New Releases by Tanya Huff

Take a walk on the wild side of urban fantasy. Spend some quality time lolling in the moonlight shadows with loves that come out only at night. From light- spirited romps to black-hearted noir, from steampunk London to the bleeding edge of the present, come tales of love, eros, betrayal, and seduction in a beguiling vein. Bestsellers Tanya Huff, Caitlin Kittredge, and Toni L.P. Kelner join Dana Cameron, Sarah Hoyt, John Lambshead, Diana Rowland, and editor Mark L. Van Name to create a dazzling cast of vampires, werewolves, witches, and zombies, oh my. Oh my. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

-- New York TimesAlysha Gale''s cousin Charlotte is a Wild Power, who allies herself with a family of Selkies in a fight against offshore oil drilling. The oil company has hired another of the Gale family''s Wild Powers, the fearsome Auntie Catherine, to steal the Selkies'' sealskins. To defeat her, Charlotte will have to learn what born to be Wild really means in the Gale family...

Des vampires, des démons, des loups-garous, passent encore. Mais des momies se réveillant au XXIe siècle pour se faire aduler comme des dieux, ça non ! Echappée du Musée royal de l''Ontario, une créature maléfique et dévoreuse d''âmes rôde dans les rues de Toronto. Sa prochaine victime pourrait bien être Henry Fitzroy... Momie contre vampire, cette fois encore, Vicki Nelson a du boulot !

Moving to Calgary to take over her late grandmother''s junk shop, charm-caster Alysha Gale learns that she will be serving the fey community, which proves to be deeply troubled with problems that may be more than Alysha''s family can solve. By the author of The Keeper''s Chronicles.

The third installment in Tanya Huff''s action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation series Gunnery Sergeant Torin Kerr was a Confederation Marine’s marine. She’d survived more deadly encounters—and kept more of her officers and enlisteds alive—than anyone in the Corps, and she was determined to keep the record intact. But since her last mission, she’d been sidelined into endless briefings and debriefings with no end in sight. So, of course, she’d jumped at the chance to go to the Crucible—the Marine Corps training planet—as temporary aide to Major Svensson. The major had been reduced to little more than a brain and spinal cord in his last combat, and he and his doctor were anxious to field test his newly re-grown body. It should have been an easy twenty-day run. After all, Crucible was only set up to simulate battle situations so recruits could be trained safely. But they were barely on-planet when someone started blasting the training scenarios to smithereens. And suddenly Kerr found herself not only responsible for the major and his doctor, but caught in a desperate fight to keep a platoon of Marine recruits alive until someone discovered what was happening on Crucible....

The Blood books center around three main characters: Vicki Nelson, a homicide cop turned private detective, her former partner Mike Celluci, who is still on the force, and vampire Henry Fitzroy, who is the illegitimate son of Henry VIII and makes his living as a writer of bodice rippers. Not only are the three of them caught in a love triangle, but they are, time and again, involved in mysteries with a supernatural slant—from demons, to werewolves, to mummies—and inevitably must join forces to solve crimes and defeat supernatural enemies. Now all of Tanya Huff''s short stories about Henry, Vicki, and Mike are being released in this collection entitled Blood Bank. As an added bonus for fans of the TV series, Blood Bank includes the actual screenplay for "Stone Cold," the episode Tanya herself wrote for the Blood Ties series along with a special introduction by Tanya, detailing her own experiences with the show.

Vicki Nelson n''a pas une minute à elle depuis qu''elle a quitté la Criminelle de Toronto. Cette fois, elle a affaire à des morts vivants ! Une expérience scientifique pratiquée sur des cadavres de la morgue a donné vie à d''étranges zombies qui ont fini par échapper au contrôle de leurs créateurs. Il faut de toute urgence neutraliser ces savants fous. De plus, elle se débat avec des problèmes d''ordre personnel. Partagée entre son amant vampire et son ex-collègue, Michael, elle ne supporte plus la jalousie des deux hommes. Le pire survient quand sa mère meurt brutalement et que le corps disparaît du cercueil ! Sur tous les fronts, la jeune détective sait qu''elle joue avec le feu.

The Blood Books are now available in "Blood Ties" TV tie-in editions. View our TV tie-in feature page here here. A ghost has invaded his home, beginning a dangerous nightly game in which Henry is allowed to ask a single question. If the answer is no, an innocent and unsuspecting person is killed. Henry soon comes to the horrifying realization that this wraith—and the others who join it—is using him to wreak vengeance on the people it holds responsible for its death. Henry can’t find the source of these murders on his own, so he calls on the one person he trusts to help—private investigator Vicki Nelson, with the small hope that they can stop these otherworldly forces, without losing their lives. Also includes a brand-new short story featuring Vicki and Henry!

