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Phantom Forensics

Phantom Forensics

A cop and a phantom team up to solve crimes.

  • work-in-progress
  • ghost
  • paranormal
  • romance
  • contemporary

Phantom Forensics is the first of a paranormal romance series in which a cop and her secret phantom lover use his invisibility to ferret out wrongdoers and bring them to justice.

In this opening volume, Douglas Blythe is the local rich boy who ends up in a coma from a drug overdose perpetrated by a lynch mob who are sure he's abducting local youths. Officer Dawn Henson is the local cop determined to protect him from vigilante justice whether or not he guilty of these accusations.

He really appreciates her devotion to his cause, and when Eli Kellogg, the local preacher's son, takes a shine to her, Doug doesn't appreciate the distraction. But Eli, Dawn's little brother Rory, and Clive, a youth who's not afraid of Doug, become Dawn's own posse for justice.

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This paranormal love story has its dark moments and a bit of steam.

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In this paranormal romance novel, the local rich boy ends up in a coma from a drug overdose, and the local cop is determined to protect him despite what folks suspect him of or how much it will cost her.

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Phantom Fraud

Phantom Fraud

A Paranormal Love Story

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  • ghost
  • paranormal
  • romance
  • contemporary
The Ghost of Emerson Field

The Ghost of Emerson Field

A Paranormal Love Story

  • free
  • ghost
  • paranormal
  • romance
  • contemporary

Velma Faye Radcliffe has a contract to decommission a historic rigid airship and the estate it calls home. What she doesn't have is any patience for sentiment — until she meets the man who built the ship, died in it, and can't or won't leave it.

Roland Emerson has been waiting aboard his fine vessel for nearly a century. He welcomed many visitors only to have them abandon him without explanation. But at long last, a woman has arrived who is enthusiastic about his creation.

Roland discovers her ambition is aimed at destroying his dream and Faye realizes that Roland has the supernatural power to protect it at about the same time.

The Ghost of Emerson Field is a paranormal romance about a woman who came to end something and stayed to save it, and a ghost who needed a reason to hold on just a little longer.

She came to scrap the old airship, but the ghost of its builder changed her priorities.

The Passion Engine

The Passion Engine

A Marriage of Myth and Mechanical

  • Free
  • Historical
  • Gaslamp
  • Steampunk
  • Romance
  • Sci-Fi

Hoping to impart greater social skills upon its premier simulacrum, the British Admiralty commissions a new engine for the automatized commander, but the engine exceeds all expectation, imparting upon the captain’s innerworkings a passionate love of art, an excessive appreciation of beauty, and an untoward affection toward a member of the merfolk nobility.

The simulacrum escapes the bonds of its prior directives in hopes of a life with the beautiful mistress of the kraken, but her abode proves incompatible with his own physique.

With the Admiralty seeking the return of their most valuable device, the simulacrum sets out to find the solution that will at last unite him with his love.

When an automaton and a mermaid fall in love, where shall they make their home?

A Labyrinth of Memories

A Labyrinth of Memories

  • Victorian
  • Epic
  • Fantasy
  • Time Travel
  • Body Hopping

In this alternate history of the Victorian era, time travel and body swapping are the emerging technologies.

An invisible hand manipulates the world, wreaking havoc upon the common folk, leaving entire villages desolate in its wake while making a few men terribly rich.

Coin is a commoner left with nothing but anger and sadness, but when he is drawn into the clandestine plot of Devonshire and Wellington, he meets Helen. Each unknowingly holds part of a key to defeating the puppetmaster and righting the world.

When an experiment goes wrong, each is put in the other’s body. Coin expects an immediate reversal from his pretense as a highborn lady, but Helen knows she’s come out a winner. Though she is now a commoner, she is also a man in this man’s world.

When a third diabolical participant enters the body exchange, all hope seems lost, but Helen and Coin must soldier on toward defeat of malevolence that threatens not only the British Empire but humanity itself.

A commoner and a young lady of the realm develop a time travel machine and a device for body swapping as they seek to defeat a preternatural substance that threatens their Queen's empire.

