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 ...

CarmineI have to admit, my college crush telling me I was everything he'd been looking for on the same day my life went to hell in a hand basket wasn't as great as I thought it'd be.Mostly because he meant it in more of a scientific way than a take me now, you scarecrow of a man sort of way.Sean is brilliant. He's on the verge of a breakthrough in biomagical research that could change everything, not just for the magical community but for t...

It wasn't that I wanted to be alone. It was just easier that way. Getting spectacularly dumped at the altar after being told not only was I not good enough for him but I would never be good enough for anyone kind of put me off the whole find someone and live happily ever after thing, you know?Until Davy showed up.Like a lot of the new tourists in our little Colorado town, he found me through that damn bear calendar. But unlike the other tourists, I didn't mind him coming 'r...

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...

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...

Breaking News!Reporter Wendell McCandless Jr is returning home to Dumbarton, Texas to cover the annual Alameda Family Thanksgiving Picnic and Baseball Tournament. But rumor has it that's not all he's after.Letters belonging to the late Joseph Alameda were found at Wendell McCandless Senior's junk shop, and they may hold clues to solving a century-old mystery—the disappearance of Joseph Alameda and Martin Bright!Two men vanished...

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...

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...

Everyone has a ghost story.A Friend In Need: Help comes in unexpected ways. (Set between Bump in the Night and Ghoul Friend).Let's Make A Deal: Young Violet gets a cat that is more trouble than expected. (Set before Bump in the Night).Something New: Oscar meets his new BFF thanks to a ghostly nun. (Set during Oscar and Ezra's school years).Roomie

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...