Valerie Gaumont

Valerie Gaumont's Books(23)

The Ties That Bind: The Borderlands Book 1

Fantasy

5.0

Unbeknownst to most people, the world is divided into three realms, the normal human world, the world of the Fae and the Borderlands between where both species mix with each other and a third group, humans with magic. Detective Danny Faraway born into a powerful magic family, left and became a homicide detective in the human realm, content to forget the Borderlands existed. As bodies start piling up, it turns out a homicide detective is exactly what the Borderlands needs. With six dead, Danny is on the hunt for a killer. All is not as straightforward as it seems and soon Danny realizes that the fate of the Borderlands themselves is at stake.

City of Wonder: A Channel Riders World Book

Sci-fi

4.5

When his wife died aboard The Defender in the Matrovean attack, all Michael wanted to do was join her in death. He sought oblivion but the Guild needed his skills as a cartographer as they sent teams inland to survey the planet outside of the town limits of Haven. Pulled back from the edge of oblivion for one last job, Mateo promises Michael that there are plenty of things on the alien world that could kill him if he looks hard enough. Hoping for a quick death, Michael agrees, but soon finds out there is more to the survey than he expected. Will Michael find the death he craves and doom the rest of his team into the bargain?

Brownie Oxford and the Seabridge Surprise: Brownie Book 4

Horror

4.7

Brownie Oxford, now going by the name Bonnie Brown, is trying her best to avoid notice. She found someone to teach her the skills she needs to control her abilities and people have stopped leaving dead bodies on the lawn in front of her apartment building. Unfortunately, she is surrounded on all sides by Federal Agents trying to confirm she is Brownie Oxford so she once again be an asset. Maintaining her guise as a mild mannered seamstress and student of fashion isn’t easy, especially when the beast supposedly trapped by the Searchers starts visiting and ghosts start making demands. Can Brownie manage to keep this new life she built when even one false step could betray her?

The Line Between: Cassie Wilson Book 3

Fantasy

5.0

After the dawn ritual on her eighteenth birthday, Cassie is welcomed by those of Abraham's pantheon. While she knows she isn't a Walker no one is quite willing to tell her exactly what she is other than 'family'. They are excited about the skills she might develop as her training begins and she realizes that she is the latest entertainment to break up the long monotony of their eternity. As she struggles to maintain her place in the regular world and complete her midterms, the mystical world and her newly developing abilities threaten to intrude. The line between her separate worlds is thin and beginning to blur. How long can Cassie remain a part of both?

Splintered: The Society Book 3

Fantasy

4.8

After surviving an attack by the Brotherhood, Ivy tries to get back to normal life preparing for the launch of Wildwood's retail venture. Unfortunately others have different expectations. The head of the Seers shows up demanding Irina and Nick be turned over to him and Hamilton demands she figure out who else the Brotherhood paid off. Can Ivy figure things out before more attacks occur?

Family Matters: The Society Book 4

Fantasy

4.9

After being shot, Ivy Chambers settles in to her home in Wildwood to recover and read through her purloined files. Her recovery time is interrupted when the Head of the Mage Clan calls reporting that the golems running the Shadow Council Headquarters are malfunctioning. While she knows very little about golems, Hamilton can't risk anyone knowing he's lost control and since Ivy's ancestor created the golems, she's the one who needs to fix them. With a crash course in golems under her belt, Ivy returns to the archives, but it isn't only her family's actions causing problems. It seems more than the golems are malfunctioning. Can Ivy settle things without taking more damage or is the world destined to spin even further out of control?

Brownie Oxford and the Idlewild Incident: Brownie Bk 2

Short stories

4.8

Brownie Oxford is on the run. After the death of both Matheson and Dave in the Mayenfield Cemetery, she takes Matheson's rental car and sneaks out of town, eluding those watching her. Unable to resist the lure of finding out more about her own past, Brownie finds herself making a brief stop at the Matheson Estate before finding a place to hide out. Unfortunately, the brief visit leaves her with more questions than it answered. Away from the estate, Brownie starts a new life under an assumed name and alters her appearance. As Brownie attempts normality a serial killer starts stashing the bodies of his victims in cemeteries bringing the attention of Swift and threatening Brownie's attempt at a normal life. Is Brownie's disguise enough to fool her old handler into believing she is someone else? And just who is killing all those people?

