Magical Realism Fantasy

Necropolis follows Sajan Dayal, a detective in pursuit of a serial (though nonlethal) collector of fingers. He encounters would-be vampires and werewolves, and a woman named Razia who may or may not be centuries old.

In 1941, a hand grenade explodes in a Cairo bar, taking the life of Stern, a petty gunrunner and morphine addict. His death could easily go unnoticed as Rommel's tanks charge through the desert in an attempt to open the Middle East to Hitler's forces. Yet the mystery behind Stern's death is a top priority for intelligence experts. Master spies from three countries converge on Joe O'Sullivan Beare, who is closer to Stern than anyone, in an effort to unravel the disturbing puzzle.

"An intriguing, genre-blending adventure." —IndieReader An Independent Press Award Winner, Distinguished Favorite of 2022 Good guy Gabe Mendes thinks understanding love will make him happy. So he's made a deal. In exchange for access to the universe of love, he agrees to slay the black ram. But soon he learns, being unlucky in love isn't his only problem. Turns out—love isn't what he thinks it is. By the time Gabe stumbles across the website of the alluring, though mature, Pythia—mystic and high priestess—he's already failed miserably in love yet again. Raised by a hardworking ...

Ophelia Castellan will never be just another girl at Elsinore Academy. Seeing ghosts is not a skill prized in future society wives. Even when she takes her pills, the bean sidhe beckon, reminding her of a promise to her dead mother. Now, in the wake of the Headmaster's sudden death, the whole academy is in turmoil, and Ophelia can no longer ignore the fae. Especially once she starts seeing the Headmaster's ghosts - two of them - on the school grounds.

Ben... "There. He heard it again. Something had woken him from a deep sleep. Normally he was a sound sleeper unless one of his girls needed him, and this wasn’t them. It sounded like a small wounded animal of some sort, or maybe a child, although he couldn’t even imagine how that was possible. The ranch had patrols out every night and a watch team monitoring electronic feeds covering all approaches. Surely if there was a child out wandering around they would have spotted them? Well, shit. He was awake anyhow- He might as well check it out. He carefully extricated himself from a sleeping...

A miracle led me to them. God healed my boyfriend of cancer. At least, that's what Jake says. Then God ran off to Montana, and Jake decided to follow him, bringing me along for the ride in a near-abduction style scenario. In Montana, I met God. He goes by the name of Silas. Yeah, he's full of it. But I didn't know how full or what exactly filled him until I met Garret Demos. He's told me things that are crazier than God on Earth. And yet, I believe him. Or I want to. There's something about Garret that calms and reassures me. He makes the impossible seem probable. Which could make him the ...

Never set your foot in a hexed property—especially, when the land has a resident zombie ready to strike you! FREE on Kindle Unlimited! If Fio Valentine has learned one thing working for Quest Realty, it’s that dealing with haunted and hexed properties can be a real nightmare. When her friend Suze asks her to investigate an abandoned home in LA, she can’t refuse, so with Andy Russel from the Property Management Department and her spirit animal Champ, Fio takes on the case of a zombie-like ghost who may be what remains of the former owner’s estranged son. After an encounter with the ...

Have you ever wondered how rain came from a clear blue sky? Or what makes a dormant volcano suddenly burst? Or why a crystal has such a beautiful color? Well, the answer is hidden elemental magic inside our world. When our planet is suddenly threatened by a mist of darkness that kills all in its path, four strangers are forced into this hidden world of magic. Together, they travel around the globe to find secret cities with powerful teachers. Each has to learn how to control earth, air, fire, and water, and with their combined powers, they might have a chance at saving our world. In this ...

August 1940. As the Battle of Britain rages overhead, a warlock leader from the Council of High Witches comes to Woodville with a ritual to repel the imminent Nazi invasion. The only catch is it involves full-frontal nudity on the White Cliffs of Dover. The Witches of Woodville are having none of it, but when more witches arrive they realise they might have a spy in their midst and it’s up to Faye Bright to uncover the traitor. But she’s got enough on her plate already with the ghost of a Polish Hurricane pilot who may hold the key to the truth.

