Annie Reed

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  • Bibliography:
    140 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2010
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Book List in Order: 140 titles

  • Firebug

    An empty, rundown house. An unlocked door. Two kids with a stolen lighter and a need to watch something burn. Award-winning writer Annie Reed's deadly tale of what happens when best friends, out for a little fun, take their new game one...

  • The Galaxy's Most Wanted

    A little lie here, an embellishment there, what's the harm?One would-be Lothario discovers exactly how inventive a woman scored can be when the morning after doesn't quite live up to the night before. What's a guy to do when...

  • The Case of the Missing Elf

    Christmas comes early for private investigator Dee and her partner, the grumpy but drop-dead-gorgeous elf Dizzy G, when Santa's elves hire Diz and Dee to find Santa's missing stand in. Santa's taken a sabbatical, and only one elf at the North Pole...

  • Roger's Christmas Wish

    A heart-warming story of Christmas through a child's eyes from award-winning writer Annie Reed. Life hasn't been the same for young Roger since his grandmother moved in, taking his room and making his parents unhappy. Roger knows...

  • Homeless

    A heartwarming story of redemption from Annie Reed, the award-winning author of "Reunion."The old gods left the earth long ago, yet Hera remained behind, forgotten and abandoned. Once the haughty wife of Zeus himself, now she wanders the st...

  • Hunters

    Shelly used to be human. Now she hides her true nature behind a bass guitar and a low-rent rock band persona, always on the lookout for the perfect prey to feed her never-ending hunger. She chooses her victims carefully. But in a world where...

  • Night Passage

    For Joleen, a single mom, a middle of the night drive from Las Vegas to Reno with her angry, rebellious teenage daughter turns perilous when a tire blows on her old car, stranding Joleen and her daughter, Casey, alone on the two-lane desert highway, ...

  • Reboot

    On the eve of his retirement, time travel hero Langford Russell discovers a deadly secret about the program he helped pioneer. Langford thought the program merely observed history. Instead, the program used Lang and other time travelers like...

  • After

    What comes after we're done with this life? For elderly cartoonist Belle Creedy, a news story about the scattering of Jerry Garcia's ashes near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco the day before leaves her with a keen sense of her own mortalit...



  • For a Few Lattes More

    Terri grew up watching spaghetti Westerns on TV. She never expected to meet a real cowboy, especially not one who parks his horse in front of the Starbucks where grad-student Terri works nights.Talk about your disappointment! Movie cowboys were the e...

  • Omens and Oracles and Eros, Oh My

    Private detectives Diz and Dee return in a brand new holiday mystery. No less than the God of Love himself, Eros (he doesn't like the name Cupid), hires Dee and her grumpy but gorgeous elf partner Diz to find his missing daughter. Dyte disappeared af...

  • One Sun, No Waiting

    An award-winning story of hope and compassion at the end of the world from Annie Reed, author of PRETTY LITTLE HORSES.Time is running out for Jimmy, an old Nevada motel owner. He still runs The Forty Winks pretty much the way his daddy did. Jimmy in...

  • Changeling

    The cops call the dockside neighborhoods of Moretown Bay "South of 40th." The locals call it The Shadows. Anything illegal with a magical bent can be bought or sold in The Shadows, and in this neighborhood, drug deals and prostitution and territor...

  • Famous

    Jeremy has a plan. He wants to make a name for himself. He even has one picked out: Lady Killer. Like any virtuoso, Jeremy's practiced his art. Now he's ready for a real kill. Tonight he's hunting for the perfect victim in The Shadows, a pla...

  • Human Interest

    Paradise. A wind-swept mining town on a far-flung planet, and the latest stop for Samuel, a burned-out vid reporter stuck on the human interest circuit. Paradise. A town on the edge of the Big Nothing, the black emptiness between galaxies....

  • Just My Luck

    Human precog Dee and her gorgeous elf partner Diz make a great team. So why would Dee investigate a case without him? With Diz off for the day doing some mysterious “elf thing,” Dee agrees to search on her own for the missing love of her new cli...

  • My Father, The Popsicle

    Jodi thought she was an orphan, right up until a lawyer contacts her out of the blue to ask what she intends to do about her father. It turns out Jodi's father had himself cryogenically frozen. Only now the company that's kept him...

