Lilith Saintcrow

"Dark fantasy has a new heroine." — SFX
When the dead call, she answers.
Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets Necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues — like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover's death.
Now psychics all over the city are being savagely murdered — and a piece of the past Dante thought she'd buried is stalking the night with a vengeance. Too bad she's got...

Dante Valentine, Necromancer and bounty hunter, just wants to be left alone. But the Devil has other ideas.
The Prince wants Dante. And he wants her now. And Dante and her lover, Japhrimel, have no choice but to answer the Prince's summons. And to fulfill a seemingly simple task: become the Devil's Right Hand, hunt down four demons that have escaped from Hell, and earn His gratitude.
It's a shame that nothing is ever easy when it comes...

"Emma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. Unfortunately, they can barely tolerate each other..."--P. [4] of cover.

The pulse-pounding finale to Lilith Saintcrow's urban fantasy series featuring Dante Valentine.
Dante Valentine has been through Hell. Literally. Her body shattered and her mind not far behind, she's dumped back into her own world to survive — or not — as a pawn in one of Lucifer's endless games.
Unfortunately, he's just messed with the wrong Necromance. And this time she's mad enough to do something about it.
This time, the...

"Nat Drozdova has crossed half the continent in search of the stolen Dead God's Heart, the only thing powerful enough to trade for her beautiful, voracious, dying mother's life. Yet now she knows the secret of her own birth--and that she's been lied to all her young life. The road to the Heart ends at the Salt-Black Tree, but to find it Nat must pay a deadly price. Pursued by mouthless shadows hungry for the blood of new divinity as well as the razor-wielding...

"Lilith Saintcrow's most commercial novel yet, set in a dystopian America rebuilding from the ashes of a second civil war. History is written by the victors; but when you've been fighting your fellow patriots, your own brothers and sisters, does anyone really win? As the dust settles after a devastating second American civil war, the work of rebuilding begins. But can a population who's spent years divided and hell-bent on victory at any cost ever...

"There was an Event, the Rifts opened up, and everyone caught inside died. Since the Event certain people have gone into the drift ... and come back, bearing priceless technology that's almost magical in its advancement. When Ashe -- the best Rifter of her generation -- dies, the authorities offer her student, Svinga, a choice: go in and bring out the thing that killed her, or rot in jail. But Svin, of course, has other plans ... How far would you...