Complete at 70,000 words If only Ellie Monroe was just seeing dead people. Instead, she sees Reapers: massive, vicious creatures that feast on human flesh and blood. As if that wasn't enough, she is also the Preliator, the only one in the world with the power to destroy them. Before the night of her sixteenth birthday, Ellie was a somewhat normal girl. She only had to worry about boys, parties, shopping sprees at Saks, and surviving high school in an upper-class Detroit suburb. When she is attacked by a Reaper, the mysterious Will shows up, reveals himself as her immortal Guardian, and reawakens the powers within her. He helps her remember just who and what she is: an ageless soul bound in human form, reborn again and again, to protect the world against the ravenous Reapers. Only this time, it’s been sixty-three years since the Preliator was last alive, and there have been a few changes to the rules. As Ellie tries to understand her new powers and uncover Will’s secrets, a powerful Reaper called Askel has risen and caught Ellie’s scent, and now he has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her—an assassin who has already killed her once. Will and Ellie discover that Askel is searching for something he calls the Messiah, a being believed to be a true Soul Reaper, and it becomes a race against the Reapers to find the Messiah first and destroy it. Now, Ellie will have to take up her swords and fight with only her Guardian to protect and guide her. They must face Askel and prevent the Messiah from awakening and plunging the world into chaos.
Complete at 73,000 words When most teenagers get a driver's license on their sixteenth birthdays, the ones in the Donatien family get a license to kill. The Donatien hunters are as strong and as skilled as any supernatural creature lurking in the dark. Demons, ghouls, and lycanthropes know they can't prey on humans without consequences. Vampires, like Evangeline, just don't care. Beneath the dying industrial juggernaut of modern-day Detroit is an even darker side ruled by supernatural races fighting for power and territory in the murder and violent crime capital. When Evangeline discovers that a ferocious five-thousand-year-old vampire hell-bent on death and domination has returned to settle an old score with her, she'll have to conquer her fears and confront her past as the monster mercilessly hunts her down. Outmatched and desperate, Evangeline reluctantly teams up with the handsome hunter Desmond Donatien. Her hot-bloodedness clashes with his fierce devotion to his family and his duty, but instead of pushing them apart, their bickering brings them closer. They realize that in this dark city, they alone are able to understand each other. Now they must learn to work together, despite their staggering differences and unwitting attraction, before the already delicate balance between the mortal world and the underworld is destroyed forever.
Complete at 83,000 words Contrary to popular belief, you can't waltz around Detroit double-fisting a pair of semi-automatics. But when you come from an ancient family that hunts the nastiest supernatural creatures on the planet like Desmond Donatien, there isn't much of a choice. That's not even the least of his worries. He's found himself falling for a vampire, trying to deal with an overbearing aunt, and survive his wild, leather-clad, scythe-wielding new partner when beaten and broken bodies start showing up around Detroit. The mystery becomes even more puzzling as it is decided the wounds on the bodies are self-inflicted. As Desmond finds himself getting deeper and deeper into the underworld, he learns that a vampire named Marduk is behind the deaths and he is up to something far more sinister than Desmond had originally thought. Marduk has been trying to raise a demon prince, and Desmond knows that if the vampire is successful, then nothing will be able to stop the demon as all Hell breaks loose. |
