Every twenty-eight years, the reign of the old Shalic comes to an end with the arrival of the Black Moon. The symbol of the law is a spear that holds sway over the whole of the Kindred, and is passed onto the old Shalic's successor with the passing of the Black Moon.When the old Shalic is murdered, war between those who carried the spear and those who were to receive it divides the Kindred bent on settling old scores.Only one man stands between them...Tucker Littlefield, an...

Tucker Littlefield is a liar, a thief, a con-man . In an attempt to take advantage of a party thrown by the King, he becomes involved in a kidnapping – the King's niece, Elizabeth, to be exact. Because of his fear of the dark as well as heights, and a good many other things, he finds himself stabbed and bleeding to death. To save him, a Shaman for the Jonda – Daneba – turns him into a soul bearer for the Kindred. In an effort to find Lizie, Littlefield finds the Norha instead and their lea...

Strange lights in the night sky. The baffling case of a woman locked in a basement and two words, repeated continuously by his friend and guide…'IS BELT.'Peter Anderson is a newspaper reporter with a career on the slide. After 27 years he's all but washed up and overlooked for the best jobs.Sent to cover what seems like a mundane piece, about a series of strange lights in the night sky over Arizona, Anderson suddenly finds himself embroiled in one of the strangest events of...

Ben Harris's sister died of cervical cancer more than three years ago… his best friend and her husband, Roger Keswick, disappeared the day before the funeral. For the next six months everyone from the local police to the Department of Defense searched for him but to no avail… it was as if he had simply fallen off the face of the planet only to reappear at work as if nothing were out of the ordinary.Then by the purest of coincidences Ben finds himself pulled back into Roger's life o...

A recent transplant to Southern California, Toby Grant has landed his dream job. He's a service tech for Handy Dandy Services—the premier handyman service in the southland.Things don't go well for Toby on the first day when he is teamed up with Ryan Burnell, a twenty year veteran of Handy Dandy. Toby quickly learns the hardships of being Ryan's partner, and finds himself in one uncomfortable situation after another.In an effort to understand his new partner, Toby accidently...

Jack Laskin is an ordinary man. More than ordinary according to some. Running the family hardware store and a life that would bore a snail, nothing exciting ever seems to happen to him.Then, at his mother's urging, he tries on a pair of his late grandfather's old pants and everything changes -- most importantly his emerging love life. It's not long before his mother and her meddling friends get involved.When an old friend of his grandfather's tells Jack he has something she...

During that last summer, as if in punishment for being happy, Kate was diagnosed with cervical cancer.The last time we used the wishing stone was at the hospital the morning she died.On that day, all three of us made a silent wish, certain the others had wished the same. Kate died that afternoon and I never thought about it again. It was the last time I believed in magic, in love or in the existence of God.Then, after three miserable lonely years, the unthinkable, a ...