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Minion

Minion: The Special Huntress Edition
In this exciting new edition of the first book in the Vampire Huntress Legend series, both fans and newcomers alike will experience a Minion that includes:

An Exciting New Beginning
Never Before Read scenes
Fast and Furious Action readers better hold on to their seats!

Fans wanted more and now they’ve got it! In this special author’s edition of Minion, readers will uncover more intrigue, more heat, and most importantly, more Damali Richards, vampire huntress.

All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a Spoken Word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires has been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music.

When strange attacks erupt within the club drug trafficking network and draw the attention of the police, Damali realizes these killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. Instead of neat puncture marks in the neck showing where the blood has been drained from the body, these corpses are mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpas*ses any Damali has encountered before. Soon she discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire Damali has ever met a seductive beast who is coming for her next…

The Awakening

There is a vampire war brewing in the underworld and at the center of it all is Damali Richards, spoken word artist and Vampire Huntress. But she is not just any Vampire Huntress, she is the millenium Neteru. A woman so potentially powerful that the vampire world is about to invoke a bloody battle that threatens to spill over onto her streets in order to posses her. It’s just a matter of who will get to her first. Fallon Nuit, a rogue vampire, is one of the most powerful Damali has ever encountered and he has allied himself with the deadly Amanrath demons in order to claim her. But the Vampire Council has plans for her as well. And now an unlikely variable has entered into the equation, an ex lover now turned vampire with an agenda of his own. And she must risk trusting him once more if they are to survive.

The Hunted

A Neteru a hunter or a huntress is born every thousand years in favor of the Warriors of Light as they fight against the Dark Realms. But Damali Richards is the Millennium Neteru. The one who will play a pivotal role in the Final War. The Warriors of Light had been waiting for her and the Dark Realms will do anything to either possess or destroy her. What they did not account for was the man who would love her. Damali Richard has been to hell and back literally and she is not eager to repeat the trip. A Vampire civil war has been averted, but there were casualties and she believes that Carlos Rivera, former lover turned master vampire, is one of them. His death has not only shaken her emotions, but weakened her powers as well. But then Damali gets word that horrific killings are taking place in Brazil. The vampire civil war has left a small door to hell open and new and dangerous foes have risen from the Dark Realms. The leader, a deadly female, is set on a path of destruction. However, her blood lust hides a nefarious plan and the newly resurrected Carlos Rivera is at the heart of it. But Damali is not about to lose her man a second time, so she plans to send this old girl right back to hell she came from no matter who stands in her way.

The Bitten

The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were demons have been beaten back and now it Damali Richards and Carlos Rivera now a Council level vampire will finally have the chance to settle in and explore their deeper, sexier love. But Carlos and Damali should know by now that there is no rest for the saviors of the known world. One of the four topside Master vampires has stolen one of the Keys the living blood of Christ that opens the sixth seal as foretold in Revelations. He who possesses the Key and the Seal can decide to the outcome of the Final War, a.k.a. Armageddon. With a vampire in possession of the Key, the balance between the Light and the Dark have been thrown off and even Damali is deeply effected. She is now sporting a pair of fangs. In order to retrieve the Key, Carlos and Damali are quickly thrust into a web of vampire politics and intrigue. And when Carlos’s secret drug, Oblivion, finds its way into the hands of the enemies, even the seventh level of Hell comes calling.

The Forbidden

After the destruction of all the topside master vampires and the death and resurrection of her council level vampire lover, Damali is called before the Council of the Neterus to answer for her actions. It is there that she discovers there are consequences even she could not foresee. She also learns that the consort of the Un Named One, Lilith, has come up from the seventh level to set the affairs of the Dark Realms in order. However, Lilith has a hidden agenda of her own and it involves the unborn child Damali thought had been taken from her. The news devastates Damali until a cold and deadly determination leads her to map out a plan for Lilith’s destruction. An evil force beyond recognition, Damali s newest nemesis literally brings men to their knees. But Damali will not be stopped not even by someone as dangerously powerful as Lilith. It is a battle that spills over into the streets and involves the people Damali has sworn to protect, leaving fewer standing before it s all over.

