Barbara M. Hodges

Sarah Charles hadn’t slept for more than three hours without dying in the past two weeks. In her 28 years, she’d never even had a bad dream. Many friends called her a little Pollyanna. But even Sarah couldn’t find anything positive about being burned at the stake night after night....

Kelsey Cafferty has been dead for seven years, or so her sister Regan believes, until a stranger with a blue flame upon his cheek, identical to the one on her shoulder, shows up on her doorstep. The man, Peter Canterville, tells Regan that he is a mage from Daradawn....

Spirits talk to Dakota Lee. They have since she was twelve years old. Now an adult, she is happy with her life as the owner of, Sugar Babies, a small bakery in the quiet town of Santa Mesa, California....

The fiery crash of a private jet leaves a mystery in its wreckage. Alone in the devastation is a man, unhurt, who has no memory of the crash, himself, or his past....

Sherice Solomon, the serial killer known as Ice, is moving west, and Santa Maria, California, seems an enticing new hunting ground....