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A Malicious Menagerie

Welcome to the menagerie, and please, mind the fangs…

Twenty-two-year-old Anna Carmichael is down on her luck. Even juggling three dead-end jobs, she’s struggling to keep herself and her ailing grandmother afloat. When she’s offered a position as caretaker for an eccentric rich man’s collection of exotic animals, she jumps at the opportunity despite the ominous nondisclosure agreement. The reason for all the secrecy is revealed when Anna discovers that the residents of Mars Mathis’s Mystical Menagerie aren’t exotic—they’re mythological.

Her boss's chilling warnings leave no doubt—these creatures are his property, and he'll protect them at any cost. Anna's moral compass shatters as she befriends the very beings she's meant to cage. And an unexpected but irresistible passion ignites with Chase, the enigmatic wolf, as powerful and protective as he is trapped. Caught between her unwavering loyalty to her grandmother, the menagerie’s deadly threats, and a love bound by iron bars, Anna must decide—what is she willing to sacrifice?

Fang Fatale

His mission. Her redemption. Their dangerous craving.

Delia Guidry hasn’t seen the sun in eighteen years—mostly because she’s a vampire, but also because she was a captive of Mars Mathis’s Mystical Menagerie. But after years of being forced to act as an unwilling assassin, she’s finally free, which presents a new type of problem—what to do with that freedom.

Enter Nathan James, the FABLE agent who helped liberate her. He thinks Delia, with her powers and sharp wit, might be just the vampire to help him take down a trafficking ring he’s been tracking for years. Meanwhile, Delia is determined to bring down the dark forces that haunt her memories. As they hunt shadows, their fragile trust ignites into a bond unlike any other—one fraught with secrets, sacrifice, and a desire that threatens to consume them both.

But with new threats emerging and Mathis’s sinister influence resurfacing, Delia finds herself fighting not only for the black market victims, but also for a future with the man she can’t help but long to sink her teeth into—even knowing full well their living and undead worlds were never meant to collide.

Coming October 2026...

It’s 1906. Lady logger Yrsa Nydahl is accustomed to hard work, isolation, and proving her worth to every man who dares doubt her. But when President Roosevelt personally summons her to the White House, Yrsa realizes her quiet life is over. Her mission: track and neutralize a Sasquatch terrorizing children in Yellowstone National Park. Her partner?

The Jersey Devil.

J.D. is everything Yrsa despises: wealthy, arrogant, and dressed in fancy clothes that make no sense in the rugged wilderness. But as the reluctant partners traverse the untamed country, the frozen distance between them begins to thaw, and disdain shifts into an agonizing, forbidden pull.

Yrsa knows she has no business wanting a man who belongs to a world she can never touch. But J.D. always gets what he wants. And right now?

He wants Yrsa.


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Meet the author

A veterinarian by trade, Josie Ryann’s lifelong love of animals has always extended to mythical beasts and cryptids, and it was that passion that inspired her first book, A Malicious Menagerie. When not saving animals or writing paranormal romance, Josie loves to travel with her husband in search of mermaids and jackalopes.

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