Jane Lebak: 15 books

Sarah can't leave her job, or someone will die. For five years, she's waited tables at a haunted diner in tiny town Texas, safeguarding patrons from a hissing, hungry creature only she can see. It thinks it loves her. It doesn't like to share, and it's killed before. Quitting is out...

Every year, thousands of expecting parents start prenatal testing to find out if it’s a boy or a girl…and instead learn the baby is going to die.  Anencephaly. Trisomy 18. Potter’s sequence. They’re called “incompatible with life.” But they’re not incompatible with love. Many...

29-year-old Lee has a Park Slope apartment with easy access to Manhattan, loves her job as an auto mechanic, and can see her guardian angel (a wisecracker with a fascination for the Rumours album.) That's kind of a full life for a kid in the world's biggest playground. Despite what everyone thinks,...

"You know how one year is seven dog years? Well five months dating Lee is the equivalent of three years dating a normal woman." Lee and Bucky are back, but you know it's never that easy. Six months later, Hal's still around and Lee's mother is already picking out bridesmaid dresses....

A midwife has a chance to right a seventy-year-old wrong. Tessa delivers babies at night and raises five sons by day. When an angel appears after a birth and asks for help on a quest, her first response is, "Angels don't even exist," followed by a swift, "No." Even...

Auto mechanic Lee Singer considers New York City her personal playground, with lots of big engines and complicated tools and today a car that got towed in because those "severe tire damage" signs mean what they say. It only adds to the fun when she pops the trunk and finds it full of styrofoam...

To escape her abusive family, Joey needs her string quartet to succeed. But there’s not a lot of money in classical music, and a whole lot of competition. When a bride gets so drunk she forgets she hired a classical string quartet, the second violinist stuns everyone by ripping off a guitar...

A guardian angel whose charge went to Hell, Reflection is stuck. It’s been two years, but still he keeps thinking about William. Always William. He’s not sure he can ever be fruitful again. But someone else thinks he’s a fruitful branch sleeping through a winter season. Originally...

Everyone knows about guardian angels — and Nezeq knows he should never have been made one. He’s a demon, after all. So instead of protecting the human Joshua, Nezeq tries to kill him. And fails. That’s his first mistake. His second mistake is in coming back to finish the job. There’s...

In this collection of shorts, enter the sometimes funny, sometimes serious world of angels. Meet an angel punished by having to sit on a rock for three years (it could have been worse, he says) and a guardian angel who knows he should never have gotten this assignment (because he’s a demon). Peek...

Sir Charles Hallwyn is on a quest for dragon eggs when he encounters an angel sitting on a rock. The angel says he has to sit on the rock for three years, a punishment for an uncharitable remark he made at a friend’s expense. Sir Charles recognizes an opportunity when he sees one (he’s been selling...

Punished for a year due to a slight infraction, the Archangel Gabriel is living with a human family, in a human body, working as a servant until he can return to Heaven. He thought he’d be tending sheep and harvesting grapes, but now it’s the middle of the night, and he’s got a suffocating five-year-old...

"Honey? I think you have a twin." Amber Brickman used to dream of unearthing ancient civilizations with her soulmate. But now she's the Assistant Fire Marshal, sifting through burn sites while the walls are still warm, looking for evidence of arson. It's the life she's pieced together...

"If I get to Heaven and find her there, I'd rather be in Hell." Six years ago, an ultrasound diagnosed baby Annie with an incurable birth defect. She'd be born, and then she'd die.  Doctor Olivia Thackeray walked into the exam room and did the unforgivable. She lied to Annie's...