Dani's family is unusual. She's the youngest--and only girl--of seven. Being the lone female, her family would like her to be all girly and sweet like her best friend Allie. But Dani is a tomboy born and bred, and on her fourteenth birthday she discovers why.Life is about to get decidedly strange!

Claire’s 15th birthday brings a huge surprise: she’s inherited her grandmother’s dragon! Life is about to get very interesting.

Enter the world of Faerie!*The summer sun bathes the earth in warmth and light,Faeries dance under the moon at night.Cross through the portal into a land ancient, beautiful, and wild.See the wonders that enticed the stolen child.Come away, O reader! To the Realm of Faerie.But if you want to make it back home, you had better be wary…*This collection includes twenty tales of faeries and magic set in our world–and in others...

Prom is just around the corner, but Lexie has mixed emotions. The guy of her dreams has issued the invitation, but she can’t afford the kind of dress that makes her drool. Fortunately, her best friend is a faery princess. No. Really. Claire is an honest-to-goodness faery princess with flower faeries at her command. The girls want gorgeous prom dresses? No problem! The flower faeries can deliver. Unfortunately, nothing in Faery is what it seems, and prom dresses for mortal friends carry a h...

Dangerous spirits lurk in the woodsA bargain can bind a soulEnchanted sleep can only be broken by true love’s kiss…You know these things are true…even in this modern world. Your heart still recognizes the power and mystery you can only find in a fairy tale.In Beauty and Wickedness, sixteen authors retell and reimagine some of the most enchanting fairy tales ever told. Within these pages, you’ll find beauty and treachery, magic and courage, innocence and wick...

Claire Murray loves her family. Even her decidedly weird grandmother, a woman who carries a toy dragon with her everywhere and talks to it as if she expects an answer.How could her parents desert her for the French Riviera and leave Gran in charge? What if the batty old woman decides to throw a party for Claire’s soon-to-be 15th birthday? What will her friends think if Gran tells dragon stories?Claire’s top priority? Keep Gran away from everyone at Jefferson High!A ...

Tales of wise, ancient dragons hoarding treasure, terrorizing villages, and doing battle with noble heroes have long fascinated us. But dragons were not born old and wise, nor were heroes born brave and noble.Wings of Change gathers tales of young dragons growing into their scales and claws, and human youths making choices that shape their destinies – destinies that will be forever changed by their interaction with the dragons that share their world.

Water has always intrigued humanity. We walk along the shores and banks of oceans and waterways, take boats across the surface, or swim in the waters.But water hides secrets - including those of the creatures that live in its depths...- What if mermaids really do exist, and they lure men to their deaths?- Why might bodies suddenly start washing up on shores all around the world?- What if you discovered a lost girl is the daughter of a water spirit?This...

Artie Woodward sees the invisible beings that haunt our world. She recognizes their evil but doesn't know what to do about it, so she's learned to hide from their notice. Until Jed Kendrick moves to town. Suddenly, Artie has an ally, a friend, someone else who sees the unseen. Only Jed doesn't hide. Jed fights back!

Janine Prentiss is tired of spending her summers digging up dinosaur bones with her single-parent father, an eminent paleontologist. But neither does she want to spend her summer vacation listening to her shaman grandfather’s lame tales of spirit quests and totem creatures who talk.Justin Prentiss thinks his twin sister is nuts. What kid in their right mind wouldn’t love field camp? The wild beauty of Montana mountains, fresh air, and adults too busy to pay attention to what a guy ...

Claire Murray, a real live faery princess, is spending her first midwinter holiday with her many-times-removed grandfather, the King of Faery. When her best friend Roddy, the Prince of Winter, is accused of stealing the Wyrd Stone, a magical artifact that governs the turning of the seasons, Claire must discover the real culprit before the all important celebration of the Festival of Alban Arthan. Can she clear her friend’s name before he’s banished from Faery … forever?

Sirens, selkies, and kelpies! Whether elusive or friendly, they are endlessly fascinating. They populate many traditional fantasy series and even a few contemporary / urban fantasy worlds.In this collection you’ll find five short stories by Deb Logan and Debbie Mumford ranging from contemporary fantasy to something closer to epic fantasy.Join Logan and Mumford as they explore worlds where water sprites not only exist, but refuse to be ignored!