Standing astride the British landscape, looms the giant blue form of the Cailleach. Whether she is seen as a benevolent earth-shaping giantess, harsh winter hag goddess, shape-shifting crone, guardian of sacred wells and animals, or ancient bestower of sovereignty; the Cailleach appears in many roles and manifestations in myths and legends across the British Isles. Tracking the Cailleach across thousands of years through folklore, literature and place names, the authors have uncovered startling references which hint at a hidden priestess cult worshipping the Cailleach from ancient times through into the twentieth century. By exploring her myths and legends, they demonstrate the hugely significant role of the Cailleach in the early history of the British Isles. The demonization of the Cailleach through the Middle Ages by the Christian Church paralleled that of women and witches, and is reflected in various other supernatural hag figures possibly derived from her and discussed in detail, such as Black Annis, Gyre Carling, Mia Lia, Nicneven and the Old Woman of the Mountain. Looking beyond the veil of the sacred landscape, the vision of the Cailleach confronts the seeker, in hills and rocks, lakes and wells, burial chambers and stormy skies. Now finally the primal elemental power of the Cailleach is revealed in her full glory, in the tales and places of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man; as well as in traces of her presence in England, Wales, Jersey, Brittany, Spain and Norway. This unique and ground-breaking work brings together for the first time the wealth of folklore, stories and legends regarding this most significant of British supernatural figures, whose myths and wisdom are as relevant today as they have ever been.

Crime and grime are everywhere, at least in Maggie Phillips' opinion. Deep in the throes of a New England winter, Maggie's still adjusting to her new role as confidential informant for the Hudson Police Department. When a suspicious fax is sent to one of her new clients, Maggie is sure she's unearthed a conspiracy. With no crime to investigate, however, the Hudson P.D. can do nothing—that is until a wealthy trophy wife disappears and the FBI is called in to the hunt.

On the home front, her twelve-year-old son is growing up way too fast, while her brother is back with a few surprises destined to wreak havoc on the household. To frost the whole crappy cake, her best friend's marriage is falling apart, which leaves Maggie worrying over her own. All of the family drama is put into perspective, however, when Maggie is arrested for kidnapping and blackmail.

Between economic woes and a now tarnished reputation, Maggie is in way over her head. Yet out of the ashes of frustration and failure, something great might emerge. If she survives the birthing process that is...

Crime and grime are everywhere, at least in Maggie Phillips' opinion. Deep in the throes of a New England winter, Maggie's still adjusting to her new role as confidential informant for the Hudson Police Department. When a suspicious fax is sent to one of her new clients, Maggie is sure she's unearthed a conspiracy. With no crime to investigate, however, the Hudson P.D. can do nothing—that is until a wealthy trophy wife disappears and the FBI is called in to the hunt.

On the home front, her twelve-year-old son is growing up way too fast, while her brother is back with a few surprises destined to wreak havoc on the household. To frost the whole crappy cake, her best friend's marriage is falling apart, which leaves Maggie worrying over her own. All of the family drama is put into perspective, however, when Maggie is arrested for kidnapping and blackmail.

Between economic woes and a now tarnished reputation, Maggie is in way over her head. Yet out of the ashes of frustration and failure, something great might emerge. If she survives the birthing process that is...

Maggie Phillips hasn’t had it easy. As the wife of retired Navy SEAL, and the adoptive mother of two little hellions, Maggie is constantly looking for ways to improve her family’s financial situation. She accepts a cleaning position for her new neighbors (who redefine the term ‘eccentric’), never imagining she will end up as the sole alibi for a man with a fascination for medieval torture devices when he is brought up on murder charges.

While Maggie struggles to prove the man’s innocence, her deadbeat brother arrives, determined to sell Maggie and Neil on his next great scheme and to mooch with a vengeance. If that isn’t bad enough, her in-laws, (the cut-throat corporate attorneys) descend on the house, armed with disapproval and condemnation, for the family’s annual Thanksgiving celebration.

As the police investigation intensifies, Maggie searches for the killer among the upper echelon of Hudson, Massachusetts in the only way she can— by scrubbing their thrones.

Of the porcelain variety, that is…


A really enjoyable read—laugh out loud funny—one that I’m glad to have had the privilege to review. I look forward to more of Ms. Hart’s work. Excellent!
-Cocktail Reviews


"a wonderfully fun whodunit"
-ParaNormalRomance.org

A Night Owl Romance Top Pick!

Maggie Phillips hasn’t had it easy. As the wife of retired Navy SEAL, and the adoptive mother of two little hellions, Maggie is constantly looking for ways to improve her family’s financial situation. She accepts a cleaning position for her new neighbors (who redefine the term ‘eccentric’), never imagining she will end up as the sole alibi for a man with a fascination for medieval torture devices when he is brought up on murder charges.

