Shorts and Novelettes for Anthologies and
Stand-Alone
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
To purchase WE SHALL LIVE AGAIN...
Cover art created by Debi Lewis
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...
Cover art created by Debi Lewis
EPIC's e-Book Award Finalist 2010!
Coming
Together: Against The Odds,
including "Claim Mate"- This
charity anthology will benefit Autism Speaks! Authors and editors take no portion of the
profits from this endeavor.
"Claim Mate"- Sheara thinks life
can't get worse. Her former cohab, Dahv, is back on-planet and working in her
building. Oh, but Murphy's Law applies, even on alien planets. There's a traitor
in Sheara's department, and Dahv's team of interrogators is assigned to find
him. That should be Dahv's highest priority, but it's not. Three yars earlier,
he'd left her in a misguided belief that she needed time to follow her career
before becoming banded as his mate. This time, he's going to follow through, no
matter what has happened in his absence.
HEA-yes,
VIOLENCE-moderate,
LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-lightly erotic
To purchase COMING TOGETHER: AGAINST THE ODDS from Phaze...ANTHO in e-book
(print coming 6/09)...
Cover art created by Debi Lewis
Coming
Together: Into The Light,
including "Foundling"- This
charity anthology will benefit V-Day, fighting the epidemic of violence against
women! Authors and editors take no portion of the
profits from this endeavor.
"Foundling"- From the Instinct Series... Mannias is soon to be alpha of his pack, and he wants Vahlrae as his mate. She is weak, unable to perform the slightest shift toward her wolf form, unable to sense as the others do. But when mating calls, her shortcomings don't matter.
HEA-yes, VIOLENCE-moderate/high, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-sensual
Releasing from Phaze in 2010.
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...
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.
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
Animal Instincts- From the Instinct Series... Mattayas is the eldest son of the alpha pair, the buck destined to lead his Wul pack when his father dies. Anha is a proud young Lyx fem, a strong hunter and fighter for her nest. Their mating instincts drive this unlikely pair together, sending Mattayas into a murderous rage that leaves them with horrific choices to make. Can their instincts overcome the problems inherent in such a match?
HEA-yes, VIOLENCE-high, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-erotic...BDSM overtones, consensual sex but skating the line to not
To purchase Animal Instincts from Phaze...
Cover art created by Debi Lewis
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...
Cover art created by Skyla Dawn Cameron
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...
Forsworn- A fantasy anthology to benefit pancreatic cancer research via the Lustgarten Foundation. Not only have the authors and artist agreed to donate all their royalties, the publisher has, as well. And Lustgarten puts 100% of donations toward research. The only people who will make money on sales of this anthology will be the printers and distribution channels. What does that mean? It means that, if the e-book format retails for $5, and you purchase your copy off the publisher site, the entire $5 will go to research to prevent, treat, and ultimately cure (we hope) this horrible illness.
HEA-no/dark fantasy, VIOLENCE-moderate, LANGUAGE-mild, SEX-none
Releasing from Sleeping Beagle Books in 2010.
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
To purchase ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU from Loose-Id in e-book...
Cover art by April Martinez!
COUGARS- 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.
"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
Releasing from Logical-Lust Feb 14th, 2010.
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
Releasing in e-book from Phaze Feb 1st, 2010. 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. MONSTERS OF MYTH has signed to Mundania. Look for it's release soon.
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
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...
Cover art created by Sam Pray
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
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...
HEA-no, VIOLENCE-high moderate, LANGUAGE-moderate, SEX-N/A or mild
Cover art created by Sam Pray
