The Yuletide holiday approaches, and Special Agent Raven Storm is looking forward to spending the holiday with her fiancée Aspen Kincaid and their closest friends. They've decorated a tree and stockings are hung by the chimney with care for the first time in decades. When the body of Jensen Murphy, a lycan, is found with a silver bullet in his skull, Raven is forced to abandon her plans and take the case. As a winter storm freezes the city and darkens the holiday mood, Raven discovers the Renegades have far more dangerous plans than a dead lycan. She's all that stands between the most powerful cadre the world has ever seen, and the bloody end of House Tempeste . Deadly Storm: Merry Witchmas.

1. The Second Great War rages on, threatening to tear the world apart. Himmler’s SS Paranormal Division is scouring the globe in search of magikal artifacts and preternatural operatives to add to Hitler’s growing supernatural forces. If he isn’t stopped, he will soon have an army of vampires at his disposal, creatures that will stop at nothing to see the world bathed in blood and darkness. It is in this terrifying world that Raven Storm finds herself after her fight with the Harlequin in present day Chicago. Cut off from her friends and family, Raven joins forces with Mack Mason to investigate the murder of an antiques dealer in Old Town, an innocent who left the words Black Eon behind in his own blood. The mystery deepens when more bodies begin appearing around town, the burned and bloodless corpses stuck inside concrete and brick as if left there by the hand of God. What is Black Eon? And how do they stop it before it kills again? Stormfront. Time is a Killer.

The Underground Fetish Scene. To most, it is merely a collection of oddities, from piercing and body modification to leather, latex and pain. For Locke Holmes and Jena Watson, it is home. They call their club Baker Street, a place where nearly anything and everything fetish is welcome, where the most powerful men in America submit to their wildest fantasies in the deep dungeons, school marms let their hair down and their heels up and fashion models get those barely there piercings glimpsed in photo spreads. But within the halls and mazes beneath Chicago lie mysteries, cases no vanilla police detective would dare touch. When the child of a lucrative client is found murdered, Locke and Watson are the only ones who care enough to investigate. But what is the Black Dove, and what does it have to do with the gruesome death of Alex Greene's child? Baker Street: The Mystery of the Black Dove Erotic Fetish Tales from Skye Knizley

Cadence Phoenix. A girl with a rose tattoo, a body full of scars and an old guitar she plays like an angel. Two years ago she woke up in the trunk of a car with no memory, no clothes and no identification. She’s on the run, but she doesn’t know why. All she knows is everyone she gets close to, everyone that tries to help her, ends up dead. Someone doesn’t want her to remember and will kill to keep their secret.But who is it, and why? CJ doesn’t know. But she’s going to find out. Wayward: A Hero Will Rise ** Cadence Phoenix. A girl with a rose tattoo, a body full of scars and an old guitar she plays like an angel. Two years ago she woke up in the trunk of a car with no memory, no clothes and no identification. She’s on the run, but she doesn’t know why. All she knows is everyone she gets close to, everyone that tries to help her, ends up dead. Someone doesn’t want her to remember and will kill to keep their secret. But who is it, and why? CJ doesn’t know. But she’s going to find out. Wayward: A Hero Will Rise

A man, hung from a light-post in the center of Death Alley. Nude, tortured, headless and left for half-vampire Detective Raven Storm to find, it's her most challenging case to date. Ever-reliable Detective Rupert Levac and new forensic specialist Aspen stand with her as she attempts to unravel this twisted case, all the while coping with the devastating loss of family and friends butchered in the war against a hidden enemy who will stop at nothing to take Lady Valentina's throne and force Fürstin Raven to kneel by his side. In the end, one cop will stand alone against the darkness. Darkness should start praying.

Cadence Phoenix. A girl with a rose tattoo, a body full of scars and an old guitar she plays like an angel. Two years ago she woke up in the trunk of a car with no memory, no clothes and no identification. She’s on the run, but she doesn’t know why. All she knows is everyone she gets close to, everyone that tries to help her, ends up dead. Someone doesn’t want her to remember and will kill to keep their secret.But who is it, and why? CJ doesn’t know. But she’s going to find out. Wayward: A Hero Will Rise **

On a rainy night in 1971 the cruise ship Crescent Star vanished in the North Atlantic without a trace. No crew, no lifeboats and no wreckage was ever found, in spite of a three-week search. Two days ago, she crashed through and sank a pleasure yacht off the coast of New York, leaving five people dead. The ship has answered no hails and no one appears to be aboard. Agent Raven Storm and a forensic team lead by Aspen Kincaid have been tasked to investigate and bring the ship in, if possible. What happened to 720 crew and passengers and where has the ship been for 44 years? Clue by macabre clue, Raven uncovers the truth of the Crescent Star and faces a villain from beyond the grave. But how can she stop something she can’t see, can’t touch, and that won’t hesitate to use the ones she loves against her? STORM Sea No Evil… **