Stand-Alone Shorts and
Novelettes
NOTE: Anthologies in collections will be listed on
the appropriate pages.
We
Shall Live Again- Amunmaruku
visits her in her dreams, a
long-dead Egyptian prince, whose tomb Anna is excavating. He haunts her
in her waking moments, making her question her sanity. Is it her
psychometry or something more sinister? When the past, present and
future collide, it's up to Anna to close the door connecting them.
HEA-yes, VIOLENCE-moderate,
LANGUAGE-mild, SEX-lightly erotic
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Cover art created by Debi Lewis
ARe Top Ten Seller
Coming
Together: Under Fire,
including "The Fire God's Woman"- This
charity anthology will benefit the
Southern
California Wildfire Relief Fund and The San Diego Foundations's
After-The-Fires 2007 Fund. Authors and editors take no portion of the
profits from this endeavor.
EPPIE Finalist 2009!
"The Fire God's
Woman"- Two
women, a fire god named Volen and a volcano come together under
mysterious circumstances. How are they connected? What lengths will
Volen go to in order to secure a companion for a short time? Does
anyone want to test the wrath of a fire god, when he is sitting on an
active volcano?
HEA-yes,
VIOLENCE-moderate,
LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-lightly erotic
To purchase COMING TOGETHER: UNDER FIRE in e-book (new print link coming
soon)...
"The Fire God's Woman" Self-Published rerelease available from ARe, B&N Nook, Amazon Kindle, Smashwords, and 1 Place for Romance.
Cover art created by Debi Lewis
THE COLOR OF LOVE-
Formerly included in the ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS
anthology, EPPIE finalist 2006- Grace Mallory owns a small but very
profitable art gallery. Michael Justice is a spoiled artist, used to getting
what he wants. This Christmas season, he wants Grace back in his life. A few
little problems? He dumped her in a rather vicious fashion a year earlier. She's
moved on to a new relationship with an annoyingly-perfect man. Oh ... And, then
there's the magical mood ring, telling Grace what she doesn't want to hear about
her feelings.
HEA-yes, VIOLENCE-none,
LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-lightly sensual
To purchase THE COLOR OF LOVE from Phaze in e-book...
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Grace Mallory also appears in the prequel short story to THE COLOR OF LOVE, "A Safe Heart", available free from All Romance e-books. See the purchase page or the free read page for more information.
Dead End Street- This is a departure for me. This short examines inner-city life below the poverty line in the seventies and eighties. I wrote it specifically with the anthology of WITHOUT A NET in mind.
May The Best Man Win- In
a future right around the corner, the United States are no longer united, and
two factions wrestle for control of a once-great nation. A new weapon may hold
the key to a more effective stalemate, but there's one little hitch. One of the
R&D team has inadvertently sent his wife and daughter into enemy
territory...with a vital piece of the weapon. On his deathbed, he charges a
former friend with an impossible task. Find the woman they have both been in
love with for the last decade and a half in a war zone.
HEA-yes, VIOLENCE-moderate,
LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX- erotic
To purchase MAY THE BEST MAN WIN from Phaze...in e-book...
Cover art created by Pam Marin-Kingsley
PHANTOM DREAMS- There was no question that she was going mad. Her dead husband made a habit of visiting her nightly, she heard ghostly cries and saw things that couldn't be real, and she had memory lapses. But, the burning question remains. Which world is real?
PHANTOM DREAMS has released in the NOBODY anthology and in BEYOND THE VEIL for Kindle. Also included in the anthology (from me) are TRICK OR TREAT and ANIMA EX MACHINA.
HEA-yes,
VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-traditional
To
purchase NOBODY from Barnes and Noble
To purchase BEYOND THE VEIL from Amazon Kindle
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PHANTOM DREAMS, #5 SF/f Short Story P&E 2004
Nevermore- In a world where vampires, werewolves, and zombies haunt the night, no one is more revered than a mistress-level witch. Traia is just such a woman, but suddenly she's not the hunter. Instead she's hunted by a werewolf who inexplicably passes through her wards and shields, a man who nullifies her magick. If he finds her, he'll rip her throat out...or will he? Though her resistance to his advances enflames him, it seems he's more lover than fighter.
HEA-yes, VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-erotic...BDSM overtones, consensual sex
To purchase NEVERMORE from Phaze...in e-book...
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Cover art created by Skyla Dawn Cameron
All I Want For Christmas Is You-
One of my rare contemp erotic
romances! Two years after losing her fiancé
Zach in a car accident, Robin is
moving on. She's set her priorities, and one of them is following through with a
life plan she and Zach made together...having a baby. It would be best if said
child shared some of Zach's genes.
Enter David, Zach's older brother. He's Robin's best friend, her confidant, the one person who won't think she's crazy to do this...she hopes. Since there's no chance the ladies' man will fall for her, she hopes sex with him will stop the dreams where David takes Zach's place.
It's the invitation he's been
waiting for, three years of watching Robin with his little brother, then
watching her grieve Zach. If only she wanted David for himself and not a
convenient sperm donor
to conceive his brother's child. Then again, in such
close quarters, maybe he'll be able to convince her to something more
permanent...if his parents don't catch wind of the whole thing first.
