What if you could make your own pet in a jar, using the magic of alchemy? Vinni's family, the women of the Red House, have built their wealth and standing by making homunculi: Artificial creatures that act as companions and helpmates. Vinni's mother made the best, and Vinni thinks she can do it earlier than any of her cousins. But her mother was institutionalized for madness when Vinni was five, and none of her Aunts will undertake to teach Vinni anything serious of the craft until she's had her first blood. Vinni must learn in secret, hampered by her Grandmother's strict rules. Making a...

Theo Frankenstein's father refused to give him a name. So Theo made one out of his accidental biographer's most famous work. Audrey Sefton had no clue that his new posting as a detective in special services would mean policing monsters. And he's not sure that he likes keeping it classified. Westhoeven is a small Midwestern city, and a reservation where the U.S. government has secretly located all manner of supernatural entities. Today, something has started killing wizards, threatening to ignite a war between wizards and monsters. Today, Theo must break in his new mortal partner, find out...