Brandon is struggling to deal with the aftermath of a car accident that left his girlfriend dead. Though he had broken up with her minutes before the crash and did not even like her all that much, he never wished her dead. Worst of all is the way his parents are acting, as though they wish he had been the one to die. Before the accident, they tolerated him. Now, it seems just the sight of him sickens them. There is no one Brandon can talk to except for the beautiful statue of the girl that stands in the cemetery. Inexplicably drawn to her, this is the only place that Brandon finds comfort. Read More »

Hope Carmichael is finally going to get a chance to be a normal teenager. After surviving a horrific childhood abduction that changed her father into a hyper-vigilant, obsessively overprotective nightmare and resulted in the demise of her parents’ marriage, Hope has requested that she be allowed to move away from her father and back in with her mother. Suddenly, for the first time in her life, she has freedom. No one at her new high school knows about her past or the creepy mark that appeared on the back of her neck after her abduction-a mark that looks like a tattoo but has proven impossible to remove. Read More »

Ava Trumble has always wanted to own the family mansion, and after her Aunt Lois’ death, she is left the house-–with one stipulation. Ava has to discover what had happened to Sarah Kerrick two hundred years earlier, and present the evidence to her attorney. If she fails to provide the proper verification, the house will go to the historical society. Ava will do almost anything to prevent that, so she calls a national television show and requests they investigate the house to help her solve the mystery. Read More »

Leaving Boston and moving to Savannah, her deceased brother’s favorite city, was a way for Brianna McNeil to start her life over. She found a beautiful house for rent in the historic district, and was concerned on her first night in the house when lights began to flicker on and off. Brianna had a special gift of communication with those who had passed on, and she was not sure if faulty wiring or someone wanting to contact her was the reason for the flickering lights. After checking the house with a butcher knife clutched firmly in her hand, she discovered a black pile of ashes in the bedroom closet. Read More »

Vampire Syndrome by Daven Anderson is the story of Jack Wendell, a young man with Down Syndrome who is bitten by a rabid vampire. With this bite, Jack is yanked out of his comfortable world and thrown into the battle between human vampires and the alien vampire species known as Pures. The human vampires scoff at the way popular fiction portrays them, since they are not the undead, they can eat anything they want, and they cannot fly or levitate. They do, however, have superhuman Read More »

The tremendous Things Half in Shadow grabs the reader with its very first sentence, refusing to let go for the duration of the novel. Our narrator, journalist Edward Clark, begins by describing his visit to the scene of a dead young woman, called there by his friend, Inspector Barclay, in the hopes that Edward will print the story with a photo which will lead to identifying the woman. This effort becomes unnecessary when the dead woman’s mother and sister arrive at the scene, with the mother’s surprising news that her daughter’s ghost appeared to her, stating that she was dead. Read More »

Darius Dachien, head of security for the Crown Jewel casino in Las Vegas, took his job of protecting the casino and its guests very seriously. Crown Jewel, a one-of-a-kind dragon sanctuary, had both dragons and humans on the payroll, though the dragons kept their shifter talents hidden. Darius, an ice dragon, was in the King’s inner court, and as such was well-respected by the others at Crown Jewel. His dragon powers were waning, however, all because of a prolonged separation from his chosen mate. Read More »

Detective Oliver Tucker was a good cop, always determined to solve the case and get justice for those who were wronged. After his death, he continued on, as a ghost, helping his partner, Bear Braddock, solve cases and protecting his wife, Angel, to the best of his ability. Angel, formally Dr. Angela Hill-Tucker, was a history professor who had sponsored a black-tie charity fundraiser, and Tuck dropped in to see how it was going. Noticing a man across the room, dressed in the style of a 1930’s gangster, Tuck became suspicious when the gangster headed in the direction of Angel’s table. As Angel danced with one of her guests, he tried to catch up to his wife, who was also dancing, but before he could, he was shot and killed. Read More »

Charma attempted to calm her breathing and focus her energies in order to defeat the dark forces she felt threatening their sanctuary. Her talent as a healer was enhanced by her compassion, and she wanted to help everyone she came into contact with. Her sister and friend, Marina, swept into the room, interrupting the energy flow, excited about locating another missing Outsider. Read More »

The Naremore family had decided to leave London and find a beautiful spot in the country, where they would be away from the city’s influences. Parents Steven and Kirsty, and their children, Jordan and Tim, quickly rejected the first two places, but they all fell in love with the next one, called The Hollow. It was a large house, with twin towers, an apple orchard, and a moat surrounding the property. The house seemed welcoming, almost loving, and the Naremores quickly fell under its spell. Read More »

