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After nearly losing everything in the most recent battle with Cullen, Eva isn’t sure how to pick up the pieces. First, there’s Mayer: Yes, he was initially working for Cullen, but when push came to shove, he protected Eva. Indeed, it’s only due to Mayer that Eva is even still free. Yet he also backstabbed her, so she isn’t sure how she should feel towards him or whether she can or should ever trust him again. Then there’s Mara—once Eva’s best friend, now things are beyond rocky between the two mermaids. All Eva wants is to resolve this feud between them, but unless Eva agrees ...

London was supposed to be the normal stop on Samantha Moon’s European vacation. Just some fish and chips, museums, and maybe a cheeky photo with a palace guard. Instead, she finds herself face-to-face with an old, familiar evil—one that once stalked Victorian alleys with a butcher’s knife. Turns out Jack the Ripper was never just a man. He was a spirit of pure murder, possessing killer after killer for generations. And now it’s loose again, jumping hosts across modern London. When the blood starts flowing, Sam and her supernatural crew must hunt it down before it claims more victims...

When the owner of an ancient bullfighting ring—a stadium transported piece by piece from Madrid—asks Samantha Moon to investigate a possible family curse, the private detective knows one thing for certain: Things are about to get weird. She isn’t wrong. Her investigation into the haunted arena uncovers more questions than answers… and a mystery that stretches back centuries. With the help of her witchy friend, a world-class psychic medium, and an unlikely ally living deep underground, Sam begins to piece together a tragic story of epic proportions. A story of a deal gone terribly ...

America's favorite vampire detective is back in this thrilling collection of bonus material and deleted scenes! Read Samantha Moon's conversation with her long-dead, no-good, cheating ex-husband, Danny. Drop in on deleted scenes with Archibald Maximus the Alchemist, Ishmael her ex-guardian angel, and the one and only Dracula. Read an alternate ending to Vampire Dawn, and an epic angel vs. demon battle that never got published in Moon Angel. It's all in here, thirteen bonus scenes in total! Additionally, read J.R. Rain's commentary on why each scene didn't make the final cut. Samantha Moon ...

An inexplicable change has happened to the fabric of the universe, evidently driving some dark masters insane. An Ohio-class nuclear missile sub is about the worst place imaginable for a werewolf to have an existential crisis. Though mermaids aren't well equipped to fight other supernaturals, Alex isn't about to let nukes hit the US. Even if it kills her.

When Sherlock Holmes joins his sidekick and friend, Doctor Watson, at the wake for Brigadier Buffington, they wonder how Buffington acquired a lost Leonardo da Vinci painting. And, after a curious incident or two, another question arises: Did Buffington die of natural causes? Or was he murdered?

Plagued by persistent dreams of King Arthur, Merlin, and the Holy Grail, mystery novelist James Dupree sets out to England to understand the meaning behind his nightly visions. Upon arriving in Glastonbury, a locale deeply connected to stories of Camelot, Avalon, and the Knights of the Round Table, James discovers that not all is as it seems in this quaint little town. There's a raven-haired girl dying of a rare lung disease, knights with swords, and strangest of all is the man who emerges from the forest.

In J.R. Rain's short story, Samantha Moon meets someone unexpected on a late night trip to Denny's, someone who seems to know all her secrets and has all the answers. Also included: "Book Burning": Two brothers find themselves on a late-night mission to burn a legendary book of supposed dark powers. "The Silo": The land is dying and crops are failing. The city of Wheatopia is in the middle of the worst drought in recent memory; that is, until a city-slicker and his too-thin wife arrive in town one day....

Over 150 years ago, a man was killed with a silver bullet in a rural, Pennsylvanian town. A man who just might be a vampire. The Vampire Club, a group of misfits who meet regularly in the basement of Western Virginia University’s library, think that they might have found their first documented case of a real vampire. Better yet, the Club thinks that the vampire might still be alive to this day, lying comatose in a hidden grave. And this is good news indeed for a group of vampire lovers.

Three Samantha Moon stories in one! Ever wondered what Samantha Moon really thinks? "Moon Musings" is a candid, playful, and revealing peek behind the curtain, where Sam writes her own “blogs” about life as a vampire, mom, and private investigator. She bares her secrets, confesses her doubts, and jokes about blood, mind-reading, and raising super-powered kids in suburbia. But it doesn’t stop there. Readers also get "Moon Memories," a sharp, dialogue-only 'client meeting' that turns into an unexpected reveal about the world’s supernatural underbelly. Finally, there's "Moon Quiz," a ...

