by admin | Oct 1, 2025 | Mystery |
Raymond Donne wasn’t always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York’s Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that destroyed his knees. Unable to do the job the way he wanted, he became a teacher in the same neighborhood, and did everything he could to put the force behind him and come to terms with the change.
Then Frankie Rivas, a student in Ray’s class and a baseball phenom, stops showing up to school. With Frankie in danger of failing and missing out on a scholarship, Ray goes looking for him, only to find Frankie’s father bludgeoned to death in their apartment. Frankie and his younger sister are gone, possibly on the run. But did Frankie really kill his father? Ray can’t believe it. But then who did, and where are Frankie and his sister? Ray doesn’t know, but if he’s going to have any chance of bringing them home safely, he’s going to have to return to the life, the people, and the demons he walked out on all those years ago.
Intense, authentic, and completely gripping, Tim O’Mara’s Sacrifice Fly is an outstanding debut from a stellar new voice in crime fiction.
by admin | Oct 1, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
Professor Olivia West never believed in monsters—until her best friend Emma vanishes after returning to the place that haunts their childhood memories: Heaven’s Bottom, a hidden Kentucky town shrouded in mist and secrets.
As children, Olivia and Emma stumbled into the secluded town and fled with chilling, impossible memories. Emma believes they witnessed a ritual sacrifice—and the undead. Olivia, ever the skeptic, is determined to find the truth—and her friend.
Detective Steven Lewis has his own reasons to investigate Heaven’s Bottom. His wife, a social worker, dug too deep into the town’s secrets and died under suspicious circumstances. Officially, it was a wild animal attack. Steven knows better.
When Olivia and Steven team up, their uneasy alliance sparks an unexpected attraction. But they’re not the only ones with a claim on the town’s dark past. Sheriff Noah McCracken—sworn to protect Heaven’s Bottom’s legacy—warns Olivia to leave. Old tensions between Noah and Olivia flare into a dangerous chemistry, pulling her heart—and loyalty—into two directions.
As buried secrets claw to the surface, science and superstition collide. Can Olivia trust either man? Will Steven and Noah put aside their feud to save her—or will the town’s undead past claim more victims?
SPECIAL BONUS: As a reader appreciation gift, the short story Gimlet is included FREE at the end of the book. The Shaken, Not Stirred, mystery/horror story takes place after A Pink Zombie, with a Mist.
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by admin | Oct 1, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
In the summer of 3129, a thousand years after meteors devastated Earth, the city of Akhet stands defiant in a barren desert wasteland. Ethos, a struggling artist, makes a living drawing portraits for the families of missing girls—until he discovers a horrifying truth. His best friend reveals that she and the vanished citizens are witches, their fates tied to Ra, a godlike ruler with a sinister grip on the city. When their investigation ends in tragedy, Ethos barely escapes with his life, forced into the unforgiving wilderness beyond the city walls.
In exile, a fateful encounter binds an alien ghost to his body and consciousness, forging an uneasy alliance between two souls with clashing yet eerily connected destinies. As Ethos grapples with newfound powers forged in his bond, his thirst for vengeance against Ra burns hotter than ever. But standing between him and justice is Set—an android, a self-proclaimed god, and the ruthless protector of Akhet’s elite.
Yet even as Ethos prepares to fight the rulers of Akhet, an ancient and insatiable darkness stirs beneath the Earth—one with its own vendetta against Set. With the fate of the world on the brink, Ethos must choose between his revenge or salvaging what’s left of his crumbling humanity to face a menace greater than any god. The battle for Akhet is coming—but will he fight to destroy, or to save?
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by admin | Oct 1, 2025 | Cozy Mystery |
Wicked witches. Murder. Mystery.
The ghosts of past school years are haunting Vega. Literally.
As a teacher at the most prestigious magical boarding school for witches, Ms. Vega Bloodmire is ready to finish up summer school classes and prepare for the start of the new school year. When her dreams are unexpectedly disturbed by a vision of a dead student, she wonders if there is more going on than guilt from her subconscious mind and she might be haunted by a ghost. As if being a ghoul with a craving for corpse flesh isn’t bad enough, Vega fears she might have another unforgivable proclivity that she will have to hide from the world.
When she learns other teachers are being haunted in their sleep as well, she doesn’t know if something has made the school ghosts restless or something else might be amiss. After the first staff member dies, she realizes these ghostly phantoms aren’t what they seem.
As the most brilliant teacher on staff, and the only one with experience uncovering mysterious foes, it’s up to Vega to solve the staff’s spectral problem before students arrive for the start of the school year. Can Vega discover who is behind these hauntings and why—before someone else dies?
This book starts with Vega Bloodmire’s life before working at Womby’s School for Wayward Witches when she was a new and inexperienced teacher at Lady of the Lake School for Girls. Dream Ghoul is the 15th book—a novella/short novel—in the series of mysteries. The book takes place at a magical academy, but these whodunnits are fine to be read in any order.
Clean, cozy, no sex or swearing, PG 13—perfectly fine for teens or grandmas who like mysteries with magic.
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by admin | Oct 1, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
A dark gift…
Ena prides herself on being one of the most talented witches in her Coven. She does what is expected of her and stays on her path, serving her Goddess and maintaining the balance of life and death. On her twenty-seventh birthday, like all witches, Ena is gifted a magical power from her Goddess, only to find that her Gift is dangerous and forbidden.
A broken heart…
Ena wrestles with her uncertain future with the Coven as she struggles to overcome a painful heartbreak from her past. Can she finally put it behind her and move on?
A dangerous scheme…
When three strange men show up searching for something in her village, she gets dragged into their schemes. Old wounds are reopened, and Ena begins to question what she knows as she is tempted further and further from the path before her, towards the unknown.
The Knowing Witch is the first book in the Omnis series, a brand new 18+ dark fantasy romance series with second chance, enemies-to-lovers romance, a unique nature-centric magic system, and distinctive world-building perfect for fans of Fourth Wing, From Blood and Ash, and the Broken Kingdoms series.
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