David Neth

Ethan Pierce is just another IT tech support rep at Wyatt Industries until he's zapped and infused with enough electricity that should kill him. But electrocution has just given Ethan terrifying abilities that no man has ever had. As he grapples with his strange new powers, he and his girlfriend Emma witness a drive-by shooting in the city of Olympia. They soon learn it was related to the Martelli crime family that run the city and don't like to leave loose ends.Fearful of the threat of the family, Ethan and Emma try to lay low, but it's no use. When Emma is attacked, Ethan uses his newfound lightning abilities to become Fuse, Olympia's "man in black."Fueled by vengeance and empowered by his new abilities, Ethan vows to find the man who attacked Emma and get justice. But will his powers be enough to save her?

Not everything is as it seems.A carnival birthday party for a one-year-old turns terrifying when a little girl lets out a scream from within the funhouse. Samantha and Kathy rush in to rescue her, only to find a demented clown hovering over the girl, feasting on her screams. He gets away, leaving the sisters scratching their heads as to who or what it might be.After asking around, the staff all claim that there are no clowns employed by the carnival, which doesn't explain what the girls witnessed. To make matters worse, Kathy is pulled away after her friend has a surprising revelation about her boyfriend, Jeremy. That leaves Samantha, whose powers haven't been working exactly right ever since she became pregnant.As the sisters struggle to find answers, another kid is found unconscious deep inside the funhouse tent. With hundreds of children arriving at the carnival for fun and games, the clock is ticking for the sisters to find a way to stop what lurks inside. And its only a matter of time before he gets what he's after.Trickster is the eighth book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel to the Under the Moon series.

It's better not to know things sometimes...Suspecting she might be pregnant, Samantha seeks out Vanita, an oracle, to ask whether she and Steven are even ready to have kids. During the reading, Samantha receives a vision of a man bleeding out on the ground. Learning from past mistakes, Samantha recruits Kathy's help to track him down.After searching for hours in the frigid winter night, the sisters come up empty. Samantha returns to Vanita for further answers and learns that the man in the vision is none other than Vanita's brother, Oren. When the sisters enact their plan to save Oren, they discover that Vanita isn't as innocent as she let on. Right in front of the sisters' eyes, she stabs her brother and steals her family's powerful amulet to wreak havoc with it.The sisters are ready to launch into a search for Vanita, but must tend to Oren's physical injuries, as well as some of their own intangible ones as Kathy finds Steven in a compromising situation, which erupts in the biggest marital spat he and Samantha have ever had. The sisters must pull together their emotions and trust each other if they're going to get the amulet back. Otherwise, the world as they know it could be over.Oracle is the seventh book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel to the Under the Moon series.

The honeymoon is over.Valentine's Day is right around the corner, but neither Samantha nor Kathy are feeling in the mood lately. Samantha and Steven have been arguing about where to live while Kathy has been awkwardly reuniting with her ex-boyfriend Jeremy, who might also be dating someone else.Scarlett, an enchantress, tracks Kathy down at work for help saving her lover from an evil witch who put him in a spell that Scarlett is unable to break with her own magic. The witches lean in to the distractions from their personal lives and are ready to travel to Buffalo to help Scarlett reunite with her lover. Except, Steven and Jeremy insist on coming along for the weekend, drudging up all of their issues that they'd rather escape from. Worse, Jeremy still doesn't know that they're witches.What could go wrong?Enchantress is the sixth book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel series to the Under the Moon series.

Mind your secrets... Samantha and Steven's wedding day has finally arrived As the bride and groom and their wedding party prepare for the big day, Talia, the officiant of the wedding who is a witch herself, collapses and is taken to the hospital. Seeing her sister begin to panic that her wedding is falling apart, Kathy uses magic to find another officiant-but her spell summons Augustus, a sorcerer who has his own agenda. Unbeknownst to Kathy, she wasn't alone when she cast the spell, which gives Steven's mother the ammunition she's been looking for to put a stop to the wedding. While the sisters are preoccupied with preparing for the big day, a news reporter shows up and catches the use of magic on camera. With the wedding day effectively ruined, Samantha and Kathy must figure out how to put their secret back in the bottle. To make matters worse, Augustus disappears and all the signs point to Talia's collapse being connected to his arrival. In order to stop Augustus and keep their secret, Samantha and Kathy must rely on help from others, which seems impossible to do when their home is surrounded by news reporters. Sorcerer is the fifth book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel series to the Under the Moon series.

Sometimes betrayal is just one small act...While scouting possible wedding locations on Presque Isle, Samantha and Kathy cast a spell to prevent a man from driving his boat right onto shore. Shrugging it off as a close call, the sisters return their focus to their lives: Samantha's upcoming wedding, and Kathy's struggling personal and professional life.However, their little diversion spell ignites the fury of Heather, a siren who lives to sway men in loving relationships into a fiery betrayal that results in their death. She turns her attention to the men in the witches' lives as payback for foiling her plan on Presque Isle. After several close calls, Samantha and Kathy force their boyfriends to coexist in one house so they can protect them, but the siren's attacks keep hitting closer to home.With tensions rising in the overcrowded house and everyone almost at their breaking point, the witches must find a way to stop Heather before she can succeed in her mission to kill their men.Siren is the second book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel series to the Under the Moon series.

