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Evil is stirring once again. Sometimes the smallest creature can be the best weapon… Detective Rowen Dalhousie of the Pittsburgh Police Department has been assigned a strange case in a rough area of Pittsburgh known as ‘The Lowlands.’ Dalhousie is a young and talented homicide detective steadily climbing the ranks at the department and is known for being able to solve the cases others can’t. On the surface, a few missing people in the lowlands wouldn’t warrant someone of Dalhousie’s caliber, but something about this case feels off, and his Sergeant wants it solved pronto. None ...

When you’re a Master Vampire like Nik Hadden, trouble seems to follow wherever you go… Nikolas Hadden, Master of the Hadden Coven, wants to take his beloved, Walker Hall, on a luxury romantic getaway. After the trials and tribulations of the last few months, he wants to spend some time reconnecting with his beloved. Walker has been talking about this exclusive lodge in the mountains, and Nik is determined to give Walker the perfect vacation. What starts as a luxury getaway quickly dissolves into trouble and chaos. Surrounded by humans and far from Hadden Coven territory, Nik has to ...

When the Rose Coven Vampires are through, there will be more than blood on the floor... Fane Madden, a coven enforcer, was tasked with visiting a competitor to the coven-owned club, The Blood Rose. The Falcon Nest was eating into their share of the scene, and Master Rose wanted to know exactly what had made customers flock to the new place. Master Rose didn’t tolerate competition. Fane expected to find the usual dark corners and blood on the floor, but he didn’t expect to find the blond beauty with gentle eyes behind the bar. He smelled like orchids, and he belonged to Fane. James ...

What lurks in the shadows may save you... Ian Mathews is just taking it one day at a time. He’s working a dead-end job, he’s got a vicious Uncle harping on him, and he’s just trying to get ahead. Working late-night janitorial at Chicago City Hall is a pretty quiet existence, and he likes it that way. Ian thinks this is just like every other night. Ian thinks he will do his shift and go home. What Ian doesn’t know is that tonight, his world will shift on its axis. A man will step into his life and save him in just about every way a person can be saved. A mysterious stranger will step...

Even when it seems impossible, Fate will always find a path forward. Dakota Winters is a Detective Lieutenant with the Tribal Police on his Native reservation in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. When police downstate gives a Tribal family the runaround in the search for a missing young man, Eric, Dakota takes on the case and heads into the unknown. The more he digs into this case, the farther he gets into a world he’s only heard about in hushed whispers. With a shaman’s magic as his protection, he heads to Mt. Pleasant, land of the Nightwalkers, determined to follow this case wherever it ...

Nash Rhodes has never been in control of his own life. He’s had this “gift” since he could remember. He’s always been able to see and interact with the other side. Some of those spirits are good, but some are traumatizing, especially for a boy way too young to understand. His mother never cared about him and his stepfather only cared about how much money his gift could bring them, dragging him along to town after town for their traveling tent show. He’s tried to escape before, but this time feels different. He’s eighteen now and he has to go live his life before the shadows ...

Vampires always win when sex, blood, and money are at stake... Wyatt Grey needs something to change before he loses his mind. As the only son of Holden Grey, one of Eastport’s leading businessmen, you’d think Wyatt would have life made. He’s gone to the best business school, he’s made the necessary connections, but instead his father sticks him in a cubicle and won’t let him do more than open the mail. His coworkers see this and its open season on the boss’s “dumb” son. The more he gets brushed aside and tormented the more he just wants to cut the cord and find a new life ...

Something dark has taken hold in Pittsburgh. The Hadden Coven has been displaced, a hex cast on the Hadden Center, and evil is seeping into every part of the city. Master Nikolas Hadden needs a plan to beat back the rising tide of Evil and reclaim his city. He needs a Charmer, but the last Charmer was seen in the Middle Ages and another has not risen since. Some even wonder if the Charmers ever existed at all. What can the Hadden Coven do when their salvation relies on a myth? Fate always finds a way. Evan McCormick comes from a family of magics, a family of Kindred in Toronto, Ontario. ...

A Story in the Bay Harbor Paranormal Universe: The Old Mission Peninsula Vampire Coven Hunter Rose was looking forward to getting away. The Cabot Wine Experience hosted by the Old Mission Winery and Indigo Hotel was the highlight of his year, no matter what his father and brother thought of non-California wineries. He had been under their thumbs his whole life, dictating every aspect of his life at the family winery, Rose Winery outside Sacramento, California. His father always found someway to undermine him and destabilize his life and Hunter was nearing the end of his rope. He was just ...

Even in the darkest places, light will find a way in… Joel Penny is living in a nightmare. A one-night stand turned into a never-ending horror working at a strip club run by a disreputable bear clan. The only thing worse than the bears were the patrons at the club, the absolute worst of the Chicago paranormal scene. Joel wishes he could return to his normal life, but no one is looking for him. There is no one coming to save him. Master Conall Rose is spoiling for a fight. The bear clan on the south side has gotten out of control, and it’s making all the paranormal groups look bad. ...

