Spells, Salt and Steel: Volume 1 Featured
“When all else fails, the ass end of a carp makes a damn fine weapon.” Your new favorite monster hunter has arrived! Bubba the Monster Hunter has some competition in this action/horror comedy collection from best-selling author duo Gail Z. & Larry N. Martin! By day, Mark Wojcik can be found e ...
Aickman: Tales of a Normal Childhood Featured
Three deadly accidents that might have been magical murder. A dark witch with a grudge against the King family. Federal agents with supernatural abilities. And, as usual, Dawson and Grady are smack dab in the crosshairs of trouble even they can’t outrun. When Grady King’s brother Knox is targeted by ...
The Dravenridge Covenant Featured
In Dravenridge, a small Upstate New York town, citizens enjoy many gifts from the town’s mysterious benefactor, Aurora Draven: state-of-the-art schools, no-interest business loans, college grants. These are just some of the advantages of living in Dravenridge. But a few inhabitants enjoy additional ...
Kilty History Featured
Discover the secret world behind Catriona and Broch's time-traveling as USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant shares the jaw-dropping story of Anne Bonny's life.
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Old secrets, hidden psychics, secret shifters, ghosts, scandals—and true love. A series of long-ago disappearances leads cold case private detective Austin Williams to investigate a troubled sanitarium. Jamie Miller is new in town, temporarily running the local historical association, and he willin ...
Werewolves, Vamps, and Thieves!
Joe Mack and his friends head to Pittsburgh to deal with a surge of disappearances, all people with psychic abilities going missing under highly questionable supernatural circumstances. That’s enough to keep anyone hopping, but Joe can’t ignore the feeling that th ...

Harriet Hall and the Miracle Cure Featured
An animal loving kid displaced by the war. An unlikely ally among the trees. A heart-stopping secret threatening to poison her life. 1940. Harriet Hall is desperate for a friend. Evacuated from London with her sick mother and sent to live with her unruly Canadian relatives, the independent twelve-y ...
Sons of Darkness Featured
We are the Night Vigil. The run-down convenience store, the all-night diner, the last-ditch shelter, or seedy motel, the redneck bar and the emergency room, and all the other places open on the graveyard shift—they’re Hell’s hunting grounds, full of easy marks and desperate souls, prey for evil t ...
Kilty as Charged Featured
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USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Amy Vansant delivers fast-paced thrills and crackling wit in this crime fantasy series you won't be able to put down...
When Hollywood “fixer” Catrio ...
Wedged between real estate speculators, startup bros, and gentrified neighborhoods, it’s gotten hard to get by in San Francisco and it’s getting even harder all the time. Now two witches have decided the time has come to do something about it!
Using all their arcane skills, Iria and Madge ...
C.H.A.R.O.N. Featured
Your best hope to make it through the hour of the wolf. Ex-priest Travis Dominick and former FBI agent Brent Lawson hunt demons, monsters, and supernatural troublemakers. When Brent gets a call for help from an old army buddy, he and Travis head to a small central Pennsylvania town beset by a ser ...
the CULL - Bloodline Featured
Amy Bree’s reckless actions result in death and her dismissal from the FBI. A visit from a mysterious priest propels her back into the fray, as she is partnered with an ex-spy and tasked to hunt down and kill the serial killer known as the Blood Sucker. Their quarry is not what they expect! The body ...
Killing Game Featured
All Desiree wants to do is live. But living isn’t enough. Control. That’s what’s important. And if that means killing, she'll have to accept her part in the Killing Game. Nightmares of fire and blood are all Desiree has to explain waking up changed. Supernaturally fast and strong, she has no m ...
Kilty As Hell Featured
"This series is getting better and better." - Amazon Reviewer
Catriona is having a strange year. First, she found a dazed Highlander on the Hollywood studio lot where she works as a fixer and now it seems she and that big hunk of haggis are supposed to save the world from corrupted t ...
What Treachery Is This? Featured
The last person anybody ever expected to get into trouble was the crone. I’d believed she was pretty much bombproof. The problem is, I have no idea what took her down. Whatever it is, it's left her hovering on the razor edge of death. If I don’t kick it into gear and go after her attacker, the old w ...
