M. E Purfield

Within the racially conflicted streets of 1963 New York, psychic and artist Carmella Noto tries to maneuver a working-class life and recover from her experience with the heinous cannibal Albert Pesce. But her past only brings her to the attention of a secret group of psychics intent on solving difficult murders. And they want Carmella's help to find a degenerate murdering single, young black women. Continuing to enlighten the complex lives of...

It speeds toward Earth. Intent of destruction. Or so they believe. With only a few more days until the violent apocalypse, people in the city jump off their roofs to control their fate. Teenage Isaac seems to be handling the end days well unlike his deteriorating mother. If only Isaac's mom could be like Leo the child-like building janitor. Leo believes they'll all be fine. Or maybe Leo's insane like the rest of them. Maybe Isaac needs to jump off...

From the writer of the Miki Radicci Series and Cities That Eat Islands comes a gritty short story about obsessive love and accusation.Aside from a bit of girl trouble, Nathan's life is going okay. Great grades, a loyal best friend, and a poud mom. Then the cops come knocking to ask him about a murder because of something he long forgot.This story is taken from the crime collection A Sandwich Can't Stop a Bullet.

Deep in the wooded county of Ashland, Kentucky, Bella tries to grind her car back to life. Once again, she'll be late for work. When an amnesiac boy walks out of the dark woods, she finds that he's in worse shape than her despite bringing her car back to life.In return, Bella helps him out. Soon she will be the one who needs help. A thrilling dark fantasy short story from the Tenebrous Chronicles that will charge your heart and turn your knuckles...

Mike thought he was in for the worst pain imaginable when he arrived at the hospital with a kidney stone. Little did he know he was about to be thrust into an even more agonizing situation. When his roommate is murdered in the hospital, Mike soon finds himself the target of a killer. Can he find a way to save himself before it's too late? Pain Killer is a suspenseful mystery that will keep readers on their toes until the last page. If you enjoyed...

Teenager Toni Brown lives a boring existence. She helps her single mother run a roadside motel after school, listens to music, and dreams of leaving the small town of Big Arcadia. All that changes when a rock god E. Mandanny checks into the motel. Now she must deliver a package for him that inter-dimensional creatures would kill for. The package: A mischievous yellow-eyed baby that eats grass and causes earthquakes. The destination: Munki Moo Moo....

Collected here for the first time, the first three young adult novels of M.E. Purfield. A Pentecostal girl not only questions her faith when she meets a Buddhist punk in her school but also what it means to be family in jesus freakz + buddha punx. A guitarist bored with her art runs off to New York to live with her father and join the circus brewing in a time of great cultural change in Breaking Fellini. Delicate Cutters documents a teen girl's struggle...

On a distant planet, private investigator Kelly Kharma wallows in a pit of depression. The love of her life left her and society grows worse. She keeps moving forward, though. To keep her sanity and fixing what she can of society. When she's asked to recover a stolen artifact and protect a dancer from a stalker, she discovers that moving forward might not be the best option. Old enemies and love still won't let her go. Bodies drop and questions...

Two teenage girls on a dark journey. Two girls stand on the edge of discovering something bigger than themselves. The Tenebrous Two combines two origin novels from the Tenebrous Chronicles. Though Angel Spits and Party Girl Crashes the Rapture are set in contrasting locations, both novels explore challenging girls solving a possible murder while enriching a mythology created by a different series. The bundle also includes an introduction about the...

Miki and Prudence Radicci. Sisters. One, an adult artist. One, a nonverbal autistic teen. Both with a psychic ability. Both that trouble keeps following.The Radicci sisters are now living in Jersey City, in Miki's childhood house. It's a little run down with a few surprises but nothing compared to what they find in the basement. A dead, young naked woman. Not just any young woman. The police identify the body as Miki Radicci's.That soon seems to be...