Frances Pauli – författare

They roll in from unknown places, mysterious and unexplained. They take root, take over, spread to all corners and refuse to be eradicated. No one can say why they came, but there's no arguing that they're up to no good. These plants are out for blood, and getting rid of them will take a certain kind of hero - the best kind. Twenty-five tales of evil weeds to entertain, enthrall and change the way you look at the unwelcome invaders in your lawn.Twenty-five tales of evil weeds to entertain, enthrall and change the way you look at the unwelcome invaders in your lawn. From feral tumbleweeds to ravenous seaweed, from alien life forms to migrating asteroid fields, in these pages you will find fairy tales and weird westerns, space romps and chilling horror stories.Scary or silly, wicked or wily, these plants are here to stay.Authors: Rebecca L. Brown, Kevin J. Childs, Jaleta Clegg, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Duane Ackerson, C. H. Lindsay, M. Pax, Terry Alexander, Berin Stephens, Mo Castles, Adriane Ceallaigh, Voss Foster, Brian D Mazur, Katherine Sanger, Eric J. Guignard, Audrey Schaefer, David J. West, Robert Borski, Frances Pauli, Andrea Tantillo, V. Hynes Johnston, Ann Willows, James Hartley, Louise Maskill, Katie M John

Eleven animal stories from author Frances Pauli. From dogs to dinosaurs, from the courtroom to the coral reef, follow these critter characters through a wild variety of adventures across genres. Meet a lion struggling to adapt to a high-paced city lifestyle, a pair of velociraptors looking to put the spark back into their marriage, a remora who is always in the right place at the wrong time, and a hellhound who longs for something far more ordinary. Follow a boxing champion through his last days in the ring, and two soldiers on opposite sides of humanity's last stand.Whatever species you prefer, Bearly Fiction invites you to step outside of yourself and into the world of fur and feathers, myth and magic, struggles and survival.

The burrows of the Great Ones are stirring. Horatch, a T'rant scout, is sent into the jungles to find a promising candidate among the scattered tribes of humans. He must risk his life to find one special child who is brave, talented, and able to survive the tests ahead.When he meets Milyi, his hopes soar. But just returning her to the Temple proves difficult for the spider scout. An ancient enemy has also awoken, and if the Wisps have their way, the Great Ones will remain a part of history, the T'rants will fall, and the humans will live as servants to the Wisp cults taking root in secret all across their world.

Mofitan has no more faith in the Heart... until he meets the enemy he can't help but believe in.Disguised as a slave, Mofitan infiltrates the enemy forces on Eclipsis. Certain his people's Heart is all a lie, his only mission is to help his friends, to overthrow an evil man, and free the people of Eclipsis from a tyrant. Except the enemy's right hand man just might be the woman he's meant to be with.If the Heart isn't fooling him again, Mofitan is on the wrong side... or she is. Between sabotage, deep core mining, alien extermination and random explosions Mofitan has to work out how to get Corah on his team before she gets orders to take him out. If his heart wasn't breaking, he'd definitely be having the time of his life.

Is There A Dragon In You?I never should have let Steph drag me to that Psychic Fair. Metaphysical nonsense doesn't suit me, Seattle doesn't suit me, and I think I might be allergic to patchouli. I'm definitely allergic to car accidents, to giant elk falling from the sky, and most importantly, to the huge, blue dragon that's attached its obnoxious tail to my navel.Just try having a smart-ass dragon nattering in your brain twenty-four-seven. Better yet, don't try it. I recommend skipping the entire, batshit crazy, ordeal. Avoid black cats. Don't get that Reiki treatment, and definitely don't wake up alone, surrounded by other dragons who know way more than you do about what the hell is going on.I can handle it, though. I got this covered. Just as soon as I figure out how to get away from the urban highlander who thinks I'm his mate. Just as soon as I work out how to detach…I wouldn't recommend that. You see what I mean? Crazy. Now I have to escape, to convince the nutty dragon clan that I am not their leader, and to come up with some way to get rid of…You could try exorcism?I get the feeling this isn't going to be easy.

