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Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.

Becoming the the first female royal healer was a balance between being a goddess of health and the mistress of death. Dueling with sharp-tongued highborns, playing with poison, and watching Mira's best friends pass her by wasn't what she had prepared for after coming home from the frontline. With dark demons and secret desires haunting her, Mira makes a choice that puts her future in jeopardy and leaves her with only one last option.--Back cover....

"They call it Deadtown: the city's quarantined section for its inhuman and undead residents. Most humans stay far from its borders-- but Victory Vaughn, Boston's only professional demon slayer, isn't exactly human. Vicky's demanding job keeping the city safe from all manner of monsters is one reason her relationship with workaholic lawyer (and werewolf) Alexander Kane is in constant limbo. Throw in a foolhardy zombie apprentice, a mysterious demon-plagued...

The Scarlet Gospels takes listeners back many years to the early days of two of Barker's most iconic characters in a battle of good and evil as old as time: The long-beleaguered detective Harry D'Amour, investigator of all supernatural, magical, and malevolent crimes faces off against his formidable, and intensely evil rival, Pinhead, the priest of hell. Barker devotees have been waiting for The Scarlet Gospels with bated breath for...

Baden, having spent centuries in purgatory, is now bound to the king of the underworld and quickly devolving into a heartless assassin. When his mission goes awry, he finds himself saddled with dog trainer Katarina Joelle, someone else's bride, as his hostage. Katarina is plunged into a war between two evils, with a dangerous protector--but is he more dangerous to the monsters he hunts, or to her heart?

Twelve-year-old Hazel Hooper has spent her whole life trapped in a magical Glade created by her mother, Hecate. When her mother is kidnapped by a demon - everything changes. Suddenly Hazel is alone in the world. Fortunately, Hazel does have magic - she's just not very good at controlling it. And she may have accidentally created a grumpy familiar in the form of a dormouse called Bramley. Determined to rescue her mother, the young witch and her mouse...

When Ben, a suburban family man, takes a business trip to rural Pennsylvania, he decides to spend the afternoon before his dinner meeting on a short hike. Once he sets out into the woods behind his hotel, he quickly comes to realize that the path he has chosen cannot be given up easily. With no choice but to move forward, Ben finds himself falling deeper and deeper into a world of man-eating giants, bizarre demons, and colossal insects.

When a rogue incubus shows up on the doorstep of her old-fashioned bordello begging for asylum, witch and part succubus Raina finds her business jeopardized by this intrusion as well as by the arrival of Underworld Dark Guardian Mikhael who wants something the incubus has.