Adult Fiction
Home for the Holidays
Mona Townsend was five years old when her mother tried to kill her father.
This crime cost her and her brother, Colton, 23, twenty years with their mother.
Finally reunited on one December morning, the siblings are willing to forgive all and create a fresh start with their mother.
With Christmas coming up, Mona wants to make the occasion extra special.
Knowing that her mother has had a long-term rift with her own mother, she and her brother hatch a plan: Why not surprise their mother with a family reunion so that the two women can bury the hatchet and have a relationship again? After all, if she was capable of forgiving her mother for the past, why wouldn’t her own mother want to set things right with her mother too?
It was Christmas, after all. A time for miracles and family.
But what Mona and Colton don’t know is that their mother had a very good reason for severing ties with her own mother, and that some families are too toxic to appreciate the holiday spirit.
I'll Be Ghosting You
Warren Beauchamp wakes up one morning not realizing he’s dead.
He can’t figure out why most of his stuff is missing.
He starts rummaging through his neighbors’ personal effects and discovers their dirty secrets.
His frolicking comes to a screeching halt when his angel guide, Floyd, shows up. Floyd was sent to haul Warren back to “Headquarters” to stand trial.
Warren is given a chance to go back to Earth to fix things, and during that time, he adjusts to being a ghost.
When it’s time for him to return, however, he has other ideas.
All the Beautiful Things
QL likes to collect heads. Not just any heads, mind. The heads of the things he loves. And he likes to keep them all on his special wall of beautiful things, so that even in death, they can still be his forever.
QL Buscemi grew up with a hard life. Abandoned at birth, he was raised by his aunt and uncle in an abusive home. That was until his fixation for collecting the heads of dead animals became a problem. Soon he started talking to a voice in his head and acting strangely around other people. Fed up with his issues, his aunt and uncle place him into a home for "special children," despite its reputation for neglecting patients. There, QL encounters even more abuse, neglect and intolerance for his mental health issues, which only get worse since he refuses to take his medication. He finally leaves "the center" after twenty brutal years.
Finally free to live on his own at last, a 31-year-old QL becomes infatuated with his pretty neighbor who lives across the street, 20-year-old Danielle Pinota, who is herself finally free of a home where she was a "second mom" to her kid brother. As QL's attachment to Danielle grows, he wants to get to know her better. And keep her close to him forever. But he has to be careful. He always hurts the things he loves. At least if he hurts Danielle from loving her too much, just like he had with his pets, she could still be his forever ... on his wall of beautiful things.
Shadow of Samhain
She called him the "dark man." Who is Jonathan, a man haunting Malissa Ratham's dreams? What sort of secrets from his past does he try to keep buried? Everybody says the dreams are only dreams and nothing more. But soon Malissa starts acting strangely, knowing about ancient Druidic rituals and a history too mysterious to unearth. With the help of Jovin, an ancient Druidic spirit on a mission to stop Jonathan from his path of death and destruction, and Tessie Malkin, a psychic with an advantage over Jonathan's power, Malissa must own up to her past and walk between worlds to destroy an ancient curse . . . . . . before it is too late
Faded Reflection
Laura Williams takes a chance on Carl Gunderson, and it's the most fatal mistake of her life. Carl is convinced Laura is the wife that he murdered-or thought he murdered. Apparently, he hadn't left her for dead after all. Now she's back in his life-and this time, he will make sure he finishes her off for good.
Imprint
A house never forgets. And for Maureen Boyd, neither does a vengeful ghost lurking within what she hopes to be a dream home for her with her new husband and children. After her son's house-flipping company loses out on a deal, Maureen's husband buys the house, and Maureen hopes that living closer to her son will help salvage their distant relationship. But living in a haunted house brings up dark family secrets her husband would rather keep buried, plus opening an old wound that Maureen's long-distant relative could never forgive.
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