Druids, Dragons, and Demigods Featured
An orphan must discover his true heritage, and stop the ancient sorcerer hunting him down across the gates of time. A half-mermaid girl, only now discovering her true heritage, must venture into the sea to save her child, only to find out that she's the one who will have to save Formoria. Include ...
Ghosts always remember. Mobsters never forget. Erik Mitchell helped Interpol bust cartels, oligarchs, and spoiled billionaires for art fraud. As an undercover cop, Ben Nolan helped bring down a Newark crime family. Now Erik and Ben have started over in Cape May, leaving their danger-filled jobs b ...
Kilty Conscience Featured
Your favorite modern-day Highlander and Hollywood fixer find themselves embroiled in another thrilling, funny, adventure from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant.
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The Stealing Time Series Featured
Don't miss the "breathtakingly original" "unputdownable" series of time travel through the eye of a hurricane. Will Ronnie find out what is sending her back in time before it destroys her health, her sanity, and her life? For the first time ever, get all three books in the series in one exclusive co ...
I'm Hailey Bradbury: Hedge Witch and Vampire. My sire was staked moments after I was turned. As a youngling, the Voodoo Queen adopted me. She taught me her art. I've been working with the new Mistress of the Vampire Council. She trained me in the ways of vampirism, the path of the night. ...

All the Parts of Your Soul Featured
Arizona, 2019. When Nurse Pia Norwak spots Rikke Taylor, burn survivor and local heroine, at an emergency room in Sedona, Pia experiences an intensifying attraction, only matched by the puzzling visions th ...
Between possessions and poltergeists, Elinor speaks with the dead to solve mysteries in this six book, Gaslamp fantasy set in a 1900s French-inspired world.
When a body in the canal brings her to the morgue, she’s happy to help until Tristan Fontaine, the Duke de Archambe ...
Immortals never forgive, never forget. Sorren has spent centuries shutting down the plans of powerful immortals, dark warlocks, fallen angels, and supernatural creatures. He’s a vampire working with paranormal allies to protect a world that doesn’t know the dangers that prowl the shadows. Now an ...
Highland Skies Featured
Sacrificing the biggest part of who they are for love is only the start... Liam MacLeod, half Fae/half-human, only has wings in the Fae Realm. Over there, his magic is stronger, and he relishes the chance to navigate the skies, despite his family’s warnings of the dangers. His forbidden quest thr ...
Nite Fire: Flash Point (Book 1) Featured
A supernatural murder mystery—with dragons!
For shapeshifter, Dahlia Nite, life was simple as an assassin for the dragon queen. She had her own squad, an apprentice. A lover. She killed on command. She obeyed the queen's every word. Until the day Dahlia’s e ...

The Shepherd of the Stars Featured
Swift Kingsley, at merely fourteen, finds himself on the brink of adulthood. The trauma of surviving a boating accident has destroyed his boyhood illusions. No longer can he believe that the people he loves will stay safe from the currents of change. Reaching the shores of recovery won’t be easy. Wi ...
Much Ado About Dying Featured
She needs ancient magic to prevent more deaths. But messing with the gods could get them all killed. Galway, Ireland. Róisín is desperate to help badly burned bomb victims. But to her horror, the gifted healer discovers the explosions have also spread two deadly plagues. Searching for answers as to ...
Getting confessions from notorious serial killers? Easy.
Stealing priceless Egyptian artifacts? No problem.
Doing it with a cocky, too-handsome-for-his-own-good bad boy? Impossible.
My name is Harleigh Sinclair, and I’m a Neotact. That’s a fancy word for a person who has spec ...
A Bounce Before I Die Featured
My best friend had nothing to do with bouncing or monsters until something went terribly wrong in my new job. Suddenly she’s missing, and the rumor is that a nest of monsters might have her. Those monsters are about to meet their match. I’m going to go medieval on their furry butts. If only I can fi ...
Spells, Salt and Steel: Volume 2 Featured
Monster hunter and mechanic Mark Wojcik has his hands full protecting innocent monsters from horrible people and innocent people from horrible monsters. His corner of rural Pennsylvania used to be relatively quiet—except for the ghosts, trolls, gnomes, and snallygasters. Then the Mob wars between th ...
Monster: A Prequel of The Chosen Featured
Something is out there, watching . . . Sunny Collins can’t shake the feeling someone is watching her, but she chalks it up to stress from work, school, and life as a busy single mom. Her imagination manifests into reality when she’s ripped away from everything she knows and immersed within a worl ...
