Books with author James Alex

Are you ready for the strangest vacation ever?Lucas Graves and his six friends embark on a cruise ship heading for Bermuda, but this ain’t no vacation, they’re on a mission to find out where the dangerous drug called Haze is coming from. Once they’re on board, however, everyone but Lucas seems more interested in just having fun rather than maintaining their focus. To make matters worse, the Activities Director on the cruise is none other than Brad, Harmony’s on-again/off-again boyfriend from New Jersey, and the icing on the cake is when Lucas discovers that evil cultist guardians have followed them onto the ship. Seems like things just couldn’t get any more dire, right? Wrong. If Lucas can’t figure out what’s going on in time, their destination could mean a fate worse than a hundred deaths.

Lucas Graves is not a big fan of dying. He just can’t become accustomed to it, even though he’s been through it five times…so far. Despite a promise that he’s made, he makes every effort to avoid trouble wherever possible—so trouble somehow always seems to find him instead. When an accident lands him in the hospital, he’s determined to recover, even though best friends, Duncan and Harmony, suggest that he should just succumb and get yet another death over with. While convalescing, an Angel of Mercy killer smothers Lucas, compelling him to go on the hunt for the murderous hospital volunteer, before the tortured soul can strike again. In the midst of this latest challenge, he meets a young woman named Mercy, a recovering drug addict who may finally help Lucas discover his intended purpose.

Jerrik, tempted and deceived by beauty, is forced to live as a limmikin, a shape-shifter. The curse is simple: to be utterly consumed by a hunger for violence that is impossible to sedate. He doesn't remember the life he led before he was cursed, but it doesn't matter.Nothing matters. Not after the shift.At least, not until he does the unthinkable: kidnaps Charlotte Parker. Addie still cannot cope with her elder sister's disappearance. She is plagued by nightmares and will not face the possibility of Charlotte's death. While she continues searching, Addie struggles to deny not only the doubts growing about her own memory of Charlotte's kidnapping, but also her fears that the truth may be exactly what she doesn't want to hear. When Addie finally comes face to face with Jerrik, the beast who stole her sister six months previously, the story evolves with an entirely new flourish, apt for the 21st century but wonderfully familiar to those who loved the fairytale BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.