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He's a good griffin with a bad temper…Damian Charming yearns to sweep a certain feisty lynx shifter off her feet. Every time he tries to talk to her, however, he sticks his foot in his mouth. He doesn't mean to sound condescending. Life would be easier if Lucy admitted he knows best, especially now that someone in town has threatened her. He's a good griffin (mostly) until someone messes with what's his.She's an unlucky lynx with no time for trouble…Lucy May hates Stillwater detective Damian Charming. Sure, he helped her with a horrible situation and has looks to rival the gods, but he also views lynx shifters as inferior supernatural beings. When someone targets the business she worked hard to create, though, Lucy turns to the one man she knows will mercilessly unearth the culprit.It's more than just hex appeal…When a hex sends the town into a storm of sexual shenanigans in the middle of the investigation, Lucy realizes just how bad she has it for the griffin. Now she needs to convince Damian her feelings are true and reel him in before his need for vengeance destroys the entire town.The books in That Old Black Magic world and the Heart's Desired Mate series can be read as standalone stories and in any order.

Taya must find a way to survive a new, volatile world after a portal to a parallel universe opens and destroys everything she loved. Arkavians are vicious, lethal and filled with magic, but Taya has a few unique skills of her own. When she's caught stealing supplies by a powerful Arkavian Lord, Taya's days of surviving among the remnants of Earth are over. Lord Thane offers her the chance to avenge the dead, save her home world, and win her freedom. But can she afford the price of Lord Thane's deal? **The Night House is a standalone.**

Raising the dead is the easy part.It's the living who make things difficult.Necromancy isn't about dark rituals or raising armies of the dead. It's paperwork. As a certified professional, I spend most of my time navigating regulations and raising the recently departed to settle inheritance disputes. It's a mundane job until the police bring me a case unlike anything I've handled before.Usually, solving a murder is simple. I raise the victim, ask who did it, and let the police handle the rest. But now someone is leaving behind a trail of brutal killings and the dead aren't giving me answers.While the investigation grows more complicated, the local vampires insist they need my help and offer a dangerous deal I can't refuse. Their secrets lead me to the Veil, where spirits rest and a mysterious castle keeps appearing.I just want to earn enough to help my mom pay her medical bills, keep my less-than-legal work hidden from the cops, and avoid strangling one infuriatingly arrogant detective. Instead, I'm caught between a murder case, vampire politics, and a mystery buried deep within the Veil. If I can't figure out how these strange new problems connect, I'll go from making sacrifices to becoming one.A deliciously dark urban fantasy tale with a flawed necromancer trying to survive a harsh supernatural world by international bestselling author J. C. McKenzie.

The dead usually have the answers.Now they're too scared to speak.I survived my last case with the Victoria Police, but now a new serial killer has emerged. Finding him should be easy. Normally, I'd raise the victims, ask who killed them, and let the police take it from there. But now the dead aren't talking, and while the souls are silent, the vampires won't shut up. They need me to unlock a secret they've protected for centuries, and they don't intend to let me walk away.My arrangement with the vampires is complicated. My feelings for a certain grumpy detective are even worse. Neither matters when I realize the killer isn't just evading capture. He's hunting me. Somehow, I've become part of his twisted game. Running from trouble isn't an option. I'm too stubborn, and I still have bills to pay and detectives to infuriate. Unfortunately, the closer I get to the truth, the closer the killer gets to me. If I don't figure out why I'm the target, I'll go from speaking for the dead to joining them.A deliciously dark urban fantasy sequel with a flawed necromancer trying to survive a harsh supernatural world by international bestselling author J. C. McKenzie.

Raising the dead used to be the easy part.Now it's impossible.I used to think I excelled at my job as a certified necromancer, but when the body of a ghost from my past turns up, inexplicably whole and very dead, her soul won't answer my call. What good am I as a necromancer if I can't raise the dead? You'd think failing at the one thing I'm good at would make people leave me alone, but that couldn't be farther from the truth. The vampires need me to protect their future. The Lord of the Veil insists I'm the only one who can stop what's happening to the dead, and the police still expect me to solve their murder cases without a pension. And Detective Connor Kang wants me, too. Just me. I finally know what he's hiding, and somehow that's more terrifying than all the other monsters chasing me. But as it turns out, Kang isn't the only person in my life harbouring dangerous secrets. I used to think necromancy was never about dark rituals or raising armies of the dead. But I was wrong. The vampires, the Veil, Kang, and even my own family are all connected to secrets that reach far deeper than I ever imagined. Someone has been rewriting the rules of magic, and the more I uncover, the more I realize the greatest mystery isn't what's happening to the dead. It's what I am.A deliciously dark urban fantasy finale with a flawed necromancer trying to survive a harsh supernatural world by international bestselling author J. C. McKenzie.

I am Artemis, Guardian of the Forbidden Forest.I am fearless.I am feared.And I do not fail. Until...one day, I do. And it's not me who pays the price. Now, I must work with Ace, a man I loathe, to track down a group of merciless killers. If I fail again, I will become the next target and lose everything I've worked so hard to build. With danger lurking in every shadow, two things become abundantly clear—Ace isn't who or what he claims to be... And neither am I. Don't miss this addictive fantasy romance with mystery, mayhem and a slow burn romance by international bestselling author, J. C. McKenzie.