  • Ties That Bind

    Nell, a wizard in her own right, inherited not only her father's spellbook when he died, but also his position as wizard in charge of the largest magical enhancements company in Moretown Bay. A company with a big-time problem.Nell's company produces...

  • My Cousin, the Rabbit

    Instead of eggs, this Easter private detective Dee and her grumpy but gorgeous elf partner Diz find themselves on the hunt for Dee's missing cousin. The Easter season's been tough on Harold ever since a budding wizard turned him-temporarily...



  • Patient Z

    Madge didn't intend to uncork a plague. She just went dumpster diving like she did every night, lifting recycles from other people's trash to turn into a little extra cash. Sure, she cut her hand on a broken bottle and now she's got...

  • Bait

    Sarah, George, and Holly, three survivors with nothing in common except a serious need not to be eaten. Former party-girl Holly thinks she's tough. She can take care of herself in this new world of the undead. Sure, she hooked up with S...

  • Cleo and the Scout

    Cleo's superstitious neighbors think she's a witch. Cleo wants them to. She worked hard over the centuries to learn to disguise her true form beneath a ragged shawl and long skirts, and she's happy with her status as the neighborhoo...

  • Iris and Ivy, a Tale from The Shadows

    Iris and Ivy, not so identical twins. Ivy - a wild child, always up for a good time. Iris - practical and rule-bound, her magic kept under tight control. Ivy - murdered by a man she didn't know. Iris - on the hunt for her sister & a...

  • Jessie

    Tommy knows the rules. Stay off the logs on the beach. Walk near the water but don't get your feet wet. And if the sick try to get you, don't stop to think - just drop, roll, and run away fast. Tommy's still alive because he...

  • The Liar

    Who would you spend time with if time itself was running out?Marie chooses to spend her last few hours with the people she loves. She tells each one they're her favorite, but they know Marie lies, even to herself. It's what she doe...

  • Names in the Sand

    Cissy never planned on being a widow at fifty-four. She never planned on praying for her husband to die. After losing her husband to cancer, newly-widowed Cissy takes a solo car trip along the Oregon coast in the hope of reliving hap...

  • The Warrior Women of Apartment 3-C

    Beware a roommate with a sword. Or better yet, beware a roommate with an enchanted sword, an annoying fianc?, and a video game addiction. Rose just wants a quiet night's sleep alone in her room with her cat. Instead, thanks to her...

  • The Forever Soldier and Other Future Tales

    Five stories of a distant -- and not so distant -- future. The title story "The Forever Soldier" features a far-future infantry soldier who can't stop fighting, no matter how many times she dies. A journalist searching for that one big story in "Huma...

  • Lady of the Deep

    Beneath the calm water of a man-made lake lurks a terrible secret. When his girlfriend convinces Greg to spend a sweltering day at the lake, he figures he'll come home with a dandy case of sunburn. He doesn't expect he might not come home a...



  • Uncle Charlie's Toy Store

    Uncle Charlie likes kids. He likes kids so much he even has his own television show just for kids and a toy store with every kind of toy a kid could want. Uncle Charlie's toy store is five-year-old Daniel's favorite place. Right up until Unc...

  • A Most Unserious Dragon

    Mordived doesn't want to be a very serious dragon like his father, or even simply a serious dragon like his older brother. Rather than slay knights and eat virgins, Mordived wants to make people laugh. Of course, such career aspirations...

  • Night of the Cruisers

    The past doesn't always sneak up on the guilty. For mob gunman Vince Servitto, the past comes roaring back wrapped in steel and chrome, and packing a serious need for retribution. Vince ratted out his fellow mobsters to save his own skin. Stuck in ...

  • Ella and Mo

    Survivors come in all shapes and sizes. Take Ella. A normal kid before the undead destroyed Las Vegas, now Ella packs a gun instead of a teddy bear. Or how about Mo? A small-time hood before Ella took over his life, Mo spends his days driving his...

  • Harley and the Alien

    A lot of things in George Wannamaker's life didn't go according to plan. A simple little recon mission left him stranded in the desert north of Reno for decades. Who could blame him for wanting a family?Well, his bosses might....

