by Silver James
Walking into a firefight with a drug cartel is never easy, but with Hannah’s wrath and Liam’s first change on the line, Mac and the Wolves face a harder choice—save the girl or save Christmas.
Secrets, lies, and betrayals are more personal under the Christmas moon, and it might just take the magic of Santa to help the Wolves save the day and make it home to their families in time. Because in the end, it’s all about family.
Warning: Santa’s making his list and when the Wolves go into action, they’ll find out who’s naughty and who’s nice.
CHRSTMAS MOON: FINALIST 2014 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL AWARDS SHORT PARANORMAL NOVEL
Blue Moon
(Moonstruck –Book 8)
DJ Collier is a manhunter. As a Deputy US Marshal, she’ll go after any fugitive, but the names in the secret file dumped on her desk must be ghosts considering the lack of information she can gather. Where better to hunt them than in the last place she encountered the elusive group of military Special Operators? She never expected to find death, destruction, and a sexy Wolf determined to make her his in the Louisiana bayous.
Antoine Fontaine has lived in the bayous all his life. Always standing on the outside of his close-knit Cajun family, he thinks he’s one of a kind. He never expected to discover another like himself, much less a whole group of SpecOps Wolves who welcome him into their pack. He has no idea what it means to be moonstruck until he rescues a feisty Deputy US Marshal. Now, he’ll fight to the death to keep her.
Once in a Blue Moon, a Wolf finds his mate and even if he’s up to his ass in alligators, he’ll keep her safe. Warning: Hot sex, explosions, and mayhem of the blood and guts kind dead ahead.
WINNER 2015 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL AWARDS SHORT PARANORMAL NOVEL
Moon Shot
(Moonstruck –Book 9)
A Moonstruck/Hard Target Crossover Novel
Scorched earth...
The Wolves are damn tired of being hunted. They’ve licked their wounds and now it’s time to take the fight to the enemy. They’re moving on up—all the way to the hallowed halls of government. Intelligence reports indicate their enemies are getting closer—and more personal. Assassination of the Wolves and their families is on the menu and SEAL Team Atlantis has the kill order.
Unexpected allies, a new baby, and the healing of old wounds give the Wolves something to live—and fight—for. Every last one of them is ready for a Happy Ever After.
Retribution...
There are three things a Wolf holds sacred—his mate, his pups, and his pack. Threaten any one of them and you’d better be checking your six. Threaten all three? Just remember—secrets, lies, and betrayals demand payback and the Wolves are ready to hunt.
Warning: Wolves don’t hold a grudge, they get even.
Also set in the Moonstruck world:
Nightriders Motorcycle Club
Welcome to the darkest side of the Moonstruck world. Not every Wolf walks the straight and narrow like the Wolves of the 69th. Gritty, earthy, and violent, rogue Wolves run on the criminal side of society. Gun running, strip clubs, bounty hunters, the Nightriders live their lives in the outlaw 1%. There’s sex, violence, and violent sex, and sometimes, a Wolf smacks up against the woman destined to turn him moonstruck…
Night Shift
(Nightriders MC #1)
Everybody knows you don’t mess with a big, bad Wolf. Well, everyone except Samantha Prescott…
He’s Easy…
Elijah “Easy” Cross works the night shift for the Nightriders MC, collecting pay-offs, protection money, and “policing” their properties. “Live to ride, ride to live” takes on a whole new meaning when members of a rival MC—the Hell Dogs— shoot him and give chase with the intent to kill. Easy ends up on the front porch of a single mom hiding deadly secrets from the same people after him. When she’s brutally murdered by the Hell Dogs, he feels responsible and promises to protect her two kids. Easy and his Nightrider brothers might ride on the far side of the law but hell, yeah their honor is worth dying for, and a promise is a promise.
