In late-1800s Portland, Oregon, eight-year-old Mae loses her mother. The only thing left: a leather-bound old book filled with indecipherable text. When a mysterious man from her mother's past appears,...

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,...

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...

Accidentally summoning a Solstice deity. Dealing with a magically super-annoying HOA. Visiting a haunted Adirondack inn on Christmas Eve. What, don't things like this happen to everyone during the holidays? If...

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...

Longtime copyeditor Lydia Menchin prides herself in having memorized The Chicago Manual of Style and being able to focus despite distractions. But the tech company she works for still fires her, assuming...

Brownies—not the little girls or the fudgy treat kind, but the Scottish pixie kind—help take care of households by being superior with household chores. Agnes and Neil, from different brownie clans and...

During a sultry summer in Florence, Italy, rule-following Libby must make an information exchange when her mentor, Antonia, sprains her ankle. But then she discovers Antonia had two identical thumb drives....

Brittani Menchin, decidedly not popular high school student, gained a reputation when she rescued some popular kids from their own stupidity.A reputation as the Fixer. And now head cheerleader Tara Kildare...

Janelle's grandfather is a broken man. Smart and caring, he still contains a sadness that never goes away—just like the permanent limp he won't discuss. The limp he got in the South in the 1960s, when...

When the head of their local HoA tries to impose new rules on the annual Winter Solstice ritual, the four reigning witches of the gated community resolve to fight back. A war consisting of both paperwork...

Brittani Menchin, decidedly not popular high school student, stumbles across her former BFF, Charlotte, in the girls' bathroom. Cutting herself. Despite Brittani's pain over Char's defection, she can't...

Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts. In fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they're kind of her only friends. But when four 1980s British partiers disrupt her family's Alpine...

Superhero Frostwitch (she didn't choose the name, especially because of what it rhymes with) dedicates her life to keeping Greenview City safe. What happens when her powers falter? What happens when a...

Eleven-year-old Amiyah Westerbrook loves fantasy books wherein children go to fantastical, magical worlds. Even if those children look nothing like her. When she stumbles into her dream world, she finds...

Rebecca's successful bakery produces a mouthwatering range of holiday treats—except gingerbread. She hates it when people ask why she doesn't make it. HATES it. But she doesn't hate enough to follow in...

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...

The 1940s. A time when Hollywood studios owned their talent. Which included making sure the talent avoided scandal. Shining star Tabitha St. Claire has a secret. PI Sam Belmont accepts the job to learn...

Brittani Menchin, decidedly not popular high school student, gained a reputation when she rescued some popular kids from their own stupidity. A reputation as the Fixer. When a fellow band geek gets harassed...

Jennet, scarred from a fire and with few prospects, accepts the position of companion to the veiled, enigmatic Lady Vesta. But Lady Vesta's secrets extend beyond what she hides behind her veil. From enquiring...

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...

A rapist haunts the beaches of Southern California, but nobody can clearly identify him.He always looks different, and he always has a different dog.Then Vanessa's dog, Merlin, provides a crucial clue….A...

One of the only places to find summer employment as a teen in the 1980s Florida Heartland was at Pirate Pete's Adventureland. No matter that the place was rundown or that you had to buy your own work...

When petty criminals Angela and Mike stumble across an abandoned coal mining facility in a Tennessee forest, they plan to stay for the night. The next morning, Angela finds Mike and all their possessions...

From the heat of summertime Italy to the icy winter of upstate New York, the stories in this collection all feature one common element: strong women who stand up and face their fears. Whether to protect...

Bespelled by a faerie curse. Framed for stealing a baby. Watches her boyfriend get spirited away by the beguiling fae bitch.But Tamara isn’t someone who takes this sort of shit lying down.She has a legacy...

Esme Blaylock, missing her deployed husband, wants to be curled up in her warm home with her baby daughter on Christmas Eve. Instead she’s at an upstate New York prison, assigned to interview Jennifer...

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...

Biologist Juana Salazar, PhD, believes seaweed the cure to world hunger, and gets the funding to build on-land tanks in Western Africa.But when her research takes a terrifying turn, she faces heartbreak…and...