Short Story Urban Fantasy

Nadine is the only witch of her kind. With unique powerful abilities, she's a prime contender to sit on the witch's council, yet she's anything but welcome. A haunting family curse threatens to force her out of her magical college, and revealing her greatest secret may lead to the destruction of her people. Lucas is the only warlock of his generation destined to ferry the souls of the dead. Accepting his dark gift is as brutal as investigating the coven's mysteries. He's prepared to fight the darkness alone, until he receives a warning beyond the grave from Nadine's mother.

The Grand Hotel is a horror novel by esteemed best-selling author Scott Kenemore ( Zombie, Ohio) that takes the reader on a thrilling ride through an interconnected series of stories narrated by the desk clerk and the residents of the hotel itself. And while it is not known whether or not the desk clerk is actually the devil incarnate, it is strange that so many visitors who come for a tour of the hotel have a way of never leaving.

These hunky white men can't resist their lovers chocolate curves. The big boss, the secret shape shifter, and the handsome billionaire all fall head over heels for sexy black ladies in these three erotic romances. The stories: 1. White Magic 2. My Billionaire Boss 3. My Billionaire Bear Warning: These are naughty interracial stories. Adult readers only.

I was lost. Then He found me and my world was never the same. He was in charge. Sexy, wealthy, and an Alpha, through and through. He wants more than just one night though. He's been searching for his equal, his mate, and I'm not sure if I'm ready for everything he needs...

For the first time - in one Audible-exclusive collection - it's 13 stories of Jane Yellowrock, the shape-shifting skinwalker and vampire hunter for hire whose business card reads, "Have Stakes - Will Travel". Jane carries inside her the soul of her Beast, the mountain lion's soul which merged with hers when she accidently performed black magic as a child. Now, she and her Beast stalk the dark streets of New Orleans, bringing rogue vampires true death.

Welcome to Newford: to the music clubs, the waterfront, and the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost.

Baron Dent grew up thinking his father was crazy, a mad scientist who believed in worlds beyond Earth. Turns out his father was not only sane, but a genius. When Baron went riding on a US military helicopter in the Indian Ocean, the last thing he expected to find was a waygate to another realm. Soon after, he discovers he’s not originally from Earth but from Agartha. What follows is a whirlwind of beautiful goddesses, past lives, and elemental magic.

I couldn't get him off my mind. He was sexy, mysterious, kind, funny, and almost supernaturally good at running. But when my new running partner didn't show up for our evening run, I never expected to regret not heeding his silly warnings. It turned out, he was keeping a secret and I was about to find out just what he was hiding from me...

When fate crashes into your world, there’s no running from the wolf meant to claim you. Honey’ I didn’t ask for this. One second, I’m swerving my car off the road, crying over a fight with my so-called friends, and the next, I’m waking up in the middle of the woods in a cabin with the finest man I’ve ever seen. Darius is tall, dark, and way too intense. I don’t trust easily—life’s taught me better—but there’s something about him that feels… safe. Dangerous too, but in a way that makes my heart race and my knees weak. He says I’m his, but what does that even mean? ...

On the island of Avalon, everyone has magical abilities. Except Selena Pearce. As if being the only nonmagical person on the island isn’t bad enough, her parents happen to be the king and queen of Avalon - and the most magical people alive. She’s never felt like she fit in on Avalon, but that all changes when she leaves the island and meets Julian - a mesmerizing, mysterious human.

This audiobook collects Wellman’s John Thunstone and Lee Corbet stories, written between 1943 and 1979. These stories combine the mystical and horrific with traditional Southern folk tales and legends. These stories also reveal a post-World War II modernism that make them much more then pulp romanticism. The paranoia and cynicism of modern weird icons, such as The X-files, may well have had their genesis in the pulp musings of Manly Wade Wellman.

The first three novels and the prequel novella in the Preternatural Chronicles: I'm Glad You're Dead, Dawn and Quartered, Shadow of a Doubt, and Deliverance.

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.

Spell-slinger. Vampire-slayer. Magical albino ferret-rescuer. Meet Jacqueline Denna Knight, the best wizard detective in the city. Jax turns vampires to ash and pain into magic. She also has a knack for finding things. So, when a distraught - and obscenely wealthy - elf calls Jax at midnight to hire her for an intriguing job, she grabs the opportunity with both hands. But what Jax doesn’t know is that this case is going to unravel her life.

Before Area X, there was Ambergris. Jeff VanderMeer conceived what would become his first cult classic series of speculative works: the Ambergris trilogy. Now, for the first time ever, the story of the sprawling metropolis of Ambergris is collected into a single volume, including City of Saints and Madmen, Shriek: An Afterword, and Finch.

Soft, smooth curves and sweet, seductive smiles are enough to make any alpha want to fight tooth and claw to have a chance to mate with his new lover. In this sizzling seven book bundle, alpha werewolves and their beautiful, curvy mates are unable to keep away from one another. This bundle contains: 1. Claimed By The Werewolf Professor 2. Taken By The Alpha Brothers 3. Wolf Bait: How To Seduce An Alpha 4. The Wolf Next Door 5. The Wolf's Girl 6. Moonlit Curves 7. Diamonds and Fur Warning: These stories are very naughty and filled with hot alpha werewolves doing city deeds with their curvy ...

A man becomes targeted by witches after he inherits some very special real estate.

Wellman’s work will be remembered, and should be preserved because it combines the dark gothic tradition of the American pulps with a detailed snapshot of regional history and culture. This mixture is shown through the lens of the American modernist tradition, revealing something that is larger than the sum of its parts.

I couldn't keep my eyes off the man who just moved in across the street. But what was he hiding behind that big fence? When my mysterious and sexy new neighbor finally reveals the truth, I realize everything will change. But can he fall for a curvy girl like me?

Vitus Adamson is falling apart. As a pre-deceased private investigator, he takes the prescription Atroxipine hourly to keep his undead body upright and functioning. Whenever he is injured, he seeks Niko, a bombshell mortician with bedroom eyes and a way with corpses, to piece him back together. Decomposition, however, is the least of his worries when two clients posing his most dangerous job yet appear at his door looking for their lost son.