Your Magic Or Mine?What if you could cast a spell to help you do your everyday job? But . . . an argument developed on the correct way to cast that spell? Or even worse, what if an ancient force brought you and your soul mate together, but you want nothing to do with each other?How do you cast a magic spell? By the numbers and a strict equation? Or intuitively by feel and ancient methods? Is casting a science or an art?Theoretical mathematician Marcus Forscher and b...

What if you could cast a spell to help you do your everyday job? But . . . you weren't able to cast a spell on any person or any thing except yourself?An ancient legend, the soul-mate imperative, is reputed to bring magic practitioners together and grant them new powers.But Daria Morgan, management consultant and practitioner, doesn't want or need either a man or enhanced talents, not at the cost of losing control over her own life and not even in the hope of repairing her ...

Do You Believe In Magic?What if you could cast a spell to help you do your everyday job? But . . . that didn't help when an ancient force brought you and your soul mate together, and you weren't ready?Magic practitioners in the modern world have supernatural skills to do their everyday jobs. They also have a legendary force, the imperative, that brings each to his or her soul mate, who will be the love of their lives. The mates are also guaranteed to recognize each other al...

Wild MagicWhat if you could cast a spell to help you do your everyday job? But . . . what if that job included casting fireballs and lightning bolts and destroying evil magic items? And your soul mate turns out to be a "wild talent" with abilities neither of you dreamed of? And you're up against the immensely horrible Cataclysm Stone?Within the world of magic practitioners exist a group called Defenders and Swords. Their purpose: to find and destroy items of evil magic....

Unexpected MagicWhat if you could cast a spell to help you do your everyday job? But . . . there's more to living than work, and you've lost your soul mates to death? What if an ancient force brings you together with another? And throws both of you up against the worst, most evil magic item around?Magic practitioners always find their soul mates and live happily ever after. Always.What if the unthinkable happens, however, and a mate dies young? Is the living mate do...

Legendary MagicWhat if you could cast a spell to help you do your everyday job? But . . . your everyday job is destroying evil magic items, and the biggest, baddest item of all time has reappeared? And you and your soul mate have no clue how to use the biggest, goodest items of all to fight it?Once upon an ancient time in practitioner lore, the wizards who commanded the most powerful magic items ever known fought the Last Great Battle.Blaze Stone, Wielder of the Pin...

In its history, Windswept Plantation has been many things to many people. To the Jamison family, it has been the ancestral home since 1830. To historian Barrett Browning, it is a repository of correspondence, journals, and stories which can lead to publications, promotions, and success in her academic career. To venture capitalist Davis Jamison, all these documents are a pain in the neck, since he must preserve them for history while guarding his heritage. To Davis's cousin Lloyd, the pape...

Eleanora Whitman: ruthlessly efficient, totally organized, thoroughly businesslike chief of staff. Personal goals: run a division, then her own company. However attractive her new CEO and however crazy, though successful, his management methods may be, she believes she has the fortitude to ignore the first and the abilities to work with and learn from the second.Lawrence, “Rence,” Stratford: irreverently laid-back, impossibly facetious, thoroughly charming CEO, who has been hiding ...

Linda Rebane has achieved her life-long goal of running the family business, Rebane Renovations. She's about to begin a major project—when the old structure mysteriously burns. She doesn't let the catastrophe slow her down, however, not when new business drops into her lap.Corporate wolf Mike Stratford, architect and president of WIN Construction, needs an old apartment building rehabbed. Because this won't be his usual new-from-the-ground-up undertaking, he chooses Rebane to do th...

Elizabeth Chapman is saved from an armed robber by a giant Kodiak bear who shifts into a large, well-muscled, and fully naked human male. But when it's revealed that the robber is the brother of a dangerous criminal, Elizabeth finds herself the target of a vendetta.Ronan, the Bear Shifter, takes her to Shiftertown for safety, where Elizabeth learns that the mateless Ronan, alone in the world, takes care of Shifters who have also been left on their own. Having grown up in foster car...

Spike, a wildcat Shifter and the champion fighter of Shiftertown, is stunned when Myka, the best friend of a dying human woman, announces that Spike has fathered a cub. What's more, the mother is giving the boy to Spike to protect and raise.Myka, who'd been raised by an abusive stepfather, is not sure that a wild fighter named Spike is the best man to bring up the cute little jaguar cub. She goes to Shiftertown to check out Spike, and finds that the man behind the name is a lonely ...

Ellison Rowe is a wolf Shifter who has embraced all things Texas. He's a cowboy through and through, complete with a Texas drawl, cowboy hat, and well-worn cowboy boots. He's also lonely, though he feels obligated to look after his sister who is recovering from a hit-and-run accident that has left her striving to control her feral tendencies.Enter Maria, a human woman taking refuge with the Shifters, who volunteers to look after the cubs and help Ellison’s sister. Maria too is reco...