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    113 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2011
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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  • When Berengere’s husband, the king of Coraise, goes away crusade, his brother Jean assumes the role of Regent -- and makes Berengere and her family “guests” in his chateau.Berengere knows they’re really prisoners, but there’s nothing she ca...








  • What happens when four boys confess to the murder of a woman who died a hundred years ago…? The violent encounter Rowan Everly survived in college jolted awake her psychic power to see past images while holding a related object. At the behest of a ...



  • Once upon a time, a writer journeyed to the enchanting Oregon Coast and took a workshop. Then, drawn by the siren's song of knowledge and craft, she went back and took a whole bunch more. The result? WRITTEN ON THE COAST: THIRTEEN TALES OF MAGIC AND ...



  • Touch not the cat bot a glove… The MacPherson family crest above the door gives Rachael de Young, genealogist and psychic, an unexpected chill. She doesn’t know that by crossing the threshold, her life will change forever. Because the MacPhersons...



  • The usurper king puts a geas on a sorceress and demands she give him the power to change the shape of the land. The geas makes her unable to refuse, but she finds a way to thwart him…a choice that comes with a terrible price. USA Today bestsel...



  • Her parents taught Annalee to never sing, told her she had no talent, despite having a mega-pop-star half-sister. Then a drunken night of karaoke releases Annalee power -- a power her parents had desperately sought to contain. A power that causes gov...



  • Trapped on an island with an abusive husband, Selene struggles with her fear of the sea every day. But when her husband abandons her to drown, the mermaids give Selene the power to exact her revenge. How she chooses to use that power -- and how she f...



  • The Faerie Folk come when the veil between the worlds is thin, spinning their sticky-sweet glamour and stealing children away. The only thing standing in their way: a motorcycle gang made up of broken, lost people who managed to escape from the Fa...



  • ""What does a computer know about love? Have an authentic Gypsy Matchmaker work her magic instead!" The matchmaking magic was passed on through each generation, and my gran, who had raised me from a toddler after my parents died, certainly had the"...






  • Claudia lives a vagabond life, crisscrossing the country doing research for a reality show about American myths and legends.Christmas finds her in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, at a small hotel allegedly haunted by the Lady in White, ...



  • Spurned by a legendary bard, Eithne begs the King of the Selkies for a singing voice that would fill people with greatest emotion. But every gift comes with a price, one she would pay for generations to come. This haunting short story includes the bo...



  • Kimberly reigns as the witchy Martha Stewart of her neighborhood coven…until Philippa moves in across the street, with her snooty English pagan heritage and her magical one-upmanship. When the annual Winter Solstice ritual goes horribly wrong,...



  • Venetian courtesan Catarucia Rigarda Archisani, spurned by her lover, wishes to be so beautiful that she will never be forgotten or ignored. When the capricious gods Venus and Amor grant her the wish, her only escape is to remain masked, except in th...



  • The tragedy of 9/11 raises ghosts and insecurities, opens old wounds. Doug Masterson leaves his wife, Deborah, and embarks on a quest to understand his purpose in the world, while Deborah, with the help of the spirit of a woman who once lived in thei...



  • “When Glynis Mac Tavish went to find the wind…”So begins this short story of loss and longing, inspired by the Highlands of Scotland and Celtic mythology.Glynis, the last of her clan, asks the personification of wind itself only for what she ha...



  • Alone in Glastonbury for the Winter Solstice, American Maggie misses her family, who doesn’t accept her pagan beliefs. Before she can accept herself and be open to love, she’ll have to give up something in the Solstice bonfire. A romantic short s...



  • Layde leads a double life: as a Duchess on the Hll, and as a mysterious assassin in a blood-red cloak. Born without a soulstone, set apart from every other person by her difference, she wanders adrift until she falls in love with Sehra, also a hired ...



  • Tansy and Ki's families are two of the most powerful witch dynasties-and the feud between them puts the Hatfield and McCoys to shame. So why, then, did their parents not care when the two would run off and play as children, lost in their own littl...



  • Marble and granite, alabaster and onyx: all stone speaks to Farais, and she wants nothing more than to be a Sculptor and release their secrets. But Farais is the last one in her family left to recite their lineage, a task at odds with her dreams. To ...






  • Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts-in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they're kind of her only friends. Most ghosts stick around because they're happy here and have no desire to move on. So when she encounters a trapp...




