Patrice is finally comfortable in her life as a gorgon. By day, she rules the Mt. Olympus reception area with a fist of iron, a glare of stone, and a headful of snakes. After hours, she sneaks around "borrowing" magical items from other departments to aid in her secret missions to help people behind the scenes.She thinks she's covered her tracks until a powerful goddess comes to her for a favor. If Patrice agrees to help, she could start a war with all the witches of ancient Greece...

Word is getting around about Patrice's illegal, after-hours sleuthing. Circe, a fierce and dangerous witch, has lost track of her only daughter and insists that Patrice track the girl down. Patrice can't refuse the job, since Circe is threatening to rat her out to the bosses upstairs, but at least there's a large wad of cash involved.The clues lead everywhere and nowhere, and the search causes serious complications to Patrice's fledgling romance with a certain blue-eyed delivery gu...

R.L. Naquin, author of the Monster Haven series, shares an assortment of stories from places just outside the world we know. These pages are filled with friendly monsters, dueling witches, floating ice fish, chupacabra taxidermy, and escalators leading to Heaven and Hell.This collection includes two brand-new Monster Haven tales. Find out how Riley got his job in "Reaper's Tale," and join Kam the djinn as she chases down a ghost with unfinished salon business in "Shampoo Girl." Plu...

The holidays can be overwhelming for anyone, but Zoey is ready to explode when Maurice, her closet-monster roommate, takes celebrations to the extreme. When Zoey ducks out for a little fresh air, she finds a boy with a big problem -- a problem only a mythical creature can have and only Zoey can solve.This story also appears in the short story collection, Transmonstrified.Hidden Holidays takes place between Monster Haven book two, Pooka in My Pantry, and book three, Fairies ...

********This story was included in Transmonstrified and Unfinished Muse. If you've already read "Undercover Gorgon" in either of those books, skip this and wait for "Episode #1—Witches War" coming in December 2015.********Episode #0—BecomingPatrice has never been comfortable in her own skin. At midnight on her twentieth birthday, her magical Stealth Insurance lapses, leaving her with a headful of live snakes and an aversion to bright light. Now she understands why being hum...

Empath and caretaker to monsters, Zoey Donovan, finds a package on her front lawn. It cries a lot and wears diapers. It also has horns, cloven hooves, and green skin.Zoey and Maurice the closet monster look for the unlikely parents in a crazy attempt to bring together the mismatched family. A dangerous prospect, considering the family's hostile relatives.Ill-Conceived Magic is a short story in the same world as the Monster Haven novels from Carina Press. It also includes a ...

Maurice the closet monster is an amazing cook, efficient housekeeper, fantastic problem solver, and the best friend anyone could ever have.But nobody really knows what he does all day.Bank robbers, a rare disease, and a visit from a bad-luck pooka are no match for a closet monster with time on his hands.But don't tell Zoey. She worries.7,00 wordsThis story also appears in the short story collection, Transmonstrified."What Zoey Doesn't Know" i...

It seems rather fitting that I'm a grim reaper who happens to be a widow. In fact, my husband's death ignited a chain of events that shook my life and landed me as GRS's newest grim reaper. He's been dead for over a year, but I can't shake the feeling that the circumstances surrounding his car accident aren't what they appear.My suspicions are confirmed when I find a receipt for a storage locker rented in his name. Of course, I have to investigate, but what will I find? Was he lead...

Holidays are worse than a full moon for making people crazy. In Harborsmouth, where many of the residents are undead vampires or monstrous fae, the combination may prove deadly.Ivy Granger, psychic private investigator, returns to the streets of Harborsmouth in this addition to the bestselling urban fantasy series.Holidays are Hell, a point driven home when a certain demon attorney returns with information regarding a series of bloody murders. Five Harborsmouth residents ha...

PRG Reviewer's Choice Award finalist for Best Urban Fantasy Series.Ivy Granger, psychic detective, thought she'd seen it all...until now.With a vengeful lamia that only she can see on the city streets, reports of specters walking Harborsmouth cemeteries, and an angry mob of faerie clients at her office door, it's bound to be a long night. Add in an offense against the faerie courts and a few foolish bargains and one thing is clear--Ivy Granger is in some seriously deep trou...

A demon, a human, an Unseelie faerie, and a vampire walk into a bar...This Ivy Granger series novella contains four intertwining stories set in Club Nexus, the hidden haunt of Harborsmouth's paranormal underworld. Club Nexus is a great introduction into the award-winning urban fantasy world of Ivy Granger.ICEDA bargain gone wrong leads a highborn Unseelie faerie to life as an enslaved bartender with a taste for revenge.DUSTEDBeing a highly skilled pr...

BTS Red Carpet Award winner for Best Novel, finalist for Best Cover, PRG Reviewer's Choice Award finalist for Best Urban Fantasy Series, and winner of the PRG Reviewer's Choice Award for Best Urban Fantasy Novel.Being a faerie princess isn't all it's cracked up to be...Ivy must go to Faerie, but the gateway to the Wisp Court is through Tech Duinn, the house of Donn—Celtic god of the dead. Just her luck.Unable to share her secret with Jinx, and with Jenna called away...