  • The Patient Z Files

    Whether you call them zombies or the infected or creepers, one thing's certain -- the undead changed the world forever for the survivors in these five stories of the zombie apocalypse. The first story in Annie Reed's popular zombie series and the tit...

  • They Lie

    Imagine driving home alone at night. You roll your window down, stop at a red light, and fiddle with the radio. Then you die. That's just the beginning of award-winning writer Annie Reed's story THEY LIE, the harrowing tale o...

  • Eight from the Silver State

    Award-winning writer Annie Reed likes to scare us, charm us, haunt us, and make us fall in love. She does all of this and more in this collection of stories set in her home state of Nevada. A lonely desert highway provides the backdrop for a mother a...

  • Thief

    Before Abby Maxon became a private investigator, she was a victim of crime. When campus security shows no interest in finding the man who stole her purse, college student Abby Maxon embarks on her first unofficial investigation. But tracking...

  • Essy and the Christmas Kitten

    From award-winning writer Annie Reed comes the heartwarming holiday story of a lonely, broken woman and the orphaned kitten who transforms her life. Essy doesn't celebrate Christmas anymore. Not since she lost her family to a sudden act of...



  • Pretty Little Horses

    Predator or prey? On the Internet, how can you tell? When private investigator Abby Maxon answers a call for help from an old college friend, she never expects to find herself searching for a missing teenage girl. Abby investigates accidents and trac...

  • Chance of Bunnies, with Occasional Toad

    Something wonderful - something magical - happened to Cecily when she was ten. Or did it?A visit to one of her favorite childhood places gives Cecily one last chance to find the magic she lost growing up, not only for herself, but f...

  • Don't Touch

    The locals call the dockside neighborhoods of Moretown Bay "The Shadows." In The Shadows, drug deals and prostitution don't hold a candle to the magical crimes the locals pretend not to see, because paying attention to what goes on after...

  • How We Danced

    The stroke that robbed Claudia of the use of her body left something magical behind-a doorway to the Other Place. A happy place where she can escape the limitations of the real world for a little while. If only she had someone to share it wi...

  • Soulmate From Hell

    For a low-level minion, Reba had a nice thing going, if you can call working the Soulmate Request Desk in Hell a nice thing. Then a pert young blonde named Paulette sent in a soulmate request the Boss decided to fill in a most unusual way.R...

  • A Most Romantic Dragon

    Mordived, the unserious dragon, returns in a brand new adventure! Mordived expected nothing more of life than time to practice his comedy routines and catch the occasional wild pig for a midnight snack. He never expected to fall in love, but...

  • Tales From The Shadows

    In this five-story collection, award-winning writer Annie Reed takes us on a bone-chilling tour down the mean streets of The Shadows, a place where dark magic and crime rule the night. A man obsessed by his wife's death finds more than he bargained f...

  • Dead Things

    For years, Jerry fantasized about killing his wife. The Jerry who lived in his head had no problem smothering, stabbing, or even poisoning his nagging, control-freak of a wife, but real Jerry couldn't bring himself to do so much as disagree w...

  • First Steps

    Fifty years ago Callie fell in love with her best friend. High-school sweethearts who spent their lives together, Callie still loves her husband, but most days Jed doesn't even know who she is. Frustrated with her life and worried about her f...

  • Reunion

    Food connects us, each to the other. For one orphan raised by adoptive parents, an elaborate meal prepared for strangers becomes an unexpected gateway to a heritage beyond her wildest imagining. Beth leads an ordinary if somewhat solitary li...



  • Rolo the Great

    Love comes in all sizes in this heartwarming contemporary fantasy from Annie Reed, the award-winning author of "Reunion."Rolo the Great, a courtly, pint-sized peddler of tourist trinkets, has at last found the woman of his dreams...

  • Strike Two

    Pickpocket Lenny Masterson has two rules he never breaks: no working kids in packs, and don't mess with anybody connected. But Las Vegas is a tough town for a small-time thief, and sometimes a guy like Lenny has to do almost anything to survi...

  • A Death in Cumberland

    The first murder investigation of Sheriff Jill Jordan's career might be her last. Engaged in a hard-fought election against her own chief deputy, Jill finds herself faced with the first murder in rural Cumberland, Nevada, in over a decade. The bludge...

