Book Review: Melissa Marr’s “Changing Guards”
The former Graveminder Alicia negotiates with Mr D for replacing the Undertaker. . . but her style of negotiations requires explosives and destruction.
The former Graveminder Alicia negotiates with Mr D for replacing the Undertaker. . . but her style of negotiations requires explosives and destruction.
Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her—before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Today, Adrian has created her own line of yoga and workout videos, following in Lina’s footsteps, but for the poetic death threats.
It’s 2059 in New York City with scientists who work to expand the limits of technology. And Detective Eve Dallas tracks the cunning, cold-blooded killer of a father and son whose pasts reveal men driven to create perfection-playing fast and loose with the laws of nature, the limits of science, and the morals of humanity.
Mysterious gifts turn deadly, and in a town where dead bodies pile up faster than competitive pecan pies at the county fair, Tess is scared the next “gift” might be her!
When her sister-in-law is late for her own induction, Aurora Teagarden, a mild-mannered librarian, stops by only to find Poppy dead on the floor. Complicating Roe’s life, in a good way, is Robin’s re-entry into her life and a surprise visit from a runaway.
The lone survivor and only witness to the killing of a US senator, his son, and his guests, Eliza is forced to rely on the covert operators at Black Knights Inc. to keep her safe. But she’s terrified of letting other people, her friends, her family being a target. And to make matters worse, Fisher, the bad boy from the bayou, refuses to leave her side.
Wounded, Elliot Mills is now a history professor, his FBI life behind him. He thought. A favor to a family friend puts him back on the line and face-to-face with a former lover.
The disguised Penelope Creed, is discovered by Sir Richard Wyndham, a man in need of his own escape, caught climbing from a window in a desperate bid to avoid marrying her fishfaced cousin.
Juniper should have known better after her last foray into the otherworld. But when she’s asked to look into a mysterious box full of poltergeists she ends up making a promise to seven teenage ghosts that puts here directly in the crosshairs of a blood witch’s deadly ire.
Juniper is settling in at home and reacquainting herself with old friends and old haunts. A new normal that quickly includes the supernatural and otherworlds as she fights to prevent an invasion.