by admin | Oct 27, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
When Ixiana is kidnapped from her family’s fortress by a brutal warlord, she fears physical harm of the worst kind. But the warlord is after a ransom, something to change the fate of his people. Ixiana is simply a means to an end–an annoying captive whose weakness frustrates him. When he starts teaching her to fight, it’s painful for both of them–until their mutual anger and frustration ignites a new kind of fire.
This adult romance has mild-to-medium heat and spice, with dark themes.
Trigger warnings and content warnings can be found on the author’s website or in the front matter of the book.
by admin | Oct 27, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
While seventeen year-old Carrie Reese’s parents were working out the details of their divorce, she headed to Villisca, Iowa to stay with her grandparents.
Villisca was home to the infamous Axe Murder House…
It’s known to be haunted by the ghosts of the victims and their killer. Carrie doesn’t believe in ghosts, but the moving curtains and red flashes of light in the windows of Lot 310 were starting to give her reason to watch her back.
Then in walked Lucas…
Within days, Carrie knew she was in love. But Lucas seemed strange: his hands were cool and hollow, he barely touched his food, and there was sadness behind his brilliant green eyes.
Lucas was falling for Carrie but knowing that loving her puts her in grave danger, he reluctantly slips out of her life….
He struggles between staying away and telling Carrie his darkest secret. Unable to stand being apart from her any longer, he decides she must know.
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by admin | Oct 27, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
“Loved the characters, loved the writing, and loved the concept! Can’t wait for the next in the series!” – Sunny DelSegno, ?????
Every Oseran is born with a Mage Gift but, for the talented Inspector Russell Gaines, even his abilities could not help him prevent the death of his sister at the hands of a serial killer known as the New Age God.
Years later, the once-promising inspector is a retired, washed-up drunkard who finds himself plagued by the demons of his past. But, when a member of the prominent Melton family is found dead, and one of their own is implicated, he reluctantly finds himself drawn back into the world of detecting.
Forced to work with this new suspect, the troubled Julie Melton, Russell must work to prove her innocence in the case. But, this murder isn’t the only mystery he’s facing when he quickly realizes the young woman is hiding a shocking secret of her own—one that could mean the downfall of her family.
As more evidence is revealed, the facts of the case send Russell into even more of a downward spiral leaving Julie to investigate on her own. Will she be able to bring the former inspector back from the brink and bring the true killer to justice? And can she keep her secret hidden to save herself and her family from ruin?
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by admin | Oct 27, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
The Dresden Files meets Law & Order in Dead Blood City, the riveting first installment of the Saoirse Reilly series! Perfect for fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Patricia Briggs.
Secretly psychic Detective Saoirse Reilly has just returned to duty after killing a man. Her shrink might be convinced she doesn’t want to die but she’s not. Disrupting Reilly’s plan to end her life is the kidnapping of Delaney Bascom on the eve of the blood moon.
Even psychics can get blindsided.
This case isn’t what it seems and Reilly may not be the only supernatural freak in Boston.
Reilly will have to face her own demons and a family of ancient monsters if she hopes to bring the girl home alive. Domenico Alderisi, a club owner with a bad habit, is determined to stand in her way. And he’s stronger than he looks. But Reilly has the dubious support of Emrys Somerled, a forensic psychologist with a cellar full of secrets and the magic touch.
The blood moon is coming.
Will Reilly save the girl and find a reason to live?
Find out in this urban fantasy meets gritty noir detective novel featuring imperfect heroes and beautiful monsters who can’t be trusted.
***View TRIGGER WARNINGS here: https://www.jodenning.com/books
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by admin | Oct 27, 2025 | Science Fiction |
This four part series is now available on Amazon both individually and as an omnibus edition, which is available in Kindle Unlimited. Be aware that Part 1 has a cliffhanger ending. After almost a century of peaceful exploration and colonization of space, the United Earth Space Force stumbles across a shockingly xenophobic alien race that has more and better armed ships and refuses all attempts at contact. As the outgunned Space Force is driven back in battle after battle in what appears to be a war of extermination, one officer experiences precognitive visions that help him blunt the enemy onslaught but he can’t control or predict when they occur. With the Senior Brass convinced that he’s a tactical genius, he’s given more and more responsibility and is terrified by the belief that Humanity’s Fate will be determined by a battle with himself in overall command. This is Volume 1 of a military SF series about desperate space battles and the men, women and Artificial Intelligences, who fight and die in them. Categories: Space Opera, military SF, space fleet, galactic empire, alien invasion, colonization, first contact, hard science, adventure
