If all that is good considers you evil, are you? Once human but now immortal, Supreme Commander Lord Tanaros fled the realm of Men and chose darkness when he killed his adulterous wife and his liege king who cuckholded him. A thousand years have passed in service to his master, the dark god Satoris. The world view Satoris as Evil Prime and the name of Tanaros is the byword for treachery. The races have united in their quest to rid the world of the Dark God and his minions. The key to the prophecy is the beautiful Elvish princess Cerelinde—and Satoris has captured her. Yet not all tales told are true and evil may have another face. Satoris refuses to act like the...

If all that is good thinks you evil… are you? Once upon a time, the Seven Shapers dwelled in accord and Shaped the world to their will. But Satoris, the youngest among them, was deemed too generous in his gifts to the race of Men, and so began the Shapers' War, which Sundered the world. Now six of the Shapers lay to one end of a vast ocean, and Satoris to the other, reviled by even the race of Men. Satoris sits in his Darkhaven, surrounded by his allies. Chief among them is Tanaros Blacksword, immortal Commander General of his army. Once a mortal man who was betrayed by King and Wife, Tanaros fled to Darkhaven a thousand years ago, and in Satoris’s service has redeemed his...

Земля Ангелов — страна непревзойденной красоты и величия. По легенде, ангелы, придя на эту землю, нашли ее прекрасной и гостеприимной... и раса, произошедшая от семени ангелов и людей, с давних пор живет по одному простому правилу: "Люби по воле своей". Федра но Делоне — девушка, рожденная с красным пятнышком в левом глазу. Ребенком проданная в кабалу, она была перекуплена Анафиэлем Делоне, знатным господином с особой миссией. Именно он первым понял, кто такая его подопечная: отмеченная Стрелой Кушиэля, избранная находить в боли величайшее наслаждение. Федра в равной мере постигала и придворные манеры, и искусство плотской любви, но превыше всего развивала способность наблюдать,...

Земля Ангелов — страна непревзойденной красоты и величия. По легенде, ангелы, придя на эту землю, нашли ее прекрасной и гостеприимной... и раса, произошедшая от семени ангелов и людей, с давних пор живет по одному простому правилу: "Люби по воле своей". Федра но Делоне — девушка, рожденная с красным пятнышком в левом глазу. Ребенком проданная в кабалу, она была перекуплена Анафиэлем Делоне, знатным господином с особой миссией. Именно он первым понял, кто такая его подопечная: отмеченная Стрелой Кушиэля, избранная находить в боли величайшее наслаждение. Федра в равной мере постигала и придворные манеры, и искусство плотской любви, но превыше всего развивала способность наблюдать,...

The land of Terre d’Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good… and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phèdre nó Delaunay is a young woman who was born with a scarlet mote in her left eye. Sold into indentured servitude as a child, her bond is purchased by Anafiel Delaunay, a nobleman with very a special mission…and the first one to recognize who and what she is: one pricked by Kushiel’s Dart, chosen to forever experience pain and pleasure as one. Phèdre is trained equally in the courtly arts and the talents of the bedchamber, but, above all,...

Fathered by an incubus, raised by a mortal mother, and liaison to the Pemkowet Police Department, Daisy Johanssen pulled the community together after a summer tragedy befell the resort town she calls home. Things are back to normal—as normal as it gets for a town famous for its supernatural tourism, and presided over by the reclusive Norse goddess Hel. Not only has Daisy now gained respect as Hel’s enforcer, she’s dating Sinclair Palmer, a nice, seemingly normal human guy. Not too shabby for the daughter of a demon. Unfortunately, Sinclair has a secret. And it’s a big one. He’s descended from Obeah sorcerers and they want him back. If he doesn’t return to Jamaica to take up his...

In this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a galaxy-spanning empire, these are stories of lovers who must struggle against the forces of magic and fate. Award-winning, bestselling author Neil Gaiman demonstrates why he’s one of the hottest stars in literature today with “The Thing About Cassandra,” a subtle but chilling story of a man who meets an old...

Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of the Kushiel's Legacy series, delivers book two in her new lushly imagined trilogy featuring daughter of Alba, Moirin. NAAMAH'S CURSE Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people. After a long ordeal, she not only succeeds, but surrenders to a passion the likes of which she's never known. But the lovers' happiness is short lived, for Bao is entangled in a complication that soon leads to their betrayal.