Lies Ripped Open is Steve McHugh’s latest installment about his hero Nate Garrett, known for many years as the Hellequin. Nate is forced yet again to face his past, and living demons from that past, including his former father figure, Merlin.

Back in the late 1800s Nate uncovered a conspiracy of wanton murder instigated in part to preserve a beloved figure of ancient Camelot. He thought they had laid it to rest, but when he is called on the scene of a hostage crisis in modern London, he realizes that his former enemies are still very much alive and have put his loved ones, and the future of Read More »

When Reece and her two best friends are in a serious car accident, Reece feels herself die. She does not stay dead. Miraculously, she survives and she wishes she had not. Nothing is the same without her two best friends. She hears things and has horrible nightmares. And no one believes her when she talks about the black panther that caused the accident. After all, Read More »

When The Loss opens, forty-four years after the events of book one, The Rise, the Mikaelson siblings run New Orleans, creating new vampires to increase their ranks, rebuilding the city after the devastating hurricane summoned by the witches in 1722. While Elijah and Rebekah have worked to solidify their power and make their home comfortable, Klaus has had a completely different and secret agenda-to somehow bring back to life his beloved Vivianne who died in the siege of their home at the end of the previous book. Read More »

Spell Blind, the excellent first installment in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, opens with former-cop-turned-private-investigator Justis, or Jay as his friends call him, on the trail of a missing young woman. After successfully rescuing the girl, later that evening Jay gets a call from his former partner, Kona, a close friend who also happens to be the only person he has ever told the important truth about his identity as a weremyste, or magic-user-the reason behind his leaving the force. It seems that the murder of a senator’s daughter has all the signs of the Blind Angel Killer, the very case the two had been working together when Jay left the department. Kona feels Jay’s magical skills may prove useful in tracking down the killer, and asks for his assistance. Read More »

Rocco is the only one in his village with wings but they cause him to stand out in a negative way. His wings are huge, blue and they glow at night. One afternoon the village bullies set a trap for Rocco but he manages to break free and fly away as they are still earthbound. Before he realizes it, he finds himself at the escarpment where his Mother has warned him never to go. Thinking he is out of Read More »

Welcome to the Isle of the Lost: the place where all of the fairy-tale villains have been banished. On an isolated island far away from the kingdom of Auradon, the inhabitants are forced to live inside a dome which blocks all magic. Malificent rules the island and is determined that one day she will have her revenge. Read More »

It is the beginning of summer vacation and the end of middle school for Ben, Cassie, Jemmie and Justin. Ben is worried that he will be facing a long, boring break babysitting his little brother, Cody. When Cody helps his Mom clean out the closet, he finds an old grey hat that belonged to his uncle, Paul Cody, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. They share a birthday and now that Cody is using his Uncle’s hat, magical things seem to be happening. Read More »

Everyone knows the story of Peter Pan. So many of us have fallen in love with the boy who never wants to grow up and his band of lost boys. We have been led to believe that Captain Hook is an evil, treacherous pirate who fights with children. Perhaps there is much truth in that, but we only know one side of the story. Read More »

Geologist Petra Dee arrives in the small town of Temperance, Wyoming, for a job in Yellowstone National Park, taking soil samples for the U.S. Geological Survey. Mike, the park ranger who picks her up at the airport and drives her to her ramshackle rental trailer in a desolate area, tries to convince Petra she should go to the park lodge rather than stay there, but she tells him she will be fine, especially as the less-than-ideal accommodation represents an improvement over the oil rig she just left. Mike does insist that Petra needs protection, and leaves her one of his personal firearms. Read More »

The residents of Midnight, Texas are an odd bunch. They are a small community and outsiders do not feel very welcome. Being off the beaten path helps keep their secrets safe. When Manfred takes a trip to visit a client in the big city, chaos ensues. He sees one of the other residents of his little town there, and then somehow dead bodies turn up-his client and the people Olivia was meeting with. Manfred will need to prove he is innocent of both murder and robbery so that the little sleepy town can return to normal and its inhabitants continue to hide their secrets.
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Alexandria is the daughter of a Hematoi mother, a child of the gods, but Alex is not-she is a Half-blood and has one of two futures:indentured servitude to the pure-bloods or become a Sentinel. But something happens to her during Sentinel training that has her mother run from the Covenant for several years until Alex is alone and has no one else to turn to. Read More »

The third book in the Twenty Palaces series delivers a gritty knockout of a novel to the reader. Ray Lilly, Wooden Man for the Twenty Palaces Society, does not get much of a respite after the soul-destroying work he had to perform to contain a deadly Predator from the Empty Spaces, (featured in book two, Game of Cages) a few weeks before this book begins. Read More »

Witches with the Enemy, the riveting third installment in the Mist-Torn witches series, begins just a few months after the events of book two. After a period of calm, dealing primarily with physical complaints from their apothecary customers, sisters Celine and Amelie get called to the castle to see Prince Anton, their benefactor, for whom they also work as seers when needed. Upon their arrival at Read More »

A day that should have been one of happiness for Ember, the start of a joyous life as a new bride, results in tragedy when her new husband is consumed by the wedding fire as they jump over it to celebrate their vows. It seems that Fire, one of the five ancient powers, has rejected Ember’s choice of a husband. He claims that she belongs only to him, and that she must come to him. And until she does, he will take fire away from everyone. 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 »

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 »

Jim Sweitzer is a Navy SEAL, a husband, and a father. When he sees something on an op that he was not supposed to, he is tracked down and killed. In a new government program, with the assistance of a young goatherd who has the ability to reconnect the dead soul with its body, Jim finds himself alive again, but not his own master. In an effort to find out the truth about his death, Jim must work with his

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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 »

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 »