Beneath Strange Lights

by Vivian Moira Valentine

Amelia Temple always knew she was different. Other. But that never stopped her from wanting more—

especially her freedom.

The Bureau of Extranormal Investigations, the shadowy government agency that has controlled her since birth, is finally allowing Amelia a pass to explore the small surrounding town where she is housed. It’s 1954, and she quickly makes friends and begins to learn the rules of this strange society. Apparently, race matters. 

And girls aren’t supposed to date girls. Yet the government looks the other way when it comes to locking kids up from birth and performing experiments on them because they have extra powers—kids like Amelia.

Amelia and her new friends soon discover a conspiracy of so-called scientists running a bizarre experiment that threatens to unleash something terrible on her adopted hometown. As they begin to investigate, it becomes clear they must somehow stop the experiment before people die. But to do so, Amelia is forced to rely on what makes her different and decide just how human she wants to be. 

by Vivian Moira Valentine

In this second book in the series, Amelia Temple’s world has changed. As a test subject to a shady government entity, it is 1954 and she has finally been given limited freedom to move around after being kept captive and studied since birth.

That freedom came with a price, however. She now has friends, people she cares about. People who care about her. She has a girlfriend, but she manages to hide that fact, knowing how society would respond.

And she has enemies, those who want to study her, dissect her, see what she is. Amelia is not sure what they will find.

Something strange is going on at the hospital where her friend Ralph is being kept. And not a normal kind of strange, either. The kind of strange that means Ralph is no longer himself, the nurses at the hospital are keeping secrets, and somehow memories are stolen.

While trying to save her friends, and herself, Amelia must not only deal with the creature now living inside her, but she must learn more about who she is and what, exactly, she is capable of. Because one thing has become clear: it’s not just her and her friends’ lives at stake… there are worlds within worlds and a universe of extranormal activity that just might depend on her.

by Vivian Moira Valentine

Book 3

Freedom is a complicated word. People—English-speaking people, that is—use it to mean so many different things. Sometimes they mean that they have the ability to do something, or more specifically, that no one can stop them from doing it. 

Amelia Temple is locked in yet another facility. The civil veneer is slightly better in this place, but the true purpose of this organization is just as sinister as where she came from. Only this time, there are others with her, people who are residents of their own volition. She starts to bond with new friends, young people determined to learn how to harness their own psychic power. Her days are long, and her nights are spent missing her old friend, Gloria, and her girlfriend, Luci, despite the flirtatious attentions of a female scientist.

The organization in charge of this facility is running multiple experiments that could prove to be the undoing of not only those housed within its walls but all life on Earth.

Will Amelia be able to step in and stop the slaughter before it’s too late? Or will these experiments prove stronger than Amelia? This time she has another reason to want to save this world: finally, she has been promised answers to what she has been seeking. She just needs to take care of a few pesky experiments gone wrong first. 

by Denver Wheeler

Tree Park is a small town where nothing much happens. Nothing much except for the women who have gone missing, one after another, year after year. Bodies are found but justice has not been served.

When Claire’s roommate, April, goes missing, Claire does not hesitate to do what needs to be done. Drawing on knowledge learned by watching true crime documentaries, she steps in to help April’s family and the police. And Detective Heather Byrd has an even more personal reason for wanting to solve this: she believes her sister, Autumn, long thought to have died from suicide, was actually a victim of the same killer.

As the hunt for April intensifies, the body count piles up. But the person who holds April prisoner has one reason for doing so… April has become the next woman to be the Dearest Daughter, a role that many have played but nobody has escaped.