IRENE RADFORD

Teenage twins Rod and Sprite Maxwell grew up in the weird world of Science Fiction Conventions, where their oddity fits right in. Their paranormal genes cause interlocking plates of stone armor to form under stress and heat.After years of Covid closures, they eagerly approach BeachCon with their adoptive dad at their side. Invalided out of a UN Black Ops agency, Dad is still capable of keeping his kids out of trouble, if needed.And its needed. From the moment the twins step inside the con hotel, they face rogue agents, Russian mercenaries, and worse: their own abusive mother. A web of political intrigue entangles the twins in a witch hunt for their bio father and their genetic heritage, in a battle against paranormals.And then theres the problem of their own first loves and raging hormones.

What happens in Las Vegas, stays in Las Vegas. Yeah, right. Until bestselling fantasy writer, and warrior of the Celestial Blade Tess Noncoiré discovers a band of enslaved Faeries forced to perform unreal special effects in the hottest show in town.Their entrapment creates a dangerous leak of life energy from their home world. The unbalance is causing Faery to collapse and the seals keeping dangerous demons in place have weakened. Earth could implode with the influx of outworlders and Las Vegas houses the central portal.The Faeries have weakened, their bright clothing fades and becomes tattered. They falter in their forced performances. The producer threatens murder.Tess needs to save the Faeries, but how can she get away from teaching at a writers conference, providing her imp companion his special diet, and snapping her mom, Genevieve, out of a deep depression after the murder of her half-demon husband of three days. Genevieve falls in love with a karaoke machine, bright lights, and glittery gowns.Who and what can Tess trust with the care of her fragile mother?Tess needs help. Donovan, the sexiest man alive, and her sort of step-brother, is busy with secret business deals. Her research assistant Guilford van der Hoyden Smythe, Ph.D. will come at the snap of her fingers but teaches full time at a community college in New England. And then theres Mikey, a maybe too helpful cab driver.If she cant rely on the men in her life, dare she enlist the aid of the vampire crime boss, Lady Lucia, who seems far too interested in Tess and her imp?Who will save the Faeries?

Tess Noncoiré, best selling fantasy author, wielder of the Celestial Blade, and companion of a pandimensional imp, Scrap, has pulled up stakes in New England to settle in Portland, Oregon, far from the man who broke her heart. Here, she can stalk the trails of Forest Park in search of the Norglein, a dark elf bent on repopulating his species by raping joggers.Dr. Sean Connolly, a handsome, young, ER doctor, who has treated the assaulted women, eagerly joins Tess in her quest to end the Norgleins evil. Shes vulnerable to his attraction, but he can never be the renowned Guilford van der Hoyden Smyth Ph.D., Gollum, her former lover.Before the dark lord can be caught, two of his daughters escape his abuse to seek refuge with Tess. Their stories convince an entire posse of Tesss friends, including Lady Lucia, a vampire crime boss from Las Vegas, that the reign of terror must be stopped by any means. Inevitably, both Tesss former lovers, Gollum and Donovan, join the search.Now, Tess must protect the innocent girls while fighting her own heart, jealous lovers, and an evil elf bent on destruction.

The Cascadia Paranormal Society invades the Whistling River Lodge, but they are searching for more than ghosts. Albert Allegheny demands that Lodge-owners Glenna McClain and her new husband Craig Knudsen turn over all the evidence they have collected on Bigfoot. She has spotted a few suspicious things in the forest, but evidence? No way. Except the pandemic has cost the local community dearly, and the dollars this obnoxious man represents could help the town.Then a member of the Society shows up dead, and the resident ghosts go to ground. That means cancelling the Halloween party and Masque Ball, threatening Glennas bottom line even morenot to mention the poor night clerk accused of the crime.Then Glenna discovers Albert Allegheny is a dangerous fraud out to steal her business. To save her lodge and her community, Glenna has to find the murderer and expose Allegheny for what he is. With a little help from her new husbandthe hotel security chiefher best friendthe local resident witchand some surprise dancing guests, the lodge community team up to solve the crime and save the lodge. The ghosts have few other surprises in mind as well.

Is the Magna Carta better than the US Constitution? Was it a power grab by English noblemen, or is it a rights-of-man declaration penned by Robin Hood? The answers may surprise you as author and historian Irene Radford picks apart the clauses and explains them in context to the history surrounding this amazing document. Magna Carta, a true turning point in the history of democracy.