It’s weird how every woman reacts differently. How each pregnancy differs. Mine is definitely unique. My sense of smell became stronger, picking up the faintest odors, and my stomach was in constant turmoil. Those were the first signs. And then I started eating. And eating. If I don’t, I get a migra ...
Kilty Mind Featured
USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Amy Vansant delivers more fast-paced thrills and crackling wit as the Highlander and the Hollywood fixer fall in love during a movie studio crisis...A crime fantasy you won't be able to put down... ...
Princess of Wind and Sea Featured
In 1773, the prince and princess travel across the globe on a series of secret missions, and run into unexpected danger. Aisling's magical abilities are increasing, but dark forces who seek to destroy her powers are hunting them. The prince must protect her at all costs, as they fight for survival a ...
Red Night Featured
★★★★★ "A good book draws you into the story so that you feel a part of it. This is one of those books." A world where dreams turn to reality and shadows hold untold secrets… I never used to remember my dreams—until I crossed paths with a vengeance-seeking vampire who doesn't grasp the concept of ...
Middle Grade Monster Hunter Featured
Greyson Ward never thought that his school was anything more than a typical middle school. But when he discovers a mysterious book in the school library that tells him monsters are real, and they are infesting his school, his reality is turned upside down. Suddenly, Greyson is thrust into a mission ...
Beauty from Ashes Featured
How far are you willing to go for love?
Prince Arnion never expected his mission to Gehenna—a brutal prison colony—to test not only his courage but his heart. Disguised as a prisoner, he’s determined to rescue the inhabitants ruled over by its fanatical leader—a king rumored to devour hum ...
"A new take on urban fantasy... an action-packed adventure that will have you on the edge of your seat." - bestselling author Nat Russo The sky was never the limit. Enter a world of gangs, vigilantes, and magic that's powerful enough to kill. Mark has never been the survivor his friend Angie is, but ...
Bree Leigh Blackwell has mommy issues of the worst kind. Who wouldn't, considering her mother is the Goddess of Death? As a doctor, Bree has devoted her life to helping others. Unfortunately, the Woman in Black, her adoptive mother Morgan, has other plans and bestows unimaginable power upon her. ...
After embracing her new Tegen existence, Sara Jones is determined to destroy her ex-lover’s organized crime empire, one link at a time. Along with her newly acquired skills of spider-climbing agility, self-healing powers, and the ability to eject poisonous needles came the haunting need to con ...
A hilarious and magical new series from the authors of Down & Dirty Supernatural Cleaning Services! Three very different women receive a similar desperate message from their husbands: I've been kidnapped and I need your help. They each must secure a mysterious and powerful magical object for his ...
The dead don’t come back, but some never leave… Jack Kelly remembers everything about his wife and children. The wonderful smell of his wife’s hair, the way she whispers to him at night. His three children running through the house, the sound of their laughter. That was his life before the acc ...

Katie goes through a change that could cost her her life! Amy takes on odds far in excess of her ability to handle them. She's completely off-the-rails. This is NOT the Amy Bree you think you know. For Katie, her most feared enemy is far closer to home than she could have ever imagined. She also lea ...
Secrets.
Everyone has them.
Everyone keeps them for various reasons.
As a witch with power over water, Anna wants her secrets to stay in the past where they belong. All she desires is to enjoy the present, but what she thought was buried long ago, has found a nasty w ...
Grab your broomstick and fly into the enchanting worlds of witches and their furry friends, written to support Mission 22. You’ll find witches flying by moonlight, black cats roaming the nights, comedy, romance, and magic between the pages. This book has stories to enchant any reader, with some stea ...
Paris marshal Danni Metreaux has her hands full with criminals preying on a local Weeia merchant, a fresh trainee and the happy distraction of a new love interest. Her instincts tell her that a powerful Weeia has been forcing humans to commit a series of crimes, and wiping their victim’s memor ...
The Hawthorne University Witch Series, books 4-6, is available in this three-book collection. This trilogy is a standalone series that can be enjoyed without having read the previous books.
Book 4: Witch Mirror
Reflections of a wicked witch. ...