And she’s not…
Samantha “Sam” Prescott only wants two things from the Nightriders—her niece and nephew. It’s bad enough her twin got involved with an outlaw motorcycle gang—and was murdered—but now Sam is desperate to extricate herself and the kids. To do that, she has to escape Easy, the sexy biker with boy-next-door dimples and killer instincts. It’s that whole killer thing she must keep in mind when the moonstruck Wolf is determined to make her his mate. Her instincts scream, “RUN!” Her hormones want to get down and dirty with the man who turns her boneless with a kiss.
When Sam is kidnapped and tortured by the Hell Dogs, Easy must decide to either keep his promise to ride through the fires of hell to find her or let her go for good, even if it kills him.
Warning: Lots of down and dirty sex, extreme violence—including against women—of the blood and guts kind, alpha MC members, and a moonstruck Wolf shifter with dimples. This is the dark side of the Moonstruck world where sex is rough, death is brutal, and laws don’t mean jack.
NIGHT SHIFT: THIRD PLACE, INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL AWARDS EROTIC CATEGORY
FINALIST IN NATIONAL READERS CHOICE AWARDS EROTIC ROMANCE CATEGORY
Remember the Night
(Nightriders MC #1.5)
Everybody knows you don’t mess with a big, bad Wolf. Well, everyone except Gemma West…
If a Wolf plays his cards right, he might get lucky in love…
Ten years ago, Lucas “Lucky” Malone ran from charges of murder, leaving behind the girl destined to be his mate. Now he makes his own odds as president of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Nightriders.
When a girl’s luck runs out…
Bad luck follows Gemma West like a black cloud. She just wants to go home but when she witnesses a horrific car crash, she can’t turn her back. Coming face-to-face with the only man she’s ever loved might be the worst luck of all.
An accident brought them together, but an MC war is brewing and the last thing Lucky needs is to take a gamble on the one woman guaranteed to make him howl at the moon. How can this moonstruck Wolf walk away from her a second time?
Warning: Down and dirty sex, extreme violence of the blood and guts kind, alpha MC members, and a moonstruck Wolf looking to win it all. This is the dark side of the Moonstruck world where sex is rough, death is brutal, and laws don’t mean jack.
Night Moves
(Nightriders MC #2)
Everybody knows you don’t mess with a big, bad Wolf. Well, everyone except Lainey Walker…
Hooray for Hollywood…
Eric “Hollywood” Hilton is no hero, he’s a Nightrider first, last, and always. There isn’t anything he won’t do for the club. With his looks, women are a dime a dozen until he walks into Chasin’ Tail and smacks head first into that crazy thing called love.
Run don’t walk…
Lainey Walker only wants to pay off her family’s debts and return to college. She almost walks away but dancing at Chasin’ Tail brings in the big bucks. The last thing she expects is to wind up in the middle of a biker showdown, much less get caught on the wrong side.
When it looks like Lainey will betray the Nightriders, Hollywood has to decide between his brothers and his mate. Can he prove her innocence in time to save her?
Warning: Lots of down and dirty sex, extreme violence of the blood and guts kind, alpha MC members, and a moonstruck Wolf with stars in his eyes. This is the dark side of the Moonstruck world where sex is rough, death is brutal, and laws don’t mean jack.
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HARD TARGET
The HARD TARGET Team: Judge, jury, executioner…
The multinational Hard Target special operators hunt the worst of the worst, and each brings their own brand of special to the mix. Genetically enhanced Navy SEALs. Wolf shifters from the SAS and Irish Marines. An Israeli Oketz officer. And a team of former USAF pilots and pararescue jumpers whose humanity doesn’t keep them out of the fight. All corra
lled by Mother Goose, who commands the undercover group with steel-toed combat boots and cold beer.
Double Cross
(Book 1)
Double-crossed…
Duke Reagan’s mission went to hell. His SEAL teammates dead, abandoned by Command in the middle of an African warlord’s territory, he’s wounded, blind, and on the run with a terrified American, Coreen Prince, a doctor who was supposed to be collateral damage. Somehow, they survive, but not before they lose a bit of their hearts to each other.
