When Cursed Moon, the excellent second installment in the Prospero’s War series, begins, Detective and MEA (Magical Enforcement Agency) officer Kate and her partner, Drew Morales, have their work cut out for them with the advent of the Blue Moon of Halloween coming up in two weeks. During this time tensions run even higher than usual between the Adept population (those with magical ability) and the mundane residents of Babylon, the situation escalating that particular day when a guy in a leprechaun costume hexes the crowd during the Halloween Festival. After subduing and arresting the perpetrator, he warns Kate and Morales of bigger things yet to come during the Blue Moon. Read More »

The journey begins in the Himalyans and, although it is Summer, the terrain is almost impossible to navigate. If not for the skill of his Sherpa, Dr. Hannigan would have been lost long ago. He was incredibly lucky to get a guide. The locals are terrified by the rumors of Yeti sightings and everyone else has turned away from him in spite of the ridiculous amount of money he is offering. Hannigan believes he is about to face the culmination of his life’s work and will stop at nothing to reach it. Read More »

Calla Stewart, a successful party planner, has never had a client like this one. She is used to working on a limited budget, but even though the pack leaders, Ian and Julia, are determined to have a lavish party, the problem lies with Guthrie, the one who handles the money for the pack. Calla is still getting over an uncomfortable situation where she left her intended mate at the altar, causing Baird great embarrassment, and she is understandably cautious about getting involved again. Read More »

Angel-turned-private investigator Remy Chandler receives bad news that Ashley Berg, his young pet-sitter and friend, has disappeared. He soon realizes that her kidnapper is sending him a message. A sorcerer who has discovered the key to harnessing life energies wants to use his seraphic power to get revenge on the sorcerer who destroyed his family. Remy is caught between two dueling sorcerers, and a plot of the Grigori (fallen angels) to regain God’s favor at the cost of millions of human lives. Read More »

Shifting Shadows, a superb collection of two novellas (one new, one previously-released) and several stories (three new) covers a wide-range of characters within the world of Mercy Thompson.

“Silver” introduces Samuel, relating the story of how he came to be a werewolf, and his encounter with the fae in the woods near where he was held in the thrall by the person responsible for his Change. Read More »

The extraordinary House Immortal introduces a world two hundred years in the future, where resources are governed by eleven Houses and doled out as considered appropriate by their leaders. Matilda Case wants to continue to live and work below the radar, taking care of her farm populated by animals created (literally) by her father, her only constant company her grandma and her farmhand, Neds (the plural due to the fact that Ned possesses two heads). With her parents dead, killed several years earlier, and her brother, Quinten, missing for three years, life on the farm can be challenging but not more than Matilda can handle, as long as she does not call undue attention to herself. Read More »

Welcome back to Lone Pine! Just when Lizzie and Tucker think that they’re going to be able to settle into their new lives, relax a bit and get married, everything goes to heck in a hand basket. The very pregnant queen is kidnapped on her and Tucker’s wedding night, setting into motion a chain of events that will not end for the best for anyone.
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Marnie Baranuik is back to solve more paranormal crimes in her usual wacky, bumbling way in Last Impressions. She has barely recovered from a case chockful of exploding zombies, and is dealing with her Paranormal Crimes Unit of the FBI getting suspended for an Internal Affairs investigation, when she gets a call from Constable Patrick Schenk in the sleepy town of her origin in Ontario, Canada. A missing woman had Marnie’s business card, and the detective asks for her help. Read More »

After witnessing her cop boyfriend’s murder at his brother’s hand, Shannon Rafferty runs…and spends the next few weeks in the Colorado wilderness, staying in her cougar form and trying not to call attention to herself. While resting in a cave, she notices a young boy in the river below, barely hanging onto a rock. Knowing she cannot let the boy drown, Shannon leaps into the water, still in cougar form, and rescues him, pulling him up onto shore with her teeth. The local authorities in Yuma become aware of the cougar that saved the boy, and send a deputy out to find it, armed with a tranquilizer gun. Read More »