Genevieve doesn't believe in past lives, demons, or true love. All of which seems like a perfectly practical approach to life until the thing that killed her in World War One decides it's time to try again…Now Viv is bouncing between two lives and being stalked by something evil in both of them. As the love story of two soldiers unfolds in her memory, her heart opens for a man who may not even be available.Not that she has time to worry about minor details. If she can't figure out the demon's identity fast, Viv could lose more than just her life. She could lose everything she never believed in.

Chloe Watson is an ordinary girl looking forward to a nice, peaceful winter, until she finds a bizarre artifact in a hotel room and meets its owner, Andrew Paige. He might look like an ordinary suit, but he's got a string of secrets hiding behind his knee-weakening smile. When he offers her a job at The Dimensional Shift, Chloe is tossed straight into the world of inter-dimensional tourists and their odd accommodations.Between dealing with the Shift's unusual guests, and trying to determine if the boss' interest in her is strictly professional, Chloe uncovers a plot to steal the hotel's dimensional keys. With the help of the town gossip, her alien abductee neighbor, and her new invisible best friend, Chloe confronts and inter-dimensional crime ring and a host of complications that make romancing the bosslook like the leastof her problems.

When Ayden chases a stray dog down an alley just in time to witness a murder, the cops side with the killer, and his sudden interest in Ayden sends her straight into the same weird visions that kept her institutionalized for most of her childhoodShe's learned to live with them, but somehow, the dark and dangerous Maxwell Jackson is not nearly as easy to ignore. He not only has the key to saving her dog, he believes in things Ayden has spent her whole life convincing herself are absolutely impossible.She might be able to get past the crazy, might even be able to learn to trust another human again, but Maxwell is part of a group that uses dogs to kill... and even if he is the man of her dreams, he's brought a whole lifetime of nightmares along with him.

Stevie Roth gave up her chance at inter-dimensional adventure and settled for the ordinary world. She almost convinced herself she'd made the right decision, too. Until Weldon Marks, out-of-this-world goofball and totally delicious dork, shows up and reminds her exactly what she left behind.Suddenly she's back up to her neck in the insanity, and remembering exactly why she left. Weldon is acting cagey, his clone won't leave her alone, and the invisible man is leading an investigation that seems hellbent on spoiling any chance she has at keeping the one idiot in the universe she wants in her life for good.Her world has turned completely upside down, her favorite snake is missing, and Stevie's pretty sure the beat up box Weldon stashed in her living room hides something illegal in any dimension. If it does, she's going to strangle him... If he doesn't get himself killed fist, that is.

Did the Dragon Make You Do It?There's nothing like being left out of your own party. I sent my gang to the super secret dragon training facility to keep them safe, but now I'm on the outside, living with another dragon anchor who'd like to kill me half the time, and wondering exactly where it was that I screwed up... again.Between forest fire duty, juggling the media shit-storm over the existence of dragons, and doing my best not to end up on TV, you'd think I wouldn't have time to miss them. You'd think I'd put in enough hours, that the universe had finished messing with me.Think again. Just when I'm sure I've got everything under control, my old enemy breaks out of jail, a rival gang comes after my crew, and the giant Silver Death Worm decides I'm its new best friend.Highly unlikely. Between keeping what crew I have left, keeping the dragons I don't control from instigating an unstoppable crime spree, and keeping myself from getting mended, I shouldn't have time to worry about Doc. Except, all of a sudden, my would-be boyfriend is at the very center of everything.And lying his ass off.What do you do when all your problems point straight to the one person in the world you want to believe in? What do you do when you lose everything, and even the voices in your head have no idea how to get it back?

Chloe Watson is just starting to get used to her inter-dimensional career, her covert relationship with the boss, and her life as a cross dimensional traveler when a last minute promotion, a galaxy wide tournament, and an unexpected stowaway manage to throw a wrench in her status quo.Unless she can sort out a string of parallel abductions, deal with an infestation of Lemurian bedbugs, and get her local pet store associate back home before the woman blows the whistle, everything Chloe has going for her will be history.In the meantime, her relationship is on the rocks. Her job is on the line. And her boyfriend/boss is keeping secrets that could cost them both a lot more than just their salaries.

