THE HALOS & HORNS
FANTASY SAGA |
Halos & Horns, Book 1:
Paved with Good Intentions
• Paperback •
344 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 978-1-935971-46-7
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Exiled on Earth, naive angel Gabriel and amoral demon Lucifer — in the human guise of “Gabe Horn” and “Lou Cypher” — form an unlikely partnership as private investigators in Las Vegas. Their adventures take them across the seven heavenly realms, into the nine levels of Hell, through the dream realm of the Dreamscape, and even through time to Camelot. Along the way, the pair encounter a wickedly funny assortment of angels, demons, witches, warlocks, vampires, and other supernatural creatures.
Meet some of the most imaginative characters in contemporary fantasy, including an intriguing array of protagonists (Miss Twitch, a Salem witch; Emma, a British schoolgirl and witch-in-training, and Morgan Summers, a Dreamwalker) and antagonists (sadistic witch-hunter Nathaniel Thornhill, a golem, a Paiute Shaman, the corporate vampires of Nosferatu, Inc., trampires, gangsters, and nefarious demons). Some of the vampires include Sharon — she's Jewish, crosses don't bother her; Pandora — trouble follows her like a shadow; Claude — he's too claustrophobic to use a coffin; and Artemus — a 10-year-old boy who's been a vampire for nearly 457 years. But the real stars are the ultimate odd couple, Gabriel and Lucifer, whose comedic banter and improbable escapades will amuse and thrill readers and leave them asking for more.
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Halos & Horns, Book 2:
And a Child Shall Lead Them
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370 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN978-1-935971-47-4
Shipping Weight: 1.2 lbs.
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Picking up where Paved with Good Intentions left off, the second installment in the Halos & Horns fantasy series finds the angel Gabe Horn and demon Lou Cypher facing the Dark Gods in their bid for domination of the multiverse; Lilith, the mother of all succubi; and Armageddon! Heaven and Hell must join forces to battle a common adversary, but will their combined forces be enough to prevail against the coming darkness? Ditzy vampire Pandora is dating a werewolf! Resident witch Samantha gives birth to Alaric, but is his father Lou or the warlock Mordred? All your favorite characters are back, along with some intriguing new arrivals. And meet the kids: Emma the Cockney witchling; Síofra, the Irish changeling; Asabi, the African emere; Kaya, the Japanese hypnalis; and Artemus, the boy vampire. But how long can even these supernatural children survive now that the ancient child-devouring succubus Lilith walks the Earth once more?
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Halos & Horns, Book 3:
To Hell in a Handbasket
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292 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 978-1-935971-48-1
Shipping Weight: 15.4 oz.
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Picking up where And a Child Shall Lead Them left off, the third installment in the Halos & Horns fantasy series finds the angel Gabe Horn and demon Lou Cypher questioning their roles, as each embarks on a personal journey to discover his humanity.
The cast of characters must adjust to the changes brought about at the conclusion of the previous installment. With the Devil taking charge of Heaven, Gabriel rebels, searching for answers in the most unlikely of places. As Samantha ponders his proposal, Lucifer finds himself a reluctant ruler. Síofra, the Irish changeling, must adjust to life hiding from Alaric in Japan with the ingénue Kaya, unaware of the girl's deadly secret. A familiar figure rises from obscurity to seize the reins of power at Nosferatu, Inc., while Morgana le Fay seeks vengeance for the fate of her son, Mordred.
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Halos & Horns, Book 4:
The Witches' Cauldron
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280 pages,
ISBN 978-1-935971-49-8
Shipping Weight: 15 oz.
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Picking up where To Hell in a Handbasket left off, the fourth and final installment in the Halos & Horns fantasy series finds the angel Gabriel and the demon Asmodeus fighting for their lives against Baphomet and his demonic horde; Lucifer brought for judgment before the Fates for the murder of an Eternal; and Samantha joining forces with her sisters Drusilla and Calliope against the sorceress supreme Morgana le Fay and the Dark Fae. Will Emma regret her decision to stand by Damien? Will Damien find a way to halt his rapid aging? Will Detective Mordecai survive? And if not, will he take the unrevealed secret of his daughters to the grave? An Empusae attack on Nosferatu, Inc.'s Japanese headquarters not only threatens Chiyoko's territory, but will change Kaya's life forever. Meanwhile, one character must journey back in time to 17th century Salem in search of the secret to defeating Morgana. But what other secrets does the Salem coven hold? No one is safe. As the Halos & Horns saga draws to its conclusion, who will survive?
