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Psychic detective Victor Bayne begins a relationship with fellow cop Jacob Marks while investigating a disturbing serial killer. The victims leave no ghosts to question, depriving Vic of his usual advantage and making the murderer unusually difficult to identify.

Victor Bayne’s usual medication threatens his health, while its replacement leaves him overwhelmed by ghosts. Adjusting to a new police partner, he turns toward Jacob’s empathic former boyfriend for help, introducing fresh complications into his personal life.

Kenneth takes seasonal work at a department store to save for a new computer. Hoping to finish his shifts without complications, he instead attracts a persistent blond customer whose interest goes well beyond making a routine return.

Victor Bayne and Jacob Marks step away from police work for a winter outing on the ice. This short installment focuses on their developing relationship, giving the couple a quiet opportunity to spend time together outside an investigation.

Colin fears that his relationship has settled into a joyless routine. When he arrives at work to find the office deserted and emergency broadcasts on the radio, he rushes home, where his boyfriend seems unexpectedly different.

Victor Bayne escapes an awkward Thanksgiving with Jacob’s family when a missing-person investigation calls him back to work. A demanding new partner, trouble finding a shared home, and an insistent ghost make his holiday increasingly uncomfortable.

Victor Bayne investigates why all traces of his former psychic training facility and its residents have disappeared online. Returning to the buried history of the place known as Camp Hell forces him to confront people determined to conceal it.

Adam has tired of the shallow party scene and wants someone who understands his changing view of life. Meeting an older man at a friend’s gathering brings an unexpected connection, although John hesitates to trust a stranger.

After moving in with Jacob, Victor discovers that his own history has been erased from the internet. The disappearance extends to everyone from his psychic training facility, raising questions about confidential agreements and secrets Jacob may have kept.

Seeking direction in his increasingly chaotic life, Andrew visits a psychic’s shop but arrives too late. Another shopkeeper offers a sympathetic ear, and their unexpected connection gives him a different reason to reconsider where his life is heading.

After recovering from a devastating accident, Anthony returns to his family’s landscaping business and finds his brothers pushing him out. A job at a house tied to childhood fears offers an unsettling chance to rediscover trust and desire.

Shirina hopes to master an ancient scroll’s poisons and potions, but still needs ingredients from the marketplace. Her brother refuses to take her because a rapist is prowling the village, then leaves her alone while he goes himself.

A New Year’s Eve murder calls Victor Bayne away from a planned celebration, leaving Jacob Marks to attend alone. Jacob faces the awkward consequences of dating another psychic detective while trying to salvage an evening that work has interrupted.

Halloween enthusiast Martin reluctantly accepts a friend’s arrangement for a blind date at a popular haunted attraction. Expecting disappointment, he enters Night Terrors unaware that something in its shadows may change the course of his evening.

Mark Hansen expected glamour from working for a vampire artist, but Jonathan Varga lives in secrecy and isolation. When a magazine mention exposes them to unexpected danger, Mark must confront the hidden past behind his employer’s rigid precautions.

Former biology student Web struggles with missing memories while working security at a natural sciences centre. His attraction to a visiting taxidermist becomes complicated when a supervisor is murdered and both men become the investigation’s main suspects.

Starting over as a chauffeur on an isolated Michigan island, Ray Carlucci becomes attracted to an unsettling sculptor. When workers discover a body and an ice storm cuts them off, Ray must question whether his new lover is dangerous.

When his friend Lisa disappears from a school for psychics, Victor Bayne travels to California to find her. With no ghostly witnesses to question, he reluctantly accepts help from an old enemy whose assistance carries a troubling price.

The vampire Marushka collects dolls, and Michael becomes her newest living acquisition. Trapped with an unstable captor, he hopes Wild Bill will find him before her possessiveness turns their dangerous encounter into something he cannot escape.

After losing a friend to a vampire, Michael searches Detroit’s nightlife for creatures to kill. His hunt brings him into contact with Wild Bill, a vampire whose attraction to Michael complicates the encounter between predator and would-be hunter.

Michael’s family wants him back in college, unaware of the vampire hunting and relationship that now define his life. An uneasy reunion leads him and Wild Bill toward a community where being human creates a new kind of danger.

Wild Bill has been careful to avoid turning Michael into a vampire. When his lover grows unusually pale, thin, and uninterested in food, Bill begins to fear that their relationship has caused precisely the transformation he wanted to prevent.

Vampire Wild Bill finds himself followed by Michael, a determined young man armed with a gun and an obsession with vampires. Their uneasy attraction grows as Bill tries to understand a pursuer who may still intend to kill him.

Wild Bill enjoys life with Michael, but his lover wants to expand their experiences together. The possibility of bringing someone else into their intimacy revives Bill’s guilt over an earlier encounter that ended in death.

