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From the author of BloodLight and Lilith’s Arithmetic comes an intense and mind-bending tale of memory, magick, and life after death.

Like many young professionals, Jenny is at a crossroads. Bite the bullet and go to law school, or remain a paralegal a little while longer? Strive to become exceptionally successful at her chosen career, or start...

In the Eve of Light universe, no one is safe from what hides beneath the gossamer of superficial reality.

A struggling singer who travels to the middle of nowhere to perform a gig finds herself exposed to a sinister creature with a hunger for something only she can provide.

A small-time criminal who finds a gun that seems to be of supernatural...

Danny is a struggling singer willing to do almost anything to get a little exposure and keep food on the table, so she doesn’t think twice about traveling to the middle of nowhere to perform a gig. When she’s stranded at an abandoned airport, however, she finds herself exposed to a sinister creature with a hunger for something only she can...

When lonely middle manager Avery Brocus set up a profile on an adult hook-up site, he never dreamed a young hottie would contact him, let alone insist on meeting in person. Agreeing too quickly, he expects to be robbed of his money or identity. He soon realizes he’s been caught up in a plot for something far more valuable.

With stories set in a...

Jacob is a small-time criminal who dabbles in everything from drugs to prostitutes to illegal weapons. When he finds a gun that seems to be of supernatural origin, he begins to dream of the big time. His dream turns into a nightmare when he realizes someone wants their toy back.

With stories set in a world where humankind’s twisted fantasies and...

Even though he’s one of the Heartland Security Agency’s Peacemaker agents, a man sworn to help protect and preserve the morality of the United States, Neal can’t give up his habit of patronizing prostitutes. When one of them steals the prototype of a top secret device, however, he has no choice but to come clean in order to rally fellow agents...

A fugitive from the Sprytes, one of the most dangerous supernatural cults on Earth, Betty has refashioned herself as a revealer of dark conspiracies and a killer of misogynous conspirators. On her crusade, she has successfully stayed off the radar for months. When the Sprytes close in, however, Betty may find herself entangled in a conspiracy...

Wayne is a silver-tongued master of the dating game, one who knows how to deliver just the right words in just the right way in order to transform any woman he wants into candy in his hands, to be devoured, savored, and forgotten at his pleasure. But when he goes out on a blind date with the mysterious Nayantara, he will learn there are no such...

She made herself irresistible. Something noticed.

Aoife Finnegan boards a singles cruise with a $10,000 bet riding on her skin. She and her colleague Cyrena have spent months developing an experimental body wash — a blend of botanicals, animal excretions, and synthetic compounds designed to make a plain woman irresistible. Aoife, who catalogs her...

It was free to join. That should have been the first warning.

Faraji has spent years building a life no one taught him how to live. Alone in D.C., estranged from every relative he has, he wants one thing: a connection that doesn't vanish when the season turns. Late one night, he discovers a dating platform with unusual rules, rigid timelines, and...

Some towns remember every visitor.

Rodgers is a member of the Errands of Eros, a secret fraternity whose agents travel to small towns to find neglected wives and offer what their marriages won't. He has oaths. He has methods. He has the untroubled confidence of a man who has always been the one with the secret. His latest mission sends him to...

Precise. Patient. Playing the wrong game.

Tommy Turtello is careful beyond reason. He studies his targets for weeks. He knows their habits, their vulnerabilities, the precise words that will coax them closer. He has spent a decade behind bars refining the craft of disguise — chemical powders that alter his features, fragrances that soften...

Not everyone is the hero of their own story …

Bottom-rung office worker Sevin Naughtiér probably shouldn’t be alive. His nose spontaneously leaks a weird tarlike substance and he possesses the inexplicable ability to run faster than any other creature on Earth. Not to mention that a new coworker vividly remembers him committing suicide back when...

The story of one young man crossing the burning bridge between innocence and experience, Spring’s Fall is a narrative dramatic poem comprised of several stand-alone poems about fitting in and falling out, finding oneself and losing oneself, and discovering the meanings of life, love, and identity.

An unusual but familiar coming-of-age...

Whether one regards it as a sequence of forty-two narrative poems or the somewhat broken body of a metaphysical epic, there will be no disagreement that Trinity & Its Twin is a provocative work. Ostensibly the fragmented tale of a homeless refugee and a runaway teenager who join a separatist religious sect, the story interweaves...

Sometimes lovers enter a relationship with the best of intentions but wind up in a place far from love.

Sometimes poets attempt love poems, simple and pure, but . . .

Over breakfast, a husband trying to deny creeping out on his wife the previous night can’t help but give hints about the creepy things he really did. On a beach, a man minding his...

He wanted reclamation. The Warren wanted something else.

Hendrick knows the bakery route by heart. He could walk it with his chin lowered, eyes on fractured sidewalk, but the window always stops him—not for the pastries arranged behind the glass, but for the faint outline staring back. A gourd of a man. A shape he refuses to study but cannot stop...

Penelope Jackson thinks she’s running the con. In a city where guns are illegal and psychic weapons are even more feared, she’s the woman in the diamond collar who can plant screaming nightmares straight into your skull.

With a touch of the pendant at her throat, she can bend men to her will and spin any lie into truth. All in service of...

In a city where corruption runs deep, survival is everything—and redemption is still possible.

Ruben Moreno had a shot at the badge—until booze, bad judgment, and a short fuse took it all away. Now sober, he works the edges as a civilian crime scene tech, quietly trying to rebuild his life in a department where corruption seeps through every...