New Releases by Caitlin Kittredge

NEW STORY ARC As ULTRA''s election machinations enter their final phase, Dean and Abby couldn''t be further from stopping them Dean is in a psych ward, Abby is on the run, and Kimiko can''t help either of them. But after months of Ostrander and ULTRA being one step ahead, Dean finally gets an ace up his sleeve against Ostrander''s brainwashed Alpha subjects...but playing it will destroy Abby''s life as she knows it.

"LIFE AFTER," Part One Gunned down and left for dead on a New York rooftop, Alex Underwood''s life should have ended thereÑbut instead, at the moment of death, she became host to the Witchblade, a mystical artifact that grants the woman wielding it extraordinary powers. But the power comes with a heavy cost, and Alex finds herself thrust into the center of an unseen battle raging on the snowy streets of NYC. Demons are real and walking among humans, and every one of them is intent on taking out the Witchblade''s newest host before she becomes too strong to kill. But the artifact chose Alex for a reason, and she''s not going down without a fight.

Abby Palmer and Dean Logan are two broken people with one thing in common: they''re both victims of a brutal government mind control experiment-- and they''re the only two who escaped alive. Abby is a homeless drifter, and Dean is trying to outrun the horrors of his past when the program finds them again... and they become the other''s only chance to survive. The program gifted them both with abilities beyond a normal human''s imagination-- and as Dean and Abby realize what was done to them, they''re determined to use those abilities to destroy the program and its sinister architect, Dr. Elizabeth Ostrander, once and for all.

Fugitives Abby Palmer and Dean Logan know now what the ULTRA program is and why it wants them backu0084but that''s the least of their problems as enemies emerge, allies betray them, and Dean slowly but surely begins to lose his sanity to his psychic abilities. When Abby uncovers a plan by the program''s sinister leader, Dr. Ostrander, to manipulate elections and direct the fate of the country, she thinks they finally have a way to expose and stop Ostrander once and for all...but even Ostrander doesn''t realize what she''s unleashed with her latest Alpha subject, and now Abby, Dean, and Kimiko are in his crosshairs, too. The latest chapter in the thrilling sci-fi spy saga from CAITLIN KITTREDGE and STEVEN SANDERS. Collects THROWAWAYS #5-9

END OF STORY ARC Just as Abby, Grant, and Dean think they may have figured out Ostrander''s plan for her new crop of Alpha subjects, Dean is taken out of the equation. Grant is sidelined by Ostrander''s most powerful Alpha, and Abby and Kimiko are left to face Ostrander''s ally, Senator Ben Stark, on their own.

"Lucas Stand is a military vet who can''t reintegrate into society, and at his lowest, he does something he can''t take back. Hell comes calling, offering him the opportunity to make things right. Demons escaping Hell are upsetting the balance of evil all throughout the timestream, and now Lucifer has recruited Lucas to send them back. It doesn''t matter where or when they escape, Lucas is tasked to hunt them down. Given new purpose, Lucas starts to rebuild himself and his life, even as he struggles at the human cost that comes with it."--Cover [p. 4]

Abby and Grant Shaw form a tentative alliance, Ostrander and Stark put their players on the board, and Dean has to face evidence that his Alpha abilities are slowly but surely causing him to lose his mind. Foiling a heist by rogue ULTRA operatives at a defense contractor in Silicon Valley has unexpected repercussions for everyone, and Colin Ostrander finally draws the future heÕs been seeing for months.

Jump back in time to see how Brad Logan and the Alpha subject known only as Alice met, made an unholy alliance, and in the process ensured that ULTRA would hunt them until they died. The sins of the past have far-reaching repercussions in the present, and it''s only a matter of time until Dean and Abby are caught up in the aftermath...

Abby and Dean have a new purpose to destroy Ostrander and ULTRA, but Ostrander has a new ally another program subject specially trained to hunt down rogue operatives. Grant Shaw doesn''t know ULTRA''s secrets or the truth about Abby all he knows is that he''s going to find her and put her down. Abby may have finally met an opponent she can''t beat...but Grant is starting to ask questions about the program, and that never ends well for a throwaway operative

NEW STORY ARC Abby''s regained her memory of what the ULTRA program did to her, but whether that''s an advantage or just another complication remains to be seen. Dean''s abilities spin out of control, and Dr. Ostrander puts a plan into motion that''s going to require a special kind of operative one even Abby might not be able to defeat.

The race for the artifact is on and Juliette is charging head first at her real enemy, Adalind! This action-packed finale is filled with chases, fights, and maybe even a few explosions that need to be seen to be believed!

Up against the Weird Sisters and a Wesen crime boss, Juliette can’t turn to her friends for help. The only person on her side is Adalind, and she is pretty sure that is only lasting as long as it takes to get stabbed in the back. With the final showdown looming ahead, things are not looking good for Juliette.

