Blood and Shadows

They say no good deed ever goes unpunished, a sentiment Dara understands fully now that she is paying for a crime she didn't commit. It was stupid to call in a murder she didn't really see. But how could Dara have kept silent? Now a stunning-scratch that, a dangerous-man with a frightening secret of his own is telling her he can help. Yeah, right. A telepath knows better than to trust mere words.The last decade of Tristan's life has been penance. All that time spent among the worst dregs of society might have made him begin to question his humanity, but he's never felt so much like an animal as he does around this timid, delicate female. Her very presence stirs the beast within him; Tristan can feel it growing stronger every day. Any more time with Dara, and it might overpower him completely. But without her, he stands no chance at all… Alianne Donnelly is an avid lover of stories of all kinds. Raised on a healthy diet of fairy tales in a place where they almost seemed real, she grew into a writer who seeks magic in the modern age and enjoys sharing a little bit of it with the world through every story she writes. Her books span the spectrum from fantasy to science fiction with varying degrees of romance sprinkled throughout. Alianne now lives in California, where she spends her free time reading, writing, and daydreaming. To find out more about her books and works in progress, visit her website at aliannedonnelly.com. The Shadows are gathering. It's time to choose a side: a life worth living, or one worth dying for?

The plan was simple: show everyone how brilliant she really is. Fast forward past everything going horribly wrong to where Hailey is now… dying. The only upside left is the gorgeous mind reader who seems to have trouble staying out of her most unguarded fantasies. Too bad he's dragging her back to the one place she doesn't want to go.The plan is never simple-and this new assignment is making it painfully clear that 'normal' is just not meant for Jeremy. It couldn't be as easy as getting the impossible female back home. No, he has to play protector to a woman who doesn't want one, doesn't need one, and has a tendency to cause total chaos with one heated look.But time is running out and the seemingly imagined threat is far more real than either of them anticipated. When all comes down to a single choice, which will it be: A life worth living, or one worth dying for? Alianne Donnelly is an avid lover of stories of all kinds. Raised on a healthy diet of fairy tales in a place where they almost seemed real, she grew into a writer who seeks magic in the modern age and enjoys sharing a little bit of it with the world through every story she writes. Her books span the spectrum from fantasy to science fiction with varying degrees of romance sprinkled throughout. Alianne now lives in California, where she spends her free time reading, writing, and daydreaming. To find out more about her books and works in progress, visit her website at aliannedonnelly.com. The Shadows are gathering. It's time to choose a side: a life worth living, or one worth dying for?

Some things a woman can never prepare for. Like being locked inside her own home with a maniac who insists that she inject him with a highly unstable virus and help him liberate a planet. Oh, but Amelia's not a hostage, she's an "employee." Bad enough he's so eager to die, but he keeps asking for far more than her doctor-patient responsibilities. And the longer Amelia spends with him, the more reasonable it all seems. The trouble comes when reason starts to fail her.All Gabriel has left to lose is his life, which he will gladly give up if he can take his enemies down with him. To do that, he'll need an advantage only Dr. Chase can provide-if she agrees. With the face of an angel and the devil's hand on her shoulder, every rumor about the female has turned out to be true, and Gabriel soon finds there is something he desires even more than his long overdue revenge. But the wheels have already been set in motion and there may be far more at stake than Gabriel ever realized… Alianne Donnelly is an avid lover of stories of all kinds. Raised on a healthy diet of fairy tales in a place where they almost seemed real, she grew into a writer who seeks magic in the modern age and enjoys sharing a little bit of it with the world through every story she writes. Her books span the spectrum from fantasy to science fiction with varying degrees of romance sprinkled throughout. Alianne now lives in California, where she spends her free time reading, writing, and daydreaming. To find out more about her books and works in progress, visit her website at aliannedonnelly.com. The Shadows are gathering. It's time to choose a side: a life worth living, or one worth dying for?

