Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The regulars at Spirit Winds’ Thursday night blackjack tournament never call attention to themselves. Some are retired, some are a little shady, so...

Rena lost everything when her husband and son died in a fiery car accident. Now she has only her daily swim at the rec center, where she hopes no o...

Winston’s familiar Ruby, a small black cat, avoids dogs. So when Winston sees her talking quietly with a toy poodle-Chihuahua mix, he wants to know...

When a beautiful but scared woman tries to hire Winston for a certain kind of spell, he wonders why. Winston possesses only small magic, nothing sp...

Buster’s final wish – a Viking funeral. Although Winston, a small magician with a small talent, wants to give his familiar his ideal funeral, he ca...

Ruby had the idea—help the magic users in New Orleans survive Hurricane Katrina. Pretty charitable for a tiny cat. Winston thought he knew why. Th...

Whale Rock Police Chief Jaclyn Tadero faces the Oregon Coast’s version of the perfect storm: a tsunami warning during a winter squall. And thanks t...

When the storm of the century hits Whale Rock, Sheriff Dan Retsler does everything he can to prevent hundreds of deaths. Everything except the thi...

Dan Retsler left Oregon for a reason. He never planned to return. But something draws him to accept an interview for police chief in a small town n...

Sheriff Dan Retsler finally believes in magic. He has to, after all he’s experienced in Whale Rock. But he can’t take it any longer, so he’s moving...

When Detective Mick Hanrahan finds himself subpoenaed back to Seavy County, Oregon, for a homicide case involving his former job, he dreads every ...

Lawyer F. Reed Hamlin has everything—money, success, a small amount of fame. But no close relationships, and no family. Until he hears on the news...

Pamela Jackson’s secrets forced her to change her identity and move to the Oregon Coast. When Pamela finds herself called to jury duty—and worse, ...

Alone for Christmas, Michela longs for the past, the future—anything but the present. The present holds pain, loneliness, longing, loathing. The p...

Centuries ago, a tsunami hit the Oregon Coast, destroying miles of coastline. Now beach erosion reveals the stumps of the dead trees from that disa...

When veteran New York Times reporter Frank Butler vacations at his grandmother’s old house in Bonner Bay, Oregon, he ignores the town’s strange goi...

Triwell doesn’t adopt strays. He feels like a stray himself, a man who has lost everything even though he has a house and an antiquarian bookstore...

  Tenesha McGuire invites her great-grandmother to join an excursion to London’s Imperial War Museum. Tenesha, a chaperone for some high school stu...

An American in Paris, Alex faces Christmas alone—alone and lonely. Hopelessly lonely. He wanders the streets and train stations searching—for some...

  Ragged, hungry, Skye gets abandoned at the door of what looks like a gigantic prison. The Assassins Guild—an impenetrable fortress. Only they let...

Vaadum: the kind of place where vacationers go by accident. When a spaceship arrives at a Vaadum Resort and Casino on fire, with some passengers a...

As Rikki tries to shove a dead body out of the airlock on a space yacht, she finds herself stopped by a stunningly attractive man. Not because he ...

Assassin Halina Layla Orlinskaya no longer kills for her country. She has fled to a space station in the NetherRealm. And now a space yacht has arr...