Miscellaneous
I only have a couple that might fit into this category, at the moment. Some are more of a horror bent, at least one (Murder Upon a Midnight Clear) is romance, maybe cozy mystery too, (or at least paranormal mystery with cozy themes). These were all roughly my first published novels/novellas. Not all have an HEA.
Murder Upon a Midnight Clear
(This is a mystery romance set at Christmas, featuring Helene, a policewoman with some psychic abilities. HEA guaranteed.)
Synopsis:
Murder reminds Detective Helene Collias that crime doesn’t take holidays. And the last victim she expected to find in her case files this Christmas is the sister of her old flame, Sean Grant. Ordinarily, Helene’s psychic gifts give her an edge but this time, that gift has short-circuited. Could her lingering attraction to Sean be blurring her abilities, or is something more sinister at work?
Bicycle Requiem
Bicycle Requiem is a little novelette… of roughly 9,000 words. and while a shorter version of the story was first published in the zine Twisted Dreams, with getting my rights back and the time that has passed since its publication, I expanded and updated it.If you’d like a little taste, its synopsis is:
On the way home from a draining night of work, Theodora (called Teddy by her friends) finds herself guilty of something she’d never dreamed: a hit and run that results in a child’s death.
Wracked with guilt, Teddy hides her secret, carrying on as if nothing happened, but when the victim’s zombie returns, bringing along her own kind of disturbing justice, Teddy learns innocent little Mara isn’t exactly what she seemed.
And Teddy wonders, would jail be better than eternity with the vengeful girl’s accusing spectre.
Is it a small price to pay–and for what?
Frigga's Lost Army
Frigga's Lost Army was written as for a zine called Eternal Haunted Summer (and before that for a friend who planned on doing a collection of stories based on or influenced by Norse mythology, that never came to be). This story remained, however, and I decided to expand it to the novel you see here. If you’d like a little taste, its synopsis is:
Synopsis:
In the winter of 1943, Benjamin is just a grunt and Army cook-until he finds himself captured, along with his unit, taken prisoner by Mussolini’s troops after the Battle of Tunisia.
Transported to a POW camp in Italy, Benjamin is plagued with intense visions of the Norse Goddess Frigga and her retinue of Valkyries, berserkers, and other magical beings.
When he encounters a woman bearing an uncanny resemblance to the goddess, he wonders if he hasn’t been entangled in a battle between the natural and the supernatural-a battle for the present and the future.
Features: Setting: World War 2, Italy.
HEA.
Fifty Measly Bucks
(To Save a Witch)
(This is a Time Travel horror novella, written for a 2018 horror writers’ Halloween event. It isn’t romance, and does not have a happy ending, though fans of more dark fantasy genres might call it satisfying. My mom even disapproved of it. (Sorry mom!)
That said, if dark and weird is your jam, please, enjoy. NO HEA HERE!)
Synopsis:
Denver’s one goal in life is to become a fashion designer. Unfortunately, she needs rent money. Why not volunteer for an outlandish time travel experiment? It could be fun and spark new fashion ideas.
But the experiment takes her places she never expected, cutting her off from her dreams and dropping her into the world of a woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch trials. No promised stipend is worth a death sentence and bargaining for her life.