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Changeling
HEROES FOR HIREAfter barely escaping a madman’s attempt to annihilate all MetaHumans, Kelly Meding’s supernatural crime fighters have banded together to take back the streets of war-ravaged Los Angeles.Dahlia “Ember” Perkins still feels like an outsider among her new Meta friends, despite everything she’s been through since coming into her miraculous ability to absorb heat and extinguish fires. But when the police need help investigating human skins discarded like slipcovers on the street, the Metas’ youngest team member quickly finds her place. Evidence points to a murderer the likes of which they have never encountered but who inexplicably seems to be gunning for Dahlia—and who may be neither human nor Meta. After a bullet meant for her nearly kills one of her teammates, Dahlia uncovers a connection to the crimes buried deep in her past. As the danger escalates and her personal life falls apart, Dahlia soon learns there’s no such thing as a “normal” relationship when you’re a superhero. . . .
Wrong Side of Dead
Monster hunter Evangeline Stone woke up on the wrong side of dead this morning-and now there's hell to pay. Barely recovered from her extended torture at the hands of mad scientist Walter Thackery, Evy can use a break. What she gets instead is a war, as the battered Triads that keep Dreg City safe find themselves under attack by half-Blood vampires who have somehow retained their reason, making them twice as lethal. Worse, the Halfies are joined by a breed of were-creature long believed extinct-back and more dangerous than ever. Meanwhile, Evy's attempts at reconciliation with the man she loves take a hit after Wyatt is viciously assaulted-an attack traced to Thackery, who has not given up his quest to exterminate all vampires . . . even if he has to destroy Dreg City to do it. With Wyatt's time running out, another threat emerges from the shadows and a staggering betrayal shatters the fragile alliance between the Triads, vampires, and shapeshifters, turning Evy's world upside down forever.
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Jan 17, 2012
Evy Stone is one of the best heroines in urban fantasy today. She doesn’t think of herself as a nice person, but her actions tell us otherwise. Time and again she has been faced with a decision, to run and live or to go out and sacrifice herself for the greater good. And sacrifice is what she has chosen time after time. If she was a cat, she would be close to running out of her nine lives. She is so courageou
Trance
Kelly Meding’s war-ravaged Los Angeles is ground zero for the ultimate Meta human showdown in this sexy, action-packed new series. Fifteen years ago, Teresa “Trance” West was a skilled telepath and a proud member of the Ranger Corps. But ever since the Rangers were inexplicably rendered powerless at the climax of the devastating Meta War, she’s bounced from one dead-end job to another. Now her powers have reappeared just as mysteriously as they vanished— only they’re completely transformed and more potent than ever. And they’re threatening to destroy her. Trance heads to Los Angeles to track down the surviving Rangers and discover who restored her powers—and why—but a phantom enemy is determined to kill them before they can reassemble. As they dodge his deadly attacks and come to terms with their new role as heroes, Trance and the rest of the team set out to annihilate the sinister madman . . . only to discover their own powers are his greatest weapons.
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Sep 29, 2011
Trance was once a superhero in training, a Meta born with telepathic powers. Her parents were superheroes too, Rangers, with her mom dying in the line of duty. Their job was to protect normal people. But not all Metas were the good guys. Banes were supercharged too but they were more interested in using their powers to benefit themselves. Before long Metas and Banes were fighting each other. Whole cities were
Another Kind of Dead
She can heal her own wounds. She can nail a monster to a wall. But there’s one danger Evangeline Stone never saw coming.
Been there. Done that. Evy Stone is a former Dreg Bounty Hunter who died and came back to life with some extraordinary powers. Now all but five people in the world think she is dead again, this time for good—immolated in a factory fire set specifically for her. Evy and Wyatt, her partner/lover/friend, can no longer trust their former allies, or even the highest echelons of the Triads—the army of fighters holding back from an unsuspecting public a tide of quarreling, otherworldly creatures—they can trust only each other. Because when the Triads raided a macabre, monster-filled lab of science experiments and hauled away the remnants, they failed to capture their creator: a brilliant, vampire-obsessed scientist with a wealth of powerful, anti-Dreg weaponry to trade for what he desires most of all—Evy Stone: alive and well, and the key to his ultimate experiment in mad science.
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Aug 8, 2011
I never know what to expect when I open a Dreg City book but I know it is going to be a wild ride. The originality of the world building and heart-wrenching emotion still takes me by surprise. This series is a very stark, almost brutal one, and definitely not for the squeamish. One of the best things about this series is that you are not bombarded with backstory. Ms. Meding is stingy with the details but in a
As Lie the Dead
Evangeline Stone, a rogue bounty hunter, never asked for a world divided between darkness and light . . .
. . . or the power to die and live again in someone else’s borrowed body. After a murder plot meant to take her out leaves an entire race of shapeshifters nearly extinct, Evy is gnawed by guilt. So when one of the few survivors of the slaughter enlists her aid, she feels duty-bound to help—even though protecting a frail, pregnant shifter is the last thing Evy needs, especially with the world going to hell around her.
Amid weres, Halfies, gremlins, vamps—and increasingly outgunned humans—a war for supremacy is brewing. With shifters demanding justice, her superiors desperate to control her, and an assassin on her trail, Evy discovers a horrifying conspiracy. And she may be the only person in the world who can stop it—unless, of course, her own side gets her first.
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Aug 2, 2010
As Lie the Dead starts off right where we left Evy, surveying the aftermath of the battle at the end of Three Days to Dead. Exhausted from her ordeal, she, with Wyatt, head to the apartment that she has inherited from Chalice to get some rest and regroup. Of course, that isn’t what happens. Phineas, one of the few remaining Owlkins, makes a dramatic entrance and asks her for a favor. She agrees since sh
Three Days to Dead
She's young, deadly, and hunted—with only three days to solve her own murder…
When Evangeline Stone wakes up naked and bruised on a cold slab at the morgue – in a stranger’s body, with no memory of who she is and how she got there – her troubles are only just beginning. Before that night, she and the other two members of her Triad were star bounty hunters -- mercilessly cleansing the city of the murderous creatures living in the shadows, from vampires to shape-shifters to trolls. Then something terrible happened that not only cost all three of them their lives, but also convinced the city’s other Hunters that Evy was a traitor . . . and she can’t even remember what it was.
Now she’s a fugitive, piecing together her memory, trying to deal some serious justice – and discovering that she has only three days to solve her own murder before the reincarnation spell wears off. Because in three days, Evy will die again – but this time, there’s no second chance…
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Sep 15, 2009
Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding was amazing! If I didn’t know that Ms. Meding was a debut author before I read this book, I wouldn’t have believed it.
Evy Stone wakes up on a slab in the morgue, confused and disoriented. It is obvious that she isn’t in her own body and that she desperately needs to figure out what is going on. She needs clothes and cash not to mention information
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