  • Another Door

    After warring alien armies decimate the Earth, one Iowa farmer struggles to put her life back together.The aliens who invaded Earth didn't care about the land, not like Mavis Trimble does. Together with her husband, Mavis made the farm where she live...

  • The New Year that Almost Wasn't

    Award-winning author Annie Reed rings in the holiday season with a Diz and Dee mystery sure to warm the heart on a cold winter's night. Dee always thought Baby New Year was just a clever advertising gimmick-right up until Baby New Year To-B...

  • Actual Darkness

    In a world where the sun's dying, an unstable woman shatters the friendship of two Las Vegas cab drivers. Even with the world coming to an end, the Strip's still in business and people in Las Vegas still need a ride. With his daddy...

  • In Dreams

  • Love Among the Llamas

    Tired of her dead-end job and barren love life, Kate decides one morning to chuck it all and just keep driving east on the freeway. A whole wide wonderful world full of exciting possibilities waits for her beyond the horizon, and it's about time s...

  • It's a Crime

    Five stories of crime, criminals, and people who refuse to remain victims. In "Missy and the Man," a little girl gets more than she bargained for when she sneaks into her neighbor's garage to see his new kittens. The baseball-loving pickpocket in "St...

  • Missy and the Man

    Five-year-old Missy loves adventures. She loves playing with dolls in her parents’ big back yard. Most of all, Missy loves cats, but her daddy won’t let her have one of her own.Their neighbor has a cat and brand new baby kittens. He’s not a ...

  • Bluesman

    Johnny learned to play the blues, Delta style, when he was just a kid. He learned about the curse back then, too, the one that strikes down the best and brightest musicians in their twenty-seventh year. But Johnny's a grown man now, and...

  • The Bobs

    Jane's mom loves her new tablet. It listens to her (unlike her husband) and does everything she asks it to do (unlike her daughter). She even gave it a name: Bob. Jane has a sneaking suspicion there's more to Bob the Tablet than meets the ey...

  • Here, Kitty Kitty

    Dee and her gorgeous but grumpy elf partner Diz find missing people for a living. Tracking down a fairy’s missing ceramic cat should be a snap, right?Wrong.Dee should have known any case involving one of the fey would lead to disaster. Much less a...

  • Hunger in Blue

    Matthew Reynolds turned himself into the perfect cop. He purchased the perfect uniform. Worked for years to get his body in perfect shape. Practiced his cop's stare for hours in front of a mirror to master the perfect mix of intimidation and...

  • Long, Slow Suicide

    Eli Goshen loves his wife. He has for over fifty years. He's always taken care of her, but when she takes an unexpected gambling trip to Reno and fails to return, he has no choice but to hire a private detective to find her.A detective who'...

  • Self Defense

    Annie Reed, award-winning author of PRETTY LITTLE HORSES, returns with a powerful story of a mother and son who both must learn how to stand up to the bullies in their lives. When Miriam's son tries to defend himself against schoolyard...

  • The Shape of a Name

    A remarkable story of one woman's struggle against poverty and oppression from Annie Reed, the award-winning author of PRETTY LITTLE HORSES. Spanning forty years, "The Shape of a Name" follows Anoosheh, a little girl orphaned during the war...

  • Carl of the Bells

    From award-winning writer Annie Reed comes the story of a holiday scam gone wrong in all the right ways. Always on the hunt for a way to make a quick buck, Joe's good buddy Carl thinks this year he's hit on a winner. Most of Carl & a...

  • New Pages

    Eight stories celebrating the inner strength and courage of women by award-winning writer Annie Reed. From a little girl orphaned in the war in Afghanistan to a widow learning to cope with life on her own to the woman who discovers an unexpected ch...

  • The Magic of Home, an Uncollected Anthology story

    A young elf risks everything to save a magical creature imprisoned in chrome and steel.Twig never planned to return to Moretown Bay. To the makeshift family of misfits and hustlers and working girls she?d abandoned long ago. But when Twig and her fri...

  • The Magic of Home

    A young elf risks everything to save a magical creature imprisoned in chrome and steel. Twig never planned to return to Moretown Bay. To the makeshift family of misfits and hustlers and working girls she'd abandoned long ago. But when Twig...

