Stories of life after death, second chances, and the power of enduring love.THE CALLING: A veterinarian discovers she has a special gift with her animals.BRINDLE: A mysterious little girl survives against all odds.BELIEVER: A grieving daughter searches for the truth about her parents.SECOND LIFE: A physicist investigates whether she is caught in a time loop.R...

A POWER SHE DOESN’T WANT.BUT EVERYONE ELSE DOES.Marnie Stemple has a secret. One she’s been able to hide from the world for years. But now she’s been exposed. And her worst fears are coming true.What does the government want from her? To use her as a spy? A weapon? A warrior? She’s not made for any of those.But Marnie can’t resist the forces who are after her, any more than she can resist using her power.Alice Kern ha...

"Totally fun, smartly written reason to stay up past my bedtime." . . . "A page turner that was smart, witty, clever ..."Lawyer Sarah Henley hopes to salvage her career by accepting an assignment few other attorneys would want. The fact that her opponent will be her former lover Joe Burke only sweetens the deal. He broke her heart six years ago, and she's never understood why. Now she has a chance to even the score by beating him on the battlefield.But things rarely go as p...

What if you're doing it right? Whatever "it" is.What if your spontaneous ideas about how to live and what to do are correct, and you stopped trying to talk yourself out of them?What would a whole day look like if you knew that everything you did was right? How you dressed, how you ate, how you acted, how you thought—what would a day like that feel like?What if you knew that the only true expert on what you should be...

A Robin Brande Short Story Single.An apprentice spaceship designer risks her future for a group of explorers on a dangerous mission.In hard times—in dangerous times—is there still a place for humans' comfort?Young spaceship designer Daryann hopes so.She is about to test it.[This story also appears in the cozy science fiction collection HEART OF THE FUTURE by Robin Brande.]

A Winnie Parsons Mystery Single.Wealthy animal lover Mrs. Penny Bristol left her estate to the local animal shelter. She also left instructions that the shelter should hire Dr. Winifred Parsons if they ever need to solve any of the animals’ behavioral issues.Dr. Parsons is more than a retired psychology professor. Winnie Parsons is clairvoyant.What begins as a good deed to help the shelter animals find new loving homes, soon leads to a mystery that ...

A Winnie Parsons Mystery Single.Cutting-edge scientist Dr. Benjamin Rook returns home to the peace and solitude of his remote mountain laboratory—only to discover that someone destroyed his entire lab and everything he worked on for the past fifteen years.Without any clues who might have done it, Ben turns to Dr. Winifred Parsons for help. She is a retired scientist herself, but more than that, Winnie Parsons is clairvoyant.Winnie discovers there we...

WHEN THE UNIVERSE SHOWS YOU ITS SECRETS, BELIEVE IT.Five exciting new stories in the DOVE SEASON universe.UFO biologist Dr. Travis Baird begins a new life away from prying eyes. But he can't outrun his past—or the alien intervention that changed him.Investigator Gina Firenzi knows she tapped into something strange the night she saved herself from getting shot. But what it was—and whether she can access again—is a mystery she needs to solve.A...

A Winnie Parsons Mystery Single.Cutting-edge scientist Dr. Benjamin Rook returns home to the peace and solitude of his remote mountain laboratory—only to discover that someone destroyed his entire lab and everything he worked on for the past fifteen years.Without any clues who might have done it, Ben turns to Dr. Winifred Parsons for help. She is a retired scientist herself, but more than that, Winnie Parsons is clairvoyant.Winnie discovers there we...

I knew today would be ugly...It's the first day of high school for Mena, and already her world looks bleak: she's an outcast, all her former friends hate her, even her parents barely speak to her anymore. And why? Because she tried to do the right thing. And then everything went wrong.But can a cute, nerdy lab partner; his bossy, outspoken sister; and an unconventional, imaginative science teacher be just what Mena needs to turn her life around?Or will the ...

An experiment so bold, anyone might think it was a little crazy...AN EXPERIMENT SO BOLD, ANYONE MIGHT THINK IT'S A LITTLE CRAZY…Catherine Locke has a plan to win it all: improve her health, improve her life, win first prize at the science fair—And best of all, defeat her fiercest rival.The guy who broke her heart.But as every scientist knows, even the best experiments can turn out wildly unpredictable…"Fa...

LIARS CAN’T HIDE FROM WINNIE PARSONS. BUT THEY SURE KEEP TRYING.Retired psychology professor and secret clairvoyant Dr. Winnie Parsons has a special fondness for justice.And a particular distaste for liars, thieves, and bullies.This time she comes up against them all.But when her niece Rose, a trial lawyer, asks for Aunt Winnie’s help, of course the answer is yes.Bad news for the bad guys. Good news for anyone who wants the truth.