Tag: Urban Fantasy

Silent Night

Everyone thinks the Kringles only work in toy making. Nope. I slay monsters.

But when Christmas rolls around, I protect Santa’s sleigh.

So, technically, on Christmas Eve, I’m his little helper.

Most of the time, we deal with a stray rogue monster or two on Christmas Eve. But this year is different. It seems the monsters have decided they want to play with Santa’s reindeer and ring his bells.

If I don’t put a stop to this madness, not only will Santa be their next meal, but children all over the world will wake to a Christmas that never was.

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A Dream of Stars and Curses: Chaos of Esta Anderson, Book 2

Alright, so, maybe taking photos of people who don’t want to be noticed was a bad idea. Esta knows this now, and she’ll never forget the promise she made the Mara and the Dreamcatcher:
Stay out of the Veiled’s business unless they say otherwise, and learn everything—the many different types of Veiled so she can help rather than accidentally destroy, and all about Magick 101 from Kate, her friendly witch neighbour.
Only, as it turns out, not all Veiled are easy to spot, and soon Esta has every reason to believe she’s been cursed: There are growing tensions between her and handsome vampire bookseller Leverett, and not all of them pleasant (and those are not helped by some very vivid dreams); her sisterhood with her life-long BFF Bonnie is suffering; and the huge power imbalance between her and the Veiled grows ever more obvious when a jealous and deluded friend from Leverett’s past decides to deal with Esta for good.
Can Esta find the source of the curse and break it before she runs out of time…
And before she loses everything and everyone she cares about—including her life?

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The Olympus Reckoning: Book Three of the Medusa Legacy Trilogy

Forced to run, Mandy Burkhardt and Ryan Taylor escape protective custody from a defunct prison deep in the backwoods of Illinois. In a disturbing turn of tides, Mandy must now evade the very people who recently fought for her rescue.
Daughter of the ancient gods, Mandy has untold powers, only a fraction of which she’s discovered. But something is blocking her from using them. Unsure of who to trust, and needing full-strength to rescue Dino Marconi — captured in the attack on their transport convoy — Mandy sets off to find the reclusive witch known as Madame.
Meanwhile, the immortals bide their time, anxious to live out the prophecy of regaining their divine strength and ruling the dominion of mankind. But if there’s one thing the earthbound immortals want more than to rule the world, it’s Olympus. And Mandy is the key.
Bringing legend back to life, the Olympus Reckoning shatters the peace Olympian gods have upheld for centuries, reuniting the exiled immortals of earth with the privileged immortals of Olympus in a disastrous homecoming of epic proportion.

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The Dodona Prophecy: Book Two of the Medusa Legacy Trilogy

To save his life, Mandy Burkhardt brought Ryan Taylor back with her to ancient Greece. Now, they’re stuck. Unless they can find the witch who cast the spell of asylum and have it reversed, they face being trapped there forever.
Their journey is fraught with peril, their mettle tested against cunning and vicious foes of the time. With divine blood in her veins, great things are expected of Mandy though she’s yet to learn whether she’s gifted in any way – immortal, or even a god.
Back in Chicago, the present-day immortals await, the prophecy of regaining their strength and ruling the dominion of mankind at the forefront of their minds. Gathering for the next push, they prepare for the harvest -– her raw power so tantalizingly close.
While the immortals unleash havoc on the city of Chicago, Detective Dino Marconi fights to maintain order while learning his own hopes and dreams may be at odds with the fate of humanity.
Bringing legend back to life, the Dodona Prophecy teeters between present-day Chicago and ancient Greece — a time of gods, oracles, witches and cyclopes – unveiling myths with a new and exciting spin.

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The Medusa Deception: Book One of the Medusa Legacy Trilogy

Dreams. They’re only dreams. Strange, brutal dreams, straight off the pages of an ancient Greek mythology book. That’s what Mandy Burkhardt tells herself, stocking shelves at the Occult Bookstore in Chicago.
Her boss senses more. He feels something. An awakening. The prophecy. The others can, too, even if they can’t quite put a finger on it.
As the hidden power inside of her grows, an ancient spell comes to life, compelling her back to her rightful time and place: ancient Greece, a barbaric era of witches and gods, gorgons and oracles.
Witnessed by new friend, Ryan Taylor, Mandy’s disappearances can no longer be denied. Together, they try to discover what’s happening to her and why but in the process become targets in a deadly and sinister plot.
Caged, trussed, shackled and hunted, Mandy must come to terms with her past and fight for her future in a bloody battle with even more at stake than she knows.

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Eve

They’ve spent their lives looking over their shoulders – knowing their parents’ pasts and fearing a return to their birthplace until they lost the youngest of their sisters a year ago.
One night shatters that tentative peace and sets Phoenix on edge, distracting the city from the growing threat of a viral outbreak. While the mass shooting lingers on everyone’s mind, no one notices the rising count of animal attacks and violence. Most people anyway. Arden and his sister are all too aware of what it means, and what they carry in their blood. As if being Anglo-Russian wasn’t difficult enough, they weren’t born human…
Finding Diana and keeping their secrets may be harder than it appears in a city teetering on a knife’s edge.