Living in the shadows, Psychic Vampire Janet Dryer was a killer addicted to Soul Fireuntil her lover tried to kill her at Woodstock in 1969. These days, she haunts exotic night clubs and draws energy from throbbing drums.Her popularity as a sarcastic blogger lands her on Dance From The Heart, a celebrity ballroom competition. To her shock, the head judge is her ex-lover, the Vampire Hunter who tried to kill her.With the strength and speed to take down the strongest vampire or wiliest demon, Bryant Thomas combines that agility with his passion for ballroom dancing as cover for his Hunts. Janets new identity doesnt fool him. He wants his dangerous former lover dead, or at least off his show. When a stage hand is murdered by a Psychic Vampire, Janet is the prime suspect, but he knows shes innocent.Until now, Janet thought she was the only PV in the world. While keeping up the pretense of the exhausting competition, Janet and Bryant seek a ruthless predator and fight a love that has never completely died. At what cost?

Caught between her beloved father, the Merlin of Britain, and Arthur Pendragon, the old ways and the new, Wren must find a way to balance the forces of Chaos with peace. She nurtures the land and the people, creating a haven for anyone displaced by the turbulence. And for the safety of all she must guard her heart against the deep love she shares with Arthur, a married king who holds the future of all the Britons in his hands and with his sword.

Mischievous Pixie, Thistle Down lands buck-naked in Memorial Fountain in full human size. Shes been stripped of her lavender skin, purple hair, lovely wings, and her magic. Bewildered and lost, she searches for a human to befriend in hopes of being returned to Pixie and the Ten Acre Wood.To her dismay, the humans and her home are threatened by developers, arsonists, and predatory Faeries.Thistle is in for the first fight of her foolish life, hoping to save her home so that the Heart of all Pixies can continue to delight and educate more generations of youngsters about the value of nature, friendship, and truth.And then theres all that pesky romance stuff.

Music defines Margot Tremaynes soul. She thinks best when her hands caress a piano keyboard, but all music eludes her since a demon crushed her hands on the eve of winning a prestigious international piano competition.Fifteen years later, she has built a new career in conducting, composition, and teaching.She still feels empty.The job of driving the increasing murderous demon threat back to the netherworld falls to Abigail Fitzwarrn, Director of the international Guild of Vampire and Demon Hunters. She pushes Margot to return to the scene of her maiming to judge the St. George competition, in order to finally face her demon. Abby knows there is a mystical connection between Margot and the demon: music.Archie Driscoll is a new field agent of the Guild, still trying to master his enhanced powers. He is surprised that Abby taps him to find and destroy the demon while protecting Margot.Their attraction is instant and impossible.Aside from her job as judge of the music competition and he a competitor, her career is reaching into new directions and she will be traveling lot. Hes a spy for a super-secret paranormal organization and doesnt know where he will be from week to week. Commitment is impossible for both of them.In the musical competition setting at a haunted manor in remote Yorkshire, Margot and Archie must figure out their growing love while they discover the demons weakness and free themselves and their music from demonic tyranny before he kills more musicians for the sin of violating his definition of "pure music".

The Grand Festival of Highland Arts and Games has descended upon the Whistling River Resort and Golf Course. Glenna McClain, General Manager and part owner of the lodge, has her hands full of bagpipers, dancers, and officious officials. Among them prances the criminal ex-lover of Glennas security chief Craig Knutsen. He will have to face his carefully guarded secrets once and for all.Glenna bonds with her Scottish ancestral roots and a young girl piper who might prove to be a prodigy, if she survives the emotional abuse of her teacher and parents.The renownedbut much despisedpiping judge seemingly succumbs to his alcoholism, but Glenna and Craig suspect murder. The list of potential killers is a lot longer than the victims resume of impressive credentials.ATF agent Miles Sinnot arrives to investigate a whiskey smuggling ring involving the Festivals predilection for expensive Scotch, seriously complicating Glennas love life.Glenna must protect her beloved lodge and guests from a killer, while juggling two jealous boyfriends. Whats a woman to do to get a little peace?

Whistling Down the Wind: Back Cover CopyEveryone in the small town of Whistling River, Oregon harbors secrets. Affairs. Embezzlement. Murder.Glenna McClain, general manager and part owner of the Whistling River Resort and Golf Course, will do anything to protect her beloved Lodge, up to and including helping the former owner fake his death to escape the IRS, ICE, and Las Vegas mob debt collectors.But when her bigamous ex-husband Jared turns up dead in the water hazard of the ninth fairway and Glenna is suspected of his murder, she must enlist the aid of her attractive new security chief, Craig Knutsen, a former police detective with secrets of his own.Then two more of Jareds widows appear, none of whom he has bothered to divorce or marry legitimately, and an arsonist strikes, Glenna and Craig must win the trust of the local police chief, ask for the help of the local coven, and deal with a ghost in order to find a killer before he burns down the Lodge.The last complication they need is a workplace romance, because that never works. Right?