A night of celebrating a new beginning ends in a nightmare that Grace can’t escape. When she wakes up in a strange place three days later, she realizes her life has been turned upside down. She’s been forced into a world where magic is real along with monsters of myth. The vampire who marked her is ...
Erik Mitchell traveled the world uncovering art fraud and relic theft, which pitted him against spoiled billionaires, unscrupulous collectors, mobsters, and cartels. He worked with law enforcement across the U.S. and Europe, but then a sting goes wrong, Erik ends up injured and returns to find hi ...
When sibling rivalry spills over into the land of mortals, the mortals lose. Great evil, spawn of the underworld, is poised to sweep all life from the planet, and only the twins can stop it. Jealousy, love, hatred and magic battle for the ultimate control of the souls of the world. Only one will be ...
Two years have passed since Abigail Blanque’s life was changed forever. After suffering a great loss, she fed into her darkness and pain, killing every rogue vampire within her reach. Abby finds herself marked by an evil ancestor hell-bent on returning from her talisman-encased prison. She needs Abb ...
When TJ, a fat neckbeard small time youtuber living with his mom met a strange girl in his one note town, he thought his luck was changing. What he didn’t know, on her heels, a deepweb gameshow bent on bringing his hick mountain town to its knees, just for sport.
Unleashing flesh hungry z ...
At the age of twenty-one, Abigail Blanque is a fun-loving, naive, and carefree witch, having the time of her life, partying and hunting rouge vampires for the Hybrid Coven. That is until she learns of a murderous stalker who’s been watching her every move. After two witches are murdered, all signs p ...
Urban Fantasy’s grown up. Now it’s got bills to pay and kids to raise. And you thought fighting evil was hard. In this gripping Paranormal Family Thriller, readers are introduced to Maggie Towne, the Magica, the most powerful witch in the world and the guardian of Magic itself. Juggling the responsi ...
United States, 2072 With the country under the threat of war, a group of time-traveling government agents devise a risky plan to keep their families safe. But transporting hundreds of years to the past and blending in may prove much more dangerous than they expected. Cyber Criminal Enforcement Agent ...
The voices tell me to wake up, but with two children under three, I’m awake. Believe me. There’s just so much pressing on me. Crystal, the woman who runs Shade, the secret group who imprisoned me, is still out there and I cannot rest until I have ended her. I need supernatural allies to do that, ...
Betrayal’s stench burned vengeance in Larry's mind like tattoos etched in acid. Welcome to Vancouver: one dead mayor, revengeful Biker, enigmatic Shamans, and one very angry witch. Come visit us soon. Ever go out for the evening and not remember what you did? What if there was a bar where spirits ca ...
Jordan has visions of monsters, demons, and death. Seventeen, orphaned, and born into the family business, she doesn’t have friends, she doesn’t have choices. Her uncle, older brothers, and a few annoying angels dominate her life, demanding she tow their lines – and the punishment is severe when tho ...
Dan Baker is loved by most in the small town of Jerrod, Texas. Everyone except Virgil Hooper. The animosity between the two families runs deep, spanning three generations, reaching its peak when Hooper loses most of his farm to bankruptcy. Dan outbids him at an auction for a piece of farm equipment, ...

Dealing with anxiety and a dysfunctional family is bad enough, but it gets worse when Hera is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious house secluded in the middle of a forest. There she meets Aethen, the leader of the Ashar Coven, claiming to be a psychic vampire who feeds on human energy. If that’s not ...
It’s time to get your witch on…. More than one million words of witchy goodness! Get ready to be transported with this magical boxed set of stories from NY Times, USA Today, and national bestselling authors! In this collection, you’ll find witches, wizards, and warlocks, along with vampires, shifter ...
AWAKENING THE VAMPIRE SHADOW-WALKERS BOOK 3 (This is a standalone story.) She protects supernaturals. He hunts them. Do you like a passionate romance with a tortured vampire hero and a supernatural murder mystery? Rock Star meets Supernatural in this exciting new series. The women are the rock stars ...
The time for hiding is finished. The dead are restless. Fate and destiny collide. Twins Cayden and Avery Tiernan have grown up in isolation on the fringe of the realm. Gifted with forbidden skills, they hide their growing magical powers. Ancient prophecies speak of the ones with the power to depo ...
A fierce guardian. A haunted vampire. Duty turns into desire.
