A coven of witches in suburbia, juggling families and holidays and jealousy, or fighting with the local homeowners' association with both magic and their wits. Magic users in Portland, OR, who have a...

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...

Umberto Scolari. Engineer. Thinker. Student to Il Maestro himself: Leonard da Vinci. While da Vinci paints and designs machinery for his patrons, Umberto picks up the slack when someone needs a murder...

Paranormal cop Miranda Contreau investigates a possible demon attack and gruesome murder.What she finds are six adorable cats and six cute, fuzzy kittens.Related? Surely not…Find out why USA Today bestselling...

Former Hollywood party girl Nikki Ashburne sees ghosts—in fact, many of them are her friends. Okay, they’re kind of her only friends. Most ghosts stick around because they’re happy here and have no desire...

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...

Melody wakes to the scent of amber and vanilla—the cloying scent her ex-lover wore. The ex-lover who escaped the psychiatric hospital…and kidnapped Melody's daughter. Called "a nail-biter" by Publisher's...

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...

Expelled from her previous school for creating disturbing artwork, teenage orphan Zoey just wants to keep her head down and graduate without a fuss from exclusive Lawrence Prep.But something strange and...

If Claire can’t prove Jason loves her, a faerie curse will rip them apart forever. But how do you prove someone’s devoted to you?Short story “Proof of Devotion” cleverly blends fantasy and romance in...

“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...

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...

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...

“Once upon a time, I was SO screwed…”When Princess’s boss promises a client that Princess can make Oroflex (bendy gold wire)—which she can’t—Princess turns to her colleague Bob (not his real name) the...

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...

Bree works for a top secret agency in London that protects magical artefacts.Also caring for an ill son, she chafes against being sent to oversee Arianrhod's Wheel during a special full moon.Will temptation...

All girls have power. Sometimes magic, sometimes bravery, sometimes sheer determination. In this collection, teenage girls face their fears, trust their instincts, and protect those around them…. And...

Narnia. Pern. Fillory. Oz. Earthsea. Middle Earth. Fionvar. Fantasy fans read to escape to another world. Your job as a writer is to make that world so compelling, they never want to leave. Here's a book...

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...

Hitler seeks the magical Thirteen Treasures of Britain. Vivian, immortal lover of Merlin, faces the task of waking him from his bespelled slumber to guard the treasures—even though seeing him again breaks...

Tilly's magical abilities got accepted to Miss Rosina Wakenshaw's School for Talented Girls. Unfortunately, her own particular Talent remains stubbornly hidden, and she feels like a fraud. In two days'...

In the future, orbiting space stations function as prep schools, removing teens from the temptations of drugs and alcohol and even playing hooky. They still find ways to act out. When the others deliberately...

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...

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...

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...

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...