Alone in the NightFor a thousand years, the vampire Lucita has lived under the shadow of her tyrannical sire Monçada. Now, the monster who defined her existence is gone, destroyed in no small part thanks to her efforts. All she wishes, is to at last find a place for herself in these Final Nights. But to the rest of the Clan Lasombra, she is a rogue and a killer, a rebel who has assassinated one of their greatest elders.The hunt is on.

In Chains of Night and BloodThe vampire Lucita is a prisoner to the fanatical monsters of the Sabbat, who are forcing her to hunt for a hidden enemy and powerful shadow-caster. Every night in captivity further erodes her soul and enslaves her to the sect born of the murder of the tyrannical progenitor of Clan Lasombra.But soon enough, these concerns fade before the mounting evidence that the enemy they all face is no mad ritualist or lone elder. The shadows...

In Darkness NightA circle of maddened mystics attempts to raise the dread founder of Clan Lasombra from the depths of the otherworldly Abyss. The vampire Lucita and her dubious allies in the bloodthirsty Sabbat must mount a desperate attack to stop them from plunging the world into eternal night.For Lucita, however, the stakes are even greater. After a thousand-year struggle, her soul is slipping into bestial madness with only the blood-rites of her erstwhi...

The Colorado Avalanche entered the 2021-2022 NHL season with a sense of unfinished business. After years of strategic building under Joe Sakic that had produced a truly formidable core of talent, the Avs turned years of postseason heartbreak into fuel for one of the most dominant Stanley Cup playoff runs in recent memory. In Force of Nature, The Athletic's Peter Baugh expertly retraces the team's unforgettable championship season as well as the elements that made it all possible— the compe...

Jacob just wanted to have a good time with his friend Samantha and fellow geeks at the fan convention. But when dead bodies start turning up, Jacob has to start a little early on his hoped-for detective career. After all, the police are out of their depth in a world where nearly everyone wears a costume or uses an alias.But Jacob has a secret of his own, and it looks like someone is bent on revealing him to the entire con. If Jacob's history comes out, his police career will end be...

These are the first and second stories of Robin Archer, the half-Fae charged by the Fairy Queen to protect human children from human predators. With snark, a gun, and a touch of magic, Robin works at the edge of human law to save kids.AND ONLY THE EYES OF CHILDREN: When a child is abducted, the police can't act fast enough to save her. Robin Archer can. (This Pushcart Prize-nominated story was originally published in FAE.)ORPHAN HEIRS & SHADES OF NIGHT: A Halloween tale! Wh...

In the final days of the Genpei War, a court lady, now a Buddhist nun, sits on an undecorated ship with her tiny grandson, the rightful emperor of Japan. They have fled the revolting Minamoto clan across mountains and seas, taking this final stand at what will be known as the battle of Dan-no-ura. Now, with nowhere left to flee, they face treachery too.This award-winning short story has been honored in multiple contests and is offered here by itself for the first time.

Someone is waging war against Christmas.Mrs. Claus—like you've never imagined her—is going to stop them.The war on Christmas is real this year, with supply chain issues ranging from lost toys to murdered elves. Mrs. Claus intends to get to the bottom of this, with every skill her valkyrie background can lend. She'll team up with the undead and find out what's really happening this holiday season.2021 Realm Award winner for Best Audio Drama

The prequel short story to the Heathcliff Lennox murder mystery series. This ebook can also be found on https://karenmenuhin.com/The Great War. Spring, 1918. Major Heathcliff Lennox and his batman Greggs, are told to report to their new HQ. They set off on a sunlit day to fly the distance, but the enemy is never far away, and disaster strikes. They're sent crashing to the ground, behind enemy lines ,into the ravaged fields of France.Their chances of escape are slim, until h...

Supernatural loner and wanderer, Sage Smith returns in Desert of the Damned, the second thrilling installment of K. F. Baugh's Sage of Sevens Series.When Sage awakens in a remote canyon of New Mexico after a flash flood, injured and alone, she can’t remember how she got there. Tween cousins Maddie and Orion Thompson rescue and bring her to the home of Noreen Hano, elder of the nearby Native American Pueblo, to recuperate.While Sage works at the nearby Thompson Vineyard, her...

Get in. Get it. Get out. Get even.Freelancers Galen and Lisveth are specialists in odd jobs that require magic and muscle. They've just been hired for a simple pickup job in a rural town, and surely it will be just as simple as it seems. Surely.Snarky friendship, magic, and small town drama feature in this bonus story from the upcoming epic fantasy series.

"I found myself entranced""...engaging characters moving about in a world that is surprisingly vivid for a short story"Marsden cannot remember his real name, nor how he came to be a valet for the schoolboy son of a powerful magician. Phantom wisps of incense and narrow glimpses of memory are all he has, until he chances upon a family secret which only compounds intrigue. What might his young master Abel know of his amnesia? What binds him to the Wensleys? And why does he, a ...