Lilac Moon Books: 36 books

The air on Colfax Avenue roils with the thick smell of sweet half-burnt gas coming off the finned behemoths rolling along this asphalt river. It carries the flotsam and jetsam of America toward a mythical land of dreams on the far side of the mountains to the west. Unlike everyone else, Mike...

America in the 1890s is a land of dreams for anyone brave enough¾and strong enough¾to make them come true. After Francie Wolcott’s parents die, leaving her and her genius younger brother, Rooney, penniless, she intends to tour the world with the fortunetelling automaton he built. But first...

Chuck Perlman is the world's first recreated Neanderthal. Nearly adult, he is the prize in a corporate struggle to own what Chuck represents. He must find a place in the world of Homo Sapiens, a world he doesn't fit into, often doesn't understand, and discover what he can offer that will give him a place and a future in it.

When the earthquake destroys the archaeological temple site Melinda oversees, she has more to deal with than a creepy volunteer enamored of her who is always offering her tea. Then the ground breaks open under her feet and she falls through, finding herself in an earlier goddess' temple, in the middle...

Davis Bessinton's life changed the day lightning struck him. His company, already teetering on the edge, fails when he loses the expertise he used to have, and his wife leaves him, unable to cope with his new compulsion to create art. When Davis finds an intruder rifling through his art, the man cuts...

Brice Sebastian is a half-breed riding his Iron Horse across the White Man’s West stringing telegraph wire. He knows these things: copper wire shouldn’t hum or tingle before it’s live. It shouldn’t open a door to a new land full of fantastic beasts, either. But it does, and that opens up a dangerous new door onto his life.

After Francie Wolcott’s parents die in a carriage crash, leaving her and her genius younger brother, Rooney, penniless, she intends to tour the world with the fortunetelling automaton he built. But first she must bring Rooney to their uncle in San Francisco, where he will have a place to happily...

A modern version of Beauty and the Beast with a Hispanic twist.

When Megan moves into her new house, things begin to disappear. Weird things like socks, and decorative pins, and a cheap class ring. Things she just saw recently and don't have a lot of value, but she misses them all the same. She can't decide whether to blame it on her cheating ex or a klepto ghost....

Brice Sebastian, a half breed, runs wire for Western Union across the great plains, open to white settlement since the Indians are moving down the Trail of Tears in this alternate history 19th Century America. An odd interaction between the solder and a new spool of copper wire creates a door into a world of great creatures. He decides such a land has promise that can't be ignored.

Sometimes relationships should die.  Sometimes boyfriends should go away¾and stay that way.  And sometimes a sharp ax makes a better best friend than any diamond.

Cassie Robertson reads Tarot. But she might as well be a real life Cassandra for all that her clients pay attention to her readings. Quitting seems like a reasonable path. But a series of horrifying visions forces her to muster the courage to follow another path.

Misha Millik, a hearth witch brought to Chisolm Keep by the headmaster, feels out of her depth at this magic school for the children of established magicians. Branded a misfit by the wealthy students, she finds a friend in a stray cat who can talk to her. Desperately unhappy and completely inept at...

When Melinda Kaibell takes a farewell tour through the Cretan archaeological dig where she’s been volunteering, she finds herself face to face with the Bronze Age goddess, Askar. Askar tells Melinda that she has a little side job for her. “Carry a message to My people," she says, "tell...