HEA-yes, VIOLENCE-mild, LANGUAGE-graphic, SEX-erotic...BDSM overtones, anal sex
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Cover art by April Martinez!
THE COUGAR BOOK-
What is a cougar? A cougar is a
self-assured, assertive, independent older woman (at least
35, in most cases).
She's got a great self-image and isn't afraid to dress like much younger women
do. She likes sex and isn't afraid to say so, and she particularly enjoys
no-strings-attached sex with men that are considerably (usually 15 or more
years) younger than she is.
THE COUGAR BOOK is edited by the
fabulous Jolie duPre!
"Mine for the Night"-
In a future where an interstellar
foe has infected humans with a virus that destroys males entering puberty, the
only way to save the human race involves a bold plan. Males are kept on hormone
suppression, until they reach 25 years of age and their bodies have outlived the
virus they are born with. With hundreds of viable women to each maturing male,
carefully selected pods of four women to each man are assigned. But before those
men take their place in their pods, they belong to the female scientists who
made the suppression possible...for one night of completely uninhibited sex.
HEA-erotica/atypical HEA, VIOLENCE-mild, LANGUAGE-graphic, SEX-erotic
To purchase THE COUGAR BOOK from Logical-Lust in e-book or print...
"Mine for the Night" Self-Published rerelease available from ARe, B&N Nook, Amazon Kindle, Smashwords, and 1 Place for Romance.
MARKED- Money clips and microchips...that’s what little boys are made of. Lace and flair and grave malware...that’s what little girls are made of. Who knew a fatal crash could feel so good? Houston Lawton's sons are every woman's dream men: successful, intelligent, rich. There's just one little problem; they can't feel love. A jaded woman might claim that's typical of the breed, but they're not clueless; rather cybernetic inhibitors suppress the emotion to stabilize their neuro-processors. They've never lost control...until now.
HEA-yes, VIOLENCE-mild, LANGUAGE-graphic, SEX-erotic
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NOTE: This story is available in print as part of the FORBIDDEN LOVE: WICKED WOMEN anthology from Under The Moon.
Cover art by Debi Lewis.
Monsters
of Myth-
This e-book release only from Mundania will
include these short stories. 
Tether- MNI (Magical Needs, Inc.) is the foremost magical transportation company in the world, and Allie is their #1 transporter. But transporting a gremlin may be even more than she can bear.
HEA-atypical/dark fantasy, VIOLENCE-none, LANGUAGE-mild, SEX-none
Birthright- An account of Vlad Tepish confronting VanHelsing. Why is VanHelsing such a great vampire hunter? Where did he get his information from? These two have a history, and one of them isn't going to walk away from the encounter.
HEA-yes/dark fantasy, VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-mild, SEX-none
A Wasted Mind- A modern retelling of Frankenstein that takes the myth one further. What if the beast possessed a brilliant mind but was hampered by a wasting body.
HEA-no/dark fantasy, VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-none
Becoming A God- From the Night Warriors series... While some beasts try to escape what they are, others revel in their godlike powers, even creating nights of worship...to themselves.
HEA-no/erotica, VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-high moderate, SEX-sensual
The Stone Lord- From the Night Warriors series... The old stone lord has died when the next is still a child. Suddenly, Brand finds himself alone and on a quest he doesn't understand, driven to collapse at every turn.
HEA-atypical/dark fantasy, VIOLENCE-high, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-none
Welcome to Hell- When a strange man appeared in Sharon's home, she expected a rapist or thief. The last thing she expected was to be tossed through time and told that the only way to right a terrible rift in time that would destroy her present was to kill someone in the past. Can self-proclaimed pacifist Sharon find it in her to kill a stranger? What happens if she doesn't? Worse, what happens if she does? Will appear in...
HEA-no/dark fantasy, VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-mild, SEX-none
One Hour Burial- When you have only hours to bag, tag, and bury the dead before they become zombies, it changes the entire business of death.
HEA-no/straight genre horror, VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-none
Look for it's release September of 2011.
Undead
Embrace-
This straight-genre offering of zombie tales
contains stories from myself, TL Ryder and Terri Pray.
Comfort Food- From the zombie's POV, what drives them to kill?
HEA-no/horror, VIOLENCE-explicit, LANGUAGE-mild, SEX-none
Human Touch- A med student working on a cure for those infected by a zombie bite realizes their "lab animal" isn't the mindless killer he seems to be.
HEA-no/dark fantasy, VIOLENCE-none, LANGUAGE-mild, SEX-none
Long Odds- When a child goes missing in mountains known for predators, including zombies, his mother prefers to play the long odds that he's survived somehow.
HEA-no/horror, VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-mild, SEX-none
To purchase UNDEAD EMBRACE from UTM...in e-book and print...
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Excerpt available on the purchase page...
Cover art created by Sam Pray
Evil Overlord Union
Issue #1 contains "The Scourge of the Alliance."
This collection from Under The Moon is a great little romp, featuring short
stories based on the
Rules for an Evil Overlord. If you've never encountered them, you won't want
to miss them.
To purchase "The
Scourge of the Alliance" in EVIL OVERLORDS UNION #1 from UTM...in e-book and
print...
Excerpt available on the purchase page...
HEA-no, VIOLENCE-high moderate, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-N/A or mild
Cover art created by Sam Pray
