3060CE And the dance goes on... Eve is MIA and Gehenna must step up as leader of the elite specialist unit. The war rages on and new blood is needed if the Erocan Alliance is to win the endless war. Enter Demon, Albion, Vixen and Wrath, new volunteers to join the newly christened Alpha Company. New missions and new dangers abound on all sides. The war encompasses the lives of many. Governing their daily lives, it is a beast that devours healthy people. Deadly missions are a normal part of Gehenna and Nadir's lives as they are sent out on the most dangerous and lowest survivable missions. Back at base it's not much better as the pressures of command start to get to Preston Redmond. Also Agent Pixie, part team mascot and part recon specialist starts to remember the horrors of her past. And a conspiracy to betray the Alliance, borne out of fear of the true nature of Alpha Company, bears a horrifying outcome that will leave everyone wondering if it's all been worth it...

-- New York Times Book Review

FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LGBTQ ROMANCE, SAMANTHA CAYTO A page-turner from beginning to end ~ Archaeolibrarian Samantha Cayto is a guilty pleasure author for me. ~ Wicked Reads 4 - Star Dance Malcolm MacLerie has long made his home in the wild Highlands of Scotland. When his captain asks for his help one last time, however, he can't refuse. 5 - Mating Dance Trey Duncan's career as a Boston cop has taken an unearthly turn. He's become embroiled in an alien war being fought on his planet. 6 - Healing Dance Having survived brutal centuries as Dracul's slave, Dafydd is pulling his life together. Trauma still affects every aspect of his daily life, however, and he struggles to cope with it in dangerous ways. He also cannot quite shake the appeal of the human doctor who saved his life. Shipwrecked aliens became the origin of vampire lore. Their physical power and need for blood have long frightened and mesmerized humans. Locked in a millennial battle, half the crew is trying to help humanity while the other is trying to enslave it. As the leaders of the two factions, neither Alex nor Dracul will capitulate. Now the humans have the ability to destroy Earth entirely. Alex must end Dracul's quest for power once and for all or risk the loss of their adopted planet. With the help of human lovers and allies, the final battle is about to begin.

Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years. Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan’s inability to forge a strong state -- its myriad cleavages along ethnic, religious, social, and geographical fault lines -- Goodson then examines the devastating course of the war itself. He charts its utter destruction of the country, from the deaths of more than 2 million Afghans and the dispersal of some six million others as refugees to the complete collapse of its economy, which today has been replaced by monoagriculture in opium poppies and heroin production. The Taliban, some of whose leaders Goodson interviewed as recently as 1997, have controlled roughly 80 percent of the country but themselves have shown increasing discord along ethnic and political lines.

At last the sort-of semi-sequel to 'Refugees of the Raithaduine' and 'Orphans of the Raithaduine'. The Raithaduine are back and more nefarious than ever. Only Violet can stop them, which has everyone worried, as Violet was once voted droid most likely to be arrested for stealing everything not nailed down. Violet has two really good ideas, hide all the robots on the planet Hendrax at her friend Hannah's new castle there, and then take the war to the Raithaduine before they can destroy planet earth. What can possibly go wrong? Penny Dreadful is a new vampire of the Gemini tribe, specifically the Gothic faction. She has no memories of her past life, which is part of the deal. She must deal with the usual teenage dramas, plus a small but vocal group of humans who want to kill all vampires. Then there's the Glam, the other faction of vampires that are trying to set her up, so it looks like she attacked them...

Jen Hunter is not your average bank robber, not after she's betrayed by her friend Chris Cannon. After a chance rooftop encounter she seemingly develops super powers, strength, agility, flying and she starts to make a dent in the criminal organization known as Big Crime. English tourist Sarah Sixpence finally meets her pen pal Choi Mei in Hong Kong. The two young women quickly get involved in a series of strange events each of which sees Mei infused with new powers and a new tattoo on her skin, that can move about it at will. Mei and Sarah discover that Mei is fated to accumulate all the legendary powers of the zodiac animals and become a great super hero. Sarah develops powers of her own along the way, and the two of them move to Mei's uncle's academy to train themselves in kung fu. Back in London Jen is assigned a teacher to instruct her in the way of morality and restraint. Only one candidate is found, Varya Koshmara, who is later revealed to be the legendary warrior Malice Latimer!

Jen Hunter vs Debbie FallDebbie has gone over to the side of the criminals, and Jen must track down and defeat her maker. Meanwhile a trial of the elements gets underway and Hammerfall's new chief accountant, Sally Sunshine seems to be involved too somehow.Jen Hunter: Things Went SidewaysA group of humans in Paris have discovered the existence of vampires in their midst and established a taskforce to find and kill them. They follow the vampires through the channel tunnel to London, where they happen upon a newly awakened cluster of crimson hand vampires and most are killed. One of the few survivors helps Jen and Charity, who explore the Underground for signs of this group of humans. Too late they find them and discover their plans are a lot more developed than they'd expected. Will Charity find and diffuse the bomb in time?