A missing intergalactic artifact valuable enough to inspire murder. A cartoon gag gone bad that leads to a gruesome death. Greek deities unraveling a divine mystery in New York City. A human detective navigating the temptations of Faerie in pursuit of a magical killer. Call them sleuths, call them gumshoes, call them shamuses or dicks or beagles—these private investigators prowl the back alleys of imagination, explaining the unexplainable, seeking answers and justice for two hundred dollar...

A skilled conjurer in pre-Revolutionary Boston is hired to find a killer in this thrilling debut novel of magic and intrigue."A lean, elegant, intricate tale of a conjurer and a world on the brink of revolution. Fabulous!" —Faith Hunter, bestselling author of the Jane Yellowrock seriesBoston, 1765: Revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel...

An old cowboy, Clayton Todd, and a teenage boy, Bobby Earl Lee, take a ride out into the West Texas desert. Bobby, known as Early, assumes it will be a relaxing day with an old friend. What Early doesn't know is Clayton does not plan to return.It's a poignant and heartwarming story of an old man at the end of his life and a kid at the beginning of his, and the moments they share coming to terms with knowing there will be no tomorrow to deal with things unsaid.

The Oxbow Wolves is a story of the struggle between a small wilderness family and a pack of displaced wolves, both looking to survive in a hard environment where there is only room for one or the other. The final conflict comes down to a standoff between the mother of two small children and the matriarch of the wolf pack, both willing to fight to the death to protect their offspring. The final resolution is a heart-rending denouement that could only be reached by two strong mothers.

When Eustace Robertson signs onto a buffalo hunt to earn money for his destitute family, he experiences freedom and paid work for the first time in his life. Just before the sun comes up, he finds himself caught up in a buffalo stampede, riding for his life.

Calvin Bonner and his wife lose a newborn child the same year they lose their cattle to a great freeze-up. Destitute and out of options, he turns to robbery. At first, just wayward travelers on a lonely highway— and then he graduates to trains, and finally a bank.The bank job provides him with enough money to quit his life of crime, but fate has more in store for him until he eventually has to come to terms with his wrongdoings in a plot twist we do not see coming.It's a raw ...

A ship lost with all hands on icy Titan. A dying woman’s soul linked with the fate of an interstellar vessel. A wrecked ferry possessed by the ruin-demon who grounded her. A haunted space cruiser of legend again terrorizing those who travel among the stars. A pirate-ravaged frigate concealing magical secrets that can doom the wicked, or redeem the worthy. An inexplicably empty cruiser arriving at a space station amid the panic of a system-wide pandemic.There is an allure to the gho...

When a young kid signs on with a cattle drive, the ragtag cow outfit driving the herd turns out to be more than he bargained for. By the time he realizes the hole he has dug for himself, it’s too late to turn back.

Levi Jennings, a fifteen-year old preacher's son, is kidnapped by two escaped convicts who execute his parents and take him hostage. The events that ensue threaten to be the undoing of both the boy and his captors.

Ten-year old Matthew Stanford is kidnapped by three Civil War deserters who quit a losing cause and head west . In the wake of a killing spree they leave ex-Army tracker JD Elder for dead. When Elder is nursed back to health by Matthew's mother and learns that her son was kidnapped by the men who attempted to kill him, the hunt is on.Matthew quickly goes from being an overly protected preacher's son to a kid struggling for survival.When Elder, the Confederates, and Matthew ...

Franklin T. Stilwell, 15, and Brady McCall, 10, are thrown together in St. Joseph, Missouri where their families will join an ill-fated wagontrain heading west in the spring. They quickly become inseparable friends, finagle paying jobs for the winter, and trade their pay for two Indian ponies that will change the course of their lives.Halfway across the unsettled frontier, they are the only survivors of a brutal massacre. Their struggle to survive challenges them on every level and...

Join us for a feast!Step into a roadside diner run by witches. Attend a banquet with aliens who are as crass as they are brutal. Eat oysters on the half shell with a pair of conjurers, or scratch out a meal with warring pilots marooned on a desolate planet. Pity the ghost who must cook her way to freedom, and mourn with the warrior who seeks a final delicacy for his lost love. Search the far reaches of space for sustenance or descend into a hellscape of culinary horrors.In ...