Maria Escobar loves being a doctor. And exploring portals to alternate timelines. Fitting in with the elite at a fundraiser for the Cave Creek Historical Society? Not so much.Running into Cody Walker, her old nemesis—and crush—from high school? Time to leave.But despite her desire to avoid Cody, Maria must face the dangers of an alternate timeline to find him again.A captivating short story about time travel, danger and love.

Lauren discovered a buried body. In her backyard. While hunting Easter eggs with her daughter. Strange things happened in the small town of Cave Creek, Nevada, but nothing like this.Who buried the body and, more importantly, why?Lauren must find the answers to protect her daughter.A suspenseful and gripping short story about the risks parents take to protect their children.

Locked down 24/7.Alone. Or, together too much.The pandemic disrupted our lives and our connections to other people, to our jobs, even to our pets. Penned in at home, our relationships confronted unprecedented complications . . . and opportunities.A compelling collection of short fiction about the challenges and changes the pandemic wrought on relationships.

What would you do if you had a chance to see your dead mother again?Dakota’s mom died on Christmas Eve, 1998. Over two decades later, she finds a time portal to an alternate 1998.Will her mom exist in that timeline? Will Dakota lose her again? She needs to find the answers, even if it means lying to her wife.An intriguing short story about love, loss and mortality.

The 1987 murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan sent shock waves through the affluent Atlanta suburb of Buckhead, Georgia like few other crimes before it. The neighborhood, with its stately mansions and top-tier schools, was simply not the kind of place where women were gunned down in broad daylight. How many socialites had enemies so dangerous they would be murdered by a hit man pretending to deliver roses on an early winter morning?Lita was an intelligent, accomplished, and stunning B...

Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldA mythical town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas, Cave Creek attracts the strange, weird, and inexplicable.Founded by a few settlers in the waning days of the 19th century, a gold rush in 1900 exploded Cave Creek into a boomtown with more than 8,000 residents.But right from the beginning, strange events bedevil the residents. Unexplained things that often chase a resident down the valley to saf...

Action-Adventure tales to lead you to places you’ve never been — and hope you make it back.Make a wildfire your ally. Tread softly with the French Resistance during WWII. Extract an informant from the dangers of the Babylonian streets. Sail the Atlantic, float down a river, or take a fishing boat far out to sea. And you can always fight the Phoenicians with the least lucky Viking ever born.Join the adventure and you’ll never look back.

What pairs better than peppermint and hot chocolate? Romance and the holidays, of course!In this year's most charming WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a sweet collection of romantic holiday stories to add a bit more love to the season.Let Anthea Lawson take you to a Christmas gathering no one really wants to organize or attend, but must because of an inheritance. Join Stefon Mears as he imagines the perfect bookstore and ...

An Annual Holiday Celebration!Read a holiday story per day from American Thanksgiving to New Year's Day...or binge the entire collection.This volume contains 39 stories—from mystery to romance to time travel, that range in tone from joyful to strange and even dark. All stories center around the traditional holidays such as Christmas and New Year's but also explore some weird holiday traditions, past, present and future.Featuring works from award-winning and bestsell...

Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldA mythical town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas, Cave Creek attracts the strange, weird, and inexplicable.Founded by a few settlers in the waning days of the 19th century, a gold rush in 1900 exploded Cave Creek into a boomtown with more than 8,000 residents.But right from the beginning, strange events bedevil the residents. Unexplained things that often chase a resident down the valley to saf...

Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldStrange, unexplained events long plagued residents of Cave Creek, a former mining town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas.In two previous anthologies, Bitter Mountain Moonlight and Open Ended Threat, the stories recount the past and present of the mythical Cave Creek, where portals to other timelines open and then disappear in the desert and rocks around the town.Promise in the Gold takes the rea...

Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldStrange, unexplained events long plagued residents of Cave Creek, a former mining town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas.In two previous anthologies, Bitter Mountain Moonlight and Open Ended Threat, the stories recount the past and present of the mythical Cave Creek, where portals to other timelines open and then disappear in the desert and rocks around the town.Promise in the Gold takes the rea...