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Halos & Horns:
The Omnibus Edition
Deluxe Hardcover • Paperback
ISBN 978-1-935971-18-4
(Deluxe Hardcover)
Shipping Weight: 3.9lbs.
ISBN 978-1-935971-20-7
(Paperback)
Shipping Weight: 3.4lbs.
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Paperback & Hardcover
Paperback & Hardcover
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EPUB Editions:
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This deluxe, 904-page Omnibus Edition contains all four volumes in the Halos & Horns fantasy saga, replete with new color illustrations; the comprehensive Guide to the Halos & Horns Multiverse detailing each character, place, and object; previously unpublished essays on the mythos; and the novelette The Pandora Chronicles, a preview of the forthcoming spin-off, Fangs & Fur.
Halos & Horns: The Omnibus Editionreintroduces readers to Gabriel and Lucifer, on the lam from their respective realms, Heaven and Hell, seeking sanctuary on Earth as Las Vegas private eyes; their secretary, Samantha Twitch, a witch; a team of vampires that includes claustrophobic Claude, 10-year-old Artemus, Russian spy Valentina, happy-go-lucky Pandora, and Sharon Mordecai, daughter of the local homicide detective. They meet Síofra, an Irish changeling; Asabi, an African emere who travels between Heaven and Earth; and Kaya, a Japanese girl with a deadly secret. Our heroes face many threats, including the Dark Gods who seek to rule our dimension; demons like the ancient Lilith, mother of all succubi; witch-hunters; and deadly Dark Fae creatures.
Each chapter is a story, a patch in the fabric of a larger quilt. Now, collected for the first time in a single volume, readers can immerse themselves in the patchwork woven by Keith B. Darrell.
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” — Hamlet (Act 1, Scene 5). Beneath the prosaic veneer of urban life, mortal humans live in blissful ignorance alongside preternatural and supernatural creatures: warlocks and witches, vampires, werewolves, the Fae, kitsune, and creatures whispered of in African, Irish, and Japanese myths. Seers gaze at the Sands of Time as the golden grains tumble through the mystical hourglass, seeking to divine what the Fates have woven. Through these memorable characters and exotic settings, the author explores the nature of good and evil, free will versus predetermination, man's inhumanity to man, universal versus moral relativism, nature versus nurture, loss of innocence, coming of age, death, love and friendship, the quest for power, individualism, sacrifice, and faith versus doubt, among other literary themes.
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The Vampires & Werewolves You Only Thought You Knew!
First introduced in the Halos & Horns fantasy saga, these vampires and lycanthropes have their own stories to tell. These tales in Flashbacks shed light on their dark pasts while sowing the seeds for the next two books in the Fangs & Fur trilogy. They can be enjoyed as individual vampire and werewolf stories, or read by Halos & Horns fans to learn more about the characters populating that saga, or viewed as the prologue to the story about to unfold in the Fangs & Fur trilogy. |
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Fangs & Fur , Book 1 (Halos & Horns, Book 5):
Flashbacks
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314 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 978-1-935971-03-0
Shipping Weight: 1.0 lb. |
Pandora's a carefree party girl who just happens to be a vampire. With her best friend Sharon Mordecai, a hybrid vampire; her boyfriend Cody Fenris, a werewolf; and Cody's sister Lupe, who transforms into a wolf, they run Nightstalkers Inc., a private detective agency. Pandora and Sharon also belong to Nosferatu, Inc., a worldwide corporation set up to provide relocation services for vampires, who cannot remain in one place indefinitely, lest the “breathers” question why they never age. Other Nosferatu members include 10-year-old Artemus, the boy vampire; ex-KGB operative Valentina Petrovna; the maladroit, claustrophobic vampire Claude Gauthier; the vagrant “trampire” Seamus Callaghan; and the corporation's international board of directors: Lady Chiyoko in Japan, Callum in Australia, Isra in Dubai, Amadi in Africa, Magda in Hungary, and its CEO, the mysterious human known only as Remick.
