Southern Fantasy

Baton Rouge 1989 Sarah Stevens is awakened by a sharp crack of lightning and a howling wind that’s railing against her little frame house and rushing through the hall to her room. Sarah leaps up and runs to the living room, stopping short when she sees her front door standing wide open – a door she’s certain she bolted and locked. Fighting against the battering wind and rain, Sarah calls to her teenage sons, Quincy and Daniel, and the three finally force the door shut. Then the boys discover their father’s wristwatch on the floor – the watch he was never without. But their father,...

In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, and mysteries are deepened.… Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government agency responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. Area X itself remains a mystery.

Culley Rune is the perfect guy - as far as anyone can see. Inside, he knows he's unlovable, unworthy, unwanted. He's done terrible things in service to his father, the corrupt leader of the Dark Council - including playing a pivotal role in the mysterious new drug epidemic that's sweeping the human population of the world. Now that Culley''s lost his one chance at a real relationship, there's no reason to change his ways. He might as well take his place at his mercenary father's side.

Family meant everything to Ayden Stratton. It always had even when he didn’t always allow it to show. Because of that, he understood the fury in Tobias Blaise’s eyes when they learned that his sister had been dragged out the backdoor of her restaurant despite every effort to stop her from being kidnapped. Fury didn’t begin to describe what he saw in his brother’s face. Cassidy Blaise might be Tobias’s sister, but she was Benjamin’s entire world. Tobias Blaise never expected to find any woman he wanted to spend his life with, let alone one who looked at him the way Ellis did, ...

A rainy night in east Texas leads to murder When private detective Buck McDivit inherits his murdered aunt’s fishing camp on Caddo Lake, he quickly learns all isn’t right in this primordial paradise dripping with antebellum mystique. To retain his inheritance, he must take on a white supremacy group in the nearby racially-torn east Texas town of Deception. Will Buck prevail or become gator bait beneath the coffee-colored surface of the mysterious lake? Ghost of a Chance is Book 1 of Eric Wilder's gripping Paranormal Cowboy Series. See what Amazon readers are saying about Ghost: "...

Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason's eyes are starting to change: he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time.

When Sanat Kumara usurps the job that Naavya Batra has been coveting since a long time, her instantaneous attraction towards him turns to intense dislike. But soon, she's all in admiration for the man. When she finally decides to give herself to him, Sanat insists on telling Naavya something about her… …something she has absolutely no memory of. What does Sanat know about Naavya that she herself isn’t aware of? And what secrets are her cousins holding back from her? Read this tale of fantasy which takes you to three different realms on the earth, to find out if Sanat Kumara is really ...

My professors worry that I'm sliding down a slippery slope, but I know I'm still on the path of redemption. I've worked too hard for too long, and I have no intention of letting down my family. When Bryn disappears during a routine field trip, though, I must put my need to succeed on hold. After all, what good is being the best if I can't use my powers to help those closest to me? The more facts I uncover, the more I realize that her disappearance is part of a much larger scheme - one that threatens our very existence.

Family meant everything to Ayden Stratton. It always had even when he didn’t always allow it to show. Because of that, he understood the fury in Tobias Blaise’s eyes when they learned that his sister had been dragged out the backdoor of her restaurant despite every effort to stop her from being kidnapped. Fury didn’t begin to describe what he saw in his brother’s face. Cassidy Blaise might be Tobias’s sister, but she was Benjamin’s entire world. Tobias Blaise never expected to find any woman he wanted to spend his life with, let alone one who looked at him the way Ellis did, ...

Under a sky brimming with ancient starlight, The Star Blanket weaves a tale of unity, love, and the delicate dance between two worlds. In the untamed lands of 1786 Southwest Territory, modern day West Tennessee, Alana, a gifted Chickasaw weaver, creates a masterpiece unlike any other—a blanket of constellations that hums with hidden power. But when a desperate settler boy named Jack steals the blanket, threads of destiny unravel, binding their fates to a mystical journey. Guided by a Faery Hat gifted by a Wood Elf, Jack discovers a shimmering world layered atop his own, where he meets ...

