The Witches of Echo Park, first in an intriguing new series, grabs the reader’s attention with its first sentence. Lyse MacCallister does not react well to the news that her great-aunt, Eleanora, has terminal cancer. The shock results in an evening of drinking, and the snap decision to buy a plane ticket from her home in Athens, Georgia to Echo Park, California, in the Los Angeles area. Once her plane lands, Lyse feels pleasantly surprised to find Eleanora waiting for her at the airport, especially as she had not told her great-aunt she was coming at that time. Read More »

M.M. Monroe has finally arrived in Ashland, and Gin Blanco is stuck waiting. Sure that the new Monroe in town has it out for her, but unsure of how the attack will come, Gin goes about her life as usual, all while keeping tabs on M.M. When the attack comes, it is out of left field. M.M. will prove to be a difficult adversary, one who plans and covers all the angles. Gin is not the only target and M.M. may finally be able to do what no one has-take down the Spider. Read More »

Alix, aka Owl, is an international antiquities thief who recently completed a job for Mr. Kurosawa. Thinking the job done, she is planning a weekend of online game playing and beer drinking. This gets interrupted by Oricho, one of Mr. Kurosawa’s assistants, who insists she must fly to Vegas to face a very upset Kurosawa. One of Owl’s rules is she never meets any client face to face. She likes to keep a low profile, especially with the supernatural world. Read More »

Fledgling Geekomancer Ree Reyes has had a strange year. In addition to finding out that she is a Geekomancer (a sort of wizard that can harness the magic of pop culture), getting clued into the underground world of magic in her home of Pearson, and discovering the truth of her mother, Ree also sold her first screenplay. Read More »

Despite her blond hair and blue-eyes, Beka Yancey is a Baba Yaga- a powerful witch from Russian folklore, rumored to be an old hag who eats children and lives in a hut that moves through the woods on chicken legs. In reality, Beka is currently one of three Babas in the United States whose job entails keeping the balance in nature, guarding the doors to the Otherworld, and occasionally helping out a chosen few who know how to seek them out. Read More »

Intrepid ghost heroine, Jensen, returns in Another One Bites the Dust, book two in the highly original Jensen Murphy, Ghost for Hire series. Picking up a few weeks after the events of book one, Jensen and her ghost friends, along with still-alive psychic Amanda Lee, attempt to make the best of their situation: realizing that even though they uncovered a killer, a dark spirit of some sort was released through a portal in the process. As a result, not only do they have the dark spirit to contend with, but also the ire of Wendy, the young woman (able to see and speak with ghosts) upset with Jensen for having gone inside the head of her older brother, Gavin, numerous times to determine whether or not he was the murderer of Amanda Lee’s lover (he was not). Read More »

Charlotte “Charley” Davidson, part-time private investigator and full-time grim reaper, is back for Seventh Grave and No Body, the next in Darynda Jones’ sassy Grave series.

In this seventh installment, Charley investigates a string of seemingly unconnected suicides. Her investigation is hampered by the threat of a pack of slavering hellhounds sent by Satan himself to rip the reaper to shreds. Not even Reyes, her steamy fiancée (who is, coincidentally, the Son of Satan) knows how to fight the dozen demon dogs. Read More »

In the sixth novel in the Connor Grey series, Mark Del Franco takes the reader deeper into the escalating situation between the Elves and the Faerie contingents, and now things are right on the brink of war. Disabled druid, Connor, always seems to make more enemies than friends, including the Murdocks-with the exception of Leo Murdock, Connor’s steadfast friend in the Boston Police Department Homicide division. Connor is wanted by the authorities in the aftermath of the Guildhouse’s destruction and the death of the Elven King, even though he actually saved lives in the situation. Read More »

Jackson Pastor is between a hard place and well, a hard place. As a former Special Forces operator and now working for “Kidnap and Recuse,” there isn’t much he hasn’t seen or done, but nothing could prepare him for getting his throat ripped out and waking up as a Maran – a vampire. And as he discovered, Maran are born, not made. As it turned out, there was a lot of things he hadn’t known when he thought he was human! He has a mentor whose teaching style is akin to throwing someone in the deep end of the pool to learn to swim, and he’s been sucked into working for a special FBI Task Force who deals with supernatural bad guys and situations, and he bears a strong and loathing hatred for the FBI.
Read More »

Daisy Johanssen, half-human/half-demon liaison between the Norse goddess of the dead, Hel, and the mundane authorities in the town of Pemkowet, Michigan, located directly above the goddess’ domain, returns in Autumn Bones, the terrific second installment in the highly original Agent of Hel series. A few weeks have passed since the end of the previous book, and Daisy has been dating Sinclair, a Jamaican transplant to town who operates a supernatural tour-supported and encouraged by the town’s visitor’s bureau in an effort to capitalize on the local eldritch (non-human) activity. Read More »

