BTVS: Obsidian Fate
Diana G. Gallagher
294 pages
ISBN: 0671039296
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pub. Date: September 1999

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On the outskirts of Sunnydale, recent rains have uncovered the remains of a five hundred-year-old Spanish expedition. But one of the artifacts, a smoky mirror with an ornately carved obsidian frame, goes missing, along with the history teacher who found it. And when Buffy narrowly escapes the attack of a black jaguar while on patrol, Giles puts the gang into research mode. An ancient volume identifies the missing mirror as a magical object formed by the Aztec god of darkness. A mortal who looks into the mirror will see his or her fate -- and can be manipulated by the evil god, who is scheming to regain his power. Taking their destinies into their own hands, the Slayer and her friends rush into a ferocious battle between light and darkness in the shadows of a massive Aztec temple, a battle against perpetual night -- and the evil that thrives in the dark hours.

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When attractive, youthful Crystal Gregory takes a teaching position at Sunnydale High, she also takes what seems to be an instant dislike to Buffy Summers. Buffy's Slayer sense doesn't detect anything unusual about the teacher. But when you're living on a Hellmouth, nothing is what it seems. Crystal isn't above playing favorites, and her pets -- including Willow, Michael, and Anya -- are loyal to her in the extreme. This wouldn't bother Buffy...but for the fact that she has found a fresh burn mark on two of the students' necks. Giles immediately recognizes the symbol as the mark of a powerful witch whose existence predates the Salem Witch Trials. The primal witch will continue to wreak havoc until she successfully gathers a coven of thirteen people who have magickal ability. Once the group is created, she will perform a moonlit ritual to endow herself with infinite power, at which point all members of her clan -- indeed, all human beings -- will be subject to her will. Buffy's going to need her Wicca girl, Willow, to save the world this time -- but can Willow be persuaded by reason before it's too late?

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Old Magic, New Problem. The Hellmouth (a.k.a. Sunnydale, CA) has drawn vampires, witches, and other demons to its powerful vortex. Now it has also drawn the attention of an ancient set of Druids -- allies in Buffy Summers' battle against the Undead. Clocked in Darkness, wrapped in mystery, the Druids descend on Sunnydale ready to perform new rituals to summon forth a new world order, free from the evil that shapes Buffy's nights. But the Slayer's concerns are more immediate -- someone is stalking her friends. Cordelia, Xander, and Oz -- all are falling victim to this spell. And now it's up to Willow and Giles to find the cause, while Buffy stands between the Mouth of Hell and the New Dawn.

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In his quest for mortality, Nick Knight has tried everything. But when a mysterious woman gives him a strange doll that she claims will grant his wish, the result is a series of dreams more vivid and disturbing than any Nick has had before. In them he's mortal, working in a police department dominated by vampires. Are they just dreams--or something else? Nick isn't sure. Nor is he sure just what he is willing to pay for his mortality.

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A Hindu god, named Ravana, sends her minions, the Rakshasa, to Sunnydale. They influence people (normally very good friends) and turn them against each other. One ends up killing the other and the killer is eaten to the bone by the Rakshasa. Ethan Raynes makes an appearance in this book, and of course he is behind the resurrecting of Ravana.

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A big, fancy auction goes haywire when a vampire steals a rare Transylvania medallion. It's another hair-raising case for Scooby and the gang!

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The origin od the virus was unknown. The first symptom was a pang of unbearable sensitivity to light, followed by pain shooting through the hip. Then came fever. And finally, the hunger for blood. Uncontrollable, insatiable, it drove the infected to hunt... to strike... to feed. Now Sondra could feel the heat within her, rising violently. And she was consumed with bloodlust as never before. Michael Smith came to the small Minnesota town to build a new life... and to fight to contain the virus that raged within him. But then the bodies were discovered. Bodies of young men, shredded and disgorged. And Michael knew he was not alone. He knew who had followed him. And what she wanted. And the very thought of the blood taste made him want to drool... with hunger.

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A brilliant new vampire epic of immortal secrets and unearthly seduction. Gestern Hall, transported stone by stone from Europe in the 1800s, is home to the most prominent family in Oldenberg, Oregon. In its hallways, an ageless man stalks silently, consumed by an everlasting hunger; outside its walls, the town begins to succumb to the family's evil legacy. Original.

