Best Selling Books by Tanya Huff

Famous for her acclaimed vampire bovels, Tanya Huff has created many popular fantasies, including these two classics--Gate of Darkness, Circle of Light and The Fire''s Stone--finally available in one omnibus volume...

Meisha Merlin''s second collection of Tanya Huff''s short fiction, Relative Magic features four Terizan stories (3 previously published and one newly written especially for this collection), two stories from the Blood Series (one Vicky and one Henry), and eleven other fantastic stories. The collection will also include new introductions to each story by Tanya Huff.

The Blood books center around three main characters: Vicki Nelson, a homicide cop turned private detective, her former partner Mike Celluci, who is still on the force, and vampire Henry Fitzroy, who is the illegitimate son of Henry VIII and makes his living as a writer of bodice rippers. Not only are the three of them caught in a love triangle, but they are, time and again, involved in mysteries with a supernatural slant—from demons, to werewolves, to mummies—and inevitably must join forces to solve crimes and defeat supernatural enemies. Now all of Tanya Huff''s short stories about Henry, Vicki, and Mike are being released in this collection entitled Blood Bank. As an added bonus for fans of the TV series, Blood Bank includes the actual screenplay for "Stone Cold," the episode Tanya herself wrote for the Blood Ties series along with a special introduction by Tanya, detailing her own experiences with the show.

Tanya Huff, the acclaimed writer of the Blood and Kigh series, is also a fantastic short story writer. What Ho, Magic! is a collection of fifteen of Tanya''s short stories: I''ll Be Home for Christmas; Word of Honor; Shing Li-ung; First Love, Last Love; The Harder They Fall; February Thaw; The Chase is On; A Debt Unpaid; Symbols are a Percussion Instrument; Underground; and, A Midsummer Night''s Dream Team. Four stories featuring Vicki, Henry, and Mike from her Blood series: This Town Ain''t Big Enough What Manner of Man The Cards Also Say The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea. This is also the first printing of her new novella: The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeaka, and includes an introduction to the book by Michelle Sagara West.

The third and fourth novels in Huffs hugely popular Quarters--"No Quarter" and "The Quartered Sea"--are now available in a single omnibus edition. Original.

In Queers Dig Time Lords, editors Sigrid Ellis (Chicks Dig Comics) and Michael Damian Thomas (Apex Magazine) bring together essays by award-winning writers to celebrate the phenomenon that is Doctor Who, in the tradition of the Hugo Award-winning Chicks Dig Time Lords. Tanya Huff (Blood Ties) wears her bi-focals as she analyzes the Doctor''s fluid sexuality, former Doctor Who script editor Gary Russell explores the show''s effect on his teenage years, Paul Magrs (Doctor Who: Hornets'' Nest) defends and celebrates the camp qualities of the series, and Melissa Scott (Trouble and Her Friends) describes Doctor Who''s impact on her greatest love and loss. Other contributors include David Llewellyn (Doctor Who: Night of the Humans), Rachel Swirsky (Through the Drowsy Dark), Hal Duncan (Ink: The Book of All Hours), Nigel Fairs (Big Finish Productions), Amal El-Mohtar (The Honey Month), Brit Mandelo (Beyond Binary), Mary Anne Mohanraj (Bodies in Motion), and Jed Hartman (Strange Horizons). This book features an introduction by John Barrowman (star of Doctor Who and Torchwood) and Carole E Barrowman (Hollow Earth, Torchwood: Exodus Code). The cover art is by Colleen Coover (Small Favors).

