Department 57
A letter from Cristos, the head
of Department 57
To all Talents;
My name is Cristos, and I work for the CIA, or more precisely, I run a research department called Department 57.
Or at least, that's what the world thinks.
But since I know I'm talking to the initiated, I can tell you th.at Department 57 is devoted to Talents.
Vampires, shape-shifters, anthros, Sorcerers and anyone else who feels different, Talented, this department is where you should be. We stay very deep undercover, since the Company doesn't yet feel it can acknowledge us, and we're linked to other departments worldwide.
We're looking for the enemies of our kind. Since our enemies have turned to violence, the struggle has become more difficult.
If you're missing a friend, if you can't find out where he or she has gone, one of these organizations might have taken them. We need to know. Contact us, any way you can. We have websites. Vampires, you know the network you have. You can reach us through that. Shape-shifters, I know you prefer to keep to your own kind, but this isn't the time to stay aloof. We need you, all of you, to fight the growing menace of hatred and ignorance.
Most Talents don't work as fully fledged agents, they work on a temporary basis as consultants. We know most of you have your own lives, and you can't devote all your time to us, but if we're to win this struggle, we need your help. The very survival of differently Talented humans is at stake. These people want to destroy us. Fear, ignorance, or the human urge to dominate - who knows their reasons?
While we can't yet show ourselves, some people in authority know, and they're helping us. Some are not. If we're to win the war - and don't kid yourselves, this is a war - we have to fight back.
LooseId is releasing a series of case studies, detailing individual fights against our would-be destroyers. They will be disguised as fiction, but don't be fooled - each story is real, each experience happened. If you don't believe the threat we're facing, believe that.
Buy the books, follow the clues and find us. Help us.
Now. Before it's too late.
 Deputy Director of the
CIA, Cristos is the key to the Department, the reason
it exists and the conduit between the Talents there, and
the rest of the CIA. Because of Cristos, the CIA and the
Government doesn't quite know what it has, and he Talents
have access to the official records that they need in
order to keep their gifts secret.
So here is the story of
Cristos, and how the Department came into being.
In the 1970's, a CIA operative
who prefers to be called Cristos brought accounts of a
secret department of the KGB back home. The department
was looking into Psi abilities like telepathy and telekinesis
with the idea of equipping its agents in the field with
the superior weapons mental abilities could provide.
The US government decided that what the KGB had, the CIA
had to have, too. So they put Cristos in charge of the
new department, known as Department Fifty-Seven, because
it was housed in an unused office in Fifty-Seventh Street
in New York, well away from CIA headquarters in Virginia.
No way did the CIA want to advertise its new experiments
and be exposed as cranks. But they wanted to know and
they wanted to keep up with the Soviets.
Cristos conducted a number of experiments which didn't
seem to work very well. When he discovered people with
abilities, they were unreliable, sometimes depending on
particular conditions to work properly. The CIA concluded
that Psi abilities, if they even existed, weren't useful
as weapons in the Cold War. However, Cristos was also
running a department developing sophisticated communication
devices. It was hoped that Psi abilities could be enhanced
by subcutaneous devices, and experiments on this, and
other, more mundane but very useful devices, were ongoing.
At least, that was what the world outside the Department
thought.
In reality, Cristos used the Department as cover. Very
few people knew that the experiments resulted not only
in success, but in the development of very special operatives.
Known in the Department as Talents, these people seemed
perfectly ordinary agents and consultants, but they were
far from that. Sorcerers, shapeshifters, vampires and
anthros all had lives out of the ordinary, some living
for many more years than the human lifespan. They had
long ago decided to live anonymously in human society,
and to pass unnoticed in the modern world, they needed
papers, authentic records of life after life. Some kept
it in the family, inventing fictitious children for the
time when they would have to move on to another life.
Some moved from life to life, leaving nothing behind them.
In order to do this smoothly, they needed records, as
official as possible. The Department provided them, and
in return, the Talents provided their unique abilities
for specific assignments.
Sadly, there were people who, once they had become aware
of the existence of beings that were different, decided
to either eliminate them or experiment on them.
After several brutal killings of citizens, US and overseas,
the FBI and CIA were forced to take action. While the
authorities assumed the PHR was a fanatical organization
and their targets were 'ordinary' people, Cristos knew
better. So did the Talents. He made it his business to
track and counter the organization, and recruited Talents
to help him.
Most Talents have consistently refused to become agents.
