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After the dawn ritual on her eighteenth birthday, Cassie is welcomed by those of Abraham's pantheon. While she knows she isn't a Walker no one is quite willing to tell her exactly what she is other than 'family'. They are excited about the skills she might develop as her training begins and she realizes that she is the latest entertainment to break up the long monotony of their eternity. As she struggles to maintain her place in the regular world and complete her midterms, the mystical world and her newly developing abilities threaten to intrude. The line between her separate worlds is thin...

As long as she could remember, Cassie saw things others couldn’t; people with scales and tusks, others who looked normal, but when she touched them, sent her sight elsewhere. Warned never to let them know she could see them, she lived quietly, hidden. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, the adults who protected her vanish and those who hunt her search, looking to find her before her abilities quicken and she becomes what they most fear.

Brownie Oxford, now going by the name Bonnie Brown, is trying her best to avoid notice. She found someone to teach her the skills she needs to control her abilities and people have stopped leaving dead bodies on the lawn in front of her apartment building. Unfortunately, she is surrounded on all sides by Federal Agents trying to confirm she is Brownie Oxford so she once again be an asset. Maintaining her guise as a mild mannered seamstress and student of fashion isn’t easy, especially when the beast supposedly trapped by the Searchers starts visiting and ghosts start making demands. Can ...

Still reeling from her abduction and escape from the rogue Agent Halloran, Brownie Oxford, still living as Bonnie Brown must resume her disguise and pretend that all is normal while she deals with the aftermath. What will happen when Steve and Swift finish dealing with the dead? What will happen to the symbol carved body of Dr. Harding? What havoc will a freed Mesopotamian demon do? Who can she trust? Who must she fear? And more importantly, can she maintain her normalcy through her scheduled date with Tom when no one seems to be who they say they are?

Brownie Oxford is on the run. After the death of both Matheson and Dave in the Mayenfield Cemetery, she takes Matheson's rental car and sneaks out of town, eluding those watching her. Unable to resist the lure of finding out more about her own past, Brownie finds herself making a brief stop at the Matheson Estate before finding a place to hide out. Unfortunately, the brief visit leaves her with more questions than it answered. Away from the estate, Brownie starts a new life under an assumed name and alters her appearance. As Brownie attempts normality a serial killer starts stashing the ...

When Jamie's Great Uncle Albe goes missing, he leaves behind a large estate, a house in the middle of nowhere and a legacy Jamie never suspected. He finds out that the creatures of the Fae are real and it was Albe's job as Keeper of the Crossroads to keep the more destructive members of the Fae from devastating the human population. Time is running short as the Lune Merdos approaches and ancient rites threaten to destroy the crossroads, eliminating the one thing that separates the human world from that of the Fae. Now the job of Keeper is Jamie's, can he manage to find out who killed Albe ...

To maintain her guise as Bonnie Brown, Brownie is forced to leave old habits behind. Even though the serial killers leaving their victims in cemeteries have been caught, Swift has decided to stay in town, telling others he has officially retired to take a consultants job. But he isn't the only one in town interested in her. A new neighbor is paying a little too much attention and someone in a sedan is following her around. Avoiding anything that makes her look like a necromancer in hiding becomes vital even if it leaves her feeling twitchy and unsettled. Unfortunately, the dead start coming...

When his wife died aboard The Defender in the Matrovean attack, all Michael wanted to do was join her in death. He sought oblivion, but the Guild needed his skills as a cartographer as they sent teams inland to survey the planet outside of the town limits of Haven. Pulled back from the edge of oblivion for one last job, Mateo promises Michael that there are plenty of things on the alien world that could kill him if he looks hard enough. Hoping for a quick death, Michael agrees, but soon finds out there is more to the survey than he expected. Will Michael find the death he craves and doom ...

When Brownie Oxford found herself kidnapped and taken to the Ashland Cemetery instead of going on a date as expected, she wanted to claim it was an unusual event. Sadly after seven years working as an asset for the National Clandestine Services (NCS) it is hardly the first time she has ended up surrounded by unsavory characters. As her ability to raise and converse with spirits has been utilized by the NCS to interrogate those who would have otherwise been beyond their reach, Brownie has begun to accept the harsher aspects of her reality. But this time it isn't a matter of National Security...

