Olive Hawthorne is the sole guardian of the sleepy village of Devil’s End. She protects the world from the incursion of demons, vampires, aliens and all manner of otherworldly creatures. But she is getting old … and they keep coming …This is the story of Olive’s life. From her earliest days, through teenage years, middle age, and now old age. Tales of her adventures with monsters and evil … forever battling against the forces of darkness … and forever seeking to keep the world safe...

Bridge was a very successful high school and college football quarterback. But that was years go. He's sitting in a New York Art Gallery allowing his wife to stroll at her leisure, enjoying a free day in the city. A young woman offers him refreshments while he waits, and her smile stuns him. He can't quit staring, wondering why the smile is affecting him deeply. For days he can't shake the memory of that smile. He and his wife are lawyers who've just started a new office in Brooklyn. He be...

Rieliegh's hidden all the money she could save and leaves everything behind the night of her high school graduation. She ends up in New York City scared, hungry, and alone. To get out of the cold, she meets Betty, the owner of a great bakery who gives her work and a room to keep her off the streets. She wanders into a prestigious art gallery, meeting the owner and given the opportunity of a lifetime-to be her first apprentice. During the first gallery event, she meets a renowned artist who...

What do you do when you realise that the bad guys might care more about you than the good ones?Ricky’s on the edge of a life of crime. Skipping college to steal cars in the aftermath of his father’s death in action, it’s not surprising that his dreams are vivid and seem almost real.Calith’s just on the edge of a life. Snatched from Ricky’s world to another place altogether, Calith’s found out that when you’ve grown up with the enemy, it’s hard to make friends....

A collection of short stories celebrating all that is weird in our world, including escaped murderers, haunted fairgrounds, genetic engineering and population control. From a twist-in-the-tale shortie to an adaptation of an episode of a UK horror television series, by means of fantasy, mythology and urban sf/horror, there's something here for everyone.This is an adult collection – no explicit sex (that I can remember), but some stories contain swearing.(10 stories, approx 4...

Michael Redford died on his seventeenth birthday – the night Eddie picked him up off the street, shot him full of heroin and assaulted him.Now he’s Mikey and he works for Joss. With streaked blond hair and a cute smile, he sleeps by day and services clients at night. Sometimes he remembers his old life, but with what he’s become now, he knows there is no return to his comfortable middle-class background.Then he makes a friend in Lee. A child of the streets, Lee demands more...

It’s Eddie’s trial and Michael is reliving things he’d much rather forget. Giving evidence means he can’t hide, and there are still people looking for him and old debts to be repaid.A year of counselling isn’t enough. Face to face with the man who raped him, Michael can’t deal with it. Trainee reporter Becky follows him out of court, but she gets more than a story when a phone call and security alert mean Michael is on the run for his life.But running away never solved a pr...

Michael is piecing his life back together after his time spent as a rent boy. But it's hard and although he's been clean of drugs for months, the nightmares are still too real and he can't come to terms with Lee's death and Eddie's impending trial.Sometimes other people's troubles can seem easier to deal with. When Michael meets Amanda at the cashpoint, it's a chance to focus on someone other than himself, and finding Amanda's missing husband and baby may just be his salvation....

Lenny’s been released early from prison. He’s got a normal and boring job, and he’s living a normal and boring life in a small flat in Liverpool. But Lenny’s never done normal. Or boring. Everything comes with a price and the local cops have already been in touch, expecting him to provide intelligence about his old life in London.Then an email sends him racing back down south. It’s not the best idea he’s ever had, but it’s Becky who’s contacted him and she’s always been his weak sp...

The DI handling Lenny’s trial seems to think he can control the rest of Lenny’s life too. He’s made him an offer – help the police pull in one of London’s biggest criminals and there might be a way to stay out of prison.Lenny knows that going after Jackson isn’t going to be easy. And finding a way back into his old life will be near-impossible. After putting his gangland boss behind bars, it looks like everybody is out to get him, but at least there’s the novelty of having the cops...

Lenny’s turned his back on the past. In return for police protection and a lighter sentence, he’s grassed up his old gangland boss and he’s hoping that eventually he’ll be free to start a new life with Amanda.But the past isn’t giving up on him yet. New man on the block Mick Carlotti fancies himself as a crime lord – he doesn’t have the contacts or the business acumen, but he knows a man who does. He also knows exactly how to get Lenny to play ball.Caught between Carlotti’s...

In the second novel set in the “darkly fascinating world” (SF Site) of Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels Trilogy, ambitions unfurl as the realm’s dreams of a liberator have finally been made flesh...The Blood have waited centuries for the coming of Witch, the living embodiment of magic. But Jaenelle, the young girl singled out by prophecy, is haunted by the cruel battles fought over her—for not all the Blood await her as their Savior. Some dismiss her as a myth. Some refu...