She makes friends where others make enemies. Can her odd talent for compassion prevent a massacre?Young Lealle craves freedom and challenge. Raised to honor conventional goals and adopt a prim demeanor,...

What if you fail to wake from dream's beguiling beauty? Exhausted but fulfilled by the labor of primordial creation, a god of the ancient world lies sleeping. When the legions of an aggressive empire...

Once protected. Once beloved. Until a blood blade brutalizes his sire... Young Caelan relishes the carefree days and friendships of boyhood despite his palsied limbs. He loves his aunt, the Lady Agace,...

When a king begs a dread boon, dare she refuse him? Remeya—fosterling and maid-in-waiting to the king's sister—worships the old and forbidden horned god alongside the princess. Despite the centuries-old...

An army poised for battle. A hamlet of innocent villagers in the wrong place at the wrong time. A young kite climber who seizes a ridiculous chance... The troll-lord's army abducts young Andraia and forces...

Tricks and cheats lurk at the heart of faie cruelty... Tahearn—a faie knight—hates the love of torment relished by the lords and ladies of the faie court, and refuses to give rein to it in himself. But...

When utter defeat confounds you, where might victory hide? Uzuri, a new-minted astronomer on her first posting, can't wait to observe the stars from deep space. But when she awakens unable to form or...

Sometimes there's no way to be right. Sometimes you must simply show up and hope that wrong will be enough... Genevieve, mother to a teenage girl, believes that if she does everything right she can prevent...

With the hot breath and snapping jaws of the hounds too close behind, he runs . . . Beran creates magical marvels at his forge. Obsessed with his art, he ignores the people of his household and town....

When girl confronts demonic citadel, who wins? Fae awakens without memories, locked in a deserted castle. Who she is and where she comes from—all gone. By day, beauty from the ages graces the castle—medieval...

Once upon a time... A troll-mage rains death upon the land from his citadel in the sky. Who—if anyone—can defeat him? Despite the oracle's prophecy, few believe the beggar's son might be the people's...

What if Beauty faces not only her angry Beast and his curse, but a curse threatening every mage alive?  As a bespelled north-bear, Prince Kellor fights confused rage and wracking pain. Any curse possesses...

In a world of silenced voices, one champion vows her sister will not go unheard. Thania inhabits a far future in which digital goods and virtual reality substitute for physical products and experiences....

When you dwell in the citadel of your enemies, do you join them? Depart towards exile and death? Or raze their dark tower to the ground?   Gael tries to ignore the significance of his actions. Managing...

The mountain people of the North-lands wield a tribal magic born of dance, song, and the flow of sacred waters. Despite the beauty of the rites, their traditions underpin too many thou-shalt-nots.In each...

A dark secret lurks in a hidden labyrinth. Can a pair of renegades unearth the truth before more innocents disappear forever?Gael, an illicit mage, hunts redemption with Keir, a healer who helps all who...

Young deceit sprouts timeless trouble.Motherless Brys Arnsson digs himself into trouble. Bad trouble. Tricked by a troll in J.M. Ney-Grimm's richly imagined North-lands, Brys must dig himself and his...

Two friends. Two opinions. One dilemma.On fabled Navarys – the Atlantis of the North-lands – Liliyah studies energea as all thirteen-year-olds do, devoting her mornings to mastering the music that controls...

North-lands spellcasters who reach too boldly for power transform into trolls—grotesque villains wielding a potent magic and destined for madness.Spanning the North-lands history, from ancient times to...

When Sarvet's world hems her in, she pushes back. Her daughter, Livli, does likewise. The Kaunis-clan Onmibus, Sarvet & Livli, presents both their transcendent stories.SARVET'S WANDERYAR Running away...

If only Mama were well. If only Papa were . . . not like this. Clary needs a miracle, but wonders rarely step forth to solve life's problems.While her mama lies wearily abed and her papa spends the day...

In time, we all become men of sorrow, women of sorrow, people of sorrow. John Claypool echoed this truth in the preface to his book Tracks of a Fellow Struggler, and it is a bitter truth indeed.In the...

If she trusts her prince to the eldest Fate—the one who snips a mortal's thread short—will her beloved live or die? Nerine, a sea nymph of the ancient world, holds secrets close. Each morning in the chill...

Mischievous Mercurio guards the planet Mercury—his sacred charge—with quirky devotion. He loves the oddball chunk of rock, with its illusion of retrograde motion and its out-of-sync orbit and spin.Almost...

With centuries-old tradition and an impassioned traditionalist against her, can a champion of family ties save her menfolk from exile? Livli dreads losing her father, brothers—and her unborn son. The...

He would be king one day, and called as king to be wise for his people. But wisdom—and kindness—no longer come to him.Brychan, princess in a corner of a Wales that never was, requires a unicorn's horn...

In the legendary duat - the mystical passage where the sun god Ra travels from west to east in the night, so that he rises again in the dawning - a lioness of ancient Egypt lies caged.Once she stalked...

Strange magic births a monster of transcendent strength. Can a wily old hunter bring the beast to bay before it slays the woman he once cherished? Ivvar still loves his estranged wife—heartbreakingly....

Gefnen—troll-herald and hound for Koschey the Deathless—hunts life across the moors of the far north.Not deer, not pheasant, not meat for the table. His master eats choicer fruits. When the piercing scent...

Running away leads right back home—or does it? Sarvet walks with a grinding limp, and her mountain hamlet keeps girls close to home. Even worse, her mother emphasizes all the things Sarvet can't do. When...