Dr. Coreen Prince struggled to put her life back together after her African ordeal, but a slight detour one night in Key West offers her the chance to apologize to the man who saved her at such great cost to himself. Too bad Duke didn't recognize her.
It takes a year to restore Duke's vision, and the return of his sight comes with the opportunity to join the Hard Target team, a not-quite white hat organization doing what government coalitions can’t. His first mission as the team’s sniper puts a drug cartel boss in his sights, but a familiar face that’s haunted Duke since Africa crowds the scope.
On special assignment in South America, Cory once again finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time. But rescue comes from the last man she expects to see, the one man she can’t forget. Will they get a second chance at love or will he just see her as another double cross…
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From Harlequin Desire: Red Dirt Royalty
Cowgirls Don’t Cry
The wealthiest of enemies may seduce the ranch right out from under her!
Cassidy Morgan wasn't raised a crybaby. So when her father dies and leaves the family ranch vulnerable to takeover by an Okie gazillionaire with a grudge, she doesn't shed a tear—she fights back.
But Chance Barron, the son of said gazillionaire, is a too-sexy adversary. In fact, it isn't until Cassidy falls head over heels for the sexy cowboy-hat-wearing attorney that she even finds out he's the enemy. Now she needs a plucky plan to save her birthright. But Chance has another trick up his sleeve, putting family loyalties—and passion—to the ultimate test.
The Cowgirl’s Little Secret
She's back at his ranch…with baby in tow.
When nurse Jolie Davis comes home, she knows it's only a matter of time before she runs into Cord Barron—the Barrons own this town. In fact, it was their oil business rivalry with her father that caused her break up with Cord in the first place. But no amount of family meddling can deny the fact that she had his secret son. Now, four years later, as her ex is wheeled into the ER—while she's on duty!—it's time to come clean. Because it quickly becomes clear that Cord is determined to reclaim her…
The Boss and His Cowgirl
When the billionaire boss beckons…
Ever since she left behind her cowgirl roots to work for him, Georgie Dreyfus has had a crush on her boss, US senator Clay Barron. So the sexy speechwriter is speechless when Clay comes to her rescue on the campaign trail…and they discover a mutual chemistry that will no longer be denied.
But when their relationship faces one of the biggest veto threats of all, Georgie goes home to Oklahoma to regroup. Now the billionaire Barron must choose: continue his quest to win the White House or win back the woman who's laid claim to his heart…
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The Award-winning Urban Fantasy Series
The Penumbra Papers
Cases from the Shadow’s Edge
Penumbra: Etymology: New Latin, from Latin paene almost + umbra shadow
These "Cases from the Shadow's Edge" explore the forces of light and dark as they dance through shadows humans barely glimpsed prior to the Big Rip. Since then, all manner of preternatural magicks intermingle with humans in ways mysterious, magical and, in some cases, criminal. Much to humanity's surprise, there really are monsters under the bed and the things that go bump in the night are bigger and scarier than anyone ever imagined.
Vampires. Ghouls. Faeries. Ghosts. Werewolves. Creatures of legend and nightmares. Overnight, reality took on a whole new meaning. The world’s best and brightest from every discipline—physics, theology, anthropology, chemistry, to name only a few—all tried to explain the rip in the cosmic curtain. Sade Marquis has her own theory. The monsters have been here all along, flying just under the radar of normal perception. They’ve been masquerading as mundanes—their term for humans. Of course, Sade knows the truth of the matter. She was raised by a master vampire and her pet “dog” shifted into a boy the night of her twelfth birthday. Sade’s very good at keeping secrets. She has a lot of them.
