M. E Purfield

Teen psychic Miki Radicci has worked with Elite on a few murders but this one is different. She must experience the death of a burnt body. No police are not involved. Tel-Com, the corporation that funds Elite, is the client. But Tel-Com has no interest in the burnt body. They want to know who the body saw at the time of his/her death: a twelve-year-old Japanese girl. Going against orders and her own kind, Miki searches for the little girl wanted...

The Elite Group uses psychics to assist law enforcement and government agencies to solve crimes. No candidate seems more promising than sixteen-year-old Miki Radicci who can psychically experience a victim's pain or death. Miki works with Elite not only to help victims but also to learn about her ability. She learns more than she expects as she follows the path of a killer. The identity of a demon that haunts her life and art. A dark and twisted...

Albee is a slave on a Saibhir residency ship, desperate for freedom and autonomy despite the light-years standing between them and their dreams. Captured again and tortured for answers, the Saibhir believe that Albee had help trying to escape. Is there a resistance on the ship? Or is it a dream created by torture? Ealu, the thrilling science fiction short story from the Saoirse War Series, will take readers on a journey of survival, bravery, and resilience....

Vincent Flowers lives a content marriage with his wife Allie, despite working menial corporate jobs. Then two events spin his world out of control. A suicidal man almost kills Vincent and Allie becomes pregnant. Now Vincent struggles to climb the greased corporate ladder, hoping to fit the new standard forced upon him. A hysterically funny novel that's not a novel about a man's struggle into normality that is not normal, as is proper, that will...

On a distant planet, private investigator Kelly Kharma wallows in a pit of depression. The love of her life left her and society grows worse. She keeps moving forward, though. To keep her sanity and fixing what she can of society. When she's asked to recover a stolen artifact and protect a dancer from a stalker, she discovers that moving forward might not be the best option. Old enemies and love still won't let her go. Bodies drop and questions...

Collected here for the first time, the first three young adult novels of M.E. Purfield. A Pentecostal girl not only questions her faith when she meets a Buddhist punk in her school but also what it means to be family in jesus freakz + buddha punx. A guitarist bored with her art runs off to New York to live with her father and join the circus brewing in a time of great cultural change in Breaking Fellini. Delicate Cutters documents a teen girl's struggle...

Blunt Force Kharma is a suspenseful and intense urban sci-fi noir from the author of the long running noir fantasy Miki Radicci series that throws Raymond Chandler into a William Gibson world. Barely making ends meet in Central District, Private Investigator Kelly Kharma takes on the cases others might not. With the police backlogged, a working class mother hires Kharma to find her daughter who didn't come home from school. In another case,Kharma...

A group of white terrorists attacks Jewish Centers all over New York. Alyssa, a teen runaway in and out of Miki Radicci's life and formally part of the skinhead culture, leads her to the latest violent act. Miki almost dies but it doesn't scare her off the terrorists' trail. The elusive Alyssa led Miki to the attack for a reason. To stop American Strong from taking lives for their Neo-Nazi cause and continuing the plans set by Ethan Weisz? Or she...

From the writer of the Miki Radicci Series and Cities That Eat Islands comes a gritty short story about obsessive love and accusation.Aside from a bit of girl trouble, Nathan's life is going okay. Great grades, a loyal best friend, and a poud mom. Then the cops come knocking to ask him about a murder because of something he long forgot.This story is taken from the crime collection A Sandwich Can't Stop a Bullet.

They are the largest minority in the world. They have no rights. They are told how to think, how to worship, and how to socialize. They are children. Some will grow up and repeat the pattern. Some will break from the vicious cycle and use their voices whether it be in the present or in the far, far future. How to Make Friends with Teenage Anarchists is a collection of young adult stories spanning many genres that will make you think twice about children...