Six holiday stories that explore the heart of Christmas. The Riley family is revisited on another Christmas when middle son, Carmine, is in a funk when he doesn't receive the ne thing his heart desired most for Christmas. During the Depression, a family struggles with what looks to be a very bleak, joyless Christmas in Paper Chains. Finding Christmas features a middle-aged couple who examine current holiday trends while trying to preserve family traditions. The CEO of a toy manufacturing is called on the carpet by Santa himself for putting profit ahead of his young son's needs in A Modern...

Fiery, young redhead Bryce Briscoe lands a job as the night clerk at City Morgue where she meets icy Dr. Giles Talon whom she comes to believe is the man a gypsy fortune teller predicted she would marry back when she was just 9-years old. The only problem is that the frosty MD doesn't seem to care about her at all- so why is she having such explicit erotic dreams about him nearly every night? And then there is the rather unnerving fact that the grim reaper seems to have been shadowing her since childhood. Before long, Dr. Talon reveals his true self, and also a startling truth about Bryce....

City Morgue nightshift desk clerk, Bryce Briscoe is pregnant by her Medical Examiner/grim reaper fiance. She has moved into his house and their volatile relationship is leveling out as she learns her role as his portal, his lover and the soon-to-be mother of his son. Demons from other realms continue to plague the couple who remain shut out of Heaven, where Bryce remains a hot topic of debate in the Heavenly Council because she is not just any mere portal. Meanwhile, Talon encourages Bryce to mend her relationship with her family. On a romantic birthday getaway, a rogue reaper infects Bryce...

Lissa Beresford is a young woman from an apparently upstanding family, but she has a dark secret. Remy Brice is a young man who has had a rough beginning in life. He's been struggling to better himself for nearly a decade now. He and Lissa were once paired as a "married couple" in a class called Life Skills in high school. Out of school for three years, Lissa suddenly breaks down in front of Remy, spilling her terrible secret and setting them on a journey that will test the life skills they learned in school as they struggle to forge a life together while tackling issues similar to those they...

Cupid's Darts gathers fifteen sweet little stories about old romances rekindling and new romances blossoming. A young man returns to town to pursue the girl he left behind; a young woman inherits a crumbling estate and finds a partner in a man who crashes his bike on her property; the best man at a wedding takes a bold risk; an unconventional young woman attends a former classmate's relative's funeral and creates a stir; a medical secretary s surprised on Secretary's Day; a first grade teacher has a special Valentine's Day; a young woman trying to get her sick puppy to the vet locks herself...

Jamie-Milena Talon is a college senior working toward her degree in funeral service management when her rivalry with another fencing team member leads to a Halloween night rapier duel that ends in her death- only she is the daughter of two supernatural beings and Darach Blackmoor is the sixth son of Satan. When Milena reveals that she is in love with Darach and he admits that he loves her, she and her family are set on a harrowing path as they battle the devil and his five other sons while helping Darach petition for Redemption before the High Council and the Throne of One. Will they survive...

On a rainy September night, Ivy Greenaway answers a phone call that will change the course of her life. The caller is Romney Sharpe, her older sister's on-again off-again boyfriend, who happens to be a dark arts warlock. Ivy is a white witch and druidess. Before she knows it, she's been marked by Romney as his property and drawn into a war against his evil black witch sister, Rayna, who's already murdered their father. Romney is now the King of the dark arts practitioners. Ivy is his chosen Queen. A black King has never taken a white Queen before- and lived. Will they be able to unite black...

Thirteen tales of ghostly hauntings, the supernatural and psychological unease are gathered here to chill you. A Long Island ghost haunts a young writer. Death comes to call. The sea seeks to claim all the men in a seacoast village family. A woman witnesses a supernatural event in her own backyard. A madman stalks a woman through time. The fine line that keeps us civilized is stretched taut by the rude gesture of a teenager. A girl has a chilling encounter with a scarecrow one night...and more.

In the sequel to Black King Takes White Queen two years have passed in relative peace for Romney Sharpe and his wife Ivy. They have been raising their son, Ezra, while working hard to continue to unite practitioners of both white and black witchcraft. On the night of her twenty-third birthday, Ivy has a prophetic dream that heralds the return of her older sister Holly who was sent to Wales to live after the murder of their mother just before Romney and Ivy were married. Holly has not returned alone. She is now the wife of a truly evil black wizard who is the King of practitioners in his...