Sam Green thinks her life is pretty normal. Almost. She does have a strange affinity for animals, weird dreams, and a mysterious staff in her closet. But Sam’s calm life is shattered when a dragon poisons her father and the mother of her best friend Jake. She is further shocked when a shapeshifting giant cat and powerful faerie ask her to fulfill a prophecy.

Getting whisked off to an alternative dimension is bad enough, but when you’re not exactly in the first flush of youth it adds another, um… dimension. Say hello to Maisie and Doris! Maisie has long believed in the kind of things most people never think about. Her sister Doris shakes her head and tries to ignore her belief in stuff that goes bump in the night… perhaps hoping it’s just a phase which one day will simply fade away. They both spent much of their lives in Scraggy Bottom after all! Sadly for Doris, late one night everything changes. Any slight hope of phases fading ...

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What if your own death gave you the power to create anything you wanted? Amidst the fire and bullets of World War 2, a young soldier finds himself transported to a mysterious place, Given the power to create a new world for himself and his loved ones, Rael must grapple with being torn being torn between the idyll he has been gifted and the conflict ravaged world he has left behind. Feeling both unimaginable joy and tragedy, Rael is also burdened with the knowledge that he can rescue innocent people from terrible fates - but the cost may be more than he can bear. How can Rael overcome his ...

At the edge of Moodong Creek, deep within the enchanted Yellowstone Valley, stands the Whispering Tree—a She Oak older than any map, with roots tangled in stories passed down through the wind. This is where the Naming Tree lives. And this is where the story begins.

In a forgotten corner of western Kentucky lies a haunted forest referred to locally as "The Deadening", where vampire cults roam wild and time is immaterial. Our protagonist and his accomplice - the one and only Carver Canute - set out down the Old Spur Line in search of the legendary Kudzu House, where an old couple is purported to have been swallowed whole by a hungry vine.

Beach wedding and a murder… Throw in an angry mermaid threatening to destroy the wedding! FREE on Kindle Unlimited! There’s trouble in Paradise, and the Rowling family is on the case. The island wedding of Mandy’s BFF Fiona and famous exorcist Brian Powers becomes the backdrop for a murder investigation when the body of a notorious loan shark is found in the dunes. But how did a man drown so far from the water? An angry mermaid threatens to wreak havoc if the killer isn’t caught, but with no spirits to question, does Mandy stand a ghost of a chance to solve the case? Find out in ...

Enter the world of the Chosen and Forsaken…mind-control and magically-enhanced weapons…with Book Two of The Fount series. Now, in THE FORSAKEN’S CHOICE, Addy and Tol are in a race against forces that seek to tear them apart. They’re determined to travel from Texas to Vitaquias—the world that was laid to waste—to find the only person who might be able to help them. With the Chosen people’s life-giving Source almost gone and the cruel Forsaken general closing in, Addy and Tol are running out of time. If they fail, they won’t be the only ones to bear the cost. Addy’s sister ...

A startlingly remarkable novel set in 1984 where a group of teenagers begin to discover powerful secrets about themselves, and learn that the only way to create their own future is to break away from previous generations.They call it the plague. A generation of children born with extreme genetic mutations. They call it a home. But it's a place of neglect and forced labor. They call him a freak. But Dog is just a boy who wants to be treated as normal. They call them dangerous. They might be right.

Down on your luck doesn't always mean down and out When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires P.I. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women - or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther.

Scott McKenzie's father killed his mother and himself. Scott vowed to do anything in his power to stop similar murders. He longed to be a police officer, but a tour in Vietnam in 1970 derailed that career. Two years later, wounded in body and soul, Scott died. He didn't go on to what was next, though. Instead, he woke up with a chance to live his life over and over until he got it right. Murderers will never see him coming. But, by using violence to save others, is he losing his own soul?