It is not usually Ethan’s style to run, but with all the turmoil in the city, he feels he has no choice but to do what he feels is best for his House. He and Merit go to the shifters for asylum. However, that presents its own issues when the shifters are attacked while the vampires are in their hands. Read More »

Merit is just trying to adjust to life as a vampire. But in the short time that she has been one, her House, Cadogan, has faced many tribulations. Being immortal is not all it is cracked up to be. When riots begin against the vampires, Merit and Ethan have to track down the source of the discontent. Read More »

Merit would love to be able to spend one day without having to get up and be responsible. But between being Sentinel for the Cadogan House and its master being her lover, it just never happens. The supernatural community always seems to be full of action. In House Rules, Cadogan House is in the process of withdrawing from the GP, the organization which oversees the vampire houses. They hope that to be able to go quietly, but are working to put measures in place in case they cannot. Read More »

Manfred Bernardo has just moved into the small town of Midnight, Texas. There does not seem to be much to the town, but someone passing through can find what they need. Gas, a preacher, an occult shop, food and a pawn shop. However, the residents that live in Midnight are a little eclectic. The preacher doesn’t have much to say unless he feels strongly about something, the pawn shop is open late in the night as one of the employees seems to be allergic to daylight. The people who run the gas station have their own secrets. When a former resident turns up dead, the residents will have to work to prove their innocence and protect one of their own from outside forces. Read More »

“Mr. Scratch’s Murder Circus” - Poem by Jeremy Gooch
This is a very well-written poem with circus elements as the theme. Even though the word “clown” was never used, I could hear the music in my mind and the mantra that kept running through my head was “scary clown, scary clown, scary clown.” This poem ain’t for sissies. Read More »

Marnie gets called into the field by her co-worker at the Preternatural Crimes Unit of the FBI (and former fling), deliciously hot Mark Batten to help when a large and angry creature made of rock attacks humans at a mining site. Marnie is an expert in Un-Natural biology, but has zero real life experience dealing with these notoriously bad-tempered cryptids. Read More »

Marnie is contacted by the local authorities in Ontario, Canada to help find a missing woman. Marnie uses her ‘blue-sense’ psychic abilities to trace the last events of the woman’s life before she disappears, and she discovers a connection to a sadistic serial killer who ‘collects’ women with the help of her “Cold Company” a 450 year-old revenant (what we call a Read More »

Paranormal Biologist Dr. Marnie Baranuik is back. She has accepted a position as the lead UnBiologist for the Preternatural Crimes Unit, aka PCU (a division of the FBI that handles strange/paranormal cases) under its head, Supervisory Special Agent Gary Chapel. After her last life-threatening tangle with some very bad (black magic) witches, life is easing back towards as normal as it can get for her. But there is a distance between her and her Revenant/Cold Company (vampire is the un-politically correct term), Lord Guy Harrick Dreppenstedt, otherwise known as Harry. He is withholding his physical affections and Marnie needs it for their special Bond. Read More »

Despite the fact that Jane is no longer his Enforcer, Leo, the Master of the City, still wants her to update and design the security protocols, and for a ridiculous price she agrees to this last job. Much to her chagrin, the reason for the updates is an impending visit from some of the European vampires will affect her and Jane knows she needs to protect Leo’s territory. What Jane does not know is that Leo has been keeping secrets, secrets that will endanger them all. To make Read More »

Harper Blaine is investigating the mysterious return of the ship Seawitch. It had disappeared twenty-seven years ago, all of its passengers presumed dead. During the investigation, she gets to work with the skeptical Detective Rey Solis, who has had difficulties with Harper in the past. However, she eventually explains the weirdness that he has seen and hopes that he is open minded enough to believe her. Read More »

