether it was a spontaneous revolution or a coup engineered by his own Securitate (secret police). Vampire Nation is set three years before le Déluge, amid the societal degeneration that led to Ceausescu's downfall. The year is 1986. A young American, Henry Willoughby, flies to Communist Rumania on business. While in flight he is inadvertently served vampire blood, sensitizing his eyes and revealing a nation of vampires. And contrary to their darkly romantic image, these vampires are ugly, slothful, paranoid, and vicious. Henry only wants to return home on the next flight, but when he unwittingly espies two classified maps, he has no choice but to run. Soon he is buttonholed by the Countess Anya Amasovich, a deadly Russian beauty who might be an unreconstructed tsarist, or a CIA assassin, or a KGB vampire. She agrees to help him escape Rumania, for a price: she intends to his blood memory of the maps to locate and assassinate Rumanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Pursued by Militia and Securitate vampires, Henry and Anya's quest takes the reader on a surreal tour of Ceausescu's Rumania. From the rubble of historic buildings razed to make way for Ceausescu's Boulevard Of The Victory Of Socialism, through the secret Securitate tunnels beneath the city, past trees painted green to reflect the bounty of Communism and vampire sycophants who insist Ceausescu invented sliced bread, through hospitals where healthy legs are amputated in error, past angry ghosts and beggar ghouls, past playboy First Son Nicu Ceausescu's Presidential Palace blood orgies, to the Snagov Lake tomb of the historic Dracula bordering the lakefront estate of Nicolae Ceausescu himself. Vampire Nation is extensively researched, drawing from both the author's historical readings and his childhood visits to Communist Transylvania, where he still has relatives. The author's short story, "Vampire Nation," was published in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories (Barnes & Noble Books, 1998). That story now serves as prologue to the novel. Vampire Nation, the novel, was a Finalist in the 1998-99 Writer's Foundation/America's Best contest.

Hunter est prêt à tout pour sauver son peuple de l'extinction. Ou d'un sort pire encore : devenir les esclaves et cobayes des humains. Mais le charismatique leader de la rébellion vampire doit pour cela affronter une épreuve face à laquelle sa force et son courage n'ont que peu de valeur. Afin de forger une alliance, il a accepté de s'unir à la fille du chef d'un clan rival. Une vampire qu'il déteste. Une vampire qui a une soeur jumelle dont il est fou amoureux. Entre le futur de son clan et l'amour véritable, Hunter devra choisir... « Larissa Ione est une auteure au talent inégalé. » Sylvia Day « Fabuleusement sombre. » Lara Adrian

Par l'auteure de la série à succès Demonica Tehya a le pouvoir de se changer en louve. Et c'est sous cette forme qu'elle a passé les douze dernières années, incapable de se retransformer après avoir été recueillie et soignée par le vampire Lobo. Ignorant sa nature, Lobo ne découvre la vérité que lorsqu'une blessure lui rend sa véritable apparence. Le désir qui les saisit est aussi enivrant qu'il est dangereux, car pour sauver la vie de Tehya, chacun devra affronter son passé...

The exciting conclusion of The Vampire Hunters After being hidden away for centuries, the Vampyrnomicon, the Book of the Undead, is finally unearthed, and with it the terrible secret of the vampires' origins. The discovery of the Vampyrnomicon gives Drake Matthews the means to defeat the Master and eradicate the vampire threat, but it also provides Chiang Shih with the knowledge she needs to make her masters immortal. Now more powerful than ever, Chiang Shih raises an army of the undead and creates a vampire nation in Washington D.C. Her attempt to assassinate Drake and his colleagues nearly cripples the hunters, but fails to kill them all. Driven by vengeance, and with his band of hunters swelled by unlikely allies, Drake leads the group into the infested city. With the fate of humankind hanging in the balance, hunters and vampires wage the final epic battle in the streets of the nation's capital to determine who will hold dominion over the Earth.

The shattering conclusion to the nine-book Next Generation series that chronicles the untold adventures of the Enterprise crew between the events depicted in the feature films Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek Nemesis! On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to Counselor Deanna Troi, and Dr. Beverly Crusher's new career at Starfleet Medical. But the story of what set them on a path away from the Starship Enterprise™ has never been told. UNTIL NOW. Following the scandalous Tezwa affair, the Federation president's resignation forces an election, with the future of the United Federation of Planets to be determined by who emerges victorious from a hotly contested vote. But it is the fate of the entire galaxy that may actually be decided on Qo'noS, as the Federation embassy is seized by terrorists whose actions expose intrigue reaching the highest levels of Klingon government—and it will take all of Ambassador Worf's skills to keep the fragile Federation-Klingon alliance from collapsing. And while this potential intergalactic chaos looms, Commander Riker finds his plans for command and marriage soured by a brutal, high-level inspection of the ship from which the crew may not escape unscathed... The epic miniseries comes to a shocking conclusion—one that will leave the Star Trek universe changed forever!