The folk of the Badlands know Wraithshot as a hero; a spirit of protection and justice. But Caleb Raith has never seen himself that way. He's just a banged up ex-outlaw with a lot of penance left to pay off. Trudging through the desert with poison running in his blood is just his debt coming due. Lysistrata Starborn, Chosen of Battles, only knows Caleb as a Chosen of the Unconquered Sun; a good man. After pitting him against a demon Queen to save the Badlands, Lysistrata finds him half-dead of fever, and a lot of stories left untold...

Paulette's life is in shambles. Her sister is dead, her mother is a drunk, and she's been forced to transfer into a chaotic public school full of bullies. Things go from bad to worse when, one night while driving them home from dinner, her intoxicated mother hits and kills a teenage boy and is sent to jail. Now Paulette is truly alone. But when the teenage boy mysteriously comes back from the dead looking for Paulette, she finds herself face to face with the purest love on earth.

Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.