My Dad S A Paranormal Investigator Seeking Shapeshifters

Sixteen-year-old Ima Berry (pronounced I'm a) leads anything but a normal life. The ridiculous name her eccentric dad gave her is always the opening for a good joke and he makes his living as a supernatural investigator. It's hard to hang out when she spends all her time trying to prove the existence of Bigfoot, ghosts, fairies and other paranormal creatures. In Point Hope, Alaska, Ima's father searches for shifters among Inuit tribes. Ima isn't thrilled until she meets Carsen. Not only is he hot, he's also a star basketball player and he's interested in her. But his best friend, Talon, really doesn't like her. Ima has no idea what she's done to Talon, but there's no denying the strange connection between them.

A human investigator in a magical world...what could possibly go wrong? Jack Spirelli, paranormal investigator, public debunker of supernatural frauds, and private fixer for the magic-using community has opened his doors. Between exposing paranormal hoaxes and handling cases of a more magical nature, Jack's juggling more business than he can handle. It's past time to hire an assistant, another investigator, and some additional muscle - but maybe the dragon who just walked in and applied will do for now. This volume contains three episodes, each of which is a complete stand-alone story.

An Urban Fantasy Romance novel A telepath with a lethal twist. My name is Neely and I live among shapeshifters in the desert truckstop town of Sundance, California. As a telepath-spiker, I can read a person's thoughts. I can also spike deadly power straight into their brain. I've got my hands full navigating an undefined relationship with Lucas Blacke, the sexy tiger alpha of the Sundance shifter group, and trying to run my bakery, La Buena Suerte Panaderia, while dodging random alpha leaders bent on turning me into a weapon. But when one of the would-be kidnappers finally gets lucky and grabs me, I find myself in a whole new world of trouble. Trapped and on my own, I've only got myself to depend on. The rules I've always lived by have been swept aside and second-guessing myself is no longer an option. If I want to get out of this alive, I'll have to spike my way out. If you enjoy urban fantasy with a side order of romance, fast-paced action, and a dash of humor, pick up SABOTAGED today!

The Big Easy is about to be buried in big trouble.Again.For Ofelia Archer, that means she's knee-deep in an investigation ... even though she's not quite sure how she got there.Zach Sully thinks he's in for an easy night at Ofelia's speakeasy - maybe a little flirting as a lead-up to a date included - when a scream in a neighboring abandoned building draws his attention. Upon further investigation, he finds a young woman dead and a real estate developer traumatized.The dead girl is a street performer who lived on the edge. That's bad enough, but when voices from the past cause Ofelia to break open a wall, they find more bodies ... and a mystery more than ten years in the making.The new murder mimics the old deaths, but who are the girls in the wall? Ofelia was a child when stories of street girls going missing were prevalent ... and then Hurricane Katrina hit and people forgot their fear in the face of a life-changing storm.Now, all these years later, Ofelia and Sully are determined to uncover what happened then, tie it to what's happening today, and find vengeance for all of the victims in the here and now.That's easier said than done.There's a malevolent force stalking the French Quarter and Ofelia suddenly finds herself in the killer's path. Someone wants to keep a secret, and he or she is willing to kill to make sure that the past stays buried.Can Ofelia and Sully evade a killer and uncover the truth? It will be a race to the finish to find out.

Boston beat cop Aspen Wolfe gets the surprise of her life when she learns she’s a shapeshifter. Her abilities awaken as a ruthless regime unleashes its troops to eradicate the shapeshifter population. Forced to run or be hunted, Aspen meets Dr. Tora Madigan—a beautiful and resourceful shapeshifter who oversees an underground sanctuary. Her attraction to Tora is a welcome distraction, but the fierce lioness plays hard to get. Together they discover that Aspen is a powerful shapeshifter thought to be extinct. Her existence gives shapeshifters everywhere a fighting chance. But there’s one small problem: she doesn’t even know how to shift. With no one else up for the job, Tora agrees to train her. Aspen soon finds herself leading a group of extraordinary shapeshifters who are willing to risk everything to save their species. When the sanctuary is targeted for annihilation, she must come up with a game plan. Fast.

There is something about a shapeshifter—a person who can transform into an animal—that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other weird creatures appeal to our animal nature, our “dark side,” our desire to break free of the bonds of society and proper behavior. Real or imaginary, shapeshifters lurk deep in our psyches and remain formidable cultural icons. The myths, magic, and meaning surrounding shapeshifters are brought vividly to life in John B. Kachuba’s compelling and original cultural history. Rituals in early cultures worldwide seemingly allowed shamans, sorcerers, witches, and wizards to transform at will into animals and back again. Today, there are millions of people who believe that shapeshifters walk among us and may even be world leaders. Featuring a fantastic and ghoulish array of examples from history, literature, film, TV, and computer games, Shapeshifters explores our secret desire to become something other than human.

"Fifteen-year-old Cassie Fremont must brave through the zombie apocalypse in an almost impossible journey across the country to find her missing friend"--

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.