This is the first book in the series, so there will be cliffhangers!

Selina is a woman with a secret...and she has been hiding it for a very long time.

With her nieces, she runs Luna's, a nightclub in downtown Seattle, catering to Steampunk and Goth clientele. When someone leaves a body behind her club, she is drawn into a web of mystery and murder. Puncture marks on the body indicate a vampire might be responsible and as more women are killed, a red rose is left by their bodies.

When a vampire hunter with secrets of his own comes to investigate, Selina wonders who she can trust...

This story balances paranormal mystery and suspense with fade-to-black/closed door romance.

Two missing persons. One haunted investigator. No such thing as coincidence.

Fresh off launching Nike City’s first private facilitating agency, Gideon Quinn hasn’t even hung a sign before a friend from Lower Cadbury begs for help. Several of the district’s most vulnerable squatters have gone missing—and no one else is looking.

Gideon takes the case, with his apprentice Mia tagging along for a crash course in fieldwork. But when a woman from his past appears with a second disappearance—this time a high-ranking Corps officer with a long history of antagonizing Gideon—the job takes a darker, more personal turn.

As he digs into both mysteries, Gideon uncovers a tangled web of secrets, revenge, and corruption that reaches deeper than he ever imagined. With lives on the line and ghosts of his past closing in, Gideon must decide how far he’s willing to go—and who he’s willing to lose—to bring the missing home.

Welcome to Gideon Quinn & Associate's, where the clients are broke, the cases are strange, and coincidence is never just coincidence.

Readers respond to Fortune’s Fool:
• "Absolutely, unreservedly recommended."
• "I laughed out loud, several times."
• "…exceptional world-building, and characters which are continually fleshed-out which each novel…"
• "I'm already looking forward to the curtain rising on the next act."
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Times are rough for Max and Sandra. They’ve lost their income, live in a trailer, and struggle to make ends meet - all due to the resurrected Tucker Hull. To make matters worse, the ghost detective, Marshall Drummond, refuses to move on and resides in their trailer.

Barely able to afford food, they are desperate to get back on their feet. So, when Max’s sole client is murdered in the mysterious Baxter House, he knows they’ve reached the breaking point. And there’s only one way out - push on through.

Max, Drummond, and Sandra will face secret societies, stolen gold, hidden codes, the darkest magic, and of course, the Hulls. The only question - will they live through it all?

Mixing real North Carolina history with ghosts, witches, magic and more, Southern Gothic continues the supernatural thrills and mystery you’ve come to expect from Max Porter.

***** "An amazing read, really well paced, with genuine tension, fused with powerful emotions underpinning the key characters." - Amazon review

I sense things. Too much...

Headstrong Eliza always felt she experiences the world differently from everyone else, but she never fully understood why. Her senses forever stood on edge, never totally controlled by her prescribed medication. When, in a shock revelation, she finds out she possesses the extraordinary gift of supernaturally heightened senses, Eliza gets plunged into the secret world of the Sensorians. Her life will never be the same again.

Trained to control her gift by the arrogant, cocky but incredibly handsome Zack and his alluring sister Zaphire, Eliza finds herself struggling to fit in with the strict and darkly unorthodox methods of the Sensorian society. She begins to wonder what she has let herself in for. But, before she can change her mind, she is embroiled in the thrilling hunt for her estranged father Rick, who went missing from the Sensorian community under suspicious circumstances. Her loyalty gets severely tested in finding out the truth behind his disappearance, as all is not what it seems.

Do the Sensorians have a hidden agenda?
Why are they so desperate to find Rick?
What exactly do they want from her?

Awakening is the first book in the Sensorians Trilogy: A Young Adult Urban Fantasy; a story full of suspense, which combines the coming of age themes of self-discovery, love and exploring sexuality, with a fantasy element based in the real world.

***** "I love this book! It's a very well thought out story and easy to read!" - Amazon review
***** "The Sensorians: Awakening, drew me in right from the start." - Amazon review
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Turn of the screw terror meets abominable horror in this dark sci-fi fantasy tale circling four pasts filled with lust, violence, and longing. In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound marks the first entry into a universe of sword and sorcery action within a cruel sci-fi world.

