S H Marpel: 86 books

The nightmare came as usual, and woke him in sweats and a blinding flash of light - also as usual. Right on his birthday. Their birthday. No prescription or alchoholic drink did any good. Didn't even give him a buzz. Long walks, working at some hands-on project - those were the...

Facing a Fireball and living to tell about it wasn't in John's plans for the day. But when he and his two female spirit guides were caught behind a red subcompact taking hit after hit of fireballs, some one had to do something. Because they could only keep taking those hits for so long. Something...

I'd been caught in a cross-fire. And just got saved from bleeding out. Now my shape-shifting was on hold until I healed. But I was stuck in human shape, having to re-learn the human experience. I don't know when I first appeared on Earth. Before recorded time somewhere. And for the last...

The result of all these civil wars was complete destruction. Maybe we should have taken a hint from all those wars we fought "over there" and the footage came back showing entire cities now only towering, shattered icons that stood in piles of rubble. Uninhabited. uninhabitable. Yet...

In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story... Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch...

In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides. This is their origin-story... Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins...

It wasn't often a song stopped me dead in my tracks. All I could do was listen. And I was filled with feelings of peace and hope. So much I didn't want to move, just listen. Now there wasn't a tune, a melody, or words to that song. But I was tranfixed. If I could have tapped my foot...

I'd been left out here, alone. By an oil-burning lamp. In the cold, uncaring desert. It was my only comfort until dawn. Just as the first of dawn started bringing the earliest glimmer of what I could see with my human eyes, I woke to some snuffling sound near my head. Opening...

Four books collected into this Anthology featuring: - Hermione - When Cats Ruled - A Case of Lost Time - Enemies & Bookends - - - - Hermione: When a goddess is almost killed by bleeding out - it's serious. Good thing they got to me in time,...

The Legend of the haunted Spirit Mountain isn't that old. Just a few decades. And something to do with secret government experiments in hidden bases deep in the desert. They must have thought no one would ever find out... When strange weather patterns started affecting local crops...

(also titled: Smart Home Revenge) The more circuits in any machine, the more it's likely to get "haunted." When you connect it to the Internet then you can get more than you asked for. Installing a home system seemed obvious at the time. Having the "Internet of Things" to give...

"It was a dark and stormy night, and everyone was sitting around the glowing fireplace, safe and warm against the raging weather outside. Someone said, 'John, tell us a story.' So John began..." The story "Ghost Hunters" started a series with two spirit-guides recruiting the human John Earl...

Trapped by a vicious self-appointed Queen, the entire slave population of the moon colony was imprisoned next to fusion drive exhaust ports. When the fusion drives ignited to lift the colony off for the moons of Saturn, they'd all be turned to ash. In all this, some of the imprisoned...

Her club. Her rules. Except where magic came in. Then it was her way or the highway. And all of her regulars knew not to cross that line. Vamps, psychics, shifters, they were all welcome. But any serious spell-casting inside her club and they'd be worse than banned. They'd be extinquished. Her...