  • Paper Bullets

    One simple favor for her ex plunges private investigator Abby Maxon into a deadly game of cat and mouse. The job seems easy enough: find the man who's been stalking her ex-husband's girlfriend. Even though the last thing Abby wants to do i...

  • The Snow Queen

    A transplanted Midwesterner, Gunther misses snow and all the winter fun he used to have as a kid. Sledding with his sister on his family's farm. Warming up in front of a roaring fireplace with a mug of hot chocolate after a rousing snowball fight....

  • Love Stinks, Inc.

    It seemed like a good idea at the time. Dyte, the immortal daughter of Cupid and Psyche, started her anti-Valentine's Day business as a way to get even with her dad after he scared away her first real boyfriend. She just never expected Lov...

  • Rites of Passage

    Finn guards this world from the monsters from the other side. Slays their servants before they can finish creating passageways into our world for their masters. Important work. Lonely work. Work that killed Finn's own master when he got ca...

  • The Library of Orphaned Hearts

    The books in Gretta's library contain something far more precious than words. Something she lost herself in her youth and thought gone forever until a stranger made of shadows and smiles handed her a key and a book she couldn't read. The b...

  • All Hallows' Hangover

    Teddy woke up the day after Halloween with the mother of all hangovers. The kind that comes complete with wagging tail and a lack of opposable thumbs. Tabby owns a magic shop that carries just what Teddy needs, but Tabby's dealing wi...

  • Lights! Camera! Action?

    Private detectives Diz and Dee have worked for some pretty odd clients. Leprechauns. Fairies. The occasional Greek God. Even Dee's mother. But their newest client could be the oddest yet. Horror movie director Morte (...

  • Tramps & Thieves

    She tells fortunes for a living like her mother before her. She's just another working stiff, but don't mistake her for a con artist. Her magic is real. She'll read your tea leaves or your aura, or predict your future from a deck of cards....

  • The Fixer

    When Amelia botched her first spell as a kid, her parents grounded her. And then they enrolled her in an after-school program that taught her how to fix her screw ups. She loved it so much she decided to open her own business helping peopl...

  • The Last Night at the Crowley

    People say haunted houses contain the longings and nightmares of the dead who couldn't leave their lives behind. But what about places where the living left parts of their souls behind? Where singers and musicians willingly played their he...

  • Deadbeats

    Cops have a name for dangerous wizards. Warlock. Warlocks use magic to kill. To kidnap. To inflict the kind of bodily harm that would drive a mere mortal insane. Ever since she joined the police department, Willie wanted to...

  • On Hallow's Eve

    Celebrate Halloween with these spooky, creepy tales. On that darkest night of the year, when the veil between the ordinary world and the world of scares and imagination fades away, treat yourself to stories that thrill and chill you. Some tales are s...

  • Unbroken Familiar

    Nothing can break the bond between a familiar and a wizard. Except death. Nothing can break the spirit of a bonded familiar. Except the murder of her wizard. Someone-or some thing-murdered an elderly wizard who prac...

  • Brick Houses

  • Pulphouse Fiction Magazine

    The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up fifteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitatio...

  • The Outlaw of Ghost City

    The Outlaw killed more people during his lifetime than he could count.Good men. Bad men. Lawmen. Made no difference to him. They all kissed the dirt when he drew the pistols he wore low on his hips.The Outlaw ruled the Old West with bullets and blood...

  • Fiction River: Feel the Love

    Love. An essential and important part of the human experience. And in Feel the Love, editor Mark Leslie takes readers on a journey through the various forms of that powerful emotion. From the heartwarming to the heartbreaking, these eighteen talente...

  • Wings Of Change

    Tales of wise, ancient dragons hoarding treasure, terrorizing villages, and doing battle with noble heroes have long fascinated us. But dragons were not born old and wise, nor were heroes born brave and noble.Wings of Change gathers tales of young dr...

  • Faster

    Jackson's not a normal high school kid, but he has no idea just how special he is.Stuck in the foster system with a body that's slowly betraying him, Jackson struggles just to make it through every day without attracting attention.Attention from doct...

