New Releases by Cliff Nielsen

Dark secrets and forbidden love threaten the very survival of the Shadowhunters in Cassandra Clare''s Queen of Air and Darkness, the final novel in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling The Dark Artifices trilogy. Queen of Air and Darkness is a Shadowhunters novel. What if damnation is the price of true love? Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. Their society now teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks. Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead. What they find there is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. Caught in a race against time, Emma and Julian must save the world of the Shadowhunters before a deadly curse destroys them and everyone they love.

It is Yu Lan in San Francisco''s Chinatown, the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts -- a time of year when offerings are made to appease the ghosts roaming the earth. Only this time several murders have occurred, and the last victim left behind one message: the Chinese character meaning ghost. Locals fear that perhaps the Hungry Ghosts have not been appeased, and are seeking revenge. But when Special Agents Mulder and Scully are asked to investigate, they stumble upon a deadly lottery run by a secret society of Chinese immigrants. The winner receives a large sum of money -- but the cost of losing could mean death.

A man''s body is discovered in the New Jersey sewer system, and a ‘routine'' murder investigation ensues. But when several workers are attacked by a vicious sewer-dwelling monster, it becomes clear that something much more sinister is going on underground. Mulder and Scully soon find themselves on the slimy trail of a creature as disgusting as it is dangerous.

When Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the bizarre,ritualistic murders at Grover Cleveland High School, they stumble upon a strange planetary phenomenon- one that might have a disastrous effect on two cheerleaders.But are Terri and Margi really being controlled by the Cosmos, or are they just out for revenge?

First Charlie''s little brother is killed by an oncoming train.Then his father dies in a bizarre accident.Both times,Charlie is present- watching.Is it just an eerie coincidence?u003eMulder and Scully don''t think so.Neither does Charlie''s grandmother.Believing that Charlie caused the horrors,she calls in the Calusari to cleanse his soul.But is Charlie truly evil?Or is there an even darker force at hand?

When two grisly identical murders happen simultaneously on different coasts,Mulder and Scully have only one clue:two identical girls who may or ,may not be criminally involved.Their investigation leads them to a DNA-splicing doctor and a terrifying question:Were these little girls created as killing machines?Mulder and Scully need to find out,before the next crop of killers is born...