While Maggie struggles to prove the man’s innocence, her deadbeat brother arrives, determined to sell Maggie and Neil on his next great scheme and to mooch with a vengeance. If that isn’t bad enough, her in-laws, (the cut-throat corporate attorneys) descend on the house, armed with disapproval and condemnation, for the family’s annual Thanksgiving celebration.

As the police investigation intensifies, Maggie searches for the killer among the upper echelon of Hudson, Massachusetts in the only way she can— by scrubbing their thrones.

Of the porcelain variety, that is…


A really enjoyable read—laugh out loud funny—one that I’m glad to have had the privilege to review. I look forward to more of Ms. Hart’s work. Excellent!
-Cocktail Reviews


"a wonderfully fun whodunit"
-ParaNormalRomance.org

A Night Owl Romance Top Pick!

Kathy was cruelly dumped, on St Valentine's Day of all days! Her gay best friends Jules and Gary decide to try and cheer her up - but things end up going much farther than any of them had anticipated! Contains explicit hot gay sex, a mmf threesome, oral sex, and anal sex.

The door to their bedroom was open a crack, and Kathy padded drunkenly down the hallway. If her friends were asleep she didn't want to wake them, so she peered carefully through the doorway to make sure she wasn't disturbing them. It took a few moments for her eyes to adjust to the darkness, and when they did she almost gasped in shock.

Gary and Jules were together in bed, on top of the covers. Gary held Jules in his arms, and the pair were kissing. Little nibbling kisses at first, but as Kathy watched, almost hypnotized by the erotic sight, the kisses were growing hungrier, more needful. As Kathy watched Gary twisted his fingers through Jules hair, gripping it tightly, near the scalp. Soon Gary was holding Jules face and kissing him forcefully, his tongue deep in his boyfriend's mouth, while Jules was hurriedly undoing his belt and unzipping his fly. Her nose caught wind of a potent male musk, and she froze, almost swooning. For a moment she almost turned away, almost returned to the kitchen for another drink or the couch to go to bed, but something gave her pause. Something inspired her to stay, unseen, watching from the doorway.

In her drunken state Kathy found the sounds the boys were making to be almost unbelievably erotic -- their small sighs, the sucking of their lips, the heaviness of their breathing. Every small movement and soft groan sent a tremble of desire through her, shivering from her clit and all the way up their spine. She'd fantasized about her gay friends' lovemaking time and again over the years, reading gay erotica and watching gay porn, but she'd never dreamed she'd have the chance to see it live. She barely noticed her hand creeping down between her own body, lifting up the hem of her skirt, and sliding delicate fingers into her panties. A warm flush ran through her body as her fingertips stroked circles into her clit, gently at first, but with increasing speed and pressure. She slunk down along the door-jam, panting softly, letting out a helpless little moan of lustful need. She loved her boys, she wanted them, wanted tho feel their hands on her body, feel their lips on her skin...

Kathy was cruelly dumped, on St Valentine's Day of all days! Her gay best friends Jules and Gary decide to try and cheer her up - but things end up going much farther than any of them had anticipated! Contains explicit hot gay sex, a mmf threesome, oral sex, and anal sex.

The door to their bedroom was open a crack, and Kathy padded drunkenly down the hallway. If her friends were asleep she didn't want to wake them, so she peered carefully through the doorway to make sure she wasn't disturbing them. It took a few moments for her eyes to adjust to the darkness, and when they did she almost gasped in shock.

Gary and Jules were together in bed, on top of the covers. Gary held Jules in his arms, and the pair were kissing. Little nibbling kisses at first, but as Kathy watched, almost hypnotized by the erotic sight, the kisses were growing hungrier, more needful. As Kathy watched Gary twisted his fingers through Jules hair, gripping it tightly, near the scalp. Soon Gary was holding Jules face and kissing him forcefully, his tongue deep in his boyfriend's mouth, while Jules was hurriedly undoing his belt and unzipping his fly. Her nose caught wind of a potent male musk, and she froze, almost swooning. For a moment she almost turned away, almost returned to the kitchen for another drink or the couch to go to bed, but something gave her pause. Something inspired her to stay, unseen, watching from the doorway.

In her drunken state Kathy found the sounds the boys were making to be almost unbelievably erotic -- their small sighs, the sucking of their lips, the heaviness of their breathing. Every small movement and soft groan sent a tremble of desire through her, shivering from her clit and all the way up their spine. She'd fantasized about her gay friends' lovemaking time and again over the years, reading gay erotica and watching gay porn, but she'd never dreamed she'd have the chance to see it live. She barely noticed her hand creeping down between her own body, lifting up the hem of her skirt, and sliding delicate fingers into her panties. A warm flush ran through her body as her fingertips stroked circles into her clit, gently at first, but with increasing speed and pressure. She slunk down along the door-jam, panting softly, letting out a helpless little moan of lustful need. She loved her boys, she wanted them, wanted tho feel their hands on her body, feel their lips on her skin...

