Mother is dead and the Walker sisters have been left alone to deal with the abusive Sam, their “dear old dad.” Desperate to keep their autistic little sister, Amber, safe from him, Jade the oldest and Crystal hatch a dark plan. But their execution of it puts them in the sights of a deeply twisted serial killer, who discovers what they’ve done at the same time that they uncover his own sick, pastime. The Walkers’ near neighbour happens to be Detective Dennis Kortovich, who gets assigned the HEATERS; Chicago’s toughest, most high profile cases. As the girls are inexorably pulled into the killer’s lethal net, their only hope is that Detective Kortovich’s detective work will somehow lead to their rescue…without revealing the dark secret they’re hiding. Can the girls lead Kortovich on a cat and mouse chase without ending in a trap that will send them away for life?

At this time, however, a pale palm suddenly stretched out from a pile of sand, followed by the other one. Two palms forcibly opened the sand, and a boy with a blank face slowly climbed up from the bunker

Eric Cross and his team have been to hell and back, but their journey isn’t over yet. Marooned in the remote criminal city of Blacksand, the only way for the mercenaries to get home is to help a local crime boss protect his territories from the Ebon Cities. To complicate matters, Danica Black is also being hunted by The Revengers, a powerful band of corrupt prison wardens, while Cross himself is trapped in the Whisperlands, a realm of darkness controlled by a cadre of evil mages known as the Shadow Lords. The team will battle their way through corroding wastelands and deadly vampire outposts, but even their considerable skills might not be enough to save them from the cruel machinations of the Shadow Lord’s mysterious master, a malevolent creature who has manipulated their destinies right from the beginning… Return to the world of The Black in Book 4 of the BLOOD SKIES saga!