Drifter Simone Lang has been on the run for a decade, searching for the promised land—a place of safety for people like her, people with unnatural powers, people called Variants. Her problem? She has no idea where to find it.
Bounty hunter Z Boukhari uses her speedster abilities to take down others of her kind for the courts. She suffers a burning need to find the woman responsible for her mother’s death ten years ago.
When Simone and Z run into each other, they both find the answers they need and more. One woman holds Simone’s salvation and Z’s vengeance. They connect the pieces together, one for hope and one for death as love and desire blossom between them. But which will succeed—the dreamer or the butcher?
Published by Bella Books in 2024!
It’s been a year since Joram Darkstone opened the doors between Earth and the fairy dimension, ushering in magic and mythological creatures—a year fraught with miracles and disasters as mankind struggles to live with forces long deemed imaginary.
Wild and youthful Gillie flees her English home to roam this new world. Her travels take her to Portland where she meets Lindsay, the girl with the blue hair. Gillie’s attraction is instant, but something magical has chased her across America and she shouldn’t stay long.
Formerly homeless, Lindsay’s devoted her life to helping street kids. Gillie’s appearance at the outreach center sparks a dread allure, one that urges her to overstep the bounds of social propriety. The question is moot after something ethereal targets both her and Gillie, burning down her apartment building.
With no safe haven, they are on a desperate scramble for answers, hopping freight trains to escape their pursuers. Who wants Gillie dead and why?
Published by Bella Books in 2017!
Finding a husband after the American Civil War isn’t easy.
When twenty-two-year-old Bostonian Clara Stapleton discovers the address of a likely bachelor in the wilds of the Alaskan bush, she throws caution to the wind and sends him a letter. Soon she’s on the adventure of her life, leaving the comfort and stability of a well-to-do family for a man she’s never met and a life of uncertainty.
Callie Glass isn’t happy with her brother Jasper’s proposal to a mail-order bride, though she knows it’s not her call. And when a tragic accident takes Jasper Glass’s life, Callie doesn’t hesitate to call off the wedding in a letter to Clara. Callie is soon surprised to find a strange woman settling into her cabin, a stranger who had never received news of Jasper’s demise.
While Callie insists that the other woman should return home, Clara digs in her heels. If Callie can live without a man in this isolated land, why can’t she? Both headstrong women struggle in the ashes of their dashed hopes and dreams, slowly coming together to forge an alliance for which neither is prepared.
Published by Bella Books in 2016!
Whiskey Davis, High Queen of the Sanguire, funnels her former street wiles into diplomatic channels and alliances with governments as she consolidates her growing power with the help of Margaurethe O’Toole and Valmont. Her maturing leadership is the only hope for peace among the Sanguire.
But European partisans seek retribution for an ancient injustice perpetrated by Whiskey’s previous incarnation. One will stop at nothing to see her downfall. Another views her as a stepping stone to his own glorious future.
Sanguire pursue their long lives imbibing both blood and power. Misadventure and tragedy befall Whiskey, causing the aching loss of yet another of her beloved people. She falls headlong into a plot of betrayal and death. Does she have a breaking point? All who have wondered will soon have their answer.
The mesmerizing saga of the Sanguire from D Jordan Redhawk follows the bloody balance of an ancient conflict between undying races.
Published by Bella Books in 2015!
As an adult, all Joram Darkstone wants is to be out from under the thumb of her adoptive guardian and to play music with her band. Life as an orphan is firmly behind her. When she meets the mesmerizing Naomi after a show, her overt obsession with the other woman baffles her friends but somehow feels right.
Naomi Kostopoulos grew up in the Carpathian Mountains, trained to be sensitive to magic and burdened with a heavy purpose: Guard the dimensional door at any cost when the time comes. Now living in Southern California, a chance meeting with a musician opens up dangerous possibilities. Joram may be a stranger, but her voice echoes from Naomi’s childhood dreams.
As the signs of magical cataclysm swirl around them, Joram and Naomi are bound inexplicably closer by love… And destiny.
Two women on opposing sides of the battle between good and evil, both pawns in a game they don’t fully comprehend…
Published by Bella Books in 2015!
Though desperate for money for vital repairs and fuel, there are jobs that Captain Elsibet Ulfarsdottir of Freya’s Tears won’t do. Smugglers of all kinds dangle big rewards, and her unpaid crew—including her lover Bennie Takahashi—urge her to take them.
Not sure how her fortunes as a merchant spaceship captain have driven her to consider working for slavers and biomed thugs, Els grabs the only deal that looks legit. Her lover and crew are happy even though Els remains uneasy.
Truth and lies can crack wide open in the cold runs between space ports. Betrayed and hunted—and discovering she’s now party to an unspeakable atrocity—Els finds her command under siege. The only person she might go to for aid is gunner Kasli Holt, but pity the fool who forgets that trust and profit never mix.
Published by Bella Books in 2014!
