Kim reigns as the witchy Martha Stewart of her neighborhood coven…until Philippa moves in across the street, with her snooty English pagan heritage and her magical one-upmanship. When the annual Winter...

You’ll laugh…nervously…at these deals with the devil, horrific family dynamics, vengeful spirits…and a little girl who just wants to win the darn pumpkin-carving contest—is that too much to ask?Join bestselling...

What happens when four boys confess to the murder of a woman who died a hundred years ago…? The violent encounter Rowan Everly survived in college jolted awake her psychic power to see past images while...

Enhanced feline Cecil keeps his mistress's house free of vermin and keeps his mistress's nerves calm as she prepares to display her inventions at The Great Exhibition of London.But when Her Majesty Victoria...

“You’re not supposed to be here. This is the wrong future.”On the brink of figuring out time travel, Tom and Paola became lovers—despite Tom’s marriage to Jillian.Then Tom died. Only Paola knows he manipulated...

When Berengere’s husband, the king of Coraise, goes away crusade, his brother Jean assumes the role of Regent—and makes Berengere and her family “guests” in his chateau.Berengere knows they’re really...

If you’re gonna buy a spell, go to someone legit. Bargain spells? Well, you get what you pay for…When hapless Roberta comes to Portland hedgewitch Holly asking for help with a botched spell, Holly stumbles...

Angrrr Management: four talented guys, yes, and awfully pretty, all of them. And every last one of them was dumber than a post.Had they never HEARD of Robert Johnson?A hilarious short story about 80s...

The First Rule of Witchcraft: Harm none.The Second Rule of Witchcraft: Practice magic only when you’re clear of mind.That includes not practicing magic while drunk.When drunken scrying goes awry, Madison...

Sixteen and pregnant, Kim thinks Kevin left her behind when he got his orders to a new Air Force base.Thirty years later, Kim’s daughter tracks down Kevin. Happy with her life, Kim still wonders what...

Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts—in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they’re kind of her only friends.So when the ghost of a 70s British rock god asks her for help finding...

After former party girl Nikki Ashburne accidentally overdoses and briefly dies, she wakes up able to see ghosts. A good thing, because she lost all her other friends in the process. Now she runs ghosts...

No magic in the world can conquer nerves.Alistair Ryan screws up his courage and tells Mr. and Mrs. Bello that he intends to marry their daughter, his beloved Janeen.The Bellos counter with a request:...

Isa juggles being a nanny to tween Gretchen, studying for her MBA, and honing her magical cooking skills. Time for romance? Hah!Then Gretchen casts an ill-advised love spell, and Isa’s world gets turned...

Touch not the cat bot a glove… The MacPherson family crest above the door gives Rachael de Young, genealogist and psychic, an unexpected chill. She doesn't know that by crossing the threshold, her life...

Alyse lost her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop. Her solace? Her weekly visit to the Santa Barbara Zoo’s Asian small-clawed otter exhibit.Then she meets zoo employee Matt, who shows her something...

Coyote shapeshifter Elena works for an animal rights group, using her ability to investigate and expose rumors of animal cruelty. Uncovering a high stakes dog-fighting ring proves far more dangerous than...

Amabella: intelligent, inquisitive, artistic, sporty. She leads a perfect life, with perfect friends. Until she discovers something terribly, frighteningly wrong with her friends. Surely there must be...

Her parents taught Annalee to never sing, told her she had no talent, despite having a mega-pop-star half-sister.Then a drunken night of karaoke releases Annalee power—a power her parents had desperately...

As above, so below…At 15, Quinn Jacoby disappeared from a Victorian B&B in Portland, OR. Three days later, she returned, but nobody believed her story of going down stairs into another world.Years...

Thrilling and romantic, That Summer on Blue Heron Island is the perfect summer beach read! Elizabeth Sloan's idyllic annual family summer on private Blue Heron Island gets even better with the arrival...

Claudia lives a vagabond life, crisscrossing the country doing research for a reality show about American myths and legends.Christmas finds her in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, at a small...

Some kind of weird Sleeping Beauty curse has hit a Portland, Oregon, suburb.Sounds like a case for Hedgewitch sisters Holly and Willow, and Holly's fae familiar, Cam. But "weird" doesn't begin to describe...

New town medic Dr. Pierce braves a Christmas Eve storm of howling wind and driving rain when called to Claredon House. A kind stranger in the woods gives him directions. When Pierce arrives, he meets—and...

An honest politician: far more rare than hedgewitches, at least in Portland, Oregon.When one such politician asks hedgewitches Holly and Willow to investigate whether his rival employs a magical advantage,...

Cora, a reformed (mostly) thief and code-breaker, takes jobs no one else will take along with her fellow adventurers (sometimes called heroes). When Professor Humphreys accidentally creates a monster,...

A dragon slayer arrives to rescue a threatened town, but the real threat—and the dragon’s true desires—are not necessarily one and the same.A short-short fantasy story with a wicked twist! Find out why...

Teenager Anwyn Glas goes by Annie to avoid being teased by her peers in Tuscon, AZ. But when her mother drives across the Severn Bridge into Wales with Anwyn and her brother, Ewan, Anwyn decides maybe...

Gap Walker Daisy Rowe uses a liminal space to move between Portland, Oregon, and the magical counterpart of OtherPortland. Her goal right now, though? Get home from her work at a brewery, shower, and...

Ranging from traditional fantasy to science fiction to contemporary fantasy to the undefinably absurd, the stories in this collection will appeal to readers of all types of speculative fiction. In Written...