Chapter 2 of The Paramedic’s Hunter hands the reader exactly what chapter 1’s cliffhanger promised — a second POV, this time from Jaz, the demon hunter who has been tracking the Oni since her clan’s oracle first detected it. Readers who enjoy dual-perspective urban fantasy, where the antagonist’s pursuer turns out to be just as compelling as the protagonist, will find Jaz an immediately magnetic addition to the cast. Hunter clans and anti-magic lore readers are drawn to Jaz belongs to the Errington clan, a family of monster hunters armed with a blessed katana, a silver-and-arsenic-loaded pistol, and a triple amulet that masks her heat signature and scent from supernatural prey. For readers who love urban fantasy series that build out an entire anti-magical or hunter-class faction — the humans who exist specifically to fight back against the supernatural — Read more…

Four books into a series, an urban fantasy author has two choices: keep telling the same kind of story, or widen the lens. Chapter 1 of The Paramedic’s Hunter widens the lens dramatically, introducing readers to an entirely new corner of the Unusual world — Japanese mythology — while simultaneously raising the personal stakes for Dean Flynn higher than they have ever been. Dean and his new partner, Barry Winston, respond to a brutal animal-bite call that turns out to be something else entirely: an attack by an Oni, a Japanese demon, against a Hakutaku couple — gentle healing spirits who were simply taking their nightly walk. For readers who love urban fantasy series that keep expanding their mythological scope book by book, rather than recycling the same werewolves and vampires, this kind of new-creature introduction is exactly what keeps Read more…

Chapter 4 of The Paramedic’s Choice introduces one of the most quietly compelling new characters in the series: Mansel Hood, the personal attorney of vampire lord James Lee, whose amber eyes immediately mark him as an Unusual of some kind, though his exact nature is left unconfirmed. Readers who love urban fantasy series populated with a fully developed supernatural professional class — lawyers, doctors, fixers who happen to also be vampires, fae, or something stranger — will find Mansel a satisfying addition to the world. The “I don’t care if you’re guilty” defense attorney trope Mansel’s opening line to Dean is a genre-favorite moment: “I said ‘I don’t care.’ There’s a difference. My job is to get you cleared of this crime.” For readers who enjoy legal thriller elements inside their paranormal fiction, this is the classic hardboiled defense-attorney posture, Read more…

Chapter 2 of The Paramedic’s Choice does something genre readers consistently reward: it builds out the found-family ensemble at Station U with new characters who are funny, warm, and quietly tragic all at once. Readers who love urban fantasy with a strong supporting cast — the kind of series where side characters feel as real as the protagonist — will find this chapter especially satisfying. The night-shift paramedics Brook and Tammy are introduced bantering about a reality court TV show, giving the chapter an easy, lived-in workplace comedy rhythm before anything serious happens. Then there is Freddy: a zombie, a former chef, and currently the de facto cook and housekeeper at Station U after surviving a hate-crime arson attack that everyone initially believed had killed him. Freddy was cursed by his voodoo priestess girlfriend after he cheated on her — Read more…

Chapter 4 of The Paramedic’s Angel is the chapter readers of paranormal romance and urban fantasy with romantic subplots have been building toward since Ashley Moore first glanced at the UV ink stamp on Dean’s hand in a convenience store. It is the first date chapter, and it is everything those readers want: funny, warm, lightly charged, and full of the kinds of small details that make characters feel real. Ashley arrives at Station U before Dean is even back from the Djinn call — leaning against her small red vintage sports car in the early morning light, waiting. She has already clocked the reference bookshelf in the squad room (Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Dracula, an old Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual) and settled in to read by the time Dean finishes his paperwork. She fits into the space like she Read more…