Twelve-year-old Caroline is a Hurricane Child, born on Water Island during a storm. Coming into this world during a hurricane is unlucky, and Caroline has had her share of bad luck already. She's hated by everyone in her small school, she can see things that no one else can see, and - worst of all - her mother left home one day and never came back. With no friends and days filled with heartache, Caroline is determined to find her mother. When a new student, Kalinda, arrives, Caroline's luck begins to turn around. Kalinda, a solemn girl from Barbados, seems to see the things Caroline sees, too.

My name is Famka Meadows. You might think that I was a spoiled brat and you’d be right. All I wanted to do was leave my dumpy home in the Horseshoe trailer park and learn magic. Or rather Tuning as it’s called on the Other Side of the Graveyard. Was I successful? I guess I was. I traveled through the Hallowed Halls, attended the Sky Builders’ Guild and learned to use Ghost Armor so that I could transform into someone else. I even traveled through time. And for that I’m revered. But the cost…oh the cost. If only I could have my time again… What I would do to go back. ------------...

Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire - and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires!Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself - she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie's gift: she can read minds.

At night, Roddie still dreams of sitting at his mother’s feet while she braids his Afro down. But that’s a memory from before. Before his mom died in a tragic accident. Before he was taken in by an aunt he barely knows. Before his aunt brought him to Dogwood House, the creepiest place Roddie has ever seen. It was his family’s home for over a hundred years. Now the house—abandoned and rotting, draped in Spanish moss that reminds him too much of hair—is his home too.

Eliza Dragonsong is a lawyer by day and a Wiccan high priestess by night. Her unique skill set comes in handy in the courtroom, and also when she’s asked to guard an ancient cursed stone from the dangerously charming Ivan Rochat. Although he’s a former art thief with a questionable past, Eliza still finds herself drawn to him and soon realizes she has to guard more than just the stone. She has to guard her heart as well.

Sookie doesn't have that many relations, so she hated to lose one - but of all the people to go, she didn't expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a consort of New Orleans' vampire queen - after all, Hadley was technically already dead. But she is gone, beyond recall, and she's left Sookie an inheritance - one that comes with a bit of a risk - not least because someone doesn't want Sookie digging too deep into Hadley's past - or her possessions.

Do you know how it feels to have your soul snatched? Neither does MyKisha, but she's about to find out. Noxie, AKA Snatcha, had two lives. Balancing fame in the underworld with being a nobody above ground, was a task she’d perfected. That was, until she made one nearly fatal mistake—catching feelings for a human. Her actions threw everything outta whack for not just herself, but her whole family. After being forced to relocate, Noxie’s plans were to just mind her business and try to stay under the radar. But MyKisha Moore changed all that. Not wanting to make the same mistake twice, ...

"I just finished my first read of your book and wanted to give my first impressions. I'm not a writer but I have read a lot of books and have to say you did a fantastic job on this one. I became caught up in the story and had a hard time putting my tablet down." - Advance Reader Team "As always, your writing is exemplary." - Advance Reader Team "All I can say is WOW, you did it again...I loved this book. The story was great, now you have to get the next one out...I have to know what happened to Arturo, Gil, Myrtle and of course Winnie Bell, you left me wanting more from the Other Side of ...

Just as Martine is settling into life on the wildlife game reserve, she is whisked away on a school trip. Her class is going on an ocean voyage to witness the Sardine Run, a spectacular natural phenomenon, off the coast of South Africa. What begins as an exciting adventure quickly turns perilous when a storm blows up and Martine and her classmates are thrown overboard into shark-infested waters. They are saved by a pod of dolphins, only to end up marooned on a deserted island.

Ruthie and Jack thought that their adventures in the Thorne Rooms were over...until miniatures from the rooms start to disappear. Is it the work of the art thief who's on the loose in Chicago? Or has someone else discovered the secret of the Thorne Rooms' magic? Ruthie and Jack's quest to stop the thief takes them from modern day Chicago to 1937 Paris to antebellum South Carolina. But as more items disappear, including the key that allows them to shrink and access the past worlds, what was once just an adventure becomes a life and death race against the clock.