When an estate sale at the grand old Magnolia Manor leaves antique restorer Mary Shaw with more than a beautiful music box, she discovers some objects refuse to let go of the past.

Mary has spent years ignoring the psychic visions that come whenever she touches certain antiques. They’ve never brought her anything but trouble. But after purchasing an elegant music box once owned by Eleanor Beaumont, Mary is haunted by disturbing visions of blood, whispered warnings, and a chilling message from the woman who supposedly died of natural causes.

Not finished.

With her loyal corgi, Sika, leading her toward clues no one else can see, Mary begins uncovering secrets hidden inside Magnolia Manor’s crumbling walls. A mysterious break-in, a sealed fireplace, missing evidence, and a family determined to move on convince her that Eleanor’s death wasn’t as simple as everyone believes.

Someone is searching for the truth.
Someone else is willing to kill to keep it buried.

As the past reaches into the present, Mary must trust her gift before the next unfinished story becomes her own.

Perfect for readers who love cozy mysteries with paranormal twists, clever amateur sleuths, loyal animal companions, small-town secrets, haunted antiques, and clean, page-turning suspense.

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Key 13: And other Stories
Rose Titus
Publication date: October 6th 2017
Genres: Adult, Dark Fantasy, Fantasy, Horror

Rose Titus, author of The Vampire Next Door Trilogy, now brings together a collection of her best short stories. Here in this book you will find tales of vampires, werewolves, witches, ghosts, space aliens, and even a few angels. These stories answer questions such as where do we go after we die? What is the future of this planet? And what is the future of humanity? There are also stories of young runaways, old hippies, worried mothers, troubled families, love gone horribly wrong, selfish billionaires, people who find themselves suddenly homeless, old men with their recollections of days gone by, and girls gone wild! There may even be a murder or two.

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Author Bio:

Rose Titus resides somewhere in cold, dreary New England with two manipulative cats and a very out of date computer with which she creates horror and fantasy fiction. She also has a restored classic Buick to ride around in while in search of adventure.

For travel she has stayed the night in an allegedly haunted castle, has taken a boat ride on Loch Ness, and has visited the Bermuda Triangle — without getting lost.

Her work has previously appeared in Lost Worlds, Lynx Eye, Bog Gob, Mausoleum, Weird Terrain, Descend, The Dead River Review, and other literary magazines. She also writes regularly for Blood Moon Rising Magazine.

When she’s not working or writing or messing with her old car, she waits by the mailbox for her Fortean Times to arrive.

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Obscura Nights
Warren Wynn
(Obscura Nights, #1)
Publication date: August 4th 2026
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult

Seventeen-year-old Farris Aldan didn’t join the Sentinels to save the world.

He joined to escape insanity.

In Obscura City, contracting the whisperis means shedding your skin and becoming a monster. As a newly trained Sentinel, Farris hunts the infected, hoping vengeance will silence the guilt over his best friend Calla’s death.

Then he’s assigned his first solo mission. Track down Rena, a whisperis-infected punk rocker evading quarantine. From her black hair and beet-red eyes, she’s the spitting image of Calla. Farris can’t bring himself to arrest her. Not with that face, not with that voice.

Choosing Rena brands him a traitor. Now hunted by the Sentinels he idolized, including his adoptive father, Farris learns Rena’s connection to the whisperis runs deeper than anyone imagined. Visions of a cure guide her toward the Hollow, a hidden valley of darkness beyond the city. Only an ancient vantashade named Krieger knows the truth, but it offers a global cure for a terrible price: her life. To save Rena, Farris must risk everything–his future, his family, even the cure itself. And it still might not be enough.

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Little by little, we awkwardly stumbled and sashayed toward the cluster of monsters. A littler further and we slipped into their group. Mere feet separated us from the graceful corpses.

A stench of boiled tar and kerosene swam over us. The air curdled with heat. We watched the burdeneds’ faces as we moved. No longer paying attention to us. Their shoulders, arms and chests were relaxed. Caring and glossy white eyes stared back at their deceased partners.

A small pressure pushed against my chest. Rena leaned her head against it, and I realized that she’d been shivering.

“God. I wonder when they died.” She mumbled so softly I barely heard her. “Wonder if they knew they were dyin’. What they felt when they turned into monsters.”

I shook my head since it was too risky to speak. Little by little, I moved us to the back of the room. Need to go slow so we don’t alert the burdened.

Rena looked up at me, her face mere inches from my own. “All their feelings…what happened to them when they died?” Her skin was so bruised and cut up. The dark circles beneath her eyes contrasted her increasingly pale complexion. “Their names? Their memories? Where did they go?”

My whole body ached. I swallowed. When I tried to comfort her, my mouth opened, but nothing came out.

Her hand squeezed my shoulder without a lick of strength. “I don’t wanna become like that, Farris. God almighty, I don’t wanna end up being just a memory.”

I tried to speak but again failed. Realizing my limitations, I instead pulled her even closer. Her breath felt hot against my neck. Her tears chilled my skin.

Rena gritted her teeth. Her chest shook from deep, silent sobs. “I don’t wanna die, Farris. I don’t…”

My back stung, muscles ached. Ribs throbbed and head pounded. I looked at the bandages over her eye. Around her ankle. The stains of blood on her cargos, her vest.

Nameless music played behind us. Forgotten dead danced around us. Filthy ground creaked below us.

Author Bio:

Warren Wynn is an American author writing young adult science fiction about parallel worlds, bizarre creatures, and mind-blowing twists. His passions in a previous life doing graphic and video game design heavily inspire his stories and characters. His previous novel, ‘Break the Moon,’ was published by Lost Boys Press on March 28th, 2024.

After earning a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from West Virginia University, Warren left behind the mountains for the beaches of Palm Coast, Florida. If he isn’t kayaking or hiking, he’s earning grey hairs writing through the moonlight hours.

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She’s trouble.

I like a bit of trouble.

The Black Aces MC

by S Courtney

Genre: Contemporary MC Romance

CUPID I’ve lost everyone I’ve ever loved My first love put the last nail in the coffin I’ll never express that emotion again

Then I minced words with the wrong waitress I thought she would scurry off, but she stood her ground, cursed me out, and demanded I thank her! She’s the firecracker trying to spark that emotion I burned, cursed, and buried deep within me. She’s trouble. I like a bit of trouble.

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S Courtney is a romance author whose motto is “Love Worth Dying For” There’s always a little (lot) of bloodshed for the happily ever after/for now. Her love of writing began in middle school after hours writing until bedtime letting her imagination run wild.

With that imagination she has created her paranormal series, the Bound Series with strong but caring Alphas and independent women with big ambitions and a little magic! And a look inside the tough job of reaping souls to the Underworld in Sandman.

She also tapped into the dark world of motorcycle clubs and the secret life of an mercenary with a curiosity.

She looks forward to writing into other tropes, such as even darker romance, mafia, and sweet almost insta-love.

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The Fortress, Book 1

A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller

Date Published: August 29, 2023

We are the fortress, and the fortress is us.

Sim was a teacher in his old life. Now he’s the savior of orphans.

He isn’t their father. God knows he has already failed in that role. But he
is their guide. And the kids? They are his penance. His redemption.

For three years Sim has prepared his orphans for the hard realities of life
after the plague that wiped out most of the global population. Theirs is a
life without laws or creature comforts. He has trained them to forage and
grow their own food, to be vigilant, and to protect themselves and each
other by any means necessary. In building a fortress of brick and mortar,
they’ve become a fortress of flesh and blood.

These allegiances and ideals are put to the test when a man named Zagan,
who believes himself to be on a mission for the devil to bring about the
destruction of civilization’s remains, gathers hundreds of marauders and
confronts Sim and his orphans in a merciless siege.

Will the fortress hold… Or will it collapse under the pressure of
evil?

Interview

Introduce yourself and tell me about what you do.

Thomas Styles. I am a twelve year veteran of public school teaching and fifteen years ago created a childcare business, TSL Adventures, which offers dynamic daycare programs, summer camp programs, and before and after school programs for children ages infant through twelve years old. Serving 1000 kids a day. I am owner and CEO and it keeps me busy. I’m an indy writer, and world travler with two grown children.

Tell me more about your journey as an author, including the writing processes.