  • Big Bad Wolf

    Carla hated blind dates.Hard enough just living in the city and trying to fit in with a bunch of regular people who didn't know she was a werewolf.Why didn't everyone believe her when she told them she liked being single? No attachments? No commitmen...

  • Fantasy Portals

    Whether you're sucked in, you fall into it or you see it and decide to explore what's beyond, a portal is always an opening to a great adventure. From our world to others, alone or in good company, our heroes and heroines reach "somewhere" down the r...

  • Iris & Ivy, a Moretown Bay novel

    How far will one woman go to catch a killer?Iris finds her quiet life torn apart after the murder of her identical twin. Ivy's ghost can't rest until her killer's brought to justice, only there's one big problem.The killer's a changeling, a magical c...

  • Hunter by Night

    For some people, the silver lining comes before the storm.Colton's happy life shattered into a million pieces when a changeling kidnapped his pregnant wife. The police never caught the kidnapper—difficult to do when a changeling can shift thei...

  • Snot-Nosed Aliens

    From Book 1: HE LOST HER ONCE. HE’LL DIE BEFORE LOSING HER AGAIN.

    Growing up, she was his best friend's little sister. For years, he's kept his distance. Now, it may be too late.

    Former Delta Force Operator Jake McQueen can handle...

  • Room 308

    Magic comes with a price. Misuse it at your peril.Claire's been an entertainer all her life, and everywhere she's traveled, a battered black suitcase went with her. When she performed as a stage magician/comedian, the suitcase held her props, each on...

  • The Diz & Dee Holiday Mysteries

    A light-hearted blend of mystery and magic mixed with a healthy dose of holiday charm.INCLUDES A BRAND NEW THANKSGIVING STORY ONLY AVAILABLE IN THIS BOOK.Not all mysteries happen on the holidays, but human precog Dee and her grumpy but gorgeous elf p...

  • Crimes of Yesteryear

    From Virginia City in the days of the gold rush to the west of the 1950s, from the Great Depression to the fall of the Berlin Wall, these stories of crimes in days gone by will not only chill your blood but touch your heart. Meet a deputy sheriff inv...

  • Spells Gone Bad

    Some spells start life evil, others just turn out that way.In this collection by award-winning writer Annie Reed, meet an evil warlock who crafts his spells in a modern mall, an Old West gunslinger who crosses the wrong wizard, and a water spirit tra...

  • Magic From the Heart

    Are you a romantic at heart? Then this book's for you!Love—in all its various forms—and magic go hand in hand in the stories in this collection from award-winning writer Annie Reed. Meet a gallant street peddler determined to rescue the l...

  • Not What They Seem

    What you see is not what you get.Shapeshifters. Changelings. Were-creatures. Beings who live in the shadows, hiding their true selves from the world.The stories in this collection from award-winning writer Annie Reed will take you down the dark alley...

  • Unexpected Aliens

    Little green men from Alpha Centauri? Not always. And not what you'll get in this collection by award-winning writer Annie Reed. Annie puts her unique twist on these six stories of unexpected alien encounters. Meet a grandfather protecting ...

  • Life With Cats

    An absolutely purrfect book for cat lovers everywhere. A heart-warming collection of stories featuring our favorite feline companions. Meet a ginger kitty who comforts those who've experienced a loss, a fairy cat battling to save the person...

  • Everyday Magic

    Everyday magic. The kind you might see from the corner of your eye when the magic thinks you aren't looking. The kind of magic that makes life special. That's what you'll find in this collection from award-winning writer Annie Reed. Fr...

  • What Lives Beneath

    Leave the path at your peril. Especially when the path marks the only safe passage through an underground city buried deep beneath the surface of the modern world.Karen enjoys her work as a guide for the City Beneath the City tour—except for th...

  • Unexpected Monsters

    Vampires and werewolves and zombies, oh my! But not how you'd usually expect them. How about a retelling of The Three Little Pigs were the wolves aren't exactly what they seem? Or a warrior who's getting a little long in the tooth facing an...

  • Dancing Across the Canyon

    Sugar and her family always danced away the night on Christmas Eve.They danced to mix tapes Sugar made with all of her momma’s favorite holiday music. Sugar and her momma and daddy and her brothers. All the aunts and uncles and cousins. All dre...

