Four tales of treacherous, tumultuous, passionate entanglements from today's most provocative authors.
The bonds of love. The bonds of matrimony. The bonds between husband and wife. Let's face it-some bonds are meant to be broken.
Here, #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton, New York Times bestselling authors Yasmine Galenorn and Marjorie M. Liu, and national bestselling author Sharon Shinn, spin four stories of dark powers and fiercely feminine heroes who aren't going to wait for Prince Charming to show up and save them-especially when they...

It's great to catch a glimpse of Anita Blake at work, doing what she does best--raising the dead. Hamilton remains one of the most inventive and exciting writers in the paranormal field.--Charlaine Harris.

The Mother of All Darkness--the first vampire--wants to enter into a new human body . . . and the one she has in mind belongs to Anita Blake.

A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect -monsters- are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, U.S. Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.
But some monsters are very real--and even to speak their name can earn you a death sentence. The bogeymen of the vampire world, The Harlequin, are here in America hunting weretigers and human police. But Edward thinks the serial killings are just a trap--to lure Anita ever closer to the most dangerous vampire they've ever...

When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, she's faced with something she's never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there's one martyr, there will be more...
But even vampires have monsters that they're afraid of. And Anita is one of them...

Merry Gentry, ex-private detective and full-time princess, is now the mother of triplets, a rarity in the high ranks of faerie. And not everyone is happy about it, including Taranis, King of Light and Illusion. He's using the human courts to sue for visitation rights, claiming that one of the babies is his. To save herself and her children, Merry will use the most dangerous powers in all of faerie: a god of death, a warrior known as the Darkness, the Killing Frost, and a king of nightmares. They are her lovers, and her dearest loves, and they will face down the might of the high courts of...

In her twenty-fifth adventure, vampire hunter and necromancer Anita Blake learns that evil is in the eye of the beholder...

Anita has never seen Damian, her vampire servant, in such a state. The rising sun doesn't usher in the peaceful death that he desperately needs. Instead, he's being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats.

And now, with Damian at his most vulnerable, Anita needs him the most. The vampire who created him, who subjected him to centuries of torture, might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their...

Another bestseller from the series with more than 8 million copies in print. Summoned to a dying planet to negotiate peace between two warring factions, the Enterprise is immediately called away again on an urgent mission, leaving Lt. Worf to act as peacemaker in the dangerous negotiations that will determine the fate of an entire world.