An immediate cult sensation when it was first released in 1992, Fag Hag gave birth to a genre that later reached mainstream popularity in "Will and Grace." Long out of print, the novel finally returns for a digital second life—to shock and delight a whole new generation. - Natalie Stathis is a big, flamboyant girl with a big, obsessive crush on a gorgeous gay artist, Peter Leland. She’s managed to become his best friend and constant companion, and gleefully uses her influence over him to poison every one of his budding romances—on the principle that when he’s run through all the men in town, it’ll finally be her turn. But when Peter finds true love in the unlikely arms of Lloyd Hood—a taciturn, gun-toting survivalist—none of Natalie’s usual plots and stratagems can separate them. She’s forced to throw caution to the wind and discretion out the door, and begin a campaign to win back her man that is actively, even dangerously, criminal. Brazenly irreverent, hilariously caustic, and grippingly suspenseful, Fag Hag is a novel you won’t easily forget.

"Absorbing and powerful...Larger-than-life...A one-two punch of outrageous humor and sobering pathos...Succeeds admirably both as satire and as flat-out entertainment." - New York Native

An immediate cult sensation when it was first released in 1992, Fag Hag gave birth to a genre that later reached mainstream popularity in "Will and Grace." Long out of print, the novel finally returns for a digital second life—to shock and delight a whole new generation. - Natalie Stathis is a big, flamboyant girl with a big, obsessive crush on a gorgeous gay artist, Peter Leland. She’s managed to become his best friend and constant companion, and gleefully uses her influence over him to poison every one of his budding romances—on the principle that when he’s run through all the men in town, it’ll finally be her turn. But when Peter finds true love in the unlikely arms of Lloyd Hood—a taciturn, gun-toting survivalist—none of Natalie’s usual plots and stratagems can separate them. She’s forced to throw caution to the wind and discretion out the door, and begin a campaign to win back her man that is actively, even dangerously, criminal. Brazenly irreverent, hilariously caustic, and grippingly suspenseful, Fag Hag is a novel you won’t easily forget.

"Absorbing and powerful...Larger-than-life...A one-two punch of outrageous humor and sobering pathos...Succeeds admirably both as satire and as flat-out entertainment." - New York Native

Kissing the Hag is a wonderfully intelligent, earthy, cosmic diary of the feminine life... this life-soaked book remains close to the fluids of body and soul... It's an obvious gift-book for women going through a life passage, but it could also be important for men, who are closer to the mysteries presented here than they might wish to be. Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul.

When Precious is left home alone with a stomachache, she's got nothing but a warning from Mama -- "Don't let nothing or nobody into this house" -- to keep her company. You see, "nothing or nobody" could turn out to be something awful: the Boo Hag! The Boo Hag's got a voice that rumbles like thunder and hair that shoots out like lightning. And she can disguise herself to look like anything. So when the Boo Hag comes calling, will Precious be clever enough to outwit even the trickiest trickster?

Here's an oh-so-funny -- and not-too-scary -- story from Newbery Honor-winning author Patricia C. McKissack and Onawumi Jean Moss that's paired with spirited, folksy illustrations by Kyrsten Brooker.

A young African-American girl named Precious has a stomachache, so she has to stay at home alone while the whole family leaves to plant corn. Mama tells her, "Now remember, don't let nothing and nobody in this house--not even me, 'cause I got a key." Precious's older brother warns her with a wink that, you never know, Pruella the Boo Hag could even try to get in: "She's tricky and she's scary, and she tries to make you disobey yo' mama." Sure enough, the shapeshifting Pruella shows up, first as a big, mean force with lightning hair and burning-cinder eyes; then as a friendly-looking, but more-than-slightly off visitor asking for a drink of dirty dishwater; then as a strange, raspy-voiced facsimile of her friend Addie Louise; and finally, as a copper penny. Clever Precious never falls for the Boo Hag's half-baked disguises (the Boo Hag "aine too smart") and her family is proud to find her at home safe and sound. That night, as Precious hums her victory song in bed, the reader is asked to look just outside her window... have we really seen the end of Boo Hag? Kyrsten Brooker's wonderfully expressive, mixed-media collage illustrations shine with as much humor, motion, and texture as the story. Young readers will revel in this original, vivacious, suspenseful-but-not-too-scary, read-aloud tale about a child's conquest of a genuinely spooky foe. (Ages 6 to 8) --Karin Snelson

From hags and harpies to sorceresses and sirens, this volume features twenty all-new tales that prove women are far from the weaker sex-in all their alluring, magical, and monstrous roles.