A collection of stories, drawn from the tales Kipling's Indian nurses told to him, in which Kipling creates the enchantment of the dawn of the world, when animals could talk and think like people. The laziness of the Camel, the curiosity of the Elephant Child, the cleverness of the hedgehog, the confusions of the Painted Jaguar and all the rest of Kipling's delightful menagerie come alive. Offers Kipling's well-known imaginative animal story collection...

Recounts in chilling detail eight of the world's most extraordinary cases of close encounters.

The thrilling 13th book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan's paranormal Carpathian/Dark series.
They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light . . .

Destiny's childhood had been a nightmare of violence and pain until she heard his voice calling out to her. Golden and seductive. The voice of an angel.

Nicolae had shown her how to

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Cursed to a nightmarish existence as a vampire after drinking from a hellish cup of damnation rather than the Holy Grail, Chapel has spent nearly six centuries roaming the night alone, until he encounters Prudence Ryland, a beautiful but dying young woman seeking the promised deliverance of the Grail.

"On the faraway planet Celta, guardsman Ilex Winterberry, the HeartMate to Trif Clover, refuses to reveal his true identity to her believing that she will be disappointed, until a killer sets his sights on her, forcing him to tell her the truth." --

When a fortune-teller in New Orleans predicts her grisly death, Lauren Crow laughs it off, until she meets a self-proclaimed vampire hunter on a mission of vengeance, who plunges her into the middle of a vicious war between the living and the dead.

Malcolm of Dunroch is a newly chosen Master, a novice to his extraordinary-and dangerous-powers. But he has already broken his vows-and a young woman's death is on his hands. Malcolm is determined to fight his darkest desires, denying himself all pleasure...until fate sends him another Innocent, the beautiful bookseller Claire Camden. Since her mother's murder, Claire has done everything possible to make a safe, secure life for herself in a city...

I’m Aisling Grey—but you can call me “frustrated.”
The dragon of my dreams—uber-sexy Drake Vireo, wyvern of the green dragons—has finally decided to make an honest woman of me. That is, if we ever make it to the wedding at the same time! Being left at the altar may have cooled my jets, but not my passion...a good thing when Drake disappears and it's up to me to find him.
Most brides just have in-laws...

He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war...