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Years ago, Lewis Kindred came face to face with absolute evil. He saw it in the eyes of trained killers. Smelled it in the wake of spilled blood. Then he challenged it in a game of chance. And won the darkest gift of all: Immortality. It is the story of Lewis Kindred, a soldier who returned from Vietnam a different man. Cursed by the loss of his legs - but blessed with unearthly new powers - he is driven by a strange, unspeakable hunger. And he is not alone. A stranger in a world of mortals, he feels the presence of others like himself. Others who hunt. Others who kill. But there's one difference between Kindred and his kin. Kindred will not surrender his last shred of humanity.

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This story is set in the 1920's, the Jazz Age. The main character of this book is Frederica Lavoy who is the granddaughter of Louis Radman from Midnight Kiss. Frederica is blessed with unique gifts. She is different from the other vampires for she is able to walk in the sunlight. Her father, Marchand LaValois, along with others of his kind, hold trials of those vampires who endanger their way of life. They act as judge, jury and executioner only to those who are truly evil, who slaughter innocent humans. Frederica works for him, hunting and bring them to face justice. Strange deaths are reported and all evidence seems to point to Eduard D'Arcy. Frederica is sent out to bring Eduard in to face her father's justice. But is Eduard innocent or guilty? Mortal or immortal? As her feeling for him grow, she begins to have doubts that he is the killer who is terrorizing the humans. And she begins to doubt whether or not she will be able to bring him forth for justice. But more is at stake than her own conflicting emotions. An old enemy resurfaces manipulating both Frederica and Eduard in a quest for vengeance.

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Tormented by a mysterious blood malady that had tormented him for three centuries, Marquis Louis Radman, no ordinary London bachelor, sweeps Arabella Howland into a dark romance of desire and intrigue.

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Dubbed with nicknames like "the Goddess of Gore," scientist Stacy Kimball meets with police officer Ken Fitzhugh who found the latest corpse. Ken mentions the alleged jumper Wanda Cummings had signs similar to five other recent bodies. All shared marks on the neck, a major loss of blood with no accounting for it, and abnormalities in the remaining blood. He adds that the indications are that someone behaving like a vampire is on the loose and the only person brought in for questioning is shipping mogul Louis Redman. He concludes that the serial killer is brilliant and not part of the clumsy cult crowd. Stacey meets Louis and finds herself very attracted to him. He, to his surprise shares her immediate feelings. However, Stacy begins to believe that Louis is a vampire, killing innocent people. However, she also knows her research cannot succeed without his blood. As she falls in love with him, she wonders how far she can trust this other species who feeds on humanity.

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On the streets of turn-of-the-century New York, a savage killer is stalking beautiful young women. For ambitious publisher Cassie Alexander, solving the case isn't just a story - it's an obsession. But she's about to learn that when fresh blood is spilled, ancient blood rises to the scent... In handsome, elusive Louis Radcliffe, Cassie will find both proection... and peril. Louis is a man haunted by blood, a man whose erotic embrace will entice her into a dark world of exquisite, endless rapture... But shadowing Cassie and Louis is an even greater menace... a danger that no one - mrotal or undying - can survive. Together, they must battle tha madness that enshrouds them... even as they are consumed by a love that could damn them forever to the burning ecstasy of a... MIDNIGHT SURRENDER.

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A sheltered beauty raised in the scenic French countryside, Nicole Radouix's world shattered the day she discovered her father's shocking secret. Desperate and afraid, she fled for her immortal soul... In the seething turmoil of post-revolutinary Paris, Nicole found a protector in handsome aristocrat Marchand La Valois. Yet even as their passion flamed into burning love, Nicole could not escape her dark fate... But as Nicole draws Marchand deeper into a nighttime world of hypnotic seduction, a sensual enemy ensnares them both in a three-hundred-year-old web of betrayal and revenge. Now that Nicole and Marchand must fight for the love that will join them forever in blood, rapture and the endless ecstasy of... MIDNIGT TEMPTATION.

