the dirk & steele series (paranormal romantic thrillers)
The Dirk & Steele Series is set in contemporary times, but in a world where magic rubs elbows with science, where men and women with more-than-human powers secretly risk their lives to help others. It is a world where one right turn can deliver a little mystery that will change your life forever...
BOOK ONE - TIGER EYE
All Dela wants is a vacation, but when she buys an odd little box from a Beijing market, she finds much more than that — she gets a man: a shape-shifter, a warrior, the last of his kind. Hari has been used and abused for millennia, but upon his release from the riddle box, he sees his new mistress is different. In Dela’s eyes he finds hidden power. If only he dares protect, where before he has savaged; love, where before he has known hate. For Dela, he will dare all.
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Marjorie M. Liu
new york times bestselling author
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WHAT FOLKS ARE SAYING:
“Liu’s screenplay-worthy dialogue, vivid action and gift for the punchy, unexpected metaphor rockets her tale high above the pack. Readers of early Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris and the best thrillers out there should try Liu now and catch a rising star.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“If you have yet to add Liu to your must-read list, you're doing yourself—and your patrons—a disservice.”
—Booklist (Starred, Boxed Review)
“Liu is a world-class talent. Her stories are filled with extraordinary characters, and plotlines that are ingenious and riveting.”
—Romantic Times BOOKreviews (Top Pick)
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Elena Baxter can work miracles with her fingers. She can coax bones to knit, flesh to heal. She can mend the soul. She has been doing such work for almost all of her twenty-eight years. That is why she will be taken. But salvation awaits. it exists in a form least expected: a dream of a face, a brush of a mind, the hint of a kiss, and finally, at long last, a shadow touch.
BOOK THREE - THE RED HEART OF JADE
When grisly murders bring ex-cop and clairvoyant, Dean Campbell, to Taiwan, he finds a shocking truth -- and a woman he thought long dead. What follows is an adventure far more deadly than any that has been foreseen, a threat heralding immortal evil.
There are those who do terrible things in this world, and those who simply watch. Charlie would do neither. Imprisoned, his only release is through his own destruction — or through Aggie Durand. Sweet as a kiss or a rescued child, she is the one dream he does not dare desire. As an agent of Dirk & Steele, she could be his salvation. Today, his dream is waking.
When Blue, an electrokinetic and a member of the Dirk & Steele detective agency, is sent to Las Vegas to track down his half-brother, he finds himself embroiled in an organ smuggling plot - and protecting a young beauty who is more than she appears.
From the ocean's depths rises an impossible blend of fantasy and danger, a creature whose voice is seduction incarnate, whose song can manipulate lives the way...even to the point of breaking. He is a prince of the sea, an enigma - a captive stretched to the limit of his endurance by a woman intent on using him for the purest evil.
BOOK SEVEN - THE LAST TWILIGHT (to be released in February 2008)
Doctor Rikki Kinn is a virus hunter - one of the best - working in the Congo for the CDC. But when mercenaries attempt to kidnap her in order to prevent an investigation into a new and deadly plague, her boss calls in a favor from the men at Dirk & Steele...
PREQUEL NOVELLA - HUNTER KISS (in the anthology WILD THING)
“My mother used to say that the tale of the world is drawn in blood, blood in flesh, veins forking into destiny like the branches of the tree from which the apple hung and the serpent danced, trading whispers for the corruption of innocents. Good and evil, knowledge and choice. And there, at the root of history, the world tumbled down....”
BOOK ONE - THE IRON HUNT (to be released July 2008)
Living tattoos: Demons of the flesh, turned into flesh. The only family demon hunter Maxine Kiss has ever known. The only way to live—and the very way she’ll die. For one day, her demons will abandon her for her daughter to assure their own survival—leaving Maxine helpless against her enemies
the hunter kiss series (urban fantasy)
The Hunter Kiss series is about the last living demon hunter on earth -- a woman covered in living tattoos that peel off her body at night to form her own personal demonic army -- an army that is her only family, dedicated to saving her life -- and destined to end it.
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“Her world is full of demons and heartache, multidimensional prisons, faeries, blood, magic -- ruling and shaping her life, leaving her very much alone. Except for her tattoos. Which are alive, and form her own personal army.”
~ excerpt from Romantic Times interview
standalone novels and novellas
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PREQUEL STORY - WHERE THE HEART LIVES (in the anthology MY BIG FAT SUPERNATURAL HONEYMOON)
Where the Heart Lives is my contribution to the anthology, and takes place in the Dirk & Steele universe, long before the events of the series.
A TASTE OF CRIMSON - BOOK 2 IN THE CRIMSON CITY SERIES
Los Angeles is no longer the City of Angels; dark things haunt its streets — dark, restless things. Bodies have been found, and the tentative peace between humans, vampires and werewolves teeters on the brink of collapse. Keeli Maddox needs to know why. If she and her kin are to survive, she must trust a man as different from her as night from day. But nobility lurks in dark places, and Keeli herself is no stranger to shadow. As sure as the moon will rise, Michael was meant for her.
Jean Grey awakens in an unfamiliar room. She is weak, disoriented, stripped of her telepathic and telekinetic powers -- and trapped in someone else's body. Also prisoner are her teammates Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawler -- their minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers. Who has brought them here, and for what purpose? The answers lead to a terrifying plan that threatens not only the X-Men, but all of mutantkind...
HOLIDAYS ARE HELL: ANTHOLOGY (“Six”)
Six is one of the deadliest women in China. Trained from birth to be a warrior, a soldier for the secret police, she can handle anything, anyone. Except for one man. The only person who can save her soul. If she can keep him alive.
HOTTER THAN HELL: ANTHOLOGY (“Minotaur in Stone”) - to be released in July 2008
When a young woman finds herself drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she will discover a creature out of legend, an exiled prince, who needs her help is breaking the curse that has captured his body...and his heart...
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BOOK EIGHT - THE WILD ROAD
Lannes is one of a dying race born to protect mankind. And while most see a beautiful man, this illusion is nothing but a prison. But when he finds a woman covered in blood, with no memory or past, he will be drawn into a mystery that makes him question all he knows.
