Always be yourself, unless you can be a dragon. Speaking as one, it’s not that simple. My sisters and I grew up oppressed by a bloodthirsty tyrant in another realm. Now we’ve got a trickier challenge, one I’m more worried about. Starting boarding school. I’m unprepared but not surprised; I’ve always been strange. The only […]

“Here’s Johnny!” Probably everyone in America knows the phrase, whether they watched every episode of The Tonight Show or none because they had to go to bed early on school nights. From 1962 to 1992, Johnny Carson and his Tonight Show dominated the American consciousness. Henry Bushkin was Carson’s best friend and lawyer during that […]

Cinna and Hokuren return in a twisty, character-driven cozy fantasy mystery full of magical intrigue. Hokuren’s steady life in Velles, tracking lost pets through the bustling city with her street-smart assistant Cinna, is upended when a magically sealed letter arrives to inform her of her estranged father’s death. With her mother long since passed, Hokuren […]

She thought she left mystery-solving on screen and in the past. But someone is bringing her darkest role to life. Violet Asher, former star of Lilly-Bell,Teenage Detective, fled Hollywood at seventeen, desperate to bury a career she hated and a past that haunted her. Ten years later, she’s finally found peace in the quiet coastal […]

Poof! Our whole lives can change in an instant. And John Atwater, a skilled engineer and army veteran, who has plenty of battle scars from his time serving in the elite group called The Undesirables, knows this better than anyone. John’s life is all about routine, discipline, and reliability, the tools he uses to cope […]

Rucker is brave, honorable, and determined to be a great swordsman. But he is also twice cursed. The first is his fault; a personal flaw caused by an inability to harness his rage. The second is beyond his control; a gift of the gods, thrust upon him because of who he is. And his sudden […]

When Layla Callahan bolts back to her hometown, she promises herself it’s temporary, just one summer to catch her breath before the next escape. But trouble always seems to find her, and this time it wears a Stetson, leans on a fence post like it owns the view, and answers to Ryder Wheeler. Her brother’s […]