Set a few years after the first volume The Archetypes-First Generation, the Rexes find themselves under attack by their archenemies, the Renfield family. They suffer a shattering loss, and injuries that they must recover from as they begin to deal with new shocking revelations about the extent of Amanda's father's tampering with his archetype creations. They all possess a trait that has preprogrammed them to commit murder among themselves. An already stressed and distressed Amanda must rush to devise a serum to vaccinate her family with as the genetic time bombs tick away in all of them, but...

Seven Christmas stories are gathered here in this volume. The rollicking Riley family is revisited as Chili prepares to play an elf in her school play and big sister Ruby experiences her first romance at fifteen. In Bruce, a family expects a fiberglass camel to complement their church's first living nativity but that's not what they find waiting for them at the depot when they go to pick it up The Christmas Spirit is a holiday ghost story about redemption. In Christmas Wreaths, a young woman who volunteers making and selling wreaths at a farm witnesses a man's abuse and violence toward his...

Six tales of suspense and the supernatural are gathered in this volume. In Shifting Sands a young woman at a crossroad in her life attracts the attention of a strange guest at the inn where she works. All Souls Night finds a mute young woman who has been mistreated by her family struggling with decisions about her life and future when an author checks in just before the annual Halloween party. In Drakes Fall Manor a lonely, unhappy girl makes an unusual friend. A depressed man discovers a terrifying truth about himself and his unusual collection in Blackstone's Menagerie. A pre-med student...

Evangeline Teale has been living a quiet, low key life, but then her lover from her thousand lifetimes returns once more to try for a happily ever after, now that she's removed her cruel father from her life-permanently. Ardis finds his status as a vampire distasteful and longs to be a living being again. He persuades Evangeline to kill her wicked witch mother. He also wants her help locating an ancient grimoire that may contain a spell that will change him back to a living human being again, only the last known place the spellbook was was in the hands of the powerful vampire who changed...

Amanda Pennington has just buried her father, a renowned physician/scientist who specialized in genetics and biomedical cell engineering. With her longtime friend, Benjamin -Beans- Carter, Amanda discovers lab journals and notebooks in her father's mountainside laboratory that are disturbing. It turns out that she and Beans are what her father called archetypes- genetically altered and biomedically engineered human beings created in his lab. Ami and Beans struggle to unravel the web of lies Dr. Leonard Pennington wove as they discover who they really are and what it means for them and their...

Three supernatural/suspense novellas are presented in this volume. In The Magic of Cross and Crowe, Vegas magician Simon Crowe chooses a new assistant for his act, a small town girl from New England. Will Crowe, who has fully embraced the culture of Sin City, destroy young Tessie "Pepper" Rumford, or will she be his salvation? The Girl with the Ivy Tattoo has recently joined the staff of The Cedars, a funeral home where mortician/embalmer Adrian Frey-Dayne works. Adrian has to help Eveleen Glenrowan when her tattoo artist father is killed in a hit and run accident. Adrian has a secret. Will...

Five stories about finding true love. In Stage Stop, a photojournalist travels west to document a ghost town owned by a crusty older man who is estranged from his sons after the death of his wife. A young woman from wealth and privilege balks at her arranged marriage to an abusive, self-centered young man just so their fathers can complete a business merger in Making the Right Choice. A young man returns to his home town where he discovers that the girl next door is the one who holds the key to his heart in Sweetheart Lake. In Flintlock & Scalpel, a female doctor is awakened one night by a...

Eight tales of suspense or the supernatural are gathered in this volume. In Europe, vampires are being outed in Karpov Live. A talk show hostess with a penchant for provoking and shocking her guests has disastrous results when she springs arch enemies upon one another. A group of bored college students looking for something exciting to do for Halloween decide to do a Cemetery Crawl by visiting the graveyards across the street from their school. A young woman discovers that she shares her apartment with a ghost who does not like her cat in Jessica's Roommate. In Metaphysical Attraction, a...

A collection of thirteen stories are gathered in this volume that depict ordinary people discovering love under less than ideal circumstances. In Legal Maneuvers a receptionist verbally spars with the junior attorney in the practice. A thirty-something baker who has labored under the thumb of his widowed mother suddenly finds himself able to live his own life for the first time when she suddenly dies, and he is ill-prepared for it. A funeral home director notices the same woman attending multiple funerals and finally finds the courage to approach her in Isabelle. An spirited, young artist...