"From the Files of Mercedes Mace: Happening to Me" is the fourth novel of the Mercedes Mace series. The summer of 2021 is a hot mess: war, bombings, heat waves. Madness, chaos, and pain occupy the attention of our sun-allergic detective, who sweats out her family's financial anxiety all around the Bay Area, fixated on a pattern of kidnappings that no one else sees. Harassed by the Bay's noble families, everyone wants to lock up or kill Mercedes-who barely manages to stay a blade's length away from the attention of an unrelenting evil from her past. Mercedes Mace is a swearing, brawling,...

"Steps of a Ghost" is the second collection of short stories from the Diary of Young Mercedes Mace-the teenage adventures of the sun-sensitive girl-detective, growing up in the frigid frontier state of Alaska. This collection includes: "Poor Kid Quandary (Sophomore)" Mercy returns from winter camping to discover that she isn't the only spectre wandering the grim perma-night of Alaska's December... "Shooting Secret (Junior)" Robbie-one of Mercy's only friends-has started to pal around with Leah, the only other faux-vampire in Fairbanks. Ick. But what does she have to do with a grotesque,...