Cindypen

Ryan Banks, a skilled wizard, and a private investigator should be happy that business is pretty good for a change but now, he is getting more than he bargained for. 
In a duel with the Red Court of Vampires' champion, who must annihilate him to end the war between vampires and wizards, Professional hit men using him for target practice, the missing Shroud of Turin, a handless and headless corpse at the Ohio police, not to mention the return of Ryan's ex-girlfriend Marilyn, who is still battling with her semi-vampiric nature, and who seems to have a new man in her life. 
Should Ryan run for his life Or stand to face whatever follow?

The Wizard's Way

Then it was gone. And the only one I had to help me was myself.

I blew out a breath. "Well, Ryan," I told myself, "that's just going to have to be enough."

And so, I walked through a spectral landscape littered with skulls, into the teeth of the coming storm, to a house covered in malevolent power, throbbing with savage and feral mystic strength.

I walked forward to face a murderous opponent who had all the advantages, and who stood prepared and willing to kill me from where he stood within the heart of his own destructive power, while I was armed with nothing more than my own skill and wit and experience.

The Sight of Victor's lake house will always be with me. It was an abomination. It looked innocuous enough, physically. But on a deeper level, it was foul, rotten. It seethed with negative energy, anger and pride and lust. Especially lust.

Lust for wealth, lust for power, more than physical desire.

A Ritual Spell