by Kristine Smith
$1.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-832-9
Set several years before Jani’s exploits in Code of Conduct, “Incident on a Small Colony” is a riveting introduction to Jani Kilian, the worlds of the human Commonwealth and the alien idomeni, and the cost of being true to one’s self.
Crystal Magic: Book 7
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 ISBN 978-1-61138-810-7
A BVC Original
A librarian searches for healing, a felon yearns for forgiveness, and an enemy stalks them both…
Hannah Simon holds the library of her ancestors in her head, but she’s in danger of losing her steel-trap mind along with the information it holds. Her only hope is a legendary moonstone said to have healed in times of trouble.
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Book 1 of The Jani Kilian Chronicles
by Kristine Smith
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-558-8
Captain Jani Kilian’s life should have ended in front of a firing squad.
Instead, she evaded battlefield justice by dying in a transport crash. End of story, according to official Commonwealth Service records.
But doctors repaired her in secret, using the most advanced Service Medical technologies available, or so they assured her.
Everyday Disasters: Book 1
by Diana Pharaoh Francis
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-750-6
A BVC Original
Celebrating death never felt so good.
Beck Wyatt has always hated her mother–enough to kill her. As luck would have it, someone beats her to murdering Mommy Dearest and now Beck gets to plan the tackiest funeral the world has ever seen for the worst woman she’s ever known.
Crystal Magic: Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-731-5
A BVC Original
An empathic woman searching for safety, an architect yearning for dreams–and the ghost house that endangers them both.
Teddy Devine-Baker arrives in her childhood home of Hillvale with a box of crystals and an attitude. Her empathic gift has ruined one relationship and most of her jewelry business, leaving her determined to learn more about a talent she’s never properly respected.
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Book 1 of the Chameleon Chronicles
by Laura Gayle
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-638-7
A BVC Original
Can a woman prone to vanishing when life gets tough learn to stand her ground–and find herself in the process?
Camille Tate has always run away…but vanishing whenever life gets too frightening has never solved anything.
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The Jani Kilian Chronicles, Book 4
by Kristine Smith
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-611-0
Enemy sighted.
Enemy closing.
Contact imminent.
Human-idomeni relations. Never smooth. Worsening by the day.
by Doranna Durgin
$1.99 (Novelette) ISBN 978-1-61138-603-5
Leyana is a creature of beauty and fiery vengeance, driven by a bargain made on the night of her violent death and rebirth. Only a man of strong heart can survive her allure — while at the same time connecting deeply enough to free her from her shackles. Paul Campbell might be that man…
Or he might lose himself to her altogether.
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The Jani Kilian Chronicles, Book 3
by Kristine Smith
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-592-2
It takes a killer to catch a killer.
Jani Kilian finally has her life under control. Discharged from the Service, she’s become an important player in negotiations with the alien idomeni.
But when a classified report containing revelations about past crimes comes to light, Jani realizes that old enemies still seek to destroy her.
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A Sylvan Investigations File
by Laura Anne Gilman
$3.50 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-597-7
A BVC Original
Danny Hendrickson — ex-cop turned PI — and his partner Ellen could be any low-rent private investigators trying to make a difference, and a living, in New York City.
Except Danny’s father was a faun, and Ellen is a storm-seer.
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Mission: Magic
by Diana Pharaoh Francis
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-585-4
A BVC Original
It’s tough to have a conscience when you kill for a living.
So six years ago, Mallory Jade gave up killing. Now she’s a fixer. Got a problem with a demon? She can help. Infestation of pixies? She’s got you covered. Kidnapped by an undead lich? She’s on her way. Anything you need, so long as she doesn’t have to kill. It’s her one unbreakable rule.
Book 4 of The Reeves & Worcester Mystery Series
by Chris Dolley
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-554-0
A BVC Original
Wodehouse steampunk version of The Hound of the Baskervilles!
An escaped cannibal, a family curse … and Reginald Worcester turning up on the doorstep. Could things get any worse for the Baskerville-Smythe family?
The Jani Kilian Chronicles, Book 2
by Kristine Smith
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-582-3
So many bones, buried so deep. But not deep enough.
After eighteen years, Captain Jani Kilian’s life as a fugitive has ended. Captured by the Service, she now faces court martial. It will surely lead to her execution.
But relations with the idomeni have deteriorated.
Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries #4
by Patrice Greenwood
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-495-6
A BVC Original
Something old, something new, something dead…
It’s autumn in Santa Fe, and Ellen Rosings is planning her Aunt Nat’s wedding at the Wisteria Tearoom. Her progress is derailed by a dead body–yes, another one–that she finds in her aunt’s driveway.
Book 1 of The Cassie Stories
by Leah Cutter
$5.99 ISBN 978-1-61138-426-0
Working at a sex & toy shop like Chinaman Joe’s Good Luck Parlor keeps Cassie in smokes and off the streets. It isn’t glamorous. But it’s a life.
Someone murders Cassie’s best friend in the alley behind the sex toy shop she manages.
To make her day even better, the pre-cog working the case declares that Cassie saw the event. Which would put her in two places at the same time.
Impossible. Cassie has no special abilities. Not unless you consider sarcasm a superpower.
Poisoned Pearls—the first novel in a fast-paced urban fantasy series—follows our irreverent heroine on her journey through an alternate (though just as wintery cold) Minneapolis.
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Also read the two sequels, Tainted Waters and Spoiled Harvest.