  • The ten stories in SMALL WONDERS each runs no longer than 1500 words, making each one a perfect little bonbon of speculative fiction. Whether you savor each one or gobble up the whole collection, you’ll walk away satisfied. (But unlike a box of cho...



  • Bespelled by a faerie curse. Framed for stealing a baby. Watches her boyfriend get spirited away by the beguiling fae bitch. But Tamara isn’t someone who takes this sort of shit lying down. She has a legacy to uphold, and a boyfriend to rescue…an...



  • Madeleine works at a secret library beneath the New York Public Library, serving her final magical-juvie sentence. If she keeps her head down and does her time, she’ll finally be free. But when the most prized -- and most dangerous books -- are sto...



  • Madeleine works at a secret library beneath the New York Public Library, serving her final magical-juvie sentence. If she keeps her head down and does her time, she’ll finally be free. But when the most prized -- and most dangerous books -- are sto...



  • Esme Blaylock, missing her deployed husband, wants to be curled up in her warm home with her baby daughter on Christmas Eve. Instead she’s at an upstate New York prison, assigned to interview Jennifer Duschanes, who poisoned her own children one ye...



  • Why does a two-thousand-year-old djinn own a convenience store and spice shop in Manhattan?The world has changed, for one thing, and Wadid isn’t proud of some of the things he’s done in the past. But really, he loves that he can help the magical ...



  • Liza feels psychic vibrations from used clothing -- which serves her well in her job as a Hollywood costumer. A stunning midnight-blue 1920s flapper dress tells her Shawn is The One, but in her experience, most actors are cads…and even the nice guy...



  • Hitler seeks the magical Thirteen Treasures of Britain. Vivian, immortal lover of Merlin, faces the task of waking him from his bespelled slumber to guard the treasures -- even though seeing him again breaks her heart.According to legend, the sword D...






  • Widowed Penny ponders selling the beautiful Victorian home she and her late husband shared. After all, the yardwork is more than she can handle…this spring, it looks as though the forest is encroaching.Surely it’s an illusion.But what if it isn...



  • Melody wakes to the scent of amber and vanilla -- the cloying scent her ex-lover wore.The ex-lover who escaped the psychiatric hospital…and kidnapped Melody’s daughter.Called “a nail-biter” by Publisher’s Weekly, “The Scent of Amber and V...



  • An honest politician: far more rare than hedgewitches, at least in Portland, Oregon.When one such politician asks hedgewitches Holly and Willow to investigate whether his rival employs a magical advantage, Holly’s familiar, Cam, must support Holly ...



  • The First Rule of Witchcraft: Harm none.The Second Rule of Witchcraft: Practice magic only when you’re clear of mind.That includes not practicing magic while drunk.When drunken scrying goes awry, Madison connects with Brody, a cute guy trapped…so...



  • “Once upon a time, I was SO screwed…”When Princess’s boss promises a client that Princess can make Oroflex (bendy gold wire) -- which she can’t -- Princess turns to her colleague Bob (not his real name) the Dwarf for help.Unfortunately, Bob...



  • Enjoy the urban fantasy stories of the Uncollected Anthology: Fabulous Familiars now collected in this bundle.From the new familiars trying to learn how to deal with their masters to the old hands dealing with new adventures, these stories will delig...



  • Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts -- in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they’re kind of her only friends. Most ghosts stick around because they’re happy here and have no desire to move on…but sometimes, they need ...



  • Expelled from her previous school for creating disturbing artwork, teenage orphan Zoey just wants to keep her head down and graduate without a fuss from exclusive Lawrence Prep.But something strange and worrisome stalks the privileged halls of the Ma...



  • If you’re gonna buy a spell, go to someone legit. Bargain spells? Well, you get what you pay for…When hapless Roberta comes to Portland hedgewitch Holly asking for help with a botched spell, Holly stumbles into the spell’s trap as well. Her bes...



  • Cassie suffers from a chronic disease and hides her sexuality from her family.Feeling alone and adrift in her new home in Southern California, she turns to crafting little white lies -- and maybe little white spells.But when her only friend disappear...






  • Sixteen and pregnant, Kim thinks Kevin left her behind when he got his orders to a new Air Force base.Thirty years later, Kim’s daughter tracks down Kevin. Happy with her life, Kim still wonders what could have been -- especially when she meets the...



  • Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts-in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they're kind of her only friends. So when the ghost of a 70s British rock god asks her for help finding a song he wrote for his favorite gro...