Can a descendant of Merlin and King Arthur bring peace between King John and an aging (and almost respectable) Robin Hood?The quest for peace and protection in Britain has passed down from the Merlin and Arthur the Pendragon to the sole survivor, Resmiranda Griffin.Raised in the Christian tradition, she refuses to acknowledge her magical talents or the existence of helpful fairies, until dark forces force her into the complex politics, both mundane and magical, that divides England from their lawful king, John Plantagenet.Inspired by a demon, her distant cousin Radburn Blakely whispers divisive advice into Johns ear. Only Resmiranda can counter this darkness and lead England to what will create peace between a fearful king and his power-mad barons: The Magna Carta.

The StormMother is unleashed, and she is angry.Tiamat, ancient goddess of chaos and creation has decided to clear the world of human infestation--but she needs help. Only her descendant Celia Fisher, a Siren, has the magical power to aid her.Celia is more interested in becoming a Broadway star than in her archaic Siren heritage. But when two fellow contestants in a reality TV competition drown during a freak thunderstorm and a werewolf threatens hera Hunter from the International Guild of Demon and Vampire Hunters steps in.Determined to prevent old demons like the StormMother from wreaking havoc in todays world, the Guild sends Dylan McQuilleran to be Celias bodyguard.Except Dylan has a problem. His last surgical and chemical augmentation has gone haywire, giving him blinding migraines. His cover story as head publicist for the TV competition keeps him close to Celia while the Guild finds a cure.But can he resist the lure of a Siren long enough to save her lifeand his own?

In Speculative Journeys, Irene Radford extends her short story collections into science fiction and contemporary fantasy with fourteen tales both old and new.Why is time-travel reserved for wealthy tourists and forbidden to historians?Can a spaceship captain keep secrets from her communication officer who speaks every language in the universeeven ones without words?Is a maze cut into solid granite a portal to a safer worldor something else?These stories and more with an exciting new introduction by speculative fiction superstar Sharon Leejoin the journey today!

Deirdre Kirkwood, the bastard child of Griffin, a Catholic priest, and demon-infested Roanna Douglas, has been raised with her cousins Betsy and Hal, the children of Griffins twin, Donovan. Each of them has inherited a powerful magical talent and a wolfhound familiar. Any of them could become the next Merlin of Britain.Deirdres quest to know something, anything, about her father leads to a confrontation with El Lobison the Master of all Werewolves. No one is safe from him, as the cousins learn to their terrorIn and out of royal courts, the three cousins build a network of spies who are the only ones who can counter the weather, the werewolves, and the Spanish as England faces the relentless Spanish Armada.

Religious wars mar the glory of the early years of Queen Elizabeth I reign. A descendant of Merlin and King Arthur must step forward and show the world that you can put faith before politics.The glory of the Elizabethan Age is tarnished by the continuing religious conflict begun by Henry VIII.Griffin Kirkwood renounces his title, his lands, his love for the mysterious demon-ridden Roanna, and his magical heritage as a descendant of both King Arthur and the Merlin to become a Catholic priest in France. His twin, Donovan (his mirror image in face and form and rarely more than a thought away) shoulders the responsibilities willingly. He agrees to two arranged-marriages, one after the other, and takes on the outward appearance of whichever religion is dominant to protect all that he loves, but without magic, or the love of his life. Together and separately the twins must fight to guide Queen Elizabeth through the intricate maze of politics and religion. Their spiritual and magical journeys cross each other, oppose, and re-align as they battle internal demons and external threats.

Roam with Herakles in search of a safe home for a magical sword, go into exile with a descendant of Merlin, and learn the wisdom of a wolfhound pup to help you wander along newly forged paths into the imagination. Award winning author Irene Radford presents twelve fantasy stories including classics, out of print anthology pieces, and a tantalizing new tale or two.

What happens when rival pirate queens take tea together? From the fertile imagination of Irene Radford, author of the classic Dragon Nimbus Series, and the epic Merlins Descendants Series, come sixteen stories of hope, fun, and poignant sorrow. Fire-breathing hummingbirds, a tavern between humanity and hell, crystal stealing pixies in space, and more, gathered together for the first time in Magical Meanderings.

Tess Noncoiré, bestselling fantasy author and warrior of the Celestial Blade, wants nothing more than a couple weeks of solitude to finish the book that was due… yesterday. Mom has removed herself to

Three hundred years before The Glass Dragon, civil war has raged through Coronnan for generations. Fueled by jealous and powerful battlemages, no lord has emerged as a leader who can combine the warring factions in peace.The dragons have had enough when misdirected battle spells endanger them. They seek the one human desperate enough to listen to reason.Nimbulan has been hailed as the greatest battlemage of his age. His grief over having to kill his apprentice, the one he loved as a son, drives him to wander Coronnan in search of a better way, a different form of magic, anything that will end the endless wars.Along the way he finds some answers residing in the forgetfulness of Myrilandel, the love of his life, a witchwoman with a flywacket for a familiar.Can the dragons reach him in time?What will it cost Nimbulan, his love, and the dragons to finally bring peace to a land that has known nothing but war for too many generations?