MIRROR WITCH
Jennifer “Jay” Bull and Mary Morris writing as Phoebe Walker
Josephine Murphy spent eight years on the run because of werewolves—but now, allying with them may be the only way to stay alive.
Once upon a time, Jo Murphy was just an ordinary New Age witch who had a knack for reading tarot. Then she was kidnapped and tortured by the Fenris, a pack of insane werewolves. Since she escaped that hell after calling on the goddess Hecate for help, Jo hasn’t been the same, emotionally or magically. It left her with PTSD nightmares, a boatload of paranoia, and access to new powers that she doesn’t understand, including the ability to walk through mirrors. With the Fenris gone—apparently by her hand—Jo started running and didn’t stop until another werewolf tracked her down.
When Ezekiel Booker answered the Council’s call to find and question Josephine Murphy, he thought it would be one last job before he settled down to become alpha of his own pack in St. Louis. However, Booker didn’t bank on how she would affect him when they came face-to-face—and then she disappeared. When he finally finds her again, she’s settled down and created a magical sanctuary and occult shop out of an old building in his territory. And it’s entirely warded against werewolves.
Booker doesn’t want to hurt Jo—far from it—but he does need to find out why the Fenris wolves have completely disappeared. He contacts her, determined to prove that she’s not in danger from him. Meanwhile, Jo wants to trust alpha wolf Booker, but she’s not the naïve young witch she once was. There’s something in him that calls to her, and all her senses are telling him he’s on her side; it doesn’t hurt that he’s hot as hell and seems attracted to her. Even so, old habits and suspicions die hard.
But then a necromancer attacks Jo, using the freshly killed body of her friend and protégé as a weapon, and their only clue is a mysterious rune necklace and an all-girl Goth band that isn’t quite what it seems. Now Jo has no choice but to join forces with Booker and his pack to find out who’s raising the dead in St. Louis … or become a corpse herself.
DEAD WEIGHT
Jennifer “Jay” Bull and Mary Morris writing as Phoebe Walker
The day Allie Dawes saves Cameron Hale from a massive zombie horde changes both their lives.
Allie’s been alone in a bunker for over a year with only a goddess to talk to, and Morrigan isn’t much of a conversationalist. Cam’s riddled with grief and PTSD, his only goal to get back to the family he left behind. In Allie’s bunker, the powerful mutual attraction between these two touch-starved people quickly turns their relationship physical—and the emotions that bind them are too powerful to ignore.
Cam’s bond with Allie feels right in a way that nothing else ever has, and when he finds out Allie gets prophetic dreams from a goddess like his foster mother, he knows that she belongs with his family. With him. Allie is heartened to learn that Cam and his family are part of a larger community of settlements who are trying to make sure humanity doesn’t lose this one-sided battle with the undead. She feels ready to join the world outside the bunker—especially if it means staying with Cam. But finding Cam’s family is just the beginning of their journey, and Allie is shocked to discover that her gifts might be the key to unlocking why the world ended, if she survives long enough to find out.
It turns out that staying together is easier said than done when between Cam, Allie, and their future lie a few too many secrets, a boatload of trauma, a scientist with a murky agenda, a predatory survivor group, a few Old Gods, and vast numbers of uncannily evil zombies. And that’s not even counting that weird dream all the survivors are remembering about the malevolent giant shark and the pilot fish…
First in a new series forthcoming in 2025 from Red Adept Publishing!
Mary Morris - Writer and Editor 