Brownie Oxford and the Barren Woods Blunder: Brownie Bk 3

Short stories

4.7

To maintain her guise as Bonnie Brown, Brownie is forced to leave old habits behind. Avoiding running and more importantly, visiting cemeteries become standard leaving her feeling twitchy and unsettled. Unfortunately, the dead start coming to her. With people watching her every move, can she deal with the dead while still making them think she is just an average girl?

Wildwood: The Society Book 1

Short stories

4.9

After several mysterious deaths, what remained of the Chambers family was divided, each sent to a different city. After seventeen years of living on her own, Ivy Chambers is summoned to the Shadow Council. The Shadow Council rules life within The Society. Every one of the hidden clans, whether Vampire, Fae, Shifter, Seer or like Ivy, Mage must abide by its rulings. Their main goal? To keep the clans hidden from the normal world around them. While Ivy doesn't know what brought her to the attention of the Shadow Council, any more than she knows why her family was separated, she knows she must appear before them. Even though Russell, who seems to know far more about the situation than he lets on, tells her she hasn't been summoned for punishment, she is still cautious. After all the Shadow Council's rulings destroyed her world once, why would she trust them? This time however, it isn't personal, and it has the potential to destroy far more than just her.

Keeper of the Crossroads

Short stories

4.8

When Jamie's Great Uncle Albe goes missing, he leaves behind a large estate, a house in the middle of nowhere and a legacy Jamie never suspected. He finds out that the creatures of the Fae are real and it was Albe's job as Keeper of the Crossroads to keep the more destructive members of the Fae from devastating the human population. Time is running short as the Lune Merdos approaches and ancient rites threaten to destroy the crossroads, eliminating the one thing that separates the human world from that of the Fae. Now the job of Keeper is Jamie's, can he manage to find out who killed Albe and prevent the Brotherhood of Shadows from turning the nightmare hordes loose on an unsuspecting public?

Free Fall: The Society Book 2

Fantasy

4.6

Ivy and her family begin their lives at Wildwood, working on finishing construction and creating what they and their clans need. But as work begins, the Shadow Council, the ruling body for all of the hidden clans, collapses leaving uncertainty in its demise. Worries arise as Ivy expects old grudges to be redressed and new feuds to begin among the volatile clans. But as she seeks security, bulking up the protections around those she most cares about, a new threat arises. The Brotherhood, a group thought long ago exterminated has returned and as Ivy investigates her own past, seeming answers to long held questions, she begins to see their influence everywhere. Can the fractured clans gather to address this threat, or will their divisions destroy them?

The Ravenwood Arms

Fantasy

5.0

It was an accident. Alice Appleton had one skill in the magical community, creating shields. Her shields keep the shadow creatures, monsters with a taste for magic infused blood, away. Despite its usefulness, she is viewed as one of the lesser trades, her skills called to a job site after plumbing and wiring was done, but before insulation and drywall. Although paid very well, she is not one of the hidden magical community’s powerhouses. She is not of the elite and not in charge of anything. While she disagrees with some of the restrictions placed upon her by the Commission, she has no intention of challenging the status quo. All that changes when she ends up buying The Ravenwood Arms Apartment building. Her simple decision to create shields for her apartments before renting them out tilts her world in unexpected ways and creates a havoc she never intended. Suddenly she is thrust out of obscurity and into the middle of a growing social and economic debate. Sure she gets to spend time with the attractive contractor she’s had a crush on for years, but is one mid-range apartment really worth this much trouble?

Roses for Juliet

Horror

4.7

When life became too painful Steve walked out and became someone new. For years he buried all of the details of his life and spent his time dealing with the unpleasant details of others. It is a trait others have come to rely on. Steve Roberts became the man who could fix any problem. So when Nick turns up with a dead girl in his bed, Steve is the first one he calls. Getting rid of the body however, proves to be the easy part. Too much about the girl reminds Steve of his own long buried past. Now the past has caught up with him and his carefully crafted world is coming apart at the seams. Can Steve survive the unraveling?

Quickening

Short stories

4.8

As long as she could remember, Cassie saw things others couldn’t; people with scales and tusks, others who looked normal, but when she touched them, sent her sight elsewhere. Warned never to let them know she could see them, she lived quietly, hidden. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, the adults who protected her vanish and those who hunt her search, looking to find her before her abilities quicken and she becomes what they most fear.

