Title: Into the Mystic
Series: Volume One
Author: Brooklyn Ray. J.C. Long,
Kara Race-Moore, Samantha Kate, Nicole Field, J.P. Jackson, Caitlin Ricci, L.J.
Hamlin, Kayla Bashe, Charli Coty, Tay LaRoi
Publisher: NineStar
Press
Release Date: 7/31/17
Heat Level: 3 - Some Sex
Pairing: Female/Female
Length: 101100
Genre: Paranormal, paranormal,
witches, werewolves, lesbian, bisexual, mermaids, fae, zombies, shifters
Synopsis
Eleven
lesbian/bisexual paranormal short stories…
Reborn
by Brooklyn Ray – Dark magic, mystical bloodlines, a living forest, and two
women fighting to reclaim a love they lost.
Zero
Hour by J.C. Long – She can’t outrun the full moon.
Dove
in the Window by Kara Race-Moore – As if the Great Depression wasn’t bad
enough, Cissy’s first love is back from the dead.
Bottom
of the River by Samantha Kate – The demon isn’t always the monster.
If
You Want to Walk by Nicole Field – Follow Chess into the Underneath and meet
the strange creatures she finds there.
A
Tended Garden by J.P. Jackson – Immortality or humanity—which one will win out
in the end?
Romancing
the Healer by Caitlin Ricci – In a deadly snowstorm a werewolf needs all the
help she can get, and the werebear coming to her aid is more than she appears
to be.
Midnight
Kisses by L.J. Hamlin – A local witch, a new-to-town werewolf, and a mystery to
be solved.
Like
a Bell through the Night by Kayla Bashe – Guarding a faerie princess? All in a
day’s work for a werewolf bodyguard. Avoiding falling in love with said
princess? The hardest mission of Jaffa’s life.
The
Imp in the Rock by Charli Coty – The cure for a bad breakup might be magic.
Smile
Like You Mean It by Tay LaRoi – Ingrid meets a terrifying Japanese legend, but
the stories are all wrong.
Excerpt
Reborn
by Brooklyn Ray
Thalia
Darbonne left Port Lewis three years ago with no intention of returning.
Despite being a powerful witch, she’s now known as a deserter – an outcast in
the magical society. But after her mother’s untimely death, Thalia is called
back to her hometown in order to fulfill her duty as matriarch, and take the
place as head witch of the Darbonne Clan.
Being
back home isn’t easy, especially when Thalia is confronted by a ghost from her
past, the beautiful, dangerous necromancer, Jordan Wolfe.
As
Thalia tries to cope with the loss of her mother, she’s also faced with her
feelings for Jordan, the responsibility of becoming matriarch, and the strange,
dark magic lingering between her and her first love. Thalia and Jordan fight
through three years of confusion in the forest they grew up in, where trees
whisper, the night sky bleeds, and sigils are carved into flesh.
Zero
Hour by J.C. Long
After
being bitten by her long-time girlfriend Robbin in werewolf form, Simone does
the only thing she can think to do—she gets in her car and drives as far away
as she can. As the first full moon since she was bitten approaches, Simone is
faced with a difficult choice: does she trust Robbin, who wishes to guide her
through her first transformation, after being hurt by her? And more
importantly, with the full moon drawing near, does she really have a choice?
Dove
in the Window by Kara Race-Moore
In
1930’s Appalachia, Cissy McGurk is still mourning the death of Pearl, her first
love. However, Pearl shows up one night and crawls into bed with her, bemoaning
that she can’t sleep. More and more people from the local cemetery are crawling
from their graves because something won’t let them rest. Cissy has to find out
how to fix it, even if that means asking Death himself for advice.
Bottom
of the River by Samantha Kate
Anja
Bauer is the daughter of rich but cruel parents who care little about her happiness.
Despite her revulsion toward men, they plan to marry her off to a faraway
suitor. But Anja’s discovers a contract they signed with the demon they’d
warned her about, and she learns the true extent of their wickedness and the
reality of the demon.
If
You Want to Walk by Nicole Field
Chess
runs into the world of the Fae to try to escape her depression, only to find it
comes there with her. When she finds her way back, she knows she will have to
leave many things behind. Is leaving worth that price?
A
Tended Garden by J.P Jackson
Alyssa
is a natural witch whose thoughts have a way of coming true. Her coven is the
only one around—well, the only one she’ll practice her beliefs with – but her
high priestess, Rachel, is particularly difficult to please.
Rachel
has a secret she hasn’t told anyone in her coven—one that her ancestral witches
before her kept from their covens too. If Rachel’s to hold on to her traditions
and the immortality she’s been promised, she’ll have to keep the women in her
coven returning to the sacred grove, and that includes Alyssa.
But
secrets have a way of being revealed, and when Alyssa stumbles across Rachel’s
violent and horrifying history with the trees of the grove, the pact between
the sacred grove and Rachel’s family may have a price too steep to pay.
Romancing
the Healer by Caitlin Ricci
When
she takes too long to come back to her pack, Aria is caught up in a snowstorm.