A Fox finds himself in the Dragon’s Den. He will find shelter and so much more… Ashton Jennings is in the forests of the Allegheny Mountains outside Pittsburgh looking for his friend. Ashton has convinced his brother and fellow Fox Shifter, Will, to go with him, hoping to find their friend Harley hiking on the usual trails. Ashton’s made a mess of his life, between the failed engagement and the loss of his friendship, he wants to make something right. What Ashton and Will don’t yet understand is that danger beyond their wildest dreams is lurking in these woods, following them, ...

Vampires are at the very heart of corporate power, ready to expand and be noticed. Corporate America will never be the same. Agincourt is moving in. Paul Masters doesn’t do things like this. He doesn’t go to bars just looking for someone to get under. After being unceremoniously dumped by his greedy ex-boyfriend Joshua, he decided to take a friend’s advice and paint the town red for once. Beneath its Corporate exterior, Charlotte is a city with plenty of fun to be found. What Paul doesn’t know is that this night will forever change the trajectory of his life. He’s about to meet ...

Fate will always heal sad eyes and a broken heart... Teo Wentworth has been hiding in plain sight. When everything went to hell at his home, Coven, Teo could only run and find a place where they wouldn’t come looking for him. Hiding among the homeless youth of Pittsburgh on Nik Hadden’s proverbial doorstep sounded perfect. They would be too scared to come for him here. Teo didn’t know that Fate had other plans and wouldn’t leave him alone in the dark. His fate-chosen beloved burst into his life like a cleansing fire, and nothing would ever be the same. Thayer, the Cyprian Knight, ...

The Hadden Coven will soon face it's greatest test... Enzo Blackstock has been through the ringer and is just looking for a little peace. After the disaster that was his old home coven, Enzo has settled into the Hadden Coven and carved out a little life for himself, and even some colleagues he can call friends. The old days still haunt him, but every day is easier than the last. After spending some time away from Pittsburgh, getting some distance from the mayhem and the magics, it felt good to be back in the heart of the Coven. While assisting with what should have been any easy assignment ...

Eamon Coles won command of the Salida Wolf Pack in a bloody fight to the death, and since then, he has been working to bring unity back to his chaotic and fractured community. Used to seeing him as an Enforcer, the transition to Alpha hasn’t been easy for all in the Pack. Eamon has tried to listen and be conciliatory where he can, but the lack of unity and loyalty is starting to wear thin. When Alpha Coles receives word that the sheriff’s deputies have brought in a vampire they accosted, a very powerful vampire from the Denver Coven, Eamon is prepared for the worst. The last thing his ...

Tanner Fenn moved to town for a new start. His new start didn’t go as planned, as he found himself in an uncomfortable situation with his roommate, Salem. Tanner’s luck goes from bad to worse when he unwittingly witnesses the illegal conduct of an underground organization. Tanner’s life is now in danger. Lucky for him, Fate is never far away, and his soon-to-be forever love can keep him safe if only Tanner opens his heart and gives love another chance. Zeke Montgomery, tiger shifter and surveillance specialist at Club Zephyr, notices something suspicious in the back lot after hours. A...

Something still lingers in the forest. The evil has not yet been fully banished. A beloved is lost and alone… Harley Fraser didn’t intend for things to turn out like this. His solo weekend hike in the mountains outside Pittsburgh was supposed to clear his head and give him a new outlook, not put him in mortal danger. Things haven’t been going great for Harley, and now he’s trapped in the woods, hunted by something he doesn’t understand. Gage Novak, new to security at the Hadden Coven is given the task of investigating an intrusion on the secure boundary at the Coven’s Mountain ...

Call of the Vampire Twins – Vampires of Charlotte Book Two An M/M/M Vampire Romance Not everything in Charlotte is as it seems… Dorian Haskel is worried about his friend Paul Masters. He seems taken in by this mysterious businessman from Agincourt Bank, Sloan Dobre. Considering when Dorian left for his business trip Paul was in a completely different relationship, Dorian thinks some alarm bells are warranted. As he sees how Paul has changed and how they interact, he becomes more and more convinced that something wrong, something evil may be happening. Dorian has seen a thing or two in ...

The Black Prince, Edward is one of the most feared vampires to have ever lived. He’s gone by many names, but all tell the story of his dark and fearsome ways. He’s an ancient vampire who cut his teeth in the chaos of medieval warfare. A tragedy sent him into the blackest of magic and power, searching for vengeance at any cost. But even the darkest of creatures sometimes seek redemption and the Black Prince has walked a lonely path the last few hundred years searching for the man he lost the day he embraced the darkness and Fate has rewarded his perseverance. Fate is giving him a forever...

By day Charlotte is a city of wealth and decorum. By night, the streets become a place of danger and darkness… Neal Shawn is simply in the wrong place, at the wrong time. At least, he thinks so as he races his car across the city away from the scene that confronted him at a local dry cleaner. He was there on an errand for his boss, Mrs. Reginald Ball, a Charlotte socialite. Neal saw something he shouldn’t and now he fears for his life. What Neal doesn’t yet understand is that his life will change forever this night. A man will enter his life, a man named Alistair Quinn, and will turn ...