Dr. James, a mild-mannered chemistry professor, finds himself deep in trouble when he is assigned to teach "Vampire Science." Despite his non-belief in this superstitious nonsense, there are vampires after all Worse still, they are slowly taking over the university and the city. The mayor's plan to solve the city's homeless problem by having the vampires take care of them is working wonderfully. Finding himself allied with a beautiful, yet strange - she has a little "werewolf problem" - federal marshal, he struggles to survive - caught between ravenous vampires and a drug gang run out of the...

Elinor Wainright, betrothed to the unpleasant Peregrine Widden, discovers her true passion and love while studying the enigmatic first settlers on difficult world of beta-9. Going native with her new found love, one of the enigmatic tribesmen, she struggles to learn the mental and physical discipline needed to survive in the dangerous environment with ferocious predators that defines the wilderness outside of the settled Pale. A new ship, moving inhumanly fast towards them, sparks a lethal conflict within the nobility and between the first and second waves of settlers. The conflict threatens...

The renewal of war in 1803 coupled with the threat of invasion by Napoleon catalyzes a tangled tale of love, intrigue and bravery in regency Britain. With the collapse of the Peace of Amiens in 1803, the threat of invasion by Napoleon has all Britain frightened. Called up from half-pay to train a regiment of volunteers despite his crippling wounds, Lieutenant Bates is torn from the arms of his love, Katherine. His task is made harder when embroiled with the stormy relation between Jane and her suitor - a naval commander intent on promotion. Recruited to scout Napoleon's Grande Armee, Bates...