Even the best brains need a little vacation. When a bored brain makes an escape, a child goes on a zany adventure to track down a wandering mind and make it home in time for dinner.

Black Mare Books serves up some fun-sized treats from Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey, A.B. Richards, and Claire A. Murray.In this grab-bag of Halloween shorts, you’ll find an assortment of killers and creeps. You may want to log off your Zoom meeting to play with the nice birdies. Perhaps kick back with a premium pizza before you go for a long walk in the dark woods? Or maybe you’ve wanted to run away to join the circus? Sounds like more fun than keeping a date with Death.But...

This is a boxed set that contains the first three books in the Marti Keller Mysteries series: The Hanged Man's Wife, The Magician's Children, and The Devil's Advocate. Go with Marti to solve a murder, stop Ragnarok, and suss out just what the weird creature stalking her neighborhood is. If you like your mysteries with a splash of romance and a side of supernatural, this series is for you.

Black Mare Books presents twelve twisted tales from Artemis Greenleaf, Holly Dey, and A.B. Richards.In this Santa’s sack of Christmas yarns, you’ll find an array of monsters of all stripes. You may want to keep a lookout for a possibly rabid coyote when you stop to play with a dolly. Perhaps enjoy a little shopping before you head into the woods to fell a Christmas tree? Or maybe you’ve wanted to go on a holiday cruise? And whatever you do, don’t look a gift bear in the mouth....

In a time when power was absolute and dissent could mean death, Fria is an expendable pawn in her father's power games. When his treachery nearly costs Fria her life, a strange forest girl teaches Fria the skills to claim her own power. And not a moment too soon, because there's something lurking in the woods that is even worse than any human tyrant.

"It was just a simple computer prank. How could I have known that it would almost get us all killed?"When sixteen year old Cai Peterson poses as an online troll to relieve the boredom after being grounded for drinking at a party, he tangles with a cyberstalker who's not only willing to make his virtual life miserable, but his real life as well. As Cai searches for the stalker, it seems like nearly everyone in his sleepy Texas town has something to hide. Surrounded by suspects, Cai h...

Marti Keller was married to the man of her dreams and had a satisfying career as an emergency room nurse. But a soul-shattering tragedy turns her world upside down, leaving her desperately clinging to the one precious thing left in her life. After her search for a work-at-home job leads her to rediscover her long-suppressed ability to communicate with ghosts, she encounters Spam, the restless spirit of a murder victim, who begs her to help bring his killer to justice. She agrees, but her l...

Schuyler Ramsey just wants to be like the other kids in school. Too bad she's dead. Her ghost haunts a farm in windswept western Ireland, along with some of its previous inhabitants. When she partially materializes in front of her sister at breakfast, she is propelled on a quest to stop a fake TV psychic from visiting the farm and stirring up trouble. Along the way, she visits a famous pirate, helps a mermaid rescue a basking shark from fishermen, and encounters Nicniven, queen of the dark...

A Box Office Smash, or Smash, as his friends know him, was born to be a show horse. He grew to be a champion. But there was something different about him – he was deaf! After he retired from showing, he spent his time hanging out on the farm. But his owner knew he still had so much more to achieve. When she heard about how the Houston Police Department's Mounted Patrol Division used natural horsemanship training with their mounts, she contacted them. Smash was soon on his way to Houston. H...

Being a vegetarian vampire isn't always easy. Carl's dad works night shifts in a warehouse so that he can keep his family in synthetic blood, but longs to be a real estate agent. Carl, desperate not to become a scary vampire, would do anything to help him live his dream, even if it means taking a huge risk to find a mad scientist and getting into trouble.Carl's bat friends, Dari and Foxy, follow him throughout his adventure and share interesting bat facts with readers.

The only thing Kara has ever wanted for Christmas was a pony. Every year, her list was the same – one pony (pretty please with sprinkles on top?). Every year, she got pajamas and plastic horse models, but no pony. Her hopes were high when she and her mother moved out to her grandparents' old farm. But instead of ponies, she found a spoiled fairy princess!When she reluctantly agrees to search for the fairy's missing sugar bowl, she discovers a whole society of fairies, gnomes, and w...

Marti Keller's tumultuous life is looking up. Her budding romance seems nearly perfect -until a series of fatal accidents turns out to be far more sinister than it first appears. Without warning, her life is ripped to shreds by a vengeful demon who threatens everything she holds dear, and the one man who can help her the most is the last one she can turn to. But when she finds herself plunged into a nightmare-haunted mystery, even solving the puzzle may not be enough to save her…