Moon Called, by Patricia Briggs

Mercy Thompson is a VW mechanic in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State. As hard as she tries to live a normal, quiet life, that’s just not in the cards for her. Mercy’s life is just a tad bit complicated, being a coyote shapeshifter with a werewolf for a neighbor, a former boss that’s a [...]

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Sweet Hush, by Deborah Smith

Hush McGillen Thackery is a mother, a woman, a lover, a widow, a farmer, a liar, a fighter, and a pillar of her community. While individually all these words give a sense of the character she is, it is the combination of these roles that ultimately make her a force to be reckoned with. [...]

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Magic Bites, by Ilona Andrews

Kate Daniels is a mercenary of the magical kind. She cleans up the messes other people make when they play with magic. A lot can and does go wrong when technology fails and the magic surges. Kate finds this out very soon when her guardian, a powerful mage, is brutally killed and she begins to [...]

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The Spymaster’s Lady, by Joanna Bourne

We are first introduced to the infamous Annique Villiers during her interrogation in a dank prison in France. Where some women would have broken down and given up their secrets under the questioning, Annique holds her own, for she is the “Fox Cub,” a notorious spy who is wanted throughout Europe. Little does Annique [...]

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Alien Taste, by Wen Spencer

Ukiah Oregon is a tracker. He hunts the missing, and there’s no one he can’t find. Ukiah is so good that the police, despite the fact they think he’s a little bit spooky, have called him in to find a missing woman whose roommates have just been viciously murdered while she has mysteriously [...]

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