  • “You’re not supposed to be here. This is the wrong future.”On the brink of figuring out time travel, Tom and Paola became lovers -- despite Tom’s marriage to Jillian.Then Tom died. Only Paola knows he manipulated time itself…and created a d...



  • You’ll laugh…nervously…at these deals with the devil, horrific family dynamics, vengeful spirits…and a little girl who just wants to win the darn pumpkin-carving contest -- is that too much to ask?Join bestselling writer Dayle A. Dermatis as ...



  • No magic in the world can conquer nerves. Alistair Ryan screws up his courage and tells Mr. and Mrs. Bello that he intends to marry their daughter, his beloved Janeen. The Bellos counter with a request: find the missing-and dangero...



  • Annalee S?nger: Siren, smartmouth, spy. (Okay, not exactly that last part.)Her mission: Bring in an Oracle, a woman with the power to predict the future. In a busy casino. Dodging security and bad guys who want the Oracle for themselves....



  • Alyse lost her job and her fianc? in one fell swoop. Her solace? Her weekly visit to the Santa Barbara Zoo's Asian small-clawed otter exhibit. Then she meets zoo employee Matt, who shows her something special about the otters-and herself....



  • Isa juggles being a nanny to tween Gretchen, studying for her MBA, and honing her magical cooking skills. Time for romance? Hah!Then Gretchen casts an ill-advised love spell, and Isa’s world gets turned upside down.In ways nobody -- including Isa, ...



  • Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts -- in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they’re kind of her only friends. So when the ghost of a 70s British rock god asks her for help finding a song he wrote for his favorite groupie...



  • Physician Vera followed her husband, engineer Grigor, into space despite her agoraphobia.When an asteroid damages their small ship, someone must go outside to repair the docking mechanism or their incoming crew will die.Grigor and the captain? Injure...



  • Enhanced feline Cecil keeps his mistress's house free of vermin and keeps his mistress's nerves calm as she prepares to display her inventions at The Great Exhibition of London.But when Her Majesty Victoria asks for their assistance, of course they a...



  • Editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch reaches for the stars with this latest volume of Fiction River Presents. With stories that take the reader from pulse-pounding terror and utter darkness to sheer joy and wish fulfillment, this volume runs the gamut of th...



  • Some kind of weird Sleeping Beauty curse has hit a Portland, Oregon, suburb.Sounds like a case for Hedgewitch sisters Holly and Willow, and Holly's fae familiar, Cam. But weird doesn't begin to describe what's really happening….A new stor...



  • Enter the magical, unpredictable, wonderful world of fairy tales!What if Cinderella was the wicked one, and manipulated her kind, loving stepmother and stepsisters?Is being a handsome, charming prince really as effortless and trouble-free as it seems...



  • Magic invites . . . Curses and blessing, sorcerous time travel, shape-shifters, hidden enchantment and corrupted blood.Magic demands . . .Saving those you love, courage, betrayal and fights against unspeakable forces.Magic promises . . .Last best hop...



  • Teen pageant contestant Annabelle Moss sees her life shattered when her parents die in a car accident. A small ray of hope dawns when Gwendolyn Wentworth, the richest lady in town and former pageant queen, offers to take her in and be her coach.Forme...



  • As above, so below…At 15, Quinn Jacoby disappeared from a Victorian B&B in Portland, OR. Three days later, she returned, but nobody believed her story of going down stairs into another world.Years later, Quinn stumbles upon the same house, now...



  • Umberto Scolari. Engineer. Thinker. Student to Il Maestro himself: Leonard da Vinci. While da Vinci paints and designs machinery for his patrons, Umberto picks up the slack when someone needs a murder solved, a baby reunited with its mother, or ...



  • Biologist Juana Salazar, PhD, believes seaweed the cure to world hunger, and gets the funding to build on-land tanks in Western Africa.But when her research takes a terrifying turn, she faces heartbreak…and a choice she never thought she'd hav...



  • Created to capture the heart of a boy.Created to take down a powerful family of Verona.Created to express emotion like a human, but not to feel emotion.But the time always comes when the creator loses control of his creation….Tangent Online&nb...



  • On her sixteenth birthday, Poppy performs a ritual to enter the Faerie realm.A changeling searching for her real parents, her true home.But in Faerie, the adage Be careful what you wish for takes on a whole new meaning.Tangent Online included Fa...



