Zora Magna Bugrie, flawed and unworthy Empress of a crumbling Empire on the brink of war, is faced with one choice––force The Way to recognize her as worthy.
A grieving journalist returns to her isolated desert hometown for her mother's funeral—only to uncover a haunting ritual where the dead rise once a year, and something far older than death itself is waiting beneath the sands.
The Darkwood MysteriesEmily Darkwood is already resisting Victorian society's expectations of her as a woman of the upper classes, when she receives a strange and life-changing inheritance in the wake of her missing parents.
Blackfen follows Maren Calloway, a photo restorer with an unusual gift: she can feel the emotional residue left in objects and places — grief, love, longing — as tangibly as physical sensation.
After her husband murders their daughter and then commits suicide, Courtney Edmiston, devastated and homeless, accepts an invitation to move in with her old college friend, Jan Blackburn.
When Nathan Greaves returns to the decaying coastal town of Blackwater Staithe after his mother's death, he expects grief, old memories, and the unpleasant task of clearing out the house he once escaped.
After being turned into a vampire in 1970s New Orleans, a hustler named Nunu must fight to control her new "e;Thirst"e; and protect her son by hunting the city's human predators, ultimately leading to a war with the ancient vampire king who wants her loyalty.
There are incidents and emergencies in the world that defy logical explanation, events that could be defined as supernatural, extraterrestrial, or simply otherworldly.
Camp Cheyenne was once a quiet woodland retreat where families pitched tents beneath the pines, young couples rented cabins by the lake, fishermen rose before dawn, and weekend travellers came looking for peace beside the black water.
Seventeen stories, including, for the first time in ANY collection, 1999 Bram Stoker Award winner "e;Five Days in April"e; -- along with the preceding Watchers story "e;Ten Days in July.