Contemporary Supernatural

Legend Tripping: A Contemporary Legend Casebook explores the practice of legend tripping, wherein individuals or groups travel to a site where a legend is thought to have taken place. Legend tripping is a common, informal practice, depicted in epics, stories, novels, and film, throughout both contemporary and historical vernacular culture. In this collection, contributors show how legend trips can express humanity’s interest in the frontier between life and death, and the fascination with the possibility of personal contact with the supernatural, or spiritual.

Sam Moon investigates the strange phenomena of prisoners recommitting the crimes they were locked up for—all while never leaving their cells. When a suspect fits the description of an inmate who’s in solitary confinement, Sam correctly deduces foul play. But the deeper that Sam and her partner, Brent Cole, investigate, the more perplexing the mystery becomes. And when Sam is threatened by a civilian prison worker, she has no choice but to delve even deeper into the prison's past—and its warden...and uncovers something evil preying upon the inmates. Sam is about to face-off against ...

Every moment is a struggle between the human and the beast. Wolf-me cares nothing for schedules, social niceties, or the importance of hiding. Territory is to be taken and protected. Pack is to be expanded. But I don’t want to give up being a paramedic to howl in the woods. I have to find a middle ground.

Max Damiano is a killer… At least, that’s what humans would call him. As part of a shadowy line of demon Hunters, Max lurks in the underworld of New York City, facing off against the demons who stalk their prey under the cover of night. Despite his lack of experience, Max is determined to prove himself and make his family proud. After a new demon terrorizes New York—draining its victims of blood and leaving ice running through their veins—Max sees his chance. Thrown headfirst into a deadly race against time, he must track down the elusive creature and end its reign of terror. But ...

Judgement day is here… Meet Max Damiano – arcane demon-hunter. As the newest member of his family’s ancient legacy, he struggles to come to terms with his role to keep humans safe from the horrors that lurk on the edges of our world. After an unusual client sends Max deep into the underbelly of New York on the hunt for an extremely rare demon, he finds himself visiting the shady Under Market yet again to enlist help from an unexpected source. When his oldest sister is kidnapped, Max finds himself racing against time to save her. But tracking down the Harbinger will be no easy task –...

Six-year-old Zoe York has been taken, and her mother comes to Remy for help. He thinks the cops would be a better choice—until the desperate woman shows Remy why she chose him out of all the private detectives in Massachusetts. There are drawings. Crude childlike drawings that show Zoe’s visions of the future. Everything leading up to her abduction, and some beyond. Such as the picture of a man with wings who would come and save her—a man who is an angel. This is more than a mere kidnapping.

Tristram Jones is given an opal by his dying grandfather. Little does he know its connection to an old aboriginal witch doctor with bright orange eyes. He is Dinewan - meaning Emu - taken from the Great Spirit of the Dreamtime. But is he just a wicked and bitter misfit, or something far more marvelous, and dangerous? The stories that swirl around Tristram and the opal stretch across generations and are connected by both Dinewan and the fabled monster of the billabong: the Bunyip.

Grayson Woodford, the stubborn heir to the Scanguards empire, resents the fact that his father, Samson, is trying to play matchmaker and set him up with the daughter of an old friend. Vampire hybrid Monique Montague is just as pissed off with her father, Cain, the vampire king of Louisiana, for trying to trick her into dating Grayson, whom she only remembers as spoiled and arrogant from when they were kids. She refuses to attend the party where she’s supposed to meet Grayson, and instead, picks up a stranger in a bar for a night of wild sex, not realizing that the stranger is no other ...

This revised edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the author’s first published novel. When you lose a loved one, whether it’s a relative, friend, or precious pet, you wonder where that special soul has gone and if you will ever see him or her again. For Dulcie Mills, Long Island computer programmer, the answer may lie between a virtual world and the real one, between the past and the present, between dreams and reality. Unable to get over her fiancée’s death and facing the impending loss of her 15-year-old cat, Dulcie escapes to a virtual world. When Dulcie’s best friend ...

