Deanna Knippling: 49 books

London, England. 1840. The Chimney Sweep Act has just been passed by Parliament, forbidding the use of underaged orphans as chimney sweeps’ assistants—four- and five-year-olds are being sent down into chimneys with wire brushes to scrape out the creosote. The government means well, but...

One little girl.  Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal one little half-blood girl, and everything changes.  Aloysius’s little brother Jerome goes missing with her--two inseparable kids whose friendship is damned from the beginning--as demons replace the newly dead. A...

No one expected a mutiny, especially Captain Liberty Taylor. They were just supposed to explore star systems for excellent colonization opportunities. That did not happen. With a riot that strands her crew on an unknown world, Captain Taylor and her loyal shipmates must find a way to survive a dangerous world and mutineers who have survived the crash. Will she be able to stay alive?

Ten thrilling tales of action and adventure with humans and non-humans donning rocket and jetpacks to take on the future, the past, and alternate universes to defeat evil in all its forms. These exciting stories reignite a genre of science fiction taking readers on a journey of imagination...

Bill Trout didn’t set out to get involved with aliens. He just wanted to run his damned brewery and heal up from being abandoned by his ex-wife. But that ain’t the way things worked out, and now he has some bodies to bury, an alien kid who’s wanted for murder—mass murder—to hide, and a planet...

Witches weave curses out of words; the less you use ‘em, the more powerful they are. Blessings are weaker—but you can use them more often, wear them in like shoes. Judith’s red-headed granddaughter Molly, also a witch, curses her way through life, and now look at her—pregnant, a widow,...

Bernice had a good life with Bobby. She mighta been the second wife, but to him she was number one. Then he died of cancer--something that not even the modern docs who could treat a ninety-year-old man to look like he was twenty-five again could cure. Most of the money went to his kids. She'd...

One little girl.  Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal a half-blood girl, and reality changes. Demons charge out of the earth to murder the living--and take the places of the newly dead, while most people seem not to notice.  Only Aloysius and his brothers can see the transformation--and...

A novelette of swindlers, dames, and a millionaire with a pig. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1925.  Right before New Year's Day. Genevra Valentine is a roper, someone who brings in marks for a team of con artists working in the basement of a soda fountain-come-speakeasy.  The mark she just brought...

It was a town of a hundred and eleven souls out in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming.  After Jeremy Quick disappeared, a hundred and ten.  Private investigator Linda Crow has been called in by Jeremy Quick's employer, an oil conglomerate, to find out what happened to a man who was good with...

Bernice had a good life with Bobby. She mighta been the second wife but to him she was number one. Then he died of cancer--something that not even the modern docs who could treat a ninety-year-old man to look like he was twenty-five again could cure.Most of the money went to his kids. She'd...

A mirror that changes you into the person you should have been...but only temporarily. A suicidal cancer victim who makes the ultimate sacrifice: searching for the fountain of youth in order to live just a little bit longer for her spoiled brother. A girl who uses her brother's favorite online game...

Secrets:  Everybody's got one or two... Even before the stock market crash of 1929, Eliza lives in a world of secrets as a legal secretary to a wizened old lawyer in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.  If she admits that she's practically engaged to be married, she'll lose her job....

"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice; "now I've become one of the undead!" A horrible plague has spread across Britain, infecting some of its citizens with zombieism.  The British, however, have not given themselves over to upset, but have discovered a method for controlling...