Lee Van Orden's boss, Jim Rhodes, thinks he's God's gift. Strutting around the office, his manner irks the majority of his female workforce. Lee, in a discussion with her fellow colleagues, mentions in passing that Jim could do with having a witch's broom inserted into his rear, and maybe that would teach him a lesson. All the workers laughingly agree.

Scarlet Nelson is a witch. She visits the Crypt casino for a Halloween party with her friends Ari and Sam. Intent on a great night out, she gets more than she bargained for!

Grant Anderson is head of security at the Crypt. He is also a werewolf. He's had his eye on Scarlet for a long time. He knows she is his lifelong mate—convincing Scarlet he is right has been his mission for months.

Freesia Daniels returns home to Key West from Boston, after getting fired from her job as a personnel specialist. Dreading the visit to her parents, who aren't conventional in the slightest, she admires a table they have acquired. Finding out the table had been made and given as a gift by her childhood sweetheart, Zachary Gray, brought old memories of him to the forefront of Freesia's mind.

Noel Ford is a successful businessman. When his elderly secretary asks him to take on some letters to Santa that she received from the post office, instead of buying her a gift for Christmas, he readily agrees. Upon opening one letter, Noel reads a touching account from a small boy, who asks for Santa to arrange a date and gifts for his mother, Maura.

From the immensely bizarre to the heart of the human condition, Odd Pursuits is an eclectic collection of stories separated by three themes—STATIONARY, MOVEMENT, and REALIZATION. Though at times strange, Odd Pursuits is thoughtful, injected with dark humor, and well worth the read.

STATIONARY contains six stories, of which I would categorize as the "oddest" of Castle's pursuits. Opening the anthology was "Dennis' Bed", a brilliant choice, in my opinion, as the story itself was like a blurry picture slowly coming into focus. The story is short, the subject matter dark, but when you get to the grizzly end, Castle has directed you sharply to his bent, leaving you off kilter and open for the stories to come.

The Insubordinate's Husband

Trish and Mike have been married for eight years. After Trish opens her own spanking studio, the feisty woman Mike married has become more and more submissive. Upset with her lack of sexual drive and apparent loss of spirit, he devises a plan to bring out the fire in his beautiful wife and to celebrate their anniversary.

On firefighter Aaron Montana's last response, he never expected to run into country music singer Bailey Carson. As a patron of the club where she regularly sang, he would sit in the back and listen to her voice, imagining various scenarios involving them together. But having been burned in past relationships, he just wasn't ready to approach her yet. Will this chance encounter change that?

Beneath The Surface written by Gracie C. McKeever has something for everyone; a strong willed, love-shy career woman, a gorgeous, successful hunk with a large, meddling Italian family, characters with psychic abilities and last but not least, lots of hot, steamy, explicit sex.

So there is a sequel to Bad Moon Rising. Thank goodness! After reading Book 1 last night, I couldn't wait to get to Book 2.

Bad Moon Rising tells the story of Trey and his quest to find a mate. Trey is a pack mate of Darius from Book 1. Set in the same town in Alabama, Book 2 felt like going home. I'd already got the town setting in my mind from Book 1.

Meg runs a bar in a small town in southern Alabama. She's a witch. She senses many things but has yet to perfect her craft. One thing she does know for sure is that someone or something is watching her and it makes her uneasy.

Darius, a werewolf who shifts, moves to the same town with his friends. They form a new pack. Darius, the Alpha male...