Brenda Gable

Duke Adolph Asarla s was condemned to join the teeming swarm of mindless souls in Donn's cold netherworld. After fifteen years of searching, he's found a weak spot in the boundaries of hell and has escaped with his memories and powers intact. However, his spirit is locked in the form of a Sluagh, an abominable soul stealing creature. New Camelot's greatest warrior, the leader of her armies during the Troll uprising, the defender of the mystical medieval realm is out for vengeance. Vengeance against a family that betrayed him when he attempted to keep the country from falling into more bloodshed with a civil war should his nephew ascend the throne. However, implementing his plans is delayed by an incompetent balladeer that has affixed himself to him like a burr. Modern day Isabella Pearce is mortally wounded in the line of duty. Donn and Danu offer to save her if she will do them one tiny favor-she has to return the Sluagh back to hell. Given an enchanted sword and a virile red-headed deputy to help her, she traverses the countryside looking for clues. Deputy Sheriff Cody can handle anything fey, human or not so human. Dealing with a soul-sucking demon is out of his area of expertise. When Danu sends him a professional detective to aide him, his first thought is "she's mine." He's determined to send Adolph back to hell and keep the beautiful Old Worlder with him as his mate in New Camelot. Gloom and Doom are two Dungeon Fairies. Until they perform extraordinary good deeds by helping humans without getting involved in human affairs, they will never be able to regain their bright colors and sip the nectar of gods. This is not an easy task. After the Celtic god Donn tells them what he wants, they are disheartened for it would be easier to move Ben Nevis to the seaside than accomplish the impossible. Fate is an omnipotent being. She lays her plans down years, nay, centuries in advance. With Fate involved, anything can happen.

Edward Hightower is the son of an Apache shaman and a Celtic wise woman. A psychic investigator, people come to him when traditional avenues fail to yield results. He uses flames to summon visions in his endeavors to "see." Delores Stockard, a reclusive famous model and widow, once came to him when her son was stolen by a ring of pedophiles. At their parting, Edward knew Delores was his true love. He can literally feel the bond connecting them together in the past, the present and the future. She has reached out to him again for his help. Delores wants him to find a blackmailer and retrieve incriminating photographs before her father-in-law uses them to take her son Stephan away in a custody battle. She tells Edward a plausible story of her past, however his psychic senses tell him she is giving only half-truths to his questions.Delores is hiding an ugly history. When she was a child, her step-father sold her into child prostitution. When opportunity presented itself, she did not hesitate to murder her tormentor and escape. Fate smiled on her until she attracted the eye of wealthy Kyle Stockard-a psychopath. When Kyle coaxes her sordid past from her, he beats her to unconsciousness in a rage and flees to Europe. Upon his alleged death, she creates a secure oasis for her small family. That haven is now threatened by the return of a demented Kyle. When Edward sees a vision with a horrific fire engulfing Delores and Stephan, he knows that Kyle will use arson to kill Delores and Stephan. Fire is Edward's to control, but will his skill be enough to end the reign of a madman and save the ones he loves?

Clarisse Hightower sells her half of a psychic investigation agency in Los Angeles and heads to the east coast obeying the summons of a serial killer locked in purgatory. The deceased Belinda McBride's heartfelt cries beg Clarisse to "save my son." Clarisse doesn't know from what or who. However, the psychic images Clarisse receives are dire: two drowned children floating in a river, a sobbing auburn-woman, and a stoic-faced sheriff shooting a man. When she first meets Matthew McBride, she sees a downtrodden man working as a mechanic. An ex-convict, he was tricked into abetting a felony by his deceased mother. Once an upwardly mobile suburbanite, Matthew has become the local pariah. Clarisse is aghast to see a psychic golden cord between them. It is proof that they are soul mates: in the past, in the present, and in the future. He rejects his own psychic powers until Clarisse convinces him that a kidnapper is in town seeking to take the only reasons he had to live-his affection for his ex-girlfriend and her two children fathered by the local sheriff. To circumvent a human demon from destroying the small-town of Kingston and the people he loves, Matthew is going to have to accept his powers and become the man he was destined to be.

