The Keepers' Chronicles Series

With her race saved from the brink of extinction, Serenity’s life could not be better. Married, finally, to Ray, and back in London for the first time in a century, retirement isn’t coming easy. Being a housewife was never in her make up. But when Lizzy calls to say the Keepers’ records have been stolen, retirement is preferable over the danger they now face. Targets once more, Serenity’s isn’t inclined to sit back and let her brothers and sisters face the losses she witnessed, but the order to move an entire race comes at a price. Whoever is behind the threat, they show none of the mercy The Seats once did. No broken families left to suffer the loss of parents, aunts, uncles. This time they’ve gone too far, and when they take the lives of the race’s children, Serenity’s mind is made up. This time they will be no threats, no mercy. This time there’ll be no survivors

Set in the U.S.S.R in 1964, this short accompaniment to The Keepers’ Chronicles explores the missing years from book one. Lost without her mate, Serenity Cardea is barely clinging to what little sanity she has left. Every day is a struggle, and the only thing keeping her going is the family she surrounds herself with and her duties as protector of the balance between the races. Deep in the Russian wilderness, the Wolves are in trouble. They’ve gotten on the wrong side of a group of vampires, and now their village has been burned to the ground. With Serenity’s help, they are forced to flee their home and start again.

No one knows where the Keepers came from. Not even Lizzy Walters, who has the ability to see both the past and the future. In fact, there is only one thing Lizzy can’t see, and that is the dead. Yet her dreams for more than a hundred years have involved impossible futures with impossible consequences. But all thoughts of the dead are soon swept aside when a mysterious plague takes hold of the Weres. Their shifts are killing them, turning the flowing of forms into a death sentence of broken bones and torn bodies. There is only one person alive capable of saving the Weres, but Georgianna Rose, Crone to all witches, hasn’t been seen in centuries. Lizzy must race against death to find a witch who doesn’t want to be found, and in the process uncovers truths about the world she may wish had stayed buried.

The Seats are long dead. And after more than two centuries, the vampire world is stable enough for Serenity to settle down into a quiet, happy life. Until July 4th on the celebration of Independence Day. Centenary celebrations in Times Square broadcast the world over. It should have been a joyous occasion, another in the long line of human milestones Serenity and her vampire family have witnessed. That is until a vampire chases a woman into the crowd and drains her dry on the summer’s day. With the news of vampires spreading quickly across the globe, Serenity must stand up and tell the human race that they are not alone in the world. And when they react with force instead of open arms, she must lead the Keepers in the biggest decision her race has had to make. From keeping the vampires in the shadows to being their protectors, the Keepers, and Serenity most of all, face the fight of their lives to keep the human race from slaughtering all vampires on sight. But with a war between the races on the line, one mistake can mean the difference between keeping everything Serenity has ever worked for and burning the world down around her.

Fifteen hundred years ago, Serenity Cardea took the life of the only vampire she ever regretted killing-Henry, her sister's husband. With her sister brutally murdered, Serenity had little choice but to grant Henry the only request he had: death. Centuries later, Serenity is no closer to discovering who betrayed them or instigated the massacre of her brothers and sisters. The vampires want dominance-over their food, the other races . . . the world. To get it, they've systematically hunted down and slaughtered the only ones standing in their way. The Keepers. As a Keeper, Serenity is tasked with protecting the delicate balance between the creatures of the world: Vampire, Witch, Were, and Human. Her kind exists to ensure that no single race sways the balance, dooming the world to destruction. They're on the brink of extinction, with no sign of return. Now only two remain, and Serenity's last brother is facing death, leaving her standing alone against a never-ending tide of vampires, all wanting one thing: power. Then she meets Ray Synclair, a history professor in training with a passion for centuries past, and the harsh reality of her limited time comes crashing down on her. He is her weakness. His mortality is the countdown on Serenity's life, and with each passing second, it comes closer to the end, for both of them. She must uncover the secrets of her people's past and find out who betrayed them-and who is still doing so-before it's too late. Serenity's days are numbered, and Ray will be drawn into a world of myth and legend, where just being alive is enough to get him hunted down. Because the only way to kill a Keeper is to kill their partner . . .