Shepherd's life was supposed to be simple, and short.Then the FBI raided the cult compound he was raised and suddenly there was no one left to sacrifice him to his demonic spouse.So much for destiny.Luckily even the damned and the dead still need errands run, curses managed, and carnivorous plants pruned. These days Shepherd works for Renfield Concierge Services as a jack-of-all trades.His latest gig is house‑sitting The Murder House, a necr...

When the kids are away, the monsters will play.School's out for summer, and these dads are ready to ship their kids off to camp. Not just because their kids are monsters—whose aren't?—but because they're ready for some alone time to let their hair down and their fangs out. You see, not only are the kids monsters—their dads are too.Even the most dangerous of creatures has a soft spot. These bad, dangerous dads love their kids to death, but they need romance.Every yea...

Ever since ghostwriter Jason Burke ended up in loco parentis for his orphaned niece, Mallory, he's been trying. He goes to parent/teacher events, and he makes packed lunches, so he definitely didn't mean to forget about Christmas. He just hasn't celebrated it since he left home under a cloud years ago.Put on the spot, Jason makes the snap decision to take Mallory to see where he and her father spent their Christmases as kids. The last thing he expects is to run into Tommy, his ex-e...

When Danny Shaw's ex dumped the job of returning some...personal items...to a short list of his previous conquests on him that seemed like imposition enough. Until he opened the bag and found that the items in question could best be described as extremely intimate and disturbingly detailed.But when life gives you a bag of hyper-realistic sex toys, modeled after penises your ex knew and admired, what else is there to do but find the biggest dick you know and ask if one of them is hi...

His mother. His best friend. The barmaid at the local pub. Everyone is determined to find Nathan Moffatt a boyfriend. It's the last thing Nathan wants. After spending every day making sure his clients experience nothing but romantic magic, the Granshire Hotel's wedding organizer just wants to go home, binge-watch crime dramas, and eat pizza in his underwear.Unfortunately no one believes him, and he's stuck with lectures about dying alone. Then inspiration strikes. He needs the peop...

Don't get him wrong, Davy hadn't been thrilled to end up face-down in a shallow grave…but he'd not been surprised either. With the life he'd lived, and the work he did, it had always been a possibility. So he'd not been bothering to hold his breath–metaphorically speaking, being dead–for a chance to get his own back on his killer.On the other hand, death was kind of boring…even for a mercenary who wore the stigmata of his sins as occasionally too-independent tentacles. So when some...

These days even Cupid needs a help desk...that's why MatchMade is here.Alaskan pilot Quentin Hannigan is good at his job, but not so great with people. He's the last man anyone who knows him would expect to fall in love at first sight. Until he does. Hard.Just one problem.Joe Kendrick, widower and frazzled dad of three, does not have the bandwidth for this. Between his kids, his trainwreck of a sister, and bills that keep piling up, the last thing h...

It shouldn't have been this difficult.All Ryan wanted was to leave his ex-boyfriend at home and go to his childhood best friend's wedding as a single man. The only problem was that apparently he was the only sane person he knew. His actor ex didn't want their break-up on social media until it would be good PR for him. Meanwhile the bride, and childhood best friend, was so rigorously superstitious about bad omens that the wedding would have been cancelled already if someone hadn't '...

The Carnival of Mysteries just arrived in Sutton County. They say if you cross the fortune teller's palm with silver she can read your future like a map. Right now all Ledger Conroy wants to know is if he has a future.Back in Sutton after over a decade, Ledger's plan had been to bury his father--recently deceased convicted serial killer and less-well known warlock, Bell Conroy--clear the property, and then finally wash his hands of being a Conroy. Instead there's a cured h...

Special Illustrated EditionAll Conri wanted was to drop his kid off at Changeling camp, find the nearest halfway nice hotel, and enjoy a week of uncomplicated debauchery. It should be simple. It doesn't work out that way. When a local girl disappears, the neighborhood quickly lays blame at the well-guarded gates of the camp. With his son incriminated, a mystery to solve, and a malevolent pocket of the Otherworld to navigate, Conri will need all the help he can get—e...

My name is Jonah Carrow, and it’s been 300 days since I laid a hex.OK, Jonah Carrow isn’t actually an alcoholic. But there’s no support group of lapsed hex-slingers in Jerusalem, so he’s got to make do. He goes for the bad coffee and the reminder that he just has to take normal one day at a time.Unfortunately, his past isn’t willing to go down without a fight.A chance encounter with a desperate Deborah Seddon, and a warning that ‘they’re watching’, pulls Jonah back ...

Crime Scene Cleaner [kraɪm siːnˈkliːnə] - Cleans up crime scenes…before the cops know there is one.People always say ‘you can’t go home again’. It turns out that doesn’t count as a guarantee…especially not during a global pandemic.After the jobs in LA started to dry up, crime scene cleaner Grade Pulaski was forced to pack up and move home. He loves his family, but the last thing he ever wanted was to face the ghosts he’d left back in Sweeny, Kentucky.