Walking In the Midst of Fire

Includes a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story!

What could be scarier than the first day of school? How about a crash course in the paranormal from Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, editors of Home ? Your worst school nightmares — taking that math test you never studied for, finding yourself naked in school assembly, not knowing which door to enter — will pale in comparison to these thirteen original stories that take academic anxiety to whole new realms.

In #1 bestselling author Charlaine Harris's story, "Playing Possum," Sookie Stackhouse brings enough birthday cupcakes for her nephew's entire class but finds she's one short when the angry ex-boyfriend of the school secretary shows up.

When her guardian, Kate Daniels, sends her undercover to a school for exceptional children, teenaged Julie learns an all-new definition of "exceptional," in bestselling author Ilona Andrews's "Magic Tests."

For those who like fangs with their forensics, bestselling author Nancy Holder offers "VSI," in which FBI agent Claire is tested as never before in a school for Vampire Scene Investigation.

And in bestselling author Thomas Sniegoski's "The Bad Hour," Remy Chandler and his dog Marlowe find evil unleashed in an obedience school.

You'll need more than an apple to stave off the creatures in these and nine other stories. Remember your first lesson: resistance is fruitless!

Includes stories by: ILONA ANDREWS, AMBER BENSON, RHYS BOWEN, MIKE CAREY, CHARLAINE HARRIS, DONALD HARSTAD, STEVE HOCKENSMITH, NANCY HOLDER, FAITH HUNTER, TONI L.P. KELNER, MARJORIE LIU, JONATHAN MABERRY, THOMAS SNIEGOSKI

Aaron nie jest złym chłopakiem. Po prostu jest inny… Osierocony w dzieciństwie, porywczy i skłonny do niezrozumiałych zachowań. Samotnik i outsider. Po latach tułaczki znalazł wreszcie swoje miejsce w domu Toma i Lori Stanley. Teraz stara się żyć tak samo jak inni ludzie.

Ale nie jest człowiekiem.

W wigilię osiemnastych urodzin zaczyna śnić. Widzi pole bitwy, chaos, powalane kurzem zbroje, wzniesione miecze. Krew. Słyszy szczęk broni, nienawistne okrzyki, jęki konających.

I łopot ogromnych skrzydeł przysłaniających burzowe niebo.

Zrodzony z anioła i śmiertelnej kobiety, Aaron jest nefilimem. Istotą wstrętną Bogu i jego Potęgom. Ostatnią nadzieją upadłych… Wyrok na niego już zapadł! Tropem Aarona podąża dowódca boskich Potęg, Verchiel.

Cel uświęca środki. W tej wojnie nie będzie jeńców.

Pierwszy tom tetralogii znanego autora komiksów i scenarzysty, Thomasa Sniegoskiego, wciągająca historia walki pomiędzy śmiertelnikami, upadłymi i boskimi Potęgami. Na podstawie serii powstał serial telewizyjny, a książki doczekały się kilku reedycji.

Six year-old Zoe York has been taken and her mother has come to Remy for help. She shows him crude, childlike drawings that she claims are Zoe's visions of the future, everything leading up to her abduction, and some beyond. Like the picture of a man with wings who would come and save her—a man who is an angel.

Zoe's preternatural gifts have made her a target for those who wish to exploit her power to their own destructive ends. The search will take Remy to dark places he would rather avoid. But to save an innocent, Remy will ally himself with a variety of lesser evils-and his soul may pay the price…