Schattenreich

Caitlin Schwarzbach fears Death. That's her name for the gaunt wraith who haunts her. After leaving small-town Texas for Cologne, Germany, she faces an even bigger fear. Her seismologist brother Gus vanishes, wanted by the Cologne police. Caitlin's search for her brother, and his doppelgänger, earns her a bump on the head and a trip to the hospital. She believes Gus's disappearance and ruined reputation form part of a larger conspiracy. The police do not agree. Gus remains their primary suspect. With the help of the sexy aristocrat she's fallen for, Caitlin locates a vital witness: her brother's former lover. Can she prove Gus's innocence? When Caitlin arrives late to the rendezvous at Cologne's Gothic cathedral, an earthquake flings her into a bleak Otherworld. She finds the woman she arranged to meet, and a tall, gaunt wraith she has no desire to see. Primary Fault, Book One of the Schattenreich, a tale of seismology, Druids, and an evil blonde.

Burg Lahn, Germany Only two weeks remain until Caitlin and Hagen's celebratory wedding. Afterwards, the von der Lahns must vanquish the ancestral family curse before Caitlin gives birth and Cathubodua, the Dark Queen, extracts her final revenge. Dire circumstance prevents Caitlin and the men she loves from channeling their combined shadowcraft into a desperate search for a cure: Dagmar Abel has vanished. As well as Caitlin's twin, Kilhian ar C'hoed, sought for murder by the police. Düsseldorf Hauptkommissar Rehfurt would like nothing more than to prove that Caitlin and her brother engineered the disappearance of her deadly enemy. And to convict them of murder. Once the legal machinery cranks up, the von der Lahns have no choice but to see it through. Caitlin retains a thread of hope that an Iron Age inscription can remedy the curse. But Ankou, Lord of the Dead, has no intention of letting her slip through his powerful grasp.