Linda Mooney
1) Neverwylde
After purchasing a beautiful and unique antique angel tree topper, Marq North is excited to gift it to his long-time girlfriend, but he should've known she appreciates a bigger price tag more than sentimental value. Why has he wasted years of his life trying to buy her love? When she tells him she's ending their relationship right before the holidays, he's almost...relieved.
Ione and her fellow archangels are used to the rise in demonic
...Six Short Stories Celebrating the Season
Stories Included are:
BARNEY - She looked forward everyday for him to come by. Then came the one day when he didn't.
GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE - All it took was one missing ingredient to melt the heart of a lonely old man.
AN EXPLOSIVE COMBINATION - In a post-apocalyptic future, a group of survivors reminisce about their first Thanksgiving after that climactic event.
THE LEG - Doug was
The 1940s. Life in Grimm City can be just as fabulous as it is dangerous. But it's not a place that can be found on any map. Welcome to a world of gun-toting, hard-drinking, cigarette-smoking fairies, elves, dwarfs, shifters, and witches, as well as human beings.
Welcome to Noir Fairy Tales.
Beldon Chase and Aura Dagger, of Chase and Dagger Detective Agency, are hired by Estin Ragg, a troll whose brother, Durif, was
...5) Giselle
Sick of the same day in, day out, soul-sucking job, Giles Noft decides it's time for a change. Starting a new career as a voice actor with Voce Audio, he realizes it's also the perfect opportunity to narrate his own published book after hours.
Renting studio space in the evenings, Giles plans to have his book finished in a couple weeks. What he didn't expect was to find a companion while in the recording studio, or for that companion to completely
...6) Sea Lords
The earth is being destroyed, and the mortal population decimated, all in an attempt for the old gods to become relevant again. Eons ago, Zeus and the gods captured the four demi-gods of the elements—air, earth, fire and water. Now the minor gods been let loose and are being forced to wreak havoc on the planet.
Meris, half-god of the water, doesn't enjoy throwing tsunamis and flooding coastal towns and villages, destroying islands and
...7) Bequeathed
Homeless and destitute, Claire Stines has no choice but to move into the log house bequeathed to her out in the Minnesota wilderness. Although she has little else to sustain her other than a few dollars and even fewer seeds of hope, she believes she can make a fresh start for herself, and if she’s lucky, maybe find a little romance.
But first she has to overcome the rumors of the house’s supposedly dark past. More importantly,
..."Mommy, tell me a story. A fairy story."
Jill has a very real fairy story to tell her daughter. Actually she has two: the one she recites at bedtime and the one that is the truth.
Once upon a time there was a faerie whose life was contained in the forest lands of northern Maine. But when unscrupulous loggers began to cut down the trees which were the lifeblood of her people, she was ordered to take human form
...10) Veils
11) AEquana's Quest
She was unique in every way, including the way she loved him.
It will take a long time before AEquana heals from the abuse and torture she endured growing up in those government labs. But Talon's love is helping her vanquish those demons and go forward with life.
Unfortunately, they stumble onto a multi-million dollar gem heist, and are targeted by those who think they're easy prey. Their enemies have no idea who they're
...12) Broken
Three Stories of Non-Redemption
Eenie Meenie
Something lives in the big black plastic garbage bag. Something that isn't human. Something that depends on the goodwill of others to provide it with food. Fortunately, it's not particular if its meal is dead, long dead…or alive
Red Racing Stripes
All he wanted was a little paint modification for his new car.
UnSub
Lt. Sean Walsh puts his reputation on the line
13) Swimples
Life hasn’t always been great for Rainn and Gerran, but it couldn’t be much more perfect than it is now. Rainn was happy to move to the remote mountains of Pennsylvania to be with her love, and to satisfy his “other” side. There, they are perfectly content. Only one more thing could make their lives complete.
Gerran is the last of his kind and hopes to create a new life with his human wife. When test after test shows
...16) Castle's Keep
He was a man angry at an accident which left him forever incapacitated. She was a woman disfigured and empty.
Add one immense painting imbued with a magical ability, and the resulting enchantment changed more than just their lives.
It changed their world.
17) 4-Point Star
18) Nightswept
19) War of Hearts
20) Lionmeade
A kingdom rife with rumors of the evil that lays in wait on the fringes of the woods. Fairy tales of curses, animalistic beasts, and an inhuman prince. Lady Bethel has heard the stories all her life, but what she once thought were just stories told to keep a child in line could prove to be so much more.
The daughter of Lord Voril of Banderling, Lady Bethel spends her time following in her late mother’s footsteps, caring for the sick
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