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Fangs & Fur, Book 2 (Halos & Horns, Book 6):
Nightstalkers
• Paperback •
First introduced in the Halos and Horns fantasy saga, these vampires and lycanthropes have their own stories to tell.
312 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 978-1-935971-28-3
Shipping Weight: 15.0 ounces
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Pandora's a carefree party girl who just happens to be a vampire. With her best friend Sharon Mordecai, a hybrid vampire; her boyfriend Cody Fenris, a werewolf; and Cody's sister Lupe, who transforms into a wolf, they run Nightstalkers, Inc., a private detective agency in Las Vegas. Pandora and Sharon also belong to Nosferatu, Inc., a worldwide corporation set up to provide relocation services for vampires, who cannot remain in one place indefinitely, lest the “breathers” question why they never age.
When a Grigori unwittingly entrusts trouble-prone vampire Pandora with an ancient leather-bound box containing primordial evil, what could possibly go wrong? At least Pandora doesn't know her best friend slept with her boyfriend. Or that her werewolf beau has been targeted for revenge by one of his victims. Her BFF Sharon — the hybrid vampire infused with an angelic life force — has enough to worry about now that a deranged scientist/occultist is creating his own Frankenstein monster and requires an angelic life force to animate it. He's resurrected the spirit of Jack the Ripper to supply the body parts he needs from Las Vegas prostitutes. Should Kennedy be worried to walk the city streets?
After a Valkyrie whisks the Nightstalkers, Inc. team of private eyes — vampires Sharon and Pandora, and lycanthrope siblings Cody and Lupe Fenris — off to the Otherworld dimension of the Fae to recover Thor’s golden gauntlets from the Dark Fae's leader, the Morrigan, the team will be forever changed. And how does that tie in with their new landlord Kitty Bast, an Egyptian cat goddess?
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Fangs & Fur, Book 3 (Halos & Horns, Book 7):
Nosferatu, Inc.
• Paperback •
306 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 978-1-935971-29-0
Shipping Weight: 15.0 ounces
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Nosferatu, Inc.is a worldwide corporation set up to provide relocation services for vampires, who cannot remain in one place indefinitely, lest the "breathers" question why they never age.The battle for control of Nosferatu, Inc. begins as 5,000-year-old Malik, the first vampire and Regina, queen of the demonic vampires known as the Empusae, launch a global attack, while Dracula and his Legion of the Undead attempt a hostile takeover.
The werewolf clans return, some to protect a pregnant vampire and others intent on destroying Nosferatu, Inc. And the Egyptian cat goddess Bast learns the secret of the mummy.
First introduced in the Halos and Horns fantasy saga, these vampires and lycanthropes have their own stories to tell.
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Fangs & Fur :
The Omnibus Edition
• Paperback •
602 pages, 7 x 10
ISBN 978-1-935971-43-6
Shipping Weight: 2.8 lbs
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All three novels in the Fangs & Fur story arc - Flashbacks; Nightstalkers; and Nosferatu, Inc. — collected in one huge omnibus edition. A perfect companion to the Halos & Horns Omnibus, this volume is 7x10 like its predecessor and features brand new cover artwork and an interview with the author. Clocking in at just over 600 pages, the Fangs & Fur Omnibus fills the gap between the previous Halos & Horns story arc and the subsequent The Age of Magic story arc.
First introduced in the Halos and Horns fantasy saga, these vampires and lycanthropes have their own stories to tell.
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Fangs & Fur :
The Omnibus Boxed Set
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All three novels in the Fangs & Fur story arc - Flashbacks; Nightstalkers; and Nosferatu, Inc. — collected in one huge omnibus edition. A perfect companion to the Halos & Horns Omnibus, this boxed set features brand new cover artwork. Clocking in at just over 600 pages, the Fangs & Fur Omnibus boxed set fills the gap between the previous Halos & Horns story arc and the subsequent The Age of Magic story arc.
First introduced in the Halos and Horns fantasy saga, these vampires and lycanthropes have their own stories to tell.
