BirdieI was kind of halfway in love with Royce. Royce just wasn't aware of that, I didn't think. Sure, we went at it like cats and dogs verbally but I was pretty sure he didn't know I wanted to go at it like... things that go at it in a naked way. Marmots? Muskrats? Wasn't there a song about muskrats doing it? He didn't know I wanted to go at it like muskrats from a 70s yacht rock song.Officially, I'm a research associate for Halloran and Reynard, ...

Adam Tewson is mad at me, but it's totally not my fault.It wasn't my fault that his family has ties to some super shady political groups, or that his dad's bestie is a senator caught up in a magic user trafficking ring. And it's not my fault that my expose on the famous Tewson family political dynasty shows the world (or, okay, like six thousand subscribers) what all that glamor and old magic is hiding.It's hiding some real messed up stuff, okay? Like… super bad.And ...

Vic Koudelka has a problem saying the word 'no.'Need three dozen cookies baked for a seven a.m. class party? He's your guy.Dog walker quit at the last minute? He'll wrangle your four rambunctious Golden Retrievers without complaint.As the nanny for two high-energy kids, a volunteer at the shelter, and a skateboard instructor his days are filled juggling it all. Yet when he adopted a three-legged iguana named Gojira, his focus shifted. Now he's determined to orchestra...

Red pepper in a foot track. A safety pin in the sugar bowl. Vinegar and a rusty nail and your enemy's name in a bottle.Sometimes the simple magics are the best.But sometimes... sometimes it's a crow's whisper at dawn. Blood dripped into the soil, feeding the mountain. Marrow and dirt and breath and words older than rocks.The old blue house isn't where it all began for Silas, but it's where everything started...

RowanLess than two weeks till the winter solstice and somehow it's my fault the witches have misplaced their damned bells. If they weren't such jerks about Demonborns being part of the Grand Council and their plans for the Revelaton of the magical world to humans, maybe they wouldn't need to use the stupid things anyway. But until they're ready to admit that without Demonborns, there'd be no Witches, I guess they're out of luck.Sending Whitaker Frost, scion of the ...

My day started with three werewolves in line ahead of me at the deli, and it went downhill from there.Coming home to small town Texas wasn't exactly on my to-do list after medical school but here I am, sitting pretty in my new role as Doctor Landry Babin, medical examiner, no longer Landry, that weird Babin kid.But...There's two werewolf victims in my office and Ethan Stone, the new sheriff, in my waiting room.The new sheriff who is also my high school boyfr...

Things between Julian and Oscar are only getting better and stronger. They're ready to take the next step in their relationship:Going to the biggest paranormal investigation convention in the eastern United States to promote Bump in the Night.Everything is changing.And not in the way Julian hoped for when he took the job on Bump in the Night.The show is falling apart before it even really gets off the ground.Oscar is having a crisis of faith in his a...

Sometimes you just need a break.Too bad these ghosts didn't get the memo.The cottage Julian picked out is perfect: ocean practically at their feet, a charming little beachfront town just a mile away, and the house itself is something out of a fairy tale.The only thing is, Julian was expecting something less Grimm Brothers and more... not that.The entire town of Rosie Sands is obsessed with ghosts, which mea...

The funeral business is burying me. Entrusted with Morris Funeral Home and Crematorium, the company that has been in my family for four generations, I fear it's going to go belly up under the growing pile of bills. But the troubles haunting me don't end there. My son's teachers don't seem to understand how to work with a kid like Eddie, leaving me zero time for myself.Then there's Ambrose Jennings. The quirky baker is catering Delia Dennis' wake, and I can't seem to get him out of ...

Julian Weems doesn't believe in aliens, cryptids, ESP, pineapple on his pizza, or ghosts.Oscar Fellowes is determined to change his mind about at least two of those things.Julian Weems is a professional skeptic. Scratch that—he's a disgraced ex-professor who just plays one on TV. Specifically, on UnReality's soon-to-be-hit, Bump in the Night. Alongside medium Oscar Fellowes, Julian is set to investigate (alleged!) haunting...

There's a werewolf in my room.And two in my kitchen.Another one in my living room. And he's got his shifter daughter with him.There's two more on the way over for lunch.And I have a headache.On the surface, everything has been just fine for the past few months. The clinic, destroyed by arson over the summer, is back open.There's a fragile peace between the shifter and were groups in our area. The Council has created a task force to track down Ga...

There's a science to magic...Surrounded daily by people with enhanced abilities,I'm well aware I'm nothing special. Fortunately, we all have our strengths. Mine happen to be less thrilling than superhuman abilities. Data analysis and being a great match-maker—for anyone except myself—are where I shine.(Cue sad trombone noises.)All of which made it all the more confusing when my routine lab tests came back showing anomalies. Me? Enhanced? There had to be a m...