Urban Myths

Real life mermaids don’t live in a fairy tale. They are terrified young women, scared to death of being found out. They learn from harsh experience that people who are different get treated like prey. To survive, mermaids have to grow up tough, or die. SOMETIMES, EVEN WHEN YOU LAY LOW, TROUBLE COMES LOOKING When a government agent shows up at her door, Bobbi’s claws come out. Once again, she is forced to prove that a mermaid can kill. The problem is there are other creatures in the sea who are just as deadly. IF YOU CAN’T STAY OUT OF SIGHT, MAYBE A BIG SPLASH IS BETTER In a flash of ...

Book one of this fascinating blood-sucking, claw-gripping, Vampire + human-fated mate series about invisible Vampires. Books should be read in order but each couple gets their hea at the end of each book. ELFINA Apart from hearing her missing, presumed dead sister singing and also in hiding from her very own deranged date-turned-stalker, Elfina`s life is quite normal. Days spent working at her new tattoo shop in Norwich, which she brought with her shady parent's inheritance. Nights spent bitching with friends in or out about her disastrous dates, or curled up with her annoying but lovable ...

Attorney Merlyn Adams was a rising star on the Seattle legal scene until she saved a child from drowning in the sea. During the rescue, she is magically transformed and learns quickly that life as a mermaid is dangerous. And there’s something else—she is a different kind of creature, a throwback in the evolutionary scale—even the Australian mermaids want her dead, and they aren’t the only ones. The US Navy didn’t appreciate that incident with their nuclear submarine. But she didn’t mean to hurt anyone; it was all a mistake. Alone, disgraced, and unemployed, Merlyn has to flee. ...

Biology major Emma Jean believes there is no such thing as magic. Even after being magically transformed into a mermaid, she insists that the change is the result of science and that it simply needs more study. But when she discovers a Mermaid’s Kiss can heal, even the Australian mermaids turn on her. That’s when she finds out there is another secret. One that is even more deadly and much more personal. Dragons do exist, and Emma Jean is the reason they've come back. ENJOY THE ENTIRE DEEP MERMAID SAGA Three standalone novels in the Aussie mermaid universe. Each of these novels ...

Failure is never an option. When valuable shit that—surprise!—isn’t insured gets lost or stolen, the desperate rich and the otherworldly call on me. Rescue and recovery are my specialties, and I’m damn good at what I do. So, it's not much of a shock when one of the country’s wealthiest women hires me to retrieve a stolen pearl necklace known as The Mermaid’s Lament. A straightforward job, I think—except the thief and the pearls have seemingly fallen off the Earth, the necklace is actually owned by a pissed-off sea goddess, and a whole slew of magicals are doing their best to ...

Rael wakes to find herself at an unexpected crossroads in her young life. She has come on vacation to Europe in hopes of forgetting about the past, including failing at the most critical thing in her life: skiing. Of course, at sixteen nearly everything can feel like the most important thing in your life at any moment. Still, Rael is pretty sure training for six years and losing her big race by a tenth of a second is the lowest possible point her life can reach. Well, she was sure of that—until she wakes up in a stone room, alone, bound by rope, and in the care of a vampire. A situation ...

War has come to Kairos' doorstep right as his dynasty seems secure. The Poison Emperor Mithridates has launched his conquest of the Sunsea, sowing death and destruction in his path. The vile Romulus feeds on the chaos in the hope of freeing his dreadful master, the wolf-god Lycaon. As his final battle approaches, Kairos gathers his many allies to face his foes once and for all. Two would-be pantheons will now clash to determine which of them will inherit the Olympians' throne. At the apex of the world, there is only enough space for one.

Goldilocks' latest case takes her to Big Sky Country, where war looms large atop the Crown of the Continent, and more than one fate may be decided. Goldilocks is no stranger to adversity. In fact, she’s made a career off of overcoming long odds. She’s faced Bloodhoofs, renegade shamans, and even survived betrayal from within her own agency. None of that, however, has prepared her for her most hated enemy to date: desk duty. Grounded from the forests after the events of the previous year, she’s convinced her career has hit rock bottom, but that all changes when a body is discovered ...

Goldilocks' latest case takes her to the golden west, where wildfires rages across the land, and a murderer stalks his prey under an ash-covered sky. Goldilocks has finally found her footing. As the war with the Cold Ones grinds to a halt, she’s settling into her role beneath her new commander and longtime friend, Francine Brewster. Peace can’t last though, and no sooner does she begin to relax than the call for aid goes out. California is burning. As the department struggles to contain the inferno, Goldilocks is assigned lead on the murder investigation of eight Smokejumpers, their ...

