A routine jump shatters everything, leaving Dara to survive the aftermath of a sudden fall—and to discover that sometimes, being held still is what saves you.
It is the late 1680s and King James II of England and Ireland and also James VII of Scotland, summons his Witchfinder General, Lord Ferdinando Briant from his Quarter Sessions' duties to Whitehall to investigate a case of Demonic Possession. He investigates but finds more to the case than he expected.
In a frozen gold-mining settlement where fear keeps doors shut, Erica Dutrieu is left for dead after a brutal beating by her husband. Rescued at terrible cost and forced to confront both frontier justice and her own will to survive, she fights back in the only way left to her. Harsh Times is a tale of violence, endurance, and hard-won hope on the edge of civilization.
Calyndi is a succubus whose years of feasting on humans has left her unsatisfied in that one special way that succubi crave the most. Her only hopes for satisfaction are a vampire named Devin and a fellow succubus named Linki. But Devin wants to enslave her and Linki is in love with her - and Calyndi isn't the type of girl who wants to be tied down...