New Releases by Ilona Andrews

In this novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series, war-plagued Atlanta has never been so deadly...Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job. Kate Daniels may have quit the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid, but she’s still knee-deep in paranormal problems. Or she would be if she could get someone to hire her. Starting her own business has been more challenging than she thought it would be—now that the Order is disparaging her good name. Plus, many potential clients are afraid of getting on the bad side of the Beast Lord, who just happens to be Kate’s mate. So when Atlanta’s premier Master of the Dead calls to ask for help with a vampire on the loose, Kate leaps at the chance of some paying work. But it turns out that this is not an isolated incident, and Kate needs to get to the bottom of it—fast, or the city and everyone dear to her may pay the ultimate price...

Atlanta is going to the dogs in this “sexy” (Publishers Weekly) story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Daniels series. Andrea Nash of the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid—with an assist from her partner, Kate Daniels—tries to figure out why the giant three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hades is sniffing around Atlanta in this tale by the author of the “edgy series” full of “complex world-building and skilled characterizations” (Library Journal).

La mercenaria Kate Daniels tiene más problemas de índole sobrenatural de los que puede afrontar en estos momentos, y en Atlanta, donde la magia va y viene como las mareas, eso es decir mucho. Cuando su amigo Derek, el hombre lobo, es encontrado al borde de la muerte, Kate se toma el asunto como una afrenta personal y se encuentra con una serie de graves problemas. Sus investigaciones la conducen hasta los Juegos de la Medianoche un encuentro solo para invitados, un combate donde no hay reglas, el supremo torneo de lucha sobrenatural , donde descubrirá una oscura trama que quizás cambie para siempre la comunidad de cambiaformas de Atlanta...

Atlanta by byla příjemným místem k životu, jen kdyby nebylo magie... Když magie pohltí svět, objevují se monstra a odpadlí mágové spřádají svá kouzla. Pistole se zasekávají a auta odmítají startovat. Ale pak se technologie znovu přihlásí o slovo a magie ustoupí stejně nevypočitatelně, jako se předtím objevila. Jen po ní zbudou nejrůznější druhy paranormálních problémů. Kate Daniels, žoldačka, které se smůla lepí na paty a do kapsy má hluboko, se živí odstraňováním právě takovýchto magických potíží. Ale když je zavražděn její opatrovník, honba za spravedlností ji vtáhne do mocenských bojů mezi dvěma nejsilnějšími frakcemi magických bytostí v Atlantě. Mezi Pány mrtvých, nekromanty ovládajícími upíry, a Smečku, polovojenský klan kožoměnců. Tyto dvě strany se vzájemně obviňují ze série nezvyklých vražd – a smrt Katina opatrovníka by s tou záhadou mohla být spojená. Obě organizace na Kate vytrvale tlačí, aby případ vyřešila a ona si začíná uvědomovat, že si ukousla větší sousto, než dokáže zvládnout...

Kate Daniels, mercenaire spécialisée dans le "nettoyage" des problèmes surnaturels, en a vu des choses inouïes... mais pas ça: un véritable tsunami d''énergie magique, durant lequel les dieux eux-mêmes vont revenir ! C''est en s''engageant à retrouver des cartes volées à la Meute, le clan des Changeformes, qu''elle découvre que ces puissances divines entament un combat épique: elles s''affrontent dans l''espoir de renaître ! Kate doit tout faire pour éviter le cataclysme...

The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Walmart and magic is a fairytale–and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny… Cerise Mar and her unruly clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands between the state of Louisiana and the Weird. When her parents vanish, her clan’s long-time rivals are suspect number one. But all is not as it seems. Two nations of the Weird are waging a cold war fought by feint and espionage, and their conflict is about to spill over into the Edge—and Cerise’s life . William, a changeling soldier who left behind the politics of the Weird, has been forced back into service to track down a rival nation’s spymaster. When William’s and Cerise’s missions lead them to cross paths, sparks fly—but they’ll have to work together if they want to succeed…and survive.

“Nine original stories by the modern masters of urban fantasy; an anthology that will both thrill fans and serve as a nice introduction to [the] genre.” —Booklist It was a dark and stormy knight, and nine dark defenders embarked upon a most perilous quest. . . . They’re the ultimate defenders of humanity—modern knights who do dark deeds for all the right reasons. In this all-star collection, nine of today’s hottest paranormal authors bring us thrilling, all-new stories brimming with magic, mystery and mayhem. John Marcone sets aside his plans to kill Harry Dresden to go head-to-head with a cantrev lord in Jim Butcher’s Even Hand. Kate Daniels is called upon to protect a shifter she trusts less than the enemy in Ilona Andrews’ A Questionable Client. Cormac must stop a killer werewolf before the next full moon in Carrie Vaughn’s God’s Creatures. And in Vicki Pettersson’s Shifting Star, Skamar goes after a creature kidnapping young girls—and enlists the aid of her frustratingly sexy neighbor. Shannon K. Butcher, Rachel Caine, Deidre Knight, Vicki Pettersson, and Lilith Saintcrow also contribute stories to this collection.

