Cheryl Erikson stumbled into the life of Hunting after her father’s brutal murder by a vampire. She continues to do it, because she’s good at it, and it gives her a sense of purpose to destroy the creatures who prey on innocent humans in her city of Dallas. Now, she is wondering what is the point of it all. She is thinking of getting out of the life, so she can have the normal existence of a twenty-two-year old. But first, she wants to stop the flow of Plast, a deadly drug that seems to be related to the vampire activities in Dallas. Read More »

Business partners and longtime lovers Frank Zhelikhovsky and Dr. Holly Ambrose are called in as consultants to investigate a suspicious accident involving a teacher at an exclusive boarding school. She might have been pushed out the window by a resident spirit that lives in the school, one who the students call Shadow Emma, the apparent doppelgänger for the accident victim, Emma Ward. Read More »

Stories of the Fey seem to have been around since the beginning of time, coming in all shapes and sizes and the deeds attributed to these beings are just as widely diverse. A Chimerical World: Tales of the Seelie Court contains nineteen stories pertaining to what we have labeled the good fey. We tend to think of the Seelie as goodness and light, but they are just as quick to abduct a human or cause pain and mischief. Read More »

Dr. Rowena Revel was talking with one of her veterinary students when she noticed the medieval warrior standing in the classroom. She instantly thought she was losing her mind, but when the warrior began visiting her in her dreams, she was even more confused. Alone in the classroom one day, Rowena saw the warrior reappear through the wall, but this time, he had brought a friend with him, and they both stood and stared at her, as if judging her suitability. Read More »

Long ago, the Templar Knights discovered secrets meant to be buried, and for their impertinence, they were cursed to roam the earth and protect it from the evil forces. Part of the curse means for every evil they destroy, their own immortal soul will be darkened until eventually the Knight will turn from the Almighty. An ancient prophecy tells of the seraphim, human women with the ability to heal the darkness in a Templar soul. Through the centuries, though, the Templars have lost hope, and the darkness is beginning to make a push that will destroy them all. Read More »

On the run after her disastrous wedding, Jane Boyle Doran is doing her best to hide in plain sight, right under her mother-in-law’s nose, in the middle of Manhattan. Discovering that her mother-in-law, Lynne, only wanted her to produce an heir to pass the family’s magic on was enough to make both Jane and Malcolm, her husband, run in separate directions to save themselves. Read More »

River Weston had designed the best video game of her career, called Hollow Man. It allowed users to project an image of themselves into a dangerous situation, making it seem as though they are present. Her technology was amazing, and with the breakdown of social guidelines and the world in chaos, it seemed that maybe River’s game could be useful on many levels. River’s Fae magic was the secret addition, the added touch that helped make her program so successful, but the program revealed a small glitch, producing a buzzing sound that foretold the demise of the user. Read More »

Implanted with a deva as a toddler, Ryan walked away from Applied Paranormal Theory and Tactics six years earlier, in disagreement with the scientific experiments being performed by her father on unsuspecting humans. Ryan had finally built a comfortable life for herself in a small town in Scotland, and felt safe and secure, until a former lab tech turned experiment kidnapped and tortured her, all in an effort to locate Van. Read More »

Jewell McKean was horrified at the screams of the injured man echoing through the hospital emergency room. Being a nurse, she was expected to perform her duties with great precision, but this victim of a drunk-driving accident brought back all the sadness and trauma of her mother’s death several years earlier. Read More »

No matter how hard she tries or how much she denies the truth, Wendy will never be just an average teenager. Truth is, she can see the ghosts of those who have not passed on, and it is her job to send them into the Light. But when her mother suddenly falls into a coma, Wendy is not so anxious to continue reaping ghosts. Her only goal is to find her mother’s soul and return it to her body before it is too late. Read More »

Brittany noticed that her best friend Emily had changed when she came back from spending the summer at her family’s farm. She was sad and quiet and she never ate. When Brittany discovered Emily’s body in her old fort, she could not believe that the cold, lifeless body lying there was her best friend. The strangest thing was that, despite a metal spike running through her body, there was no blood. Even stranger is that Emily begins appearing to Brittany and talking to her as if she never died. Brittany Read More »

Orphaned at a young age after a man who called himself friend murdered her parents, Abigail Yager was brought up by a family who never let her forget who was responsible and gave her the means to someday take revenge on his actions. Living as a sister in a family of apolytes, she was willing to do anything to help them take out the Dark Hunters and rid Read More »

After surviving a fire at her cousin Cinnamon’s bar, Stacy Justice reluctantly accepts the fact that she is the heiress-apparent to the family business-witchcraft. Her three aunts show up at the Black Opal, Cinnamon’s bar, dressed and ready to hold an Imbolc ceremony in the midst of the investigation, her dog Thor will not leave her side, and her boyfriend is the Chief of Police, who has questions of his own about the fire. Read More »

She had not expected anything more than a well-deserved night out with her husband, but when a bizarre accident leaves her a widow in a coma, Jenny Sanders is forced to rethink her life and everyone in it. When she wakens from the coma, nothing is right. She is edgy, has no appetite and is weirdly sensitive to the sun she once loved. But the biggest shock of all is still to come. Read More »

In this highly irreverent and entertaining story, Rachel Brinkerhoff is a recently-divorced Jewish matchmaker who has moved from New York to Toronto to start a new life and business. Through a stroke of good fortune, she becomes partners in Love Comes Later, a company owned by Amita, a Hindu Indian, and Mahliqa, a Muslim woman. They are striving to revive arranged marriages in the Toronto community. Read More »

When Elijah made his first appearance on The Vampire Diaries in Season Two, viewers immediately became enthralled with the concept of the Original vampires-enough so that the often vicious but always intriguing family got their own show. The Originals: The Rise, first in a trilogy, provides a background for the trio’s early years in New Orleans. Read More »

The third installment of this series, Club Dead puts our heroine Sookie through her paces and introduces her to another aspect of the paranormal section of society. When Bill leaves on a mysterious trip to do a Read More »

The Cursed, the entertaining first installment in The League of the Black Swan series, opens with wizard Luke Oliver receiving an unwelcome visit from Maestro, an envoy from the League with an assignment for Luke-one he definitely does not wish to undertake. In Bordertown, the area of Manhattan populated by the supernatural as well as humans, bike messenger Rio Jones, a young woman with the ability to read minds, witnesses the kidnapping of a young girl. After calling the police, Rio goes back to her apartment, determined to leave and seek out the assistance of Luke Oliver in tracking down the girl, based upon the dangerous thoughts she picked up from the kidnapper. Read More »

Sage Peterson has lived her entire life on the outside. Shuffled from foster home to foster home, she has never gotten close to anyone and her only objective was survival. Strange things have happened around Sage all her life, so when she meets Prof. James Elias, Sage take a very large chance in trusting him to teach her all about what she is. Read More »

Veronica Fischer is having a bad day. Scratch that, she is having a really bad week. Life is not easy for this vampire madam in small-town America. Not only does she have to look after her girls, wrangle her right-hand man, Frank, deal with a local vampire council that is none too fond of her less-than-pure bloodline, but she is also looking after Rachel, a child ghost placed under her protection by the community’s ghostly boss, Lucy. Read More »