Meet Cat Sharp, technomage now in the service of Loki, who won her soul in a card game of the gods. Unveiled, book two in the Etudes in C# series, opens with Loki contacting Cat via a dream, telling her to meet him in a specific location outside of Las Vegas. Cat’s aggravation at being summoned turns to horror when she arrives and learns her new assignment: finding the killer of the woman whose body has been crucified to the back of a tow truck. Loki describes the woman, the daughter of a friend of his, as “unique.” Not understanding why Loki has chosen her for the case, Cat nonetheless does her best by examining the gruesome scene. Read More »

The Severed Streets is Paul Cornell’s follow-up to London Falling, a novel in which the city of London is a prominent and mysterious character itself. DI Quill and his small team investigae weird happenings in London for the Metropolitan Police Department. They have barely recovered from their harrowing ordeal with ancient witch, Mora Losely, when they have to catch a supernatural killer who wears the façade of Jack the Ripper. This killer can seemingly squeeze through walls to get to his prey, all prominent men around the city. Read More »

The first installment in what promises to be a spectacular new series, Generation V opens with not-quite vampire, Fortitude Scott, receiving a visit from his older brother, Chivalry, while at work at Busy Beans, a local coffee shop. While the owner/manager flirts shamelessly and embarrassingly with him, Chivalry issues to Fortitude an invitation/summons to appear that night at dinner with their mother, Madeline. Not looking forward to spending an evening in the presence of his sister, Prudence, especially, Fortitude nonetheless agrees to appear. At dinner, Madeline tells her three children they need to all be in attendance the following evening, when a visiting Italian vampire will pay a call, seeking permission to stay in Madeline’s territory. Read More »

The worst day of Angel’s life became the very day she was saved. Hard to imagine that when the worst day involved losing her humanity by being infected with a parasite that turned her into a rotting Zombie corpse unless she ate human brains. But she went from being a teenaged, drug-addicted felon on a one-way road to hell to being a lab assistant in the morgue with a brand new GED in her hand. Read More »

Remy Chandler is a seraphim who chose to fall and live on Earth after the terrible things he saw and did during the Angelic War many years before. He lost his faith in the angelic world, and while not in God strictly, he questioned why so many of his angelic brethren had to die and were killing each other. He has found a new love after many years of grieving his wife. Along with his beloved, faithful Labrador dog, Marlowe, this keeps him grounded and his marvelous yet destructive seraphim nature under control. He works as a traditional private investigator, but the supernatural and weird seems to be drawn to him. Read More »

Betsy Taylor, everyone’s favorite vampire queen, returns in the terrifically entertaining thirteenth installment of the series, Undead and Unwary. Picking up shortly after the events of the previous book, Betsy finds herself occupied with attempting to avoid her agreed-upon duties in Hell with home-based concerns such as Jessica’s and Dick’s troubling non-naming of their babies, Sinclair’s continuing obsession with the puppies, Fur and Burr, and Marc’s surprise birthday party plans for Tina. Read More »

Jane Yellowrock is a force to be reckoned with now, but before she was the Enforcer, Jane was just a girl breaking into the private security field. Snafu is a glimpse of Jane at the beginning. A bad neighborhood and some sketchy characters force Jane to use her newly-discovered Beast magic to save herself.
Read More »

Fans of the ground-breaking Otherworld series will appreciate this return visit with some of the characters via six stories and two novellas.

“Demonology” opens with Talia Lyndsay in a waiting room with her young son, Adam, there to see a doctor who may be able to help her understand Adam’s fascination with fire, and how he can almost burn things or people with his touch. Read More »

Jacob Hicks has secrets. He is not really Jacob Hicks at all, but instead is a member of the notorious Greene family, a cult known for their blood sacrifices to appease the Gatekeepers of the unborn Younger Gods who were imprisoned after a war of the Gods. He escaped from his family’s North Dakota compound and is hiding in New York City and attending university. And he is a sorcerer able to tap into the magic pool of the Deeps. His goals in life are simple-–stay hidden from his family, fit into regular life and never use magic again. Read More »

Jackson Pastor has pretty much seen it, done it and experienced it all, or at least he thinks so. As a former Special Forces operator and now contractor with Kidnap & Ransom, he is highly skilled in combat, weapons, intelligence and negotiations. Nothing he has experienced, however, prepared him for dying and coming back as a vampire. As he comes to discover, being a vampire is the least of the surprises in store for him. Read More »