The fourth Kate Daniels novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author who “defines urban fantasy” (Fresh Fiction). Kate Daniels works for the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, officially as a liaison with the mercenary guild. Unofficially, she cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wants to handle—especially if they involve Atlanta’s shapeshifting community. When she’s called in to investigate a fight at the Steel Horse, a bar midway between the territories of the shapeshifters and the necromancers, Kate quickly discovers there’s a new player in town. One who’s been around for thousands of years—and rode to war at the side of Kate’s father. This foe may be too much even for Kate and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, to handle. Because this time, Kate will be taking on family...

En Atlanta tanto los temperamentos como las temperaturas están a punto de entrar en erupción... Como mercenaria que se dedica a resolver las complicaciones que deja la magia tras su paso, Kate Daniels ha vivido en primera persona todo tipo de problemas profesionales. Normalmente, las oleadas de energía paranormal fluyen y se retiran de Atlanta como la marea. Sin embargo, aproximadamente cada siete años se produce una erupción, durante la cual la magia recorre desbocada la ciudad. Y ahora Kate deberá enfrentarse a problemas de escala divina. Cuando Kate se dispone a recuperar una serie de mapas propiedad de la Manada, el clan paramilitar de cambiaformas de Atlanta, descubre rápidamente que hay muchas más cosas en juego. Durante las erupciones, dioses y diosas pueden manifestarse... y luchar por el poder. Los mapas robados son solo el principio de una guerra épica a gran escala entre dos divinidades con ansias por renacer. Si Kate no es capaz de evitar el cataclísmico enfrentamiento, puede que la ciudad perezca en el proceso...

Three short stories of paranormal romance: "Pack" brings you a tale of a lost hiker and her encounter with some very frightening?and sexy?wolves. A female werewolf helps a sheriff track down a killer "In Sheep''s Clothing." A woman must repay her family''s debt to a shapeshifting magician in "Grace of Small Magics." These stories previously appeared in print in Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance.

Step into a whole new world in the first Novel of the Edge from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Kate Daniels series. The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale—and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny... Rose Drayton thought if she practiced her magic, she could build a better life for herself. But things didn’t turn out the way she’d planned, and now she works an off-the-books job in the Broken just to survive. Then Declan Camarine, a blueblood noble straight out of the deepest part of the Weird, comes into her life, determined to have Rose (and her power). But when a flood of creatures hungry for magic invade the Edge, Declan and Rose must overcome their differences and work together to destroy them—or the beasts will devour the Edge and everyone in it...

From New York Times bestselling authors Charlaine Harris, Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, and Meljean Brook come four paranormal tales of man’s worst friend... Follow paranormal bodyguards Clovache and Batanya into Lucifer’s realm, where they encounter his fearsome four-legged pets, in Charlaine Harris’s “The Britlingens Go to Hell.” Seek out a traitor in the midst of a guild of non-lethal vampire trackers, one that intends to eradicate the entire species of bloodsuckers, in Nalini Singh’s “Angels’ Judgment.” Find out why the giant three-headed dog that guards the gates of Hades has left the underworld for the real world—and whose scent he’s following—in Ilona Andrews’s “Magic Mourns.” Embark on a perilous search for the kidnapped niece of a powerful vampire alongside her blind—and damn sexy—companion and a hellhound in Meljean Brook’s “Blind Spot.”

When magic strikes and Atlanta goes to pieces, it’s a job for mercenary Kate Daniels in this thrilling novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that’s saying a lot. But when Kate''s werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challenge yet. As her investigation leads her to the Midnight Games—an invitation only, no holds barred, ultimate preternatural fighting tournament—she and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, uncover a dark plot that may forever alter the face of Atlanta''s shapeshifting community...

The World of Kinsmen Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet. In a distant, future world Kinsmen -- small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families -- control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield ... and sometimes in the bedroom. Claire Shannon is a killer ... and her weapon is her mind. Born on a planet torn by war for over 300 years, Claire is a soldier: a psycher, with the ability to read, control, and destroy the minds of enemy psychers and to infiltrate the biological network where they battle to death. When Claire''s faction loses the war, she barely escapes extermination from both sides, as her talent brands her as too dangerous to society. By so-deeply burying her ability that she avoids detection, Claire is instead deported to Rada as a refugee, where she must find work to remain. She finds a job as personal assistant to Venturo Escana, a premiere kinsman; one of Rada''s most wealthy entrepreneurs -- and most powerful psychers. She thought she had left war behind, but now she must hide her skills and her growing feelings from Venturo ... and this battle might just cost her everything ...