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Shadow-Keepers
Series · 7 books · 2013-2020

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#0.5

Candyman

A Story from The Grid

2013

How does the dark half of a split personality win the girl? It's Madness. You don't know I exist. Don't feel bad. No one knows I exist. Except him and he's an asshole. Sure, everyone thinks he's a hero but I know better. Because I live in his head. You see, he's not the hero everyone thinks he is. Sure, he'll own up to being gun slinger in the Old West. No problem ticking off the big bounty on his head and how many bodies hit the dirt at the end of his smoking gun. Will he tell it's because of me he didn't die? No. Because I'm the flaw he doesn't want to show. The dark, killer side. The one that keeps us both alive. And that's how it would have always been. Until her... I swear she knew I was there. And the bastard just had to break her heart. For that, he's going to pay. Even if it means we're both going to die.
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#1

Madness

2013

A Darkly Sweet, Twisted Retelling of The Beauty and the Beast. A night could change everything. Consume a cold heart in heat… Open a heart that has been closed… Intertwine two lives for a lifetime…and beyond. The only thing Reno Sundown has ever known is pain. How to take it and how to use it. He was created that way and once his purpose was done, he was locked away. Never had he known good, laughter, love until he met her. Emma Devenmore has always focused on one thing, family. The eldest of her sisters, she has made life centered on protection. Protecting her family and doing her job of protecting others. A love story was never in her plans, until she met him. By chance, their paths cross and both were forever changed. A Beauty left yearning for a Beast, who had opened her up to something she had never dreamed of. A Beast left wanting for a Beauty, who had unlocked emotions he never knew possible, and never was supposed to know existed. Once paths are crossed, can they ever be uncrossed? Once they are crossed, are they destined to grow together? Or can they only be consumed by complete Madness?
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#1.5

Bounce

2014

A God with a destiny and power to save us all. Shame he can't remember that. Bounce is complicated and simple at the same time. As the leader of The Grid and the former General of the legions of Hell, he simply wants to run his nightclub, have a nap and eat a pizza while it's hot. As long as it doesn't come with pineapple. But there is more to the man than anyone knows. And this is his story. A fate. A love. A loss. A history he doesn't know nor is allowed to. A destiny key to mankind's existence without a clue how. Greek gods, Heaven and Hell tossed into the mix. Is there a word more complicated than complicated? This is the story of Bounce and it's so much more than that.
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#2

Lust

2015

"With no timid strokes on her canvas, Ms. Ward may become the new standard to beat in the paranormal romantic intrigue genre. The detail to each scene, the sights, the sounds, the smells of sweat and fear, it’s all here, page after page..." - Tome Tender Book Review The Second Book in the Wildly Popular Shadow-Keepers Series! THE INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW KEEPER - MCKENZIE MILLER Welcome back to the world of the Grid. Where heroes and eaters of souls walk among us. Where a war rages and the price is mankind—its existence or its loss. Can a heart that is walled away be allowed to love or trust and find its beat in one that needs someone to save it? A heartbeat that destiny denied but death can give? McKenzie Miller had never needed anyone. Not since she lost both her parents to a crime of passion at a young age. Shuffled from foster home to foster home, Kenzie finally took control of her own life and lived on the streets. Now she's an adult and has a hard-wired survivalist core to never be used or abused again. She's strong and no one will ever hurt her—because she will never let someone inside the one part of her that can still feel—her heart. Lana had everything that her parent's money could buy and until they lost it all in the economy crash, the young ballet dancer had a bright future with the San Francisco Ballet Company. Now she struggles to reach for her dream and still survive. And do so, alone. Until one night... What Dark Power Makes YOUR Heart Beat? Have no fear Twiz Keeper fans, there is also plenty of your favorite Candyman, Reno Sundown and his witch, Emma. As well as BOUNCE and of course, Lucifer. And twists? Oh there is ALWAYS twists with a Ward book. Shadow-Keepers Reading Order: E-Novella - CANDYMAN MADNESS: Book One of the Shadow-Keepers Series E-Novella - BOUNCE LUST: Book Two of the Shadow-Keepers Series
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#3

