Bøger af Jeanette Battista

With the threat of a werehyena takeover dealt with, Kess, Finn, and Rafe can finally enjoy the tentative peace Miami has to offer. As Kess moves forward with her decision to open up the territory to peaceful weres, she knows that the Keepers of Divine Order-a group of werejackal assassins-are watching her every move. If her plan fails, she knows they won't hesitate to eliminate her and her friends.When several werehyenas suddenly disappear and Mebis, the Keeper assigned to Miami, goes unexpectedly missing, Kess fears the worst. But even she's unprepared for this latest threat: a hunter hiding in plain sight whose only goal is killing werecreatures. Can Kess and her friends survive this most dangerous game?

After a disastrous mission and betrayal from within its own ranks, the London Resistance is shattered beyond repair. Amaranth and the meager remains of the Resistance journey to Vatican City, where they hope to discover the true location of the Demon's Gate. Should they find and destroy it, the demons would be forced back to their own world, and the spell binding Amaranth to a demon would break.But on their heels comes Raulston, a powerful man hell-bent on crushing an resistance to the demons that are destroying the remnants of humanity. Amaranth and her closest companions--Dham and Cat--will do whatever it takes to ensure humanity's survival. With Amaranth's magical powers, and Dham and Cat's rare ability to kill demons using sacred bells, they might stand a chance against the demon invasion. But as the trio face life, death, and the in-between, their devotion to each other may be what brings their downfall.

Lila is starting over at a new university to get away from the abusive boyfriend who put her in the hospital during her freshman year. She just wants to forget about her disastrous relationship with Tyler. She's not looking for a love connection-or even a lust connection-until not one, but two, wonderful guys come into her life: damaged, guarded Donovan, and sweet, sexy Greg.But Tyler isn't ready to let Lila go. Can she afford to pursue a relationship with either guy when it might mean putting them-and herself-in danger?20% of the author's profits of Played will be donated to university domestic violence charities around the country.

Amaranth's desperate gamble to buy Dham and the Resistance time has paid off: they have the location of the Demon's Gate. But she is now a prisoner of Raulston and the Inquisition, and he will stop at nothing to get the answers he seeks. With her friends dead or scattered, and with no hope of rescue, Amaranth can only hope Dham will be able to make his way to Edinburgh, Scotland and close the Gate before he's discovered.But as one of the last living magicians, Amaranth finds her mission is not yet finished. With the help of friends--old and new--she must draw on skills she didn't even know she had. Pursued by dangerous enemies and surrounded by magic, she will need to sacrifice everything she holds dear if humanity has a hope of surviving.

The Moon Omnibus combines the first three volumes in the Moon Series in one volume: Leopard Moon--Kess, a wereleopard, is forced to flee her home in Miami once her brother's obsession with her turns violent. She meets Cormac, a young man with a secret of his own. But her brother is closing in, threatening Cormac's life and Kess' freedom.Jackal Moon--Laila has been pledged to serve the jackal god, Anubis, since she was a child. When her initiation into the Keepers leads her to Miami and pits her against the wereleopard Sekhmet, Laila is cast into a sea of clan intrigue and bitter rivalries. The stakes grow ever higher as rivals and Kess, the true clan leader, descend on Miami to vie for power.Hyena Moon--Miami is still in the hands of the wereleopard clan. But things aren't simple for Kess, especially now that she has Samara's son, Rafe, to deal with. While others see only a spy, Kess is determined to help the damaged young man abandoned by his mother. Rafe knows his mother isn't done with Miami or Kess. In the final bloddy conflict between wereleopard and hyena, which side will Rafe choose