Saving him is their job, but it won't get his victim justice.Samantha and Kathy are witches who protect the nonmagical from evil. So when they spot a coven of harpies targeting Mark, a nonmagical man, they immediately rush to save him.With the threat of the harpies still looming over Mark, the sisters learn more about him and the target on his back. Namely, that the harpies are hunting him to drag him to hell to pay for his crimes against a young woman. However, that presents a dilemma for Samantha and Kathy: do they follow their duties as witches and save the man who harmed a young woman or do they step aside and let the harpies drag him to hell to pay for those crimes?The clock is ticking and the longer it takes Samantha and Kathy to decide what to do, the more innocent people that will be hurt by the harpies while they wait to sink their claws into Mark.Harpy is the first book in the Coven series, which serves as a prequel series to the Under the Moon series.

His enemies are closer than he thinks...When Ash gets a phone call from Detective Jenna Harkness, he knows he's in for a whirlwind. She tells him an officer brought in a crazy man who might be of interest to him.The man thinks it's 1969.But when Ash listens in when Harkness interviews the man-who identifies himself as Donald Douglas-he isn't convinced that there's much of a connection. That is, until Douglas lays eyes on Ash and spits in his face. The team soon discovers that Douglas is the latest hitman hired by the Gatekeeper to kill Heat. But they still haven't figured out a way to stop the Gatekeeper and keep him contained under police supervision. And unlike Heat, he's willing to change history to settle the score.

The truth will set him free...In the aftermath of Black Magnet's demise, Ash and his friends are still adjusting to the ramifications its had on their lives. Now equipped with a glimpse of who he was before he woke up in the mine, Ash is reluctant to learn more about himself and looks for anything to keep his mind off of his past. When a student at Perry's new job at a nearby university winds up dead with no sign of attack other than sand scattered around the body, Ash finds the perfect distraction. Only, he can barely get answers on the first victim before another student is killed in the same way somewhere else on campus.While attempting to solve the murders that Ash knows was done by a super, he soon finds himself in the cross-hairs of the police detective leading the investigation. In order to stop the super truly responsible for the murders, Ash is faced with a choice: take the fall for the attacks or expose himself as Heat.

The city is heating up...Ash doesn't know who he is or how he ended up in an old coal mine outside the city. Even more terrifying, he discovers that he can throw fire from the palms of his hands when he saves Rachel from being mugged. She's a researcher, who develops a curiosity for his powers. With the help of Rachel and her coworker, Perry, Ash tries to piece together what happened to him. They soon encounter another super they call the Gatekeeper, who knows Ash's history and holds a grudge against him for it that he expects Ash to pay for. But the Gatekeeper seems to be more powerful than Ash's own moniker: Heat. With the Gatekeeper's apprentice, Black Magnet, terrorizing the city, Heat will have to fight his way to uncover answers about his past.However, those answers won't set him free.

Three wishes, a lifetime's worth of regrets.Leo's had some bad luck in his life. After his father walked out on him and his mom, they've been struggling to make end's meet, not to mention any hope of saving for college. But after finding the perfect replacement for a lost family heirloom for his Mother's Day gift, Leo discovers it's actually a magic genie lamp.Presented with three wishes that could give him everything he's ever wanted, Leo soon realizes that genies have justly earned their reputation for twisting wishes to other ends. What he thought he wanted isn't all it's cracked up to be. And now that he's already used all his wishes, there's no turning back.

Ethan still doesn't know what happened to his missing brother four months ago. No idea where he went, who took him, or where to find the answers. But then he discovers Fizz, a mutant whose acid spit can melt off a man's face, and he has a new lead.Meanwhile, Carlo Martelli is in a rage. His cousin's murder can only be a threat to his rule in the local mafia. The immediate suspect is the traitorous Michael Bello who ratted him out to the police. As the mob war erupts, Fuse finds himself in the cross-hairs, which may have been a trap for him all along.

Still reeling from the shocking murder of his girlfriend, Fuse managed to put Michael Bello behind bars. But only days later, the murderer strikes a plea deal and is out. Now, he's disappeared from public view. Ethan vows that justice will be done and starts the pursuit once again. But another fiend is stalking the streets of the city; someone who leaves his victims stripped of their very skin. So far there are two victims and Ethan fears that the next will be someone he cares about. And the clock is ticking.

Ethan Pierce is just another IT tech support rep at Wyatt Industries until he's zapped and infused with enough electricity that should kill him. But electrocution has just given Ethan terrifying abilities that no man has ever had. As he grapples with his strange new powers, he and his girlfriend Emma witness a drive-by shooting in the city of Olympia. They soon learn it was related to the Martelli crime family that run the city and don't like to leave loose ends.Fearful of the threat of the family, Ethan and Emma try to lay low, but it's no use. When Emma is attacked, Ethan uses his newfound lightning abilities to become Fuse, Olympia's "man in black."Fueled by vengeance and empowered by his new abilities, Ethan vows to find the man who attacked Emma and get justice. But will his powers be enough to save her?

The Harper witches have grown apart in the ten years since they defeated Toxanna and Will Brown. Each of them are on their own missions in the magical and the non-magical worlds. However, one by one, the witches are warned of a powerful force that has been unleashed that may also be linked to the death of Chris and Holly's baby daughter. As they fight for answers to this new threat on their own, they soon discover that they have no other options but to ask for help. Unfortunately, family isn't always the first choice for sanctuary. The Crescent Moon is a bundle of the short stories Blaze, Timeout, Blown Away, and Deception.