On their honeymoons, Kate and Cecelia confront a plot against EuropeOcean voyages do not agree with wizards, and seasickness during the Channel crossing is the price Cecelia must pay for her budding magical skill. As her nausea ebbs, she is comforted by her new husband, James, and the knowledge that at long last they are on their honeymoon. In their company is Cecelia's cousin Kate, newly minted as the Marchioness of Schofield, and her husband Thomas. The shared journey guarantees the two couples a happy start to married life, if they can survive the perils of the Continent.In Calais, a mysterious woman visits Cecelia with a package intended for Thomas's mother. Inside is an alabaster flask of noble manufacture, one of the royal artifacts that have been vanishing all over Europe as part of a magical plot against the French crown. This is no simple honeymoon: On their tour of Europe, Kate and Cecelia must save the monarchy from an emperor-in-exile named Napoleon.This...

Review'Thrilling, sexy, and funny! These books are addictive. One of my very favourite vampire series.' Richelle Mead, author of the international bestselling Vampire Academy series. Product Description*With its eclectic mix of vampire and human citizens, Morganville, Texas, has always been a risky place to call home. But with the invasion of the vampire’s deadliest enemy, Morganville isn’t just in danger—it’s dying...Ever since the draug—mysterious creatures that prey on vampires—took over Morganville, the lives of student Claire Danvers and her friends have been thrown into turmoil. Most of the town’s residents have evacuated, but Claire, Shane, Eve and Michael have chosen to stay and fight.Using the city’s water system to spread, the draug have rapidly multiplied. Things in Morganville look grim, especially since vampire Amelie—the town founder—has been infected by the master draug’s bite. Now, if Claire and her friends don’t figure out how to cure Amelie and defeat the draug, it looks like Morganville will become little more than a ghost town...

There are many sides to Hyacinth Dickinson - aka H - all intriguing; none predictable.Her public life shows the world a respected gynaecologist. Her private life is deliciously different; dark, intoxicating.  A rich, powerful woman; a devious diamond smuggler and an artful witch who loves women - literally - despite sporting a trophy husband. Yet H is lonely; she wants a soul mate.So, she casts a powerful spell to manifest her perfect woman. A woman to match her desire for danger, diamonds and sex. When H meets talented surgeon Beth McConnell - the newest recruit to her husband's surgical team - she believes Beth is The One.H is excited. She has great plans for Beth; she will be Beth's first lesbian lover. But, first she has to entice Beth into her web. And, she will go to any lengths to do so. No matter that Beth has always quelled her attraction to women and totally blanks her unwanted and scary physic ability.  She is unprepared for the impact H makes on her and H's sexual advances. Confused, and against her better judgement, Beth agrees to go to London with H: she can't seem to say 'no' to the woman. But, fate intervenes. Beth meets her screen idol Lou Scott on the London bound train. Their mutual attraction is electric. Will Beth and Lou find happiness together or will H destroy them?The story is set against the backdrop of Northern England, London, Cannes, LA and Scotland. ReviewA mesmerizing book that has you spellbound from start to finish with its twisted web on intrigue, sultry lesbian lust, witchcraft and diamond smuggling. A roller-coaster novel. --Out! northeast Magazine February/March 2011 About the AuthorEllen was born in County Durham, England. She now lives in North Yorkshire with her long-term partner.She is active in amateur dramatics, and is interested in metaphysics.Before penning her first novel Ellen wrote features for national magazines and regional newspapers.

I should have died quick. But I didn't. I'm a miracle of modern medicine, only the medicine doesn't get much credit, I notice. People say I'm lucky, or I'm blessed, and then they turn away.I'm not the only miracle. There's Odd too.Polly Furnas had The Plan for the future. Get married to Bridger Morgan, for one. College, career, babies. Etc. All the important choices were made.It was all happily-ever-after as a diamond-ring commercial.But The Plan did not include a lethal drug-resistant infection. It did not include “some more reconstruction and scar revision in the future." And it certainly did not include Odd Estes, a trip to Portland in an ancient Cadillac to "tear Bridger a new one," fly fishing, marshmallows, Crisco, or a loaded gun.But plans change. Stories get revised and new choices must be made.Polly and Odd have choices: Survival or not. Catch or release.From BooklistPolly has physically recovered from the flesh-eating bacteria that attacked her face near the close of her senior year. She has lost one eye and that side of her face is now deeply distorted. Much more brutal than the physical scarring, however, is the fact that the boyfriend with whom she had planned a happily-ever-after future dumped her while she was hospitalized. He just couldn’t stand the imperfections that New Polly bore—aesthetically, psychologically, and socially. While in the hospital, however, Polly strikes up an acquaintance with another bacteria survivor, Odd Estes, who lost his foot to the disease and has been outfitted with a robotic prosthesis that he learns to work quite well. In addition to sharing the adjustment to life as bacteria survivors, they both love fishing, and Odd takes Polly on a road trip outfitted with some nearly Kerouacian moments. Woolston’s novel offers intriguing characters, contemporary ethical questions, and a story that will have appeal to a wide range of readers. Grades 10-12. --Francisca Goldsmith About the AuthorBlythe Woolston works as professional book indexer for academic presses. She is the author of The Freak Observer, which won the ABC New Voices Pick award, the Moonbeam Children's Book Award, and the 2010 William C. Morris YA Debut Award. She lives in Montana with her family.

From the crumbling pages of ancient Celtic scrolls comes a vivid world of mysticism and unflinching valor. Ban Talah is the daughter of Tlachtga, Goddess of the Thunderbolt. Unbound by mortal laws Ban Talah must find strength in her own moral constitutions in all their depths and complexities and not distance herself from the deep undercurrent of her immortality in order to fulfill her Geasa, her duty, as a strength and legend to her people. It is the time of King Henry II, ruler of England, where Celtic-Christianity struggled with Rome's papacy and the legitimacy of paganism within the Church. It is a time that begins the reaping of a terrible sowing.The insidious heart of a French Cardinal, a man of mysterious dealings, has set the elements of evil astir. In order to save Henry's England Ban Talah must first save the Lady of the Land from the bindings of the Cardinal's sorcerous, wintery enchantment, a spell that is also a wicked inheritance of ills against the healers of her people. This is a tale of how one woman led her people in loyalty to a King and the Church a respect in her people, driving all that she fought for into all that she also fought against. A woman whom all called: Ban Talah.

Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

Sleeping Beauty, Victoria, Cleopatra, Snow White, Elizabeth,Pocahontas, Mia Thermopolis: all princesses Do YOU have what it takesto be a princess?princess mia will help you find out Best-selling Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot and acclaimed fashion artist Chesley McLaren team up again to display this clever royal roster of princesses of the world. Big or small, old or new, fact or fiction, our favorite princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo (aka Mia) will point out why these princesses rule, and how any girl can too!About the AuthorMeg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana. In addition to her adult contemporary fiction, she is the author of the bestselling young adult fiction series, The Princess Diaries. More than 25 million copies of her novels for children and adults have sold worldwide. Meg lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband.