Deep in the Heart of Hexes

24865 words
ISBN: 978-1-60735-464-2
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Lily really isn't the shop-owner type, but she knows she has to go back home after college and take over her granny's weird, wonderful store, just like she promised. The problem is that Granny wants her to get serious about things she's not even sure she believes in. When Granny falls mysteriously ill after an antique shatters in the shop, Lily starts to think that the whole world is off-kilter.

Marc deals daily with the kinds of phenomena Lily is struggling against. He knows it's magick, but he's not sure how to convince such a beautiful, stubborn woman how to start looking for solutions of the supernatural variety. Lily thinks Marc is arrogant and amazingly handsome, but she doesn't want to trust him. Can the two of them learn to work together in time to save all that Lily holds dear?

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Author's Note: I'm having so much fun with the Cowbell series! Lily and Marc just exploded into my brain and demanded they go first!

His to Save

15 pages / 3500 words
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Cowboy Jasper hasn't been the most honest of men, but when ghost riders come for his soul, all he wants is to make sure they don't hurt his best friend Tanner. When Tanner faces the ghost riders and insists there is good still to be found in Jasper, he's given a year to turn things around. Will he be able to stay out of trouble, and will Tanner ever be more than just a friend?

Originally published in the Legendary Creatures Taste Test

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Needing To: A Roughstock story

58 pages / 15000 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-731-1
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Boone doesn't think he'll find much on his Reno hotel TV, but he's looking for a little something to brighten his day. Instead of adult entertainment, though, he finds an advertisement for the headlining act at the casino, rock star Gerald High. Boone doesn't know Gerald High from Adam, but he knows the man behind the stage name: his old high school buddy, Danny.

Lead singer Danny is a mess when Boone forces his way into the penthouse suite, not sure he knows what day it is, or even where he is. He remembers Boone though, the cowboy who got away all those years ago. Can Boone give Danny the merry Christmas he never expected to have?

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Author's Note: Yeah, Julia and I went to Vegas in October. Yeah, a Christmas story was born. Danny and Boone make me a little dewy-eyed and goofy, but isn't that what Christmas stories are for?

Ghost Pepper: Ahora, a Menage story

47 pages / 10700 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-740-3
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Tony and Adam are determined to get their girl back. Vicki has gone missing, and as volatile as she is, it's not like her to just leave them, especially so close to the first moon. Finding her trashed motorcycle in the desert doesn't give them a whole lot of hope, though.

Lost and unable to remember anything, Vicki doesn't know what to believe. Tony and Adam are strangers to her, but she knows they're hot as the elusive ghost pepper. Can the boys convince her to come home like they want to, ahora? Now?

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Author's Note: Ahora came from a What-If game in Las Vegas during the EAA Convention on a shuttle bus. I'm sure my fellow passengers were amused...

Roughstock: Picking Roses

ISBN: 978-1-61040-537-9
37000 words, 146 pages
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Rosie doesn't date cowboys. She knows what kind of heartbreak can come when they get seriously injured. Roughstock rider Les is determined to change Rosie's mind from the moment he gives her his seat on the bus. He knows she's the one for him; he just has to convince Rosie.

Adding to the difficulty Is the fact that Les lives in Colorado and Rosie is from Texas. During rodeo season the distance doesn't seem so huge, but when winter threatens to lock down Les' Colorado ranch, how is he going to convince Rosie that he's worth the chances she has to take.

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Author's note: Les was born on a shuttle bus at Frontier Days. It was me that stood and an elderly woman on oxygen that sat, but Les let me know in no certain terms, immediately, what he thought of those young gun so-called cowboys. ;-)

Pinyon

54 pages / 13200 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-547-8
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When Stirling finds a lost wolf out in the woods of Southern Colorado, the last thing he expects to discover is old pack outcast Tanner. Tanner was the werewolf who never learned to shift, but it looks like he's figured things out. Except that news reporters are all over the area, looking for a story in Tanner's old hometown, and Stirling has a wolf pack to protect. Can he juggle his duties with his dawning need for Tanner?

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Barndance

37 pages / 10100 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-544-7
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Sometimes music says it better than words.

Taking a break from driving cattle, Red Farr finds himself at the barn dance, listening to Zeke play the hell out of his fiddle. Zeke's going where his fiddling takes him, but he might be looking for something a little more steady. When Red tells him that the ranch he works for could use another hand or two, Zeke reckons it could suit him to the ground. As could Red, if only Red feels the same way as Zeke.

Between driving cattle and fiddling, can Red and Zeke find some time for each other?

Originally published in the Cowboy Up! anthology.

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Author's Note: Sometimes I need to write old West cowboys. I need to. :)

Climbing the Ladder (Shifting Streams, Book 1)

ISBN: 978-1-60735-416-1
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Mesa has a lot on his plate since he became his pack's Alpha. With another clan on the brink of self-destruction, he knows he has too much to take care of to go running off, but he also knows what he needs to do in order to run his pack, and that's go get his mate.

Kody left Mesa years ago, knowing they could never be together the way Kody really wanted. Making a life for himself seemed like the best idea, and when he found Samantha, he knew he'd found the woman he wanted to marry. Kody never forgot Mesa, but it still comes as a shock when the big, growly man shows up on his Los Angeles doorstep.

Between Sammy's rage at what she sees as Kody's betrayal, pack politics hitting the boiling point and the amazing chemistry between the three of them, Kody, Mesa and Samantha have their work cut out for them. Can they climb the ladder to love?

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Author's Note: Welcome to Shifting Streams! :D Mesa and Sammy and Kody were a blast to write and I'm working on book 2 right now. I love the wolf dynamic, especially when one of the pairing doesn't even know.

Levels of Hunger

12 pages / 3000 words
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When the sun goes down, the things that go bump in the night come out to play. This is when Adriano searches out his vampire lover Lars for their wicked play. A little bondage, a little blood-letting, Adriano and Lars feed their hungers like no others can. Will one night be enough to sate them?

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Just Like Cats and Dogs

203 pages / 50000 words
ISBN: 978-1-61040-560-7
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If there's one thing Sam knows for sure it's that you can never go home again. As a feline shifter who grew up in a family of wolves, he's used to being a freak. He stays in the city and tries to get his family to visit him, but when a loved one passes away, Sam has to go back to the New Mexico desert for a last goodbye.

Gus only comes back to the pack at gathering time, once in a blue moon. He's usually a wanderer, but he's with the pack when Sam comes home. Gus and Sam have never gotten along, but this time around Gus is surprised by the attraction he feels for this new, slinky version of his high school nemesis.

Sam and Gus may not be able to resist each other, but finding time to be together and overcome their differences might be too much for them, especially when danger lurks just around the corner, and all around the world. Can cats and dogs live to learn together, or are Gus and Sam destined to fail?

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Author's Note: I'm proud of Gus and Sam -- they knew the story they wanted to tell, and they told it and made me proud.

The Best Damn Thing - A Charity Short Benefitting the It Gets Better Project

13 pages / 3300 words
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Jim sure doesn't want to get into the middle of it when the guys on his construction crew start messing with Collin, the new, and queer, guy in town. He will if he has to, though, because he doesn't believe in letting anyone call a man out for being gay. Foreman Walker doesn't like the idea any more than Jim does, but he's perfectly happy to let Jim get in the middle with him and Collin…

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Author's Note: This is Torquere Press' Fourth Year of going short stories for charity and I couldn't be more pleased to participate. I want to especially thank J. Rocci for all of her work and support of the project. It wouldn't have happened without her. You rock, sweetie!