Freaky Days A Mystic Caravan Mystery Bk 1

The show must go on ... even when monsters are afoot. Poet Parker is Romani by birth and a fortune teller by choice. As a member of Mystic Caravan Circus, she's spent the past ten years using her psychic talents to tell people what their future holds by day and hunting paranormal monsters by night. You see, Mystic Caravan is more than just a circus - it's also a force of good in a world that needs help fighting evil. Poet is set in her ways - and happy with her life - until Kade Denton shows up and upends the entire operation. He's loud and proud - and Poet doesn't like anyone telling her what to do. As the new head of security, Kade thinks his only job is going to be tackling drunken revelers when they get out of hand. He's in for a rude - and bloody - awakening. When monsters strike and the truth comes out, Kade finds he has to learn on the job with Poet as his somewhat reluctant instructor. Sparks are flying - both real and figurative - and when a truly terrible beast targets the circus for extermination it's all magical hands on deck for the final showdown. Some things are born evil, but the people in Mystic Caravan were born to fight it. Prepare to be amazed.

Winter break is upon Mystic Caravan, which is supposed to mean a full month of rest and relaxation. Upon arriving at their destination, however, Poet and company find that murder isn't far behind.Their off-season park is full of paranormals - something that normally makes Poet comfortable - but the death of a local girl points to one of their own being the culprit. Even though she's supposed to be taking it easy, Poet can't stop herself from digging ... and it leads her on a wild ride.Florida is hot, humid and bursting at the seams with supernatural friends. Unfortunately for Poet, it's also home to an ex-boyfriend who can't quite let go. Since he's a police officer ... and looking at Mystic Caravan's cadre of weirdos as potential murder suspects ... that only makes things all the more difficult.It's up to Poet to find the real culprit even as a shadowy and powerful figure stalks her. Kade's magic is growing but he's still learning, which makes for some hard battles. On top of that, he's keeping a secret with Luke, which has Poet teetering on the edge of sanity.It's supposed to be a break, not a break from reality, but Poet is ready to fight for her future. It's going to take everybody working together to figure out the truth ... and give Poet the one thing she's always wanted above all else.Peace.

Mystic Caravan Circus is heading to Charleston and - per usual - trouble is not far behind.For Poet Parker, who is grappling with saying goodbye to her assistant, she's looking forward to quiet nights on the beach and quality time with her boyfriend. All that changes when the sea starts giving up its dead ... and they appear to be hungry.Under normal circumstances, zombies wouldn't be a big deal. They're slow, lumbering, and easy to dispatch. This infestation is different ... and they appear to be controlled by a strange creature long since thought extinct.Gorgons were believed to be things of myth and legend but one is haunting the beaches of Charleston ... in close proximity to the circus and a writer's retreat. In fact, the nutty individuals spouting fantastical stories and trying to one-up one another in the bluff house overlooking the circus grounds are all suspects because one of them is controlling the gorgon. Finding the individual responsible for causing endless upheaval and death is no easy task, though.Poet is a fighter but this battle is all-encompassing.Not every monster is obvious. Sometimes they hide behind human faces.This time Poet is going to have to wade through layers of darkness to find the light. Surviving to see the final sunrise will take them all working together ... and even then they might not be strong enough to claim victory.Darkness is coming. Will anyone survive to see the dawn?

The members Mystic Caravan have Georgia on their minds as they land in Savannah ... and immediately find trouble.In a city full of ghosts, Poet Parker expects a few magical things to happen, but when an evil cult sacrifices a young woman on the beach next to their camp, things take a turn nobody was expecting. Thankfully, she's not alone for this fight.Zoe Lake-Winters is considered the most powerful mage in existence. She's brash, full of herself, and ready for a brawl. When she and her husband bring their daughter to the circus, Poet is immediately intrigued. She can feel the power rippling off Zoe, and it's the sort of power that can force a reckoning.The cult has magic, but it's not enough to frighten Poet. It's what they're protecting that has everybody in a tizzy. It seems there's a door to another plane, and the enemy trying to cross over to a world they were driven from is significant.With Zoe and her mouthy daughter Sami on the prowl, Mystic Caravan is in a tumultuous state. On top of her normal worries, Poet also has to contend with her boyfriend Kade Denton, who is delighted to have another mage to learn from even as he struggles to trust his new abilities.Magic is might, and there's magic bubbling at every corner of Mystic Caravan. That's a good thing because for the final fight they're going to need every ounce of it they can muster.Worlds are about to collide, and nobody will ever be the same again.