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Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat. While climbing over some rocks, she discovers another unexpected victim of the spillage -- a selkie, a shape-shifting seal girl who won't be able to return to the sea until the oil is removed from her coat. Willow takes the creature back to the library so that Giles and the Slayerettes can help her to restore her magickal coat. However, though "Ariel," as the posse dubs her, is endearing in her innocence, Buffy can't quite shake her innate suspicions of the creature whose nature, like the ocean, is ever changing. Unfortunately, the spill has forced more than a selkie from the cold water. Merrows look very much like traditional mermaids -- with one important and fatal difference. As if things weren't complicated enough...

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The paranormal forces centered in Sunnydale attract the vilest kinds of evil: vamps, demons...and student teachers? An invasion of collegians testing their teaching prowess on Buffy and her peers coincides with the arrival of a supernatural stalker. The Slayer feels the evil entity watching her every move, and she's not the only one. But researching the beast is going to be problematic with the student teachers setting up shop in Giles's home turf -- the school library. When the stalker starts to take his malicious game to the next level, Buffy finds herself face to face with a being unlike any she's ever encountered. But can she figure out its weakness before she is forced to participate in its dance of death?

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Jander Sunstar, an elven vampire from the Forgotten Realms world, is pulled into the newly formed dark realm of Ravenloft and forges an alliance with the land's most powerful inhabitant--Count Strahd Von Zarovich, himself a newly risen vampire. But as Jander teaches the Count the finer points of being undead, he learns that he is tutoring the man that drove his lost love insane!

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Book One in "The Shadow Saga" is a brilliant epic that takes readers into the secret world of vampires--and a secret society sworn to destroy them. Sweeping, sensuous, and shocking, it is a powerful vision of immortality that will leave readers spellbound.

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As the vampires of the world prepare to do battle with humanity, and each other, the possibility of a new life for those that remain is what spurs them on in their bloody quest.

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Led by Peter Octavian, the Shadows must drink blood. Yet they do not steal life. New Shadows are created only by individual choice. Peace is their only hunger. The minions of Hannibal have a different goal: the enslavement of humanity. They kill for pleasure and thirst. They indescriminately create more of their kind. And they embrace the title of terrible legend: vampire. Shadows and vampires, they are one in the same--and their war continues.

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The ultimate fan guide to 'this season's most distinctive and sharply written new show' (Entertainment Weekly), this official companion book includes exclusive interviews, never-before-seen photos, a day on the set journal, and more.

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It's senior year for Buffy Summers and her friends. And that means homecoming, senior prom, finals, graduation -- all the usual evil doings guaranteed to make the Chosen One long for recess. Slayer duties caused Buffy to miss picking up her Yearbook, so Willow took it for her and enlisted the help of Xander, 0z, Cordelia, Giles, and Angel to make it truly special. Filled with personal notes, candid photos, and in-jokes about Slayerfest, Halloween, substitute teachers, the principal who was eaten, Ascension, etc. -- Buffy's Yearbook is part school publication, part memory book. Written by the authors of the bestselling The Watcher's Guide, this keepsake volume is packed with key references to the show and characters, 32 full-color pages of fan-favorite moments, and Graduation photos!

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As if battling monsters isn't stressful enough, now college has Buffy against the ropes! But she doesn't have much time to mope, because a whole host of supernatural bad-asses are showing up in Sunnydale, all gunning for the Slayer and her friends. Buffy and the Scooby Gang must form an unholy alliance with the Blood of Carthage-a mysterious cult of demons-to prevent a super-demon from devastating Sunnydale and perhaps the world! But why would the Blood of Carthage want to stop a demon from rising? And for that matter, why would vampire creep Spike want to play peacemaker between Buffy and the demons? No matter what the answers, there'll be hell to pay, and Sunnydale is footing the bill!