This is where Special Agent Sade Marquis enters the mix. A human FBI agent with an X-Files mentality, Sade's been handpicked to fill a new slot within the Bureau—Preternatural Liaison Officer with the MAGIC Unit. The Magical Activity, Grievances, and Inhuman Crimes unit is in charge of investigations involving magicks. It's her job to deal with all the monsters, and she’s very, very good at her job. That makes the magicks very, very afraid of her. As they should be…
That Ol’ Black Magic
Penumbra Papers #1
Along with her FBI partner—and werewolf best friend—Caleb Jones, Sade is sent to New Orleans to investigate the murders of several high-ranking magicks. The Big Easy is neutral territory so Sade must find and arrest the culprit before war breaks out between the Realms. Things look up when the gargoyle Sentinel, Roman, a permanent fixture in Sade’s childhood, arrives to keep the peace. Maybe.
The investigation is hampered by Sade’s faerie nemesis, Ariel—the King’s Seducer. Oh, and then there’s the new dragon in town, Nikolas Constantine. Sade can’t decide whether to arrest his ass or admire it.
When guilt and innocence come to play in the French Quarter, it’ll take Sade’s brand of crazy to sort it all out.
THAT OL’ BLACK MAGIC: WINNER 2014 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL AWARDS SHORT PARANORMAL NOVEL
Season Of The Witch
Penumbra Papers #2
Sade Marquis. Her best friend turns furry. Her godfather is a master vampire. Her mother was once the mistress of Oberon, King of the Faerie Court.
When the Veil between the mortal and magical realms rips, FBI Special Agent Sade Marquis is in a unique position to head up the newly-formed MAGIC unit. She’s the only human who knows exactly what goes bump in the night. When things go to hell in a handbasket and there's magic in the air, Sade is the agent FBI Director George Bailey wants in the trenches. She's savvy, snarky, and sexy but she may have met her match when she's sent to Chicago to investigate the murder of a congressional aide.
Is the vampire, Kristian St. John, guilty as sin? Once a Templar knight, Sinjen now teaches history at the University of Chicago. He must rely on Sade to clear his name and track the real culprit.
Together, they unravel the clues to a mystery that began a thousand years before. If they don’t solve the murders of six young women, the whole world—human and magick—will suffer the evil consequences.
SEASON OF THE WITCH: FINALIST 2014 INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL AWARDS LONG PARANORMAL NOVEL
The Devil’s Cut
(Penumbra Papers #3)
The Devil’s in the details…
What do two werewolf teens missing in the New Mexico desert, a stolen pouch of Native American fetishes, and a drug lord calling himself El Diablo have in common? Undercover FBI Agent Caleb Jones would sure like to find out. The trail leads to Denver where CSI Adele McCoy is investigating the cases of two diabolically murdered men and the pouch of Native American fetishes discovered at one of the crime scenes. She doesn’t believe in magic, but the whole situation gives her a creepy supernatural vibe she can't deny.
And the Devil always gets his cut…
When their cases collide, Caleb and Adele are soon running for their lives—and fighting an attraction that threatens to combust. Hot on their trail is Caleb’s best friend, Special Agent Sade Marquis. She’s bound and determined to find the wayward werewolf. Death is a dialogue, love hurts, and you don’t know the measure of a man—or a woman—until i
t’s time to pay the Devil his due. In this Case from the Shadow’s Edge, it might just be a werewolf and the woman he loves who pay the price.
FINALIST NATIONAL READERS CHOICE AWARDS
Acknowledgements
Writing is the one profession where the voices in my head mean I’m not totally batshit crazy when I talk back to them. I love my voices, even when they argue with me. Which they do. Way more than they should. Silly buggers.
As always, many thanks to my readers, the Facebook crew at Silver James: For Readers, friends, and family. Y’all are the reason I keep writing the stories in my head.
I truly appreciate the help I receive from my critique partner Heidi, beta reader Siobhan, and cover artist Clary for the many “do-overs” until we get things right. I couldn’t write anything remotely military without the help and guidance of my wonderful husband aka Lawyer Guy. Last but definitely not least, I want to recognize the fans of each of my series. Each email, Facebook comment, tweet, and visit to my website convinces me that the Wolves, Nightriders, Hard Target Team, and denizens of the Penumbra Papers all deserved to see the light of day.