Training the Walker: Cassie Wilson Book 2

Short stories

4.8

All her life Cassie has seen strange things. First it was the strangers with feathers and beaks, then there were the normal looking folks who, when her skin touched hers, sent her vision someplace else. Told always to hide what she saw, Cassie worked hard to fly under the radar. But when more of these strange others came to town, hiding became harder and she was caught. Luckily the ones who caught her seem more interested in training her than killing her, at least for now. She begins her training as one of the mysterious Walkers, but is that really what she is, or is Cassie Wilson something else entirely?

Rabbit: A Talent Mark Novel

Short stories

4.5

While watching her two younger cousins in the countryside, Norah is captured by a raiding party and sold as property to Lord Tessian. Knowing that her talent mark means she has special abilities, he sequesters her with the other girls he has managed to accumulate with similar skills. She is renamed Rabbit by her owners and forced to use her skills to benifit Lord Tessian as he plans his climb up the social hierarchy of the Baronies and of Heldan proper. As Rabbit, Norah must hide her true name and plan her escape before she can be used as a bargaining chip. Will the other girls join her in their escape or will they try to restrain her? Will Lord Tessian see the value of her skills beyond the artistic creations she hands him? Will she manage to make it home before a full scale war between her homeland and Heldan erupts?

Brownie Oxford and the Ashland Affair: Brownie Bk1

Short stories

4.4

When Brownie Oxford found herself kidnapped and taken to the Ashland Cemetery instead of going on a date as expected, she wanted to claim it was an unusual event. Sadly after seven years working as an asset for the National Clandestine Services (NCS) it is hardly the first time she has ended up surrounded by unsavory characters. As her ability to raise and converse with spirits has been utilized by the NCS to interrogate those who would have otherwise been beyond their reach, Brownie has begun to accept the harsher aspects of her reality. But this time it isn't a matter of National Security, but her own long lost family orchestrating the abduction. Can Brownie figure out what is going on before it is too late?

Skyside: Book Five of The Channel Riders

Short stories

4.8

After helping a group of families evade capture Elena finds herself stranded skyside during the off season. Despite the presence of Will Thompson, whose ship hitched a ride at the last second, she is feeling pretty good about the situation. Most of the political movers and shakers of the Guild safely returned to Earth at the end of the season taking their mixed political plots with them. Even though there is a lot to do, she feels free of some of the weight that has been placed on her shoulders. But it isn't all a pleasant vacation. The Matrovean raiders are still expanding their territory at a terrifying rate, threatening the Guild's stability and as the crew on the planet expands their investigation of the planet, new facts about the former inhabitants come to light. Elena also realizes that the Librarians have political plots all their own and are very interested in helping her to take a seat on the Council. Can Elena survive the increasing hostilities with the Matrovean and live to take a place on the Ruling Council of the Guild of Families?

Alliance: Book Three of The Channel Riders

Short stories

4.8

Elena finally has her store open, an earthside business selling repackaged off world goods. The Council, has granted her trading rights on the newly opened planet, RJ457. Things are looking good for her, but success brings it's own trouble as Elena has to navagate a minefield of allainces,agreements, betrayals,assasination attempts and the powerful personalities of dangerous Councilors who aren't behaving in predictable ways. Can she keep her people safe and her newly formed House standing while being pushed closer to a Council seat of her own?

Haven: Book Four of The Channel Riders

Fantasy

4.6

This is Book Four in the Channel Riders Series. Elena Calabrese has managed to open an earth-based store with very few people realizing that her wares come from several different galaxies. The merchant society called the Guild of Families is conducting business as usual, trying to stay as secret as possible while the military launches their own program of Ship building. They are trying to build their own Channel riding ships that do not rely on Guild trained pilots to operate. The militaries, lead man, Will Thompson, has managed to get several of his crew onto the planet RJ457 that forms the center of Elena's trade routes. They are curious about the new planet and Elena's investigation and exploration of it. Elena and her people try to keep Thompson's men from learning that there is a shipyard run by Council member Inoue Riko's House, after all too much information and Peter Baranov, aptly nicknamed Black Pete, might start arranging for accidents to occur. As rumors of Riko's ill health begin to circulate, new House alliances are formed, old ties severed and more and more people begin to wonder when Elena will step forward and take a seat on the ruling Council. Elena tries to conduct business as usual while dodging a military investigation, plots, political maneuvering and a crazed cousin with a lust for power. Not even Thompson is who he seems. Can Elena keep her balance and keep her family safe? Will picking up the reins of power and stepping into the dangerous political arena be the only way to protect those who depend on her?