In a grove near you, pagans and other Vermont towns folk are gathering to celebrate Samhain, the night when the veil between the living and the dead, between this world and others, is thin… and sometimes a passageway for ancient evils! Can one modern witch and a very confused local town sheriff put an end to a hundred and fifty years of terror? You don’t need magic when you carry a .44 Magnum, but sometimes it really helps!
A young scientist meets the boss's daughter at his department's Christmas shindig. Sparks fly, sperm flows and suddenly a shot gun wedding is looming. Problem: she is pregnant from another man. Or so she thinks. It's not really a Christmassy sort of story but it may fit the spirit.
The University of Chicago plans to sequence DNA taken from the Shroud of Turin. But before they can, a sinister agent steals the sample. Our intrepid heroes from The First Deadly Sin, and the Big Short, are hired to get it back. Joey and Kelley chase their quarry to a remote citadel in the Alps, where they find that they ain't seen nothin' yet. Read on and see how Joey and Kelley with the help of the Red Dragon and her genius hacker daughter Brooke, save the world from impending doom.
A Bells Across the Universe Story Sequel to The Bells of Tanah. Almost a year has past. Our heros have traveled across the galaxy, in their supermarket spaceship The Bells. Love is in the air. Babies are coming. Life, as they say, is good. Life is also pain. Can Humans and Orang overcome the obstacles in their way? Can they, in fact… find a new home?
This story is not erotic and there is minimal sex, if you can call it that. I hope it is romantic, in its own way. It is more a study where the feeling and symptoms are taken from actual case studies about this problem and are all put into one story. Since I have been there and done that, I knew what I was looking for. So there is no one person named Kara -- she is a compilation of hundreds of case studies I read about on sites for this type of problem as background.
Once, magic worked. Centuries before Babylon, a boy from a poor family and little physical skill found a place through talent and hard study. His desires--safety, food, a woman’s affection--were in reach. But life was often short and risky: disease and drought, fire and enemy blades always loomed. To escape death, the apprentice hid away his spirit in a dangerous spell. He didn’t expect to sleep so long. Now, there are no sorcerers. Everything changed. And yet... / (Reviews)
A Story in the Dizyntk Imperium Universe
Virathea journeys home for the first time in years in order to recover from her wounds. She is also bringing her new human mate with her. Will Cynthia be able to prove herself to those of Virathea's family that still hold the same view of humans that Virathea herself once had?
Her 50th birthday was a total disaster for Wendy Barton; she was in a terrible mood and let it be known throughout the plant that it was not to be mentioned. Of course, as a joke, new employee Ryan Whalen was urged to wish her a happy birthday. First, sparks flew but romance was not long in coming, despite the disparity of their ages.