After escaping an underground vampire nest, Michael suffers from an affliction left by Silk. Wild Bill searches for a way to save him, confronting choices that may demand the sacrifice of his alliances, pride, and remaining humanity.

Michael and Wild Bill attend an underground art gathering at a Milwaukee hotel. An unusual photographer and the people around him draw the couple into an encounter whose appeal soon gives way to an unexpected threat.

Victor Bayne expects Halloween to involve costumes and candy, but instead must endure formal clothes and a grown-up party with Jacob’s friends. An uncomfortable evening becomes more complicated when he discovers that his assumptions about their host may be wrong.

Michael and Wild Bill’s story continues in Las Vegas, where vampires can conceal their activities among passing visitors. This short installment follows Elixir and explores a hunting ground whose unwritten rules favor targeting tourists over local residents.

An older stage magician and a struggling younger performer enter a television competition that could revive their careers. Working alongside the man he has long admired, Ricardo finds that the contest also offers an unexpected chance at love.

A visit to Michael’s parents brings gifts, expectations, and renewed pressure about college. As Wild Bill encourages the reunion, Michael questions his family’s intentions and finds himself drawn back toward the dangerous pursuit that brought them together.

Wild Bill tells Michael about a mural from his past, prompting the pair to search for it. Their exploration of the ruined building uncovers more than a lost artwork, turning a personal discovery into a dangerous encounter.

Memory specialist Daniel Schroeder cannot repair the false recollections that torment his father. As their family business struggles, an unfamiliar man begins appearing in manufactured memories, leaving Daniel uncertain whether faulty technology or his own desires explain the intrusion.

In a world sustained by cheap manufactured food, a struggling scientist meets a copywriter and an awkward computer expert during a disastrous job fair. As riots spread through Manhattan, their growing attraction intersects with a crisis surrounding that food supply.

Victor Bayne has avoided the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program even as his partner Jacob begins working inside it. But the exorcism Vic owes its director can no longer be postponed, drawing him into an organisation he distrusts.

Elijah Crowe finds everyday social expectations difficult, but memory science offers a subject he understands deeply. Meeting Daniel Schroeder opens the possibility of romance, while the people closest to Elijah resist his emerging understanding of himself.

After losing a hand, Desmond Poole resists rehabilitation and resents the robots that dominate daily life. A mandatory support group introduces him to a younger amputee whose attraction complicates Desmond’s self-destructive habits and unfinished relationship with his ex.

Michael returns bloodied from a confrontation with neighbors, alarming Wild Bill. As Bill worries that his lover has resumed vampire hunting, Michael’s darker mood stirs predatory impulses that complicate their efforts to care for one another.

Daniel struggles to run the family business while searching for a cure for his father’s persistent false memories. Elijah’s practical support creates room for new possibilities, but repairing Big Dan’s mind remains a difficult and ethically fraught challenge.

When Victor Bayne finds an old punk T-shirt, he sees something ready for the trash. Jacob Marks sees a reminder of Vic’s earlier life, turning a small disagreement over clothing into an intimate encounter with memory and change.

Twenty short works follow psychic detective Victor Bayne and his partner Jacob between major investigations. Family visits, odd jobs and quiet moments at home reveal their relationship and abilities from perspectives that the central cases leave unexplored.

Successful stylist Curtis Ash enjoys casual relationships until fellow salon worker Red Turner captures his attention. As his comfortable life unravels, Crash must confront his resistance to commitment and the cost of ignoring his own instincts.

Victor Bayne joins the Federal Psychic Monitoring Program, making his relationship with Jacob a professional partnership as well. When fellow agents begin dying, the two must identify a killer while confronting dangers their psychic abilities may not be enough to overcome.

Lee Kennedy keeps postponing graduation to avoid the Algorithm that will choose his spouse. Meeting Roman, a waiter from a poorer district, awakens forbidden possibilities and forces Lee to weigh personal freedom against his family, home, and expected future.

Dixon and Yuri head to a travelling carnival to meet Uncle Fonzo, only to uncover magical damage and an urgent ransom demand. Their search follows dangerous Spellcraft from a booby-trapped bus to a mausoleum before the deadline expires.

Victor Bayne accepts an undercover assignment in a supposedly haunted townhouse to gain access to his permanent record. A recent death, a difficult subject and a secretive partner complicate his confidence that the case will be straightforward.

After failing his family’s magical initiation, Dixon Penn hopes a greeting-card contest will change his fortunes. Suspicious happenings at the company keep drawing him back, along with an intimidating Russian security guard he finds impossible to resist.

Following a lead on Uncle Fonzo, Dixon and Yuri arrive at a spa plagued by a terrible smell. Suspecting one of Fonzo’s spells, they must reconstruct shredded instructions before an influential critic’s visit ruins the business.

