http://www.Fictionwise.com Fictionwise.com: Best-Selling Titles By Christopher Golden & Nancy Holder http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook44540.htm Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown--then beats it into submission. In the upper reaches of the Himalayas, Hellboy's ex-girlfriend, archaeologist Anastasia Bransfield, believes she has found the location of the legendary "Dragon King Pool"--thought to be the ancient dwelling of an evil dragon who inflicted horrific devastation on the land and its people. Every year the villagers would sacrifice a child to placate the beast, until one day an unlikely hero fought the dragon and won, bringing peace and prosperity to the land. But Anastasia's triumph at her discovery is short-lived. Soon unearthly creatures are seen lurking around the dig site, someone is sabotaging the excavation with dire results, and the young daughter of one of the dig leaders goes missing. It looks like a job for Hellboy--but his toughest challenge might be putting his past with Anastasia behind him.... http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook8447.htm It's 1940, and Europe is ravaged by World War II--an ideal environment for demon paramours Spike and Drusilla. The anniversary of Dru's resurrection as a vamp impends, and Spike wants to celebrate. What better gift than Freya's Strand--a powerful necklace rumored to allow its wearer to shape-shift at will? Spike learns of a demon named Skrymir, who claims to possess the bauble and is willing to trade. Spike's task is ti infiltrate the Watcher's Council headquaters and get his hands on the list of young women in training to take over as Slayer should they be called. In exchange for Freya's Strand, Spike must kill the reigning Slayer, a brazen young woman named Sophie, as well as the Slayers-in-Waiting. And if he succeeds, it could mean the end of the Chosen One--all of the Chosen Ones--forever. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook69726.htm SAMMI, TQ, CARYN, Letty, and Katsuko are floaters. None of them fits in with any particular group at Covington High School--except each other. One night, to cement their bond, the girls decide to get matching, unique tattoos. But when Sammi backs out at the last minute, everything changes. Faster than you can say "airbrush," Sammi is an outcast, and soon, her friends are behaving like total strangers. When they attack Sammi for trying to break up a brawl, Sammi spies something horrible on her friends' backs: the original tattoo has grown tendrils, snaking and curling over the girls' entire bodies. What has that creepy tattoo artist done to her friends? And what--if anything--can Sammi do to get them back? This deliciously creepy psychological thriller is the perfect summer read. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook8796.htm Sunnydale is being besieged by dark forces and it's more than one Slayer can handle--especially since the abominations are coming from a centuries-old portal through time and space. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook40795.htm Before you can save Albion, you must destroy the poison in its black heart. William and Tamara Swift's newfound sorcerous powers as Protectors of Albion pale before the demonic forces threatening Britannia. But William and Tamara have formidable allies in Lord Byron, Queen Bodicea, and Lord Admiral Nelson--England's noble, notorious Ghosts of Albion. Responding to a plea from Cornwall, Tamara discovers that the rumors of young women, both human and fairy, vanishing without a trace are horribly true. Instead of hard clues, she uncovers only whispers of witches, infernal abductions, and a pyre of innocents planned for the solstice. 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Into this struggle has stepped a New England lawyer who once wanted to be an actor--a man who both longs for the mortal woman he was to marry and is desperate to rescue the sister who's been taken hostage. Neither hero nor warrior, Oliver Bascombe now finds himself brandishing a magical sword, walking in the company of a woman who sometimes appears as a fox and a man made of pure ice, and dueling with albino giants and winged killers. For in the world of the Borderkind--and the realms that exist beyond it--Oliver is discovering just how vulnerable are humankind's myths, the dire consequences of their extinction, and the reason he was chosen to save them.... http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook5190.htm Sunnydale College is a haven for creatures of the underworld. When Buffy awakes in a possible future, she is stunned to discover that Southern California has fallen under vampire rule. Slayerettes rallied against the new order. Willow is a sorceress, Xander a man, and Oz a split personality. Faith's gone. And Buffy has only herself to blame. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook49473.htm Since the beginning of time, the demonic races have gathered every century to resolve conflicts among them and to determine the course of their future. This centennial event was called the Dark Congress. In the second century b.c., however, the Dark Congress failed to resolve their conflicts. Instead, the Congress ignited into a war that drove wedges between the various demon races from that time until now. And all of it began as a result of Kandida, the great North African river demon, being nearly killed by forces in the Congress and magically entombed in the riverbank. But now, Kandida is free, and for the first time in centuries, the Dark Congress is being called again. All demon races and other varieties of supernatural creatures have been called to gather at the Hellmouth in Providence, Rhode Island. Some gather in hopes of resolution, some in favor of war, and Kandida is tasked to broker a treaty and guide the Congress to peace, wherein everyone might simply agree to disagree. And so the demons gather under a banner of a truce.But the demons still harbor many bitter disagreements with one another. The Congress must have an arbiter of these conflicts, and that someone is Buffy Summers. Buffy is horrified and disgusted to be included. After all, she is not a demon ... is she? She knows so little about her powers that she cannot say for certain where they truly spring from. How can she spend so much time wallowing in the darkness without becoming part of it? Can she possibly agree to a truce with all the horrors of the world, and allow them to come Providence without any attempt to stop them? And does she have a choice? http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook6454.htm An ancient vampire has arrived in Sunnydale, bent on continuing his reign of terror. But the trail of blood leads straight to Buffy's best friend, Willow. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook8223.htm An ancient vampire sorceress named Veronique once bartered with a trio of demons known as the Triumverate for a kind of immortality not shared by her vampire brothers and sisters: upon her death, her demon soul lingers until a nearby human is slain and Veronique can occupy a "new" body. She cannot die. She will rise again. She will bring forth the end of Man. And she'll start in Sunnydale.... Buffy doesn't need an unkillable foe right now. Her mother's in the hospital. And her immortal boyfriend, Angel, is acting distant. She'll need her best buds Xander and Willow, along with Cordelia and Oz, to help her solve a rash of grave robberies, head off an influx of new vampires, and take Veronique down once and for all.