WHERE THE
SHADOWS
CHOOSE
LIGHT.
HOLIDAY SPECTACULARS Series | Book 1
Christmas comes strangely to San Francisco.
Beneath the city’s holiday lights, old magic stirs. Ghosts walk familiar streets. Strangers become companions for a single unforgettable night.
But in the city beneath the city, winter has teeth.
As Christmas approaches, Lena Alan and Jesper MacMillian are pulled into a season of strange celebrations and dangerous visitations: a ghostly encounter from Christmas past, a gathering steeped in old magic, a deadly ride through the sleeping city, and the return of a terror older than memory itself.
Somewhere beyond the lights and fog, the Wild Hunt has begun to ride.
When it reaches San Francisco, there will be nowhere left to run.
THE HUNT BEFORE CHRISTMAS is a haunting holiday ghost story about memory, sacrifice, and the fragile light people carry into the dark.
HOLIDAY SPECTACULARS Series | Book 2
There are stories people only tell during the longest nights of the year.
Stories about things that walk abroad at Christmas. About bells ringing across black water. About children taken into the dark.
Most people no longer believe them.
Until the disappearances begin.
When children from San Francisco’s Roma community begin to vanish, Jesper MacMillian is drawn into a deadly mystery steeped in old fears and older traditions. As Rom Baro, it’s his duty to stand between his people and the season’s darkest horrors. To do so, he must gather allies from every corner of the city: friends, enemies, and powers better left undisturbed.
Some nights change a city forever.
And some Christmas stories end in darkness.
HELL’S BELLS is a dark holiday tale of forgotten folklore, haunted cities, and the things that answer when the bells begin to ring.
SHADES BELOW Series | Book 3
In San Francisco, not everyone who leaves makes it back.
The Wayfare Hotel for Restless Spirits has always existed at a crossroads, where the living, the dead, and the forgotten overlap. But mysterious forces have strained the fragile fabric of the Veil, and boundaries once taken for granted are starting to unravel.
Still reeling from a devastating loss, psychic medium Lena Alan returns to the Wayfare to find its familiar systems in chaos. She ignores the warning signs…until a violent accident rips her from her own reality and hurls her across space and time. The worlds she passes through look familiar, but follow very different rules. She’s not the first person to travel this way. The last one returned broken, his mind unable to survive the journey.
Her disappearance plunges private detective Jesper MacMillian into a desperate search that stretches beyond logic, physics, and the limits of his own understanding. Where science and magic collide, Lena and MacMillian must decide who can be trusted, what must be sacrificed, and whether some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.
GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a literary urban fantasy about haunted cities, fractured realities, and which stars guide the way home.
L.J.K. OLIVA 