Auriella is more than a Royal Dragon and my assigned bodyguard.
She's my obsession.
She’s tasked with guarding me while I’m in her realm,
Negotiating a peace treaty between vam ...
I used to be a hero. Then I grew up.
I’m Kieran Thorne, the world’s only living half-fae. The gig comes with a few perks—immortality, magic I can’t control, fae assassins constantly on my heels. And the chance to protect the good and the powerless against those who are neither.
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Aisling and Prince Drayaen return home to Ireland in time to celebrate the holidays. But their festivities are short-lived. New enemies are threatening their way of life. As dark forces swirl around them, Aisling and the prince must destroy their adversaries to protect each other and everything they ...
Starting school at Hawthorne University was not going well, until I met my classmate Alondra. Allie was different. She was goth. But she was also mysterious, confident and fun. I was into that. My name’s Liam. My friends call me Lee. Things got weird after I accompanied her to her haunts. Poltergeis ...
This is my Midlife. I have a bat in my belfry…a REAL bat. The woods in my back yard is full of something dark from my nightmares. I’ve got a mysterious and sexy neighbor who seems to appear out of nowhere. And my best friends? Yeah, they’re witches. Midlife is definitely not shaping up to be the ...
After making a shocking discovery about herself, Lucy must embrace her destiny or follow in the tragic footsteps of the women who came before her. Lucy Owens was your average eighteen-year-old with overprotective guardians until an ancient Prophecy sent an army of Gifteds (humans with supernatural a ...
Kynet never planned to be at the forefront of the rebellion. That was her brother’s hobby: rallying the people. Plotting against the leaders. Running into dangers she’d have to negotiate him out of.
That was before the Poisoner tried to kill her.
Left with strange powers in the af ...
Beltane Fire is a Short Story taking place a year prior to Broomstick.
It was my freshman year when my best friend introduced me to the spring festival in Hawthorne University. I was studying for finals, but she said everyone, absolutely everyone, goes t ...
In the quiet corners of her past, a formidable adversary awaits. Will she unveil her true self before it destroys her? Haunted by unsettling nightmares, Josie Benson straddles the thin line between reality and the allure of the unknown. Her tranquil life is disrupted when a centuries-old music box, ...
Soulmates, fate, happily ever after. It’s all bull. At least it feels like it to, ex Navy Seal, J.T. Kirkland. A witch trained in battle magic, his affinity for water has made him the perfect seaman much to his family’s dismay. For J.T. working for the Supreme Witch’s Council was not on the agenda. ...
They hunt angels on the highway. Amanda’s road trip across the USA is a reward for graduating from college—and an opportunity to record her traveler podcast. On her drive, she gets the adventure she’s seeking after nearly being knocked off the highway. There she has a chance encounter with a shadow ...
Merlin returns to Lycenea, victorious, having defeated the Visi-Gauls in a gruesome campaign that saw the annihilation of their Southern Army and the death of their sadistic King, Jason. His peaceful reprieve is cut short however, as he must now find and expose the corrupt senator who initiated the ...
Eva and Zoe continue their journey to Larissa, Greece where they first met during the German Occupation of Greece in World War II. It's now 1950 and the journey back has revealed more than they anticipated. Eva not only has to deal with her wartime memories in the place that despised her and almost ...
The balance between good and evil comes down to one girl. But is the darkness really so bad? Emma Duvall starts her senior year with one thing in mind: make Seattle, home. All her life her mother lived with one foot out the door, but no more. That is, until Emma discovers she has the power to turn t ...
When a fairy tale ends up in a bloodbath, virtue rises.
Dinah isn’t just a private investigator, she solves unthinkable mysteries in the multiverse, and has never lost a case until her best friend becomes a victim in a series of mass murders. Someone is toying with t ...
Some vampires have trouble figuring out how they want to spend eternity, but playboy Michael Odell isn’t one of them. He knows exactly what he wants: fine wines and beautiful women fuel his passion and he’s ma ...

The interplanetary gates have existed between the five planets and the Netherworld for as long as living memory. Dr. Elisabeth Avery is a woman caught between two worlds. Little does she know that others like her, other half-breeds, are being hunted. When a creature drags a princess into the Netherw ...
