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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

***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:...

Caleb Stern was the high school hotshot, but a bad attitude and poor decisions led to years of misery. Now he's trying to do better, and a job on the cleaning crew at a holiday craft fair could be a new...

Julian Massey has always been sickly. When the young man's parents send him to the seaside town of Urchin Cove to recuperate, he finds himself stranded in a tiny cabin with only the quirky local inhabitants...

Art 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 and into the mountains of northern California to collect evidence...

Orris Spencer is an abomination. At least that was what his father said in 1886 before banishing him from their Fifth Avenue mansion and sending him across the continent to Oregon. Now Orris must try...

After the hard winter of 1888 ended Alby Boyle's work as a Nebraska ranch hand, he returned to New York City in search of his long-lost family. His mother and brothers are nowhere to be found, however,...

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...

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...