The Eighth Potion

Magical Midlife Challenge

The signs are unmistakable, Momar isn't just targeting Austin's brother.
When one of Momar's grunts breaks into Austin's territory looking to grab Jessie for questioning, Jessie and her crew realize they are under fire. In order to protect themselves, it becomes obvious they need backup.
Thankfully, the basajaun's people have invited Jessie and her crew into the basajaunak lands. This is their golden opportunity to seek their help.
The problem is, a host of mages and mercenaries are following them. Once they take Jessie this time it won't be just for questioning, and she won't be coming back.
To omit this detail to the basajaunak would result in punishment. And everyone knows "punishment" with basajaunak is synonymous with an unmarked grave. But to tell them would get their visit canceled and force them to face the threat alone. Either way could mean certain death.
Decisions, decisions.
Welcome back to O'Briens, where the only certainty is that nothing is normal.
Publication Date: 12/12/2022
Run for Your Midlife

- It's a Wonderful Midlife Crisis
- Whose Midlife Crisis Is It Anyway?
- A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis
- My Midlife Crisis, My Rules
- You Light Up My Midlife Crisis
- It's a Matter of Midlife and Death
- The Facts Of Midlife
- It's A Hard-Knock Midlife
- Run for Your Midlife
- It's a Hell of a Midlife
- A Leaner Meaner Midlife
- Having the Time of My Midlife
- Someone Save My Midlife Tonight
Lately, my life has been a big, fat, hairy midlife crisis. I could really go for a boring day or three.
Apparently, there’s no rest for the over-forty crowd.
Yes, I have fabulous friends.
Yes, I have a beautiful baby.
Yes, the ghosts are coming back home.
Yes, I’m in love with the Grim Reaper.
However, that sexy Demon has got some major ’splainin’ to do…like his possible involvement in the shocking kidnapping of my worst and most deadly enemy.
With a drag queen and an ice queen as my back up, we’re going to sashay away into the Darkness to find the truth and turn a wrong into a right.
Although, I’m learning fast that black and white are often clouded with of shades of gray.
Whatever. I’m putting on my rose colored glasses and going for it. I plan to live midlife in peace… not pieces.
Good luck to me.
Publication Date: 03/20/2023
Wind with a Chance of Wolfsbane

A business trip to Romania forever changed Jonathan Harker's life, forcing him to share his body with an animal. The immortal wolf-shifter has done his best to come to terms with that ill-fated night long ago. He's spent every day since then fighting against evil and trying to protect innocents, giving up on having the life he'd once dreamed of. But Fate has something more in store for Jonathan. It simply requires him to open his mind and his heart to love, defeat an old enemy, and convince the woman he desires that she's his fated mate and that they're destined to be together. What could possibly go wrong?
Publication Date: 05/29/2023
The Accidental Queen
Sparrow “Ro” Meadowcroft is about to get the promotion she’s always dreamed of – curator of the museum where she works. She loves old things and the history that surrounds them, so when a patron leaves some items to the museum, Ro is eager to dig in.
The sword in the stone that comes with those items is clearly a joke. A well-made but obvious replica meant to be a conversation starter. Why anyone would think that belonged in the museum is beyond her, but she can’t resist taking a crack at it and finding out if she’s the chosen one.
And as it turns out…she is.
Publication Date: 09/20/2022
Midlife Soul Hunter

You’d think I’d already been in hell, married to my ex. But just this one time, you’d be wrong.
Surprise, surprise, the Dark Council has been plotting to force my hand. They know that I love Crash. Yes, I said the L word.
And they know I’d do anything to bring him back from hell—even though it means it puts both our souls into great danger. And puts my knees into running mode. (Cue the Advil.)
Now, I’m headed straight into a hell that is straight out of a Greek Odyssey.
Cerberus, the Ferryman, and Hades himself better watch their backs, because even they won’t stop me and Feish from getting to Crash and finding a way to bring him home.
One way or another, I’m going to get my blacksmith back in arms.
And more preferably, finally in my bed.
Publication Date: 03/23/2023
Thunder with a Chance of Lovestruck

