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Uncanny Vows

Following the events of the high-stakes and propulsive Uncanny Times, Rosemary and Aaron Harker, along with their supernatural hound Botheration, have been given a new assignment to investigate…but the Harkers believe it’s a set-up, and there’s something far more ancient and deadly instead.

Rosemary and Aaron Harker have been effectively, unofficially sidelined. There is no way to be certain, but they suspect their superiors know that their report on Brunson was less than complete, that they omitted certain truths. Are they being punished or tested? Neither Aaron nor Rosemary know for certain. It may be simply that they are being given a breather or that no significant hunts have been called in their region. But neither of them believes that.

So, when they are sent to a town just outside of Boston with orders to investigate suspicious activity carefully, the Harkers suspect that it is a test. Particularly since the hunt involves a member of the benefactors, wealthy individuals who donate money to the Huntsmen in exchange for certain special privileges and protections.

If they screw this up…at best, they’ll be out of favor, reduced to a life of minor hunts and “clean up” for other Huntsmen. At worst, they will be removed from the ranks, their stipend gone—and Botheration, their Hound, taken from them.

They can’t afford to screw this up.

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Practical Meerkat’s…

52 Bits of Useful Information for Young (And Old) Writers In 2011, I was challenged to write a weekly advice column for writers, drawing on my years not only as a writer but as an editor – all the behind-the-scenes things that we learn by experience, often the hard way.  It seemed a useful thing […]

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Dragon Virus

It began soon after the Millennium. Reports of newborns with strange malformations, too weak to live . . . caused by a single genetic mutation. Or, as the press quickly dubbed it, the Dragon Virus. Scientists predicted that it was an evolutionary dead end; that the mutation would burn itself out quickly; that it was […]

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From Whence You Came

The true story of Master Vineart Bradhai, who cleared the seas of serpents, and went down in history as the greatest vine-mage ever. The Vineart War trilogy told the story of Jerzy, who defended the Lands Vin from a threat from without. But generations before, there had been a threat from below. It was a passing […]

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Soul of Fire

Save the world – early and often Three months ago Jan learned that elves were real, our world wasn’t safe and it was up to her to save her boyfriend-and the world-from being englamoured into slavery. Now Jan has a new deadline-ten weeks, ten days and ten hours. That’s when the truce she arranged between […]

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Blood From Stone

Wren Valere is Manhattan’s most sought-after Retriever, but after last year’s deadly confrontation with the anti-magic Silence, all she wants is a break. A few months of quiet, time to figure out where her life — and her relationship with partner Sergei — is going. But then a seemingly simple assignment to retrieve a kidnaped […]

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Free Fall

The Cosa Nostradamus is in disarray; the Truce holding violence in check has been broken. Magical Manhattan is at war, and Wren Valere is left without her partner/lover Sergei, whose past loyalties keep him from her side just when she needs him the most.Hoping to keep herself occupied, Wren takes a job –  but what […]

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Burning Bridges

Attacked and unnerved, the Cosa Nostradamus is falling apart. Wren Valere’s got enough on her plate right now, thank you very much, trying to stop her partner Sergei from self-destructing.  But attacks against the non-human Fatae have escalated into hate crimes against all members of the Cosa – humans included.  With the Mage Council distracted […]

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Bring It On

Welcome to the world of the Cosa Nostradamus, where magic crackles on every corner, and not every person you meet is human. The first rule of lonejacks is “don’t get involved.” Wren Valere just wants to do her job, collect a paycheck, and figure out her relationship with her business partner-turned-romantic partner, Sergei. No muss, […]

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Curse the Dark

Welcome to the world of the Cosa Nostradamus, where humans and non-humans co-exist…uneasily. Wren Valere knows she’s the best. So when she and her partner Sergei are hired to track down a missing – and deadly – parchment, she thinks it’ll be a piece of cake. And getting out of the city, with its rising […]

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