View our feature on Eileen Rendahl’s Don't Kill the Messenger. The first in a fantastic new paranormal series about a messenger from the supernatural underworld. Melina Markowitz is a Messenger, a go-between for paranormal forces and supernatural creatures. Problem is, when a girl's a go-between, it's hard not to get caught in the middle... When ninjas steal an envelope from Melina, her search leads her to a Taoist temple in Old Sacramento, where the priests seem to practice Zen and the art of mayhem. Melina learns from the handsome ER doctor (and vampire) who gave her the envelope that it contained talismans created by the priests to control Chinese vampires, who are attacking gang members to spark a street war. Although he may look more like a surfer than a cop, Ted Goodnight is dead serious about investigating the surge in gang violence. At every turn he runs into Melina, a very attractive-and very mysterious-young woman. Can Melina enlist his help to battle something he doesn't even believe in without blowing her cover?

Don't Kill the Messenger (A Messenger Novel)

Literature & Fiction

Rendahl, Eileen

United States

Penguin Publishing Group

Dead on Delivery (A Messenger Novel)

View our feature on Eileen Rendahl’s Dead of Delivery.Read Eileen Rendahl's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The author of Don't Kill the Messenger returns with her "strong and sassy heroine" (Publishers Weekly). There are two men who have bitten the dust after a delivery from Messenger Melina Markowitz. As she tries to put together the pieces of this puzzle, she discovers that the two victims share common friends, common unexplained absences, and a common crime. Now, dark forces from the local community have been unleashed, drawing Melina into the web of a powerful woman, her voodoo, and her vengeance...

Science Fiction & Fantasy

BERKLEY

Messenger Melina Markowitz delivers the goods for the otherworldly beings in our midst—no questions asked. It’s a job and a mission, one that puts Melina in the line of fire when things go wrong… When a delivery leads to a dead man, Melina’s cop boyfriend, Ted Goodnight, starts grilling her about her latest job. But Melina doesn’t know who sent the package or what was in it. That’s not the way she works. What she does know—that Ted doesn’t—is that this isn’t the first time this has happened… There are two men who have bitten the dust after a delivery from Melina. As she tries to put together the pieces of this puzzle, she discovers that the two victims share common friends, common unexplained absences, and a common crime. Now, dark forces from the local community have been unleashed, drawing Melina into the web of a powerful woman, her voodoo, and her vengeance…

Melina Markowitz, messenger for the underworld, delivers the goods for the supernatural beings in our midst—no questions asked. It’s more than a job; it’s a mission. Safety be damned. Melina’s missing friend, Paul, could just be taking a little werewolf “me time,” but her investigation yields something more sinister. Suspicions first fall on Paul’s wolf-pack rival. But that wouldn’t explain the sudden windstorms rattling Melina’s nerves—or the ominous, shrieking crows that keep appearing. The clues lead Melina to a mermaid, a damaged and possibly deranged police officer and patterns for Norwegian doilies—finally bringing her to the realization that she may be dealing with the most powerful enemy she has ever faced.

Dead Letter Day (A Messenger Novel)

Amanda Sinclair has to fight harder than most for everything she has after fleeing the cult that left her brother dead at her mother's hand. Amanda works a quiet job in quality control for a small cosmetics company, trying to leave her past behind her―until she learns that her mother has committed suicide in the mental ward where she's been locked away for the past ten years. But when Amanda receives her mother's personal belongings, she finds a troubling connection to the upcoming parole hearing for cult leader Patrick Collier. And then troubling things begin happening to Amanda herself. Teaming up with her mother's psychologist, Amanda starts to peel away the layers of secrets that she's built between herself and her own past, and what she finds is a truth that's almost too big to believe. Praise: "A hard-to-put-down psychological thriller."―Library Journal (starred review) "Dark and charged from the start, Cover Me in Darkness...is an excellent new novel by a confident writer."―ForeWord Reviews "Readers who stick it out are rewarded with a sudden, pulse-pounding conclusion . . . leaving readers satisfied."―RT Book Reviews "Unlikely allies drive a story in which Rendahl never lets her heroine escape her past."―Kirkus Reviews "Disturbing."―Publishers Weekly

Cover Me in Darkness: A Mystery

Midnight Ink

It's about healing. After a couple of rough years, Emily is finally getting things back together. She doesn't need to re-do everything at work three times, her young daughter's soccer uniform is almost always clean the day of a game, and meals are pretty darn reliable, too. But hey, becoming a widow at thirty-three kind of knocks the starch out of you. It's about family. Then Emily's dad has an Event (only her mom would call a minor heart attack that -- what is it, a bar mitzvah?). Next, her sister Claudia's ex-husband starts stealing their kids' Ritalin for the high -- and wouldn't you replace it with The Pill to teach him a lesson? (His unexpected, uh, frontal development was just a howlingly funny bonus -- honest.) And then Emily's relentlessly sensible oldest sister, Leah, dumps her businessman fiancé for a rock musician. It's about never letting them see your gray. Now Jake, Emily's best friend, seems to be spending a lot of time at her house. Which she likes way too much. Which is kind of confusing. So what's a girl to do, but call an emergency meeting of the sisters' monthly hair-color-and-gossip session, to make the world seem sane again?