Dixon and Yuri search for Uncle Fonzo in a Minnesota tourist town whose famous giant taco is under threat. His magical fixes have made local problems worse, and the pair must untangle his Spellcraft before the attraction collapses.

A dangerous street drug promises enhanced psychic abilities while killing its users. Investigating its origins, Victor Bayne confronts suspicious behaviour at a clinic, connections to his institutional past and the renewed temptation of his own addiction.

A mime asks Dixon and Yuri to undo a spell helping an outsider buy up their beachfront town. Going undercover on the boardwalk, they uncover secrets and hidden alliances while trying to identify who commissioned the destructive magic.

Facing eviction, Yuri joins Dixon in a competitive apartment-hunting scheme with strangely appealing properties in a crumbling neighbourhood. They suspect magical manipulation, but exposing it could cost them their best chance of finding a home together.

Dixon looks forward to Christmas with Yuri, but his family’s magical tradition forbids exchanging presents. As the holiday approaches, uncertainty about whether everyone will follow that rule threatens to complicate his hopes for a peaceful celebration.

A corporation’s drilling threatens Pinyin Bay after an explosion drives residents away. Determined to protect their home, Dixon and Yuri investigate the spells shielding the operation and try to undo them before the town suffers another disaster.

When Yuri develops a mysterious illness, Dixon sets out to find a cure despite his lack of culinary skills. Bargaining and baking their way across town, the couple must discover what caused the affliction before their improvised remedies fail.

A potentially valuable painting arrives in Yuri’s hands, but its missing signature complicates authentication. Dixon’s willingness to forge one leads them into a search for a vanished artist, with a looming appraisal and possible Spellcraft making the problem increasingly tangled.

With Uncle Fonzo occupied by family matters, Dixon inherits the task of finding Pinyin Bay’s next mayor. He and Yuri investigate candidates who seem progressively stranger, racing to secure someone sympathetic to Scriveners before a disastrous contender wins by default.

Victor Bayne and Jacob Marks are preparing to marry when evidence of old psychic experiments threatens their plans. Jacob’s name appears in the records, forcing Vic to combine wedding preparations with a covert investigation into his future husband’s past.

Eighteen stories follow Victor Bayne and Jacob through the seasons, beginning with their honeymoon and revisiting earlier moments together. Ghostly encounters, investigations and domestic complications reveal another side of the psychic detective’s life beyond his major cases.

Newly responsible for the Penn family, Dixon receives a desperate request from a man barred from magical assistance. With his usual advisers distracted, he and Yuri must search for a way to help without violating the Spellcraft circuit’s restrictions.

A visiting auctioneer raises hopes that Dixon’s father owns a valuable rare comic. When Yuri helps retrieve it, he uncovers troubling questions about the family, sending the couple across Pinyin Bay to repair both the comic and a strained marriage.

A previously unknown relative challenges Dixon’s position as Hand of the family. Determined to prove himself, Dixon juggles a magical scavenger hunt and a missing-dog case while Yuri and their relatives rally to protect his place in Pinyin Bay.

Rowan would rather slip away from a holiday party, but his grandmother’s conspicuous sweater makes hiding difficult. Suspecting the garment is enchanted, he encounters another shy guest and discovers that an embarrassing evening might still offer an unexpected connection.

Victor Bayne anticipates a quiet investigation in small-town Iowa with Jacob beside him. Strange behavior and troubling discoveries turn the assignment into something far more dangerous, forcing Jacob to rely on an untested ability as Vic himself begins acting unpredictably.

Conrad’s magical apprenticeship is going nowhere because he cannot make even basic decisions about his tools. An intriguing man at a nearby shop suggests another possibility, but choosing a magical assistant may prove just as difficult as choosing anything else.

Abandoned beside a river without his belongings, dangerous enforcer Gino encounters Shane, a young man deserted by his supposed friends. Stranded together, the two begin an uncanny journey that forces them to confront their pasts and reconsider their futures.

A routine ghost check becomes a disaster when Victor Bayne, Jacob and a difficult researcher are trapped in their organisation’s basement. As accidents accumulate, Vic begins to suspect something more deliberate than bad weather or simple misfortune.

A human captive discovers that his new master, Droko, is an orc pretending to be a shaman. Teaching him to fake the rituals becomes a matter of survival, complicated by growing desire, clan politics, and ancient prophecies.

A disgraced horse trainer is captured by slavers and purchased by Marok, an orc isolated within his own clan. Forced together across a sharp divide in status and culture, the two outsiders discover an unexpected attraction.

Victor Bayne investigates reports of a dead woman in a building with no recorded crime. Assisted by Jacob and technology that strengthens his mediumship, he must decide whether to trust official evidence, unfamiliar equipment, or his own uneasy perceptions.