To make matters worse, she’s twisted her ankle while running. Hurt, freezing,
and alone, her best chance for survival is to stay under an evergreen until the
storm clears then try to limp back to her pack. Zoe has a better idea. She’s a
healer without a pack to call her own, although she’s desperate for the kind of
family Aria has with hers. Being trans, Zoe has never felt all that welcome
with other shifters, but Aria promises to show her that there is at least one
pack who would gladly have her. All they have to do is wait out the storm
together.
Midnight
Kisses by L.J. Hamlin
A
night out in a bar before a big council meeting to relax seems like a good
idea, talking to the cute werewolf at the bar seems like a better idea. But
when they meet again will sparks get in the way.
Like
a Bell through the Night by Kayla Bashe
Rhiannon,
faerie princess in exile, has been on the run for her entire life. Hunted by
her most dangerous enemy yet, she turns to her childhood crush for help:
immortal, smolderingly sexy werewolf Jaffa Volkovitch.
Jaffa’s
scars and secrets haunt her, and she doesn’t let anyone get close. She
remembers Rhiannon as an optimistic child… not an alluring, resilient young
woman whose every touch awakens forgotten feelings. Keeping up her emotional
barriers could mean breaking Rhiannon’s heart. What will Jaffa decide?
The
Imp in the Rock by Charli Coty
Wendi
Tamura turns to her favorite beach to calm her jangled nerves after she’s
dumped by her cheating boyfriend. The water near her home on the Oregon Coast
is never warm, and no place for a nude woman, so when one appears before her
seemingly by magic, Wendi offers her help. It’s been years since she’s been
with a woman, but when the beautiful Hanako reveals her true nature, Wendi
doesn’t let either detail keep her from the most magical and steamy night she’s
ever had.
Smile
Like You Mean It by Tay LaRoi
Ingrid
Smith, a young American living in Sendai, meets the cursed Slit-Mouthed Woman
of Japanese folklore and does her best to rid herself of the woman. When a
conflict reveals that Ayame isn’t as terrible as her legend says, she’s
embarrassed by the truth and vows to haunt Ingrid until they can figure out how
to lift the curse. For weeks Ingrid tries to lift Ayame’s curse, but with each
passing day, she’s not sure she wants to.
Exclusive Excerpt
If You Want to Walk by Nicole Field
Chess walked down streets far darker than she was used to. Outside, it looked like
twilight, almost, except that where she was from, twilight had a finite end.
This evening, she had been stuck in this half-lit world of the Fae as long as
she’d been walking, and she’d been walking awhile.
This
was the second time in two days she’d found and then walked these streets. They
looked a little more familiar for that, but the lack of light was still
disconcerting. It left her with an impression of eyes peeking out of dark
corners, of sharp-clawed things creeping behind her. She didn’t know how. Some
deep recess of her soul told her they would jump out to attack her if she ever
gave in and turned to look around.
It
was only her own force of will that had kept them from jumping out at her
already.
On
this excursion, only one thing was different from the last: the fact she
instinctively knew she was being followed. Chess tried not to focus on that. If
she did, she’d lose the last of her ability to navigate this landscape.
Coming
to the end of the street, she wondered if there was actually more than one
street in this place, or whether it was all just an illusion. Once she got to
the end of it, did it just start up again?
Except,
her feet would not take her another step forward. Chess tried, but the trying
only did more to distress her. It was like in those dreams where she tried to
take a step forward, but couldn’t, so she lifted her arms to fly instead. Chess
wondered whether everyone had those dreams, or whether having those dreams had been
a precursor to her coming here.
Her
arms didn’t allow her to fly away now. As alien as this world was, it still
remained too real to allow for that kind of fissure. A muted whimper passed her
lips and, once again, she found herself regretting her decision to navigate
this landscape on her own.
And
then, one of them stepped out from their hiding place and strode over to her.
Whatever held her in place did not hold them. For a moment, Chess could only
stare in shock as they came within striking distance. Reaching out, they
grabbed her by the upper arms so she had no choice but to look into their eyes.
Their slanted, iridescent eyes that seemed made up of every colour found in an
oil stain on earth.
Chess’s
only other option was to look at their impossibly well-shaped chest, the only
indication Chess had that this figure was a woman.
She’d
never met anyone in her own world who was quite so androgynous in the face as
Dancer. During their first meeting, they’d advised Chess they didn’t subscribe
to humanity’s narrow view on gender. “We are both, and neither,” they’d told
her simply, standing half a foot taller and staring down their blunt nose.
“You
are all right,” they said to her now. “You are doing so much better than many
would have expected.” Their voice was dual toned, but Chess had almost become
used to that by now.
She
didn’t feel she was doing better than expected. To tell the truth, she felt
only weakness seeping into her. It was a side effect of the faerie’s touch on
her skin, the silent promise that she didn’t need to worry now, that others
would take care of her.
“Hey.”
Those fingers came to rest under her chin. A caress Chess leaned into, despite
all that had happened. “You don’t have to walk alone here.”
That she already knew, and it was what Chess was
afraid of.
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