Fang & Fury


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Vampire enemies are a staple of fantasy adventure, but the standard race is too powerful for Player Character use in most d20 campaigns. Fang & Fury presents a new race, the vampire scion, which is balanced for play with conventional PC races. These mysterious creatures have their own history, traditions, and paths to power; and though individuals can come to rival the power of elder vampires, they are always vulnerable to the touch of the sun, or the attack of a holy warrior. This definitive vampire sourcebook is the perfect accessory to add these bloodthirsty creatures to any d20 campaign. It's time to feed!




Blood Fury


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"Brothers at the Black Dagger Brotherhood training center push recruits to the limit to become faster and stronger than ever before as they continue preparing for the fight against the lessening society. Novo, a resilient survivor and a bit rough around the edges, has overcome a great deal, including her intense attraction to suave, aristocratic Peyton. The two fighters shared a passionate physical connection. But when Peyton finally comes to terms with and admits his true feelings for Novo she rejects him for a more stable male. Now they must train in close quarters and eventually confront the feelings they still undoubtedly harbor for one another"--




The Vampire Diaries: The Fury and Dark Reunion


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Elena: transformed, the golden girl has become what she once feared and desired. Stefan: tormented by losing Elena, he's determined to end his feud with Damon once and for all—whatever the cost. But slowly he begins to realize that his brother is not his only enemy. Damon: at last, he possesses Elena. But will his thirst for revenge against Stefan poison his triumph? Or can they come together to face one final battle? Collected here in one edition are the third and fourth volumes of The Vampire Diaries, a riveting conclusion to the tale of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them.




The Struggle


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Enjoy this historical fantasy romance by USA Today bestselling author Nicole Zoltack about vampire sisters in the Middle Ages. Ever since my eldest sister turned me, I have faced nothing but struggles. I struggle to not give into the thirst that never abates. I struggle to not blame my sister. I struggle to survive. Because as much as my fellow townspeople think we’re all monsters now, we still cling to our humanity. We wish to save them. But that, too, is merely just another struggle I bear. KEYWORDS: mayhem of magic, medieval paranormal romance, vampires, monsters, dark fantasy, historical fantasy, supernatural suspense, fairytale fantasy, fantasy romance, romantic fantasy, slow burn romance, supernatural powers, magic, dark fantasy romance, clean fantasy, paranormal romance, dark paranormal romance, war, Free Royal, Raven Kennedy, Kelly St. Clare, Caroline Peckham, Susanne Valenti, C.N Crawford, Elise Kova, Robin D. Mahle, Elle Madison, D.K. Holmberg, Cordelia Castel, Kay L Moody, Alisha Klaphe




The Fury of a Vampire Witch (Books 1-5)


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A Seductive and Suspenseful Vampire Saga... After 130+ years as a vampire, Mercy returns to her hometown of Exeter where she joins Prince Ladinas and his team of underground vampires to stop a host of ancient vampires who've returned from vampire hell. Book 1: Bloody Queen: Hell hath no fury like a witch-turned-vampire scorned... My long-dead vampire brother has returned from hell. He's challenged my right to the vampire throne. He brought a hellhound with him. Every time hellbeast kills, the bastard gets stronger. He's unstoppable. Stronger and faster than any vampire I've ever encountered. Have I finally met my match? On top of that, my ex-vampire lover is on a tear. I need to rally every vampire I can find. I've teamed up with Prince Ladinas and the Vampire Underground. These vampires aren't much for the democratic processes of the Vampire Council. They need a bloody queen—and I'm just the bitch for the job. ALSO INCLUDED: Bloody Underground (#2): At least they had trials in Salem... Bloody Retribution (#3): It's time to settle an ancient score... Bloody Bastards (#4): Faerie gangs are at war... Bloody Brilliance (#5): I'm done being the good girl... You've met Mercy before in The Legacy of a Vampire Witch and The Blood Witch Saga. She's fought against devils and demons, insidious witches, and old-world vampires. When she returns to Exeter, where she grew up as a girl, she'll find enemies even bigger and badder than anything she's ever faced before. A great series for fans of Anne Rice, Bella Forrest, or Stephenie Meyer to sink their fangs into. The Fury of a Vampire Witch features a dark and twisty romance, action that could even get a vampire's heart pumping, and a snarky badass heroine.




Hell Hath No Fury Like a Vampire Scorned: A Fiction-Comedy Novella


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In the realm of the extraordinary, where the supernatural collides with the mundane, there lies a world ripe for exploration. A world filled with laughs and gasps, love and heartbreak, the ordinary and the extraordinary. It is a world that is both familiar and unfamiliar, a world that exists in the intersection of reality and fantasy. Welcome to the world of "Ctrl + Alt + Delight: Debugging Love in the Supernatural Realm." Our protagonist, Leonard, is a brilliant yet socially awkward computer programmer. His life revolves around the binary world of zeros and ones, a world that is as predictable as it is logical. But Leonard's predictable world is turned upside down when he ventures into the unpredictable realm of online dating. His quest for love leads him to an encounter that is as unexpected as it is surreal: he finds himself dating a vampire. Leonard's journey is a rollercoaster ride of emotions, filled with hilarious misadventures and eye-opening revelations. It is a journey that tests his courage and resilience, a journey that forces him to step out of his comfort zone and face the extraordinary. From navigating the peculiarities of dating a vampire to warding off her wrath after a breakup, Leonard's story is a blend of science fiction and comedy, of horror and humor.




Fury's Kiss


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Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing... Dory is used to fighting hard and nasty. So when she wakes up in a strange scientific lab with a strange man standing over her, her first instinct is to take his head off. Luckily, the man is actually the master vampire Louis-Cesare, so he’s not an easy kill. It turns out that Dory had been working with a Vampire Senate task force on the smuggling of magical items and weaponry out of Faerie when she was captured and brought to the lab. But when Louis-Cesare rescues her, she has no memory of what happened to her. To find out what was done to her—and who is behind it—Dory will have to face off with fallen angels, the maddest of mad scientists, and a new breed of vampires that are far worse than undead…




In the Twilight of Patriarchal Culture: The Struggle for Female Identity in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga


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The book investigates Meyer’s popular Twilight saga from a feminist point of view, focusing on the development of Bella’s character and her quest for identity in a rigidly patriarchal world. Bella’s life is entirely determined by the two central male characters who form a polarized axis which slowly tears her apart. Bella’s low self-esteem and her strong attachment to the over-idealized Edward Cullen are read as symptoms of her placelessness in a world that does not grant her space to develop as an autonomous subject. Bella’s wish to become a vampire can be equalled with a woman’s desire to gain access to a higher social realm via her husband and thereby escape her marginalisation in patriarchal culture. In order to live eternally in the idealized, capitalist, patriarchal and overly religious world that Edward represents, Bella has to make a series of sacrifices. Leaving her mother behind, she moves into a male dominated world which is divided into morally idealized vampires and racially devalued werewolves. She is forced to give up her friendship with Jacob Black, who represents her autonomous self, in order to find her patriarchal pre-defined destiny as mother and wife. Similar patterns of stereotypical representations of femininity can be found in various characters of the saga. A more controversial note is brought in by Bella’s half-vampire child who can be seen as a destabilizing factor of the saga’s rigid dichotomy. Taking all this into consideration, we have to ask whether it is desirable that millions of young women worldwide admire Bella and set her up as their role model.




Gothicka


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The Gothic, Romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the twenty-first. Today's Gothic has fashioned its monsters into heroes and its devils into angels. It is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture, not as an evil dimension divorced from ordinary human existence but as part of our daily lives. To explain this millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic-the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.




Vampires and Vampirism


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