Guardians of the Gate City Series

Harry Lionsey is one of a group of secret guardians. Humans share the earth with all the many secret races of myths and legends and it is Harry's job to protect all those who live in the Gate City. Be you human, faerie, shifter or sprite, as long as you are on the side of good he will help and defend you; but if you are out to harm them, watch out. Doesn't matter what race you are. If you harm the innocent he will find you and stop you.   This is a collection of short stories. This first book brings together all the previously published short stories and now includes a never before seen novella.    

The Gate city has grown too large for one Guardian to protect and the Powers That be have Decided Harry needs some help.   Maeve Trolls Daughter runs from Boston to Nashua to escape the clutches of Simon head of the vampire Clan Toriba. Working as a private investigator she investigates fir both human and Others. She has a secret that she keeps under wraps. She is a nascent wizard and when things get interesting she and one other are tested to become Harry's assistants.

True bards are extremely rare, no matter the world and one who can hear the music of the world even more so. Jessalin is just such a bard. For years she has fought a losing battle for the very soul of a world. When the battle is finally lost she falls through a gate into the world of the  Guardians. Can she find a place in Harry's world and maybe find the strength to move past all she has lost. 

Mary runs a soup kitchen in the Queen city. It is a small place, a place that no questions are asked. You can come in for a cup of coffee, a bowl of soup or a hot dinner. It was a place that she could hide who and what she used to be. But when a tall stranger walks in from the rain, things change. Old enemies will return and the stranger is more than he seems. Can Mary trust him and let him know just who and what she is? Only time can tell.   A Guaridans of the Gate city outside story   This is dark fiction and has themes of predjudice and physical violence.

My name is Kellie and I'm a single mother of four. I do all the things you expect, cook, clean, take the youngest to her clubs and oh yeah, I talk to ghosts. In the Gate city there are a lot of interesting stories and not all of them come from those still alive, human or Other.    When I get called in by an old friend to check out a crime scene, I had to use my other gift. Talking to ghosts is just like a normal conversation, but using psychomtery on a blood stain to track criminals was not something I like to do. Just who was the man who had his blood spilled and why does this vision seem to have something to do with my ex? Only time will tell.

Lee has an ability to pull dark magic from the world around her. She quietly cleans up the bits and pieces that attach themselves to the peple and places that would slowly be poisoned if it isn't cleansed. Over the years she has quietly worked behind the scenes making the world safer one act of service at a time.    When someone planted a dark seed into a sacred place she has asked to come in and remove it. Little did she know that in doing so she would be taking on a world of trouble from her own past. Two men, who she loved will return. One wanting the magic she has sealed, the other to help her. Which one is which? All she knows that she needs to protect the city that she lives in from a madness from her past.

Angela has spent the past five years living a quiet life, using her talent and raising her daughter in peace far from the land of her birth. When a stranger needs her help she does what she can. The secrets held for years come to light when she finds out he is from land land she fled from. Can Aiden protect Angela and her very special daughter from a man who wants to take the child and control their fate?

Kit has lived in the Gate city for years in secret. A glamour hides her true self and she has found a stable life working as a barista in a cafe. Horrors from her past return under a new face and she will need help from the city's Guardian and a friend who wants to be more.   This is the seventh book in the Guardians of the Gate City series.

Urban legends have always existed, but with the rise of movies, television shows and net shows they have exploded. Most of the legends are just harmless ways to scare each other but some come out of the collective unconscious and take on physical form. Ellie Walker is the Scribe and her job is to send those escaped legends back into the fictional world before they grow too strong. When her parents die she returns to Nashua and hopes for a peaceful time to finish her current manuscript before her deadline but a Scribe's live is never calm. She meets the Guardian and finds an attraction but also there is a new Photophage out there and something is very different about it. Will she be able to send back with Harry's help or will this be the end of thirty years of being the Scribe?