When Detective Drest Bright meets his newest charge, sparks literally fly. There is no denying the instant attraction he feels for Rachael Frankenstein. But she’s off-limits, and he knows as much. Her family has been a thorn in the side of the Nightshade Fae Hunters for over a hundred years, and they aren’t about to let him run off into the sunset with her without a fight. But if it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight they’ll get because this lovestruck Fae will do anything he can to be with his mate again.
Publication Date: 10/31/2022
The Edge of Evil

What happens in Vegas, slays in Vegas.
With a show to produce and my career as an actress on the line, I really don’t have time to die—especially violently. However, while that might not be on my agenda, it seems to be on other’s.
Awesome.
Instead of acting in my latest endeavor, I’m playing the real-life role of Reluctant Demon Who Has To Save The World—or at the very least, the hot hero.
Fine. I’m always up for a plot twist or a re-write.
Scene One— Save Abaddon from the evil clutches of the hideous Pandora.
Scene Two — Don’t die.
Scene Three — Avoid Pandora like the plague. I understand she has an evil box…
Scene Four — Do not die.
Scene Five — Possibly meet my mom, the woman who abandoned me as a baby.
Scene Six — Do Not Freaking Die.
Scene Seven — Go back to my non-deadly life and win a damn Emmy for Ass The World Turns.
Even though I’m living on the edge of evil, half insanity, half upheaval, I’m a pro and the show must go on.
As the saying goes, a bad dress rehearsal means I don’t get dismembered on opening night. Or something like that.
It’s showtime, folks.
Publication Date: 12/12/22
As The Underworld Turns

What does a forty-year-old former child star do when she finds out she’s a Demon?
A sitcom, of course.
Age is just a number unless you’re an actress of a certain age trying to make a comeback in La La Land. Back in the day, I was the child star of the hit show Camp Bites. Today, I’m still living it down.
After a disastrous soap opera audition and getting fired from a TV show for not having a bodacious enough backside, one would think I’d be smart enough to go into real estate.
Nope.
Just found out from the rudest, meanest, and hottest guy alive that I’m a Demon. The jerk, also a Demon, goes by the name Abaddon—Abe to his friends.
I call him Dick.
He’s come from the Underworld to protect me—insert laugh track—since there’s a bounty on my head. Dick is not a welcome addition to my midlife madness. However, he won’t go away, and now, he’s my new boss.
Fine. Whatever. All I ever wanted to do in my life was pretend. I can pretend to get along with Dick. I can pretend that I’m not wildly attracted to him. Not sure I can pretend I’m human anymore, or that a supernatural assassin isn’t trying to cancel me, but I’m going to fake it until I make it. Or I get killed.
As the Underworld turns upside down, so have the days of my life.
Publication Date: 07/11/2022
It’s A Hard-Knock Midlife

- It's a Wonderful Midlife Crisis
- Whose Midlife Crisis Is It Anyway?
- A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis
- My Midlife Crisis, My Rules
- You Light Up My Midlife Crisis
- It's a Matter of Midlife and Death
- The Facts Of Midlife
- It's A Hard-Knock Midlife
- Run for Your Midlife
- It's a Hell of a Midlife
- A Leaner Meaner Midlife
- Having the Time of My Midlife
- Someone Save My Midlife Tonight
Midlife is supposed to be messy, but this is a full-on catastrophic crisis.
Just when I thought life might be getting back to normal—normal being a relative word—I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Marriage proposal from the Grim Reaper? Yes.
Beautiful healthy baby? Yes.
Friends and family safe? Yes.
Ghost of my worst enemy sitting on my front porch? OMG. Yep.
With the ghostly world imploding around me, I’m going to need more than superglue to repair it.
Question? Am I willing to do what has to be done?
Answer? I’m about to find out.
To say forty has been an eventful year is an understatement.
On the contrary, it’s turning out to be a seriously hard-knock midlife.
Publication Date: 10/17/22