The Pendleton was built in the 1800's and was from the Gilded Age. Now recently remodeled and the home of some fortunate residents, its dark past begins to surface. Phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not so human images lurk in the basement, elevators plunge. Soon the new dwellers of 77 Shadow Street begin to live a new nightmare.

Where there is light, there must always be shadow... The fourth volume in Janny Wurts's spectacular epic fantasy. The schism began with two half-brothers empowered to subdue a Mistwraith. In revenge it cursed them to a life of perpetual conflict. Each believes absolutely in his cause, and loathes the other for opposing it... Lysaer, Prince of the Light - a charismatic leader sworn to set humanity free from sorcerous oppression. He claims divine...

After her family is killed, Spirit White is taken to Oakhurst Academy, a combination orphanage and school for those with magical powers, where she and her new friends investigate when students start mysteriously disappearing.

Having settled in at Shadow Falls Camp, a training ground for vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural beings, sixteen-year-old Kylie Galen is eager to discover what her abilities might be, but an interfering ghost and a rogue vampire on a murdering rampage get in the way of her search.

When a series of magical attacks disrupts Oakhurst Academy, a boarding school for orphaned future magicians, a suspicious alumnus is hired to secure the campus and start training the students for war.

"Haunted by a mission he barely survived, Delta Force operative Mace Stevens still carries a soldier{8217}s burden. Running a small bar in upstate New York, he remains a stone cold warrior who guards dangerous secrets and stays ready for anything. Anything except beautiful, vulnerable Paige Grayson, who shows up at his door, demanding answers about her heroic stepbrother{8217}s death under his command. Paige bears burdens, too. She{8217}s plagued...

Kell Roberts is a solder, survivor, and loner, yet he can't turn his back on a beautiful woman caught in a Mexican drug war.

Caim leaves behind his life as an assassin after he helps an empress claim her throne and while he begins to search for the truth behind the disappearance and murder of his parent he becomes involved in a war he does not want to fight.

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protege of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.