Abby Palmer and Dean Logan are two broken people with one thing in common: they''re both victims of a brutal government mind control experimentu0084and they''re the only two who escaped alive. When the program finds them again, they become the other''s only chance to survive. The program gifted them both with abilities beyond a normal human''s imaginationu0084and as Dean and Abby realize what was done to them, they''re determined to use those abilities to destroy the program and its sinister architect, Dr. Elizabeth Ostrander, once and for all. A brand new science-fiction spy thriller by the creative team of CAITLIN KITTREDGE and STEVEN SANDERS. Collects THROWAWAYS #1-4.

When things have completely spiraled out of control, who can you call on to help set them right? Why the woman who is responsible for putting you in a coma, sleeping with your boyfriend, and turning you into a hexenbiest, of course! Juliette must fight her urges to get feral on Adalind in order to save innocent lives in the team-up we never expected to see.

Kimiko is thrust front and center in the fight against the agents of ULTRA when both Abby and Dean are taken prisoner. Desperate to find and rescue Dean, Kimiko undertakes a risky procedure to restore Abby''s full memory of Abby''s time in the program that transformed her into a ruthless, nearly superhuman assassinÑ but in the process, Kimiko triggers the full extent of Abby''s programming. Now, no one is safeÑespecially not Elizabeth Ostrander, the woman who turned Abby''s life upside down in the first place.

Juliette may have the incredible power of a Hexenbiest, but not the control that can allow her to trust herself, and when her and Rosalee’s investigation into a string of murderous Wesen art thefts requires intimidation, who better to take lead than the one Grimm left in Portland, Trubel!

Lucas searches for a demon during the Vietnam War and comes across the battlefield where his father died.

What do Juliette, Adalind, Truble and Rosalee have in common? They’re the women in the life of Portland’s own Grimm, Nick Burkhardt, and they’re about to cross paths in a way they’d never expect! Set during the tumultuous fourth season of the hit television show, Juliette’s struggles to come to terms with becoming a Hexenbiest draw her into conflict with a new Wessen threat, and she finds she has nowhere to turn except her most hated enemy, Adalind! That’s right, the woman who impersonated Juliette and slept with Nick! Written by Caitlin Kittredge, the author behind the Nocturne City and Iron Codex novels (among many others) and Coffin Hill for Vertigo, with art by rising newcomer Maria Sanapo!

As Abby''s life hangs on by a thread, Dean confronts his own personal nightmare: his murderous father. Hidden in one of Alice''s many safe houses, Brad Logan forces Dean to access his psychokinetic abilitiesÑor die trying. And Alice offers the injured Abby a chance to recover her memories of Camp CheshireÉ if she''s willing to become a killer once again, for Alice''s agenda. Neither Dean nor Abby has a way out, and when Ostrander and ULTRA draw closer to finding them, the noose can only tightenÉ

Fleeing ULTRA agents and her past, Abby runs smack into a ghost from it when she''s taken prisoner by a private security firm with ties to her time at Camp Cheshire. Dean and Kimiko must stay alive without Abby''s protection, and keep one step ahead of the mysterious Alice, who might be their guardian angel, or guiding them back into ULTRA''s clutches.

In this thrilling sequel to Black Dog—the first volume of award-winning author Caitlin Kittredge’s dark urban fantasy series, Hellhound Chronicles—a soul catcher must stop demonic monsters from infecting the world. After winning her freedom from a reaper and facing off against a fearsome demon boss, Ava is now a masterless hellhound. Her friend, Leo, has found a new life after death: He’s returned as the Grim Reaper—the first in centuries. As both try to adjust to their new circumstances, Ava’s dark past comes back to wreak havoc on her . . . and the entire world. A breed of monsters as smart as vampires—but who behave like zombies—has been sighted in Kansas. Ava can’t believe these “zompires” are back. She thought she’d kicked their asses for good when she first battled them in a Nazi death camp. Now, they’re spreading their infection across America’s heartland thanks to a nasty piece of business named Cain. Free at last after being locked up in Hell for millennia, Cain has some scores to settle. To stop him, Ava must form an unholy alliance with some old foes . . . a bargain that will lead her to uncover deeply buried truths about her past—and Leo’s future.

Eve Coffin is released from jail in these stories from issues #14-21…and they’re waiting for her in Coffin Hill with open arms. Ghosts are abroad in the town, and one has her sights set on Eve-and on a bloody chain of events her family set in motion almost three hundred years ago!

Years after a night in the woods gone awry, Eve returns to Coffin Hill, only to discover the darkness that she unleashed ten years ago that fateful night was never fully contained. It continues to seep through the town, cursing the soul of this sleepy Massachusetts hollow, spilling secrets and enacting its revenge. Set against the haunted backdrop of New England, COFFIN HILL explores what people will do for power and retribution. Noted novelist Caitlin Kittredge, author of the Black London series, brings a smart, mesmerizing style to comics. Artist Inaki Miranda (FABLES) brings his dynamic storytelling to COFFIN HILL, following an acclaimed run on FAIREST. Collects COFFIN HILL #8-14.

Following a night of sex, drugs and witchcraft in the woods, Eve Coffin wakes up naked, covered in blood and unable to remember how she got there. One friend is missing, one is in a mental ward--and one knows that Eve is responsible. Years later, Eve returns to Coffin Hill, only to discover the darkness that she unleashed ten years ago in the woods was never contained. It continues to seep through the town, cursing the soul of this sleepy Massachusetts hollow, spilling secrets and enacting its revenge.