Shy and plain, librarian Celinda Branham is uncertain about attending a Christmas party given by her friend and co-worker. The gift exchange is a bit uncomfortable, since it seems no one but Celinda has stuck to the budget, but she is surprised at the strange gift she ends up with. Who gives someone a single crystal slipper outside of a fairytale? Though Celinda has read her share of stories, she definitely does not believe in magic, witchcraft, or anything relating to them, even though she has the dysfunctional Cinderella-type family. Read More »

Maggie Johnson was blessed (or cursed) with The Sight. In addition to having visions of the future, she saw a boy not much older than she was, and he became her silent support. After her father’s accidental death and her mother’s murder, Maggie and her sisters were kidnapped and raped by a group of men, yet Maggie was still able to use The Sight to contact the young man, and he was able to help her escape by showing her a hidden knife, which she used to kill the man responsible for the kidnapping. The Cherokee rescued the girls and allowed them to live in their village, while tending their wounds and helping Maggie learn to control her visions. Read More »

Magic Rises, the terrific sixth installment in the excellent Kate Daniels series, begins with Kate in the midst of a training session with her adopted daughter, Julie. While pondering the difficulties of dealing with a fourteen-year-old girl, Kate gets called to an emergency-Julie’s best friend and her twin sister have both gone loup, the feral state that adolescent shapeshifters often never recover from. Though a cure, referred to as panacea, exists but remains difficult to come by outside of Europe, this means that typically the afflicted are killed in order to protect everyone around them. The pack only has one dose available at the time, which Curran orders the doctor to split between the two girls. Read More »

Larry and his girlfriend are on vacation in Colonial Bay when he hears screams from the dark ocean in front of his hotel. Though he rushes out to help a young woman, he arrives too late and sees her just before a shark-like thing drags her under. Read More »

Maggie has given up everything in her life-her job, her family, everything, to go back to Wolfe Creek, where her best friend, Aimee, disappeared one year ago. The police have no leads, the town is full of secrets and danger. Maggie will not give up until she finds Aimee. Read More »

Joanna’s world has been turned upside down in the year since her best friend, Justin, sacrificed himself to save her. In his role as “Justice,” a Superhero, he chose to let go of a railing that barely supported both their weights and plunged to his death in the river below. For twenty years he had been the center of her life and romantic fantasies. Unable to deal with the loss, she had plunged into alcohol and rage, causing her to overstep the bounds of use of force on a criminal and losing her career as a police officer in the process. And as an added pressure, Justin had left the multi-million dollar Pendergast businesses to her. Read More »

Alexandra Belarus just wants to be able to work on her art, but when an accident befalls her brother, she is forced to take over the reins of the family business. However, she finds her own life in danger and begins to suspect her brother’s death was not an accident, after all. An old family secret becomes revealed when a gargoyle shows up to protect her. Read More »

Cate Masters takes her readers on a wild roller-coaster of a ride in Goddess, Awakened. From start to finish, readers will love the story of Jocelyn Gibson, a unique character who is sassy and easy to relate to. Read More »

When the terrific Omens begins, Olivia Taylor-Jones feels as though her life may not be going quite the way she wishes, even with her position as the daughter of a distinguished Chicago family having lead to her engagement to an equally well-heeled, and, she learns, ambitious, man, James. Finding a small level of fulfillment in her volunteer position at a women’s shelter, Olivia plans to return to school for a Ph.D. in literature, hoping to teach at a university-information she has been keeping to herself. Olivia decides to share her plans with James when he breaks the news that he will be running for senator-a prospect that Olivia does not care for. Read More »

Diamond City was built in the caldera of a Colorado volcano and began as a mining community when diamonds were discovered. The diamond rush brought not only miners, but eventually families, businesses and, of course, those who prey on them. Crime began with small gangs of thugs, but as the town evolved, so did the criminal element until the Tyet (a criminal alliance of sorts) was formed. Tyet’s influence is felt everywhere and staying below their radar is almost impossible, particularly if one has a special magical talent. Read More »

Barbara Yager is currently presenting a series of lectures on wild-crafting herbs at the Northern Illinois University. She can claim being a traveling botanist and college professor as a cover for her other activities, such as being one of three Baba Yagas in the United States. She’s a powerful witch and with the title Baba Yaga, it’s her job to help maintain balance in the world, guard the doorway into the Otherworld, and sometimes helping a worthy seeker. Read More »