

Flames
Val St. Crowe
Fantasy / Science Fiction
Clarke Gannon and Naelen Spencer prepare for the final showdown with Ronan Cunningham, the vampire intent on assembling nine powerful objects to harness their malevolent power. But first they've got to find the bastard.Which would be easier if Naelen's presence wasn't making Clarke physically ill. After finding out Naelen is mated to another dragon, Clarke is destroyed and jealous. Naelen claims he can fight the mating bond and only wants Clarke. That's all well and good, except for the fact that no one fights the bond.But hunting Cunningham is as good a distraction as any. They track him to the mysterious Order of Rasmossen and Wolffe, only to get themselves locked in a dungeon.Up side? They've found Cunningham. He's a prisoner too, and he wants to team up. He says that if they work together, they can get free of the Order, and he'll help them use the magical objects to break the mating bond.Clarke knows they can't trust Cunningham. The mating bond can't be broken. But how can...
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Witch Slap
Val St. Crowe
Fantasy / Science Fiction
Welcome to Ravenridge College.Get drunk. Make stupid decisions. And kick serious interdimensional butt.Petra Brightshade was under the impression that college meant going to, like, classes. But she was recruited to this "prestigious mage college" because she's something called a primal. Her innate magic is uniquely suited to fighting monstrous creatures from another dimension. Those creatures are pouring through a breach in the fabric of the universe right into the college's library.Petra would rather carve the word "primal" into her own stomach than fight those freaking creatures. She's been fighting them her whole life, and they haunt her nightmares.But that hot gargoyle that recruited her said that she was pretty much the only hope to save the world. And he's intriguingly straight-laced. She can't help but want to loosen him up a bit. And it's true that the other primals seem to subscribe to the philosophy, "Fight hard. Party harder."So,...
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Witch, Please
Val St. Crowe
Fantasy / Science Fiction
Hello, Square One. So nice to see you again.To save Logan, Petra Brightshade had to reopen the breaches she just freaking closed. Now, she and her fellow primals are right back where they started.And it's worse, because the interdimensional monsters are now in attack mode. They've got a plan to take over our entire world, and they're not going to stop until they succeed.Or until Petra and the others stop them. Which they will do. Come hell or high water or the closing of their favorite bar—Wait. What?Barley and Bells is indefinitely closed?It may be their darkest hour yet.
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The Toil and Trouble Trilogy, Book One
Val St. Crowe
Fantasy / Science Fiction
The daughter of a magical mob boss fights her father's use of magically controlled zombies to take over the city, while falling for someone who is becoming a zombie himself.The jettatori are male witches. They make and sell illegal magical charms. Their underground network controls the city, and it’s boys’ club—no women allowed.Eighteen-year-old Olivia Calabrese is tough as nails. She not only wants in, she wants to be boss.She’s got the pedigree. Her father ran the crew until he was arrested and locked up.She’s got a secret weapon. Brice Ventresca—super powerful, super gorgeous.Now all she has to do is survive the competition against her cousin and scrabble her way to the top.Except her cousin’s not playing fair. He whispers something to her that throws her off track. Says that her dead mother wasn’t killed by stray bullets from the police, like she thought. It was a hit, one ordered by her father.Now Olivia’s determined to find out the truth.And gorgeous Brice? Well, he’s contracted a magical virus that makes him turn into a rage-filled monster every night at midnight.
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Witch Session
Val St. Crowe
Fantasy / Science Fiction
Petra Brightshade manages to get the human part of her restored. Awesome. If only everything else didn't go to hell at the same time. Apparently, she's a magnet for angry psychos. Go figure.Chased out of her own city and on the run, Petra's got to make a choice. One, do a ritual to undo her spell, take away her humanity and restore her invulnerability, thereby rendering the aforementioned angry psycho's quest to kill her null and void. Which sounds great and all, except for it means watching the future she wants with her boyfriend Logan Gray go up in smoke.Or two, do nothing and keep fighting against an adversary she can't kill.
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Dancing Days
Val St. Crowe
Fantasy / Science Fiction
A young muse searches to discover who is draining energy from her new found home, the whimsical land of Helicon, and begins to suspect her childhood sweetheart.If Hogwarts was more like Woodstock, and Voldemort was your childhood sweetheart turned abusive boyfriend... As long as Nora Sparrow can remember, Owen has protected her. He’s been there through years of miserable foster homes and snobby mean girls, always whispering to her that she doesn’t belong here. Telling her that this is the mundane world, and someday, he’ll get them back to Helicon, the world of the muses. The world where they belong.But Nora’s fifteen years old, and she isn’t sure she quite believes it anymore. When he begs her to try another ritual to open the dimensions, she agrees mostly to humor him. Owen’s rituals never work.But this one does, and Nora is flung into the whimsical, bohemian land of Helicon, where she’s expected to do nothing more than create and inspire. With the help of her new muse friends, Nora sets out to discover who is creating holes in the fabric of Helicon and draining away the muses’ energy.Everything would be perfect, if only Owen’s protectiveness wasn’t starting to seem so...obsessive.
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Witch and Moan
Val St. Crowe
Fantasy / Science Fiction
Petra Brightshade gets captured and then wakes up on a circus train in a car with some elephants, with a dampener on her wrist that keeps her from using her primal magic.It's not exactly her favorite day ever.When she finds out she's been captured because her blood is the only thing that can reopen the breaches she just closed, she knows she's got to escape, find the others, and figure out some way to stop her captors once and for all.No way is she reopening the breaches. No effing way.
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