War is coming. Protests against chem-treatments are turning into bloody riots, and soldiers patrol the streets in every major city. It's only a matter of time before the resistants, those unaffected by the treatments, band together and turn on everyone else. Senator Griffith has been preparing for it. He has created an army so powerful and dedicated that rumors of it are used to scare little children into behaving.They call themselves the Shadows. As a Hawk, their most capable hunter, John Wayland has a new assignment to complete: Capture a telepath. Emma Calen is easy prey. A young girl on the run from the law, cut off from her own people, she falls right into his clutches. It isn't long, however, before he discovers that catching her was the easy part. Watching her fall to pieces before his eyes is what will test him the most. But surely this can't last much longer… can it?When a soldier sweeps down on Emma and chases her out of hiding, she's sure it's to make her pay for her crime. But this is no ordinary soldier, and the people he's working for are not after her record, they want her mind. Locked in a hell specially designed for telepaths, Emma has a front row seat to the disintegration of her own sanity. They want to break her. They will fail. Emma will die before she lets the Shadows use her against her family and friends. But maybe there is still hope for her. A delicate, fragile sliver of hope in the most unlikely place of all. The Shadow Hawk guarding the door. Alianne Donnelly is an avid lover of stories of all kinds. Raised on a healthy diet of fairy tales in a place where they almost seemed real, she grew into a writer who seeks magic in the modern age and enjoys sharing a little bit of it with the world through every story she writes. Her books span the spectrum from fantasy to science fiction with varying degrees of romance sprinkled throughout. Alianne now lives in California, where she spends her free time reading, writing, and daydreaming. To find out more about her books and works in progress, visit her website at aliannedonnelly.com. The Shadows are gathering. It's time to choose a side: a life worth living, or one worth dying for?

Three years after humanity devolved into the bloodiest conflict in centuries, the Shadow war is far from over.Laura Belden is at the end of her rope. Her community is under the tyrannical control of a sadistic madman, and her people are depending on her to find a way out. The last thing she needs is the boy she once loved showing up out of the blue, as if he hadn't broken her heart and then disappeared right out of her life. The problem is, he might be the only one able to help. After all, Finnegan Rowe is an expert on all things Shadow, courtesy of the twenty years he spent in their ranks.Finn is coming home for one reason: to beg Laura's forgiveness and start making amends for two decades of bloodshed in the name of a lie. He knows it won't be easy-Laura is hurt and angry, and she has every right to be. He's ready to accept whatever punishment she deems necessary. What he doesn't anticipate is coming face to face with an enemy who threatens the lives of everyone who still matters to him. The battle will cost him everything, but a Hawk is trained to never leave a mission unfinished. Turns out, there is a way out of Shadow after all. But it leads through blood… Alianne Donnelly is an avid lover of stories of all kinds. Raised on a healthy diet of fairy tales in a place where they almost seemed real, she grew into a writer who seeks magic in the modern age and enjoys sharing a little bit of it with the world through every story she writes. Her books span the spectrum from fantasy to science fiction with varying degrees of romance sprinkled throughout. Alianne now lives in California, where she spends her free time reading, writing, and daydreaming. To find out more about her books and works in progress, visit her website at aliannedonnelly.com. The Shadows are gathering. It's time to choose a side: a life worth living, or one worth dying for?

WHO ARE YOU?Operative M has a new identity as Zach VanWarren, and he is not letting anyone take it from him again. Having double-crossed the Shadows and survived (so far), he's thrown himself at the mercy of their enemy: the Special Unit telepaths. Now all he has to do is convince his cunning, delectable interrogator that the Shadows can be defeated. And that she needs to be pleasured until she screams. Also, he can do both.WHERE DO YOU RESIDE?For the last three years, Raven Dello Russo has lived just enough to pretend she isn't dead, but this new case is throwing her barely-existence into a tailspin. Nothing about "Zach" is as it should be. Between his obsessive flirting and her superiors' constant interference, Raven suspects something much bigger is going on. When the only one giving her answers is the last person she should trust, Raven has no choice but to risk everything on the hope that the rogue Shadow with boundary issues is truly on her side.WHAT DO YOU DO?So many people have already died. Trust has been broken on all sides, and their shattered hearts have yet to heal. But the Shadows are coming again, and this time they'll give no quarter. Thrust directly onto the front lines, what will Raven and Zach do to survive and finally end this bloody war for good?WHATEVER-IT-TAKES. Alianne Donnelly is an avid lover of stories of all kinds. Raised on a healthy diet of fairy tales in a place where they almost seemed real, she grew into a writer who seeks magic in the modern age and enjoys sharing a little bit of it with the world through every story she writes. Her books span the spectrum from fantasy to science fiction with varying degrees of romance sprinkled throughout. Alianne now lives in California, where she spends her free time reading, writing, and daydreaming. To find out more about her books and works in progress, visit her website at aliannedonnelly.com. The Shadows are gathering. It's time to choose a side: a life worth living, or one worth dying for?