A once-in-a-year read (Rocky Mountain News), this highly acclaimed novel follows two strangers--a Brooklyn native coming home and a Haitian gardener on the run--whose lives mysteriously intersect in a modern world of ancient superstition, harrowing coincidence, and salvation.
In this engaging story, an African-American woman and a white widower find love, opposition, and a surprising ally in the ghost of a deceased spouse. Original.
Jack Vermillion is seeing red. So is Earl V. Pike. So is a smart, beautiful NYC detective named Casey Spandau. For Jack, it began when Earl asked for a little favor--one former soldier to another. With Jack’s son in serious trouble with the law and his shipping company, Black Water Transit, about to hit the big time, Jack saw a chance to be a good father, a good citizen, and a good CEO--by ratting out Earl V. Pike to the feds. It was a monumental mistake. Now Pike is mad. Bodies are piling up. And all the backstabbers are coming out of the woodwork in Jack’s rattled world. Jack’s only hope: detective Casey Spandau, who began her week hunting for a sex criminal and ended up with Earl V. Pike--a man using guile, skill, and one astounding long-range weapon to kill everyone who gets in his way. For Casey and Jack Vermillion, making Earl V. Pike angry has turned into a cross-country nightmare. But taking him down will be even worse.
Welcome to a world of werewolves, vampires, demons and mere mortals, where, in the name of revenge, five women are about to live out their wildest fantasies—even if it means crossing over to that other side… Five of today's most provocative authors invite you into a realm beyond the limits of your sensual imagination, where anything can happen—and does. In these stories of bloodlust and payback, of scorching desire and otherworldly fantasies come true, you'll encounter five women who thought they had it all, until a betrayal takes them on a feverish journey to the dark edge of vengeance. Fueled by lust and deception, these women are going to let their voracious appetites guide them as they take justice into their own hands.…
After the battle at Masada, the Neteru team returns to San Diego believing 40,000 demons had been eradicated and that Lilith's spawn has been killed. But somehow the treacherous little creature got away. Now the Antichrist has been born and will soon rise to power.
In New Orleans, NYPD Detective Neil Hockaday and his African-American wife, Ruby Flagg, are swept up in a pungent Creole stew of family secrets, sour politics, ritual murder, and bittersweet revenge. Hock encounters a cast of only-in-New Orleans characters, including a scamming alderman, a hypnotic preacher, and a cryptic old jazz funeral man whose legendary horses weep tears when they pull hearses through the sad and gaudy streets of the Big Easy.
Ray Tatum is the new deputy sheriff of Hogarth, Virginia, until the discovery of a nearly complete set of human bones on the Appalachian Trail. Meanwhile, Ray's cousin, Paul, is summoned to New York to identify another body--the corpse of his son, whom he barely knew. A New York Times Notable Book.
Envious Shadows is a marvelous book. It is about a black and white relationship which has strength to resist the intermittent brutality of human nature. The book never lags for a instant, and it is full of realistic details which range from dealing with the psychological integration of half-way house residents into society, the intricacies of the game of softball, the atmosphere of pubs, the challenges facing building contractors, the mindset of the KKK, to the correct planting of roses. There isn't a pompous moment in it and it is loaded with quiet wit, with seriousness, with irony, and through it all there shines not only a knowledge of literature but a knowledge of life.
In the years just before the Civil War a runaway slave is tracked by a slave catcher, a man haunted by his ability to find people who do not want to be found.
Emilie Woodward's job as a resort manager is at risk when Rowan James plans to open a casino next door. So when he asks her out, suspicion competes with sizzling attraction. What's he after - a no-strings fling or a competitive advantage? Emilie is about to find out!
Renata Novak wants to be a bad girl, but her good Catholic upbringing has always gotten in her way, until the day she meets a sexy Englishman over a pair of red lace panties. Renata throws away her good girl image for one glorious night in the arms of a handsome stranger. Five months later, she's five months pregnant with no husband. Baron Damien DeWinters, hotel magnate, can't get Renata and her red lace knickers out of his mind. He searches her out and discovers he's about to be the daddy of twins. What is a proper English baron to do? Too bad Renata, after her unpleasant divorce, isn't about to commit herself again. Damien sets out to make her his wife and falls in love instead.