Lexi Ostrow

For the holidays, all Harper Slindel wants is to skip work, forget about her final semester of medical school, and lose herself in the university gala - a ball started by her late father. Unfortunately, a fight with her stepmother lands her houses to clean alone....

The world is awake—vampires, witches, werewolves, and more are real and outed in the human community. Fear runs deep, and a set of rules instituted by a small council are all that keep people together with a fragile balance....

Gabriel and Cassandra should never have met, but with her life in danger, he's sent to Earth in human form to judge her and see if she is worthy. While there, he finds himself falling in love with a woman who is destined to die....

In the London Underground, the Alliance of Silver and Steam is all that protects humans from demons....

Anna DeMarco has watched her big brothers find happiness the last two Christmases....

Nick DeMarco had his heart torn out and crushed when he lost the woman he loved to his brother during a storm last Christmas. Being a top CEO had done nothing to improve his mood....

Eliza Kempe Dorley is always left in the background. As a female, being top inventor for the Alliance of Silver and Steam....

Strangers passing through. Friends seeing each other with new eyes. The hesitant touch of new lovers. A first glance. A first word. A first touch. A first kiss....

Ashley has grown content with her life. Her husband is in the United States Coast Guard but has been assigned a land unit. Which means more time with him and no chance of danger....

Leena has been in love with her boss, Nick DeMarco, for almost eight years. But he's never given her any indication that she was special to him....

Julian Michelson is a firefighter in a small town in Alabama. He's been struggling for years to prove to himself that Word Speakers, people who can pull characters from books, exist....

Three souls that couldn't be more different collide in unexpected ways as the Alliance of Silver and Steam is born, and the secrets of demons unleashed on the world....

Ciara Miller was born the same as others, but she got a little something extra. When she was younger she learned she was a Word Speaker, someone who could create life from stories....

Dale grew up fighting for self-respect and the respect of others. Being a Word Speaker hadn't helped. Most of the Guardians he had sought out were decidedly darker....