A Strange Occurrence of Mayhem in Westminster

A Strange Occurrence of Mayhem in Westminster

  • Historical
  • Gaslamp
  • Steampunk
  • Paranormal
  • Sci-Fi

This Victorian horror novel is an alternate history  in which an ambitious young doctor tries to succeed where Dr. Jekyll failed.  His efforts unleash a terrible, communicable affliction of the mind  The result is an epidemic of madness that turns Victorian London’s august West End into a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

Only the combined efforts of the all-star cast of Mina and Jonathan Harker, Mr and Mrs Phileas Fogg and their faithful servant Passepartout, and Dr Watson can right this tragic sequel to the tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Desperate to hold his family together, Patrick “Dug” Douglas accidentally assembles a dream team to battle the scourge of deviants that prowl the streets from Mayfair to Charring Cross.

Mina Harker brings telepathy residual of her encounter with the Transylvanian Count and experience at battling the diabolical. The “new woman” Ann Veronica Stanley proffers a firm grasp of scientific method and in-depth knowledge of biology. And Captainess Aouda Fogg commands the skies over London in her airship while her faithful manservant Jean Passepartout’s timing and agility binds the players neatly together into a single force.

But with Dug’s wife among the first infected, merely surviving the madness isn’t enough. A cure is the ultimate challenge and goal of the team.

If Robert Louis Stevenson had written a sequel to his tragic tale of Dr. Jekyll, he might have created an ambitious young admirer of Jekyll, a doctor with interest is optics and mesmerism who believes he could succeed where his predecessor failed.

The resultant novel might have been A Strange Occurrence of Mayhem in Westminster.

In this historical science fiction novel, an ambitious young doctor tries to succeed where Dr. Jekyll failed.  His efforts unleash a terrible, communicable affliction of the mind  The result is an epidemic of madness that turns Victorian London’s august West End into a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

Devourer of Souls

Devourer of Souls

A Victorian Supernatural Horror

  • Horror
  • Supernatural
  • Historical
  • Paranormal
  • Victorian

This Victorian horror novel follows three Brits who are spars, second sons to peers of the Realm who have little expectations. Romillius "Romy" Beckman has married the daughter of a London newspaper publisher. Eccelston Eads is a researcher with dubious interests at London Hospital. Hayden Knowles is penniless, sharing a room in a boarding house, and has an extremely dismal chance of accomplishing anything.

On Romy's returned from his honeymoon, he invites his two friends to dinner at the club. Hayden's best jacket is shiny at the elbows and missing a button. His only means of purchasing a respectable jacket lies in the little treasure chest his old roommate has hidden under his bed.

What Hayden doesn't know but all will find out through various avenues is that the old man found the chest while exploring an ancient Egyptian tomb and it should never be opened. Hayden unknowingly releases the Egyptian horror contained in the chest, Eccelston seeks to monopolize on its power and appetite, and it is left to Romy, his new bride and their household to protect and defend the meek and poor souls of London from it.

Devourer of Souls is new and rare historical supernatural fiction.

Devourer of Souls is a historical paranormal novel about three Brits who are spars, second sons to peers of the Realm who have little expectations. The least of them stealing enough coin buy a respectable jacket, only to unleash an ancient horror from his old roommate's Egyptian treasure trove. While another of the trio seeks to monopolize on the appetite of the dreadful Ma'at, the third is left to protect London from it.

One Helluva Dating App

One Helluva Dating App

  • Paranormal
  • Sci-fi
  • Supernatural
  • Occult
  • Demonic

In this dark paranormal romance novella, Shelley is single and nearing her thirties at the dawn of Web 2.0 and internet dating.

She’s also ambitious and talented, a designer asserting and instigating herself into the male-dominated Chicago advertising world.

She’d like to meet someone, find someone to curl up with and watch a movie or hold hands with and watch the fireworks over Navy Pier, but competing with the guys in the office makes it hard to have time for dating. But the dating app she downloads is a game changer.

Its power to force submission and knock out the competition would be frightening, if Shelley were the type to scare easily.

A creepy paranormal dating horror novella.

In this dark paranormal romance novella, Shelley is single and nearing her thirties at the dawn of Web 2.0 and internet dating. The dating app she downloads knock out the competition. A creepy paranormal dating horror novella.