Our main character is Finlay Ashowen who is employed as the head chef. Unbeknownst to the king or his staff, Fin is a House Witch, a special brand of witch whose power rests in making their home a comfortable and safe place for everyone.

Arabella Black is just a normal human woman, living a normal human life with her Maine coon cat Harvey, when she is suddenly swept away by said cat (and a brownie who lives in her shower drain) to a fantasy world filled with mystery and intrigue. Turns out, she’s not human at all, but a cross between a banshee and a dryad, which would explain her ability to see spirits. Her sister is missing and she is the only one who can help find her. Every person she meets is a possible suspect and teasing out the whole mystery is quite the undertaking.

Tissanah is a slave, stolen from her family at a young age and only saved from the mines due to her innate magical ability and her confidence. Many years later she has finally saved up enough money to buy her freedom but instead barely escaped with her life. She pursues The Orders, the magical wielders who live across the sea, to get their assistance in releasing her friends and countrymen from slavery. They require an apprenticeship and match her up with Maxantarius Farlione, a reclusive member who hates The Orders, to teach her what is required to become a member.

Kade Black, former FBI special agent, is on the run in the first installment of this series. He’s been set up for murder and theft and is searching for the proof that will exonerate him via a dead drop near the coast in Oregon. In his search for the truth, he comes across a grisly ritual murder and gets deputized (blackmailed) by the local sheriff to help with the investigation after she figures out who he actually is. His involvement in the local scene causes ripples the likes of which no one could have predicted when he showed up in his camper van.

Oraya, the adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, is desperate for safety. It’s the driving force behind every action she takes, for herself as well as for the people who live in the supposedly-safe human district of her city. By day she attends her father and trains, by night she hunts those who hunt her kind, bringing down vampires who do not fear the dark as much as they should. Then the Kejari starts, an ancient competition for the favor of the goddess Nyaxia, and Oraya’s world is changed forever.

The second book in the Main Street Merchants series, this novel follows Genevieve Porter and her attempts to revamp her career after being run out of the Manhattan art scene. Along the way she starts a romance with Ryan Delaney, a local cattle rancher with deep ties to Cambria. Over the course of many months their relationship blooms but is constantly threatened by the fact that Gen wants to move back to Manhattan to pursue her dreams.

Kate Bennet is a bookstore owner who is two years out of a divorce and she’s finally feeling like it’s time to get back into the dating game. Her friends agree and they all get together to help Kate find a quick fling. It doesn’t go well for her, much to the delight of Jackson Graham, a prickly local chef who has had a long-term crush on Kate since before she was divorced.

Dive into the world of the post apocalypse with this dense, moody novel. Set in the Moscow Metro twenty years after a nuclear attack, humanity is scraping by and repeating the same old patterns of war and survival in a microcosm when an outside existential threat appears that shakes everything up.