Overview

This urban fantasy set contains the complete Morrighan House Witches series, including Rise, Shadow Maker, Bad Omen, and Panther Queen. Rise "You never knew what it meant to get involved with a witch." Grad student Ekkehard Schneider doesn't believe in magic until he discovers his boyfriend, Zven, is a pyromancer. Attempting to flee to West Germany together, Zven is killed and Ekkehart is left with a bullet in his chest, a heavy survivor's guilt, and the ability to see spirits. Recovering in his parents' home, Ekkehardt finds an old journal that describes how to bring someone back from the dead. He doesn't expect it to work, and he certainly doesn't expect to wake up battered and bruised with no idea of how he got home. Zven isn't the only spirit he brought home, and they want his blood. Shadow Maker "I remember dying." Physics major Dieter Lindemann is perfectly content living in a world where the Shadows he sees and hears are nothing but figments of his imagination. But when one attacks him, he's forced to confront the fact that the Shadows are not only real, but dangerous. Though Necromancer Alistair Cudmore offers to help him, Dieter quickly realizes that what he and Alistair want are two very different things, and it's difference that could cost him his life. Controlling and possessive, Alistair pushes him further and further into blood magic, dragging him down into a world he never wanted any part in. As the spirits and Alistair grow more and more violent, Dieter must break away from his mentor and learn to control the Shadows on his own before they destroy him. Only, Alistair isn't about to let him go without a fight. Bad Omen "Does the name Bad Omen mean anything to you?" Lindy Lindemann always thought she would like to work in a library. Instead, she’s a police dispatcher using her abilities as a precognizant to help the people who call her and feed information to the police when she can. One by one, the high-ranking witches in the city start being picked off, and after every murder, a man identifying himself only as A calls to let her know it’s him. With the police quickly running out of leads, Lindy is brought in to work with the lead detective. Lindy discovers that these killings are connected to the murder of a family that happened over ten years ago. The only problem? The person that Lindy suspects is Staff Sergeant Siobhan Cockburn, the one who brought her into this in the first place. Now, Lindy not only has to stop A from killing anyone else, but she also has to prove that Cockburn isn’t what she appears before A adds them both to his list. Panther Queen “That’s panther queen to you.” When cattle rancher Lenna Alvarez rescues a black jaguar, she discovers there’s more to the animal than meets the eye. Bonding with a centuries-old Aztec Warrior wasn’t part of her plans. Then again, neither was simultaneously facing off against an American businessman and poachers encroaching on her family lands. With her newfound powers, Lenna is sure the poachers don’t stand a chance. Only, Lenna isn’t the only one bringing strange animal powers to the game. The poachers have them too, led by businessman Ansen Peters. Lenna is in over her head, and not even the jaguar can save her. Ansen Peters doesn’t want the ranch. He wants the jaguar. And he’s willing to kill her for it.