  • Unexpected Holidays

    Christmastime, but with a twist. That's what you'll find in this latest edition of the Unexpected series. Celebrations that will surprise you while they warm your heart in the very best way. Feel-good stories to cozy up with on a cold winter's n...

  • Unexpected Criminals

    Quiet criminals. The kind you might not notice at first glance. Sociopaths? Killers in hiding? Or just someone with a long-buried secret? Award-winning mystery writer Annie Reed brings these characters and more to life in this collection of stor...

  • Unexpected Good Guys

    Quiet heroes. The ones who don't call attention to themselves. The ones who make a difference. Who make life better for strangers they never met. Or who avenge the innocents society can't or won't protect. Spend time with a few of thes...

  • Unexpected Futures

    How will the world end? In a flash of nuclear fire? Or the endless night of a sun gone inexplicably dark? Or perhaps the loss of all the electronic data that makes the modern world go round? Maybe just with the quiet disappearance of most o...

  • Hole-in-the-Wall Shrink

    The law of equivalent exchange. The bedrock of the practice of alchemy.For the owner of a hole-in-the-wall bar, a little alchemy from an unexpected source turns out to be the perfect way to keep her business afloat. Enhance a few bottles of high-clas...

  • Unexpected Encounters

    Unexpected encounters can change your life in amazing ways.Take the neighbors you've never met who hide their lives behind drawn curtains. Or the furtive family you see late at night at your local pizza parlor. Or the old woman who might hide a heart...

  • Unexpected Travels

    People often dream of taking the road less traveled. But would they really?What if that road took them to a different reality? A place where video games came to life, or a magical world trapped in the belly of brass statue? Or deep beneath the surfac...

  • Unexpected Hauntings

    Ghost and apparitions and things that go bump in the night, oh my!The stories in these pages take traditional ghost stories and turn them on their ear. From a ghost who's haunted by an apparition of his own to a teenage entrepreneur who unwittingly o...

  • Unexpected Family

    From an orphan who discovers she's not all alone in this world after all, to a young woman whose sudden compulsion reveals relatives she never dreamed she had…From a grieving father unable to let go of the memory of his son, to a woman with un...

  • Maggie's Missing Mojo

  • Unexpected Critters

    From a mouse with a compulsion to paint the monster who lives in his house to a very special cat ready to battle to the death to protect her person…From a grieving young woman who discovers magic thanks to the rabbits who hide beneath the bush...

  • Unexpected Killers

    From a deputy sheriff investigating the murder of a young woman at a 1950s dude ranch catering to guests establishing residency for a divorce to a woman trying to cope with the aftermath of a sudden, brutal attack…From a daughter raised to pro...

  • The Contract

    Contracts.Love 'em or hate 'em, they ensure the cogs of a deal mesh together.By force, if necessary.Come read about the criminal side of contracts, of what can go right, wrong, or completely off the rails.Be sure to pick up the former issues of Myste...

  • Crazy Christmas Capers

    Laugh at holiday escapades that go from bad to worse and shenanigans that just might land these characters on Santa's naughty list!Contains stories by Annie Reed, Rebecca M. Senese, L.D.B. Taylor, Lauryn Christopher, C.J. Mattison, Katharina Gerlach,...

  • Mis-Spelled

    Just one simple little spell. What’s the harm in that?Maggie never meant to violate her Great Aunt Matilda’s Number Two Rule (Do No Harm) when she cast a spell to help her heartbroken best friend. Because really, who breaks up with somebo...

  • Unexpected Christmas

    From a detective called by an old friend to investigate a decidedly odd crime to a couple whose lives are irrevocably changed by the power of a wish…From private investigator Dee and her hunky partner Diz as they try to track down her sister's...

  • The Code

    Woe be to those who call themselves pirate and fail to abide by the Code.The Code. Not the guidelines written by pirates of old, but the true Code handed down by the sea herself.In another life, Killian called himself pirate. Now he has a far deadlie...

  • Like Our Fathers Before Us

    Long before men mined gold and silver in the Old West, Beau grew up in a beautiful land in the east filled with magic and light and the joy of living. A beautiful green land Beau’s elvish kin had sworn to protect.Then men arrived from across th...

