J. Rand Beresford reluctantly returns to Pine Haven, Massachusetts not only because of his father's imminent death, but because he knows what's responsible for the savage mutilation deaths that have plagued the community for fifteen years. What's more, he's the only one who can end the reign of terror that has gripped his hometown. But to do so, he risks revealing a longtime secret.

The Clockmaker's Son

Literature & Fiction

Buffum, Susan

Genre Fiction

Dark Ink Press

Six tales of suspense and the supernatural are gathered in this volume. In Shifting Sands a young woman at a crossroad in her life attracts the attention of a strange guest at the inn where she works. All Souls Night finds a mute young woman who has been mistreated by her family struggling with decisions about her life and future when an author checks in just before the annual Halloween party. In Drakes Fall Manor a lonely, unhappy girl makes an unusual friend. A depressed man discovers a terrifying truth about himself and his unusual collection in Blackstone's Menagerie. A pre-med student with an interest in the paranormal makes a startling discovery about herself during a Halloween party in Halloween at the Victoria Wayfarer Inn. And finally, a dispirited high school girl with a unique family lineage finds her soulmate among her classmates when she hosts the annual Halloween party at her home, only her family opposes the relationship.

Miss Peculiar's Haunting Tales, Volume I

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Evangeline Teale has been living a quiet, low key life, but then her lover from her thousand lifetimes returns once more to try for a happily ever after, now that she's removed her cruel father from her life-permanently. Ardis finds his status as a vampire distasteful and longs to be a living being again. He persuades Evangeline to kill her wicked witch mother. He also wants her help locating an ancient grimoire that may contain a spell that will change him back to a living human being again, only the last known place the spellbook was was in the hands of the powerful vampire who changed Ardis centuries ago. There is much at stake as they struggle to not lose one another again in this lifetime. Will they succeed in finding their happily ever after at long last?

My Magical Life

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Amanda Pennington has just buried her father, a renowned physician/scientist who specialized in genetics and biomedical cell engineering. With her longtime friend, Benjamin "Beans" Carter, Amanda discovers lab journals and notebooks in her father's mountainside laboratory that are disturbing. It turns out that she and Beans are what her father called archetypes- genetically altered and biomedically engineered human beings created in his lab. Ami and Beans struggle to unravel the web of lies Dr. Leonard Pennington wove as they discover who they really are and what it means for them and their future together. When someone sets out to murder them-will they live long enough to find the answers they seek?

The Archetypes

Three supernatural/suspense novellas are presented in this volume. In The Magic of Cross and Crowe, Vegas magician Simon Crowe chooses a new assistant for his act, a small town girl from New England. Will Crowe, who has fully embraced the culture of Sin City, destroy young Tessie "Pepper" Rumford, or will she be his salvation? The Girl with the Ivy Tattoo has recently joined the staff of The Cedars, a funeral home where mortician/embalmer Adrian Frey-Dayne works. Adrian has to help Eveleen Glenrowan when her tattoo artist father is killed in a hit and run accident. Adrian has a secret. Will his secret drive Eveleen away, or will he finally find love with the girl with the ivy tattoo? In Thunderheads, an abused teenaged girl discovers a mysterious young man living in the attic of her home. The young man has an agenda- to destroy the evil Pemberton family of which Jessamyn is a member. Will he rescue her from her horrendous family, or destroy her as well?

Miss Peculiar's Haunting Tales, Volume II

Eight tales of suspense or the supernatural are gathered in this volume. In Europe, vampires are being outed in Karpov Live. A talk show hostess with a penchant for provoking and shocking her guests has disastrous results when she springs arch enemies upon one another. A group of bored college students looking for something exciting to do for Halloween decide to do a Cemetery Crawl by visiting the graveyards across the street from their school. A young woman discovers that she shares her apartment with a ghost who does not like her cat in Jessica's Roommate. In Metaphysical Attraction, a psychic medium parts the veil to allow his late lover to take over the body of a female journalist in this tale set at the turn of the century. The ghost haunting the basement of an Irish pub meets his match in McCleary's Haunt. In the disturbing, chilling Everything Between is Gray Death flirts with a troubled living girl. A young woman who is suffering progressively worsening seizures is attended to by a different doctor and discovers who and what she really is. In Dark Magic, a police officer tangles with white witches and an evil warlock when a young man is murdered and a skull with dangerous power is stolen.

Miss Peculiar's Haunting Tales, Volume III

Black King Takes White Queen

In the sequel to Black King Takes White Queen two years have passed in relative peace for Romney Sharpe and his wife Ivy. They have been raising their son, Ezra, while working hard to continue to unite practitioners of both white and black witchcraft. On the night of her twenty-third birthday, Ivy has a prophetic dream that heralds the return of her older sister Holly who was sent to Wales to live after the murder of their mother just before Romney and Ivy were married. Holly has not returned alone. She is now the wife of a truly evil black wizard who is the King of practitioners in his country. He wants to wrest power and the control of what Romney, as King of practitioners in the United States, guards with his life. Romney and Ivy's marriage is severely tested as Holly and Wheaton Trowbridge attempt to eliminate potential Sharpe heirs and gain control of toddler Ezra who is the Prince and heir. Family, friends both old and new, and an albino rook help the young couple as they struggle through devastating attacks designed to undermine their relationship, making it easier for Trowbridge to attain his goals. But Romney and Ivy have performed ancient rituals that have bound them to one another for eternity.They have a preordained destiny to fulfil in this lifetime. Will they find the means to defeat this new threat before it's too late?

Black Knight, White Rook

In a society where men dominate and rule, 15-year old Jade comes up for auction to the highest bidder. Archer thinks he's buying a compliant female who will do his bidding without complaint, but Jade is true to her own self, to her own ideas- normally a fatal flaw in females that leads to their rapid termination. Expecting the worst every day, Jade is placed in a precarious position, even after proving her loyalty to her master, but she cannot be meek and submissive like females are expected to be. Gradually, Archer begins to realize the worth of a woman, especially one woman in particular, but a dangerous adversary threatens to destroy everything that he is trying to achieve when he perceives Archer's actions, and Jade's continued existence, as dangerous liabilities to society and male dominance.

The Worth of a Woman

Literary

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