The scissors are blacksmith worked, crude and blackened. They’ve always hung there at the door of Treagrove. For three-hundred years they have played a part in murders and mysteries surrounding the women of the old house. Who says the tool of justice can’t be domestic?

War (and death) has come to the City of the Saved…

Even the secular afterlife created for humanity by the Secret Architects has its limits – and there will always be those Citizens who chafe against those limits.  Environmentally, culturally, biologically, cosmologically, politically, experientially, some will always seek to go further.

Here you'll find zombies, extraterrestrials, vampires, shape shifters, and more than a few ghosts. Travel        from 19th c. England to the present and future, on a package tour led by your favorite Elm Books authors!

The Honorable Persephone Blaine – heiress, debutante and perennial target of prejudice – witnesses a murder. The police think they know who did it and how. Only Persephone knows that the weapon comes from the wrong country.

A mentally unbalanced man abducts his own children, holding them captive in a remote mountain cabin. In the meantime his guilt-ridden therapist, terrified that it is her misjudgment that is to blame, desperately searches for clues to where he might have gone.