Book-1 is all about how the computer world was set up to be like the human world. In Book-2, Esmeralda, frantic for her human mother’s safety, involuntarily breaks the virtual-physical dimension barrier to haul mum’s consciousness into Screenside, shocking even the seniors who designed their world. But Esmeralda is special in many ways, besides being...

When Sabine wonders if they are lesbians… Esmeralda suggests she look in the mirror, 'because lesbianism probably needs two separate bodies, whereas we are both in the one body’. Esmeralda draws the beautiful and insane Sabine, as the first mental patient to be assisted by Screenside. The relationship starts off uneasily, as the two girls bicker often...

Catherine Littlefield was raised in a seaside New England town haunted by whispers of arcane lore that remained tantalizingly out of reach to a daughter of well-to-do Baptists. But when her studies at Barnard College in New York lead to an encounter with a secret society, she is offered access to the knowledge she has always sought...if she can pass a test...

After losing her husband a couple years prior, Lily’s children decide it’s time for her to stop grieving and move on with her life. She’s always wanted to travel, and a few days later she finds herself in New York City. Touring the Big Apple alone on her own schedule is perfectly fine with Lily, but a guided tour from a local proves to be even better...

You can’t keep a good sociopath down. Dyson Devereux is languishing in prison awaiting trial for murder. Languishing wouldn’t be so bad were it not for the irksome inmates, crowded conditions and distinct lack of haute cuisine. Only Alegra, his sometime paramour and frequent visitor, shares his desire to see him released. The problem is, she wants...

In an alternate Seattle, communities of “exotics”—shapeshifters, witches, elves and vampires—live among the murderous human population and are ruled over by the cruel vampire Master, Kurt. The powerful alpha male of the werewolf pack, Parker Berenson, is one of the Master’s enslaved servants and he would like nothing more than to hasten the downfall of the...

Orphaned at fifteen in 1883, Ezekiel Harrington is forced from his home in remote Nebraska into the hands of strangers in Philadelphia. They steal what little he has and he flees their injustice. Only his drive and stubborn tenacity keep him from starving. After desolate years, a collective of striving artists befriends him. Among the artists is Robert...

Cowboys, Indians, and outlaws. It may be 1892 but the Old West is still alive and kicking in the dusty west Texas town of Abalone. When a bad batch of coleslaw kills Texie Cortez’s father she takes over his old job: Sheriff. She’s proud of how she keeps the gunslingers away and the cowpokes in order. Then HE comes to town. Gambler Alec Malone...

Dare to Believe in Your Power… A long-lost grandmother. A stay-at-home mom. A comic book fan. A five-year-old girl with a star-shaped birthmark. And nine more. The cast is bigger, the stakes are higher.When Sarita’s grandmother, a Vodou priestess, foresees a terrible evil, Cynthia, Jane, Angela, and Rohini reunite on a heart-rending mission to save...

Three friends. Seven years. Countless dangers. Wraiths are evil. At least, that’s what Billy’s father says. Billy isn’t sure what to believe—until a chance encounter thrusts him into a world filled with magic, friendship, and crushing oppression. The wraiths are caught in a tug-of-war they can’t win. Their beloved homeland has been devastated by King...

With the cold weather quickly setting in, Lark is trying to ensure she has what she needs to make it through another bone-chilling winter in the cabin in the woods, but something has decided to pay her a visit. The question is, who? Or better yet, what? There is a human invading his sanctuary, and he is determined to get rid of her. Humans in the past...

Do hearts broken long ago forever leave a tangible trace? A Vegas cocktail waitress. An Indian herbalist. A British chemistry professor. An Italian-American widow. Four unique women with one thing in common: each is haunted by a tragedy from her past. Cynthia, Rohini, Jane, and Angela meet on a food blogging site and bond over recipes. They decide on...

A mother desperate to save her twin sons, a war veteran in torment, a beautiful young psychic with a terrible secret, a powerful magician with a shattered soul, and a Queen steeped in history and glory. These extraordinary beings cross paths and set off a remarkable chain of events in Spells and Oregano: Book II in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy. Overcome...

Eighteen-year-old Berona only wants to roam free in the hills while she daydreams of a suitor who would dance with her—until the night the Water Demon hunts her down. To save her family from the Demon’s threats, she flees with a heretic magician convinced that Berona is the prophesied Girl of Fire. He promises to train her in the skills she will need to...

An ancient spell gone wrong. A legacy of time travel. The latest unsuspecting heir. Sophia just wants to earn enough money to go climbing by helping her father in his antiques shop. But when strange visions interrupt her work, she struggles to understand their meaning. Little does she know that they depict the past. Flung back in time with her...

Hell has come to collect…

…but Gisele Walker has no plans to pay the debt.

As a half-demon paranormal bounty hunter, Gisele is used to flirting with death, but stealing a curio and opening a portal to Hell’s demon court is more than your average day job.

Now, she’s partnered with an infuriatingly handsome demon, Shade, who has more levels of grey than she...

When Allaigna was seven she almost sang her baby brother to sleep — forever. She may not be heir to her mother’s titles and secrets, but she has inherited her grandmother’s dangerous talent for singing music into magic. As her education proceeds from nursery to weapons ground to the rank of royal page, it becomes increasingly hard to keep her heritage and...

Titanic was a white ship...once. Rock the boat. It’s 1912. America is the land of Jim Crow, of lynchings and segregation. And a young white society woman has just discovered that the grandfather she barely knows may be black. She has a family. She has a child. She can’t be black. She doesn’t know how. She follows her grandfather onto the newest...

In Elaine Reardon’s book, Look Behind You, there are images of food that string like beacons throughout the book, wonderful foods from two cultures, the speaker’s Armenian grandparents on one side, and her Irish grandmother on the other. In the poem “Refugees from Endearments” the Armenian grandfather “…tended gnarled quince trees, attempted mulberries and...

In the sixth book in the Marie Jenner Mystery series, life is finally starting to look up for Marie. Her brand-new business—moving on ghosts for actual money—is taking off. Her relationship with James Lavall is rock solid. All she has to do is find the last two poltergeists from the ball diamond and move them on to the next plane of existence and, as far as...

After being gone for months, there's nothing like being home for Christmas. Although Brindle has no family there to welcome her back, and the little town has grown since she left, it's still home to her and exactly where she wants to be in these final days. With a little help from a generous stranger full of the Christmas spirit, the holiday is sure to be...

The immortal wizard Merlin sends high school actor Beth Owens back to Shakespeare's London and to the world of Shakespeare's characters. Beth faces danger from Richard III, who seeks to damage Shakespeare's plays. Merlin gives her another challenge: bring Mercutio back from the dead. But she risks losing her own life.

Megan O'Malley was mortified when she got drunk and pinched the bandleader's ass at a cousin's wedding. But she was astonished when he turned out to be a leprechaun! Turns out they're not the wee men of fairy tales after all. They just say that because they like a good joke and what better way to hide the gold? Oh, that bit's true - as is the part about not...

He couldn’t die without her, and he wouldn’t die with her. Not if she had anything to say about it. The tide has turned in a centuries’ long war, and the Intergalactic Military has been tapped to step in and lend a hand. Sent to assist the Bo’Estrons, Captain Jelia Linh and her crew find themselves under immediate attack and in a fight for their own...

Cyan Burroughs is a lonely light witch prophesied to battle the dreaded Dorcha—a dark sorcerer with the power to rule the world. There’s one problem: Cyan doesn’t have any powers of her own. An unknown witch flips a trolley and causes mass carnage, and Cyan’s dormant magic awakens. When she drags handsome Irishman Liam Cody from the wreckage, she...