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No ship ever lands on Callisto... that is, until a shuttle crash-lands. There is only one survivor--Llyrica, Edgar's ex-wife, the one person in all the solar system Edgar hates most--the only woman Edgar has ever loved. No woman can survive on Callisto. There is a plague on the moon that kills all females. When the colony was originally settled, all the women and girls became sick. 80% of them died before the colony could be evacuated. And then there is the danger from the prisoners themselves.

Unlike her younger student classmates, Paula Bailey is prepared to argue that her theories are equally as valid as those of her professor and is challenged to prove her claims by taking part in a summer-long experiment to be conducted by him. Unwilling to back down and lose face, she accepts his challenge and at the end of spring term, finds herself in a situation far beyond her experience...and even farther beyond her control.

Back in '99, everyone was moving on from the psychic high times to a time when computers were threatening to destroy the economy in a Y2K scare. But it wasn’t quite the time when everyone had a cellphone in their pocket yet, either. Ninety-nine was an in between time. A time when highway driving relied more heavily on faith than on phones. Mike and Steve get a little bored while driving home on Halloween after their shift at a fast-food joint. The vehicle that they decide to joke around with has no idea how to play games.

In all the 6,000 years that the Children of Lilith have walked among us, there has never been an unwilling vampire...until now. Carl Morgan has lost everything. His wife and children were killed in a senseless accident. Then he witnesses the murder of his sister at the hands of a beautiful and mysterious woman named Rebecca. When the police cannot locate the killer, Carl takes matters into his own hands. But his search for justice costs him everything he holds dear.Carl is unknowingly transformed into the world's first and only unwilling vampire.

In desperate need of investment money to keep their business afloat, Gemma Longton and her lover and partner Mike Bowyer are at their wits’ end to think how to obtain the finance they must have. Until he realizes that there is a way, and without telling her, arranges a deal with Roxwell, a millionaire businessman, whose price for providing financial assistance is high. Unaware of her part in the deal and thinking that their business is saved, Gemma allows Mike to tie her up for some celebratory sex and she soon learns her fate.

For 6,000 years, Lilith and her Children have walked the earth, hunting, preying, seducing, corrupting, ruling from the shadows...until now. An ancient prophecy, spoken by Adam, Lilith's grandfather, foretells her doom. She will do anything, corrupt any innocent, murder countless mortals to save herself.

Marcus Scribonius—a Christian convert of scarcely five years and an Option in the Roman Army, second-in-command of a century of 80 men–has just survived a horrific battle against Boudicca and her Celtic rebels. Although Roman casualties were astonishingly light, one of those casualties was Marcus's beloved commander and mentor. Now serving under the command of a new centurion–who, for reasons Marcus cannot comprehend, already hates him–Marcus and his century are given a secret mission.