M. E. Purfield

Blessed with a rare psychic gift. Cursed with a fractured mind. Never to be contained. Psychic Miki Radicci receives a new assignment from the Tenebrous but also a new member of her team. He's there to protect her. A psychic weapon. But can he protect her from the teen-aged girl they must find? A dangerous girl deep in the streets of Jersey City. A girl who is so dangerous that even psychic abilities will fail to protect them. Read this thrilling...

Malignant Little Bastards is a gripping crime story about an unassuming front desk worker, Alex, who is about to uncover the mysterious secret of Room A6 in a beach town hotel. Working the front desk can be boring until a guest complains about the people in A6. The children are loud with their screaming and laughing, but the couple in room A6 have no children. Strange occurrences keep happening around the hotel and Alex is determined to find out what...

Albee is a slave on a Saibhir residency ship, desperate for freedom and autonomy despite the light-years standing between them and their dreams. Captured again and tortured for answers, the Saibhir believe that Albee had help trying to escape. Is there a resistance on the ship? Or is it a dream created by torture? Ealu, the thrilling science fiction short story from the Saoirse War Series, will take readers on a journey of survival, bravery, and resilience....

Brilliant guitarist, J. Mankey, served his time for manslaughter and focuses on, a bright future filled with music and nonviolence. He finds a second chance at music and love with a promising band in New Jersey. Then one night, J. witnesses a woman hacked to death with a hatchet. J. can't identify the killer, but he knows he, heard and saw something important to their identity. The killer starts hacking through J.'s new life, threatening his future...

From the author of Breaking Fellini and the Miki Radicci series comes the sequel to the oddly controversial novel Jesus Freakz + Buddha Punx. Miggy Perez's life has been going pretty good. She's finishing her third year of school, her two best friends are in love, and she's found contentment in her Dharma. But when a letter from the Department of Corrections arrives, Miggy's Middle Path swerves off to the sides. Her mother made parole and she's coming...

Vincent Flowers lives a content marriage with his wife Allie, despite working menial corporate jobs. Then two events spin his world out of control. A suicidal man almost kills Vincent and Allie becomes pregnant. Now Vincent struggles to climb the greased corporate ladder, hoping to fit the new standard forced upon him. A hysterically funny novel that's not a novel about a man's struggle into normality that is not normal, as is proper, that will...

Blunt Force Kharma is a suspenseful and intense urban sci-fi noir from the author of the long running noir fantasy Miki Radicci series that throws Raymond Chandler into a William Gibson world. Barely making ends meet in Central District, Private Investigator Kelly Kharma takes on the cases others might not. With the police backlogged, a working class mother hires Kharma to find her daughter who didn't come home from school. In another case,Kharma...

For teen psychic and nonverbal autistic Prudy Radicci school can be a struggle. Kids and teachers suck, the environment offends her senses, and nothing ever seems logical. At least, she has her best friend Rod there to soften the daily blows. When the teachers go on strike a week before Christmas, life kicks her feet from under her. Instead of staying home, she goes to school with the rest of the kids doomed to the cafeteria for the day where everything...

From the writer of the Miki Radicci Series and Cities That Eat Islands comes an erotic crime story about two women getting their dues. While waitressing at her new job, she falls for the bosses wife. Now she's helping her escape and hatching a plan to get what is due to them from the husband. This story is taken from the crime collection A Sandwich Can't Stop a Bullet.

It speeds toward Earth. Intent of destruction. Or so they believe. With only a few more days until the violent apocalypse, people in the city jump off their roofs to control their fate. Teenage Isaac seems to be handling the end days well unlike his deteriorating mother. If only Isaac's mom could be like Leo the child-like building janitor. Leo believes they'll all be fine. Or maybe Leo's insane like the rest of them. Maybe Isaac needs to jump off...