In the second installment in her supernatural Taker trilogy, Alma Katsu, author of the highly acclaimed The Hunger, takes you on a breathtaking 200-year journey through the landscape of the heart. Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone. She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save Jonathan, the boy she grew up with in a remote...

Alma Katsu's acclaimed trilogy-a supernatural epic that began with The Taker and sparked a chase around the world in The Reckoning-comes to a stunning conclusion, and brings Lanore McIlvrae to a final encounter with Adair, her powerful nemesis. Dismayed by Adair's otherworldly powers and afraid of his passionate temper, Lanore has run from him across time, even imprisoning him behind a wall for two centuries to save Jonathan, her eternal love....

Years ago, Owen Renderwell earned acclaim-and a title-for the dashing rescue of a kidnapped duchess. But only a select few knew that Scotland Yard's most famous detective was working alongside London's most infamous thief...and his criminally brilliant daughter, Charlotte Walker. Lottie was like no other woman in Victorian England. She challenged him. She dazzled him. She questioned everything he believed and everything he was, and he has never wanted...

**He stole me away, and now he's my only hope On the run with the bad boy and his son – And our story gets crazier I'm pregnant with his baby! Her:** In the wrong place at the wrong time, I saw something I never should have seen The people responsible aren't happy to have a witness running around Enter Tate Dale, the man sent to deliver me to my fate Only he doesn't kill me; instead, he takes me with him, along with his kid He tells me he's the...

Life had always felt like a never-ending loop of expectations and rules. That's why when I spotted the "Help Wanted" sign at The Good Char, the hotdog on a stick food place in the mall. It was perfect! Like the condiments were calling my name. Little did I know, stepping into that vibrant hotdog stand would lead me straight into hell. Dzik, my grumpy manager with an air of mystery about him, brooded and grumbled even after he hired me. His standoffish...