Maria E Schneider

Shadow is stuck In Between...dead, but not gone. Martin insists she isn't dead and doesn't belong here, but as far as she can tell, the trip was a one-way ticket. She can't even remember her real name or how she ended up here.In Between is dangerous enough without wasting time peering through the weave at the living and dreaming of what might have been. Of course, if Adriel, the witch, and Lynx, the cat, insist on trying to help her, she can hardly refuse to meet them at the edge. But if magic can't locate her living body, how can one stubborn cat achieve the impossible? Does enough magic really exist in the world to bring her back over?

Sedona happily turns down Steve Huntington's latest undercover project when Mark gets her a fantastic job testing advanced cell phones. But if the dead body of her co-worker is any indication, the new job may not prove to be any safer than Huntington's covert assignments.Sedona finds herself knee-deep in dirt and tangled in clues that unravel faster than the baby bib she is supposed to be sewing for her niece. Her parents are in town to visit the new baby, and Mark has decided it's time for Sedona to meet his mother. Can she somehow endure family interferences and stay alive long enough to solve the case?

A contemporary Western tale of survival with the heart of James Herriot's "All Creatures Great and Small" and the thriller ride of Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men."Which is worse, the guns of New York or the dangerous desert of New Mexico?In 1976, the best a black kid in Harlem can hope for is to work for the mob or pick up extra bucks as an informer. It may be too late for Rand to get out, but that won't stop him from trying to save his brother, Bo. When strangers appear on the streets of Harlem, Rand hatches a crazy plan to use them to send Bo to a place that is so desolate and removed from Harlem that no one will dare follow him. Once there, all Bo has to do is find a way to stay alive.Christina had no choice when she helped rescue Bo by hiding him deep in the desert. But can she lead both the mafia and the FBI away permanently? Or will her growing attraction to Warren, the FBI agent, ruin everything?Soul of the Desert was shortlisted in the CWA's Dagger Debut competition in 2003.

When is a blessing a curse? What if you curse a blessing? Adriel needs the answers, and quickly, because one spell will keep vampires at bay and the other will set something far worse free. Vamps aren't her only problem, either. Zandy, the wily coyote, is back in town, and he's out for blood. Someone had better find him fast because the body count is rising.With White Feather to help, Adriel expects life to get easier, but the relationship comes with new responsibilities and unpleasant surprises that put a price on friendship. This time, Adriel might just need more than solid ground beneath her feet and the wind at her back in order to survive.

Steve Huntington had a way of offering jobs that were too good to be true. Mark Huntington made offers too good to turn down. Sedona had a habit of being caught in the middle; somewhere in the proximity of bad guys with guns and family members she was trying to avoid.Good thing the latest case involved a hospital. Then again, not all hospital personnel were interested in the lasting health of the patients...or that of their co-workers.Executive Sick Days is book three in the Sedona O'Hala series. Book one is: Executive Lunch. Book two is: Executive Retention.

After solving one case of corporate crime, Sedona expected to get her peaceful life back. Problem: She is still a manager at Strandfrost, and there is still rampant jealousy over her promotion. Is the danger of being railroaded by her not-so-illustrious colleagues worse than taking a new undercover job from Steve Huntington?Crooks are coming out of the woodwork and family troubles are stewing. Sedona needs to keep her sanity intact, piece together mismatched clues and dodge more than one stray bullet. If she can manage all of that, maybe she'll have time to figure out whether her love life stands a chance.

Adriel should have known that with a werewolf, it never stopped with just one body. She would have gone to the police after witnessing Dolores' death, but she wasn't certain the killer she saw was responsible for the other murders. Besides, the police didn't believe in werewolves, and they weren't going to believe she was a witch either so what could she tell them?She kept her eyes and ears open while she tried to help her latest client escape the clutches of a voodoo witch, but things went from bad to worse when more bodies turned up. She was greatly relieved when she met White Feather, an undercover cop. Unfortunately, he wasn't convinced she was innocent of all wrong-doing.It was going to take every spell she knew and a few she hadn't tried to solve the murders and stay alive.

An Indiana Jones-style caper across the desert of New Mexico; high-tech gadgets, a mystery and a romance. Alexia is trying to protect Haven's most valuable asset. Going undercover and stealing the crystals to prove it can be done seemed like a great idea--until a real thief showed up. Bait and switch is suddenly a dangerous game of cat and mouse.Confessing her part in removing the crystals might aid Chris, the gutsy new security chief, but it would cost Alexia her job and her freedom. Of course, if she keeps standing in the way of the real thief, it will cost her a whole lot more.Maria Schneider has published stories in Coyote Wild Magazine, TownDrunkMag.com and "Over My Dead Body."

Sedona is given the opportunity of a lifetime: play an up-and-coming executive with all the trappings of wealth with someone else footing the bill. The catch: find out who is stealing company funds before the criminals find out that their program is being debugged.Sedona runs into danger, the corporate glass ceiling, and an occasional chance at romance in her quest to figure out who is stealing money from Strandfrost. Unfortunately, Sedona is better at writing computer code than deciphering political vitriol, and if she doesn't find a way to wade through the red tape and red herrings, she could lose both her job and her quarry