Ann is in deadly peril. Out of a job, out of money, and out of luck. Harried and pursued, trapped under the waters of Puget Sound, death is reaching for her with hands of icy darkness.But this night, Ann has had one small piece of luck. She's been given a magical ring, along with the admonition, "Never take it off, and, be ready for wonder." And this night, deep under the water, the ring is blazing with light, like the incandescent heart of a star.A frozen moment, a flick o...

Samantha Hanover has survived a brutal winter on the North Dakota Plain. Now, with spring in the air, she hopes to put her past behind her—until she meets Rob Reiker, a cowboy surgeon, who somehow triggers a connection between Samantha and Teal-Eye, a woman of times long past.Teal-Eye, is in trouble. She is far from her home and her people, forever the outsider among the High Mountain Clan, forever lonely. Now, her one chance at happiness, marrying the man she calls Bear, is about ...

Psychologist Barbara Kosmin has never had a patient like William Foster: handsome, personable, and quite possibly a mass murderer. Four women have died within a year of marrying the man, in a way that brought him million dollar insurance settlements. That's so unlikely an occurrence that even he's certain he's caused their deaths, either by design, or by possessing the proverbial kiss of death. In desperation, Bill has turned to Barbara for help—or perhaps, to seek yet another victim....

Inside, you'll meet Artemis, the goddess whose uncle misplaced her; Glor, who wishes, desperately, to join those at the frolic. You'll meet Nacky, Chaz and the dead babies; Stephanie who seeks that special tingle of true love; James Bond and Coldfinger; The Oozing Horror, and a dozen more.What do they all have in common? A touch of strange.

Romantic SuspenseDelia Weintraub has done something foolish with a business card that a beautiful woman dropped in the snow. On a whim, she handed it to an intensely handsome man, as if it was her own. Now, the woman whose name is on the card lies dead at the bottom of a flight of stairs, and Delia just might be next. Her life has been turned upside down, and as if that were not enough, the man who may have killed the woman of the business card claims to have fallen in love with he...

It seems so simple. Wear a magical safety amulet and you become invulnerable. Buy a health amulet and you'll never get sick. Who would be against that…other than the doctors, the dentists, the pharmacies, and the insurance companies who will be put out of business.Miles Grant, Presidential Science Advisor doesn't believe in magic. As far as he's concerned, the wizards, who have appeared everywhere, are selling magical devices as part of a plot to conquer the Earth. Already, entire ...

Life has been unkind to Linda. Born dirt-poor, her dreams of love dashed by the men she trusted, she is alone, without friends, and haunted by memories so terrible they must be suppressed. But seeking a place to stay brings a chain of events that will propel a country girl with no future into a world she could never have imagined. Can she outrun her haunted past and find the love she's been denied? Her life may just depend on doing that.

Dani Cahn, private investigator, ex-cop, and the daughter of Blackjack Cahn, seeks the monster who tortured and murdered her man. That won't be easy. She's a skilled detective, true, but her specialty is catching cheating husbands, not homicidal maniacs. And as if that's not enough of a problem, Dani can't bring herself to fire her pistol in anger. That matters because the monster she seeks is hungry for her blood. But the worst of all is Norman Lieb. Somehow no matter how much she tries t...

Vampires are fun, but silly. Blood has no magical power. It can't reanimate the dead or give super strength. And it certainly can't give a full sized human the power to turn into a bat weighing less than four pounds.Yet Romi is a vampire, beautifully and uniquely so, though not at all like any you may have encountered.Disappearing fangs make little sense either. Still Romi's are very, very real. And if she chooses to use them on you, you'll thank her, and beg her to return....

Gary Niles planned nothing more than what any lawyer might do on a quiet Saturday: A round of golf, followed by a bit of shopping, then dinner. His plan certainly didn't include meeting two tiny women with oddball powers, like levitating pizza and delivering static shocks.He never intended to jump from world to world, interfere with a foreign government, or, tunnel into a prison. He especially didn't expect to learn how to fwoosh.But Gary wasn't careful when he pulled the s...

Inside, you'll meet Artemis, the goddess whose uncle misplaced her; Glor, who wishes, desperately, to join those at the frolic. You'll meet Nacky, Chaz and the dead babies; Stephanie who seeks that special tingle of true love; James Bond and Coldfinger; The Oozing Horror, and a dozen more.What do they all have in common? A touch of strange.

Chuck Boswell is in trouble. A fall down a steep hillside has left him helpless and alone, his leg broken, on a chill October night. In response to his frustrated cry of, "A miracle might be a nice idea about now, because my guardian angel seems to be asleep on the job," the last thing he expects to hear in response is, "Well if you weren't such a moron you wouldn't need a guardian angel."But Chuck's problems really begin in the morning, when he wakes to find an angel sleeping next...