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During a routine slaying, Buffy encounters a vampire named Veronique who knows the slayer's name and can anticipate her attack. One who doesn't have the proper respect for Mr. Pointy. One who cannot die. If slain, she will reincarnate in a new body. An invincible demon is the last thing Buffy needs right now. Joyce Summers is about to undergo a serious operation, calling up all of her daughter's fears about her own mortality. Angel wants to comfort Buffy, but her mother's crisis underscores the differences between them: he will live forever, while she will grow old...or die young. Torn between her duties as the Chosen One, Buffy needs the support of her friends to help her solve a rash of grave robberies, head off an influx of new vampires, and take Veronique down once and for all. For Veronique is on a mission -- to bring about the unification of her masters, the Triumvirate, into one all-powerful demon that will drink the blood of the last man on earth...

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One night while on patrol, the Slayer and her friends are outnumbered and receive aid from a totally unexpected source: Buffy's old flame, Pike. He and Buffy had a complex relationship back in Los Angeles, when the Chosen One was first called. Now, Pike has arrived in Sunnydale, on the run from a stone demon with a grudge. Faced with this blast from the past, Buffy finds herself caught between her history with Pike...and her future with Angel. But there's little time to contemplate this situation as vamp activity rises and Giles, in particular, becomes the target of mysterious, brutal attacks. Buffy suspects a deeper connection between old friends and new enemies. With the help of her friends, Buffy unmasks the evil entities -- and discovers that even a Watcher can be watched....

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Buffy, Oz, and Angel are Europe-bound, only they're not flying any airlines. They're traveling limbo's "ghost roads" in search of Jacques Regnier. Jacques is the sole heir of the dying Gatekeeper whose Boston mansion is the supernatural barrier restraining thousands of the world's monsters. The evil Sons of Entropy will do anything to destroy the gate -- even if it means trading the power-laden Spear of Longinus to the wicked vampires holding Jacques. Back home, the ghost ship Flying Dutchman has set sail for Sunnydale, determined to shanghai new crewmen -- dead or alive. For Willow, Xander, Cordelia, and Giles, it's an ocean of trouble, especially when the monstrous Kraken reemerges with a vengeance. But everyone's assistance will be needed once Buffy locates Jacques, and uncovers the shocking plans the Sons of Entropy have already placed in motion -- a plan that, if successful, will destroy the world and create a horrible new realm ruled by monsters.

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Werewolves. Trolls. Sea Monsters. Rain of toads. Skyquakes. Sunnydale is being besieged by dark forces. But even with Buffy providing her unique style of damage control while Giles is hospitalized out of town, it's more than one Slayer can handle -- especially since the abominations are coming from a centuries-old portal through time and space. Somehow, the hell-hole must be found and corked at its source. For Buffy, Angel, and the rest of her gang, that means a road trip to Boston where an ailing Gatekeeper resides over a supernatural mansion that has been, until recently, holding the world's worst monsters at bay. Once there, Buffy discovers the catastrophic truth: the magical structure houses thousands of rooms, all of which are doorways to limbo's "ghost roads," and all of which may bring her face-to-face with the most nefarious forces in hell and on earth -- forces bent on horrific plans far worse than the Slayer ever imagined.

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Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged Gatekeeper. In limbo, the Ghost Roads are crumbling, becoming weak and unstable where Hell and the Otherworld have begun seeping in, blurring the passages that lead to the human world. And Xander lies mortally wounded from a failed attempt to free Joyce Summers from the clutches of the zealots who hold her hostage. With the Gatekeeper rapidly weakening, Buffy sends Willow and Cordelia to escort Xander along the Ghost Roads to the Gatehouse, which may hold his only hope of survival. Meanwhile, she, Giles, and an unlikely band of allies take their fight to the very mouth of Hell itself, desperately hoping to save Joyce and repel the evil spawn before Sunnydale becomes a demonic ground zero. Only then can Buffy safeguard the Gatekeeper's eleven-year-old heir, the only one able to prevent the ultimate destruction of humanity.

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Joyce Summers is dead. Spike has been slain and Faith, rogue Slayer, is gone as well. Southern California has fallen under vampire rule. And Rupert Giles is Vampire King. Buffy can hold no one but herself responsible for this grim possible future; her own insecurities and petty jealousies led to this moment. She must now gather her inner strength and combat the demon that inhabits the corpse of her most trusted mentor. With the help of Willow and the Slayerettes, Buffy must invoke the elements, stave off a vampire stronghold, and return to her real-time body -- but not before identifying and preventing the misstep that brought about the oppression of those she holds closest....

