Lois Wilkinson

On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation....

It’s Monsters Night, the annual event where the portals to other realms and realities open, and monsters flood the streets to search for their potential mates. And I’m one of the candidates. Why? Because I broke all the rules. I fought back against the elitist system hellbent on enslaving humankind. And f--k if I’m going to let one of these monsters claim me. Let alone three of themOrcus.

If you had told me three months ago that my life was going to be what it is now, I’d have told you that you were full of shit. It turns out, Mom kept a lot of secrets from me. Including that I’m a witch-werewolf hybrid. The very first of my kind. It’d be kind of cool, if it didn’t make me a target. Vampires are coming after me. They’re afraid of what I could do to them. Too bad they don’t know that I haven’t even triggered my werewolf gene yet. I’m learning everything I can about being a witch. My aunt is teaching me how to defend myself against vampires, but it’s going to...

The threat of war has arrived at Diem's doorstep, along with a new discovery that could save her people. To use it, she must survive the next thirty days by forming a devil's bargain with the people she hates most: the royal family of House Corbois. As she dives into the world of the Descended elite, Diem quickly realizes good and evil aren't as simple as they seem. Old prejudices are challenged, and new loyalties blur the line between friend and foe.