For five years, Special Operations and its key team of paranormals have sought to find Quafara, the resurrected Egyptian who founded torture magic. Her goal is to resurrect her husband, Elkrod, and regain the power she feels was stolen from them in ancient times. She has tried before and failed. But that hasn't deterred her, and this time her plan is massive. Quafara has considerable help as well. Archie Montgomery, Jill Tifton, and INN President Gary Hart aid her weave a plan that will result in the deaths of hundreds of thousands on the Gulf Coast. Unknown to Quafara, however, her plans...

The fourth and final entry point into the Torture Magic series introduces young blonde Meredith Patience. On the surface, Meredith is a simple bartender, using the moniker Lady Ice. But that's just a cover for her real goal, the quest to free her sister, Beth, from enslavement at the hands of Zenith, the infamous torture magician. When Meredith was sixteen, Zenith murdered Meredith's parents and kidnapped Beth. Zenith cruelly turned Beth into a zombie soul-slave, keeping her soul locked inside a zombie body, unable to advance to the afterlife. For years, Meredith has been using her elemental...

Nine years ago, the torture magician Zenith failed in her bid to drill and recover a pocket of Soloman's Liquid deep below the surface in Oklahoma. Soloman's Liquid grants a torture magician immortality, and that and the powerful army of were-creatures the liquid would have created from males exposed to it would have given Zenith the ability to control the world, and thus secure her safety forever. But her failure here didn't happen in a parallel dimension, a dimension where she consigned paranormal Jennifer Saunders, who failed to stop Zenith in Oklahoma. For nine years, Jennifer has fought...

The penultimate book of the first arc of the Torture Magic series brings us a grim battle as Elkrod and Quafara finally instigate the final part of their master plan to regain their glory lost in ancient Egypt. But the entire hidden kingdom of Atlantia and the paranormals of Special Operations stand against them: Chase, Frost, Sam, Searly, Geneva and even Gerald Kane, Tripper, Marrina, Jen Saunders, Meredith, and the Immortal Man. Some of them are going to die. And only two of them can commune with the Mind of the Gods, the hidden secret of Atlantia, the aspect of the civilization that might...

Northville, Illinois homicide detective Dan Gold has reached his fiftieth birthday. He's glum and instead of a celebration is dragged by his younger partner, Xander Nicholson, to that most dreaded of places . . . the gym But muscle strains aren't the only danger at the gym. Charismatic Xander's gym friend Isabella is found brutally murdered in her own apartment, and suddenly his world is thrown into confusion. At first, it appears certain sweet Isabella is the victim of a serial rapist. But the obvious is not so obvious. Was she actually a participant in a criminal scheme that went bad?...