Hero once peeled the skin from an entire family and hung their bodies in the front yard of their house for days. He once burned a man alive, then cut off his head while his family watched. I’m used to fighting the local mobsters where I live, but this Hero’s another league of depraved. I’ve caused him millions by taking out the local drug runners, now he wants me dead. Hero’s organization reaches across the globe. His people are everywhere. I’ve been warned this isn’t a fight I can win. It’s not one I’m willing to back down from either. My hair holds the strength of all my ancestors. It can freeze a man to death or burn him alive. My boyfriend Kemp has superspeed. I bet on us, always. If this Hero wants a fight, then I say bring it. He may take my life, but I don’t plan on going down alone.

I wasn’t even remotely interested in collecting the third instrument of assassination. It was far better for everyone involved — and for Warner, specifically — if I just let it be. And since I was the only one who could retrieve the artifacts, I figured it was my call to make. I was wrong. And though that wasn’t unusual, I was just so … so … wrong … about everything. I was wrong about who I was protecting and why. I was wrong about who and what I could control. And I was wrong about who I was becoming. Baker of cupcakes, maker of trinkets, half-witch, half-dragon, dowser, alchemist … Why couldn’t I just be Jade? Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic is the sixth book in the Dowser series, which is set in the same universe as the Oracle, Reconstructionist, Amplifier, Archivist, and Misfits of the Adept Universe series. While it is not necessary to read all the series, in order to avoid spoilers the ideal reading order of the Adept Universe begins with Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1).

Buckle in for a wild ride through the heart-pounding twists and turns of this complete urban fantasy action adventure where powerful magical families make the mafia look like choirboys and connections are everything in Jami Gray’s spellbinding Arcane Transporter series. A failed assassination, a kidnapped ally, and a treasonous scheme pit Rory and Zev against a devious enemy determined to watch Arcane society crash and burn. After a bumpy start, Rory Costas, Arcane Transporter, is gaining professional traction while her personal journey with the sexy Zev Aslanov is accelerating at an exhilarating pace. That is, until their date night is crashed by a mercenary team of magical assassins. Their goal—to derail the upcoming Arcane Council hearing on the ill-fated Delphi project and its magic altering serum. The assassination attempt leaves Zev stripped of his memories and Rory scrabbling to secure her fledgling alliances even as her mentor and employer, Sabella, disappears under mysterious and worrisome circumstances. Thrust into the resulting investigation, Rory dodges the hazards of her evolving magic and the unexpected exposure of long-buried family secrets as she speeds through the treacherous plots threatening to fracture Arcane society. As she careens toward the finish line will Rory’s ability to hold the wheel steady be enough to keep her world from veering off the cliff, or will it shift her into uncharted territory? LETHAL CONTENTS is the third novel in the complete urban fantasy series the Arcane Transporter. If you love Shannon Mayer, H.P. Mallory, and Annabel Chase, you’re going to want to claim your ticket to this sweet ride through the unexpected twists and turns of a high-octane adventure filled with intriguing mystery, a flash of romance, and riveting magic.

I’ve made enemies of the wrong people and they’re coming for me. My name’s Rekia and I’m wanted dead or alive. A normal day for me is hiding thieves and criminals in alternate universes where their pursuers can’t find them. On my latest assignment, I ran across a plot between two powerful worlds. If left unchecked, it could destroy all worlds, including my own. I can’t let that happen. My enemies put a price on my head, but I never go down without a fight. Now, I’m coming for them. I’ve gathered a few friends and we’re hunting. If I die, I’m taking a few hundred of them with me. This book contains side characters that are m/m. Keywords: Urban Fantasy, Fantasy.

This vitally important volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this pernicious form of violence. Based on first hand ethnographic data on more than a dozen societies, including a number in Oceania, this collection explores the social and cultural factors that work either to inhibit or to promote domestic violence against women. The volume also includes a study of abuse among nonhuman primates and a cross-cultural analysis of the legal aspects of wife beating. By presenting counterexamples from other cultures, contributors challenge Western assumptions about the factors leading to wife beating. Through a close examination of societies where wife beating is infrequent or absent, To Have and To Hit identifies the factors--economic, social, political, and cultural--that must be explored and transformed in order to combat this violence and eventually eliminate it.

It's a lawless place, with bodies piled on the street. Rekia is known for relocating people on the run for their lives. She hides them in different universes where their pursuers can't find them. When one of her clients goes missing, Rekia and her boyfriend Trent enter a dangerous world where nothing is as it appears. The two have never backed down from a fight. Rekia's intent on saving her client's life, even if it means losing her own in the process. If you want to check out Rekia and Trent years later, please check out my World Breaker Series: Rogue Magic Bloody Magic Battle Magic

Five stories of supernatural carnage. Including five kick-ass women. With five unique powers. On five different worlds. Rye Unchained: Agent Rye has always been able to depend on her skunk DNA in a fight, but when a vicious man with fly DNA kidnaps someone close to her, it sends her into a tailspin with consequence so severe she may never be able to claw her way free. Delia Uncaged: Elementer Delia is in the fight of her life when something ancient and feral stalks her with one goal in mind, killing her for horrific, hideous crimes it claims she will one day commit. Leah Untamed: Telekinetic Leah exists in the rough world of gambling, so she’s used to a challenge. But when a ruthless man with superspeed comes after her for a debt, it leads to a showdown so bloody and brutal few will be left standing when it’s over. Kerry Unrestrained: To stop the reign of terror of a man named Zeke, Coalition Agent Kerry will have to push her powers to their peak. Her team is brawling, casualties are falling, to liberate this rhyming world, they’ll have to put their all in. Then a distraction, the unthinkable happens, Kerry can’t control her reaction, there’s no coming back from this infraction. Kia Unleashed: Succubus Kia’s wrath is uncontrollable, as she hunts down those responsible for hurting her lover and makes them pay. Take the title literally, there will be carnage here, and lots of it. Just a warning! This book contains side characters who identify as LGBTQ. This book has a few strong words.