Stormy Morgan left her hometown of Shadow Hills, Michigan, with one goal: to write the great American novel and strike it rich. She sold her novel not long after college, did relatively well, and then fell off a cliff into obscurity. Now, without a book contract, she's back at her family restaurant in a one-stoplight town ... and she's convinced things couldn't possibly get worse.That feeling only lasts until her first shift, when on a trip to the storage building behind the restaurant, she literally trips over a body.Roy Axe, Shadow Hills most hated "Axehole," died a hard death only feet from the restaurant (and the second-floor apartment Stormy currently resides in). The detective on the case is none other than Hunter Ryan, Stormy's high school boyfriend, and the man who occasionally still calls to her in dreams. Hunter only cares about solving a mystery - nothing else - so their reunion is tense.In an attempt to distract herself from what's happening, Stormy and her cousin Alice get drunk one night and pull out their great-grandmother's old Ouija board, and it sets off a strange string of events, most of which seem magical ... if you believe in that sort of thing, and Stormy isn't sure she does.Stormy has trouble deciding which problem to focus on, so she avoids them all until things start blowing up in her face.Shadow Hills is a small town but the secrets that plague it run deep. Stormy is a woman - or maybe a witch - lost in a sea of magic and despair ... but murder might just lead her out of it. That is if she can survive to solve the case, that is.

Hadley Hunter has lived a normal life, in a normal suburb, with a normal job and a normal father. All that changes when a grandmother she didn't even know existed dies and leaves her a fabulous lighthouse on Moonstone Bay Island. Hadley, ready for an adventure, decides to check things out and finds herself plunged into a world she never envisioned. From the naked woman swimming in the ocean outside her back door, to the hot sheriff who seems to be hiding a secret, Hadley is intrigued from the start. That's before magical things start happening - including to Hadley - and a body washes up on the beach. It seems Moonstone Bay has a killer on the loose ... and he may be stalking Hadley, although no one can figure out why. Things are about to spiral for Moonstone Bay's newest reluctant - and baffled - witch. She has to learn about the past, investigate the present and hold on to her future for dear life. Along the way she will meet a bevy of new friends who have a few particular abilities ... and a lot of really odd quirks. Set sail for adventure, because once you visit Moonstone Bay, you'll never be the same again.

Scout Randall is settling in with the northern Lower Michigan branch of Spell's Angels. She's feeling bold, brash ... and just a little bit flirty thanks to her burgeoning relationship with Gunner Stratton, a shifter whose father happens to serve as the chief of police in Hawthorne Hollow. Things are going well ... until they're not. A group of shifters who used to live in the area have returned and they're up to something. Right from the start, Scout is suspicious but she can't quite explain why. Then, when a local homeless man is found dead - with Scout's name literally carved into him - she starts to believe that she's being set up to take a fall. Gunner is determined to help. His history with the shifters in question makes things difficult, though. On top of everything else, it becomes apparent that the dead guy's ties to Scout run deep ... like genetically deep. He's related to her, and for a woman who was abandoned as a child, it's a hard blow to absorb. Gunner is determined to stick close as the warring wolves close ranks and start issuing threats. It's going to take everybody working together to find the answers Scout desperately needs, including uncovering the secret of her past. When one of their own is taken, Scout has no choice but to put her full cache of magic on display. It's going to be a fight to the finish, rival gangs going at one another, and only one side will be victorious. Which one will it be?

Hadley Hunter thought she was getting a grip on the paranormal world she never knew existed until recently. She was wrong. In the shadow of a massive shifter retreat, she finds she knew absolutely nothing.Her live-in love Galen Blackwood has his hands full with the conference. Not only is his mother pressuring him to make his presence known but it's also up to him to keep the not-so-friendly factions from going to war. Things only get stickier when a member of the Michigan wolf contingent ends up dead on the docks.Hadley wants to help Galen, as does his cousin Aric Winters, who has brought his magical mage wife Zoe and their daughter to the island at the behest of his father. Aric prefers distance when it comes to shifter politics but he's happy to see his cousin, and be introduced to Hadley for the first time.Because they're not shifters, Hadley and Zoe are considered outsiders. That allows them to join together to track down a murderer.Hadley is out of her element but she's determined to help Gallen by any means necessary. Unfortunately for her, the other wolves don't like it ... and decide to make it an issue worth dying for.A wolf war is brewing and Hadley is at the center of it. Not only that but she's a target. It's going to take all of her witchy energy - plus a little help from a new friend - to make it through to the other side.Somebody else has different plans ... and they're deadly. It might be the wolves warring, but Hadley is the one who might die on the battlefield.