Wisteria Tearoom Mysteries #3
by Patrice Greenwood
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-399-7
A BVC Original
A cop at the opera…
Wisteria Tearoom owner Ellen Rosings coaxes Detective Tony Aragon to go with her to the Santa Fe Opera, but the magnificent performance of Tosca ends in disaster. In bizarre counterpoint to the opera’s plot, the leading man is murdered in his dressing room, and Tony must rush to secure the crime scene. Ellen is left to comfort Vi Benning, a former server at the tearoom who is now an apprentice at the Opera and a protegee of the slain singer.
by Hunter Morrison (a pen name of Jill Zeller)
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-413-0
Using a peculiar camera she found, Maxine Nutbeam photographs her cousin’s life-sized horse sculpture and it comes to life. Coming from a long line of Nutbeams possessing erratic, careless magical abilities, Maxine encounters the camera’s owner Dante, whose supernatural skills as a Time Mage surpass even Maxine’s vivid imaginings. Rushed headlong into sorcery, danger and chaos, Maxine uncovers her mother’s secret and the mystery of her own birth. She is having the time of her life, but time is running out.
Book 3 of Reeves and Worcester Steampunk Mysteries
by Chris Dolley
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-391-1
HG Wells has a problem.
His Aunt Charlotte has borrowed his time machine and won’t give it back. Now she’s rewriting history!
Reggie Worcester, gentleman’s consulting detective, and his automaton valet, Reeves, are hired to retrieve the time machine and put the timeline back together.
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by Sara Stamey
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-375-1
Romantic suspense and adventure: “Welcome to Paradise,” archeologist Susan Dunne hears on arrival at the Caribbean island to research petroglyphs and solve the mystery of her brother’s drowning. This sunny tourist paradise conceals shadowy secrets—violent native unrest, sunken treasure, and a bloodthirsty cult masquerading as Voodoo. Can Susan trust her confusing psychic visions that suggest John was murdered?
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The Family Genius Mysteries: Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-344-7
Complex conspiracies to the right, dastardly deaths to the left, and all Ana wants to do is save her family’s inheritance.
When her half-sister Patra arrives on the Maximillian mansion doorstep with the news that Patra’s father was murdered and the killers are after Patra, Ana is off on another race to protect her eccentric family. Graham, the hunky spy in the attic who holds the mansion ransom, has a stake in this mystery if he wants to prevent Ana and her family from turning his high tech bat cave into Grand Central Station.
A Sylvan Invesigations File (book 2)
by Laura Anne Gilman
$3.50 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-273-0
The person you pass on the street…may not be human.
They are known as the fatae, the various non-human species that make up the Cosa Nostradamus, the magic-using community. And they could be your neighbors, your teachers, your fellow commuters. Your local PI.
An Onyx Court Novella
by Marie Brennan
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-266-2
LONDON, 1625. A young gentleman lies murdered in a Coldharbour alley. Before his death, he uncovered secrets that could threaten the mortal world above and the faerie world below. Now, to find the murderer and protect both realms, Sir Michael Deven will need the help of a man with reason to hate the fae of the Onyx Court — the victim’s own brother.
A novella of the Onyx Court, set between Midnight Never Come and In Ashes Lie.
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California Malcolms: Book 2
by Patricia Rice
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-205-1
Dorothea Franklin’s life is sliding toward disaster just as surely as her house is crumbling into the Pacific. Her unusual talent for feng shui can’t bring harmony to her invalid father or prevent her brother from dying in an experimental helicopter crash. Or has he?
She turns to computer genius Conan Oswin, whose brother also reportedly died that day. When Dorothea informs Conan that she didn’t feel the vibrations of her brother’s death, he wants to dismiss her illogic… but his instinct for trouble is already on full alert. His attraction to her is almost as distracting as her nonsense about chi and harmony — nonsense that plants doubts about the deadly crash. If only she would quit twisting his head with temptation, he might be able to save their brothers and her life.
by Judith Tarr
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-208-2
Three lives. Three worlds. Three times. Three young women, past, present, and future, come together to solve an age-old mystery and save a world.
Meredith has the summer all planned. She’ll hang out with her friends, ride her horse, and spend time with her mom, who is recovering from cancer. Then her mom drops a bomb: she’s sending Meredith to Egypt to dig up mummies with her aunt the archaeologist. Meredith doesn’t want to go. At all. But there are more forces at work than a sixteenth-birthday present she doesn’t want and a summer she didn’t plan—and a greater adventure than she could ever have imagined.
Tales of Love and Mystery: Book 4
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-187-0
After landing in the Caribbean island of St Lucia on business, account executive Penelope Albright is shockingly accused of smuggling drugs–until a sexy stranger claims to be her husband and kidnaps her. Trouble and Charlie Smith are two sides of the same coin. He needs a wife–temporarily–to help him keep a low profile while investigating the disappearance of his business partner. And like it or not, elegant Penny is convenient, if way too upscale for Charlie’s tastes.
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
$4.99 (Novel)
ISBN 978-0-9828440-8-3
When one sees eternity in things that pass away and infinity in finite things, then one has pure knowledge. But if one mrerly sees the diversity of things then one has impure knowledge. And if one selfishly sees a thing as if it were everything, independent of the ONE and the many, then one is in the darkness of ignorance. — Krishna, Bhagavad Gita 18:20-22
Tales of Love and Mystery: Book 3
by Patricia Rice
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-136-8
Adrian Quinn trusts no one. Four years in prison will do that to a man–especially if he’s innocent. Somebody owes Adrian the truth, not to mention a fortune in lost income, and his bet is on his late partner’s ex–a spoiled society wife who walked away from her husband’s crime unscathed.
