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Shards: Book One of the Anderian Series

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Born with the ability to see echoes of the past when she touches objects, Bria Smith has made it her life's mission to use her gift to solve mysteries for others. When confiding to her partner about her abilities ends her career as a detective, she becomes a private investigator, finding freedom in the ability to work outside of the limitations of the law while doing her best to stay out of the way of her ex-partner. 

But her past and present collide when the most recent case she's hired to solve drags her into the dangerous world of the supernatural, and puts her in the crosshairs of the most feared supernatural species, the Andariens- specifically, the sinfully, sexy Cian Bastion.

 Now, it's not just a murder she has to solve but a centuries old mystery, and the deeper she digs, the more she realizes she's at the center of it all.All Rights Reserved

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Shazi and the Demons of the First Order (Book 1)

Jolenifer, commonly known as Jolene, is a soon-to-be junior cop and the daughter of a police officer. Only seventeen years old, her life has been a mess. And that's including the fact that she almost died in a fire when she was little. She thinks that taking the test to become a cop just like her dad will be easy, but turns out that she will getting more than what she signed up for. A task to watch over a suspicious and seemingly non-aging police officer just might be what she needs, however, to meet her father's legacy. Although... she'll have to risk her life if she's willing to dig deep into this investigation. Sari is a journalist who's single, lives alone, and has a boring apartment. She's waited years for a good story, and when she finally gets one at a police station, she dives right in. Little does she know that she'll be meeting a summoned demon named Shazi, who will promise to give her anything in return, but only that she lets her out. In the end, or the beginning, what will Sari do? Caira has lived for four hundred years. She's been a police officer ever since the organization opened up in America in 1844. First female cop, and a vampire who works the night shifts. When she's out and about at night, you can find her feeding herself from a colleague who just didn't know any better and came along with her. She covers up her tracks, of course, but one night, that's when it all goes down the drain. A body in an alleyway, a vampiric murder it would seem, causes an arising panic among the police, and she is just the one for the job. But perhaps it won't be as easy as it might seem, for she'll be followed with her every move by someone who suspects her of being the murderer. By a girl, a junior cop named Jolene. And finally, the demon Shazi. Not much to say about her... or is there? Known for causing trouble and lots of chaos, you'll be surprised by what this albino demon is capable of.