Cleverly named Meena Harper is distraught when the size-
nothing beneficiary of nepotism Shoshana got the head
writer position at their workplace, the soap opera
Insatiable. Even more distressing is when Shoshana
announces that the show is going to go the vampire route,
just like their biggest competitor Read more...
Prisca Hawthorne has always loved Lord William Westfield,
but after he broke her heart as a very young woman, she has
used every opportunity to torment him with her brazen
manner and harsh tongue. William, in his turn, has
reciprocated her ire with his own sarcastic comments as
he's Read more...
Excited to be going to the best law school in the country,
Jeremy Davis quickly becomes immersed in a long-running
campus mystery with origins more exotic than the New
England locale. People are given choices daily about
whether to be kind or hurtful to others; in some
situations, the Read more...
Nyx is a Night Tracker, part of an elite paranormal team
with a fondness for black leather. When werewolves start
disappearing and no olfactory clues -- or clues of any kind --
are left behind, the Night Trackers get called in. Nyx, a
half-Drow, gets to head the team investigating the Read more...
The men in Black Ops, Inc. are as tight as brothers.
Luckily for Wyatt Savage, they always come through in a
crisis. Lately, Wyatt has been at loose ends. He has a
risky, adventure-laden life, but seeing his parents and
sister for the first time in two years starts Read more...
Cesaria Putnam's life as a Debunker for the Church of Real
Truth involves a series of situations that go from bad to
worse and back again. After the revelations of the Truth of
the afterlife, the government and religions gave up the
ghost, literally. Debunkers go to haunted places Read more...
The United States of America has had a long history of
misunderstandings and skirmishes with other countries.
However, America has also had a long history of fights with
the Other Side. Until a minor indiscretion with the
President's daughter, Zach Barrows was blissfully ignorant
of paranormal and other mysteries Read more...
Although fifth in the series, THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND
quickly brings the reader up to speed on the relationships
of the characters.
Morgan Kingsley, one of the best demon exorcists in the
country, used to despise those who chose to host demons in
their bodies while taking a "back seat Read more...
Lizzy has always known she's had a connection with her
father's battle sylph, Ril, but she didn't know how unique
it was until she was thrown into a battler's harem. Ties of
family, friendship, promises and loyalty are tested as
Lizzy's father Leon plots to Read more...
After a jaguar warrior finds his mate, he does not entangle
himself with another woman. Because of his feelings of
betrayal toward his rightful mate, Conner Vega throws
himself into his next mission, a work requiring him to
seduce a villainous woman who has stolen children of area
Panama tribes Read more...
Despite the seemingly strange origins of many of his family
members, Montgomery de Piaget is admonished from believing
in fairies; even in the 13th century, modern men do not
believe in fairies. When one appears in front of him, wings
and all, his disbelief becomes very hard to maintain.
Pippa Read more...
As a grad student at Stanford, Jason Lind leads an active
life: computer programming, teaching a course, being a
teacher assistant, and sometimes writing papers for pretty
girls. So maybe his life is active but not exciting. All of
that changes when he becomes immersed in the popular
virtual online Read more...
When people are ill, they go to some sort of medical
practitioner for help. However, Lord Benjamin Westfield
needs a particular type of assistance that can't be found
in a medical facility. He is a Lycan, and after a traumatic
event, he no longer changes into a wolf during Read more...
Michael Bowditch has tried to use his forest savvy in
beneficial ways rather than harmful ones: he became a game
warden rather than a poacher like his father. He rarely
talks to his father because doing so would always seem to
land him into trouble. However, from the point when Read more...
In Adams and Clamp's Tales of the Sazi, shapeshifters
often have gifts far beyond merely shapeshifting. Eric
Thompson's are such that the leaders of the community
aren't sure whether he should be exiled or given the
responsibility of his own pack.
Holly Sanchez, a formerly non-shifting Read more...
Detective CeeCee Gallagher has had some rough spots in her
life, but she has overcome them through tenacity and
professional courageousness. All of her friends and family
members are connected to policework, even her ex-husband,
her ex-husband's new wife, and CeeCee's new husband, FBI
agent Michael Read more...
Is the connection between a husband and a wife about
physical appearance, some mystical and romantic recognition
of souls, or merely the day-to-day routines that form habit
and convenience? Such high-brow philosophy is not usually
at the top of Susanne Lasko's thought processes. She's not Read more...
After her sister and brother-in-law died in a tragic
carriage accident, Lily Rutledge has never begrudged
raising their son, the 12 year-old Earl of Maberley.
However, she has begrudged how little concern his legal
guardian, Simon Westfield, the Duke of Blackmoor, has shown
for young Oliver. Now Read more...
Callie Jordan loves working at the zoo. Sure, the hours are
hard, the new boss can't remember her name, and trying to
manage high-strung kids with low supervision in the petting
zoo area can stomp on her last nerve, but Jordan keeps
hoping to someday work with the Read more...
Derek Stillwater is dead. Officially, anyway. Instead, he
is masquerading as Michael Gabriel in order to prevent a
mass terrorist action by a group known as the Fallen
Angels.
Twenty heads of state are convening, so danger is imminent.
When everything hits the fan, it is up to a dead Read more...
Vicky Gilpin
Dr. Vicky Gilpin teaches Composition,
Literature, and other courses at Cerro
Gordo High School, Millikin University,
and Richland Community College. She
recently took the course Vampires in
Literature and Film through Harvard
University Extension School and teaches
an English 101 course with the theme of
vampires. When she's not teaching,
reading, writing, and taking courses,
she spends time with her husband and
their six animals.
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