From the mind of Caitlin Kittredge, the award-winning author of the Iron Codex trilogy and Vertigo comic Coffin Hill, comes Black Dog, the first book in a new urban fantasy series about revenge and hell...it''s Kill Bill with demons! Ava has spent the last hundred years as a hellhound, the indentured servant of a reaper who hunts errant souls and sends them to Hell. When a human necromancer convinces her to steal her reaper’s scythe, Ava incurs the wrath of the demon Lilith, her reaper’s boss. As punishment for her transgression, Lilith orders Ava to track down the last soul in her reaper’s ledger . . . or die trying. But after a hundred years of servitude, it’s time for payback. And Hell hath no fury like an avenging Ava. . . .

Il faut penser aux conséquences quand on signe un pacte avec le démon... Le sinistre passé de Jack Winter revient le hanter et son seul espoir de lui échapper se cache dans les Ténèbres de Londres, ce monde souterrain et surnaturel empreint de magie. Treize ans plus tôt, Jack Winter, à l''agonie dans un cimetière, invoquait un démon pour lui vendre son âme en échange de sa vie... Le démon revient aujourd’hui afin d''exiger son tribut. Mais Jack a trouvé une raison de vivre : elle s’appelle Pete Caldecott et, à cause d’elle, il refuse d’aller en Enfer sans se battre. Pete ne sait rien du marché qu’a passé Jack mais elle est certaine que quelque chose de plus important et dangereux que son démon croit dans les Ténèbres. Les Anciens Dieux sont en train de se réveiller, les esprits se soulèvent, et Jack n’a aucune chance de les arrêter sans l’aide de Pete.

Kannst du deinem dunklen Schicksal entfliehen? Fern der Familie lebt die 15-jährige Moira in einem Internat, ständig in der Angst, wie ihre Mutter und ihr älterer Bruder dem Fluch der Familie zu erliegen und verrückt zu werden. Doch dann erhält sie eine Nachricht eben dieses Bruders, der sie auffordert, ein magisches Handbuch zu suchen, das ihr Vater einst geschaffen hat und das sie retten kann. Zusammen mit zwei Verbündeten macht sich die junge Moira auf die gefahrvolle Reise, an deren Ende sie mehr über ihre Familie und deren Andersartigkeit erfährt – entstammt sie doch einem alten Elfengeschlecht. Und dem steht eine gewaltige Aufgabe bevor: das Land von seinen derzeitigen Herrschern zu befreien und die Feen an die Macht zu führen.

Harper Voyager USA, part of the global science fiction and fantasy imprint of HarperCollins, presents Voyager, a free ebook sampler with excerpts from 15 new or upcoming releases, as well as an introduction from New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey. You''ll find: An Introduction from Richard Kadrey Excerpts from Thorn Jack by Katherine Harbour The Stolen by Bishop O''Connell The God Hunter by Tim Lees Soda Pop Soldier by Nick Cole The Getaway God by Richard Kadrey Once Upon a Rhyme by Jack Heckel Demon by Erik Williams The Witch With No Name by Kim Harrison Clockwork Dagger by Beth Cato Superheroes Anonymous by Lexie Dunne Asylum Tales Part I: Demon''s Fury by Jocelynn Drake Fish Tails by Sherri Tepper Black Dog by Caitlin Kittredge Metrophage by Richard Kadrey On Her Majesty''s Behalf by Joseph Nassise

Following a night of sex, drugs and witchcraft in the woods, Eve Coffin wakes up naked, covered in blood and unable to remember how she got there. One friend is missing, one is in a mental ward--and one knows that Eve is responsible. Years later, Eve returns to Coffin Hill, only to discover the darkness that she unleashed ten years ago in the woods was never contained. It continues to seep through the town, cursing the soul of this sleepy Massachusetts hollow, spilling secrets and enacting its revenge. Set against the haunted backdrop of New England, COFFIN HILL explores what people will do for power and retribution. Noted novelist Caitlin Kittredge, author of the Black London series, brings a smart, mesmerizing style to comics. Artist Inaki Miranda (FABLES) brings his dynamic storytelling to COFFIN HILL, following an acclaimed run on FAIREST. Collects COFFIN HILL #1-7.

Détective à Scotland Yard, Pete Caldecott enquête sur le kidnapping d’une jeune fille. Contactée par un mystérieux informateur, elle est frappée de découvrir que celui-ci n’est autre que Jack Winter, un mage qui l’avait initiée au monde de la sorcellerie. Mais Jack avait disparu il y a bien longtemps, et aujourd’hui, il n’est plus que l’ombre de lui-même. Cependant, il sait où sont les kidnappeurs : ils se cachent dans un monde magique parallèle. Bien que Pete ait essayé pendant de nombreuses années d’oublier Jack, la magie et le surnaturel, elle ne peut que suivre le mage dans les bas-fonds de Londres, où elle espère découvrir la vérité sur l’enlèvement, et sur ce qui est arrivé à son premier amour.