Dawn and Darkness

Follow the famed Neterus and the Neteru Guardian Team from the epic 12 novel Vampire Huntress Legend series as they take the fight against evil beyond the Armageddon. In the Dawn and Darkness graphic novel collecting the four issue series, the team is still searching for the wounded Anti Christ while trying to avoid the wrath of Lucifer. Complicating matters, several members of the team are pregnant with the next generation of Warriors of Light, and the darkness wants them and their unborn wiped off the face of the planet. To make matters worse, a new predator is hunting humans something not wholly vampire or werewolf or like any demon they’ve ever encountered…
and this time the predator is out for more than just blood!

The Damned

Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, has released The Damned, tortured souls from all levels of Hell, to walk the streets as the living dead. A dark chaos leaks onto Earth, taking the form of a deadly contagion that not even the Neteru team can handle. One touch from these deadly creatures infects a human, driving him to madness, death and worse.

This time, Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress aka the millennium Neteru, Carlos, and the Guardians cannot effectively close ranks. The infection spreads to key team members and threatens to wipe out the entire squad. Even the Covenant is infected. They must track down the Chairman before members of the Neteru Guardian team are lost and the team implodes. The only antidote is to behead Lilith. But first they must find her.

The Forsaken

The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress, and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned strategy one that not even Damali will anticipate has been developed. There is only one entity who can best Damali, send Carlos packing, and put the Guardian team at mortal risk. This powerful being was once banished into a forsaken land and possesses everything that would bring a Neteru to his or her knees. This time the fight is not so clear cut, and it is not only Damali’s soul in the balance but her body and heart as well.

The Wicked

Damali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after on the horizon. Cain, the son of Eve and the new chairman of the Vampire Council is amassing an army of creatures like no one has ever seen before. But while a band of human scientists are conducting secret experiments they open the dimension that holds Cain and he is released into the human world, bigger and badder than ever. Her family slaughtered, Damali heads for hell to serve justice and faces off with a nemisis the likes of which she has never encountered. Carlos doesn’t take his wife’s disappearance lightly and races against time to get Damali back…
only to learn that his wife might be pregnant. The question: is the child his or the Chairman’s?

The Cursed

The Chairman has been slaughtered, along with Hell’s first almost successful attempt at creating an Anti Christ, using Carlos Rivera s body double. Dante s son has also been vanquished. Now the evil Lilith sits on Dante s old throne, a prize won in her negotiations with Cain. She is The Vampire Council s new Chairwoman and Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

All Lilith needs is Damali s newly discovered angelic powers to allow her evil progeny to walk through the veil between worlds and usher in the true Anti Christ. Damali and her crew enter a desperate race against time to stop Lilith even if doing so brings the Neteru Councils out of the clouds and into the Biblical Holy Lands and kicks off the Armageddon.

The Darkness

After the battle at Masada, the Neteru team returns to San Diego believing forty thousand demons had been eradicated and that Lilith’s spawn has been killed. But somehow the treacherous little creature got away. Just as had been prophesized at the dawn of the Armageddon, the anti Christ has been born and will soon rise to power. Rewarded for her creation, Lilith is given the daylight bite and power to make Councilmen day walkers. Having Fallon Nuit and Sebastian able to withstand sunlight is a huge problem, especially when they are adding new master vampires at record breaking levels. Meanwhile the dark realms are healing and adding to what had previously been wiped out feeding off the dark energy of the newly created anti Christ who is only waiting to emerge.

The Shadows

In the newest Vampire Huntress novel from national bestselling author, L. A. Banks, more than vampires are coming out to play…
The Dark Realms are taking cover after an angel onslaught from On High. The Anti Christ has been injured and the fourth Biblical seal has been broken. Yonnie and Val, a strange combination of a daywalker and an angel hybrid, have joined Damali and Carlos’s team. And the two new Council Level vamps, Elizabeth Bathory and Lucrezia Borgia, are still in recovery from their last mission. Seething in the underworld is the Unnamed One, so furious that he’s bringing the battle topside, unleashing a full frontal assault on mankind for the offenses committed by the Vampire Huntress team. This time, Damali and Carlos must address serious human casualties and collateral damage…
all while the vampire councilman, Nuit rebuilds Blood Music to become more than a record label, but a media brainwashing empire for the dark lord.

