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Cops sometimes rely on hunches to guide them, but Detective Maddy Wimsey takes it a step further: Magic. August opens with the bad omen of a suicide that she suspects is more than it appears. However, before she can even start to find evidence that won't get her a date with a shrink, an even worse case walks in the door. A local nurse claims she suspects one of her co-workers of murdering patients. Unfortunately, the woman has even less evidence than Maddy's belief that a spirit is throwing people off tall buildings. However, something about the story rings too true to brush aside.

Denmark was supposed to be easy. City tours, good food, and not a single cursed forest in sight. But Samantha Moon’s vacation plans hit another supernatural snag when her teenage daughter, Tammy, strikes up a conversation with a literal goddess. Freya, Norse deity of war, death, and love, has been biding her time inside an innocent-looking statue, waiting for the right person to help her. Tammy’s powerful telepathy makes her the perfect candidate—and Sam is less than thrilled about her kid moonlighting as an oracle for an ancient being. When Freya reveals a crisis on Bornholm, the ...

The North American Jules Verne Society is pleased to present its first-ever anthology of short stories, written by a select group of modern authors, inspired by classics like Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and other novels and stories by the 19th-century master of “Extraordinary Voyages,” Jules Verne.

Samantha Moon finally has it all: a fat inheritance from her vampire sire, enough money for the vacation of a lifetime, and a promise to her kids to make this summer unforgettable. So instead of Hawaii, she books a two-month grand tour of Europe—first stop: a real medieval castle in Ireland. But relaxation? Ha. Not in this family. Sam, her teenage kids, her werewolf boyfriend Kingsley, and witchy best friend Allison barely check in before things get weird. A shadowy apparition haunts their suite. Anthony's toxic gas rival any demon stench. And a literal banshee screams an omen of death—...

Sun-drenched jungles. Lost cities. A treasure everyone wants... and no one should touch. Samantha Moon just wanted to show her kids the wonders of Colombia’s Amazon basin. But vacation plans go off the rails when they hear about a hidden ruin stuffed with El Dorado–style gold—and the deadly curse that guards it. Ignoring warnings (as usual), Sam, Allison, Tammy, and Paxton venture deep into the jungle, only to be attacked by spectral warriors bound to protect the hoard for eternity. These ancient spirits aren’t evil—they’re enslaved. Breaking the curse means battling illusions, ...

FNH Audio present the first in a series of science fiction short story collections. In this collection: On board a starship a ghost of the past fights horrifying monsters. An explorer find a mining crew dead in their beds, but the next day they're up and walking. Humanity is under the thumb of aliens. The Earthers discover a strange fact of ancient history, their ancestors walked on two legs! The Martians are using a white mist to sedate and ambush all the colonists. And more.

After exorcising a murderous spirit in London, Samantha Moon needs a real vacation. Finland seems perfect—snowy cabins, cozy fires, and family time. But this forest has teeth. When a centuries-old witch fixates on Allison’s soul, Samantha’s best friend ends up cursed into a talking mouse, and a thousand feral cats swarm the resort in supernatural frenzy. Sam, Kingsley, and the kids brave the frozen woods to fight back against illusion traps, teleport-blocking wards, and the Baba Yaga–style sorceress who won't take no for an answer. It’s mom versus monster in the dark, with Anthony...

Back home from her first mission, Solstice confronts a scarier problem than a lizard the size of a garbage truck: immortality. She won’t exactly live forever, but ten thousand years isn’t much different. In the blink of an eye to her, everyone she loves will be gone. True, being the only elf in the world is a lonely future, but at least she has her cat to talk to. Good thing he talks back. Solstice doesn’t have too long to mourn as someone thoughtfully sends a magical assassin to take her mind off the family she’ll eventually lose. She’s fairly certain the Ordo Sanguinem Aeternam ...

Prague was supposed to be all castles and cafés—just another chance for Samantha Moon to play tourist with her supernatural family. Instead, they find themselves battling an ancient monster made of living clay. When a massive golem starts rampaging through Prague’s historic streets, Sam, Kingsley, Allison, and the kids dive in to stop it. But destroying a creature powered by ancient Hebrew magic isn’t as simple as hacking off limbs—it rebuilds itself again and again. Only precise knowledge of mystical runes will save the day. While Anthony delivers the world’s worst Czech puns, ...

She’s the last of her kind, the lone survivor of genocide. But Aleena doesn’t know she’s slept for 10,000 years. The Urlowens eradicated the Elven population on Earth. Now, they’ve returned to subdue the human race...But even with help, is defeat inevitable? After all, it’s not the first time the Urlowens have visited Earth.