  • Gray Lady Rising

    Powerhouse writers Robert Jeschonek and Annie Reed join forces to bring you the first book in a rousing new series that proves you're never too old to kick some ass.Thirty years ago, military armor jock Augusta Gus Light led a last-ditch battle to sa...

  • Bad Night on the 13th Floor

    An office Christmas party turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse for one young lawyer caught in the middle. Martie, a first-year associate with a powerhouse San Francisco law firm, expected to fade into the background at her firm's annual Chr...

  • A Christmas Reunion

    Jeannie Carlson thought she'd be spending all her Christmases alone. Her husband, the one true love of her life, passed away unexpectedly in January, leaving Jeannie a widow at forty-two. When an invitation to her Christmas-themed high school re...

  • Pieces of Lisie

    Abner Wellington poured everything he had into his art. His hopes. His dreams. And above all else, his love for a woman named Lisie. Up and coming artist Abner Wellington met Lisie at a party for wealthy patrons. Sponsors who could aff...

  • Unexpected Cats

    Six fantastic stories of decidedly unexpected felines and the people—and critters—who cross their paths.Meet a budding entrepreneur whose business takes a hard left when a ghostly Siamese kitty makes her life all sorts of interesting.Find...

  • The Wizard Behind the Curtain

    Diz and Dee, our favorite private investigators, are back in their longest—and wildest—adventure yet! Dee should know better. Whenever her mom asks for a simple little favor, like tracking down who trashed her craft store and stole h...

  • Gray Lady's Revenge

    Retired military armor jock Augusta Gus Light—nickname Gray Lady—and charming smuggler Mephistopheles Drake risked everything to put down a bloody rebellion on Shepard's Moon. The free people of Shepard's Moon, including her estranged s...

  • The Invitation

    For one twelve-year-old wizard in training, a mundane chore on Christmas Eve Eve transports him to a magickal world beyond his imagination. A world populated by impossible ships and talking specks of light.A world where he encounters things he never ...

  • Road of No Return

    FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, NICK JAMES DID THE RIGHT THING. HE reported a crime. But doing the right thing came at a terrible cost: the loss of everything and everyone he held dear. Nick James used to be a cop with a promising career. Now he works as a b...

  • The Protector

    A monster stalks the unwary on the foggy streets of San Francisco. A serial killer disguised as an ordinary, everyday, unremarkable man.But he’s not the only hunter in the city.The Protector has returned to the city by the bay. She travels thro...

  • Unexpected Santas

    Everyone's favorite Jolly Old Elf takes center stage in six surprising stories from the inventive mind of award-winning writer Annie Reed. From an old guy just trying to remain useful in today's ever-changing world to a backfiring spell that lands a ...

  • The Changeling and the Judge

    Five days a week no-nonsense Judge Malvina Dockerty, star of the daytime TV courtroom show Dockerty’s Docket, hands down decisions with her infamous judicial acumen, acerbic wit, and take-no-prisoners attitude. She cuts through to the heart of ...

  • Sweet Valentines

    Looking for love in all the wrong places? If you love a good romance, your search ends here. These eleven stories hit the heart-shaped target of love that romantics of every age crave, as accurately as Cupid can.Find love in the past, present, and fu...

  • Gray Lady's Gambit

    THE WAIT IS OVER!! Get ready for the exciting conclusion to the battle for the heart of the Alliance in Book 3 of the Gray Lady series, GRAY LADY'S GAMBIT!Jorritz Tor, empire-building megalomaniac, is out for revenge. Augusta Gus Light, the Gray Lady...

  • Guardians of the Bay

    Elias Sandoval makes his living playing songs for tourists at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. He'll play whatever tunes make his listeners happy. He never expected to get a request for a classical song seemingly out of thin air.Playing that one s...

  • Street Justice

    The Special Ops Team of the Bureau of Unlicensed Magical Practitioners keeps the citizens of Moretown Bay safe from wizards and warlocks who use their magic to hurt innocents. The team makes sure these criminals get the justice they so richly deserve...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Annie Reed has published 140 books.

Annie Reed does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Guardians of the Bay, was published in April 2025.

The first book by Annie Reed, Firebug, was published in September 2010.

No. Annie Reed does not write books in series.
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