Amethyst, Wisconsin is a small, peaceful town on a pristine lake with an active tourist season in summer. When the air turns chill, the area is transformed into a ghost town with only a handful of lifers who stay. Populated with colorful characters, Amethyst is bursting with mystery, romance, and jealousy. Come and visit a place where anything is possible all-year-round. (3 Holiday Romance Stories in 1 volume) including: Halloween: NEVER A BRIDE, Book 11: Once upon a time, Ben Johnson believed he had forever sewn up with Layla. But fairy tales rarely come true in reality. Long before her nephew was in a hunting accident and she blamed…
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(ebooks are available from all sites, and print is available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble) Continue the Series: The Amethyst Star Chapter 1 The Hunter raised his head in sudden awareness. Unlike the native inhabitants and even the chameleon Patrollers, who had also come to the Earth in the time of humankind’s greatest need, Randolf and his Hunter brothers used the roadways of old instead of the rail conveyances that kept humans out of reach from the fortress walls and out of the sight and scent of the Carnivores. All his senses attuned, Randolf turned slowly on the cracked tar, reached out to track with his keen sense of…
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Four diverse, romantic stories in one volume! The Imminent Future: In the year 2193, Sylver Dreeming, a leading geo-thermal expert for CosmoTeck, endeavors to find a solution to the problem of Earth’s overpopulation. Daughter’s Destiny: Is a daughter’s healing strength enough to save her mother from the evil that’s stalked her across an entire mountain range? Can love change the nature of a beast that only wishes to do harm? Maxwell’s Promise: In Los Lunas, New Mexico, the City of the Moon, the power of love takes on the curse of a werewolf. Which is greater? Midnight Mist: Every night at midnight, a magical fog creeps…
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Gretchen Lauterbach travels to Brevard, where she meets Zachary, an American ex-pat living in France who deals in antiquities…decidedly unusual antiquities. This collection of three short stories features the backstories of the cursed items from Beneath the Morvan Moon. In “Le Meneur Des Loups”, Zachary possesses a cloak rumored to have the power to transform a man into a wolf that Pascal, a Brevardian, wants for his collection of lycanthropic memorabilia. Europeans have a history of suffering due to wolves. Thus it was wolves and werewolves, or loup garous, came to be among the most feared beasts in French folklore, as did Le Meneur de Loops, the Wizard of the Wolves, responsible for…
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Revisit the wild, wild west during a time when unwritten rules of conduct for survival were never formal but respected everywhere on the range in this collection of ten, rollicking short stories, including: “Dangerous Ground”: The town marshal quits his job yet he’s reluctant to leave town once he hears about the mayor’s plot to steal $200,000 in gold. “Out of the Desert”: Undercover Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Boone correctly suspects a banker’s plot to steal a gold shipment… “The Hero of Lost Creek”: A crippled horse breaker turns hero when he foils cattle rustlers and wins the heart of the boss’s daughter. “The Trail to Nowhere”: With Indians hot…
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When Margaret L. Carter first read Dracula at the age of twelve, her spontaneous reaction was to wonder how the undead Count saw the events in which he was portrayed as the villain. She’s always been fascinated with the “monster’s” viewpoint and relationships between human and nonhuman beings. Most of the stories in this collection can be described as romances, and all involve love and passion in some form. Here you’ll encounter vampires, elves, ghosts, and at least one human-monster hybrid. The vampire stories in the first half of the book are part of an ongoing series in which the creatures we know as vampires belong to a naturally evolved, nonhuman…
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Greenspell: A Fantasy Anthology In this collection of fantasy short stories all featuring female protagonists, you’ll find diverse, imaginative tales, including: A sorceress unravels a spell and gets a result she could never have expected… A young girl wins a contest–her prize: to speak with a god… A vampire in hiding fears she’ll be blamed for the reckless depredations of another of her kind… A minstrel travels with a witch who has a pair of very unusual cart horses… As a bonus, this anthology includes “The Sow’s Ear”, originally published in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s acclaimed Sword and Sorceress series. GENRE: Fantasy/Anthology (ebooks are available from all sites, and print is…