Something's rotten in the Fey lands. On both sides of the border, shadow creatures spring out of nowhere, and the dark legends surrounding the fey take on a whole new meaning.Marcus Bramble tracks a madman while Elizabeth and the crew at the Embassy sort through the evidence he left behind. But time is against them. The Fey rulers have turned a blind eye on forests teeming with imaginary monsters, and the Sidhe tower stands silent amidst the chaos.Will the race to uncover its secrets solve the mystery of the elves' past or unleash even more horrors on them all?

Liz Larson holds the last remnant of the Seelie Sidhe's power. The elves look to her for guidance, but all she has to offer them is the disturbing story of their origin, the final truth that will turn many of them against her. With her dwindling number of allies, Liz needs to reopen the borders, to find the missing Marcus Bramble, and to avoid the sudden, terrifying attention of the new Fey ruler, the Unseelie Speaker and new master of the Sidhe Tower.While her friends in Mundanity race to pry open the gates, and Marcus searches for the answer to a puzzle that could save or damn them all, the Unseelie Speaker marches north, bringing his army and his wrath to focus on Elizabeth.What can one, fairy-touched human do in the face of the Unseelie court's full fury? How can she fight when the enemy's anger is only partly blind, when she can see all too clearly the traces of justice behind it?

Do you have a dragon problem?It's not easy living with a dragon in your belly, but I think I've finally figured it out. We're going to be just fine, so long as the rest of the world doesn't find out. Which of course, is going to happen any second.It's not like I want life to be easy, but maybe, we could leave out getting stalked across Eastern Washington by reporters, followed by cops, and impersonated by strangers on the internet. Maybe, my gang could stop fighting among themselves, I could stop gathering runaways like a mother hen, and the stoner kid with a megalomania complex and a dragon that dwarfs my own will just leave us alone and go away.Keep dreaming.I've never been an optimist, but maybe, if the world would stop conspiring against me, I could keep it from finding out about dragons.And get Doc back?My personal, invisible, Blue smartass isn't helping. Unfortunately, he's right. Doc left us. Now everyone's looking at me to fix things, our gang's coming apart at the seams, and I think I'm being haunted by a silver death worm.You made that up.Never mind. Some days, it's best to let the dragon win.

Liz Larson is fairy touched, a revel Dancer struggling with an addiction to fairy food and the lure of her own memories. When a strange elf turns up with an old photo and a new mission, Liz has only one answer for the uptight agent. No way. Never again.Marcus Bramble is not interested in babysitting a human junkie, but a series of ghastly murders has spread terror across the Fey lands. Only the fairies know what's going on, and only one person can get the little devils to talk. Unfortunately, Liz has no interest in cooperating... until the investigation points to her old partner.Until Lockland Sheen is involved.Now the elvin agent and the human Dancer set out to save both their worlds. Unfortunately, the more they rely on Liz's tie to the fairies, the closer she inches toward the madness that lurks behind her fantasies.

Shayd's visions serve the Heart... until it asks him to betray his own future.When the Shrouded Heart sends him on a mission of diplomacy, Shayd is eager to obey. The treason of his predecessor has stained the rituals and weakened his relationship with the sacred crystal, but when it brings him to Rowri, he is certain the alien priestess is destined to be his heartmate. Despite the fact that their mission is to deliver her to her wedding... to someone else.Rowri's duty to her people insists Shayd must give her away, even as their heartbond draws them closer and closer together. Though he understands her loyalty, honoring her choice will put her in danger, leave her planet open to attack, and unleash an old enemy dead set on destroying them all.

Dolfan believed in the Heart... until it gave her to another man.When Vashia arrives on Shroud as an indentured bride, Dolfan recognizes immediately that they are meant to be together. Broken, lost, and on the run, she trusts no one, but Dolfan has enough faith for the both of them... Until his people's sacred ritual gives Vashia to someone else. Until Dolfan's faith, and his heart are tested.Vashia's arrival ignites a storm on Shroud, and the full-scale invasion that chases after her threatens to destroy Dolfan's home, his culture, and his planet. If he can't challenge his own beliefs enough to admit the ritual was wrong, the only woman he wants will likely be the end of everything he's ever known.