The Ice Age has finally come to an end, but the world discovers that it now faces a new threat as legions of the undead unleash an evil new plague on the living.

How long can you play with fire before the fire starts playing with you?Two years ago, infamous bank robber Raptor turned Skylar Montgomery's life upside-down with the startling murder of her father in a heist gone wrong. Sick of waiting on the FBI, she allies herself with con man Parker Ramsey, the one person in Raptor's crew who got away with his life. As he draws her further into his web of seduction and cryptic half-truths, she can't be certain of anything. Is he trying to help her or is he setting her up?Freshly transferred to the Dallas office, FBI Special Agent Jackson Caldwell longs for a juicy case that will help distract him from his touch and go relationship with the woman he loves, but a bank robbery and murder case with no leads threaten his plans. Between socialites, indecisive women and a partner with more secrets than the perp, he has his work cut out for him.As they get closer to unraveling Raptor's identity, it's anyone's guess whether Skylar or the FBI will get to him first...or if they'll live to tell.WARNING: This book ends in a cliffhanger that will be resolved in Foresight is Flawless (coming September 2013).Please note: This book features coarse language and graphic adult scenes (aka sex, y'all).

While his companions secure allies and gather information to combat a dark force that is threatening the Lands Vin, Jerzy returns to The Berengia to embrace his forbidden apostasy magic, an effort that poses a potentially greater threat to his homeland's survival.

In The Shattered Cross, Linda Carol Jones explores the lives and work of five priests of the Séminaire de Québec, the first French Catholic missionaries to serve along the Mississippi River between 1698 and 1725. Using an array of archival holdings in Québec and France, Jones provides deep insight into the experiences of these pioneer priests and their interactions with regional Native peoples and cultures. Encounters between early French Catholic missionaries and Native peoples were always complex, often misunderstood, and typically fraught with an array of challenges. As Jones demonstrates, these priests faced a combination of environmental, personal, economic, and leadership difficulties that, along with cultural misunderstandings and poorly designed strategies, made their missionary work arduous. Nevertheless, their efforts led, in some instances, to assimilation of select Christian elements into Native cultures, albeit through creative, mutual adaptation, not solely through Catholic efforts. In describing the challenges the Séminaire priests faced in their Christianization efforts, Jones reveals patches of middle ground that served to transform both missionary and Native cultures when least expected. She relates the story of Father Marc Bergier, who took the openness and compassion he felt for the Native peoples he encountered in Québec with him as he descended the Mississippi River and worked among the Tamarois. Bergier revealed a willingness to reject certain aspects of Catholic teaching in order to accept various Native traditions. Jones also investigates the case of Father Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme, strongly suspected by church leaders of having an inappropriate interest in women while serving as a priest in Acadie, several years before his departure down the Mississippi. Jones suggests that Father Saint-Cosme’s subsequent sexual relations with the sister of the Great Sun of the Natchez may have been an attempt to step into a middle ground with her so as to end the Natchez tradition of human sacrifice upon the death of a Great Sun. Expectations of Séminaire leaders in Québec and Paris meant that those with the best chance for success on the Mississippi were internally driven, acknowledged a sense of calling to be a part of the overarching mission of the seminary, and adhered to the advice of its leadership. The missionary experiences of these five men—their varied encounters with Native peoples, Jesuit missionaries, and French coureurs de bois—align and diverge in unexpected ways, presenting a mosaic that adds to our understanding of both the tribulations French Catholic missionaries faced and the consequences of their efforts along the Mississippi River in the early eighteenth century.

Now that the terrible truth is out, life has only grown more complicated. Genesis has full control over the men of JC2, forcing them to commit atrocities across the city and destroying Black's reputation in the process. Even if Black succeeds in rescuing his teammates, the JCPD and Captain Dickerson may not be forgiving. Meanwhile, anti-telepath sentiment in Juxtapose City is on the rise, spearheaded by a man from Black's dark past who wants all telepaths dead. Black and Calyx find themselves in a unique and unenviable position: on the run from both fellow psypaths and the police. The only way to survive is to go on the offensive. Together they must do their own manhunt and bring down Genesis and the mysterious man who saved him seven years ago. Only by eliminating these final threats do Black and Calyx have a chance at the life Black wants for them.

The galaxy has been at war for a generation, locked in a conflict that has swept myriad star systems and claimed lives beyond counting. It has been nineteen years since a covert Human–Krellian research venture aimed at fighting a pan-galactic plague was brought to its knees by an act of terrorism so profound that the Krellian moon was destroyed and Krell itself was forever shifted in its orbit. A ruined but powerful race, the Krellians swore revenge on the Maristilian Alliance of Planetary Systems, whose leaders, it was said, had engineered the attack on their homeworld.The massacre of Samuel Zentasen (Chairman of the MAPS Chancellor) and his entire family aboard their personal shuttle, the Eagle, thirteen years ago was but a drop in a vast sea of atrocities. And though the facts of the notorious “Bloody Eagle” were much reported, one fact remained hidden; the youngest Zentasen was not killed, but rescued. Now a grown young man, Wesley Zentasen finds himself drawn into the heart of the great conflict with a dark and terrible secret in his blood that could change everything.