When Dezi North walks into a metaphysical shop to find his date murdered, he doesn't expect to find his Keeper standing there, asking him questions about his alibi. But the woman before him is everything he's always secretly wanted and nothing he expected to find. Detective Lexington Cooper is not fazed at all by the slick suit wearing man who has just become her prime suspect. His manner and his candor don't do anything but upset her. It surely doesn't set her body to waken. No, not at all. When a second body is found, and it's another of Dezi's friends, her suspicions deepen, until she gets...

The one thing Syrus Alcot, the God of Death Osiris in the Egyptian Pantheon, wants in all the worlds is the woman he loved and lost returned to him. When he gave up his powers, and freedom for a life of service he was promised her return. That was over one thousand years ago. A member of a team of dark gods charged with keeping humanity safe, he leads a loveless existence in New York City, searching for the one thing that could bring his wife back to him, a lapis scarab that was lost to him ages before. Gwen Stapleton, a mild mannered librarian, is unaware that she holds the key to not only...