They have their own agenda. Through many centuries they
have refused to 'come out' but the modern era, with its
surveillance equipment and lengthy paperwork has its own
challenges. While Talents try to be law abiding citizens,
they do have another loyalty; to their families and their
communities, and to protect each other. They will co-operate
with Cristos, the CIA and the other security organizations,
but only up to a point.
Affiliated Departments
The Department in London
is headed by a man called Will Grady.
Grady is as mysterious as Cristos, and suspected to be
the same kind of Talent, although no one knows exactly
what that is. He is built like a bear, tall, powerful,
with big hands that can be surprisingly gentle when he
wishes. He has jet black hair and the same steely, silver-gray
eyes that distinguish Cristos. In London, Department 57
is part of MI6, its headquarters in the central MI6 building
on the Thames, disguised as a research library.
In Paris, the Department
is affiliated to Interpol, but its headquarters are in
a fashion house. Jasper Lebec, the head of the Lebec fashion
empire, heads the Department from his head office on the
Champs Elysees. Lebec is a fashion designer, but his company
also makes perfume, accessories and jewelry. He is known
to be fabulously rich and notoriously secretive about
his private life. He has long, black hair, usually fastened
back, light silver-gray eyes and is taller and leaner
than Cristos.
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Topaz Delirium
Someone is killing vampires with a new drug and the only people who can discover the source are Svetlana Yevchenko, top model and Jasper, head and chief designer of the House of Lebec and the head of Dept 57 in France.
Svetlana wants Jasper, and he wants her. But they can never give in because Jasper is cursed and through all the lives he remembers no woman has survived the curse. An affair might weaken their attraction to each other – or it might strengthen it.
Svetlana is the greatest temptation Jasper has ever tried to resist but their relationship can never be more than sex. As the latest Dept 57 assignment throws them together, their resistance weakens to the point of total, steaming breakdown. The more they fight the attraction, the deeper it gets.
But when the assignment is over they must face their fate. Again.
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Liquid Crystal
When an unsuspected enemy rises up to threaten Crystal's life, her old friends, Bryn and Kai, rescue her from a nearly fatal plunge into the Thames. Later, they share a bed, and their bodies. The passion they wake in each other is as incredible as it is inevitable.
But Bryn and Kai have a secret. They are mermen. Crys is intrigued, so they introduce her to the pleasures of underwater loving, and the passion they release steams up the water.
Yet their enemy still chases them, and they'll have to defeat him before they can give in to love's demand.
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Crystal Captive
Nicole is a gossip columnist. All she wants is a good story, but when she confronts Dominici Serafino at his luxury Italian villa, she get far more than that. An afternoon of sizzling passion leads to danger when they are kidnapped by an organization intent on revealing Dominici as a shape-shifting dragon. And he is, he really is that mythical creature, who sometimes shape-shifts during sex. Their captors want Dominici and Nicole to perform for the cameras. And that makes Nicole wet even to think about. What's wrong with her?
And what's a dragon to do? Dominici finds sex with the gorgeous erstwhile journalist turning to something far more intense. He has to protect Nicole from their enemies, and he doesn't even know if he can trust her. In a position that gives him access to juicy stories from the world's most talked-about celebrities, he needs to keep their secrets and his own if he wants to survive.
Despite the danger, he still wants her, any way, every day. For keeps. |
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Crystal Tides
Kai decides to forget about love-until he meets sexy merman Tyler Walters and his wife Zoe. Kai's hot tub heats up to steaming when the three share it, but Kai doesn't want another fleeting relationship. This time he wants them for keeps.
Zoe isn't sure that she can commit to two men at once but when danger threatens her underwater archaeological investigation she needs them both to protect her. Even that isn't enough when their old enemy Geoff Wilkinson resurfaces, ready to kill them all if he has to.
Tyler and Zoe have spent years running from the enemy who has tried to kill them and failed. Now it's time to turn and fight.
But can they trust their new lover, Kai, or does Kai's agenda make him a doubtful ally?
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Bloody Crystal
Cerys is happy working in the bar in her hometown of Llandudno, Wales. Nobody knows her secret until she meets dark, brooding Rhodri Tryfanwy. He knows her at once, because he’s like her. Vampire.
Rhodri sees the ethereal Cerys as everything he’s ever wanted. Light to his darkness, he takes her and she responds. Long nights of passion give him the hope he’d almost given up on finding. But events move too fast, and Rhodri has to return to the dangerous, violent world of Department 57. His old adversary, Geoffrey Wilkinson, gives him no choice.