Do Me, Do My Roots

Contemporary

GALLERY BOOKS

Just the fax, ma'am. Alissa Lindley didn't mean to take it out on the fax machine. But when your not-yet-ex-husband knocks up his girlfriend and your divorce is going worse than the next World War -- well, something's got to give. Unfortunately, Alissa's employers at the L.A. Public Defender's office take a dim view of the destruction of office equipment. Funny how that anti-workplace violence policy used to seem like a good idea, before she got fired. And the networking thing just isn't happening at her Anger Management class. He was arrestingly handsome. San Jose is the place for a fresh start -- it's home, and family and friends are eagerly waiting to welcome her. But her first job as a lawyer there has Alissa walking a high wire of complicated emotions. Her client is from the Butterfly Brigade, a group of justice-seeking (and interestingly tattooed) ladies who right wrongs as they see fit even if that means bending the law. The arresting officer, Detective Rodriguez, is so hot he should be illegal. But can Alissa trust her instincts again when it comes to love? Or will one wrong step send her new life crashing down?

Balancing in High Heels

It's about healing. It's about family. It's about never letting them see your gray. After a couple of rough years, Emily is finally getting things back together. Becoming a widow at thirty-three kind of knocks the starch out of you. She never would have survived any of it without her sisters' wit and wisdom and ability to laugh in the bleakest of circumstances, especially while they touch up each others' roots. But will they be able to help her survive finding love again?

Romance

Romantic Comedy

Eileen Rendahl

Six authors. Six voices. Six genres. One winter season. Once Upon a Kidnapped Santa Delilah Dawson What happens when you mix a baker, a kidnapped Santa, a remote cabin and a snowy Christmas Eve? A recipe for the best sexy Christmas Day ever! Fire and Fruitcake Eileen Rendahl A new story from Eileen Rendahl’s award-winning Messenger series. It’s baby’s first Hanukkah and Melina and Ted have their hands full figuring out what to expect when you’re expecting a fiery conflagration when they get a call about a mysterious creature stuffed full of fruitcake and up to no good. Hearts Wide Open Elizabeth Maxwell Julia Orchard has never worried about karma. She’s young, beautiful and living large in New York City. Sure, she’s done things in the name of success that she’s not proud of, but who hasn’t? Then during the biggest pitch of her career, the ghost of her dead husband appears with a message: you have until Christmas morning to pay your debts or face an uncertain future. As Julia races against the clock, she begins to realize there’s power in small acts of kindness and facing life with your heart wide open. Orion’s Mirror Evelyn G. Walker People do change. As Halley is headed home for the holidays after her first semester in college, she knows this to be true. But will her family and closest friend treat her just the same? Not Even a Mouse Spring Warren It's the darkest, coldest time of year and Ned is making a killing selling high octane cordials to make the prairie holidays merry and bright. He decides to make one more stop at a little house with a light in the window before heading home on the night before Christmas. The Merriest of Murders Kris Calvin A California senator's holiday party might be just the place for lobbyist Maren Kane to put a bad break-up behind her and meet someone new. Until Santa turns up dead in the senator's pool and Maren's a suspect! Agatha Christie meets House of Cards under the mistletoe.

Tinsel and Temptation: A Holiday Anthology

Dawson, Delilah

Calvin, Kris

Maxwell, Elizabeth

Walker, Evelyn G.

Warren, Spring

Genre Fiction

When Amanda Sinclair was a teenager, her mother did the unthinkable. She murdered Amanda's baby brother. After a decade in a psychiatric facility, she now has committed suicide. Or has she?When Amanda receives her mother's personal belongings, she finds a troubling connection to the upcoming parole hearing for cult leader Patrick Collier, the man she blames for her mother's final mental and emotional disintegration. Then Amanda herself is threatened. Amanda peels away the layers she's built between herself and her own past, not knowing who to trust or even if she can trust herself.

Cover Me in Darkness

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

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Don't Kill the Messenger (A Messenger Novel)

Dead on Delivery (A Messenger Novel)

Dead on Delivery (A Messenger Novel)

Dead Letter Day (A Messenger Novel)

Cover Me in Darkness: A Mystery

Do Me, Do My Roots

Balancing in High Heels

Do Me, Do My Roots

Tinsel and Temptation: A Holiday Anthology

Cover Me in Darkness