The Blood Books are now available in "Blood Ties" TV tie-in editions. View our TV tie-in feature page here here. An evil being has been sealed away for centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, waiting patiently for his chance to rise again. Now, brought to the Egyptology Department of Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, the seals and spells that imprisoned him chipped away from his discoverers, he has reached forth to claim the minds and souls of Toronto’s unsuspecting citizens. And only three people had any sense that something was wrong…. For Henry Fitzroy, it began with terrifying images of the sun, a marker of death for a vampire. Fearing for his sanity, he turns to his sometimes-lover, private investigator Vicki Taylor, for help. As the two struggle to cope with Henry’s obsession, Vicki’s closest friend and former partner Mike Celluci, is following up on two mysterious deaths at the museum, certain that a force from beyond the grave is responsible for everything.

The second book in Tanya Huff''s action-packed military sci-fi adventure Confederation series Never tell a two-star general what you really think of him.... That was the mistake Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr made with General Morris. But as a battle-hardened professional, she took pride in doing her job and getting her troops back alive. So after she''d saved the mission to bring the Silviss into the Confederation—instead of losing them and their world to the enemy known only as the Others—she let the general know exactly how she felt. And Torin’s reward—or punishment—was to be separated from her platoon and sent off on what might well prove an even more perilous assignment. She was commandeered to protect a scientific expedition to a newly discovered and seemingly derelict spaceship of truly epic proportions. And Confederation politics had saddled her with a commanding officer who might prove more of a menace to the mission’s success than anything they encountered. Only time would tell if the ship was what it appeared to be, or a trap created by the Others—or the work of an as-yet unknown alien race with an agenda that could prove all too hostile to other life forms....

Soudain, un cri horrible retentit dans une station de métro déserte. Vicki Nelson se précipite. Trop tard. La victime est morte, la gorge déchiquetée. Vicki entrevoit une silhouette fantasmagorique qui disparaît dans le tunnel. D''autres victimes exsangues sont découvertes, et on chuchote qu''il y aurait un vampire à Toronto ! Ex-flic devenue détective privée depuis qu''elle est atteinte d''une maladie dégénérative qui la prive peu à peu de l''usage de la vue, Vicki décide de mener une enquête parallèle à celle de la police. Les vampires n''existent pas, il doit y avoir une explication rationnelle. Mais, lorsque Vicki se verra proposer l''aide de Henry Fitzroy, séduisant écrivain âgé de quatre cent cinquante ans, toutes ses belles certitudes vacilleront...

Ex-flic, Vicki Nelson a dû quitter la police de Toronto parce qu''elle perd la vue. Devenue détective privé, elle semble vouée aux enquêtes peu banales. Cette fois, c''est son ami Henry Fitzroy - bâtard de Henry VIII, ancien duc de Richmond et accessoirement vampire - qui lui demande d''aider ses amis, Rose Heerkens et son frère jumeau, membres d''une famille de loups-garous pacifiques. En effet, quelqu''un a découvert leur nature secrète et s''acharne à les abattre, avec des balles en argent. Bien sûr, pas question d''aller voir la police. Vicki est donc leur seul recours.

Tanya Huff’s supernatural fantasy Smoke series, with a gothic twist • Mix of ghostly mystery, paranormal horror, and dark humor • Lamba Award nominated Fans of the X-Files and Twin Peaks will love acclaimed master of contemporary fantasy Tanya Huff’s twisted version of vampires, wizards, and TV terror. Tony Foster, fledgling wizard and now trainee assistant director on Darkest Night—the syndicated vampire detective show—is hoping that they only supernatural events he’ll be caught up in are those in the script. But that isn’t meant to be, for a demonic convergence is about to begin, creating weak spots through which lesser demons may enter the world. To complicate matters, Leah, the incredibly seductive stuntwoman who freelances for the show, is an immortal Demongate. Should Leah die, the Demongate will open and her sensual demon master will wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting human race. Can Tony—with the help of Leah, Henry, a tabloid reporter, a Mountie, and the cast of Darkest Night—halt a demonic invasion and stave off the end of the world?

