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Daisy le Fey is good at a lot of things: Math, science, accidentally turning people into pumpkins... Unfortunately, she's hopeless at the one skill hiring managers look for when filling open positions for magical beings: Magic. When she jeopardizes her apprenticeship by getting involved with sexy mortal Trevor Masterson, it's one disaster too many. In order to earn her wings, she's going to have to ditch the human - and her one chance at true love.

Joelle Daughtry has a secret. By day, the impoverished Southern belle has been helping her sisters to turn the run-down family plantation into a resort hotel after the close of the Civil War. But by night and under a male pseudonym, she has been penning articles for the local paper in support of constructing a school for former slaves. With the Mississippi arm of the Ku Klux Klan gaining power and prestige, Joelle knows she is playing a dangerous game. Loyalties shift when Schuyler Beaumont, childhood enemy, takes over his assassinated father's candidacy for state office.

This delightful collection of short stories from acclaimed writer Susan Gabriel (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012 and an Amazon number one best seller) is rich in humor as well as mystery and meaning. Whether white or black, living or dead, down home country or upscale urban, Gabriel's characters are quirky, poignant, and deep.

Peri Jean Mace avoids the ill-fated Mace Treasure every which way she can. A girl needs some semblance of normal in her life. But when a ghost steals treasure clues, Peri Jean learns a frightening truth about her ancestry and the Mace Treasure curse. Now Peri Jean must team up with a condemned spirit to prevent cutthroat treasure hunters from activating the curse. Failure will unleash the fury of hell upon Gaslight City, destroying everything and everybody Peri Jean loves.

Outside of the riverfront Drake Energy plant, Smoke and Sidney prepare themselves for the final showdown with Kane. It's all or nothing as they find themselves inside a hive full of countless shifting enemies, some new and some old, in a modern-day labyrinth full of surprises.

John Smoke is gone, and Sidney is determined to get him back at any cost. With the help of Sam and Guppy, her search leads her to a bizarre funeral home in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is there that she discovers that the deep well of secrets has depths that she couldn't even fathom. Another level of evil reveals itself.

Peri Jean Mace travels to Louisiana’s plantation country to catch her two-timing boyfriend with his pants down. A car wreck later, she’s stuck in a house full of strangers solving a decades-old murder mystery. But when Peri Jean finds a necklace that enhances her supernatural abilities, she unearths secrets a murderer thought forever buried. Now a target herself, Peri Jean is in a race against a stone-cold killer masquerading as a regular person.

To save his friends, Finn Wager opened a bridge between worlds. But the dark magic he used exacted a terrible price. Unable to remain on the Soulkeeper team, he joins a coven of magicians in New Orleans, vowing to undo the damage he’s caused. But when he tries to save the day, he ends up making everything worse. Twice, the Soulkeepers have evaded Lucifer’s clutches and injured his pride. Now it’s personal. He’ll stop at nothing to exploit their weaknesses, take back his power, and end the Soulkeepers for good.

Unexpected vows...Having fought for their very lives to escape the clutches of Kane Lancaster, Smoke and Sid find themselves face-to-face with one of the most important decisions of their lives. Marriage. While Sid mulls over Smokes proposition to be her husband, he sets out to do the right thing on his own and engages in a lengthy visit with Sid's parents, Sally and Keith. He departs only to find himself in the center of a man hunt. He is chased down by another group of strange goggle-wearing thugs that he has never encountered before.

Unexpected Allies...Smoke and Sid have a tough choice to make, do they aid the vampire shifter, Vormus, or cut him loose to the fiends that spawned him? Their efforts take them down into an even deeper well of lies that weaves so well. The closer Smoke and Sid get to the truth, the more their relationship is tested. Megan and Allison resurface. Reginald the doppleganger is back up to his old games. Kane's musing's with Sid is far from over. Who will stop them? Will Smoke and Sid even last?

Congressman Wilhelm is shot, and video evidence reveals John Smoke as the shooter. The manhunt for Smoke begins, and Sid's life is turned upside down trying to exonerate the man she thinks she loves.

Bounty hunter John Smoke has been at a loss ever since Sidney Shaw's abrupt departure. After weeks of finding no trace of her, Smoke has an unanticipated encounter with Reginald, the doppelganger. Smoke discovers that if he wants to see Sid again, he needs to perform a mission: hunt down and take out a rival criminal underworld called the Many. He finds out that he has been played, but he has no choice but to go along with it if he wants to see Sidney again.

Now that she’s fully accepted her role, Hope takes up the mantle of Healer to lead a new team of untrained Soulkeepers. Repurposing Revelations to be a training ground won’t be easy, not when the source of its power has been disrupted, and the only woman who knows the island’s secrets is on her deathbed.

Ainslie Logan has left her life as a trophy wife behind and moved her family north to escape the scandal created by her ex-husband. Lacking work experience but rich in determination, she lands a job at the local sports bar, the End Zone. Dave Mason, principal of the town’s high school, frequents the End Zone and is not a fan of the clumsy new waitress. Things suddenly change when he finds himself enamored by a woman who will stop at nothing to protect her children.

Months after bringing down the last mark on the Black Slate, Sidney finds herself more isolated than ever. Buried in paperwork at the FBI, her feelings about the Deep Black operation begin to fester. Just when she’s about to lose it, Section Chief Ted Howard intervenes. The Black Slate has another assignment, but there’s a problem: John Smoke is nowhere to be found. Enter Mason Crow, the next name on the Slate. The file indicates that the man is an international butcher and has now taken his brutality to DC.

Now that Sidney is no longer an FBI agent, she is restless. Not knowing what to do with herself, she leaves Megan with the grandparents so she can have some time alone to figure things out. During a visit to the shooting range, things get interesting when an old guy called Big Jake outshoots Sid and then saves her from two huge goons who smell like the Drake. Matters take a turn for the worst soon after when Big Jake turns up dead.

Sidney thinks she’s getting the hang of things only to find herself at odds once again with her annoying and unappreciative supervisor, Cyrus Tweel. To make matters worse, there’s been no talk about the Black Slate or the whereabouts of Smoke, leaving her in the dark and feeling more isolated than ever. During a stakeout with Cyrus, strange things begin to emerge. Black suns and oddly familiar children begin to show up. The Drake’s fingerprints seem to be on everything with which she’s involved.

Peri Jean Mace thinks seeing ghosts is a curse, but her murdered trailer trash cousin doesn’t care. She wants Peri Jean to expose her killer. Peri Jean figures out everyone in her one-stoplight East Texas town has something to hide. And one of them will kill to hide the truth. In over her head, Peri Jean has to face her curse or end up the next victim.

College professor Ian Ross is in love with Andi Nelson. Waitress Gina Francisco has carried a torch for Mike Kelly forever. When Mike and Andi get married, Ian and Gina find one night of champagne-lubricated comfort in each other's arms. The two are from totally different worlds. Can they find their way into love with each other?

Finn Wager's luck has run out. Arrested for the one crime he didn't actually commit, he's forced to finish his education at an alternative school. The Revelations Institute is an upscale, private reform school with a 100 percent success rate. Delinquents go in and model citizens come out. But students who don't perform to expectations disappear. And although their bodies return model citizens, their minds are hardly their own. Something evil lurks inside Revelations, and if Finn and his new friend Hope can't find a way to stop it, they'll risk more than their lives.