Immortally Ever After, the terrific final installment in the highly entertaining MASH series, opens a few months after the final events of book two. The seemingly endless everlasting war between the old gods and the new continues, with conscripted humans and supernaturals being used by both sides. Petra, though sharing doctor duties and much more with her newly-returned ex, Marc, feels as though something is not quite right in their relationship, and she becomes a bit frantic when some of her colleagues let it slip about Marc’s plans. Read More »

Natalie Thurmont may currently be a movie star, but five years ago she was a Fae princess who escaped through the veil between worlds when she was about to be forced to marry a man she did not love. Unfortunately, that same man, Faldo, has now caught up with her but tells Natalie he will leave her alone and not report her

Rebecca is learning more about her healing abilities and her ever-present friend/Anubi, with Billy watching over her, trying to help her adjust to her new life and just being a great friend. Billy also happens to be dating her best friend, Robin. Rebecca has started to notice strange things. First, Billy will not talk about Robin, and Robin will not talk about Billy. Creatures that she has never seen before suddenly come to her for help. Read More »

Dr. Dora Adler’s twenty-seventh birthday is upon her, which makes her upset for several reasons, the main one being that the women in her family do not live to see their twenty-eighth. It is also her bad luck that she is a practicing doctor during the Zombie Apocalypse. The nurses and doctors throw her a party and actually have a brain-shaped gelatin mold, Read More »

Years after settling in Carmine, Marc still has trouble accepting his human form. Aging is depressing, after all, even for those of us who were born mortal, which Marc was not. Once The Grand Marquis, a mighty demon in the ranks of Hell, Marc gave up his title, his immortality, and nearly all his demonic strength to live as a semi-recluse, haunted by the memories of his deeds in Lucifer’s army. Read More »

This is a very short, very good story. We follow Dana in San Francisco as she is out getting a poster for her mother at the local boardwalk. All of a sudden there are dragons flying overhead, burning bridges, buildings and cars. They have been dropped to earth in pods to attack simultaneously. We don’t know their ultimate goal, but it is safe to assume it is our complete annihilation. Read More »

*This review does contain spoilers pertaining to Book 1 of the Order of the Black Swan, My Familiar Stranger. I highly recommend that you read the first book.
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Fairy godmother, Christy, is ready to retire. Three hundred and fifty years is a long career and she just wants to spend time with her loving husband. Her last job should be a breeze, if a bit unusual for her. Roarke Turner’s one true love is his childhood friend, Stephanie. However, Cupid seems to have taken an unnatural interest in Christy’s charge and Stephanie is not cooperating at all.

Slade Aesus is a government agent working for NOA, the National Otherkind Administration-an agent that only the highest levels of clearance even know about. He also happens to be a demon who likes working alone. On his latest mission he crosses paths with a dark elf named Annwyn who gets in his way and needs a little help out of a touchy situation. Even though he knows it is stupid, he helps her out and in the process ends up bringing her more fully into his dangerous world. Read More »

The fabulous Wicked As She Wants, book two in the extraordinary Blud series, grabs the reader by the throat in its first paragraph and does not let go until the very last word. Princess Ahnastastia Feodor of Freesia finds herself at a distinct disadvantage when she awakens to music and the heady scent of blood yet unable to move. Read More »

For Calli, the colorful tattoos on her arm are a small way to fill the void in her mind. Several years earlier she had been in a terrible car accident that left her with a scar on her face and holes in her memory. A bad encounter with a former employee finds Calli in the arm of an unlikely hero,Nycholas, a Vesper and one who could hold the key to Calli’s memories. Somewhere between fear and desire, Calli cannot help but fall for Read More »

Vengeance Born, the excellent first installment in the Light Blade series, effectively draws the reader in with its opening sentence. The world of the series has two main components: the Na’Reish vampiric demons who enslave humans, and the humans, led and protected by Light Blade warriors, who worship a feminine deity they refer to as The Lady. When the story begins, Annika, a half human/half Na’Reish healer, goes to the dungeons to see to the wounds of a captured Light Blade warrior. Read More »

Frannie Pleasance comes across many odd individuals and situations in her line of work as proprietor of the Needful Creatures pet store (dealing in live animals, not clockworks), but she does not typically stumble upon unconscious men lying in the street-especially not any so closely resembling her dead brother. Her curiosity piqued, Frannie prods the man with her toe, at which time he jumps up and then immediately gets sick. When some approaching blud rats make the two realize they need to be moving on, Frannie tells the man Read More »

Naomi thought that she was in love until her boyfriend, Mark, sells her soul to a demon. When sentenced to death, Naomi slips and falls 80 stories. Expecting to hit the pavement, she is shocked to be grabbed by something before she does. Now Naomi wants vengeance for her imprisonment and what she has turned into. Read More »

Sinner’s Heart, the terrific third and final installment in the exciting Hellraisers series, begins a few weeks after the events of book two. Bram Stirling, one of the two original Hellraisers remaining in service to the Dark One, finds himself seriously questioning his activities and the ultimate goals of the evil he has bound himself to. With former members Whit and Leo, along with Zora and Anne, fighting against Read More »

Southern Haunts: Spirits That Walk Among Us is a collection of sixteen stories containing ghosts centered in the South and Southwest. Be prepared to shiver with fear or laugh at the antics of some of these ghosts.

Sidney’s Cotton by Richard Parks is one of the stories that stuck with me. Sidney’s Cotton is a restaurant and nightclub run by David Summer. On a slow evening he is telling a renovation story to a pretty woman named Margaret. Read More »

Vampires Don’t Sparkle! is a collection of stories that have one thing in common: they all highlight the good old-fashioned vampire. The vampires here are evil, wicked, and glory in all the blood they can. There are no creatures that regret their existence, pine after mortals, or limit themselves to subsist on animal blood. These are the vampires of old, the vampires that make us humans crave the daylight and fear the darkness. Along with the twisted, fun, and Gothic darkness of these fifteen stories, a major highlight of Read More »

In true horror story form, Spook House begins with a boy, a girl and a car in the woods.

Sheri Foster reluctantly waits behind while her boyfriend, Jeff, proves his manliness by going into the Fuller Farm. The Farm was home to Sam Fuller, who reportedly killed an entire family in the town of Harmony back in 1947. Legend says Fuller’s subsequent “accidental” death was a matter of karma and retribution. Since Old Man Fuller’s death, stories about the abandoned Fuller Farm grow each year, tempting man and boy alike to brave its horrors. Read More »

Demon’s Bride, the fabulous second installment in the gripping Hellraisers series, grabs the reader immediately and refuses to let go for the duration of the novel. In the London of 1763, Anne Hartfield, the daughter of an impoverished baron, finds herself married to Leo Bailey, an extremely rich merchant from humble beginnings. Seeking a way into aristocratic circles for business and personal reasons, Leo decides that the quickest entry will come through marriage, and Anne’s penniless state bothers him not at all. For her part, Anne feels quite a bit of trepidation, given that her new husband displays an imposing presence — or so it seems to her, anyway — but she also finds herself intrigued by him. Read More »

Rising Darkness is the first a new series by Thea Harrison that has a different vibe than her Elder Races novels. Mary has dreams that keep her awake, she feels different and alone, and is going crazy hearing voices on the wind. When her ex-husband insists Mary go to a doctor for the problems, she decides to skip it and drives off, unknowingly saving her own life. It is this decision that propels her towards Michael — a man she feels connected to, and who finally explains who she is and what that means for both of them. Read More »