The Lichii Ba’Cho—the Red Wolves tribe—defend what is theirs in a world where corporations rule and technology is only available to the rich. After weeks of intermittent firefights with the Aryan Brotherhood and dodging the persistent attacks of the Azteca, Dusky Holt and her clan intervene in a skirmish where a lone woman appears to be the survivor.
Sam Elias thought she knew what she was getting into when she agreed to be a courier for Canadian GovMin into the United States. With data loaded safely into her cerebral processor, all is well until her escort is ambushed. The arrival of Dusky Holt and her Ba’Cho saves her life…for a few more hours.
The data Sam holds in her head is wanted by powerful forces who will kill anyone in their way. Dusky knows Sam is a danger to her people—and her peace of mind. With a world in turmoil, and her people at risk of dying out, the desires of her heart should not matter. But they do…
Published by Bella Books in 2014!
Scotch Fuller has already run the Iditarod three times and is preparing for a fourth attempt. Her single-minded focus on the rigors of training allows her to forget the shocking loss of her lover in a tragedy for which she blames herself.
The only race Lainey Hughes runs is away from her past and into the bottom of a bottle. After a devastating injury in a war zone, she’s continued her photojournalist career in the natural beauty and warmth of Uganda. A trip to Alaska to cover dog sledding is not what she wants, but the lure of a paying gig proves too tempting.
Lainey trusts her camera and Scotch trusts her dogs—and neither cares much what the other thinks…not at first.
Published by Bella Books in 2013!
Ragged, starving refugees want to settle in Lindsay Crossing. In a world waking up from a devastating plague, control of resources—and people—is the key to survival. Marissa Loomis has grown used to fighting for herself and her family. The newcomers are a threat, but they can’t be left to die.
As the fragile society plans to grow by scavenging the deserted cities, newcomer Gwen finds herself torn between the man who saved her from starvation and the compelling woman who represents reason and power in what’s left of her world.
But what can Gwen make of the enforced secrecy about Loomis’s past, and the nightmares that erupt every night? Is there something worse than plague that has driven Loomis to the edge? Love, revenge, cruelty and honor swirl through this page-turning novel from the author of The Sanguire Series.
Published by Bella Books in 2013!
Find allies in old enemies. Embrace a familiar, forgotten love. Recognize who you are—and who you aren’t. These are the tasks laid out before Whiskey as she struggles to accept that she is the lost Queen Elisibet.
An assassin, whose employers have no need of a new High Queen, is dispatched by a competing ruling council. Blood will be spilled in the streets of Seattle as all the players are forced to line up on one or the other side of the battlefield.
Hunted and haunted, Whiskey cannot deny her growing power and the call of her destiny. Only a short time ago the only thing truly hers was her name—must she give that up as well to assume her place in Sanguire history?
The mesmerizing Sanguire trilogy from D Jordan Redhawk unveils the bloody balance of an ancient conflict between undying races.
Published by Bella Books in 2012!
The completion of the Strange Path on the night streets of Seattle has made Whiskey a formidable Sanguire. As she embraces her rising power she equally pushes away the whispers of prophecy. Some believe that Whiskey is the reincarnation of their lost Queen Elisibet.
Whiskey might come to believe it—she dreams through Elisibet’s eyes. Those dreams are dominated by the cruel and terrible Valmont, former friend and ally of the lost queen, and also Elisibet’s assassin. Whiskey grew up on the streets. She is no fool. She knows if she were Valmont, she’d be looking to silence the upstart who threatens her power and gives hope to her enemies.
Battle lines are being drawn. In spite of all that she has learned and the undoubted power she can wield, Whiskey must decide if she wants any part of a Sanguire civil war.
Published by Bella Books in 2012!
A young woman surviving in Seattle’s murky night world suddenly has new friends. When the pack of young punks saves her from a beating and worse, Whiskey is willing to throw in with them—for a night or two. The high-living rich kids are eager to lavish money, housing, parties and delightful intimacies on her. They say they want nothing in return.
Hardened by the brutal streets, Whiskey knows nothing is free. More than ever she clings to her motto: Take more than you give. But when you have nothing, anything can be tempting.
It all could be a dream come true, except for the nightmares that await her if Whiskey chooses to walk the Strange Path.
Published by Bella Books in 2012!
Wi Ile Anpo holds a special position in her Lakota tribe—she is two-souled, born wicakte. Her visions of a life intertwined with the sacred white buffalo and a pale-skinned woman with yellow hair are mystifying and ultimately painful, but fate does not play games. She is a warrior and must live out her destiny.
Thrust into a terrifying foreign culture where she struggles to survive, Kathleen McGlashan Stevens has adapted from Ireland to the Ohio frontier. As first she can only see savagery and madness, but she finds an anchor in the warrior Anpo, then understanding…and then more than she could have ever imagined. But Anpo holds herself aloof, as if there is a secret Kate will never understand and a future neither of them will live to see.
Published by Bella Books!