She wants to level up her humdrum existence. But her next quest could spell life or death.Jen Jacobs's nights are spent traversing a strange city finding hidden objects, slaying dragons, and tangling with a host of fellow adventurers. And her days are spent counting down the seconds until she can return to the grind and continue racking up tokens and leveling up.Except Jen isn't playing a video game.It's all real and happening right in New York Ci...

A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance.It's Christmas in Hopeless and the Christmas Cookie Tournament has made its way to town. But Hope Walker, the local investigative reporter, learns there's something much bigger at stake than a top cookie prize.This cookie competition has turned serious. Deadly serious!Join Hope, Katie, Gran...

A modern-day love story that explores childhood trauma, the boundaries between idealism and self-righteousness, and the heartaches we must confront in order to chart our courses forward.Lo Gunderson feels trapped in her small midwestern hometown until she sees an ad for a free car in the local paper. To maintain her staunch anticapitalist values, she refuses to spend money on what she can find for free, so this car is the perfect ticket out of the town. Though it d...

Vampire Cat Crawfield is experiencing a new role as a mother. Turns out, trying to manage a perfect domestic life for her daughter is more … challenging than Cat ever imagined. Since things have finally quieted down in the undead world, her husband, Bones, suggests that Cat recharge by spending a girls-only getaway with her best friend, Denise.Cat and Denise intend to spend the week doing nothing more than dancing, drinking, and sightseeing. Unfortunately, they stumble across a dea...

A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance.Wanda Wegman invented the pumpkin chomping dragon at the pumpkin patch. Then three years ago, she mysteriously vanished. And on a Saturday morning among the pumpkins, she finally returned.After a twelve-year absence from Hopeless, Idaho, investigative reporter Hope Walker continues to find dead bodies. And this time?

Hope Walker is back and things are heating up!Investigative reporter Hope Walker is hitting her groove. She's running a small town newspaper, solving complex mysteries, and things are heating up between her and the local sheriff. But trouble is in the air. A dark mystery swirls around why her mother abandoned her so many years ago. New and confounding murders pop up. And Gemima Clark, Hope's enemy since birth, is up to something nefarious and it mi...

A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance.The Hopeless Tigers just won the biggest football game in school history! But as often happens in the quirky yet snakebitten town of Hopeless, Idaho... there's a bit of a problem. A dead body has shown up.That's right. Another one.As usual, Investigative reporter Hope Walker is on the scene. But this time, the myste...

Since half-vampire Cat Crawfield and her undead lover Bones met six years ago, they’ve fought against the rogue undead, battled a vengeful Master vampire, and pledged their devotion with a blood bond. Now it’s time for a vacation. But their hopes for a perfect Paris holiday are dashed when Cat awakes one night in terror. She’s having visions of a vampire named Gregor, who’s more powerful than Bones and has ties to her past that even Cat herself didn’t know about.Gregor believes Cat...

Sontag’s most important critical writings from 1972 to 1980 are collected in Under the Sign of Saturn. One of America’s leading essayists, Sontag’s writings are commentaries on the relation between moral and aesthetic ideas, discussing the works of Antonin Artaud, Leni Riefenstahl, Elias Canetti, Walter Benjamin, and others.The collection includes a variety of her well-known essays. In “Fascinating Fascism,” Sontag eviscerates Leni Riefenstahl’s attempts to rehabilitate he...

A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance.Walter Pimsey was sophisticated, gruff, and a bit of a bully.And by Saturday morning, he was also quite dead.After a twelve-year absence, investigative reporter Hope Walker has been back in Hopeless for two weeks.Her scorecard?Lost a job. Gained a job. Got hit by a car. Made up with an old friend. Reunited wi...

A funny cozy mystery series full of bold women, a quirky and lovable town, and one seriously hopeless romance.The First Book of Season Two of the Hope Walker Mysteries!While Hope Walker is recovering from the events of Christmas Eve... a funny thing happens. A strange photograph appears. And a curious investigative reporter like Hope Walker smells a story. This time, the story leads her and her best friend Katie to Nebraska.

You can run from the grave, but you can’t hide.Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She’s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her. But when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.Being around him awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline kick of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion t...