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The grit, beauty, and romance of 15th century Scotland come alive in A DARK HIGHLAND MAGIC. Kat Martin, New York Times best-selling author, says Kelly Jameson’s Highland romance series is "filled with passion, intrigue, vengeance, and all-consuming love." “Jameson's strength lies in her world-building...she demonstrates a solid knowledge of Highlands history and lore." BookLife Prize/Publishers Weekly As a lad, Conall Maclean promised his father he'd always look for the magic, even in the dark times ahead for the Highlands. As a man and battle-hardened warrior, Conall is reminded of ...

A LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN BLACK named the Finalist in the BookLife Prize Mystery/Thriller category 2018 "This is a fascinating and intriguing twist on the crime genre. Modern-day murder is blended with historical detail and the rich cultural background of Rembrandt’s work. The prose is engaging, the narrative voice is strong, and the plot is compelling." — Adam Croft From The Booklife Prize: Jameson delivers a sophisticated mystery that includes a titillating breadcrumb trail of clues and doesn’t refrain from horrific crime scene descriptions. There is no “downtime” for Ann Yang and...

Scotland, 1455. As a child, Highlander Malcolm Maclean has visions he cannot explain. When he predicts a major victory in battle for King James the Second, he is summoned to Edinburgh castle to officially meet the king and predict his future. Much to his dismay, the king rewards him with Douglas lands and a future Douglas bride, a Lowlander! Scotland, 1468. Malcolm Maclean is now a man—a leader and a battle-seasoned warrior. He has put off taking a bride he doesn’t want long enough. Not wishing to draw royal ire, he must honor a dead king’s wishes and marry Sorcha Douglas, a woman ...

My name is Faith Jordan. I clean up crime scenes after the police, CSI, and the dead have gone home, and faithless, dark places where the dead, and other creatures, linger on. When I was twelve, my mother died during an exorcism gone wrong. If you’re thinking Linda Blair, levitating beds, projectile vomit, and spontaneous flesh wounds, don’t. It was worse. Because it was real. No Hollywood special effects. Just a charismatic priest that my mother shouldn’t have trusted. Believing he saw the devil in my mother’s eyes, the priest tried to scratch him out with his pale fingers. Ash ...

"Wow, I loved this book! Great time and place and I know the West. Great history. Fast paced and fun. Falcon’s Prize has everything a reader could want. A bold, tough, deadly outlaw and a woman strong enough to tame him. A real page turner. Best Western Romance I've read in years." Kat Martin, New York Times Best-selling Author with over 13 million books in print THE FALCON'S PRIZE Texas Hill Country, 1869 A man they call The Falcon isn't the law and he isn't an outlaw. He's somewhere in between. Possessing an instinct for self-preservation and a knack for administering justice, Chandler ...

Twisted, film-optioned, multi-genre author Kelly Jameson (author of DEAD ON and WHAT REMAINED OF KATRINA: A NOVEL OF NEW ORLEANS) brings you some of her darker side in I KISSED A ZOMBIE AND I LIKED IT. This is not a novel--offered up are 3 zombie shorts and 1 rude monkey. *Language, nudity, debauchery, self-deprecation, and decaying body parts.

From the author of DEAD ON, SHARDS OF SUMMER, and WHAT REMAINED OF KATRINA. DESPERATE, DISTURBED, DERANGED, & DOUBLE-LATTED lives up to its name. Jameson presents a collection of short stories united by themes of loneliness, dead-end jobs, desperation, unusual erotic encounters, and a need for real connection in a deranged world. You'll read about a bear that trains a man; a man who believes that whenever he leaves his apartment, his stuffed monkey runs around shouting obscenities about him and drinking all his beer; a failed Hollywood special effects makeup artist who makes a deal with ...

Like a dark, murderous version of Razor's Edge, the characters keep coming back through generations to lead different lives. But in Razor's Edge, the character was trying to transcend his past lives. In Dead On, the character is playing out a generations-long cat-and-mouse game, with murder the never-ending ambition. Ann Yang, a bright, tough medical examiner, investigates a murder scene in a Philadelphia suburb that appears to be the work of a serial killer―whose calling card is American Civil War coat buttons placed beneath victims' tongues. While her Victorian home is being renovated, ...

A crime scene cleaner and a demon profiler must clean up a vampire hoarding site, find a powerful relic, and toss it back into hell before it destroys the French Quarter and the world.... My name is Faith Jordan. I clean up crime scenes after the police, CSI, and the dead have gone home, and faithless, dark places where the dead, and other creatures, linger on. I run FULL MOON CLEANERS and my main responsibility is to thoroughly and discreetly mop up after someone or something dies violently, to restore a scene to what it looked like before the violent death. I am daily exposed to nasty ...