  • Bree works for a top secret agency in London that protects magical artefacts.Also caring for an ill son, she chafes against being sent to oversee Arianrhod's Wheel during a special full moon.Will temptation to heal her son with the Wheel overwhelm he...



  • All girls have power. Sometimes magic, sometimes bravery, sometimes sheer determination. In this collection, teenage girls face their fears, trust their instincts, and protect those around them…. And in the process, learn more about ...



  • Coyote shapeshifter Elena works for an animal rights group, using her ability to investigate and expose rumors of animal cruelty. Uncovering a high stakes dog-fighting ring proves far more dangerous than she expects. She'll have to use all ...



  • Thrilling and romantic, That Summer on Blue Heron Island is the perfect summer beach read! Elizabeth Sloan's idyllic annual family summer on private Blue Heron Island gets even better with the arrival of her brother's friend Will Madigan. B...



  • The passage from real life to an imagined, magical one has fulfilled a childish yearning for many a young person, particularly those who grew up in less than desirable circumstances. Writer and editor Dayle A. Dermatis tapped into that yearning to br...



  • Tilly's magical abilities got accepted to Miss Rosina Wakenshaw's School for Talented Girls. Unfortunately, her own particular Talent remains stubbornly hidden, and she feels like a fraud. In two days' time, the class and their Talents will be p...



  • From the heat of summertime Italy to the icy winter of upstate New York, the stories in this collection all feature one common element: strong women who stand up and face their fears. Whether to protect themselves or loved ones, to fight injusti...



  • In the future, orbiting space stations function as prep schools, removing teens from the temptations of drugs and alcohol and even playing hooky. They still find ways to act out. When the others deliberately lock Judy outside after an illeg...



  • Brittani Menchin, decidedly not popular high school student, stumbles across her former BFF, Charlotte, in the girls' bathroom. Cutting herself. Despite Brittani's pain over Char's defection, she can't not help someone in need. It will...



  • Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts. In fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they're kind of her only friends. But when four 1980s British partiers disrupt her family's Alpine Christmas—a holiday already fraught wit...



  • When the head of their local HoA tries to impose new rules on the annual Winter Solstice ritual, the four reigning witches of the gated community resolve to fight back. A war consisting of both paperwork and magic. All without breaking a fi...



  • Superhero Frostwitch (she didn't choose the name, especially because of what it rhymes with) dedicates her life to keeping Greenview City safe. What happens when her powers falter? What happens when a superhero faces mortality? Frostwi...



  • Pepper Pretorious is the smartest child in the whole third grade—human or alien—on the domed colony of Danu. She also plans to win the first-ever school talent contest. Her teacher tells her parents she could steal the show. (Wh...



  • Eleven-year-old Amiyah Westerbrook loves fantasy books wherein children go to fantastical, magical worlds. Even if those children look nothing like her. When she stumbles into her dream world, she finds love and acceptance and adventure. Bu...



  • Amabella: intelligent, inquisitive, artistic, sporty. She leads a perfect life, with perfect friends. Until she discovers something terribly, frighteningly wrong with her friends. Surely there must be someone real Amabella can trust? G...



  • Longtime copyeditor Lydia Menchin prides herself in having memorized The Chicago Manual of Style and being able to focus despite distractions. But the tech company she works for still fires her, assuming her age made her unable to understand electron...



  • During a sultry summer in Florence, Italy, rule-following Libby must make an information exchange when her mentor, Antonia, sprains her ankle. But then she discovers Antonia had two identical thumb drives. Was Antonia planning to give the wrong ...



  • Brownies—not the little girls or the fudgy treat kind, but the Scottish pixie kind—help take care of households by being superior with household chores. Agnes and Neil, from different brownie clans and working at different manor hous...



  • Brittani Menchin, decidedly not popular high school student, gained a reputation when she rescued some popular kids from their own stupidity.A reputation as the Fixer. And now head cheerleader Tara Kildare wants her help. The parents of Tar...



  • Janelle's grandfather is a broken man. Smart and caring, he still contains a sadness that never goes away—just like the permanent limp he won't discuss. The limp he got in the South in the 1960s, when being a Black man falsely accused of a...



  • Ready for an adventure?Big or small, there's room for them all.Come explore with us. Visit strange places, or familiar ones twisted just a little out of true. Come discover a new perspective on places, people, and even familiar tropes.It will ...



  • When petty criminals Angela and Mike stumble across an abandoned coal mining facility in a Tennessee forest, they plan to stay for the night. The next morning, Angela finds Mike and all their possessions gone. And she learns why the mining ...



