Follow the rules.That's what Con Becker does, even when it means denying his own needs. Because one thing he's learned is that breaking the rules gets you into trouble. It alienates you from your family....

With their band on the brink of stardom, Johnny Gehrings is cast out by his stepmother and half brothers because he's not pretty enough for social media. He takes some solace when Zimri Hayes quits the...

This collection contains the first three Bureau novellas:  CorruptionOnce a proud demon of the night sky who carried nightmares to humans, Tenrael has spent decades in captivity as the star attraction...

A sickly man seeks recovery in a seaside cottage. A temple slave tends a man due to be sacrificed. A soldier releases a genie. In seven fantasy short stories and novellas, men find passion with other...

Tom's day has not gone well. He bombed the job interview in San Francisco and missed his flight connection back to Iowa. Now he's stuck at the Minneapolis airport, on standby for an early morning plane...

Reece is a practical, orderly man, a financial analyst who considers most holiday events wasteful. But his sister coerces him into standing in line overnight for this year's must-have toy. Supplies prove...

This collection contains the fourth and fifth Bureau novellas.CHAINEDAn agent for the Bureau of Trans-Species Affairs? That's the best job in the world. And it's enough for Terry Brandt, who doesn't need...

Captured young and enslaved by the Romans, Sabbio died while building Diocletian's palace. For seventeen hundred years he has haunted the city of Split, watching and listening as people pass through the...

Lee Harker has never fit in anywhere. Not with his immigrant family in rural Nebraska, not on a Navy ship during World War II, and not in Los Angeles as associate in a law firm. But when he's sent to...

Miles Thorsen's adopted family is… unusual. But that's not why he fled after graduating from college. Now, after ten years of restless wandering, he returns home for the winter holiday celebration. The...

Born with a deformed foot and abandoned as a young child, Brand spent his youth in indentured servitude to a mediocre wizard. Now Brand is grown, but with no other prospects to support himself, he remains...

Dom is an aging house-android, toiling away for the cruel and ungrateful owners of an inn. He secretly dreams of freedom, friendship, and love. When an inn guest offers him the chance to attend a grand...

This collection contains the ninth and tenth Bureau novellas.CAUGHTArt Gundersen did not make it as an agent with the Bureau of Trans-Species Affairs. But when Chief Townsend orders him out of the lab...

This collection contains the seventh and eighth Bureau stories:CAROLEDCharles Grimes hasn't celebrated Christmas in years, so spending December in San Francisco while keeping an eye out for monsters sounds...

August Hayling went west following the discovery of gold in California. While most prospectors were hoping to strike it rich, August was more interested in a place big enough to let him get lost. Sitting...

Someone—or something—is murdering young men in San Francisco. Clay White has been fired from the Bureau of Trans-Species Affairs, but he's determined to track down the killer. When he comes across a vampire...

Grimm in spaaaaace!In this retelling of a classic fairy tale, Phineas Coleman is stranded on a planet far from home and must find a way to support himself in this new land. A selfish local man offers...

Life isn't always easy for a Bureau agent who's also a dragon.Ever since Ralph Crespo was trapped in human form, he's been going through the motions at a job he once loved. Maybe that's why the Bureau...

When World War II ended and army medic Walter Clark returned to Chicago, he discovered that although home remained the same, he had changed. Unable to fit comfortably into his old life, he spent a year...

You can't fly away from destiny. Crow Rapp assumes he'll spend his life growing corn in rural Illinois, like the grandparents who raised him. But during a visit to a traveling carnival, he encounters...

Very little is merry in a private dick's world.Private detective Nick Bozic works the mean streets of 1950s Portland, Oregon, shadowing unfaithful spouses and nabbing thieving employees. He may be lonely,...

Created out of clay to protect the citizens of Mala Lubovnya from persecution, the golem is strong but desperately lonely. He is confined to an attic, and his only joy comes from listening to the evening...

Alone in a new town, psychology professor Shawn Daly has resigned himself to a quiet, solitary Christmas. Then he nearly runs over a stray dog. She's not seriously injured—but it turns out she has other...

Bennet's just an ordinary office worker from Modesto… until the moon is full.And being a werewolf is stressful. It interferes with Bennet's work schedule and wreaks havoc with his love life. As if that...

It's December, and although Chrys Carvalho loves his home among the trees in the California Sierras, he's a little lonely. While trying to find a new owner for a motorcycle—gifted by Chrys to his late...

It's finals week during Tony McNeil's second year in law school, and he's struggling to keep up. Frankly, he'd rather be cooking. Then he meets first-year student Eddie Cohen-Fernandez, who's heartsick...

After several deaths and near-deaths, chemist and introvert Bram Tillman wishes the last year would unhappen. Then a beautiful man shows up at his door, warning him that more danger lies ahead. Daniel...

Once a proud demon of the night sky who carried nightmares to humans, Tenrael has spent decades in captivity as the star attraction of a traveling carnival. He exists in miserable servitude to men who...

Agent Dash Cooke likes simple assignments: annihilate the dangerous monsters and move on. He likes a simple life too: a furnished apartment that he switches out for a new one every few years and no messy...

***Winner of the 2021 BookLife Prize for Fiction*** Ravaged by a horrific experience, Oliver Webb flees the smog-bound city of Greynox for a quiet seaside village and the inheritance he's never seen:...