Two years ago, a woman is murdered in cold blood. Now a son she'd given up for adoption returns to claim his inheritance. To verify his claim, a DNA test is ordered. Except there's one problem. Her grave is empty. Spinoza is a private investigator who specializes in finding the missing. He's good at what he does. Damn good. But he's also a recovering alcoholic and a royal mess. Hired to find the missing body, Spinoza will follow a set of clues that leads him to the unthinkable, a world of nightmares and dreamscapes.

Nothing says true love like battling government agents, Amish family drama, and failing superpowers on the way to “I do.” Mira Verborgen didn’t plan to get superpowers from a Large Hadron Collider meltdown. She really didn’t plan to tell her conservative Mennonite parents she’s invisible, immortal, and wanted by Homeland Security. And she absolutely didn’t plan on getting married while on the run from government agents in Amish country. But love doesn’t wait for perfect timing. Especially when your powers are mysteriously vanishing, you’re living in barns and buggies, and ...

They survived the accident that made them superhuman. Now they’re racing to stop the one that will end the world. Mira Verborgen and Giancarlo Bianchi never asked to become living physics anomalies—able to shapeshift, heal instantly, and defy the laws of matter. But the same catastrophic experiment that gave them their powers also turned them into ticking time bombs. With just weeks before they detonate like nuclear weapons, they’re desperate to find a cure. The only chance? Repeating the experiment in a working particle collider. But their old enemy Dr. Orlov—insane, equally ...

On the Psychic Hotline, Allison speaks with an Englishman whose daughter is in big trouble. When Allison meets him, she learns that his daughter has been arrested for a murder she can't remember. Allison also discovers that his hundred-year-old house has a dangerous entity living within...and it's not the first time something bad has happened here. Allison enlists the help of her new friend, Ivy Tanner, a Hollywood actress, to get to the bottom of the haunting of the house on Mockingbird Lane.

When bloody, vanishing footprints appear every night in a suburban park, Samantha Moon is called in to investigate. Locals whisper about Bigfoot, witches, and demons—but Sam discovers something older, stranger, and heartbreakingly lost: the ghost of a dinosaur reliving its violent death for a hundred million years. With the help of her psychic daughter, Samantha races to soothe the ancient creature’s tormented memory before it fades for another twenty years. Moon Beast is a moving, eerie, and deeply human supernatural mystery about compassion for even the oldest, loneliest monsters ...

Some apps should never be downloaded. Billy didn’t even want to go to the cemetery that night. But Tommy always had the dumbest ideas—and besides, they were bored, girlfriendless, and looking for trouble. Ghost radar apps? Sure. Harmless fun. But then Tommy finds something new in the app store. Something free. Something with a suspiciously blunt title: “Raise the Dead for Fun and Profit.” Billy begs him not to. Tommy presses play anyway. And the dead wake up. Dozens of them. Skeletons and half-rotted corpses clawing out of their graves, lurching through the moonlit cemetery, and ...

Spinoza is a private investigator who specializes in finding the missing. He's good at what he does. Damn good. But he's also a recovering alcoholic and a royal mess. Now determined to redeem his troubled soul, Spinoza won't let his personal demons-or demons of any kind-stop him from finding the missing.

Dr. Shaye Fox has lost almost everyone and everything he loved, including his wife. Once a successful dentist with a passion for healing, he’s been stripped of his career, his self-esteem, and his reason for living. His life is a mess until one rainy night when Shaye finds a big white dog in the road. A dog in critical condition. A dog with a horrific secret. In his race to save the dog’s life, Shaye takes matters into his own hands. And when Shaye discovers that his dog companion is thousands of miles from home, it becomes his mission to return the dog to his rightful owners.

The complete number one best-selling Walking Plague Trilogy now available in one volume, including: Zombie Patrol: Los Angeles County park ranger Jack Carter is about to discover that not all is as it seems in his tranquil life. Once responsible for patrolling the many public parks, in particular the popular Griffith Park with its famous observatory and zoo, Jack is about to discover that a whole new kind of animal roams his woods.

The vampire spy returns! Mina Barrett is back in an all-new, thrilling adventure! It's normal for a parent to bring their kid to work if they can't find a babysitter, but Mina Barrett doesn't exactly work an office job—she's a CIA field agent. She's also a vampire. The Dominion isn't going to take a break because of Mina's schedule, so when an urgent situation crops up in Libya right before she learns the bad guys have plans to abduct her daughter, there's only one possible fix: Bring her daughter on the mission. The bosses aren't too thrilled, but since the kid's a vampire, they don't ...