Once again Ivy Chambers has found herself shot. As a fire mage who tries to obey the laws of The Society governing all of the Hidden Clans, at least where anyone could see, Ivy never thought she was the sort of person anyone would aim a gun at in the first place, let alone shoot. But she isn't to be left to heal in peace. The Seers have lost sight of their future and need a Seer untied to them to craft visions. Ivy's friend Irina is their only hope and Ivy has to work to keep her safe and the entire Seer Clan from attacking Wildwood, all while trying to deal with the various political ...

It was an accident. Alice Appleton had one skill in the magical community, creating shields. Her shields keep the shadow creatures, monsters with a taste for magic infused blood, away. Despite its usefulness, she is viewed as one of the lesser trades, her skills called to a job site after plumbing and wiring was done, but before insulation and drywall. Although paid very well, she is not one of the hidden magical community’s powerhouses. She is not of the elite and not in charge of anything. While she disagrees with some of the restrictions placed upon her by the Commission, she has no ...

After several mysterious deaths, what remained of the Chambers family was divided, each sent to a different city. After seventeen years of living on her own, Ivy Chambers is summoned to the Shadow Council. The Shadow Council rules life within The Society. Every one of the hidden clans, whether Vampire, Fae, Shifter, Seer or like Ivy, Mage must abide by its rulings. Their main goal? To keep the clans hidden from the normal world around them. While Ivy doesn't know what brought her to the attention of the Shadow Council, any more than she knows why her family was separated, she knows she must...

After the Masquerade Ball, Alana worries about her sisters' safety. After all, returning through the Eastern Gate wiped their memories so they don't even remember the threats exist. Are those on the other side of the gate still looking to kidnap them as they search for the Lost Princess? While Alana tries to find enough information to figure out who is involved and what they are planning next, she is eager for a rest from the holiday rush at the Sugar and Spice Bakery. Closed for a week, Alana will finally get some down time to think, relax and possibly learn how to wield the magic Serena ...

The Guild is changing. Elena knows that with Riko's death, change is inevitable. With the Guild still feeling abandoned by the council still causing tensions, the long-term plans between her and the elderly councilor come out into the open. Not all will be pleased, in fact she expects when he learns of it, Hashi will probably try to kill her. But before the season opens and she worries over Hashi's retribution, there are trade routes to secure and a planet to run. Mateo and Kiera are expecting the birth of their twins, the first human children born on Haven and while Elena worries about ...

Alana Gregson had her life figured out. After working in kitchens around the world she returned home to Lewiston to open the Sugar and Spice Bakery. After five years the bakery has a steady following, a loyal staff and Alana is happy. Down the street her sister Marta owns the Glass Slipper Bridal Shop and her other sister Angela owns the Rose and Thorn Florists. Alana could be content working in her bakery for the rest of her life, however unexplained break-ins and attempted kidnappings soon lead her to realize Lewiston is not the bucolic small town it seemed and its secrets are starting to...

Magic in the Kingdoms of the Chadon operates on a very strict set of rules., Quests especially have guidelines and protocols. When King Harold sets up a quest for his daughter Georgina he expects those rules to be followed, the protocols holding firm. With them in place, he knows no quester will be seriously harmed and that the prince he already selected to win the contest will be triumphant. Unfortunately, questers start dying. It appears the sorcerer in charge of the quest has gone mad. In a panic Harold calls for help. The neighboring kingdom of Theras is worried about the damage a mad ...

Born into the Gingerbread Man Tradition Janelle has always used her abilities to spy for the crown. She works hidden in the bake of the bakery, knowing that to be caught is to court death from those who want to keep their secrets hidden. But things are changing and now Janelle fears she may be have been found, can she escape before she is caught and possibly find her way into a new life?

The last survivor of of a fallen people is offered as a sacrifice to protect her adopted village. Surviving will lead her to the truth of what happened to her people, her death will see them lost and forgotten forever.

Thirty years ago, Robert St. Claire established a portal to another planet in a far distant galaxy. His scientific achievement was kept secret by a group called the Conclave who wanted to reap the benefits of this new world, Tarnos, without sharing with the rest of the world. Wanting to test a social, educational and genetics based experiment, twenty five children were sent thought to Tarnos. Only three survived. Now with the Gate failing, those children, now adults, are returning to earth. Can Robert help them establish normal lives, blending with other humans or are they destined to spend...