The Thirteenth

The final story in the now cult favorite Vampire Huntress series.

The entire Neteru Guardian team is on the run, having now been labeled as America’s most wanted terrorists following the gruesome demon battle that felled the Washington Monument and crashed the front doors of the White House. The Anti Christ is positioned for emergence, the powers of darkness have released the pale horse of the apocalypse, and half the Neteru team is pregnant. Plagues from hell that ravage the country are being cited as stemming from bio terrorism. The nation is under martial law. The Neterus and their team are underground. If things weren’t bad enough the Dark Realm breaks the sixth Biblical seal, which plunges the world into perpetual darkness and irrevocably into the Armageddon.

Blind Trust

Sexual healing there’s nothing like it. And Ecstasy Island is where it happens. Meet two heroes who know exactly how to vanquish a woman s every fear and teach her to love and fully live again. But this erotic escape is by invitation only Killing Me SoftlyChris Cavanaugh considers it his calling to breathe new life into women with troubled pasts. From the moment he brings Claire Vaughn to the beautiful but isolated outpost of Ecstasy Island, he s surprised by her strength and spirit and held captive by her sensual imagination and skill, night after night after night In Living ColorTreah Baldwin believes in greeting each one of the women sent to him to be healed with a literal sexual awakening. His hands on technique does wonders for body and soul. Dana Lancer has never experienced anything like it. Finding scorchingly hot erotic bliss in his muscular arms becomes a reality straight out of her wildest dreams

No Trust

Financial genius Laura Caldwell seems to have it all beauty, brains, wealth, and love with her courageous husband, detective James Carter. But between nature’s wrath and criminals who just won’t give up, will these newlyweds ever have peace in their marriage? Between bringing down Philadelphia’s corrupt power brokers, surviving its mean streets, and recovering from a devastating natural disaster in the Cayman Islands, Laura and James are no strangers to danger. At last, they’re ready to enjoy an idyllic retreat in Maui. But enemies of the past seem to have an endless appetite for revenge. This time it’s Laura’s Uncle Akhan whose life is being threatened and Laura is in the line of fire as well. As the hits keep coming, with no clue to their source, it’s all James can do to keep the woman he loves alive. And when a devastating truth is revealed, Laura and James know they must act quickly before their lives are shattered forever…
‘Leslie Banks has done it again, this time with a gripping page turner of revenge and retribution.’ Chris Benson, author of Special Interest on Betrayal of the Trust

Bad Blood

Sasha Trudeau knows all about working beneath the shadows, back alley deals, and things that go bump in the night. She also knows that the world is unaware of the existence of the paranormal and that the government would like to keep it that way. As a highly trained Special Ops soldier, Sasha and her team are an elite group of individuals who are survivors of werewolf attacks, now trained to be loyal to only to each other and their government. But when she returns from a solo mission, she finds that her team has mysteriously gone missing. Shocking government conspiracies, double dealing vampires, and a host of stunning revelations about who and what she really is are only just the beginning

Bite the Bullet

Sasha Trudeau considers herself a soldier first and a werewolf second. But while her secret government sanctioned task force faces its greatest challenge so far, Sasha faces something much more primal: the undeniable pull of the moon and her own desires. With rogue wolves savaging both the human and paranormal worlds, Sasha’s team of elite operatives has one job: destroy the rogues and isolate the deadly toxin that s poisoned their blood. But the challenge is far more complicated than Sasha could have imagined. Soon she is thrust into a full scale supernatural war for supremacy and the only man left who Sasha can turn to might be the biggest danger to her of all…
and in more ways than one.

Undead on Arrival

Just one month ago, secret government operative Sasha Trudeau thought she d tasted victory. Orchestrating d tente between the warring factions of the supernatural world had nearly cost her life but it also opened the door to a future with Max Hunter, her mate and fellow Shadow Wolf.

Until now. A poisonous virus is wreaking havoc on Hunter’s immune system. And the passionate man who Sasha loves has become unpredictable, dangerous and possibly deadly. When Hunter disappears the night a human is found ravaged, Sasha is thrust into a race against the clock to find the cure for her mate and the traitor who s determined to see them both dead.

