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Driven out of Chicago by a spiteful heiress, life coach Charly Redbird is ready for a change. She moves to Florida to be closer to her family, and vows to be more selective about future clients. With the help of Dylan Graham, a hunky real estate agent, Charly finds a perfect home across the street from a cemetery. When he shows up with a plant and two tiny balls of fluff as a housewarming present, Charly thinks she might be smitten with more than the kittens.

In his dimension, Earth had evolved differently. Hundreds of millions of years ago, a meteor with unique properties smashed into his version of the little planet positioned between Venus and Mars, changing how the world’s lifeforms and even continents developed. An inhabitant of our world would never recognize his as the same planet by looking at a map of it, and would be especially skeptical if they were to gaze upon some of the inhuman races who dwelled there.

The thing about monsters is, they show up when you least expect it. I come home from a romantic weekend with my feller and found one sitting on my couch. This'un wanted me to hunt down Athena's Gorgoneion, an ancient Greek amulet, and was willing to pay dearly for the work. Meanwhile, my friend Miss Jenny went missing, her feller Proteus, a primordial Greek god, was trapped in his house by cyclops, and a hellhole opened up out on Devil's Branch. Trouble was brewing and brewing big.

Veronica moves from Lisbon to Providence to escape her past and begin a new life as a research assistant at Brown University’s Portuguese Department. When she sees Victor on stage for the first time, his unnatural gaze immediately sparks an intense déjà-vu. Could the spellbinding musician be connected to her strange recurring dream of a past life in Renaissance Europe? Set between present day US and Portugal during the Age of Discoveries, The Watchers is a thrilling tale of love, humanity, and the mysteries of our universe.

When Lucy McAdam accepted a job at a Western ranch, she never expected parties, men in suits, and suitors of all kinds. But most of all, she didn't expect to fall in love with anyone like Walt Carmack, the gambling, hard-drinking son of the biggest ranch owner around. Walt was hardworking, too, from sunup to sundown every day of the week - that was how he had broken his leg and ended up on crutches.

If you enjoy realistic, faith-filled fiction, you want to visit Piercehaven.

On the seventh day of Christmas, I and my buddy David Eckstrom finally got around to holding that shindig we've been talking about for so long. Only, we weren't the only bodies looking for a good time on New Year's Eve. There were monsters afoot on the lake, and the remedy for 'em was something I didn't expect at all.

Event Planner and earthly Cupid Tori Sutherland enjoys nothing more than playing matchmaker for lonely hearts. Too bad Tori will never find her own happy-ever-after, because the only guy she ever loved moved on years ago. Heath Castillo managed to escape his dysfunctional family for a career in major-league baseball. His only regret was not acting upon his desire for his best friend. When an injury threatens his livelihood, Heath has no choice but to face the ghosts of his past.

What if love awaits not around the corner but in a parallel reality at the edge of the universe or through the looking glass? In this collection of short stories, explore love from eight different angles of weird, fantastical, and out-of-this-world. The stories in this collection include: "Tiny Moments", "Our Song", "Brain", "A Mutual Feeling", "A Lover's Kiss", "Time After Time", "Intersections", and "Small Talk in Elevators".

Nikki Calhoun is on the run, fueled by terror of the shadowy world she had married into. Desperate to survive and nowhere to hide, Nikki turns to the wolf-shifter pack of her childhood, but it’s hard for her to trust anyone, even the people closest to her. Enforcer and bear-shifter Bret Axel receives a call from his cousin who manages his Portland nightclub about suspicious activity. After obtaining the approval of his Alpha, he travels to Portland. Two nights later, screams of a woman shatter the silence of the dock and with the help of his cousin, they save her from being killed.

A young lobsterman is missing. Is it foul play? And why is James acting so weirdly? Emily is trying to plan a wedding, but does she really know the man she's about to marry? Does she really know anyone on the island?

All the money in the world won’t bring you happiness if the strings attached are pulled so tight you can’t breathe. Faith Morgan couldn’t breathe. Controlled all her life by a dominating father whose wealth influenced his actions and prejudices, Faith spent her teen years defying every rule Lionel Morgan made. Buddy Lee Walker is Boyd Walker’s son and mad as hell about it. He hasn’t been anybody’s boy since his mama died when he was six. When his no-account daddy went to prison for a bungled bank robbery and armed assault, 16-year-old Buddy Lee shouted “Hallelujah!"

Piercehaven Power wants to erect two windmills on Chicken Hill. Some islanders will do anything to stop this from happening. Will the controversy rip this tight-knit community apart? Can Emily's new softball team put this small Maine island back together again?

Wolf-shifter Vanessa Burns has survived a life of brutality and neglect. Being kidnapped, drugged, and forced into an underground fighting ring is just the beginning of one man’s sick and twisted obsession. Travis Kameron, the alpha of the Crescent Ice pack, suffering a similar fate, wakes up to find his life is about to be irreparably changed by the fierce she-wolf in the next cage. Can they put aside old rivalries and the past and work together to not only survive and escape but also weather the storm of complications, revenge, and betrayals waiting for them on the outside?

Four dark tales of the holiday spirit. In "Christmas Eve Gift", Old Bill sets out on her annual Christmas Eve journey to her niece's house and encounters an unexpected darkness along the way. In "A Dark Christmas", Alice, a dark daughter of the vampire, Elizabet, turns the table on a family of hunters. In "On the 7th Day of Christmas", Sunny finally gets to throw a party, only a monster shows up and twists a small kink into her New Year's Eve festivities. In "Twelfth Night", A 13-year-old encounters the Woman with No Face for the first time.

Emily is so excited to start her new teaching job on a remote Maine island. It seems God is really dropping all the puzzle pieces of her life into place. There's even a handsome lobster man in play. But the island also harbors a long-kept dark secret, and it's up to Emily to figure out what it is and what she's going to do about it.

After my uncle Fame run his wife off for messing around with his brother, we thought for sure we seen the last of 'em. Good riddance to bad blood, right? Only, weren't no Happy Ever After in store for any of us....

When my boy Henry was killed, I tracked a pooka through the deep wood for three days with no food in my gut and only my daddy's hunting knife for comfort. Was what got me into the monster killing business, that pooka, and I ain't regretted a single day of it since. The day I stumbled on a four-legged critter with human eyes, the rightness of my revenge begun to unravel, leading me to a clan of two-natured shifters what'd been living under my nose the whole time.

My itchy feet drug me to the ATL one night for a light flirt, but I didn't get me no R and R. 'Stead, I found a hobo, a ghost, and a trio of vampires, and me with my best weapons locked in the trunk of my daddy's car. That'll learn me to drive down to the city, if I made it off the Gold Line alive.

October Fey was 16 when she witnessed her father's murder. After Bobby and his riders took retaliation on Marshal Fey, October was left alone and had no other family to call her own. Years later, a trail of deceased lawmen and the towns they once protected are found without a trace of residents. Like breadcrumbs left behind, October eventually catches onto the gunslingers trail. With the skills her father had taught her at a young age, she wields his six-gun and the will for vengeance, determined to send Bobby Clancey and his riders back to the grave.