In this story we find Leona, a 1st year college student in the little town of Colton, out for a walk with Jason. Though she only met him the previous week, she has had many intense fantasies about him. Now on their first date---a walk into the countryside--her passion hangs on that imminent first kiss . . .and what might follow. Should she allow him to continue . . . just because it is all too good? Or save something for later? Back in her dorm room Leona learns that sometimes the greatest moments of pleasure happen when you are alone. [Caution: Some implied sexual content in "Part 4" of this story. Enjoy. ~~Califia

Maera was a nymph. Or was she? She claimed to be a genuine Nereid from antiquity. Right out of the pages of Greek mythology. Well, that's what she told Doc Roussos who lived alone on the island. Kalamos was remote and sparsely populated. An exquisite pine-covered jewel that rose steep and majestic out of the turquoise and cobalt Mediterranean. Maera would visit Doc on those summer nights uninvited. Arriving unannounced, she would appear at his ruin--a formerly destroyed Venetian castle. It was a place over the years he had more-less inherited, as volunteer custodian of the archaeological structure. But who really was this honey-haired girl who began to invade Doc's chosen isolation? Somewhere in her twenties, beautiful, and with a musical voice and a graceful gait, she seemed real enough to the retired professor. But it was her nightly stories which gave him pause for disbelief. They were tales from a long-ago past. And not just of previous ages, but romances and adventures Dr. Roussos had been long familiar with. Mythological accounts capable of beguiling a charmed listener well into a world time before time . . . But were the stories all she offered him?

What explosive discoveries were made by an eccentric desert collector who chose to hide his phenomenal secrets for over thirty years? Blake Henderson inherited more than just a key to a remote storage garage in Farmington, New Mexico. When his estranged and recluse father died, few useless belongings were handed down to him. But none were so mysterious as the contents of sealed wooden boxes and a series of intriguing notebooks-all seemingly forgotten and under lock and key for decades. The Pueblo Native Americans of Chaco Canyon, NM, had a massive and advanced civilization long before the Spanish invaded their ancestral lands in the 16th century. But why did these indigenous people inexplicably disappear? And How? What relationship did these and other Southwestern indigenous cultures have with the "star people" as they refer to them in their esoteric traditions? What event gave them cause to relocate from their advanced engineered living complexes on the desert floor to more safe dwellings under the monolithic cliffs at Mesa Verde in Colorado, out of sight from the heavens? And then vanish completely? Coming into the area from California on his Spring Break, Blake thought he would only be verifying his abandoned father's pointless absence from his life since birth. What he found following in the wake of his murder, threatened to shake what is known about our singular existence in the universe . . .

What Valeria Alvarez, a young paranormal activities researcher was to find in the little seaside town of Pacific Grove, was more than shocking. It gave many the notion that what science purports to know of supernatural phenomenon, is still in its infancy. Valeria gets pulled into a case that has resonated as a haunting on the California coast for over a hundred years. But what happens when the young subject who recites clues in her sleep begins to give details which encroach horrifically upon the life of the researcher herself? Valeria's romantic involvement with a professor who brings her into the case, further complicates her dealings as she begins to learn of her own hidden connection to the occult. The case brings the young researcher to a nexus of light and dark elements in the spiritual world. But in the process, she experiences a harrowing descent into the world of paranormal activity.

A chilling four-day diary left on a soldier's cell phone tells a tale which pushes the boundaries of our understanding of the human heart. What nineteen-year-old private Harmon was to learn about the powers of desire in the last moments of his life is a lesson for all of us. For he was to experience the rarefied gift that what we will eventually see is that which we most desire. [As a standard disclaimer, the characters in this story are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, including those who might be similarly named, living or deceased, is purely coincidental.]

At eighteen, Adelyn had met most the milestones in her young life, except one--giving up her V-Card. Finally completing her senior year of high school, and always a standout at most scholastic things, left the socially shy and curvaceous teen rich in achievements and with a stellar GPA. Yet, nowhere on her CV would it dare say she was still a virgin. A ten-day summer stay at Camp Harmony was rumored to be a guaranteed remedy to change all that . . . and Adelyn had decided with much soul-searching . . . it might be finally time . . .

What Bryce Beaumont, a young researcher from California was to discover on Mykonos-that Greek island of billionaire hideaways, nude beaches and world-class nightclubs, was more than a playground for the privileged. In his probing the undercurrents of the jet-set high season, he would learn the little island was also home and history to a very ancient clan of beings. One of them, a darkly lithe and stunning woman, had been waiting a long time to keep a family promise alive. It would materialize that summer-as would a cabal of strangers from the nary world of the undead. . . . Melina Vespucci was Greek-Italian. She was single, jaw-dropping wealthy, reportedly the descendant of a Venetian Duke . . . and as a resident of one of the white villas atop a Mykonos cove. . . still beautiful after five-hundred years . . .

This is the saga of Penthesilea--Queen of the Amazons. What secret pact did she make so many thousand years ago for women which only now is coming true? This new novel features the ancient Amazon culture--once thought only to be a myth. Yet out of the mists of time evidence emerges that this dynamic society of all females-did in fact exist. So powerful was their commitment to the nature and independence of women, that their queen-the wise and agile Penthesilea, using a secret covenant shared by later powerful women-travels across time to fulfill a dynamic wish. Amid this historical backdrop Daniela Collins, a young woman living in San Francisco, becomes embroiled in an astounding discovery which unlocks this compact as it begins to unfold internationally. The ancient Amazon queen's legacy becomes irreversibly tied to a movement where the emancipation and betterment of all females is shockingly put into motion. . . Be prepared to be entertained and enlightened. To secure an e-book of this 1st in the "Penthesilea's Wish" trilogy, go here: https://www.amazon.com/author/califia.montalvo

I'd Like to think I was a good person, before it all began. I didn't cheat on tests, or steal. But throughout my entire life, I was treated if I were a monster. At the age of five, after several agonizing tests, I was diagnosed with Reactive Attachment Disorder. But not even that title could describe just how strange I was. When another kid got hurt, I would cry. Whenever someone else was told a funny joke, I would laugh hysterically. People looked at me as if I were crazy- and for while I agreed with them. That was until I, Caddie Jones, was exiled to Nox Haven Academy, a school for truly special kids. Not the mentally ill, psychotic kind of special but the magical kind. Like witches, vampires, fairies and werewolves. Call me crazy if you want, you wouldn't be the first. But the stories are all true. The supernatural did exist and I was one of them. Life there was cool until suddenly, I was faced with two-faced witches, egotistical princes, hormone driven werewolves, and an army of evil warlocks who were threatening to destroy the world. ... Maybe Nox Haven was a school for psychos after all. ---------------------------------------------------------- Highest Rank: #2 in Paranormal 1st Place winner of The Night Shift's Killer Competition 4/10/16 Illustration by: Stephanie Pitino (www.ClairObscur.fr) (1st book in series)

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