Book Preview BOOKS BY KELLEY ARMSTRONG The Otherworld Series Bitten Stolen Dime Store Magic Industrial Magic Haunted Broken No Humans Involved Personal Demon Living with the Dead Frostbitten Waking the Witch Spell Bound The Nadia Stafford Series Exit Strategy Made to Be Broken The Darkest Powers Series The Summoning The Awakening The Reckoning The Darkness … Read more
Book Preview BOOKS BY KELLEY ARMSTRONG The Otherworld Series Bitten Stolen Dime Store Magic Industrial Magic Haunted Broken No Humans Involved Personal Demon Living with the Dead Frostbitten Waking the Witch The Nadia Stafford Series Exit Strategy Made to Be Broken The Darkest Powers Series The Summoning The Awakening The Reckoning Men of the Otherworld … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY KELLEY ARMSTRONG OTHERWORLD NOVELS Bitten Stolen Dime Store Magic Industrial Magic Haunted Broken No Humans Involved Personal Demon Living with the Dead Men of the Otherworld NADIA STAFFORD NOVELS Exit Strategy Made to Be Broken OTHERWORLD NOVELS Bitten Stolen Dime Store Magic Industrial Magic Haunted Broken No Humans Involved Personal Demon … Read more
Book Preview ACKNOWLEDGMENTS With every book, I thank my agent, Helen Heller, and my editors, to whom I’m always indebted. But this one needs an unusually big thank-you to my editors. Writing multiple points-of-view had its challenges, primarily that more voices meant more blather . . . and a bloated first draft. A huge thanks … Read more
Book Preview HOPE LUCIFER’S DAUGHTER There was a time in my life when the prospect of watching a man die would have filled me with horror. Now, as I shivered beside the cenotaph, knowing death was coming, what I felt was very different. Only knowing it was too late to stop what was about to … Read more
Book Preview I Brendan struggled to stay awake. A tough battle—far tougher than it should have been under the circumstances. They’d approached him behind a bank, its parking lot empty as evening turned to night. He’d been cutting through to the shelter, hoping it would still have meals. Hot meals would be too much to … Read more
Book Preview A huge debt of thanks is owed to my agent, Helen Heller, and my editors—Anne Groell at Bantam US, Anne Collins at Random House Canada, and Antonia Hodgson at Time Warner UK—for putting up with my endless fretting and fussing on this one. They were as patient and supportive as any writer could … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments As always, I’m deeply indebted to everyone who helped get my book from that first spark of an idea to a complete novel. Heaps of thanks to my agent, Helen Heller, and my editors: Anne Groell at Bantam US, Anne Collins at Random House Canada, and Antonia Hodgson at Time Warner … Read more
Book Preview Acknowledgments With thanks… To my agent, Helen Heller, for always keeping me on track. To Anne Groell at Bantam US, for helping me bang this one into shape. To Antonia Hodgson at Time Warner UK, for suggesting the perfect “kick” for my flat ending. To Anne Collins at Random House Canada, for her … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR KELLEY ARMSTRONGAND Dime Store Magic “Armstrong must have decided one day to throw every genre she could imagine—mystery, horror, supernatural thriller, romance and chick-lit—into her writerly cauldron. What she conjured up is the hilariously hip Women of the Other-world series.” Calgary Herald “Sexy supernatural romance … This story’s special strength lies … Read more
Book Preview PRAISE FOR KELLEY ARMSTRONG AND Stolen “Long before American author Stephenie Meyer came on the scene—four years before, to be precise—Canadian fantasy novelist Kelley Armstrong began paving the way with Women of the Otherworld.” Winnipeg Free Press “A taut, sensual thriller that grips from the first page. Elena Michaels is at once sublime … Read more
Book Preview I’ve been fighting it all night. I’m going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it’s an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does. It’s nearly two a.m., too late for this foolishness and I need my sleep. … Read more
Book Preview I DON’T KNOW WHO was more anxious—Daniel or Kenjii—but they weren’t making this emergency helicopter evacuation any easier. I patted Kenjii and she shifted until her full hundred pounds of German shepherd rested squarely on my feet. When I tried to wriggle away, she moved closer and pinned my legs. I sighed and … Read more
Book Preview SERENA STOOD ON THE rock ledge twenty feet above the lake, singing in a voice known to bring tears to the eyes of everyone who heard it. Everyone except me. “For God’s sake, Seri,” I said, “just dive already.” Serena stuck out her tongue and shifted closer to the edge, toes wrapping around … Read more
Book Preview One AFTER FOUR NIGHTS ON the run, I was finally safe, tucked into bed and enjoying the deep, dreamless sleep of the dead … until the dead decided they’d really rather have me awake. It started with a laugh that slid into my sleep and pulled me out of it. As I rose … Read more
Book Preview One WHEN THE DOOR TO my cell clicked open, the first thought that flitted through my doped-up brain was that Liz had changed her mind and come back. But ghosts don’t open doors. They will, on occasion, ask me to open one, so I can raise and interrogate the zombies of supernaturals killed … Read more
Book Preview Twelve Years earlier . . . MOMMY FORGOT TO WARN the new babysitter about the basement. Chloe teetered on the top step, chubby hands reaching up to clutch both railings, her arms shaking so much she could barely hang on. Her legs shook, too, the Scooby Doo heads on her … Read more