"You are the sacrifice to keep the pack safe, Evelyn Freeman. Your life will keep ours intact for yet another year, and for that you should be honored. We thank you for giving this life up so that we may prosper." - - - "And you, little wolf? You won't try to run from me, will you?" - - - "Sweet, innocent Evelyn was jealous of the woman riding me in my office." Cover by // dusk117.

London, 1848. Everybody needs someone to hate. I'm Ethan Vinge, the lord's first royal guard. I am also Ethan, the Butcher. The blood is something I know very well. To be honest, I am pretty happy about the fact that someone got killed and I finally will be able to do what I can best: Hunting them down. Never would I have guessed that all my nightmares come to get alive in between. All the betrayal, desperation, wrong turns and of course the blood and death are giving me a hard time, but - and this is important - this is the only way to find out who I am. The real Ethan, in case something like this exists. Even though Lord Blackwood also suffers under the burden of ruling an unsteady kingdom, I am here. I will protect him with my life and whatever it takes.

In a land known as the Paragrim, the four marches--North, South, East, and West--are finding themselves at war with one other. With the help of an unhappily betrothed second son, a seer locked in a tower, a rogue sitting on death row, a black market alchemist, an arrogant summoner, and a not-so-powerful lesser demon, the four marches will soon find out that they're the least of each other's problems. These six teenagers must learn to work together, to evade the laws which outlaw any and all forms of sorcery, and to be strong where their teammates are weak, in order to fight against the dark, bloodthirsty, and downright sinister otherworldly entities that others are too willfully blind to see, and which threaten life as they know it.

Jack wants to try something. He's heard his dad talk about it before and he thinks he can do it, too. He's been thinking about it for a while. All he needs is the right person. And then he met Charlie. --- Trusting and unsuspecting six-year-old Charlie is lured away from safety. She ends up caught in the clutches of a young boy with a disturbed mind. A young boy who will soon be a serial rapist and killer--and she is his first. --- She Was His First is a horrific tale that's too unspeakable to make up. It is based on a true story.