Girl in the water…Hey, I’m no hero, but what am I supposed to do when I see a beautiful girl floating in the turbulent sea off the coast of Santorini? I can’t let her drown, so I dive in to save her.Turns out her name is Aria, and she’s from the lost city of Atlantis. I’m instantly smitten, but she’s on a mission to save her brother from a deadly Atlantean hunter. I’m out of my league, but I agree to help her.Bad idea. I’m just a regular guy, but no...

Small towns hide deadly secrets…When Helen Cather dies, her daughter, Melissa, must fulfill her mother’s final request to spread her ashes in Mystic Hollow’s fishpond. When Melissa arrives in the small Colorado mountain town, she feels like she’s stepped into the past. There are no cellphones, no internet, no cable television. She soon discovers that the residents have been reliving the year 1973 for forty-six years.The dark secret of Mystic Hollow is tied ...

Life sucks. My old man makes me work for a big-ass witch named Lakesha so I can learn magic and help people. My first gig turns out to be an abduction, which sounds like a job for law enforcement, not a half-assed wizard like yours truly. Just my luck though – it’s a ghost that’s been snatched, which is right in my wheelhouse.Why would anyone want to kidnap a ghost? And why should I care one way or the other? I prefer power napping to kidnapping.But when the abductors use t...

Warning: This book eats souls.A Satanic cult abducts two girls, slaughtering the rest of the family in a brutal ritual. To save the girls, Peter Chessman, an occult specialist, recruits the only man ever to face off with the cult and survive: Mark Hunter.But Mark is a pale shadow of the man he was, and the cult is run by the wealthy elite. They own politicians, judges, and key members of the Department of Justice. They are untouchable, and time is ...

The gun is loaded.Ready…Before he started the Jonathan Shade series, Gary Jonas paid his dues writing and selling short stories to various anthologies and magazines. On deck we have twenty-nine tales of horror, fantasy, and suspense.Aim…“By Death Abused” a paranormal investigator must rescue a little boy from his dead, but still abusive father.“The Blood on Satan’s Harley” a headless biker roams the highways in sear...

Frankenstein's Monster on a MotorcycleNo, that's not a saying like "holy guacamole," it's my latest case.My friend Lina hires me because a home invasion crew attacked her nephew and cut off his arms. Naturally, she wants me to get Leonard's arms back. So I track the crew and discover the arms are now being worn by a member of an outlaw biker club.The club is run by a man assembled back in the 1700s by a friend of Benjamin Franklin (yes, that

Ghost with a broken heartOn a dark highway, a creature from the Void confronts a lonely ghost, ready to feed on her memories.The ghost is Esther Carmichael, and she's been through so much anguish since she died. She's ready to bid farewell to her existence until the creature awakens something inside her.Now she's dying to live.Esther is a beloved character from the Jonathan Shade urban fantasy series, and while this short story takes place s...

This house is haunted…A woman asks for my help because she thinks her rental house is haunted. No problem. I deal with ghosts all the time. It looks like a quick and easy fix. But when are my cases ever easy? This one takes a turn to the nasty right off the bat because it’s not just a ghost haunting the house. And of course what lurks in the darkness is powerful enough to kill me.But if it were an easy case, I wouldn’t have a reason to talk about it. I only...

International enemies of the supernatural variety...A woman hires me to find her missing son. Sounds simple, right? Guess again. Spencer and his sister were snatched by a powerful occult order known as Stella Arcanum. The group operates in the subterranean catacombs beneath Paris.Finding them is easy.Surviving them...?

Four books about a slacker wizard in one place.He must have been too lazy to separate them.The Complete Half-Assed Wizard SeriesIncludes:The Half-Assed Wizard (Book 1)A couple of jerks wake me up at the crack of noon. Seems my klepto uncle stole an ancient deck of Tarot cards from a high-powered wizard, and too many losers want to ruin my day to get them back.The cards are cool, so I check th...

WE ARE NOT ALONEWhen Steve Riley stops for a burger on a road trip, a dying man hands him a file that proves the US government has aliens in captivity. Before he can even process that information, he's thrown into an ongoing battle between a secret breakaway group within the government, a private organization investigating UFOs, and different contingents of aliens from outer space who have been visiting Earth for millennia, and are on the verge of war.But w...

My old man sics a nuisance demon named Kevin on me to force me to grow up and stop being a slacker. The only way I can expel the jerk is to develop magic I create and control. Until then, Kevin plans to push me, prod me, and annoy me into action.It's one thing to miss a few naps, but Kevin shoves me into a dispute between a Greek god who wants to be a rock star and some hot women I thought were just myths, but make wonderful music together. Now I have to learn magic or the only nap...