Discover the second book in the Keeper''s Chronicles, where a young woman masters of the possibilities of time and space, maintaining the balance between worlds to protect Earth. Claire Hansen was a Keeper, gifted—or cursed—with the job of being one of Earth''s Guardians, “Summoned” to areas where anomalies existed, where rifts had opened—or had been opened. Such places were the world''s danger spots where, if they weren’t sealed in time, all the minions of Hell might break through. After she’d closed the portal into Hell at the Elysian Fields Guest House, Claire and her talking cat, Austin, found they’d acquired a new companion—Dean. Though Dean was a Bystander and shouldn’t have been allowed to even remember Keepers existed, somehow in the course of their mutual ordeal at the Elysian Fields, he’d become an indispensable part of Claire’s life. She knew she should change his memories and force him to leave her. Any other course was bound to lead to disaster. But as it turned out, it was already too late, for without Dean around Claire could easily become a danger to herself and the very fabric of space and time. Yet with Dean around—and a little of her sister Diana’s meddling thrown in—the world was headed straight for Chaos. And Claire was about to face a challenge beyond her wildest imagining—a catastrophe created by the power of love—when an angel and a devil each manifested in the mortal world as fully endowed teenagers, who didn’t have a clue how to handle their all-too-human bodies, raging hormones, and opposing needs to do good and evil....

Discover the first book in the Keeper''s Chronicles, where a young woman becomes master of the possibilities of time and space, maintaining the balance between worlds to protect Earth. Austin was a black and white, far-from-young cat. Not just any cat, mind you, he was the Keeper’s cat, a very outspoken feline with extremely strong opinions he was always willing to voice. After all, who knew better than Austin what was best for the well-being of Claire—and for the not-quite-as-important rest of the universe? Claire Hansen was a Keeper, a member of that select group that kept the universe in one piece. And now she’d been Summoned to the Elysian Fields Guesthouse, a rundown bed-and-breakfast that seemed to attract the most unusual clientele. And Claire was not happy about this latest assignment, not happy at all. Not when she’d been tricked into taking over here by a horrible little gnome of a man who’d abandoned his post before she’d even figured out who he really was. Not when room six held a resident who’d been sleeping there for so many years that she really needed a good dusting—except that it was far too dangerous for anyone to get that close to her. Not when the basement housed too much temptation for anyone’s mental health. Not when she found herself surrounded by “helpers” as distracting as Dean, the hunky-yet-innocent handyman, and Jacques, a ghost with a real lust for life. And especially not when it looked like this might be the not only her most challenging mission, but one she’d be stuck handling for life....

Discover the third book in the Keeper''s Chronicles, where two young women master the possibilities of time and space, maintaining the balance between worlds to protect Earth. It started on the last day of high school, a day Diana Hansen had been anticipating for the last twelve years. Now, her real life could begin. For Diana, like her sister Claire, was a Keeper—gifted with the ability to reweave the possibilities of time and space to maintain the balance between Light and Darkness. What neither Diana nor Sam—formerly an angel, now a cat—could have anticipated was that her first Summons as an active Keeper would be to a shopping mall! But a quick trip to the Erlking’s Emporium, a gift shop in a Kingston mall, confirmed Diana’s worst suspicions. Not only was Darknesss trying to stage a takeover from the Otherside, but if Diana didn’t bring in reinforcements, her first Summons might well be her last. Claire and Austin—who’d always been a cat and had little tolerance for cat wannabes like Sam—were only too ready to take on their “older and wiser” roles. But neither the Keepers nor their cats were prepared for what they found when they tried to cross from their world to the Otherside mall....

Tanya Huff’s supernatural fantasy Smoke series, with a gothic twist • Mix of ghostly mystery, paranormal horror, and dark humor • Lamba Award nominated Fans of the X-Files and Twin Peaks will love acclaimed master of contemporary fantasy Tanya Huff’s twisted version of vampires, wizards, and TV terror. When Tony Foster relocated to Vancouver with his vampire Henry Fitzroy, he knew it was his chance to get his act together. In an example of art echoing life, Tony landed a job as production assistant for the syndicated TV show Darkest Night, a series about a vampire detective. And except for his unrequited crush on the show’s handsome costar, Lee Nicholas, Tony was pretty content. Until everything started to fall apart on the set. It began with shadowsu00adu00ad—shadows where they didn’t belong, that almost had an existence of their own. Tony tried to ignore it—until he found Nikki Waugh’s body, and felt the shadow’s touch, and a stunt crash went wrong for no discernible reason—and Tony knew that he had to find out what was threatening everyone on the set.

When Tony Foster and his TV crew find themselves shooting in an actual haunted house, all hell threatens to break loose. Can Tony keep the diabolical spirit from turning the crew against one another?

Meisha Merlin''s second collection of Tanya Huff''s short fiction, Relative Magic features four Terizan stories (3 previously published and one newly written especially for this collection), two stories from the Blood Series (one Vicky and one Henry), and eleven other fantastic stories. The collection will also include new introductions to each story by Tanya Huff.