Mystery Stonestar has changed her name in order to deny her family's legacy which almost killed her little sister. The revered ghost of Grandpa Harold is nothing but a bad memory for her. Les Cayden has loved Mystery since the day he met her even though her lifestyle is the opposite from his church-rich life as youth pastor. Can true love overcome their differences and help them salve the Phantom Mystery?
Michael Stewart does a good turn for a homeless family on Christmas Eve. As he supports the family he is drawn to the abused, pretty mother, and into the family's problems. Life would not be the same after this, he thought. Little did he know how different it would be.
Claudia's Condition Three women are abducted, destined to die by the date on the calendar. Another woman is abducted because a killer wants deadly revenge. What if you are shot and left for dead because you're not a woman? Miraculously, the women are rescued. Soon their stories become old newspaper headlines and faded memories. Life goes on but how will they survive? How will they live on? How do they heal? Dan Davenport said it best. "The more we live our lives, the more those two bastards lose!"
The Wandering Succubus : Stories based in the first Battlemage series Kat Stockton has found her way into the city of Eqamour. She's avoiding all entanglements with the rich or Nobles as she tries to earn a simple living as a bar wench in the rough part of town, but fate will not let her. There she meets the few friends she has in the world and finds that they are trying to solve the mystery of why people are either going missing or turning up dead. Kat will start to learn that sitting on the sidelines of life and watching may not be an option open to her.
The Adventures of Béla, the Vampire Girl If you read Wrinkles In Time, you'll probably realize that Timewalker began sometime in Part 4 of that book. This book continues the stories of Frank & Tanya, the 'Jakes' and their wives-Tabatha & Bela and, of course, Lisa, now a fully grown Phoenix at age 5 who just incidentally carries a detonated nuke in her head which gives her almost unlimited power. Without giving away any more plot lines, Katie, reborn, is the girl who walks through time to whenever she needs to be.
A volume in the Earthbound Series Lise, based on The Lost Colony (#5 in the Earthbound series), expands on the lives of green-skinned humanoid slaves on planet Varada. Called novonids and created through genetic manipulation as field-hands, they have begun filling low-wage jobs in Varadan cities. Lise is one, a young female, living in a ghetto called the Green Zone and coming of age as tensions between novonids and humans threaten to become violent. [19 chapters, ~80,000 words]
Once a year, the gate opens—for Aisha and Elior alone. The garden remembers them, and as vines part and figs split, they answer its call with sweat, laughter, and a hunger sharpened by absence. Among trembling leaves and blooming fire, their bodies meet in a ritual of rhythm and release. What begins with a pomegranate becomes worship and undoing. This is no paradise. It’s something wilder—sacred, erotic, and entirely theirs.