Rule #7 - Do not throw coins into the fountain at Umbra Park. (Especially on Christmas Eve!) All she wanted for Christmas was the small town holiday romcom happily every after of her dreams. ...Instead she got a dropdead gorgeous, devil may care demon who said her wish was stupid. Bah humbug! ~*~ Sweet and innocent good girl Mary Davenport thought moving to the small town of Steamydale would be a dream come true. (Spoilers: It wasn't.) I mean, yes, she has a good job as a hairstylist, it came with great benefits, and she loves doing up everyone's hair for their parties, special events, ...

An old friend brought me a vision of a future where my daughter gets executed. I'll see about that. The problem with the future is that it's surprisingly difficult to change. In this particular branch, my daughter will get executed to establish peace between Earth and the Mirrorrealm. Why? Because she's about to start the war between the realms. In particular, one of the gods of Mirrorrealm travels between worlds in his tower, and he's about to visit Earth. That wouldn't be much of an event if Lillith, my dearest daughter, wasn't hell-bent on destroying that tower and freeing the souls ...

Madison Carter has been terrified of Scott Lee since the night he saved her from an evil sorcerer - then melted into a man-eating monster before her eyes. The werewolf is a slave to the moon, but Madison's nightmares are not. Despite her fears, when Madison's brother, Clinton, is bitten by a werewolf, she knows there is only one man who can help - a man who frightens her all the more because even in her nightmares, he also thrills her.

Ghoul War veteran Zane Vrexon is struggling to make ends meet as a private detective when he gets a cryptic note from an old friend, Dennis, who says his wife is in danger. Then Dennis turns up dead in his own potion shop and his widow, Vana, is the main suspect.

An intense and thought-provoking novel, Eli strips away religious tradition to present Jesus fresh and unvarnished. With gripping immediacy, Bill Myers weaves a story whose truth will refresh your faith.

Once he was known as the Angel Remiel, but generations ago Boston PI Remy Chandler chose to renounce heaven and live on earth, where he found a secure place among us ordinary humans. But now, having lost the love of his life, Remy finds himself turning more and more away from his human friends and his everyday existence. He’s begun to seek out dangerous jobs—those that involve the supernatural, those that bring him into contact with his past.

What happens when you finally meet the girl you've been dreaming about your entire life? For pro football player Colin Schaeffer, the answer is as easy as his entire life has been. Since childhood, Colin Schaeffer has been destined for greatness. Descended from a line of football stars, Colin was born to play the game. And despite the tragic death of his mother and his subsequent picture-perfect family, everything in life had gone pretty much according to plan. There was only one thing that stumped him, and that was the dreams he had of a mystery girl, one that he assumed was a part of his ...

What does a reformed cat burglar do when he has only months left to live? Sylvester “Silver” Larcini tests his skills one last time, pulling off the caper of his life by robbing the mansion of the secretive Sherman Lord. Unfortunately, Lord controls police forces, military forces, and supernatural forces. In retaliation, he kidnaps Silver’s wife and unleashes a worldwide manhunt against him. Silver’s only hope is Morrigaine, an eccentric woman who appears in his home and claims to be a sorceress.

Alice Wyndham has been plagued by visions of birds her whole life...until the mysterious Crowley reveals that Alice is an "aviarist": capable of seeing nightjars, magical birds that guard human souls. When her best friend is hit by a car, only Alice can find and save her nightjar. With Crowley’s help, Alice travels to the Rookery, a hidden, magical alternate London to hone her newfound talents.

One werewolf wants her as his mate. The other will do anything to protect her.In the blink of an eye, 17-year-old Demi's entire world changes forever when she learns that the father she never even knew is really a werewolf, which makes her half-werewolf. And he's not just any werewolf, but the Alpha of his pack. As if that wasn't hard enough to deal with, she's also being hunted by a pack of werewolves, whose leader is intent on forcing her to become his mate in order to take her exiled father's place as Alpha. Demi's only chance to escape is to put her fate in the hands of a total stranger...

In "Ghosts Want Privacy" a man seeking to pry into the affairs of guests staying in Boston’s Omni Parker House, the city’s historic, notoriously haunted, landmark hotel discovers the ghosts there not only have a sense of humor but also value their privacy and the rights of their human guests to the same and unfortunate things happen when people breach the privacy of others in their domain. The story "Ghosts Want Privacy" is a standalone excerpt from the comedy "Josh, Josh, Josh and Josh Go To Yale" a romantic comedy, coming of age, buddy story, in which all Josh ever wanted to do was go...