Fairies threaten the world of artifice and technology, forcing the royal family to solve a riddle to stop their world from irrevocable change; a dishonest merchant uses automatons as vessels for his secrets and lies; a woman discovers the secret of three princesses whose shoes get scuffed while they sleep. These and so many other steampunk and gaslamp fairy tales await within the pages of Clockwork, Curses and Coal.Retellings of Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea,...

Foreston is the kind of place where no one expects anything out of the ordinary to happen. But when a sudden storm brings twelve days of rain to the town, strange things begin occurring in spades. Household objects vanish without a trace, townsfolk start exhibiting psychic powers, and twenty mysterious strangers show up on the town’s doorstep in the middle of the night. The Foreston sheriff believes he can get to the bottom of all of the weirdness around town, but with the laws of nature b...

A young woman enters a house and doesn’t leave until after she’s long dead. A college student takes a summer job and learns to teleport through bodies of water. The sister of a suicide victim finds herself on a train that brings her nightmares to life. A girl with a unique power tries to prevent an apocalypse from overtaking her town.THE ILLUSTRATED WOMAN is a collection that follows women in situations of hazard. The frame narrative of the book features a woman at a weekend carniv...

Her mischief of ratsHer murder of crowsShe will leave bodies wherever she goes…When a strange moon rises above the sister towns of Mire and Ember Hollow, Endicott Thyne is not the only witch to notice. She and her best friend Gabriela head to the woods where they encounter two other witches, Xandra and Maritza. Together, the four discover that this moon signals the Season of the Witch, a time of great magical potential that occurs every three...

There is a mermaid in this book.There is a sea monster.There are sirens.This book has monsters and murders, elephants and polar bears and wolves, of a kind. It has crappy jobs and happy escapes. It has funerals and hospitals and hope.Its homes are haunted by people haunted by the things they cannot face. Its halls are quiet, its colors are loud, and it will take you on a journey if you’re willing to stay the course.Are you?

Sela Glaser has been an initiated witch for a few months now. But the perks of having powers are not proving as helpful as she’d hoped. If anything, Sela’s life has gained a whole new set of complications, and this witch needs a break now more than ever.Life as part of the magickal community is exciting, and Sela is making all sorts of witch and familiar friends. Even so, she still hasn’t got a handle on her hustle, running from job to job just to make ends meet. As if that weren’t...

Sela Glaser is hurrying to one of her many temp jobs when she nearly runs over a talking cat named Sable. He reveals that Sela is a soon-to-be witch and he’s going to be her familiar. For a twenty-seven-year-old failed artist with heaps of student debt and no career prospects, this is pretty ground-breaking news. As Sable prepares Sela for her Nascent Eve, a witch’s ritual initiation, she finds herself dreaming of witches she’s never met before. Then, Sela meets what very well might be the...

There is a mermaid in this book. There is a sea monster. There are sirens. This book has monsters and murders, elephants and polar bears and wolves, of a kind. It has crappy jobs and happy escapes. It has funerals and hospitals and hope. Its homes are haunted by people haunted by the things they cannot face. Its halls are quiet, its colors are loud, and it will take you on a journey if you're willing to stay the course. Are you?

"I am always ready for a return trip to Whisper Lake. I love the small town and the friendly people who live there. Barbara Freethy makes her characters come to life on the page." NJ - GoodreadsAfter three years of being a single mom, café owner Chloe Morgan is finally ready to take another chance on love. She's found the perfect man in Joel Bradshaw. He checks all her boxes when it comes to stability, commitment, and accountability.And then Jo...

Karen wants to start her own club!Karen's best friend Hannie just got an adorable new kitten. Their neighbor Amanda has a cat, too, and Karen has grumpy old Boo-Boo. Now that they all have cats, Karen comes up with a great idea. She wants to start a Kittycat Club!What will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like her big sister Kristy... but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want to hire Karen and her friends?

This is a novella tying up the SEALs of Steel series.A prosthetic design engineer, Kat Greenwald is in love with Badger Horley. The former SEALs team leader is the love of her life. But she's seen and heard firsthand of the fears and commitment issues Badger and his closest friends--once part of Navy special operations teams--struggle with on a daily basis. During their weekly get-togethers, the women in love with these former SEALs open up to each other about their longing to tie ...

Although written in first person, this fourth volume of Haunted is a recounting of ghostly encounters from several of my friends. As with the other volumes, all stories are believed to be 100% true. Each story teller has been carefully questioned about any and all details pertaining to the story they had to tell. Unlike the other three volumes, there are no sweet little blue girls, or protective entities to be found among these frightening tales of diabolical occurrences. This is an adult ...