Garreth Mikaelian has an enemy…Time. He thought he knew all about being a vampire. After all, he has had fifteen years in the life to learn. But now he discovers that while Time ignores him, he cannot ignore it. Around him everyone he knows is aging: fellow officer and periodic lover Maggie Lebekov, friends, parents. His own son now looks more like a brother. The price of his existence, he realizes, is standing rooted while Time carries everything away from him.
But suddenly he has more urgent matters to worry about. Baumen’s comfortable peace is shattered by sudden death and a lethal trio playing ever escalating blood games. Garreth finds himself racing time to learn whether the trio’s leader is the vampire he appears to be and find a way to deal with him. Garreth must locate the suspects before other law enforcement officers do, to be sure they are captured alive…because if not yet vampires, they have drunk vampire blood and if killed will rise again even more deadly, and unstoppable.
Before there was Nick Knight there was Garreth Mikaelian!
Before there was Forever Night® there was BloodWalk!
Now back in print are Lee Killough’s Blood Hunt and Bloodlinks, together for the first time in one volume: BloodWalk.
Garreth Mikaelian, a dedicated police officer, runs into more than he counted on when he investigates a very peculiar murder. This leads him to Lane Barber–Young, beautiful, hypnotic, and a vampire. Now Garreth is a vampire also, but the books on the legends and lore of vampirism don’t seem to help. How can he keep his job, his friends, and his humanity while battling another vampire in his new life? How will he keep from being the hunted while hunting Lane Barber?
Homicide detective Allison Goodnight has a big problem. One look at the mutilated victim in her latest case tells her he has been killed by a rogue werewolf. She ought to know; she's a werewolf, too. Her whole family is--members of an ancient species separate from humans but passing as human. It is urgent that she close this case, without revealing the killer's nature, before more people die and humans' racial memory of her kind reawakens. But the killer is a stranger unknown to any of the local clan...and her new partner is watching her with unnerving intensity. If he sees too much, she may have to turn killer herself to protect her people.
Inspector Cole Dunavan finds himself in a parking garage with no memory except of his murder. And that's just the start of his troubles. He has no idea why he's become a ghost. He senses there's more to it than his murder. Worse, he has no idea how to be a ghost. It doesn't come with instructions. No one sees or hears him. He can't move objects. And initially, he can't even walk through doors or walls. In the struggle to learn his purpose and master his incorporeal state, however, he discovers that haunting can be rewarding.
In an ancient African of verdant Sahara plains, warrior princess Jeneba Karamoke has grown up scorned by her people because her father was a leopard man. When she rescues a party of fellow warriors from cannibalistic half-men, she hopes it will finally win her acceptance. But no...in order to prove she isn't lying about the vanished hero Tomo Silla's part in their capture by the half-men she must make Tomo face the tribe. Can she find him, and then survive more monsters, foreign tribes, war, and a curse on a fabled city to bring him back alive?
The blonde chick and the bald dude are back . . .
fighting crime and each other in the twenty-first century.
For the first time published together in one volume are all three Janna Brill and Mama Maxwell science fiction mysteries. Bridling Chaos contains:
The Doppelganger Gambit, Spider Play, and Dragon’s Teeth.
Every story, whatever the genre, happens somewhere. Every story involves characters whose background has helped make them what they are. Checking On Culture provides a structured approach to aid the author in creating the place and characters, a checklist of fifty-two categories Lee developed for writing her own books. The checklist and its accompanying commentary and examples is adaptable for all genres, whether the author wants to construct an entire civilization or just needs a reminder to consider the details in a setting close to home.
