Bonnie Elizabeth

Will you be our valentine? What do you want for Valentine's Day? A heart-shaped box of chocolates? Dinner out with the love of your life? A romantic river cruise? How about a murder mystery? Betrayal? Revenge? We're delighted to bring you this anthology: A Gathering of Stories: Valentine's Day. Five Valentine's Day-themed stories by five gifted storytellers. Tales that will warm your heart...and get it pounding. Get your copy today Featuring stories by: Bonnie Elizabeth C.A. Rowland Johanna Rothman M.D. Posey Tami Veldura Contemporary Short Story Anthology

Maggie runs an isolated haunted hotel which normally suits her introverted life. She has her cats, her best friend, Olive, and a job that keeps her interested. The only real downside is that Olive is a ghost. Then a major storm hits while a cozy mystery writer conference is about to start and a maid finds one of the authors dead. Now Maggie and park ranger, Lyle Cook, must figure out who murdered the writer while juggling the input of dozens of authors who are all certain they know how criminals think. Worse, another guest is found gravely injured and the storm has cut the Inn off from the nearest town. As guests start to get restive and the suspects pile up, Maggie enlists Olive to help her ferret out information that she might otherwise miss. But will Olive's information come too late to save Maggie from the killer? The Ghost in My Hotel is the delightful first novel in the Haunted Hotel Series.

Witches take familiar competitions far too seriously when murder happens at the fair Appointed as a judge at the local fair, Jade Owlens expects to enjoy getting to know some new familiars. She's not prepared to expose a murderer. First, the head of judges threatens what could happen if she gives a ribbon to the killer. Then her sister is arrested for the crime. If that's not enough, Jade is attacked in her own home. Someone wants very badly to win a competition and they don't care how many people they have to kill to do it Unfair Magic is the second book in the delightful Familiar Caf series.

Magic, familiars, murder, and more Jade Owlens' quiet life shatters when one of her best friends is arrested for murder. The murder stinks of negative magic. As the owner of the local feline caf , dedicated to witch familiars, Jade knows magic. Her friend doesn't use negative spells. When her familiar caf becomes the target of a curse, Jade knows she must find the real murderer not only to save an innocent woman but to save her own life. With only the help of her feline familiar, Mason, Jade vows to leave no stone unturned to untangle the threads of evil that are infiltrating the town.

Traci lives in fear. Attacked long ago at a rest stop, she escaped by pure chance. Or at least she thought she escaped. Though she's moved across the country and built up all sorts of coping mechanisms, terror still strikes on a regular basis. When another woman dies at a rest stop while Traci is there, she knows she has to go back and confront the terror of her past. But will she survive?

It began with a fire.It would end with a battle.Kicked out of multiple schools, Mina Andresen's future depends upon graduating from tiny Havestad Lutheran College on Minnesota's north shore. While not her ideal situation, her classes interest her, her roommate is pleasant, and life holds promise.Then the local church burns down the weekend before finals, on the Festival of St. Lucia.Suddenly, the nights get darker, shadows move eerily, and Mina imagines she sees monsters. When people start dying, Mina must confront the fact that she's not just imaging thingsIn order to save her fellow students, the local townsfolk, and possibly even the world, Mina must step up and accept a responsibility larger than anything she ever imagined. Even harder, she must believe in herself.

When her life falls apart, Lara Rochester runs from her problems. She goes all the way to Cape Breton, where she's found a job cataloging books in the private library of a place called Schilling Manor. Arriving at the mansion, she finds that things weren't exactly as described. The place is run down. Phones don't necessarily work. Everything creeks and groans. She even sees ghosts. Worse, her coworkers all seem to have secrets. For some reason, one of them seems to think she knows their secret. Lara needs to work quickly to put the pieces together before she ends up a ghost too.

It's easy to check in to historic Kernroote Castle but checking out could be a different story.Newly divorced Becca Winters hopes to write away her sorrows on an extended stay at the new Kernroote Castle hotel. Unfortunately, the Castle and its companions may have other plans for her.The desk clerk is creepily serious and cold. The hallways are too silent and dark. Footsteps without a source thunder down the halls at night. Gardens change before Becca's eyes. Certain she is having a breakdown, Becca intends to tough it out. However, even she has to acknowledge what her senses are telling her.Unfortunately, her acceptance comes too late. Her tires are slashed and she is trapped at Kernroote.Now, in order to save her own life, Becca must unravel the horrifying secrets of the ancient castle and the family that lives there."Elizabeth immerses her reader in the quintessential atmospheric horror, complete with the tension of the panicked fleeing from past nightmares, a foreboding Gothic Castle, and a looming terror that merges modern struggles with a slowly unraveling historic mystery. Make sure you bring a flashlight before you dig in. Oh, and maybe some Holy Water for good measure. Because Elizabeth isn't afraid to drag you through every conceivable dark and shadowy corner." -- Mark Leslie, author of Tomes of Terror, I, Death and One Hand Screaming and editor of Fiction River: Feel the Fear and Campus Chills.

Accidents happen. Some Accidents are Planned.A deadly car accident sends acupuncturist and sometime detective Ash Jericho on a mission to find the person responsible. Searching for answers, Ash only finds more questions.As she begins to uncover the real story, it appears it's bigger than she could ever have dreamed, putting her in the crosshairs of a killer.A Distraction to Die For is the third novel in the Ash Jericho mystery series.

Not Just Another Day at the Office. No one wants to find a dead body on their doorstep, certainly not Ash Jericho. She's had enough of murder after her cousin died half a year ago. Now, a dead woman waits outside Ash's new business. No one knows whether the woman was waiting for one of the business owners or if someone placed her there. Finding out that the woman has tried to slander Ash's business puts Ash back in the investigator's spotlight. Once again she has to start sleuthing in order to clear her name. With no shortage of suspects, Ash is going to have to use her psychic abilities and her friend Cheri's gossip hotline to figure out which of the people around them murdered the woman. Soon enough, the mystery falls right back on Ash's doorstep. A Discovery to Die For is the second novel in the Ash Jericho mystery series.

A killer stalks small town Seales, Kentucky. If returning home to Kentucky because her grandmother was dying wasn't bad enough, Ash Jericho loses her cousin to murder. Worse, Ash becomes the main suspect. Ash realizes she'll have to find the real killer when the local police follow her around town, waiting for a misstep. Investigation might not be Ash's forte but between her best friend's font of local knowledge and Ash's ability to read impressions from objects, she decides to muddle through. Until the next murder. Pretty soon, it appears Ash could be the killer's next target.An Inheritance to Die For is the first novel in the Ash Jericho mystery series.

A final storm and a final showdown. While Courtney learns to use her newfound powers, the clowder house becomes her temporary home. Even the cats no longer bother her. When the snow starts falling again, tensions raise. A representative from Cat Home arrives to help with the battle, but when three more frost witches attack, will the single representative be enough to turn the tide? When the clowder is worn out and nearly dying, one of their own must make the ultimate sacrifice to save them all. December Storm is the not-to-missed conclusion to the Frost Witch saga.