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602 pages, EPUB
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The Age of Magic, Book 1 (Halos & Horns, Book 8):
Alterverse
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286 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 978-1-935971-40-5
Shipping Weight: 15.0 ounces |
"In a world without hope,
in a land of darkness and despair,
where chaos has replaced order,
one boy leads a ragtag band of rebels against omnipotent forces."
The forces of Chaos have defeated those of Order and recreated reality. The result is a dystopian multiverse ruled by the Dark Gods and policed by vampires who serve as their high priests. Into this Alterverse comes a heavensent African, gender-switching, interdimensional traveler who now finds himself permanently stuck in female form and tasked with the unenviable job of restoring reality. He/She must locate 17-year-old Alaric, son of the imprisoned witch Samantha Twitch and the banished demon Lucifer, and help him form a rebellion. But in this altered reality familiar faces are not who they may seem and some who had died now still live. Pandora and Cody's teenaged children Quinn and Ursula join Alaric's nascent resistance alongside the demon Asmodeus, Grand Duke of Hell Eligos, Nitrate (an emotive from the Dreamscape), Kita the kitsune, and a Kunoichi (Japanese female assassin) against overwhelming odds, as they seek not merely to change the world but the entire multiverse, and overthrow the gods themselves.
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The Age of Magic, Book 2 (Halos & Horns, Book 9):
Warriors & Wizards
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306 pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 978-1-935971-42-9
Shipping Weight: 15.0 ounces
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"In The Age of Magic,
Anything is Possible."
Taking place 15 years after the conclusion of the Halos & Horns story arc, The Age of Magic marks Lucifer's return to the series but much of the story follows the next generation: the children of Samantha (witch) and Lucifer (demon) Cypher; Pandora (vampire) and Cody (werewolf) Fenris; and Kita (kitsune) and Reggie (mortal) Forster. Alaric Cypher spends his summer before starting college in Japan with the family of the kitsune Kita, where he finds love and danger. Lucifer travels back to the ancient land of Thenesia to aid the barbarian King Caliban and the wizard Balthazar in their fight against the Dark Gods. Bartholomew follows twins Quinn and Ursula Fenris through a dimensional portal to the Otherworld, where the Morrigan is preparing for final battle with Hecate, the goddess of all witches. A traitor is discovered at Nosferatu, Inc., and Asabi returns to Siofra after Alterverse... but in a dramatically different form.
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The Age of Magic, Book 3 (Halos & Horns, Book 10):
Return of the Djinn
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"In The Age of Magic,
Anything is Possible."
pages, 5.5 x 8.5
ISBN 978-1-935971-52-8
Shipping Weight: 15.0 ounces |
What would the Age of Magic be without the Arabian Nights? Aladdin and his magic lamp; Ali Baba and the 40 thieves; genies and djinns and ifrits, oh my! Flying carpets, desert palm trees, and harems filled with voluptuous women. That Moorish architecture, and oh the clothes: turbans, fezzes, and curled pointy shoes. Belly dancers, and the Dance of the Seven Veils. The bazaar and the café. The magical city of Baghdad, with its spires, keyhole arches, and minarets glittering more brightly than the Emerald City of Oz.
And then there's vampire Sharon Mordecai, a prominent character in every Halos & Horns novel since the first book but noticeably absent in the previous installment, the ninth book in the series. Where was Sharon? All we were told was that she was on a case with her spectral private investigator partner Kara Islington. Readers got a clue at the very end of the previous book when Ursula Fenris, teenage daughter of Sharon's BFF Pandora, was polishing an oil lamp she had been given by the mysterious proprietor of an even more mysterious curio shop. Kara's ghostly form wafted from the lamp's spout with the dire message that she and Sharon had been captured by a djinn. But how on Earth did they end up in such a predicament?
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The Age of Magic Omnibus:
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All three novels in The Age of Magic story arc — Alterverse; Warriors & Wizards; and Return of the Djinn. — collected in one huge omnibus edition. A perfect companion to the Halos & Horns Omnibus and the Fangs & Fur Omnibus, this volume is 7x10 like its predecessors and features brand new cover artwork and an interview with the author.
Fantasy.
586 pages, 7 x 10
ISBN 978-1-935971-67-2
Shipping Weight: 2.8 lbs.
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