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Now they have a wedding to plan. But when a mysterious child is delivered to Blake on their wedding day, he must choose if they will take him in, or turn him out into the cold.

Michael Hawkins and Cecelia "Celie" Moore are vampires in love. They've endured both attacks from demons and magic spells that split them apart. Now comes something new to wreak havoc in their lives. Her name is Cressida and she's an incredibly powerful vampire that has been playing the long game for decades, desperate to enact revenge. After all this time, she's grown tired of waiting, tired of letting others do her dirty work. She's ready to take the final steps to separate Michael and Celie for good.

Armed with family legends and a blessed sword dating back to the first crusades, Hunter Blackfox leaves the reservation in Cherokee, North Carolina to replace a fallen member of Team Nightly and help protect the city of Savannah.

Michael Hawkins and Cecelia "Celie" Moore were living in vampiric bliss until a historic feud showed up on their doorstep. The SpellCasters had spent centuries wiping out vampires, and now they had Michael and Celie in their crosshairs. What began as a fun-filled weekend turned into treacherous spells that separated lovers across oceans and defiled their memories. Now the true struggle begins as they fight to recover what was stolen from them: their memories, their lives, and their love.

Malaika is a prince with a secret. A demon known as the Shetani prevents him from living a normal life. After humans attack his family, he is sent into exile to prevent the humans from destroying the Pride. The humans look to bring balance from evil at the behest of a darkness pretending to be their god.

When Candice Parker married the love of her life on Christmas Eve, her romance with Gerald Ford became a family affair. Over the years, their network of loved ones grew as they faced perils great and small. While the pandemic raged, the group affectionately deemed themselves the Bubble, and their ties remained as life returned to normal.

There is something alive in the haunted house at the fair. Meriwa and her friends find that out first hand, and it changes their lives for the worse. This suspenseful, supernatural tale delves into the realm of darkness, but gives hope for the light.

In the '80s and '90s, Paul Kramer was a DEA agent for years; he confiscated drugs and money from the cartels. Now in 2022, he lives in Seattle with his daughter, but his past is about to catch up with him. Even retirement can't hide a man from Yesterday's Shadow.

It was a beautiful sunny Thursday morning in the countryside west of Pine Cove, Florida. It was June 1978. Today was a perfect day for flying with scattered puffy clouds at six thousand and two hundred feet, and the winds were around eight knots from the northeast.

Ami could not have faced the truth without the support of her dearest friends. Her plans for the future irrevocably altered, she must take on the dragons and stand for what is right over what is easy. Forgiving her mother and father for their deceit, she has made the choice to move against the dragons, but the price has already been high, and the battle has hardly begun. Only through the help of her comrades can the civil war be brought to an end and the shadows that threaten all of Eriden be removed. The finale is near, but the danger will be greater than the group has ever faced.

The journey of life is tough enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may or may not be demonic. Sure, she fits in with her pearls and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning is to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. But as the daughter of this bewitching homemaker comes of age and her mother’s claims become more and more outlandish, she begins to question everything she once took for granted.

Deeply disturbed by the deathbed confession of the woman who raised her, Amicia Spicer left her home far behind. She has crossed an impossible ocean and landed upon a magical shore, but a fierce dragon hunts her, putting all those who dare to walk by her side in mortal danger. The group has made a home in the North and formed an unlikely alliance with the trolls, but their peace is short-lived. An evil has settled across the kingdom, one that must be faced if the group will have the means to survive, much less return to their families across the sea.

In her deathbed confession, Arely Spicer opened Amicia’s eyes to the truth about her past, sending the young woman running for her life. Fleeing the port town of Nalen, Ami quickly fell into a surreal nightmare where dragons hunted her and her new friends to exhaustion. Refusing to simply accept their circumstances, first mate Piers Massheby leads the group out of their refuge at Esterbrook, home of the nymphs and satyrs. Crossing the wilderness and vast desert of Peaswan, they are shadowed by their hunter, the great dragon who seeks to destroy them.

The pretty private eyes from the Triple Threat Investigation Agency—JJ, Rey, and Linda—have a new case, thanks to a serial killer who has taken a serious interest in them. The GrimReaperPeeper has challenged them to “play the game”, by his rules. Rules are made to be broken, however...or, at the very least, altered. Baffled but resolute, the trio attempt to determine who he might be. Not an easy feat, given the lack of constructive evidence and cast of oddball characters. As they endeavor to stop the killer, they must solve a couple of other cases.

Amicia Spicer led a simple life, until she discovered it had all been a lie…On her deathbed, Arely Spicer confessed to her only daughter that she had been found, not born to her mother and father. Sad news to be certain, the idea of having a family of flesh and blood waiting to be reunited sent the young, independent woman on the adventure of a lifetime. Little did she know, a dragon’s heart beat within her chest and her journey would be more perilous than she could have imagined....

Alexis Magpie has enough on her plate between rehabilitating her junkie cousin, Tip, struggling to keep a step ahead of bankruptcy, and leading a ragtag gang of vigilantes in the endless war against child trafficking without the ghost of her wife suddenly appearing to take a toll on her mental and physical health. Meanwhile, disgraced surfing star Dylan Tippling finds himself resigned to a life of janitorial work, night school, and court-mandated therapy. Tip must battle both his demons as a former teen prostitute and the return of his homicidal boyfriend.

Married couples in discord often disagree, yet manage to discuss their problems amicably. If they cannot resolve the marital conflict, then they may opt for divorce. Unfortunately, that is not the path Christian Wright chose after entering into wedded bliss with Chloe Abbott. Shortly into their unified journey, they realize they are unequally yoked. They seek counseling and are on the verge of ending it all when they learn Chloe is with child. Sadly, the birth of their son isn't the blessed event they hoped it would be. A flimsy façade of family perfection is perpetuated for years.

The proud owners of the Triple Threat Investigation Agency—JJ, Rey, and Linda—have a new case. Who set ablaze two happening Chinatown art galleries, leaving charcoal-broiled corpses in the rubble? Any number of curious characters in the local art world could be responsible, including a haughty gallery owner with a questionable past, an art consultant who lives on the edge, and an aspiring manager with a dicey history. If the gals can figure out the “why”, they’ll have their “who”. But what was the driving force behind the crime?

Rookie private eyes JJ, Rey, and Linda stumbled and bumbled through their previous assignments with stellar results. Now the trio, proud owners of the Triple Threat Investigation Agency, have yet another multi-murder mystery to solve. Who set up their client, socialite-turned-trucker Buddy Feuer, to take the rap? And where is nutty Coco Person, who has been MIA since the murders went down? In their detecting travels, they meet up with former acquaintances, some of who may not be all that they seem.

Grace Summer lands herself in a melon load of trouble when she becomes torn between the boy of her dreams and the boy almost next door. As the newly crowned watermelon queen, she is thrust into the spotlight, meets the dreamy Warren Hartley, and continues trying to get over an accident that rocked her world. Mix in working with Beau Baron who Grace happens to fight with just about as much as breathing, and the metaphorical sparks fly. Like most things in life, Grace must learn to take the good with the bad.