After working a disturbing and emotional missing person’s case that destroys her marriage, psychic Mira Tejedor is relieved to be asked to help with a boy who has stopped talking. Anthony Faircloth has not spoken in over a month, and doctors can find nothing wrong with him but his condition is worsening. Anthony’s mother decides that maybe Mira can help where doctors have failed. On her first meeting with Anthony, Mira finds herself actually inside Anthony’s mind, something that has never happened to her before. Read More »

Bloodwitch, the engrossing first installment in the Maeve’ra series, opens with shapeshifter Vance Ehecatl, sitting (in his quetzal form) very still for a painting being done by the vampire Lady Brina. When the artist takes a break, Vance changes back to human and does some of his chores around the greenhouse. Vance gets a big surprise when his trainer, Taro, arrives with Mistress Jeshickah, the vampire leader of the town of Midnight, and Vance’s benefactor, having taken him in as a child when he was abandoned by his parents. Feeling alternately elated and overwhelmed when coming face-to-face with the powerful woman, fourteen-year-old Vance somehow acquits himself well, and learns two things: Lady Brina had been talking about him in the marketplace, and somewhere in Midnight lives another quetzal shifter. Read More »

A twentieth birthday is the perfect occasion for two friends to go out on the town for dancing and raising a little hell. As Genevieve Drake will discover by night’s end, “raising a little hell” is more than a casual phrase, and in her case, will define the rest of her life. This discovery comes when she is saved by the hottest looking hunk of man she has ever seen, and watches him pull a demon out of the creepy guy who tried to kill her. Read More »

Nickie Nick is reeling from a tragic loss. It is the worst pain she has ever felt in her seventeen years, and it has put her out of commission for a month. Her street friends stop by to check on her, but she just cannot get out of bed. Her governess, Fanny, is about at wit’s end. She finally threatens to tell Nickie’s parents that she roams the streets at night fighting vampires if Nickie will not get up and start to live again. Fanny’s own story of past loss helps Nickie realize her life is not over and she agrees to visit her friends. Read More »

O. M. Grey’s The Zombies of Mesmer,

Nicole Knickerbocker Hawthorn or Nickie Nick, barely makes it home on time for her Debutante ball. She’s been out with the homeless children who she considers her friends. They have nobody else to care for them so she takes it upon herself to see they are fed and warm. This would cause quite the scandal if society found out. The only one who knows is Nickie’s governess Fanny. Fanny is the one who got her the boy’s clothes that she hides behind when she goes out. Read More »

Arthur Tudor was once a king of England. Being a vampire for a few hundred years has made him a jaded individual, always looking for a way to rekindle the love he once had with Catherine but never finding it. He thought of women as things to be used and abused. Victorian England also sets the pace on how women are treated. Read More »

Melissa Overton was a JAG agent dedicated to her mission of stopping poachers from stealing and reselling large cats, like pumas, ocelots, and jaguars. Melissa took this very personally, being a jaguar shifter, but her boyfriend, an insurance agent, felt she was using her traveling as an excuse to be apart. On a mission with fellow JAG agent Huntley Anderson, chasing a prolific poacher named Tim Jackson, Melissa was stunned when she returned to their tent to find Huntley asleep with twin jaguar cubs on his stomach. Read More »

It has been years since Akasha tried to destroy the vampire nation descended from her, but was thwarted by Lestat, the other vampires of the Coven of the Articulate, and the ancient twins, Maharet and Mekare. Now, a new Voice is rousing old vampires from their sleep, pushing them to destroy the younger generations the world over. Read More »

The Underworld of the Celtic Gods is a cold, emotionless place. Once they freely roamed the Earth, taking their pleasures and exercising their powers with wild abandon. However, now they are confined to their Underworld, tied by their own laws and living in a state of cold perfection. For one who had once been mortal, the world of the Gods feels more like a prison and after two thousand years of such imprisonment, Ana, Celtic Goddess of War, is willing to risk everything to escape it and return to the world of the mortals. In order to do so, though, she has to enlist the help of the very man whose life she took to attain Godhood. Read More »

Jane Seyton was inexplicably drawn to Stormclyffe Hall when she saw a picture of it while working on research for her dissertation. After writing numerous letters to the Earl, she was finally allowed to visit, but was told to wait until renovations were completed. Taking matters into her own hands, Jane waited four months, and then booked a flight, eager to tour Stormclyffe Hall and learn all she could about the curse that haunted the Carlisle family. Read More »