Mackenzie Taylor has lived in the small town of Kingston under the shadow of her father's alleged crime. Twelve years ago, Taylor and the contents of his bank vanished. The ensuing speculation destroyed Mackenzie's mother, sending her into a spiral of drugs and alcohol. After all that time with no word from Taylor, the currency he was accused of stealing is filtering in to the Treasury Department for destruction. An FBI expert in cold cases comes to Kingston to find Hunter Taylor and bring him to justice. Unemotional and distant, Clive Campbell has only one objective-justice. He doesn't care who he has to rattle to obtain it. Mackenzie can see through the cold fa ade the agent uses to keep people at a distance. She has one just like it. She developed it when her life was destroyed by little cuts of accusations that became deep gouges in her soul. "He didn't do it," has been her sustaining mantra and now someone with access to the government stockpile of information has come to lay the case to rest by placing the blame on her father. Devoutly loyal to Taylor, she makes a pact with the agent. She offers up the town's dirty little secrets to Clive if he will approach the case with an open mind and share what information he finds. Scouring the town and government databases for clues, their closeness creates an irritable friction that grows into a sensual heat. While they go down one dead end after another in their pursuit for justice, a killer watches and waits in the shadows.

All Delaney Durrow wanted to do was to protect her daughter from the underbelly of New Camelot. She and her husband dreamed of having a "normal" life in the middle-caste and they achieved it, just before he was assassinated. A month later, a very angry knight invades her home demanding she sign over the deed He claims his mother illegally sold it to Hugh. She has nowhere else to go and refuses to budge. When the tournament champion holds her hostage, she offers a compromise: she will rent a room to him over the winter. In exchange, he is to do odd jobs and protect her and her daughter from a dangerous lover she had in the past. Hugh's scheming brother has plans to take over the Durrow clan from his father. To do so, Eamon needs her and Anna with their sorceress abilities under his control. Sir Finbar proves he is a knight of worth when he defends Delaney from her ex-lover's machinations, but as their relationship grows more intimate, she wonders, who is going to defend her heart from him? Despite Sir Finbar's skill in martial arts and lovemaking, sinister forces close in around Delaney, threatening hers and Anna's lives. Too late, Delaney realizes things were not as they appeared to be.

High Sheriff Bronson O'Toole has served the king's law ever since puberty when he came into his sorcerer powers. His years of dedication to the profession are challenged when a jewel thief terrorizes three old war heroes. With the sitting and retired kings hounding him to find the lost treasure, Bronson doesn't have time to find a mate for the annoying Red Cap that has squatted in his gaol. However, the irritating fey creature won't leave and is consuming all the gaol's ale and spirits while he waits for a spouse to be presented. Seleta Gilbert pretends to be a wealthy merchant during the day. At night, she pawns stolen goods for her people, the Romani. Ten years ago, three despicable barons murdered her parents and forty family members. She is now in a position to exact a justice long overdue. After depriving those men of the jewels and gold they stole from her parents, her intention is to see their blood pool in the lea where the massacre occurred. Unfortunately, Danu has a warped sense of humor. The mischievous goddess has decided to make Bronson and Seleta beloveds-true loves. But, how can Seleta marry a man whose duty to his king is to hunt her down and hang her after she obtains the justice she needs to silence the dead innocents' cries? It will take all of Bronson's patience and analytical skill, along with a little fey help, to quiet the dead's keening for revenge. For without their silence, he cannot have the woman who has stolen his heart.

A lovelorn sea serpent named Fafnir causes problems for everyone in this New Camelot tale. The people of Tragumna face a hungry winter because his presence bars traders from entering the port. Cassandra, a headstrong witch, goes against the rules and casts a spell summoning a paladin to rid the waters of their woe. Washed up football player Richard Knight is pulled through the time and space continuum and told he can't return until he slays a creature out of nightmares or dies trying. Lady Aoife, a warrior-sorceress doesn't know what to do with the man from the Old World and strives to protect him from a lusty mermaid, a hormonal teenager, and a murderous pirate. For Richard to return home, he and Aoife must combine forces to achieve the impossible goal of removing an entrenched sea serpent. Both are hot tempered and used to employing force to get their way. However, this particular problem does not respond to force. They must learn to control their emotions and think before acting. With their tempers in a death grip, other emotions are free to rise: admiration, desire, and love. They are faced with a heartbreaking decision-fulfill the onus by convincing Fafnir's mate to return to him and depart the area or do nothing and remain together while Aoife's people suffer from privation. It will take copious amounts of ale, some serpent psychology, a goddess with a wicked sense of humor and two lascivious fairies to help Richard and Aoife be together the way fate intended.

Their beliefs shattered, three individuals unite forces in order to elude the sheriff, bounty hunters and a powerful baron. Eight hundred years ago, Teague, a warrior-sorcerer, believed in Arthur and Morrigan's false promises of a better world. In the final hours of their defeat, Morrigan turned on him and placed his soul in the body of a dragon. Awakened by Danu, he is faced with an irate mother, a squad of determined knights outside his tomb, and a na ve young knight determined to rescue the mother from a beast and fellow knights. Maureen believed in the false love offered by Uric. When she came to him, pregnant with his child, he laughed and threw her out of the keep. When the callous man is slain by an Assassin, Uric's enraged father is determined to wrest his grandson from Maureen's dead arms.

