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Undead and Unpopular
Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor is ready to get her party on. Vampire Queen Betsy is turning thirty-one. Thirty in human years and one in what she calls the undead. She's also planning a wedding. She's getting into the swing of things for her third decade of living and non-living. Not everyone is happy that Betsy has been crowned queen. There are quite a few vampires upset with her title. They still plan to be at the party because even vampires love a goo...
Canis Royal: Bridefight
Lois Commoner has had it! Ever since she injured her knee in the line of duty, she has been unable to do anything because of the throbbing pain - not even sleep! Stuck on desk duty for the rest of her career with no friends and no family, Lois doesn't see the point in trying anymore so she overdoses on pills and floats off into sleep...only she wakes up again - in the SandLands - with a talking puma. Lois's knee doesn't hurt for the first time in ...
Derik's Bane
Berkley, Jan 2005, 6.50, 304 pp. ISBN: 0425199975 In Massachusetts, Werewolf Antonia tells pack member Derik Gardner he must save the world from Morgan le Fay of Monterrey, California. Derik arrives at Dr. Sara Gunn's Monterey home, but she is working. Monks attack her, but they fall over each other like a comedy team. Sara returns home where Derik having confirmed with Antonia that Sara is Morgan tries to kill her; instead she knocks him out ...
Drop Dead, Gorgeous!
Jenny works as a hair assistant for Caitlyn and Dmitri, unaware that they work as spies. Jenny's job as an assistant hair dresser to Caitlyn and Dmitri James is always full of outbursts, tempers, and human connections. She expends a lot of emotional energy that was not in her job description. Caitlyn's best friend Stacey is marrying a guy Caitlyn despises. “The Boss” runs a lot of things in town and Stacey gets caught up in the madness, by proxy. A...

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Hello, Gorgeous
Caitlyn James owns and operates a beauty salon and loves changing the style of her hair to suit her fashionable outfits. But Caitlyn also is the result of a bionic woman type of technology which makes her super strong. a secret government organization, run by the scary Boss, wants her to use her new powers to help stop a serial killer who is murdering the scientists, or as Caitlyn calls them, egghead nerds, who did the cyborg transformation. Caitlyn i...
Love Lies
Victor Lawrence meets Ashley Lorentz when she literally runs into him with a wheel chair while he is visiting the mental hospital he is thinking of making a large donatation to. Although at first, he thinks Ashley is a patient at the hospital, he soon learns that she is just quirky, fun and totally unimpressed by his wealth. He thinks she is an antidote to his ex-wife and they begin dating. One evening, Ashley is at Victor's home to look after him b...
Royal Treatment
Kensington, May 2004, 14.00 ISBN: 0758208022 In 1863, America, embroiled in a Civil War failed to buy Alaska. Instead, Alaska led by the Baranovs broke free from Russia. A kingdom was declared with a Baranov sitting on the throne. Over a century later, King Alexander II sneaks out of the Sitka Palace masquerading as a sea captain. He meets marooned American Christina Krabbe, who explains how she beat up her boss for groping her and is now o...
Undead and Unemployed
Berkley, Aug 2004, 5.99, 304 pp. ISBN: 0425197484 In St. Paul, the vampire minions consider Betsy Taylor to be their queen, but she wants to be left alone so that she can indulge in her shoe fetish. Rather than join Sinclair, the royal stud, who converted her three months ago, Betsy seeks employment. However, she quickly learns the first lesson from Remedial Vampirism 099 that using the glamour spell on a government bureaucrat never works as a ...
Undead and Unwed
Betsy Taylor is a recently unemployed secretary who gets killed and comes back as a vampire. She is, however, unaware of this for a while, until other vampires contact her. Two groups of vampires are at war, and one believes that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen because she can do many things that normal vampires can't, such as going for days without blood. The group that believes she is the vampire queen would like her to ally with them, so that...