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It starts with a promise: perfect understanding. The Tapestry connects minds, sharing thoughts, feelings, memories—instantly, beautifully. Hailey Walker isn’t interested. Happy to keep her small-town life private, she and her husband, Thomas, agreed: no implants, no Tethering, no surrendering their thoughts to anyone. Period. But as social pressure mounts and tragedies blamed on the Untethered spark riots, Thomas starts to crack—making a choice that shatters everything.

Three bodies. Three days. One impossible choice. When vampire detective Samantha Nightshade finds a murder victim drained of blood and marked with runes that haven't been used in 170 years, she knows she's dealing with more than a rogue supernatural. Someone is conducting a ritual—and the next sacrifice might be her.

Detective Samantha Nightshade's life takes a turn for the supernatural when her boyfriend Damon reveals his true nature—by turning her into a vampire. But the undead don't get sick days, and Samantha is thrust into a high-profile murder case the very next morning. Art collector Albert Rothschild is found dead in a gallery, drained of blood with telltale fang marks on his neck. As Samantha investigates, she must navigate her new nocturnal nature while keeping her partner in the dark. With each clue, she's drawn deeper into a shadowy world where art, murder, and vampires collide.

Sharpshooter Melinda West, 29, has encountered more than her share of supernatural creatures after a monster infection killed her mother. Now, Melinda and her charismatic partner, Lance, offer their exterminating services to desperate towns, fighting everything from giant flying scorpions to psychic bugs. But when they accidentally release a demon, they must track a dangerous outlaw across treacherous lands and battle a menagerie of creatures—all before an army of soul-devouring monsters descend on Earth.

The Back of Your Pickup: Poems of Love, Loss, and the Roads That Never Led Home. I remember the summer heat sticking to my skin, the radio humming a song we half-knew, and your hand tapping the steering wheel like you had nowhere to be but everywhere to go. The back of your pickup wasn’t just a truck bed—it was a church, a confessional, a place where love was whispered under a sky too big for the things we couldn’t say. The Back of Your Pickup is a collection of poetry that lingers in the spaces between love and loss, between leaving and staying, between who we were and who we became.

In the heart-pounding sequel to "Bloodstone," Detective Samantha Nightshade is back, and the stakes are higher than ever. Still adjusting to her new life as a vampire, Sam faces her toughest case yet: a series of gruesome murders that seem to have a supernatural connection. But in a city where monsters lurk in the shadows, nothing is as it seems.

Detective Samantha Nightshade has a knack for weird cases, but this one takes the cake—and might just take her unlife. When funeral homes become crime scenes and the dead refuse to stay buried, Sam finds herself fangs-deep in a mystery that redefines bizarre. A necromancer is on the loose, and they're cooking up a recipe for disaster with ingredients that are all too personal.