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Award-winning author Claudette Melanson offers 11 new and original stories to make your skin crawl at any time of the year. This horror anthology also includes an original short by Amazon international best-selling author Lynn Lamb, titled "Bring Me Flesh and Bring Me Wine". A special bonus story is also included by Melanson, "Mislead", previously published only on the Halloweenpalooza blog. Grab a cup of cocoa and make sure the windows and doors are locked tight as you settle in by the fire to enjoy these tales of terror.

When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family's camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria's tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people. Waterlily, published after Deloria's death and viewed as the masterpiece of her career, offers a captivating glimpse.

Fiona likes her job as counselor at the Women's Crisis Center and she loves training off-track thoroughbreds during the evenings at the show barn where she lives. Some would say for a horse-loving women's rights activist, she has a perfect life, so why all of a sudden this quest, this epiphany? In a week's time Fiona's world is turned upside down. A nostalgic search for her birth mother takes her down country roads to a forgotten coal-mining town in southern Ohio, where she uncovers decades-old secrets and long-lost relatives and comes face-to-face with a bully sheriff in this tug-at-your-heart magical adventure.

Happy Holiday has a new life, a new job, and a new look. The US Marshals Service is hiding her in a small town in the Allegheny Mountains of Western Maryland. She is slowly adjusting. Her job plowing snow from dangerous mountain roads provides the thrills she craves. And Maryland State Trooper Jimmy Bittinger is now a friend. Life is getting better. Until the snowy night she plows up a dead man.

Darlene was a prepper. As she wrestled the polymer barrel onto its stand beside the other five, she thought to herself how a whole house cistern would have been so much better, but she hadn’t been able to get a variance to install one. The particular suburb she lived in was like that. Even with water shortages in the news almost every day, they wouldn’t let her, or anyone else, install a cistern. At least they didn’t deny her the barrels. Possibly because she hadn’t mentioned them to anyone. Darlene smiled as the thought crossed her mind.

In the attic of the Watchers' large Edwardian house in San Francisco, a box is discovered. Within the box are 100-year-old stories of ghost killers of the old. And among them, a diary, dated in 1915 and written by a young man named George Sinclair. Strange drawings and writings in the diary tell of something sinister, and the final entry is loud and clear: George is a ghost killer, and he is being hunted. Modern-day George Sinclair knows that this discovery could be the key to his unknown heritage. George and his friend travel to Pennsylvania to investigate.

Unbeknown to Dawn, her grandfather has shot an old swan out of mercy. In their coastal Alaskan town, her father buys the swan pelt, preventing her Uncle Alex, a fur trader, from selling it for export. Dawn’s father surprises her part-Aleut mother with a hat she helped to make and also with an idea to catch poachers. Shooting swans has become illegal but Alaska is a territory and prohibition occupies the Sheriff. Dawn and her mother become involved with suspicious inquiries about the swan bonnet besides its haunting effect.

Maura has finally made peace with her transformation into a creature she never imagined could be real…much less one she might become. With her newfound existence comes the benefit of family, friends, and allies who fill her life and heart with a love like she has never experienced during all the years she has lived with her melancholy, but loving, mother. But along with the most welcome camaraderie, all manner of new challenges arise — many of them deadly.

For Dara, the price does not feel steep: To rescue her father, the precious cup of the goddess Ceridwen, which he had stolen years before, is sent back to her. What she cannot know is how the goddess brooded over its theft. The return unleashes a storm of revenge against the two gods who aided the thief. What she has learned is that her father lied when he claimed her mother died: She fled the day he stole the cup; for as an elf of the clan bound to Ceridwen, she could not remain with the daughter she loved.

Mary has always dreamed of going into the Big City. She wanted to see, listen, and experience all of its exciting sounds. She falls asleep every night looking out her bedroom window at the city lights. Tonight, Mary, dreams of a fantastic adventure she has with a friendly Dragon by the name of Jesse. Jesse takes Mary on a tour of the Last Chance Candy Stand and they travel from one adventure into the next.

Inside magic grandpa tree, Lucy's mother has just appeared to Lucy and Will to tell them that Lucy will not have to return to the hatedorphanage where dragon Sister Margaret is the head nun, and where there is bullying and unhappiness. Unfortunately, time in Lucy's mother's sphere is a little different from ordinary time on earth, and Lucy must go through more trials first. Her mean stepfather, released from jail, kidnaps her when she is in the woods helping a wounded baby deer and takes her back to his house, where his fierce dog keeps guard.

Scoobie never knew much about his family - and after the way he grew up, who could blame him for liking it that way? A 9-1-1 call during the wedding changes everything. Suddenly, Jolie has to help Scoobie figure out what he wants to know and determine who seems to want someone in his family dead. Knowing more about Scoobie's past could change their future together. But a special wedding arrival may cause even more complications.

Welcome to our second installment of letters never meant to be heard! If you haven’t listened to Volume 1, don’t worry. They don’t follow a sequence. There are a wide variety of subjects throughout the book. Some letters will make you laugh, some will bring you to tears, and others are bound to get your political blood boiling. There are even a few letters to President Trump. Immerse yourself in these amazing letters and allow your full range of emotions to be experienced. Rediscover the power of the written word in letter form.

In an America full of unemployment, late fees, foreclosures, bankruptcy, and loss of hope…. There are consequences. This short story collection includes some of the pale misery behind faults in the American economy. Find a cab driver who lost his way, a down and out executive who stumbles onto a Voodoo curse in New Orleans, a nurse who pays the price for rescuing a man once thought loved, and a horrific, dystopian future.

The 3rd book in the 1st of several trilogies featuring Maura & her family! Maura has never felt so alone in her life…nor has her existence ever been so overshadowed by peril… Not only do both her parents—her distant but loving mother and recently- returned father—remain absent from her life, but due to the hideous error in judgement executed in collusion with her best friend, Valdamir, and adoptive sister, Susie, Maura has been cut off from the pair’s friendship and support, forbidden by both her father and the fallout from the dire outcome to see either of them....

When Jolie Gentil's parents leave her with Aunt Madge for her junior year so they can "work things out" in their marriage, she's angry. She knows no one at Ocean Alley High School. Some kids snub her, but she makes friends with irreverent Scoobie. He's quirky and fun, but he's skipped school and smoked pot in the past, so people avoid him.You've met Jolie and Scoobie as crime-solving adults. Check out their high school friendship.

After being left in the dark for all of her life, Maura's father, Maxwell, has finally returned to reveal sinister family secrets Maura could never have dreamed possible - including his revelation that she is one of The Born. But his daughter soon discovers both he and her mother are keeping pieces of her reality hidden, still. As Maura struggles to unravel the mysteries surrounding her new existence and discover every piece of the cryptic puzzle, life appears intent on casting stumbling blocks across her path with every step forward.

Sometimes angry, occasionally sad, and often with humorous quotes, the authors of Letters Never Meant to Be Read share their views on life, with the power of the written word. In the today's world of three-second text messaging, emojis, and Facebook, most people don't know how to write a letter that connects with others. Imagine the effect that you could have on the object of your unrequited love, if you could express yourself through letter writing!