Blood Price Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto''s homicide unit and now a private detective, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks that are now plaguing the city of Toronto. As death follows unspeakable death, Vicki is forced to renew her tempestuous relationship with her former partner, Mike Celluci, to stop these forces of dark magic--along with another, unexpected ally... Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII, has learned over the course of his long life how to blend with humans, how to deny the call for blood in his veins. Without him, Vicki and Mike would not survive the ancient force of chaos that has been unleashed upon the world--but in doing so, his identity may be exposed, and his life forfeit. Blood Trail Second in the "scary and sexy" (Judith and Garfield Reeve-Stevens, authors of The Chronicles of Galen Sword) Blood series. For centuries, the werewolves of Toronto have managed to live in peace and tranquility, hidden quietly away on their London, Ontario farm. But now, someone has learned their secret--and is systematically massacring this ancient race. The only one they can turn to is Henry Fitzroy, Toronto-based vampire and writer of bodice rippers. Forced to hide from the light of day, Henry can''t hunt the killer alone, so he turns to Vicki Nelson for help. As they race against time to stop the murderer, they begin to fear that their combined talents may not be enough to prevent him from completing his deadly plan.

Between the covers of this "double-faced flipover" book, you''ll find two complete collections of Tanya Huff''s comical short stories featuring Magdelene (the world''s most powerful and laziest wizard) and Terazin (a top-notch thief). "Stealing Magic is charming, funny, and once again proves that Huff has no regard for the conventions and boundaries of genre... the genre is turned on its head, and to hilarious effect. The Magdelene stories in Stealing Magic are certainly some of the few ''high fantasy'' short works that I have enjoyed recently." - Challenging Destiny Stealing Magic is both appealing and amusing, and belongs in everyone''s fantasy collection.

This modern urban fantasy trilogy takes Keeper Claire (a Guardian of Earth), her talking cat Austin (who always knows best), hunky handyman Dean (who refuses to remain a Bystander) and Claire''s meddling younger sister Diana from a B&B where Hell has a portal in the basement and the clientele is out of this world...to an assignment where they must ride herd on an angel and a devil who have manifested in the mortal world as fully endowed teenagers who don''t have a clue how to deal with their raging hormones and conflicting needs to do good and evil...to a shopping mall where Darkness is trying to stage a takeover from the Otherside....

Depuis qu''elle a quitté la police, Vicki Nelson travaille à son compte. Mais sa prochaine mission se fait attendre et ses comptes sont dans le rouge. Enfin son ex-collègue, ami et rival de toujours, Michael Celluci, la contacte : on signale deux morts suspectes au Musée royal de l''Ontario. Le conservateur et un employé ont tous deux eu un arrêt cardiaque inexpliqué. Le seul fait notable est l''arrivée récente au département d''Egyptologie d''un sarcophage qui, selon les chercheurs, était vide. Pourtant une créature s''en est échappée, une créature maléfique, dévoreuse d''âmes, qui rôde désormais dans les rues de Toronto et dont la prochaine victime pourrait bien être Henry Fitzroy, l''amant de Vicki. Momie contre vampire... cette fois encore, Vicki ne va pas chômer !

Ex-flic, Vicki Nelson a dû quitter la police de Toronto parce qu''elle perd la vue. Devenue détective privé, elle semble vouée aux enquêtes peu banales. Cette fois, c''est son ami Henry Fitzroy - bâtard de Henry VIII, ancien duc de Richmond et accessoirement vampire - qui lui demande d''aider ses amis, Rose Heerkens et son frère jumeau, membres d''une famille de loups-garous pacifiques. En effet, quelqu''un a découvert leur nature secrète et s''acharne à les abattre, avec des balles en argent. Bien sûr, pas question d''aller voir la police. Vicki est donc leur seul recours.

"Vous souvenez-vous de moi ? Je m''appelle Vicki Nelson. Ancienne flic, j''ai dû renoncer à ma vocation à cause d''une maladie génétique. Mon histoire aurait pu s''arrêter là, mais j''ai découvert les monstres qui se cachent dans l''ombre... et j''en suis devenue un. Laissez-moi, en quelques histoires, vous donner des nouvelles d''Henry, de Mike et, bien sûr, de la façon dont je gère mon nouveau statut de vampire."

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