Raphael, the Vampire Lord of the West, has been making moves and setting up allies across the North American continent for years in anticipation of the coming fight with the European vampires he left behind in the Old World. In a last-ditch effort to avoid a costly war, Raphael agrees to meet with one of those vampires from his past claiming to want peace. Despite Cyn’s misgivings, Raphael believes he is powerful enough to handle whatever his enemies throw at him. Read More »

Lila Merriweather has been on her own since her mother was brutally murdered. Working for her mother’s friend, Mo, as a thief gives her everything that she needs to survive. Life in Cloudburst Falls has its challenges, though. Avoiding the monsters that lurk in the alleys is not even the greatest danger. Far more dangerous are the families, and getting caught up in their war is what Lila wants to avoid at all costs, as that is exactly what got her mother killed. Read More »

Niko and Cal Leandros are two awesome kick-ass brothers. With their good friend, Robin Goodfellow, at their side, one would think there was nothing they could not overcome. Robin is a Puck, Niko is human but with the fighting skills of a hundred lifetimes lived, and Cal is part human and part Auphe (think dark demented psychotic elf times a thousand wrapped up in one creature-in other words, a monster). Read More »

Nate Garrett, a powerful sorcerer known as Hellequin, is back in the fourth addition to this action-packed series. Nate has been given the task to capture Pandora each time she escapes from her prison. Even after many thousands of years after her creation, Pandora still has a beef with the Greek gods who brought her into existence. The story jumps between modern day and 1936, telling the story of the last time Pandora escaped, an event that almost lead to the deaths of many at the Berlin Olympics. It is a good thing that Nate was there to fight, along with a few friends and allies. Read More »

When Bryn returned home from the Army, little did she know that working in a funeral home was going to cause more damage to her than fighting in combat. Bryn becomes a test subject in a project involving a death-defying drug. In the third book in the Revivalist series, Bryn is trying to forget the horrors of being tortured by her boyfriend’s ex-wife while trying to take down the parties responsible for Returne. Read More »

Just as its predecessor did, Grave Matters, the excellent second installment in the engrossing Night Owls series, grabs attention from its opening scene. Elly, still getting used to living with her not-exactly-legally-adoptive brother, Cavale, gets a visit from a young girl who lives down the street. Cinda explains that a ghost has been haunting she and her father, and she wants to hire Elly and Cavale to get rid of it. Intrigued by the girl’s story, Elly agrees to help her, and upon arriving at the house, has to deal with an unusual ghost in the basement, one with a sigil she does not recognize drawn on his skin. After dispatching the ghost, Elly picks up some of the ectoplasm for Cavale to analyze. Read More »

Peace and order in Mollisan Town is watched over by Superintendent Larry Bloodhound and his law enforcement officers. The crimes run the ordinary gamut of petty thefts, gambling and nefarious nighttime activities of its good daytime citizenry. Murder is exceedingly rare, because frankly, it is almost impossible to murder anyone. All the citizens are stuffed animals and the most heinous of injuries can be repaired with needle and thread. Read More »

Cassandra Farbanks has issues. Of course, she has had issues since she reached adulthood and every night was unwillingly transported to an alternate world where magic is commonplace and which is populated by vampires and other creatures of myth. It was clear that a normal life was not going to be in the cards for her, so she accommodated her new reality by learning all she could. Read More »

After the tragic death of a friend, investigative reporter Sidonie Reid is determined to deal a large blow to the human trafficking ring centered in Chicago. Despite her reporting and even calling in family favors, the police show no interest in helping Sidonie. Her research has led her to those responsible and they are some seriously nasty vampires. Sidonie decides the only way to get justice for her friend and put an end to the syndicate is to get in touch with the vampire in charge. Read More »

When Harley Grimes, the man responsible for Sophia Deveraux’s ruined voice, comes back into town to reclaim the dwarf who escaped him so many years ago, he does not realize that hurting those who belong to the Spider is not good for your health. Desperate to save Sophia, Gin will go to extreme lengths to stop Grimes and all those who are helping him. The problem is Grimes is not a foe to be underestimated, and Gin may have bitten off more than even she can handle. Read More »

A boys’ night on the town quickly turns into something a bit more dangerous when your ex happens to be the most infamous assassin in Ashland. Owen Grayson, still nursing a broken heart over the state of his relationship with Gin Blanco, cannot figure out how to apologize and make things right between he and Gin. Read More »

*This review may contain spoilers from previous novels in the series.

In a valiant effort to perk up assassin extraordinaire The Spider, aka Gin Blanco, her foster brother Finn Lane has convinced Gin to attend an exclusive gala at the Briartop museum, where all of the late and unlamented Mab Monroe’s estate treasure will be displayed. Gin is still hurting from the fallout of Widow’s Web and Owen’s rejection, and this gala is all part of Finn’s plan to push the two together to talk things out. Sadly, this is Ashland and nothing is ever simple. Gin even has to step in when a robbery takes place while she and Finn are shopping for a dress, but at least she realizes that red is her color. Read More »

Jane Yellowrock may finally be up against a foe she cannot beat. Son of Darkness, the monster that Leo Pellissier had chained up in his basement, has escaped and is wreaking havoc in New Orleans. The humans of the city are ready to gather their pitchforks and torches, the witches are making their own moves, and the European contingent of vampires have gone Read More »

After getting the supernaturals to agree to a truce, Jessica’s brother is kidnapped by the Prince of Hell and Jessica knows she has to go after him. The problem? How to deal with the realm itself, where all the rules of Earth mean nothing. When she is accidentally pulled into Hell before she is ready, without her companions, Jessica must act quickly to figure out how to stay safe and yet get to her brother as fast as she can. What she does not expect is what she finds along the way. Read More »

Her mother’s mantra was “never need a man….just let him be icing on the cake.” After her father’s affair, Ryann and her Mom move back in with her Grandma at her house in the woods. Maybe it is the bitterness in the air but Ryann finds herself only going out with safe, boring guys or not going out at all. Truth be told, she prefers spending her time alone on their secluded private property until, one day, she realizes she is not alone. Read More »

Twig has a big secret hidden in her attic. She lives isolated from the real world, unnoticed, like a twig. She can never have friends over to her house and has begun to believe that no one would ever want to be her friend, anyway. Her life feels like a painting that is only made up of shades of grey. Read More »

Urban Green Man: An Archetype of Renewal is a collection of short stories and poems centered on the folklore character The Green Man. According to the introduction by Charles De Lint, the Green Man goes by many names in urban myth, and may be mischievous, gentle, or dangerous in his efforts to protect nature and reclaim what was once the domain of Gaia. Read More »

After all the excitment that Ethan and Merit have been through, they decide to go on vacation. How much trouble can they get into in Colorado? Unsurprisingly for these two, more than enough. The murder of their host occurs and of course his wife is suspected. Throw in a vampire/shifter feud and the plot thickens. Read More »

Merit is still adjusting to life as a vampire, but fortunately, it has not kept her from her love of food, and it does not hurt that she is seeing the sexy master of Cadogan House. But, when Ethan Sullivan’s maker shows up in Chicago, they will need to pull out all stops to protect the house and their vampires. Read More »

Burn for Me, the exciting first installment in the Hidden Legacy series, hits the ground running, pulling the reader in to a fascinating world where magic means power-personal, political, and financial. In 1863, a serum was developed that enabled people to tap into their innate magical abilities, and despite the serum eventually being hidden away due the recognition of the dangerous individuals and situations it was creating, along with the potential for even more, the damage had been done. Now hereditary, magic creates dynasties which form Houses, wielding their power and wealth over those not so fortunate. Read More »