Cowboy

2016

Welcome Back to The Grid Jess William Bailey has a history of being a very bad man. But that was the past—now he’s the most brutal of the bad-asses as leader of the Wires—the toughest and deadliest warriors on The Grid. He makes no excuses, feels no guilt for what he has to do and keeps both at bay with women, drink and violence. But his time is quickly running out and Jess has a solitary goal to make sure he leaves at least one good thing behind—his daughter, Sophia. A child that has been raised by the woman he still loves, Emma and the man that used to be the former dark-side of his split personality, Reno Sundown. The last thing Jess has time for with his collapsing time frame is the beautiful, tough San Fran police detective, Beth Daniels getting in his way. Beth has always been the one to handle everything that came her family’s way and all she has left is her mother who isn’t able to take life’s hard hits. Beth has worked obsessively in the police department to become one of the toughest detectives with a high crime solution rate. But there’s a serial killer in San Francisco and the city’s women are the targets for the cold-hearted murders. She thought she found the psycho doing the deed. But Jess William Bailey is a whole different brand of killer—one she’s told to stay away from. Which she would be glad to do—if somehow she could. The Cowboy is totally country. The Cop is completely rock-n-roll. Can their two very different beats combine to form a heartbeat of a lasting kind? And can it survive when Hell wants to kill the song? From best-selling author Jas T. Ward, comes the newest Story from the Grid of the Shadow-Keepers Series: COWBOY COMING SOON SPRING 2016
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#4

Murder

2019

Welcome Back to the World of The Grid. Where heroic bad-asses looking for a second chance fight a war among us in the shadows. Marcus De Monte was born in Hell, both literally and figuratively. Birthed by a demon, sired by a human and considered a failure from the moment he took his first breath. Nothing more than fuel for the Hell fires. Allowed to live by Lucifer himself, he became determined to reach the top of the food chain by becoming an elite assassin in the Dark Lord’s army. After reaching that bloody, hard-won goal he chose a path not ordered by Hell—one leading to love. But that love became doomed the moment it bloomed. Fueled by rage of its loss, his payment was the shameful duty of bodyguard to the Keeper of Madness – Reno Sundown and his family. But denied destiny has fatal consequences. The one chance Marcus had of being reunited with the one he loved vaporized. But destiny has a way of masking itself until its time, and Marcus is no exception. Will the newest Keeper find his heartbeat, even when it beats quietly from the past? Or has Hell played the ultimate trick on Marcus… and the past to burn love to ash once more? And the dark power of Murder has a new host, and it has its own scores to settle.
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#5

Envy

2020

What happens with innocence and a dark power are combined to make a Keeper? Jade Shen only wanted to read books. When her rich, powerful parents die in a plane crash, she's left to be raised by a ruthless cold grandmother. Jade did not want to be noticed. But envy runs deep in high school. And it got the attention of the dark power that thrives on it. So much so it Jade would never see her nineteenth birthday. Tyrus DeMonte is well versed in the world of the Keepers. He is the son of the Keeper of Murder. So when The Grid is alarmed by the existence of a new Keeper it was business as usual. Until he first sees the shy, quiet girl who hosts the newest dark power. Everything has changed. Can he?

Author

Jas T. Ward
Jas T. Ward
Author · 15 books

About the Author Born and raised in Texas, Ward is a mixed bag of creativity spinning tales of paranormal, urban fantasy and even dark romance and horror; wrapped within a love story. She’s been dared by her readers to write a few contemporary romances but even those reads have characters that are real and twisted by their creator. It did, however, spawn her romance tag line: Romance - The Ward Way. Mother of three diverse and independent bold children, Ward prides herself for being the “Queen Niche’ Bitch” which is a handy way of saying she sucks writing to market. But her readers don’t seem to mind. Ward can be contacted via: Facebook: www.facebook.com/AuthorJasTWard Website: http://authorjastward.com Email: Hello@authorjastward.com

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