Out of the spotlight, in the darker corners of the studio backlots, Hollywood hides a remarkable secret. Actor or actress, set designer, electrician, best boy, or grip—in la-la land, it pays not to be human. Vampires, succubae, trolls, elementals, goblins—studios hire anyone and anything that can ta ...
All 3 Lords of Apocalypse books in one omnibus version.
Get ready for an epic supernatural adventure and mystery that's intense and exciting...
(5 stars - Nexus - Amazon customer) - Absolutely captivating!
Could not put this book down! Started readin ...
Seven hundred years ago, the Knights of the Ordained banished the demon, Asmeodai. Buried deep beneath Wahi Tapu Temple, the evil becomes a distant memory. For those seven hundred years, Asmeodai seethed in hatred for those that condemned him to this hell. He has survived only for his chance to e ...
Sarah Bennett is a real estate agent by day and a masked crime fighter at night. She’s her neighborhood’s watch on steroids and has been doing her best at keeping the streets of New Athens City a danger free zone. As a former lab rat injected with the Castor variant, it’s literally in her DNA that s ...
The meteor storm wasn't such a big deal until a comet landed in the middle of the road. Now Darien's car is wrecked, his sister is bleeding out, and the only medical aid is at the reclusive Serran Academy. Jet sees Darien for what he is: a lost teen who doesn't deserve to know about the aether gifts ...
2017 Distinguished Favorite Award-Independent Press Awards A Tea Party activist discovers that he is growing another head. A playboy befriends a fickle female only six inches tall. A lonely librarian answers a matrimonial ad from a demonic farmer. Darkness abounds in James Hanna's cryptic stories. I ...
Eden Hunter has a little secret that could get her killed. Again. Paradise isn't all it's cracked up to be. Reaper Eden Hunter would know: she spends her days working for a local vampire warlord, harvesting the souls of the recently departed. But even bad situations can get worse. And when a body wa ...
The only thing more frightening than murder might be navigating their first holiday season as a couple. Psychic medium Simon Kincaide and his boyfriend, Myrtle Beach homicide detective Vic D’Amato, take a trip back to Pittsburgh to spend Thanksgiving with Vic’s large, exuberant family, which mean ...
Magical danger lurks in the forest. But Greg Gillie, a handsome Scot with a mysterious past, protects the Shrouded Isle and the lands beyond from the mischievous, dangerous fae. A woman arrives disturbing the wee folk. When American widow, Becca Shaw and her two daughters arrive, Greg’s task becomes ...
Midnight on the Midway
Supernatural secret agents, vampires, and veterinarians!
Drake Carlson is an agent for the Federal Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. He’s psychic and gets visions of alternate realities. Drake is tracking magical Mafiosi involved in paranormal crime. On ...
Lark has a secret. She can see the vampires hiding among us for what they really are: sharp-toothed, blood-sucking demons. If her secret ever gets out, she'll likely find herself on the menu and be left bloodless in some back alley before she can say Namaste. Yoga is the only thing that helps her fi ...
From Book 1: For fans of Twilight and The Vampire Diaries comes a new addiction impossible to put down.
She's in love with her best friend. A family grudge could tear them apart. And a supernatural secret could get them killed…Robyn can't picture life without her childhood best frien ...
I’m just another girl who survived foster care. Nothing special. Oh yeah, except for my earth-shaking magic… But I’ve kept it under wraps, working in a restaurant, minding my own business. Until a frightened boy runs into the dinner shift followed by three fanged psychos. Imagine my surprise when ...
A golden dragon. A hidden enemy. Blackmail. A secret group of smugglers blackmail Sam and Jake. The two young guardians must find the golden dragon, or Jake dies. Their friend Uncle Biggie and his chimera crocle-lion pledge to help them. Yet everyone wants the golden dragon, including the powerful E ...
Having a choice and having a good choice are two very different things… The players of the prophecy are all in place. The vampire, the werewolf, and the witch. The fate of all paranormal beings hangs in the balance. Too bad Divina, the witch in question, wants nothing to do with any of it. She’s not ...
Welcome to Victoria in Beautiful British Columbia, the most haunted city in North America, and to Detective Carol Ainsworth's first day undercover at the very grand old lady, The Fairmont Empress Hotel. Ready to deal with the two Italian families flying in for a wedding to unite them, she did not ba ...