Showing results for "Money" in Fantasy

Who answers the call when the mundane police dial 911? Matt Bordelon—former Silver Griffin, wizard, and the Big Easy Bounty Hunter. Matt has a good thing going. Deliver justice to magicals? Check. Keep the world safe from threats? Check. Make good money doing it? Cha-ching. Unless his bounty ends up dead when the paperwork specifies alive, that is. Good thing he’s a pro at avoiding that. Then he stumbles across a dark witch embroiled in a vicious spell battle with a dark wizard and feels compelled to aid her.

Captain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape, turning Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into...a crack team of casino security guards. Now his company is deployed to help an underdeveloped planet. And what better way to utilize their major area of expertise - goofing off - than to turn the planet into the biggest intergalactic playground ever?

Vampires Cat Crawford and her husband Bones's romantic vacation is interrupted when they're enlisted to guard a spoiled heiress with both human and undead hitmen on her tail. Things quickly go from bad to worse when details of their assignment make their way through the supernatural grapevine, and what started as a simple bodyguard job ends up being a fight for survival that neither Cat nor Bones saw coming.

Cougar-shifter Lily Mason is ready to put down roots in the human town of Moonrise, Missouri. But her attraction and proximity to Parker Knowles, her boss at the Pit Bull Rescue Shelter, is a problem. When she gets the opportunity to buy a "fixer-upper" outside of Moonrise with plenty of room to get wild without running into easily freaked-out humans, Lily jumps at the chance. Smooshie, Lily's lovable pit bull and partner in chaos, is eager to participate with the home improvements. Unfortunately, Smooshie's help includes digging out a mummified body from the living room wall.

The fifth book of this dark urban fantasy series follows necromancer Eric Carter through a world of vengeful gods and goddesses, mysterious murders, and restless ghosts. The Los Angeles Firestorm killed over a hundred thousand people, set in revenge against necromancer Eric Carter for defying the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Carter feels every drop of that blood on his hands. But now there's a new problem. Too many ghosts in one spot and the barrier separating them from the living cracks.

Faolan O'Connor runs New York City the old-fashioned way—with charm, violence, and an army of vampyr gangsters. But when a mysterious Chinese demon-ghost starts devouring Chinatown's criminal underworld, Faolan faces an enemy that bullets can't kill and must confront the savage nature he's tried to keep in check. As if an immortal crime boss with an eating disorder wasn't enough trouble, the aristocratic vampyrs of the South are offering Faolan an alliance he can't refuse, but doesn’t know if he can stomach.

A romantic getaway for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband Bones is cut short when they’re called on to guard a spoiled heiress with a price on her head, and an undead hitman on her trail. What starts as a simple bodyguard job ends up being a fight for survival that neither Cat, nor Bones, saw coming.

After an epidemic of attacks by newly risen vampires terrorizes the city, authorities pressure Charles Vaughan and the Vampire Court to determine who is responsible. Complicating matters, a local businessman hires infamous bounty hunter Jack Justice to find and execute the rogues after his sister is attacked.

There were so many toys in the nursery. On the top of the cabinet stood the penny bank, made of clay in the shape of a little pig. Of course, he had a slit in his back, which had been enlarged with a knife so that silver dollars also could be put in; and two such dollars had been slipped into the box, along with a great number of pennies. The Money Pig was stuffed so full he could no longer rattle, which is the highest honor a Money Pig can attain. There he stood, high up on the shelf, looking down on everything else in the room.

Parke Worth: Murders, unexplained fires, Industrial espionage and walking myths meant my first days as Chancellor of everything paranormal were packed and stressful. Cassie King-Worth: A rushed marriage, a forced trip back to an Alabama law school and the wakening of a terrible race long thought dead meant my first days as a married elemental demon were full and terrifying.

For most of Sophia Cavello’s twenty-nine years, she has been able to see dead people. It’s the cross she must bear or as she describes her unique ability, “A circus without a ringmaster.” When Sophia meets the ghost of Enry Larsen, a movie legend who was murdered over thirty years ago, the craziness ramps up. Mayhem abounds when another murder takes place and now, both ghosts want their murders solved.

Ava Malone knew her biological clock was ticking, and after a short affair with her handsome neighbor Eli Hudson, she found out she was pregnant. A situation that was already complicated was about to become even more so when Ava discovered that Eli was a werebear. And a bear shifter having a baby with a human woman was not something that would go down well in his community.

Wealthy were-bear Zeke Croasdell was in an incredibly urgent need of a wife. His billionaire father was threatening to cut him off from the family inheritance if he did not find a mate soon. So Zeke paid 23-year-old Charlie Harrison to be his wife for long enough for him to claim the money. However, Charlie had no idea what being with a billionaire were-bear would be like. And she was set to be in for the shock of her life when she found out....

When it all began, it all had to be much more beautiful than it is now. This is an introduction to facts about the most beautiful, precious, and wonderful planet in the galaxies. From love and happiness to war and peace. Struggle, pain, misery, torture, crimes, and hate. What will be the tremendous outcome of it all? This is the true thriller and historical fiction short story. The ultimate, intriguing, and thought-provoking point of view. A classic and rare take on the entire world and its inhabitants.

Sara’s day begins like any other. A routine extraction in tandem with a local Search and Rescue team. Routine crashes to a halt when she ends up trapped in a hut, high atop Muir Pass in the Sierras. Four days later, running out of food for herself and her dog, she makes a bold dash for safety.

When Clara Finch inherited a cabin on Bear Mountain, she couldn't wait to move out of the city. Her secret life as a witch was one that she wanted to spend in solitude. However, Clara was amazed when handsome billionaire Mason Jones seemed determined to buy the cabin from her. Mason didn't want anyone interfering with his secret life as a werebear, and he would stop at nothing to prevent that. But the two would soon realize that they had more in common than they first realized, and soon, they would also discover that it wasn't a coincidence that they met on Bear Mountain.

So it seems like I am getting married to Sherry. It could be worse. At least I know she is a demon in the sack. But even though we have history, Sherry has no idea about my furry secret. And I wonder, if she found out, would it put her off? Or just turn her on even more?