Creatures with sharp teeth who crawl beneath the earth. Relentless brutes who control the seasons with shadows... It can mean only one thing. Groundhogs. Here to make sure spring never arrives. Fortunately Maggie MacKay and Killian of Greenwold are on the job to save this Groundhog Day from rodent monsters burrowing where they don't belong. Maggie MacKay Holiday Specials are fun, fluffy ~40-page paranormal stories meant to give you a little more time with all your favorite characters. They have no greater purpose other than to give you a little joy and are total popcorn reads. These urban fantasy adventures can be read in any order and wherever you are in the series.
Someone wicked this way comes... Things are not right at the World Walkers Association. Sure, Maggie and Killian torched Hollywood, but that's never been a problem before. Unfortunately, Maggie's new boss is a stickler for the rules and when heads roll, this time it will be literal. On the run, Maggie and Killian have to take matters into their own hands and they fall into a web of ancient Roman artifacts, elfin smuggling rings, and double crosses. Bounty hunters are on their tail. World Walkers are disappearing right and left. And who let the Medusa out? This is just the opportunity the bad guys were looking for. Is a greater evil now at work? Or is it just another lousy day at M&K Tracking? Book Five in the Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker series. WARNING: This book contains cussing, brawling, and unladylike behavior. Proceed with caution.
A Maggie MacKay Holiday Short Story It's Halloween and Maggie's mother is throwing a haunted house… as in, she's invited all the ghosts of the neighborhood over for a party. Unfortunately, one of the ghosts is not in high spirits and, in fact, is wanted by the Other Side's finest. It is up to Maggie and Killian to find out what caused this soul's unrest and return him to his happy haunting ground. This story originally appeared in the Nightshade anthology. WARNING: This short story contains cussing, brawling, and unladylike behavior. Proceed at your own risk.
Maggie and Killian have to lie low now that the queen knows Killian is alive. But an escape to wine country reveals a nest of vampires drunk on power and a Medusa who would like to see anyone who opposes Mad King Cole stoned... as in, transformed into stone marble statues. The natural balance is out of whack and as they say: If Mother Nature ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. A whole lot of shaking is about to go on... WARNING: This book contains cussing, brawling, and unladylike behavior. Proceed with caution.
“A monumentally researched biography of one of the nineteenth century’s wealthiest self-made Americans…Well-written and worthwhile” (The Wall Street Journal) it’s the rags-to-riches frontier tale of an Irish immigrant who outwits, outworks, and outmaneuvers thousands of rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode. Born in 1831, John W. Mackay was a penniless Irish immigrant who came of age in New York City, went to California during the Gold Rush, and mined without much luck for eight years. When he heard of riches found on the other side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1859, Mackay abandoned his claim and walked a hundred miles to the Comstock Lode in Nevada. Over the course of the next dozen years, Mackay worked his way up from nothing, thwarting the pernicious “Bank Ring” monopoly to seize control of the most concentrated cache of precious metals ever found on earth, the legendary “Big Bonanza,” a stupendously rich body of gold and silver ore discovered 1,500 feet beneath the streets of Virginia City, the ultimate Old West boomtown. But for the ore to be worth anything it had to be found, claimed, and successfully extracted, each step requiring enormous risk and the creation of an entirely new industry. Now Gregory Crouch tells Mackay’s amazing story—how he extracted the ore from deep underground and used his vast mining fortune to crush the transatlantic telegraph monopoly of the notorious Jay Gould. “No one does a better job than Crouch when he explores the subject of mining, and no one does a better job than he when he describes the hardscrabble lives of miners” (San Francisco Chronicle). Featuring great period photographs and maps, The Bonanza King is a dazzling tour de force, a riveting history of Virginia City, Nevada, the Comstock Lode, and America itself.
Maggie's a now an auntie and ready to show this new nugget all the awesomeness of being a World Walker. But when the child is kidnapped as part of an ancient prophecy, Maggie and Killian must save the kid before nap time means a permanent sleep. The creatures of the Other Side are about to get a hands-on lesson in why you don't mess with the MacKay girls. Auntie Mags is Book Twelve in the Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker series.
First published in 1970. This series includes a selection of historically important nineteenth and early twentieth century narratives written about Africa by missionaries and other figures connected with the church. The introductions are designed to place the narratives in their appropriate historical contexts, offer fresh biographical studies of the authors, and provide a critique of modern scholarship. This is number 14 and looks at A.M.Mackay.
