The second volume includes the following novellas:Blood of RulersThe Trickster of Asgard has many jobs: right arm of the All-Father, agent, assassin, spy, scholar, sorcerer, hacker, council member… Now Loki can add two more at the same time: investigator and diplomat. Can he handle looking for a threat to all realms and negotiating a peace treaty at the same time?Protectors of EarthCan the Trickster of Asgard be caught on ca...

The first volume includes the following novellas:Heart of IceDoes the Trickster of Asgard have a heart? And if he does, can it be broken? And if it can be broken, what will happen to those who break it? A chance meeting on a rescue mission turns Loki's world - for the good and the bad.Birth of GodsPeople get wiser as they get older, they say. The Trickster of Asgard, however, never does things the way other people do them. A...

When a good friend asks Alexandra for her help in defeating a creature which might or might not be supernatural, she immediately agrees to come along. After all, the old people back home in Hungary say she's especially good at that. Yet, once the hunt has begun, she slowly begins to understand what it truly means to be an In-Between.

The second volume is dedicated to three more cases:The Casino HeistOn the night of the grand opening of the first casino in town, there is a robbery. The following night, the casino is accused of having a tampered-with roulette table. Maddie Dempsey takes an interest in these things and so does The Eye when the Queen of Hearts herself suggests a cease-fire to investigate who might have manipulated the table. Finding herself working alongside the Queen's men for a change, Th...

The first volume collects the following three misdeeds:StrayGabrielle Munson takes a busman's holiday to Italy to 'liberate' a necromantic text from the library of a town. Unfortunately, while she's there to steal the book, other burglars kill a librarian. Now Gabrielle is in the hot seat, because she's the only one who has stolen something from the library and both the police and the inquisition are hot on her tail. Will she make it out of the town alive and with the book ...

The calm lives of twin sisters Joanna and Alice Conrad are disturbed by the arrival of the worldly Madame Ducreux. What does the alchemist, chemist, and physician plan to do in London and why does she seem to think that Joanna and Alice might spoil her plans? One thing becomes clear early, though: There will be blood before this is over. It's good, then, that neither Joanna nor Alice are shy of spilling a little of it.

The Third Reich was supposed to last 1,000 years. It fell after 13. What if the Nazis had tried again after mastering genetics and their uses?Jonathan Cooper lives in the Fourth Reich where all of this happened and a man like him, with an Angelo-British father and a Kenyan mother is below the Aryan master race. In his darkest hour, though, he is saved by a strange, dark-skinned woman with resources none of the resistance cells can match. Who is the mysterious Loki and can she bring...

The Devil's Bull:An invitation to a calm weekend with mages turns foul when all of them are supposed to be sacrifices for the continued existence of their host. The trap has been well-prepared and there is no way the sacrifices can just run away. Will Isadora and Baron Asmodeus find a way past the wards blocking the mages' powers and show their host that it was a bad idea to include them as sacrifices?The Body Cathedral:Isadora is in trouble: she has many wraiths to...

The Monster of Crow CanyonHer work takes Vivian Boone, the Brass Marshal, to Crow Canyon where a strange monster has attacked two mines and disturbed the peace. Is the enormous snake which several people have seen real or just imagination? If it is real, what is it?The Disappearing CattleCows have been disappearing from several ranches without a trace and Vivian is in the area to visit an old friend of her mother who has moved west....

Jessica Blake is a villain, even by her own understanding. She builds robots and extorts money from government — while she's not in jail, that is. Starflame is a hero whose job it is to make sure Jessica is in jail, but there's more to it.When strange robots turn up on earth and wreak havoc, things begin to shift, then a court sentence forces Jessica to change her plans severely. Yet, changing plans are not the worst for a villain — they're good at dealing with them.

The Case of the Bruised Bachelor in which crime comes close to the Stanton family and John has to hide his actions from his brothers.The Case of the Mighty Minotaur in which John has to use all of his hunting skills to remove a 'bull man' who causes mayhem and fear in a small village.The Case of the Stage Scare in which John meets the love of Lewis' life and has to face a mysterious spectre before it causes a death.

This is a collection of six short stories about DI Colin Rook.The Cursed GraveyardWhen DI Colin Rook is transferred into the department where careers go to die, the paranormal department of the Met, he has to learn that there are more things on our planet than he thought. Zombies and revenants are only a small part of it all.The Deadly PerformanceColin Rook just wants to have a nice night at an art performance, spending time w...