Books with title Reckoning

Faced with the uncertainty of what lies ahead, Natalie Johnson continues to worry the worst has yet to come.With the return of her mother and an enemy now at bay, she finds that resentment runs deep through the soul of one who wishes you harm. But once she receives some unforeseen news about Jeremy, Natalie is forced to come to terms with her own feelings. And she will soon discover deception comes at a price—no matter how good the intention—and that buried secrets always find a way to come back and haunt you.

Join Agents Emma Monroe and Zack Armstrong. She's sacrificed. He's suffered. They've both been betrayed. Now it’s time for a reckoning. Special Agent Emma Monroe has a secret. She’s a Fallen Siren, cursed by the gods and banished to Earth for her failure to prevent the kidnapping of Persephone. As an FBI agent she saves the lives of others believing redemption could be one rescue away. Her partner Zack is a werewolf and former Black Ops sniper who once carried out a string of questionable assignments. Now he's determined to atone for his past. Ironically, there’s a portion of his past Zack doesn't remember–an affair with Emma. Giving into their attraction for one another almost led to their undoing. Now it's back to business as usual. While trying to unravel the mystery behind a series of kidnappings in Southern California, Emma and Zack become entangled with political tensions in the vampire and Were worlds. Not to mention the struggles they face in their relationship with one another. With so much uncertainty, they come to realize the only thing they can really count on is one another–or can they?

One girl. One chance. One destiny. In the village of Martindale, hundreds of miles north of the new English capital of Windsor, sixteen-year-old Silver Blackthorne takes the Reckoning. This coming-of- age test not only decides her place in society – Elite, Member, Inter or Trog – but also determines that Silver is to become an Offering for King Victor.But these are uncertain times and no one really knows what happens to the teenagers who disappear into Windsor Castle. Is being an Offering the privilege everyone assumes it to be, or do the walls of the castle have something to hide? Trapped in a maze of ancient corridors, Silver finds herself in a warped world of suspicion where it is difficult to know who to trust and who to fear. The one thing Silver does know is that she must find a way out . . . The heart-stopping first book in a new trilogy by UK author Kerry Wilkinson, Reckoning is the story of one girl's determination to escape the whims of a cruel king, and what she must do to survive against all odds.

The trouble with being too smart for your own good is you’re “too smart” to know it—until it’s too late.Living with her single mom in tiny La Via, Arizona, sixteen-year-old Etta Baker has grown up independent and headstrong—and definitely too smart for her own good. It’s just after WWII and evil men are expanding drug trafficking across the West. Her mother’s new boyfriend is one of them. When he kills Etta’s mother and disappears, Etta is determined to bring him to justice. She impulsively tracks down her mother’s long-lost older brother to enlist his aid. A former lawman, he’s now a drunken and disgruntled war veteran and wants nothing to do with her troubles. But Etta ignores her uncle’s dire warnings about the dangers of her plan and shames him into helping her. On horseback, they track the murderer and his gang through the wilderness of The Sierra Crest, where the beauty of the landscape quickly gives way to deadly violence, both natural and man-made, and forces Etta to do what she could never have imagined in order to save both their lives.

Jett is a girl passing as a boy, living as a cowboy in the old West as she searches for her long-lost brother. When the book opens, she's just rolled into a new town, where she stops by the saloon. Things are relatively calm, although she suspects there will be Trouble from at least one of the locals. Sure enough, Trouble starts to mosey over, when-- The saloon is invaded by zombies. Barely escaping with her life, Jett hightails it out of town and soon falls into the company of Honoria Gibbons, a smart, self-sufficient young woman who also happens to be a fabulous inventor. Together with White Fox, a young man they meet, they set out to discover what's caused the zombie uprising. Turns out these zombies aren't rising from the dead of their own accord... but who would want an undead army? And why?

Along the border in Texas, a deadly firefight claims the lives of two Border Patrol agents.On a highway in suburban Virginia, a bomb blast targets the director of the CIA.From the halls of power in D.C., secrets reach out, signing the death warrants of those who uncover them. . . For CIA paramilitary Harry Nichols, deceit has become a way of life. Fifteen years in the Clandestine Service have left him weary, recovering from a devastating betrayal. Little does he know. . .the betrayals have only begun.With CIA Director David Lay missing and presumed dead, Nichols finds himself tasked with protecting Lay’s estranged daughter—and hunted by an ex-Spetsnaz kill team.His only mission is to keep her safe. Her only desire is to find the man who ordered her father’s murder.For him, she becomes the only motivation to leave behind the life of violence he's known, but only his talent for violence can save them now. . .Pursued by an unknown enemy, their danger will draw them together, even as her quest for truth plunges them both into the abyss.But as their world turns upside down—as a Pakistani terrorist prepares to attack an American city— even as everything once sure turns to quicksand, one thing becomes breathtakingly clear.All that stands between them and the truth is an American President willing to bury his secrets. . .one enemy at a time.

Nobody expected Dru Anderson to survive this long. Not Graves. Not Christophe. Not even Dru herself. She's battled killer zombies, jealous djamphirs, and bloodthirsty suckers straight out of her worst nightmares. But now that Dru has bloomed into a full-fledged svetocha - rare, beautiful, and toxic to all vampires - the worst is yet to come. Because getting out alive is going to cost more than she's ever imagined. And in the end, is survival really worth the sacrifice?