Black Mare Books: 12 books

Space City 6 is a collection of short stories from the weird to the wonderful, all with a Houston flair. We begin with the birth of Houston in a mosquito—and alligator-people—infested swamp where a mermaid is intent on stopping human encroachment. Fast forward to the 1940’s where we join a soldier...

This is a boxed set that contains the first three books in the Marti Keller Mysteries series: The Hanged Man's Wife, The Magician's Children, and The Devil's Advocate. Go with Marti to solve a murder, stop Ragnarok, and suss out just what the weird creature stalking her neighborhood...

“It was just a simple computer prank. How could I have known that it would almost get us all killed?”When sixteen year old Cai Peterson poses as an online troll to relieve the boredom after being grounded for drinking at a party, he tangles with a cyberstalker who’s not only willing to make...

Vigilante killers and dismembered corpses are all in a day's work for Houston Detective Quetzel Cazares. But when she rescues a hungry kitten at a particularly gruesome crime scene, her caseload takes a turn for the bizarre. Five short detective stories, served with a side of supernatural, take readers on an expedition into the darker side of human nature.

Schuyler Ramsey just wants to be like the other kids in school. Too bad she’s dead. Her ghost haunts a farm in windswept western Ireland, along with some of its previous inhabitants. When she partially materializes in front of her sister at breakfast, she is propelled on a quest to stop a fake TV...

Love them or hate them, we've all had first dates. From the first blush of romance to the slamming of a door, nothing can capture—or repel—our hearts so fully. Do we swoon with desire? Hope for tenderness? Or does the first meeting shatter any chance of two souls connecting? In First Last...

In a time when power was absolute and dissent could mean death, Fria is an expendable pawn in her father's power games. When his treachery nearly costs Fria her life, a strange forest girl teaches Fria the skills to claim her own power. And not a moment too soon, because there's something lurking in the woods that is even worse than any human tyrant.

Sarah wants to ride Cheval Bayard in a big show; to be on a Mundane Intervention Team; for Brendan to like her. Suddenly, those things look impossible. Should she just return to the Mundane world? She might feel like less of a freak - she is an ordinary human where everyone is magic. But when she...

Marti Keller was married to the man of her dreams and had a satisfying career as an emergency room nurse. But a soul-shattering tragedy turns her world upside down, leaving her desperately clinging to the one precious thing left in her life. After her search for a work-at-home job leads her to rediscover...

July in Houston, Texas, is far too hot for Frost Giants. But when a Valkyrie with an attitude shows up on Marti Keller's doorstep in the middle of summer, things take a turn for the polar. After Marti returned home from her ordeal at the hands of a notorious drug and human trafficker, she had...

Marti Keller's tumultuous life is looking up. Her budding romance seems nearly perfect -until a series of fatal accidents turns out to be far more sinister than it first appears. Without warning, her life is ripped to shreds by a vengeful demon who threatens everything she holds dear, and the...

"I start to open my mouth to yell, and water rushes in. I snap my lips together. I may as well be swimming in ink. I can’t tell which way is up. Kicking my legs and flailing my arms, I launch myself headfirst into something hard. I feel hot blood spreading under my scalp, then nothing more."Mimi...