Em Hansen takes on oil company secrecy when her colleagues start falling from high windows.

"Petra Dee and her immortal husband, Gabe, have been trying to gain a toehold in what passes for ordinary life in Temperance, Wyoming--a wickedly enchanted land founded generations ago by the alchemist, Lascaris. Petra may be adept when it comes to the uncanny, but as a reasoned geologist, Petra still can't fathom the wildfires suddenly engulfing Yellowstone National Park, or why Gabe claims to have seen the sky explode in flames. The answers could...

"Geologist Petra Dee arrives in Wyoming seeking clues to her father's disappearance years ago. What she finds instead is Temperance, a dying western town with a gold rush past and a meth-infested present. But under the dust and quiet, an old power is shifting. When bodies start turning up--desiccated and twisted skeletons that Petra can't scientifically explain--her investigations land her in the middle of a covert war between the town's most powerful...

Dr. Philip Mercer, a wealthy geologist charged with overseeing the installation of a temporary nuclear waste holding tank at Nevada's infamous Area 51, discovers a secret group called the Order and their plans for world domination.

In the backcountry of Yellowstone, evil moves below the surface . . . Following Nine of Stars comes the next chapter in Laura Bickle's critically acclaimed Wildlands series As the daughter of an alchemist, Petra Dee has battled supernatural horrors and experienced astonishing wonders. But there's no magic on earth that can defeat her recent cancer diagnosis, or help find her missing husband, Gabriel. Still, she would bet all her remaining days that...

"It's been two months since Petra Dee and her coyote sidekick Sig faced off against Temperance's resident alchemist, but things are far from quiet. When an Internet video of a massive snake in the backcountry of Yellowstone goes viral, a chase for the mythical basilisk is on. Monster hunters swarm into the area, and never one to pass up the promise of discovery, Petra joins in the search. Among the newcomers is a snake cult on wheels--the biker gang...

In Hawaii, a Japanese agent provocateur foments pro-independence riots. It is part of a secret war involving agents from several countries for control of an underwater volcano. The volcano is off Hawaii and the lava contains bikinium, a metal promising limitless nuclear power. A first novel.

A white water trip through the Grand Canyon goes off-course when Em Hansen's husband is accused of murdering a fellow rafter.

Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed prequel novels Dark Alchemy and Mercury Retrograde comes the first installment in Laura Bickle's dark contemporary fantasy series, Nine of Stars, a Wildlands Novel. Winter has always been a deadly season in Temperance, but this time, there's more to fear than just the cold. As the daughter of an alchemist, Petra Dee has faced all manner of occult horrors-- especially since her arrival in the small...