Thrown into a new world, Cerys is forced to leave everything she knows behind to search for him. She is Rhodri’s only chance. Without her help, he’ll be taken apart, piece by piece, and sold to people who will exploit what he is to make money and take power they’re not entitled to.
Without her love, he is dead. Without his love, she will want to die. Only together can they hope to survive. |
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The Chemistry of Evil
Sophie Adams is engaged, but the second she sees sexy Evan Howell, she wants him. When her fiancé dumps her, Evan is there to catch her. And show her a passion she’d never dreamed of before, drawn from his dark experiments into sexual magick, a magick that has driven more than one man insane. Enthralled by the new world Evan introduces her to, Sophie wants more.
Evil follows them across the Atlantic. From Arthurian Cornwall to New York, Mordred, cursed son of King Arthur, stretches his evil influence to encompass Sophie, Evan and everyone they love. Evan has already lost his sister to Mordred and his supporters—he refuses to lose Sophie, too.
Evan, ex-convict hacker turned CIA computer genius for Department 57, explores the dark side of life. It will take all his skill to save Sophie from the danger threatening to take her over, body and soul. All his skill—in the bedroom as well as out of it. |
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Treasure Laid Bare (previously Eternal Beauty, Eternal Darkness)
If Sorcerer Garon Rothwell has sex, he loses his powers--and also the rigid control he has over his life. But when he meets bookstore owner and ex-army intelligence officer Tara Carlisle, he desperately wants to give in to the passion she evokes in him. But he's stopped by his own fears and a woman four hundred years dead.
Tara wants Garon, too, but until they catch the evil stalking her little town, she can't give in to the desire she knows they both feel. The frustration is killing her...
But Erzsébet Báthory murdered over six hundred women the last time she walked the earth. Now Tara has inadvertently brought her back, and if they don't stop her, she might just beat that record.
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Jewel of the Dragon
Dev Wyvern is Welsh, tall, dark and sexy as sin.
He's also a shapeshifter. When he walks into Alix
Lancaster's jewelry shop she knows her brother,
Clay, is setting a trap for him. Clay is a member
of the PHR, sworn enemies of all Talents. So does
Alix betray her brother by warning Dev, or let
him walk into a lethal snare?
Dev is drawn to Alix like few other women. But
can he trust her? Sent by the enigmatic Cristos,
the boss of Department 57, to expose a PHR cell,
he finds love and danger waiting for him. He takes
both of them on, and has to make a choice; will
she forgive him if he destroys the brother of
the woman he loves?
Will they get out alive?
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Griffin's Treasure
International soccer star Josh Friedland has a secret.
He's a griffin shapeshifter, and a covert operative for Department 57.
Josh's brother Laurie is missing, and Josh is sure businessman George
Skeffington is involved.
So he can't trust Skeffington's stepdaughter, Chana Rafiz, even though he wants her with every cell in his body.
When her controlling stepfather asks Chana to look after
his guest, she suspects another trick to keep her by his side. Only to
find that Josh is the man she's been waiting for all her life.
Long, hot Californian nights see their bodies twined in
more inventive positions than Chana knew existed, but when she finally
discovers his secret, she uncovers one of her own. One she doesn’t even
know about herself.
Together, Josh and Chana have to face dangers only
Department 57 can help them with, only to plunge the whole Department
into peril. If Cristos and the Department are to endure, Josh and Chana
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Rubies of Fire
Vampire and full-time field agent for the CIA, Andreas’s only loyalty is his job with Department 57. Until he sets eyes on sexy Roz Templeton. Posing as the office wolf, Andreas is beginning to hate this assignment. He hates it even more when he realizes Roz is another vampire.
When Roz discovers who killed two members of her family, the culprit will die. Andreas is a distraction. She can’t understand why she’s drawn to him—he’s a sleaze.
But they can’t resist. Drawn into a passion neither can fight, they set fire to the night, and then some. For a young vampire, Andreas is fully versed on how to keep a woman happy in bed, even one that is centuries older than he is, and as dominant and demanding as any man. From their first steamy kiss in the elevator on the way to work to bed and beyond, Andreas and Roz can’t get enough of each other.
When danger strikes, Roz’s life is on the line and only the trust and the passion they've found in each other can save her.
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The Original Order of the Dept 57 Books
You don't have to buy the books in any order, unless indicated they're designed to be read alone, but if you want to, this is the order they were written in:
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