Be careful who you upset. Tom, Julie, Marc, and Chris head out for a weekend escape to Cape Cod to do some holiday shopping and check out Marc’s new condo. Julie keeps everyone entertained by reading a book of local urban legends. The stories seem humorous until events begin to spiral out of control. As a blizzard approaches, Julie tries to convince everyone that they’re wrapped up in one of the stories from her book. Is the legend real? Or is everything happening to them just a coincidence? Will anyone make it out alive? A slow burn-thriller that builds tension until a terrifying climax.

Markas hear news about dead people with weird symbols on their bodies. He decides to investigate symbols at the library to see if he can find anything. Shortly after he starts having dreams about the people and the rituals done to them. In one of such dreams Markas seeing visions of his own dad…

What if magic helped Elizabeth I defeat her enemies? Josh Winter is a tech savvy modern day teenager. Molly Watson is a nineteenth-century mill worker with plenty of common sense. When they travel back in time to Tudor England, they face an apparently insurmountable challenge: theft of a magic object from Queen Elizabeth 1. But there are unexpected allies on the streets of London – Balthazar, a Fae cat with attitude, and Lady Catherine, an inconvenient girl who wants the freedom of a boy. Yet the sixteenth century is dangerous and bloody. As the friends scheme their way into Elizabeth’s...

Shapeshifters, conspiracy theories, and an urban myth brought to life. Welcome to the Australian High Country, where secrets and magic lie beneath the melting snow. After Grace Atkinson's city life crumbles, she’s forced to move back to her childhood home—the sleepy alpine town of Targangil. When she arrives, she finds herself in the centre of not only her own family drama, but a flurry of mysterious black panther sightings—elusive predators rumoured to roam the wilderness, but whose existence has never been proven. But when Grace comes face to face with a black panther in the shadow ...

Ryan Bell is your typical millennial: surviving on a diet of wine and Netflix, woefully single enough to qualify for cat-lady membership, and renting from a 70-something Tinder-swiping landlord-turned-bestie

Goldilocks' latest case takes her to the deserts of the southwest, home to gun-toting cowboys, sun-scorched caverns, and high-noon showdowns. Goldilocks has been given a fresh start, trading in the lush forests and Midwest plains for sandstone cliffs and desert cacti. This time around she’s determined to play it straight and show the higher-ups that she’s got what it takes. Easier said than done, especially when the Great Coyote Spirit Glooskap appears and charges her with finding the Dawn’s Blessing, a mythical flower that only blooms once per century. The race is on, and she’s not...

Why didn't Savannah Claudie change after she was bitten by a werewolf? Savi isn't the only one who wants an answer to that question. Dragged into a secret world of werewolves, cults, and legends, Savi must face her fears and her past to rescue her best friend from the fanatical Alters. But can she do it without losing herself - or her life - along the way? Get your copy today!

A triumph of the imagination, The Raven Tower is the first fantasy novel by Ann Leckie, New York Times best-selling author and winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.

Mercy Reynolds is a reporter in the San Francisco Bay area, but she's also more - and less - than human. Half woman, half air dragon, she’s a "draman" - unable to shift shape but still able to unleash fiery energy. Now something will put her powers to the test. Mercy's friend Rainey has enlisted her help to solve her sister's murder. Then a horrible accident claims Rainey's life, leaving Mercy only five days to find the killer: If Mercy fails, according to dragon law, Rainey's soul will be doomed to roam the earth for eternity.

There is an attack on the Dark Dimension! Lacey and her friends discover giant black “birds” flying over the kingdom. They were the source of radiation that sickened the villagers and killed the Voice. Lacey and Alex cross the dark dimension once more with Matt's help. This time, they must find out who these invaders are and what they want. Will they be able to defeat this new enemy without the Voice's help? Will they make it in time to save the kingdom? This is the second series of the "Voice of the Mountain" Saga. The first series is "The Voice of the Dark World".

Sherlock Holmes and his friend, Walt Whitman love to pull pranks at times to chase away boredome as many teenagers do, but this time it's different for them. Either someone is pulling a miserable, terrifying joke on their small village, or something horrible does exist...in the Well! And they intend to find out the truth! Do demons and ghosts live in the well...or something worse?