Hello, all! First off, I know a lot of you follow this blog for one reason: Scandal. And thank you so very much for that. Scandal is the first book I published to this site, and I know that many of you have been patiently (and impatiently in some cases, lol) awaiting the new, edited … More Scandal Update
The last thing I wanted after the night I’d had was to wake up first thing Sunday morning and drive back to the diner, but I’d long ago resigned myself to never getting what I wanted, and so into the Jeep I climbed at an ungodly five a.m. to go help open the place up. … More Clever is the Devil: Chapter Six
I was going to be late for work. For the first time in over six months. Oh, I had gotten home in plenty of time to shower, change and get there, and yet here I was, still in my soaking wet clothes, sitting on my couch, staring off into space. Thinking about the price of … More Clever is the Devil: Chapter Five
“Oh, Ruby, you’re just so hilarious,” Levi said, before throwing his head back as he laughed. I glanced to our right. We were just passing the bakery, and the patrons inside – many of them the old women we meant to set atwitter – heard his laughter and paused in their conversations to glance out … More Clever is the Devil: Chapter Four
My shift ended at four that night, just before the dinner crowd came in. I was still smiling to myself when Lucy, a diminutive white woman in her fifties with Dolly Parton hair and a froggy voice thanks to thirty years of smoking, replaced me. My good mood evaporated on the ride home. The AC … More Clever is the Devil: Chapter Three
I had the next day off. The chill of my nightmares still clung to my bones that morning, so I selected a new book – I had finished the one I’d been reading the night before – and took it outside with me. Summer had arrived a month early in Georgia this year, and now … More Clever is the Devil: Chapter Two
The cruelest gift you can give to a poor child is a library card. Momma took me to get mine when I was nine. It would have been kinder of her to ignore my education, to let me flounder in our underfunded, backwoods school system just the same as the twenty other kids in my … More Clever is the Devil: Chapter One
I was born in a thunderstorm. Momma woke up at the beginning of it, clutching her bulging torso, and by the end, there I was. “Came into this world screaming like the devil himself was after her,” she liked to say. “My first glimpse of my baby girl was during a flash of lightning. Everything … More Clever is the Devil: Prologue
You have got to be bloody kidding me, I thought to myself, staring at the scene in front of me with dawning horror. Queen Lucinda, the Evil Queen, the Black Witch of Mareille, the Demoness of the Dark Wood, a woman I had been convinced was a creature of smoke and shadow, of darkness and … More A Fairy’s Tale: Chapter Four
“I don’t understand what you’re so upset about,” I grumbled at Casey as I watched our three new-found friends march toward the river. “You were the one that thought we weren’t in our own time. Shouldn’t you be gloating over the fact that you were right?” “I don’t think I let myself process anything that’s … More Curse of the Cailleach: Chapter Eight