Agent Kirsten Wren, a gifted psionic with a troubled past, possesses a rare combination of abilities that makes her a powerful weapon against paranormal threats. Adrift in a society that fears people like her, she feels alone in a city of millions. In 2418, rampant violence and corporate warfare have left no shortage of angry wraiths. Most are little more than fleeting shadows or eerie whispers in the darkness, but every so often, one gathers enough strength to threaten the living. A series of attacks by androids known as dolls leave the normal police baffled.

Samantha Moon should have known better than to end a vacation with a scenic helicopter ride over the Amazon. When a demonic entity attacks mid-flight, their chopper crashes deep in the jungle—leaving Sam, Allison, Tammy, and Paxton bruised, battered, and on foot in one of the deadliest places on Earth. But the real danger isn’t the snakes, the bugs, or the endless green walls. It’s the creature that stalks them. Feeding on fear, it conjures illusions to separate and trap them. Sam’s vampire powers are pushed to the limit as she fights to keep her family alive, battling jungle ...

Sarah Wright faces many challenges typical to any college student: tons of work, second-guessing her major, and trying to find time between classes to drink blood. She’s adjusted to her new vampiric self. It’s fun being immortal, despite a mostly nocturnal schedule cutting into her time for friends and family.

Sarah Wright has gone through a lifetime of mess in a mere five months, but her most difficult challenge yet is making it through Thanksgiving without spilling blood. It isn’t only her extended family tempting her to sprout claws. A vampire hunter has arrived in Seattle, his sights set on Professor Heath.

Sarah Wright doesn’t think something as minor as death should get in the way of her future. With the worst summer of her life behind her, it’s time to start focusing on her education. An immortal vampire - even if she is still new at it - pursuing a degree may or may not be a waste of time, but it at least it’s a way to keep up an illusion of sanity. Soon after classes start, a mysterious presence trapped at the school attaches itself to Sarah, and her hopes for a normal college year evaporate. Sensing a lost soul in need, she decides to help.

Solstice Winters never expected her job as a photojournalist would involve stopping a death god. She’s only ever wanted the same things as anyone else—a nice career, a safe place to call home, and no magical assassins trying to kill her. Alas, there’s nothing like an unexpected dimensional misalignment to ruin plans. The rapid flood of magic into the world changed her from simple reporter to secret agent in mere months. It also revealed the truth of her being an elf. Her investigation into who wants her dead stalls when a paranormal entity shows up in her apartment pleading for help. ...

QLIPHOTH ignites expansion of the Soul and ushers an influx of esoteric forces into the Adept through sorcery, sabbatic craft, and sexual gnosis. The mission of this Qliphoth Series is to provide you Left Hand Path grimoires, poetry, clairvoyant art, and ritual channelling. This sinister opera emerged over six group periodicals that emphasize magick ascent, the Abyss, and ancient demonology. Altogether, this series features over 20 top black magicians: Edgar Kerval, Asenath Mason, S. Connolly, S. Ben Qayin, and many more. QLIPHOTH: The Black Arts, Opus 6 of 6 Ch.1 - Typhon Draconis - The ...

Finally—a real vacation day. After fighting witches, banshees, demons, and Norse goddesses, Samantha Moon just wants three quiet days in Paris. And for once, she might actually get them. There’s sightseeing at the Eiffel Tower, family selfies at the Louvre, and romantic evenings along the Seine with Kingsley. Even Allison and the kids seem relaxed. But Samantha can’t help worrying—being a vampire mom on vacation is never that simple. She has to sneak away for a feed, mind-control the memories of anyone she drinks from, and deal with weird psychic tugs that make her visit the still-...

Bronx born and bred, Mackenzie Ferrara is both nervous and excited to begin her career as a restorer of fine art at the prestigious Cloisters in New York City. The star of the restoration team is a handsome and reserved Italian, Anthony Bataglia. On loan from the Ufizzi, he is renowned for his ability to bring pre-Renaissance treasures back to life. Despite a rocky start, the two form a close working relationship, which Mackenzie hopes will blossom into something more. But as she works with him she begins to notice patterns and unexplainable similarities in all of his restorations.

Brooklyn Amari knew not to get in a car with a stranger. When a man tried to lure her - she killed him. As if taking a life at the tender age of ten wasn’t bad enough, her childhood home burned to the ground two years later. She doesn’t remember how she survived, but she’s felt a pull toward the conflagration ever since. After a troubled patch in her teens, she’s become a respectable firefighter, rushing again and again into the inferno that almost killed her.