Bartolamus the Sorcerer is dying.His days of adventuring and forging new words of magic are firmly behind him. Or so it seems. As his trembling apprentice approaches his bedside with a silver whistle...

Aliens crash-land in snowy North America, attempt integration, and fail—violently.In the near future, over thirty black ships containing the aliens known as the Wannoshay crash-land onto the frozen earth...

First contact between a priest and an alien…Less than a dozen years from now, over thirty black ships containing the aliens the world will come to know as the Wannoshay arrive on the frozen earth of the...

Sometimes those who can't be found just might not be lost… As the co-founders of Finders, Inc., Hank Johnson and Bim Mayer have spent the past two decades successfully solving mysteries and — almost miraculously,...

Contagious magic: good luck trying to find a cure…Two minutes after the shocking end to A Wild Epidemic of Magic, this third book in the series finds Kelley and Jeroan stranded in Dubuque, Iowa, after...

Stories of where the normal meets the strange...From the travails of a water-carrying alien on a harsh world.... to the loss of a child by a much-too-young father touched by the were gene. From the plight...

If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.A young woman struggling with drug addiction catches aliens on her digital camera. A man with elemental powers struggles with morality and carrying out the...

Try not to listen to those who whisper...Tommy Roling has a great freelance job, a healthy daughter, and a new city to call home. Plus he's finally comfortable with the fact that he's a werewolf. So why...

Some family curses really should be passed on...Tommy Roling does everything humanly possible to raise his infant daughter Corinne the right way. But a half year out of high school, Tommy finds himself...

We started the fires at dusk.The opening to the title story of this collection by Michael Jasper is a distillation of the mix of danger, disquiet, and determination that runs through all sixteen stories.Whether...

Sometimes you eat the forest, sometimes the forest eats you.What would you do if your child was lost, and—even though you'd never admit this to anyone—it was all your fault? How would you react? Would...

Magic: more contagious than the common cold…Kelley Strickland and her twin brother Jeroan accidentally step into an ancient battle between a power-hungry Sorcerer—who wants to rid the world of what he...

An unlikely team of misfit players, and the coach fighting to hold them all together...In his first season as head coach of the All Nations team, former slave George Grunion contends with racist crowds,...

Retirement: it's not just for the elderly.Thirty-six-year-old JB lives to inspire the old folks at Whispering Pines Rest Home. He listens to their stories, encourages them to get some fresh air, and makes...

A haunted romance. An unsolved mystery. And a centuries-old curse at the heart of it all.Off the rough coast of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Ella Simon tracks down one man—the infamous pirate Blackbeard....

Three generations of Koopmans live—uneasily—under the same roof of a farm house twenty miles from the center of Holy Cross, Iowa.Thirty-year-old William Koopman needs to move out. But Dad wanted him on...

Magic: It can show up in the strangest places…An old man sleeping in a cardboard box in snowy Chicago holds the secret of sorcery in his head. Thanks to the damage done to him by using magic decades ago,...

Magic: the side effects are painful, if not fatal...Two months after the explosive and unexpected ending to A Sudden Outbreak of Magic, Jeroan learns all about magic at Dr. Azure's mysterious training...