Elle Dupree, graduate history student, expects her Monday evening to be just like any other-until she arrives home to find her fiance, Greg, held up off the floor by a tall thin man, who seems to have been, inexplicably, sucking blood from Greg’s neck. When the man, whom Elle presumes to be a vampire, unceremoniously drops Greg and heads in her direction, without thinking clearly and just reacting, Elle runs towards the creature and stabs him repeatedly with the wooden letter opener she had been using with her mail. After realizing she may be wasting effort on a dead vampire, Elle notices two things: a group of men have shown up in her living room, and Greg’s body has mysteriously disappeared. Read More »

Cassidy runs her unusual family business, Trifles and Follies, located in Charleston, under the guise of buying old antiques and items people would like to get rid of for one reason or another. Unknown to most, the shop’s true purpose revolves around Cassidy’s psychometic ability (touching an item and seeing the history associated with it) to determine if the piece has an unsettling (haunted or worse) characteristic that may prove a problem for future owners, or even dangerous. For acquisitions that fall into the latter category, Cassidy enlists the aid of her colleague, Teag, who possesses his own magical ability, and Sorren, the five-hundred-year-old vampire who has worked with her family for centuries. Read More »

There is a new drug on the streets of Ashland called Burn, and it is terrifying. For Gin Blanco, aka The Spider, Ashland’s most notorious assassin, it is just another problem. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time has Gin involved with the undisputed and ruthless drug kingpin of Ashland. To complicate matters, her sister, Detective Bria Coolidge, is obsessed with stopping Burn and the man behind it at any cost. Read More »

Tales of the Hidden World contains seventeen short stories by Simon R. Green. They range in age from some of his newer work, to some he did from the late 70s, early 80s. Some of these stories do correlate with a few of his series, giving just a hint at some of his work. Read More »

Harry Dresden has been on Demonreach, an island (and living entity) that serves as a prison for some of the worst of the worst demons. He’s spent the year healing, training, and trying to come to grips with the Winter Mantle that is now a part of him. He knows that time is running out for him, though. Queen Mab has not yet called him into service as her Winter Knight and the parasite in his head that kept him alive is getting stronger and a lot more painful. Read More »

A Plunder of Souls, the fabulous third installment in the outstanding Thieftaker Chronicles series, returns once again to the streets of eighteenth-century Boston and the trials and tribulations of Ethan Kaille. The story begins with Ethan attempting to elude fellow thieftaker and perennial thorn in his side, Sephira Pryce, and her band of enforcers. After an encounter in which Ethan, at great Read More »

Fans of the Fallen Siren series will very much appreciate this exciting novella documenting the first case Emma and Zack worked on, alluded to in Cursed. The kidnapping of a young boy in Charleston leads to FBI Agent Emma Monroe being flown in from San Diego to assist Agent Zack Armstrong on the case while his partner stays by the side of his wife, an accident victim in critical condition. Though the two agents have consulted on the phone about prior similar cases, they have never met in person. Read More »

Damoren is the story of monster hunters who form a unique bond with their weapons. These weapons are special, infused with a supernatural vitality that makes them holy and able to destroy the souls of demons who possess humans and then change into monsters of lore and legend.Dämoren was a sword that was made into a gun, and Clay Mercer was its wielder, when he encountered a young boy who barely survived a wendigo attack on his family. When the bitten boy is accidentally shot by Dämoren, but heals, the weapon makes it obvious to Clay that it has chosen its next wielder, and Clay takes the boy on as his apprentice. Read More »

The terrific Binding the Shadows, the third full-length installment in the fabulous Arcadia Bell series, begins with Cady and Lon, her Earthbound demon boyfriend, on a mission for Ambrose Dare, leader of the Hellfire Club, a group of “elite” Earthbounds. One of the high-ranking members has gone off the rails with what seems to be a very extreme version of his “knack” (talent most of the Earthbound demons possess), and Dare wants Cady, a magician, to bind him. Read More »

Evie (rhymes with heavy) McFagan is the local funeral director in Pawtuxet Village, Rhode Island. She is short, overweight, and a semi-functioning alcoholic mother with a mouth to make sailors blush. Her husband, Patrick, honestly loves her despite all this. He just wants her to not drink around their wee daughter Savannah.
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