Reviews
"A confrontation between beings of order and chaos endangers a remote humanoid village in this fantasy series opener... The finale, packed with Clive Barker–style phantasmagoria, is a gory bow atop all that’s come before it. A vivid fantasy with shocks that accompany the author’s inventiveness." - Kirkus Reviews

"Bradley R. Blankenship's 'In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound' is a high fantasy novel with the feel of a folktale, punctuated with a science fiction twist... This is the work of a promising writer, with a thoughtfully developed culture at its center." - BlueInk Review

"The bleak landscape provides an evocative backdrop for characters obsessed with lust, power, duty, and death... Fantasy lovers with large appetites will be gripped." - The Prairies Book Review

"His knack for building characters with pathos and wit, his immersive dystopian world, and stellar prose draw readers along while building up the shocking final showdown... This dark tale is sure to impress." - BookView Review

"In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound is a well-imagined dive into a science-fiction fantasy world in which the reader will be swept along with the riveting narrative." - Literary Titan

"The author’s writing style... creates a story that is felt rather than read, with passages washing over the reader..." - OnlineBookClub

"In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound is a dark fantasy novel that introduces a complex world of androids, chimeras, treetop villages, and mystic ruins... The story moves toward an uncertain future full of inconceivable dangers." - Foreword Clarion Reviews

Description
In lost dreams the four were bound: the ancient friend lulled by comfortable melancholy, the jilted lover bent to sisterly duty, the prideful brother jailed in bloody ambition, all while Virage slept trapped in nightmare...

For over three hundred years, a tribe of elvish Hyunisti talvuo has lingered in somber isolation deep within the giant trees and briar trails of the Lorinian Witchwood. Within their treetop village, the burdens of four outsiders underscore a chain of catastrophes eyed by watchers from afar. These chains weigh upon them, each a strand of past friendship, star-crossed love, resentment, and tragedy.

While the outsiders toil beneath their ambitions, the rites of spring herald cascading changes for the forest folk. With four days remaining, suspense clings to the village. Yet beneath the anticipation, an abominable evil stirs. Its promise of freedom lures the cursed villagers to play to its manic tune. Its insatiable hunger threatens to devour all it touches.

Can the four dreamers weather the coming storm?

Or are they destined to be consumed by the horrific madness welling from the depths of the forest?

Fantasy, mystery, swords, and sorcery await you in In Lost Dreams the Four Were Bound, the first book in the Genean Chronicles and part of the larger Remi's Cross Saga universe.
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Sunset brought a hangover, a beautiful woman, and the thirst for... blood?

Eric didn't ask to be a vampire.
To be fair, there are lots of types of vampires--different species, if you like--and his particular type is called a "Nightlord." But so what? Eric read all about various monsters, but he didn't believe in any of them.
Then he meets a beautiful woman, wakes up with a hangover, and bites his tongue with his own fangs. That was pretty convincing. The bite, that is. She was more convincing, but until he bit his tongue, he wasn't listening.

Eric clearly isn't a typical vampire. He didn't want to be one, and certainly not without reading the terms and conditions! At least his sense of humor seems up to the task of coping with his new circumstances--or he's using it as a coping mechanism. Nobody's sure just how sane an involuntary vampire can be.
So what does one do when shanghaied into being an undead? Is it better to laugh about it and get on with... uh... life? There's a lot to learn, not the least of which is that these brand-new bloodthirsty urges and predatory instincts can be difficult.

Upside: Eric has the beautiful Sasha to teach him the ropes, including the magic he'll need to survive.
Downside: it turns out being a vampire is the least of his problems.

Not only are people trying to kill him, but he's got a whole world of magic and monsters who either want something from him--immortality, power, a little of his blood, his entire head, or maybe some small piece of his heart.

Eric will find himself dragged into an epic battle at the literal edge of the world, as one dark power set against both Darkness and Light to keep a precarious world in balance.

"When you fall off the Edge of the World into hordes of demonic 'Things from the Outer Darkness,' you really start to wonder about your life choices."
--Eric, part-time undead, expectant father, and involuntary astronaut.

Set forth into an epic journey spanning space, time, and alternate realities today!
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