A girl, a boy, and a family curse...Devon can't wait to put her podunk mountain town behind her once and for all when she graduates high school. But even though she's the class valedictorian, the likelihood of her being able to afford college on her own is slim. As she begins the research on scholarships that might help with tuition, a new distraction arises in the form of the town's golden boy, the cute and popular Brock Cutler who works in the town Records room. Devon knows that mountain and town folk don't mix, but she's drawn to him anyway.But as her friendship with Brock deepens, Devon realizes that there are consequences when mountain folk and town folk mingle: she's humiliated at a party by the most popular girl in school, almost assaulted by the school quarterback, and rumors about her begin to spread throughout the school. The ghost of a woman wrapped in a black veil starts haunting her steps. As the these unpleasant incidents become more frequent, Devon's grandmother warns her to stay away from Brock so she doesn't end up like her mother.As she digs deeper into her family's past, Devon uncovers secrets that may be better left buried. Why is she suddenly seeing strange visions of a woman in a veil mourning over a hundred year old grave? How is this veiled woman related to the tragic events in Devon's mother's life? And why is Devon's grandmother warning her away from Brock? As Devon searches for answers and the specter's appearances become more frequent, everything Devon has ever known in her life begins to change.Can she unravel her family's curse before it claims her too?

The year is 64 A.D. -- though now A.D. stands for Anno Daemonii.Demons have crossed a gate into our world, taking the reins of power from humanity. A new Inquisition has begun, determined to root out any who stand against the new world order. The holy sites on earth have been destroyed -- Jerasulem first, then the Vatican, then Mecca -- and what resistance remains is ruthlessly crushed. Amaranth is a fighter in the resistance cell based in London. Dham is a Ringer, one of the few people left able to ring the remaining sets of blessed hand bells that have power over demons. When Amaranth discovers that her best friend has been possessed by a demon and is going to be used in the Resistance's final, desperate mission, she asks Dham for his help in saving her friend. With the Inquisition closing in and betrayal threatening from inside the Resistance itself, Amaranth, Dham, and the demon -- along with Catriona, a new, highly-skilled, highly-blonde bell-ringer -- decide to head to Rome and the ruins of Vatican City, hoping to find a way to stem the tide of demonic possessions and close the gate.

Christine Daaé is done with singing and dancing in the background of the Palais Garnier and running cons on gullible Parisians for extra cash. Desperate for a way out of this dead-end life, Christine runs across a disfigured young man in a traveling freak show. When Christine frees Erik from his cage, she never expects to encounter him again.But Erik is drawn to the music of the Palais Garnier, where he can hear voices almost as magnificent as his. The opera is rife with rumors of a ghostly figure haunting the backstage catwalks. With Erik's help, Christine uses ghastly tales of the Opera Ghost to her advantage to secure a lead role in the gala, ousting the current diva, Carlotta, in the process.Christine's first appearance in a principal role is a resounding success, bringing her to the attention of former childhood friend, Raoul, the Vicomte de Chagny. Knowing Raoul to be easily led, Christine exaggerates Erik's monstrousness, setting the two men at odds. Their conflict comes to a head during a performance of Faust, where Erik forces a confrontation between all three of them in the secret tunnels beneath the opera house. There, Christine must face who and what she truly is, and decide who she wants to be.

Two households, both alike in dignity…Romy Montoya feels less than #blessed to be sent to Verona Prep, a posh boarding school on the East Coast designed to break students down and rebuild them for the Ivy League. As the daughter of a controversial pop superstar, Romy has spent most of her life in L.A. surrounded by ostentatious wealth and the obscenely privileged. After a highly publicized run-in with a paparazzi, her mother ships her to Verona for a fresh start.Julie Cranston is shocked when her parents pack her up for junior year at Verona Prep. She’s perfectly happy with her old school, church, and friends, but her father is running for U.S. Senate on a conservative platform and wants to maximize their profile on the East Coast. Lonely and ousted from her comfort zone, Julie never expects to meet the daughter of Monet, the very musician her parents are denouncing as the cultural Antichrist.The two girls don’t expect to even like each other, let alone fall in love. Romy is comfortably out of the closet, but Julie tries to deny what she feels for Romy. The two date secretly, keeping their relationship from their friends and roommates.But in any Shakespearean retelling, star-crossed love can’t stay secret for long . . .When Julie’s so-called friend, Tyndall, outs the relationship to Julie’s parents, Romy and Julie must figure out how to keep Julie’s parents from sending her to a gay conversion camp and separating them forever. The girls are hurtling toward their destiny, but will fate decide to be cruel or kind? The course of true love never did run smooth…