My joruney started at 13 when I penned (literally) my first book in a five subject notebook. I still have it to this day. I continued writing for many years after, and prior to starting my own childcare business and raising kids, I wrote a lot of middle grade and YA novels. Many of them I lost in moves and such, which was hearrbreaking. I published lots of articles in those days for local magazines and was really pushing to be published. Alas, TSL Adventures and raising two kids pushed writing to the back burner and only recently have I picked it back up where I left off, now writing adult fiction, typically centered around family drama and intermingled with a bit of fantasy. Ground adult fiction fantasy. I wrote the Fortress series and published it on Amazon and have another series, Shift, ready to launch. Two other drafts as well ready to go. I write prolifically. My goal is to publish several books a year and see my press, Transcendence, grow with all my books. My writing process involves turning my ideas into full length novels. I do not outline or plan ahead. My stories build on themselves as I write quite naturally and very rarely get stuck. I rely on beta readers and DE’s to see the stories evolve to the end point.

Tell me about your Book

The Fortress built on my love of being a kid in the eighties (Rambo, GIJoe, War) so created a book that involes kids going to war. I am a big fan of kids and have a large respect for their capabilities and resilience, especially under the leadership of a caring and loving adult. In this story a man with a broken past takes lost children of the apocalypse in and trains them to surive but also how to love and be a family. The heart of the story is the Fortress family, with lots of amazing kids. I worked with kids my whole life so I write them very well. I love to talk about the importance of the family values, the resilence of children, and the reality that kids now and espeically in the apocalypse do not always live fairy tale lives. They cry, bleed and die, and sometimes have a choice in that. Their are stories from Gavroche and Agu of Beasts of No Nation about children being trained soldiers so there is a little of this notion as well to speak of. When do we run and when do we stay and defend our honor and fight, even to the death. An adult or child can have a choice in this and in The Fortress, they certainly do.

About the Author

T.A. Styles earned his B.S. in Elementary Education and Mathematics and his M.S. in Developmental Reading. He taught in elementary and junior high schools for twelve years before launching his own childcare enterprise, TSL Kids Crew, which he has operated since 2009. He has had a passion for writing stories since he was a teenager, as it was a hobby and skill for which he realized at a young age he had a knack for and loved. He has two grown children and has traveled extensively including to Iceland, Australia, Greece, Italy, South America, and many other places nationally and
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The Grim Reaper Chronicles, Book One

Urban Fantasy, Humorous Fantasy, Romantasy

Date Published: 10/01/2024

Publisher: Harbor Lane Books, LLC

When a 3,000-year-old demon grim reaper discovers someone’s killing
witches, he’ll do whatever it takes to stop them–but everyone knows
you can’t cheat Death.

3,000-year-old demon grim reaper, Aiden Finn has been in trouble with
Management before. Back in 79 A.D., he did some serious time in Hell for
disobeying the orders of his boss. He just wants to do his job and stay off
of Management’s radar, but all that’s about to change when he
tries to get his latest Charge, Carol, to board the ferry and cross the
River Styx after she becomes the latest victim of a serial killer targeting
witches.

When Carol refuses to go, Finn promises to find her beloved cat a new home
so she’ll cooperate. His plan to drop the cat off at a local shelter
takes an unexpected turn, however, when he arrives at her apartment and
meets Chloe, the stunning red-headed witch who lives across the hall. Hoping
to see her again, Finn decides to pet sit the cat instead.

As the number of murdered witches grows, Finn must figure out who is behind
the murders before Chloe becomes the next victim. He’ll do whatever it
takes to stop them, even if it means risking an exorcism by walking into a
church and sitting down for tea with a Catholic priest. Of course, if he
does find a way to stop the killer—even a grim reaper knows you
can’t cheat death.

About the Author

C.A. Kennedy is a fantasy romance and mystery author with a propensity for
quirky characters and good stories with a ‘gotcha’ twist.
Although she always considered herself a mystery writer, when a snarky demon
grim reaper kept bugging her to tell his story, she knew she couldn’t
refuse. When she isn’t writing or channeling her inner demon, you can
find her spending time outdoors with her Golden Retriever, Murphy, and
trying to stay in the good graces of her two cats, McGee and Tobias.

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