What's a girl to do when she perceives men just want to use her or bed her? Lush, attractive golden-headed Nicana has a special gift. Her singing brings out a special flavor in the mash as she brews ale. Cloistered with the Priestesses of Danu, she's content to employ her brewing skills in exchange for protection from the unnatural desires of her uncle. Sir Wyatt Jewell has been awarded a decrepit keep for bravery and the loss of his leg. The keep's soil is good for growing hops and grains. He needs Nicana and her magic to brew the best ale in the land if he's going to become a wealthy man within three years. Kidnapping the lass was child's play. Keeping his hands off of her curves and his chivalric honor intact is going to more difficult than he thought. When Nicana sees the condition of the keep, she is thrown into despair. How can they make something of this pile of rock within the time allotted to Wyatt? Only his vision for the future and that something special she senses in him keeps her by his side. Convinced to stay by the vision in his eyes, the desire in his voice and the heat in his hands; the attraction between them grows to explosive levels. From the shadows, danger boils over and Nicana is beset on all sides: from her lusty uncle, the avarice priestesses and a menacing dark knight. However, the greatest danger looming before Nicana is the love she feels for the one-legged knight. A permanent relationship between them is impossible. She is a commoner, he a royal. At all costs, she must stay out of his bed and avoid the consequences of pregnancy and abandonment-even if it results in a broken heart.

The sparks fly when a runaway lass with a latent fiery talent and a fractious young warrior-sorcerer with a chip on his shoulders cross paths on a wilderness road. Caitr ona, abandoned as a child, escapes her abusive guardians to seek out romantic adventures. Instead of daring exploits, she encounters life-threatening hardship. Sir Quinton Wycliff, a surly hard-fisted knight, received a deathbed confession by his mother that has upended his life. A noble quest joins their magical forces together to seek out and destroy a soul-eating demon. Caitr ona discovers her inner sorceress when demon slaying Peri Faries come to their aid in the fight against an unspeakable evil. The young adventurers' feelings for each other grow intimate, forcing Quinton to choose between honor's dictates and love's demands. When betrayed by Quinton's chivalric code, Caitr ona uses her flames as a weapon against all who seek to capture or woo her. To breach her fiery walls, Quinton is going to need the help of the fairies, two other love blistered lovers and a romantic Black Knight.

Enemies of the crown amass in the desert, poised to attack. Time is running out before blood spills and an ancient evil is released. The defender's only edge against an overwhelming force are indecipherable stolen documents. Lord Dillon, Druid-in-training, needs a computer from the Old World and someone to work it. His incantation takes him to a most extraordinary woman, one his land hasn't seen in over eight hundred years. An exotic beauty, she puts a flame to his blood and makes him want to claim her as his beloved. Titania Dreher from modern New York City has odd features that make her a recluse. A history voyeur, she peers into the past by interpreting ancient artifacts. Rescued from muggers by a virile young man in a medieval costume, she's transported to a magical kingdom on the verge of annihilation. As she pours over ancient cuneiform records seeking clues to a dire riddle, she ponders many questions. Foremost is: When she returns home, will she leave her heart behind in Dillon's hands?

Carla and her adoptive family live in a medieval dog-eat-dog world. Only the smartest, fastest and stealthiest survive and Carla is making sure those she loves are provided for-no matter who gets hurt. Carla's philosophy has served her well in her career as a thief. With a huntress's prowess and able to see in the night, no one is safe from her larcenous fingers. When she targets the heir to the throne, it's not Prince Wolfrick who is fleeced. It is this independent woman. In their brief exchange, she loses her heart to the virile sorcerer-wizard. He's the only one who has ever dominated her while making her feel desirable. She leaves him unconscious, knowing in their caste structured society that she cannot have him. When the king orders his irascible son to pick a wife, he goes against his family's wishes and selects, not a high born noble. Oh, no. He wants the only woman who has ever struck his jaded heart and his jaw. He'll have none other than the forbidden Carla. To have his thief as his future queen, Wolfrick will go to any extreme, even to overthrowing the throne.

For his wastrel behavior, Prince Wolfrick from magical New Camelot is reduced to eating out of trash cans. His dire predicament improves when a modern day woman rescues him and Darren the Bastard, his partner in debauchery.A crystal amulet found at ancient ruins activates Bethany's latent magical ability. Both men ask, "Is she The One?" The one that Wolfrick can love above himself in order to break the curse that turned them into animals? Bethany's powers grow stronger prompting evil to attack. In order for them to survive, Bethany must accept what she is, Wolfrick must learn to love, and Darren must decide in which of the two realms he belongs.