Cursed to Death

Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau arrives at the scene of a murder, only to discover that a Fae creature has been killed in a whole new kind of way. What is the meaning behind this mysterious ritualistic killing? What did the victim do to deserve it? Sasha fears that the Vampires and Unseelies have formed an unholy alliance and they re ready to unleash their darkest arsenal of magick yet. Teaming up with her mate and fellow Shadow Wolf, Max Hunter, Sasha tries to penetrate the paranormal community for clues. Meanwhile, members of the Wolf Clan are turning against one another as they race to uncover the meaning behind an ancient Unseelie curse. Even Sasha is not immune to this powerful magick, and soon finds herself drawn to a sensual, dangerous dance one that could cost her own life

Never Cry Werewolf

The last fight between the werewolf clans spilled onto the streets of New Orleans and now the whole city’s on red alert. Martial law has gone into effect. Mediums, ghost hunters, and other supernatural pundits have taken over the media, swarming the Big Easy to expose the hard truth about lycanthropes. And to make matters worse, a beastly killer is clawing up humans Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau doesn t like what she s seeing a series of brutal and bloody slayings that appear to be wolf like attacks. It might be the work of a copy cat killer vampire or Unseelie or some other enemy of the Seelie clan. But while Sasha races to find suspects and motives, the panic level is rising and the city s human population is clamoring for an all out wolf hunt

Left for Undead

Secret government operative Sasha Trudeau earned a long vacation with her lover and fellow Shadow Wolf, Hunter, after the brutal wolf like attacks that left New Orleans in an uproar. But when her team calls with news of vampire slayings, Sasha knows it’s only a matter of time before another war breaks out among the supernatural denizens of the world The vampires are nobody s ally, but the cold hearted deaths of their own kind make them even more bloodthirsty than usual. But who is the culprit? With the Seelie and Unseelie courts claiming innocence and aligning together, Sasha s team is at a loss. Until they discover that they re facing ancient creatures from the depths of hell itself, bent on unleashing pure fury

The Beginning

In the politically charged years of the early 1980s many immigrants escaped a nightmarish existence under Castro’s rule and fled Cuba for America. One immigrant would cut a bloody path of destruction across the Florida landscape in a rampage fueled by drugs, rage and paranoia. In a dark vision of the American Dream gone wrong, Oliver Stone and Brian De Palma created a classic character in Tony Montana in their re envisioning of the mobster tale Scarface. But Tony Montana’s story didn’t begin there. In these two new novels from DH Press we will take you inside the life of Montana, going back to the years before his arrival in America to see what events shaped him into the man he became and what dire choices set him on the course of madness that would lead to a carnage filled conclusion in the streets of Miami. But Tony Montana’s story didn’t begin there.

Tomorrow’s Promise (As:L.A. Banks)

Tina Johnston, Lieutenant Colonel of the J. A. B. Corps, meet the man of her dreams in the form of her brother’s longtime friend and business partner, Mark Hicks, while on holiday in China. Mark is a newly retired Military Intelligence Officer and has been so busy with his military career and prosperous business endeavors that he hasn’t had the time to think about a relationship.

While exploring the vibrant streets and exotic markets of China, Mark and Tina cannot resist their blossoming love. Then disaster strikes on September 11th, when the U.S. is attacked by terrorists. The country is put on full military alert. Both Tina and Mark must fulfill their obligations to their country first, putting all else second, including their relationship. Time, distance, conflict, and duty become their foes.

Can their love survive the turbulent times ahead?

Soul Food (As:L.A. Banks)

First the hit movie. Then the groundbreaking television show. Now the smart and sassy book series. SOUL FOOD Sisters at heart. Sisters through it all…
. Baby sister Bird and her husband, Lem, are having a rough time. Lem has a secure job with his brother in law Kenny, but he still feels like the charity case of the family and he wants to make it on his own with his own business. But with his checkered past, Lem knows it will be tough to find anyone to front him the cash legally, at least. Lem’s attempt to get the money on the sly brings him into conflict with Bird’s eldest sister, Teri, who finds out that Lem may be slipping into his old, shady habits. When Bird learns of this, the stress of worrying about her husband, her business, and her future proves too much, and her health begins to suffer badly bringing her family together, and forcing Bird and Lem to decide how much they mean to each other, and whether they’re willing to risk losing their dreams and everything they’ve worked for.