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The first chapter of Buffy's rise to slayer stardom reveals a somewhat reluctant teenager gradually accepting her role as L.A.'s protector and principle stake-master in the face of an undead invasion. Original.

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An ancient vampire has arrived in Sunnydale, bent on continuing his reign of terror. But the trail of blood leads straight to Buffy's best friend, Willow.

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Hungry vampires, zombies who chomp on brains, and an evil scarecrow make for a full night of slaying. But what did Buffy expect? After all, it is Halloween in Sunnyvale!

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Jousting contests, human chess matches, lords and ladies and beggars...a traveling Renaissance fair has come to Sunnydale. The fair may seem terminally uncool, but Buffy and her friends are charmed anyway. Especially by a sad-eyed boy named Roland, who serves as the court jester. Unfortunately, the people from the fair are not the only visitors in Sunnydale. Roaming the countryside are nasty little creatures with a taste for flesh: the dark faerie. They are minions of the Wild Hunt, servants of the evil Erl King. Buffy's challenge is to annihilate the king and his murderous horde. But the path to his destruction leads straight to Roland, who is not quite human...and destined to become the Slayer's mortal adversary.

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Trailing a vampire who kills men while sending them into sexual ecstasy, Jace Levy, homicide detective for the Los Angeles Police Department, succumbs to his own unnatural desires. The victims are all men who have been stabbed in the neck; none died fighting and most died smiling. LAPD Homicide Detective Jace Levy heads the investigation to find a serial killer called The Westside Vampire. But the evidence lures him into a netherworld of unusual desires. Original.

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Sherry Gottlieb adds a little spice to the tasty bloodsucker stew of vampire fiction. Like Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent Anita Blake series, Gottlieb writes about steamy, erotic power duels between humans and the undead. Gottlieb's Love Bite introduced Los Angeles homicide detective Jace Levy, who falls under the spell of the damnably attractive vampire Risha Cadigan. Worse Than Death plunges Jace still deeper into vampire country in another tale uniting horror, suspense, and never-ending vampire hanky-panky. Retired from the force, Jace still does private investigations, and he takes on a Hollywood extortion case. Producer Robert Brandon may preach clean, moral family fun in his films, but his real-life ethics are filthy. A videotape of his brief encounter with an aspiring actress has fallen into the hands of a blackmailer, and it's Jace's job to expose the felon. Although there is no great mystery novel here, the preternatural elements give the book some fizz. Deeply in love with Risha, Jace faces a life-or-death choice: should he become a vampire himself, allowing him an eternal honeymoon with his undead goddess? Is he prepared to feed on the blood of humans, say goodbye to his reflection, and God forbid, lose his taste for coffee? Jace loves coffee.

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Introduction and explainantion of all outlaws from kindred society. Sets up the Anarch Revolution and origin of the Sabbat.

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One who stalks the cobblestreets of Oxrun Station, moving silently from victim to victim. One who hants the winter-chilled corridors of Squire's Manor, luring the soul of a young beauty to eternal damnation. One who sleeps by day and rises at night to satisfy a strange and evil thirst...A thirst for human blood.

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As the human race dwindles following a series of earthquakes, floods, and fires, Emma, one of the survivors of the chaos, realizes that she is one of the walking dead--the last vampire. First come the earthquakes, leaving flood and fire in their wake. Then came plague, and teh endless stench of death. But in the shadows of man's destruction, an ancient evil lived on. And as the human race dwindled to the helpless few, the hunters grew ever more desperate, ever more ruthless. Alone on the wilderness, Emma felt the bloodthirst and knew she'd survived the end of the world only to become one of the undead. Determined to fight her unholy destiny, she struggled against the burning within. But now she was hungry. And the night was calling...

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Unaware of the nightstalking menace in their midst, the people of Summer Haven, Florida have slept easily in their beds for too long. But now their screams echo in the night. A beautiful young vampire - more powerful and evil than any of her kind - is growing stronger and more relentless with each kill. Irene is the lovely new face of terror. No one can resist her. No one can stop her. For there's no escaping the savage hunger in her.