Sizzling Lizard Press: 10 books

Brown River Queen Markhat and Darla board a lavish vampire gambling riverboat, the Brown River Queen, on her maiden voyage down the Brown. Hired by House Avalante to be on the lookout for trouble, Markhat dreams of a fat payday and a week of free beer and lavish meals. That dream is shattered...

The Banshee's Walk Markhat’s new case seemed simple enough. Someone is performing clandestine land surveys about the Werewilk estate, and Lady Werewilk demands to know who, and why. Markhat suspects a simple land grab is in play, a grab probably orchestrated by a greedy nephew or a scheming...

Hold The Dark Markhat the finder knows going missing in Rannit is as easy as stepping outside. But when vanished seamstress Martha Hoobin’s brothers hire Markhat to bring their sister home, he quickly finds himself face to fang with a murderous halfdead blood cult, a coven of treacherous...

All aboard the Western Star. Next stop: Murder. The Markhat Files, Book 8 Markhat and Darla journey into the unknown, where Trolls and worse await those who dare the wastelands, and old magics take on new life when fueled by vengeance and the undying power of greed. Three thousand...

The Broken Bell Markhat takes on the case of Carris Lethway, who vanishes two weeks before his wedding. Markhat initially suspects cold feet and a hasty stagecoach ride to the south, but the deeper he digs, the less likely that appears. Will wedding bells turn to a funeral dirge, before any...

The Five Faces Rannit’s crime bosses are falling, each slain by an unstoppable killer who taunts each victim with a drawing depicting the date, time, and grisly manner of every death. The only clues to the killer’s identity are the five crude faces drawn at the bottom of each death notice. Even...

The Darker Carnival Despairing parents Berthold and Renilda Ordwald hire Markhat to rescue their daughter Alfreda from the clutches of a sinister traveling circus which just pitched its tents outside Rannit’s walls. The Ordwalds claim Alfreda was snatched from her home three years ago, and...

Mage Meralda’s perilous airship journey across the vast Great Sea made her a hero. Her discovery of the Arc may doom her world. The Arc, a mysterious metal structure hanging ten thousand feet above the stormy Sea, is singing. Tasked by the King to decipher the Arc’s strange song,...

Join Mug and Meralda as they take to the skies in the long-awaited sequel to All the Paths of Shadow!  The airship Intrepid, fitted with Mage Meralda's flying coils and bearing a crew of a hundred souls, sets out to cross the treacherous Great Sea. If the Intrepid survives the voyage,...

Three Mean Streets Welcome to Rannit, an ancient city awash in magic and mayhem. Wracked by war, but embracing the dubious wonders of steam and iron, Rannit is on the path to renewal – but old magics and older shadows won’t go easily into the light. Markhat earns his living as a...