Bryndis Palmer, owner of The Neglected Word bookstore, invites her fourteen-year-old niece Frida to visit her so that the precocious, Jane Austen-loving young girl can accompany Bryn to the “Midwest Booklovers’ Convention” being held in nearby Saint Louis. Never mind that Bryn has just broken up with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Holt Furst, or that […]

When Nico and Tony Connole are paid a late-night visit at their seaside fish market by a gorgeous stranger named Gina Quattro and two thugs from the Maladago crime family, they get a stunning surprise. And it isn’t the stiff that the mobsters hustle into the back of the fish market for the Connoles to […]

If she can’t trust them, she’ll kill them. Vita: Jealous lies got me thrust out of Heaven, banished to live out my days on Earth. Being surrounded by demons and Incorrupti Knights were the least of my worries. When three Other Natured crossed my path with stories about a sanctuary that needed our help, I […]

There’s no turning back once you’ve entered the Eye of Fear. Award-winning and best-selling authors from across the genre spectrum join forces in this edgy collection. These deliciously frightening and reflective tales of phobias will cause your heart to race and your body to perspire. Experimental by Lauren Algeo: Four people, four boxes, one nightmare. […]