"Jameson's strength lies in her worldbuilding...she demonstrates a solid knowledge of Highlands history and lore....a strong Highland romance." Booklife/Publishers Weekly 1447. Winter has wrapped its icy fingers around the Highlands. The MacKinnon clan is in chaos. Weakened by battle losses, treachery, and a lack of leadership, a Hogmanay celebration turns ugly as clan members decide to burn a witch at the stake—one of their very own, Isobel MacKinnon, a castle servant with the Sight. As flame is about to be touched to the kindling at her feet, five warriors appear in the snowy night, ...

His name is Deutsch Baggerly. He's a sort of hot, middle-aged, retired potato salesman turned private eye. He's traded the spuds to go after the puds. Anything anyone can do he can't do better. He has the instincts of a wet-bottom shoofly pie. Absurdity, apathy, and luck are his favorite weapons, and occasionally potatoes. Yet he somehow stumbles into solving cases no one else will touch. He's horrible at shark diving, paintball, karate, safe-cracking, knife-throwing, e-mailing, zip lining, you name it. But don't tangle with him: he's Pennsylvania Dutch and he may put the hex on you. He has...

Jump on my banana seat bike and take a ride with me back to the 1970s...when we ran around the neighborhood in small feral packs for hours, played with sharp objects and toys with hot plates, plastigoop, and noxious fumes, and rolled around in the cargo area of our station wagon with no seat belts while Jim Croce piped from the eight-track tape player. We popped wheelies and had bike races without wearing helmets and ate dog biscuits because we thought they were cookies--which we washed down with Kool-Aid or Hawaiian Punch. The times were whacky and weird, miraculous and moronic. There were...

A REVISED AND EXPANDED NEW EDITION OF A MODERN CLASSIC... After Hurricane Katrina destroys her city, an unlikely heroine turns to art and revenge to survive. A failed hooker, magician's assistant, hotel maid and ice cream truck driver, Katrina Lalande comes barreling back in her old red Cadillac to haunt the abusive husband who thought he’d finished her off during the storm. Bent on revenge but determined to find hope in the wreckage, she remembers her past life as Vincent van Gogh as she paints murals on flood-damaged homes, trying to plug the leaks in her city and her heart.

DON'T SAY HER NAME is new contemporary suspense from Kelly Jameson, best-selling author of the historical romances SPELLBOUND and ACROSS A DARK HIGHLAND SHORE. When Broadway star Alice Josephs thinks she sees her twin sister in the audience during one of her performances, she begins to question her sanity. Lessa disappeared twenty years ago in the woods near their Hudson River Valley home, and the crime was never solved. As handsome, Emmy Award-winning crime writer Nial Reynolds investigates the cold case, Alice becomes the target of a sadistic stalker obsessed with her beauty and fame. She...

“A wild and often hilarious ride through the art world with an unexpected and surprisingly touching ending.” Bruce Hartman, author of PAROLE and THE PHILOSOPHICAL DETECTIVE RETURNS... In a post-truth era, how do YOU figure out what's real...and what is not? That's what Carl MacElroy, the janitor visited by Picasso's ghost as he polishes the floors of the Philadelphia Museum of Art after hours, is trying to do. From a girlfriend who won't tell him her name to being tasked with finding Picasso's lost tie by the artist's ghostly presence, Carl becomes obsessed with finding the truth. His ...

On his 17th birthday, Thunder discovers his parents aren’t really his parents at all – in fact they’re not even real people but automatons tasked with his care by his true father – the mad, time-traveling geneticist, Dr. M. T. Hart. And he’s not the heartless Dr. Hart’s only child – he also has "siblings". A family of hollow gods with incredible yet flawed powers created by Hart from a genetic jumble of geniuses, mystics, and saints from the past. In his mad desire to create the perfect being, Hart throws his creations into The Sequencing. Lose the game and you may be wiped ...

“A classic murder mystery with a dash of haunting. You are sucked into the story by Jameson’s skilled use of time and place, though the mystery isn’t revealed until the final chapters. A whodunnit that will keep you turning the pages. A winner.” —Kat Martin, author of The Last Mile Caroline Marie is a chef and restaurant owner who caters summer seance dinners at an old, haunted inn in Maine. Guests and the entire town are spooked when one of the attendees is found dead the morning after a seance in the winding gardens of the property. Caroline Marie makes it her mission to uncover...