Kelly Chan, the magically engineered assassin from the Jonathan Shade series in her first solo adventure!Picking up a package for a friend should be easy, but when the package is at Tally's, a shop that caters to things that go bump in the night, and that package is a woman, things can go south fast.Of course, if the person picking up the package is Kelly Chan, when things go south, bad guys die.But what happens when the bad guys are already dead? O...

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 them out, but my magic-happy cousin, Sabrina, tells me I'm not supposed to touch them. Oops. Too late. Now the damn cards are tuned to me, and if someone else wants to use them, I have to die. Why couldn't she have led with that information?Magic was n...

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...

Ghost of Christmas PastA ghost is haunting a little girl's family every Christmas, so she hires me to get rid of it. The hauntings have escalated from mere sightings to full-fledged possession. I figure it's an open-and-shut exorcism, but the truth is more than I bargained for...A short novelette that takes place before Modern Sorcery.Don't miss any of the action-packed Jonathan Shade urban fantasy thrillers:Mod...

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...

The first three books in the Jonathan Shade seriesIncludes:Modern Sorcery (Book 1)Death by dark magicAs soon as I get over my ex, her father hacks her mother apart with a sword.She hires me to prove dark magic was involved. Hey, it's what I do as a paranormal investigator, so I get why she thinks I can help.But my secretary, Esther, a ghost from the 1920s flapper era, and Kelly Chan, my magic...

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 ...

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...

The Jonathan Shade series continues with books 4-6: The Complete Time Travel TrilogyIncludesAnubis Nights (Book 4)Hunting a dead sorcerer in ancient EgyptSharon shows up with a time god named Chronos, and they send me back to ancient Egypt to stop a dead sorcerer named Henry Winslow from getting the Emerald Tablets of Thoth.No big deal, right? If I can't stop him, the world I know will only be wiped ...

The killings have started again……and the police are looking for a regular killer.Down-and-out bluesman Roy Porter has been living on the streets of Tulsa for years, and he’s seen the pattern of death before. This is no ordinary killer, but a supernatural threat, and Roy knows odds are he’s the next victim.Roy’s only hope is to recruit an aging biker named Jim with a haunted past and blood on his hands. Together they track the killer through the myst...

Are you brave enough to take the dare?When Alex Peterson touches people, he gets flashes of the terrible things they've done. When he admits this in a game of Truth or Dare, his friends dare him to touch the creepy neighbor, who may be a murderer.This short story was originally published in Nightmares Unhinged.

A paranormal investigator tries to help a boy deal with the ghost of his dead, but still abusive father. Of course, the investigator has a secret of his own.This short story originally appeared as a signed/limited chapbook from Roadkill Press back in 1990. It received an honorable mention in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror edited by Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling. "By Death Abused" is also available in the collection QUICK SHOTS by Gary Jonas, s...