  • Rebecca's successful bakery produces a mouthwatering range of holiday treats—except gingerbread. She hates it when people ask why she doesn't make it. HATES it. But she doesn't hate enough to follow in the footsteps of her baking ment...



  • New town medic Dr. Pierce braves a Christmas Eve storm of howling wind and driving rain when called to Claredon House. A kind stranger in the woods gives him directions. When Pierce arrives, he meets—and immediately charmed by—the be...



  • Jennet, scarred from a fire and with few prospects, accepts the position of companion to the veiled, enigmatic Lady Vesta. But Lady Vesta's secrets extend beyond what she hides behind her veil. From enquiring as to Jennet's marriage plans (none)...



  • Brittani Menchin, decidedly not popular high school student, gained a reputation when she rescued some popular kids from their own stupidity. A reputation as the Fixer. When a fellow band geek gets harassed for being gay,  she interven...



  • The 1940s. A time when Hollywood studios owned their talent. Which included making sure the talent avoided scandal. Shining star Tabitha St. Claire has a secret. PI Sam Belmont accepts the job to learn what that secret is. To devastati...



  • A rapist haunts the beaches of Southern California, but nobody can clearly identify him.He always looks different, and he always has a different dog.Then Vanessa's dog, Merlin, provides a crucial clue….A page-turning crime story from an award-...



  • Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts. In fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they're kind of her only friends. Still coming to grips with her new ability, she meets DivAnita, former (because she's dead) co-owner of The Gl...



  • One of the only places to find summer employment as a teen in the 1980s Florida Heartland was at Pirate Pete's Adventureland. No matter that the place was rundown or that you had to buy your own work T-shirts and water cups. When Gina goes ...



  • On a rare, blistering-hot day in Cornwall, England, an art thief attempts to evade her followers. What lies in front of her is far more dangerous…in more ways than the obvious. Another nail-biting story of suspense from the spellbind...



  • In late-1800s Portland, Oregon, eight-year-old Mae loses her mother. The only thing left: a leather-bound old book filled with indecipherable text. When a mysterious man from her mother's past appears, Mae learns about the fiery power she contai...



  • Teenager Anwyn Glas goes by Annie to avoid being teased by her peers in Tuscon, AZ. But when her mother drives across the Severn Bridge into Wales with Anwyn and her brother, Ewan, Anwyn decides maybe her name fits her. When they reach the ...



  • Cora, a reformed (mostly) thief and code-breaker, takes jobs no one else will take along with her fellow adventurers (sometimes called heroes). When Professor Humphreys accidentally creates a monster, the rag-tag group must search his booby-trap...



  • Gap Walker Daisy Rowe uses a liminal space to move between Portland, Oregon, and the magical counterpart of OtherPortland. Her goal right now, though? Get home from her work at a brewery, shower, and snuggle up to sleep with her partner. Th...



  • Accidentally summoning a Solstice deity. Dealing with a magically super-annoying HOA. Visiting a haunted Adirondack inn on Christmas Eve. What, don't things like this happen to everyone during the holidays? If not, experience them...



  • Is it better to keep quiet or to tell? Is it better to keep your cards to your chest or open up? Keeping a secret can destroy a marriage. Revealing a secret can destroy a country. When it comes down to it, though, secrets forever alter the ...



  • Is it better to keep quiet or to tell? Is it better to keep your cards to your chest or open up? Keeping a secret can destroy a marriage. Revealing a secret can destroy a country. When it comes down to it, though, secrets forever alter the ...





  • Mia Jones accepts her dream job of exploring and mapping out the acres of gardens at Dyffryn Tywyll historic estate in Snowdonia, Wales, decades-long-neglected and overgrown. She doesn't know about its history. She doesn't know what lurked ...



  • A coven of witches in suburbia, juggling families and holidays and jealousy, or fighting with the local homeowners' association with both magic and their wits.Magic users in Portland, OR, who have a special and unusual relationship with their familia...



  • From the snowy Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York to the magical Glastonbury, England, to small-town America…from dogs and cats to flowers and ghosts…there's something here to warm the cockles of every romance reader's heart. C...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dayle A. Dermatis has published 113 books.

Dayle A. Dermatis does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, In a Garden of Love, was published in December 2024.

The first book by Dayle A. Dermatis, If the Shoe Fits, was published in March 2011.

No. Dayle A. Dermatis does not write books in series.