Dana worked the mailroom at a magic corporation for years, dreaming of the day when she might earn her way to being a runner. When her magic ability might become useful. When she might be useful.Then the layoffs hit. Her dream died.So when her former manager (and one-night stand) asks her to do a personal run for him, she doesn’t want to—not after the disastrous last time— but she takes the job. Her magic can get her past a locked door, but it can’t fix her overdue rent pro...

Sixteen-year-old Melantha is finally learning to turn spells. But her delight is short-lived.A strange sickness starts putting spell-turners to sleep, and within no time at all, she's one of only two teenaged spell-turners left to find a cure-- and trap the demon that's loose in the city.They'll have to work quickly to stay ahead of the sleeping sickness. If they don't succeed, the demon will be the least of their problems.Featuring a kick-ass heroine, spell-bin...

A sorcerer killed my mother.Now a wise-cracking elf wants my help with catching the sorcerer. My spell-turner powers haven't shown up. I will be defenseless against a killer sorcerer. The only assistance the elf's offering comes in the form of a talking cricket.But the sorcerer took my mom. I can't let him get away with it. Whatever the cost....Just don't call me a witch. It's rude. The term is spell-turner.A fast-paced urban fantasy fea...

Adventures among the stars need a ship to get you there.Stories Rule Press presents Space Opera Digest 2022: Have Ship, Will TravelSpace Opera heroes and heroines explore the stars and discover cool new places in ships which range from beat-up rust-buckets to sleek technologically advanced craft that are the envy of the galaxy. Space ships are quintessential for the adventures and challenges our favourite characters face.Come and e...

Mermaids, zombies, dark magic, mad women, youth protected by magic cows and miraculous paintings … these are some of the wild, fantastical tales brought to you by a group of unique writers.Maybe you remember where you were when the clocks stopped and the nightmare began.With stories by:Altaire GuralSharon OverendLori Jean RowsellSara C. Walker

All it took was one look, and my panties dropped—literally.Castor DeMatteo has been off-limits since I was a teenager. He used to be a nice jock who'd rustle my hair like I was his kid sister. Now? He's a capo of the Valentino crime family, lathered in ink and covered in gold rings… everywhere. How do I know? Because one night, at the restaurant where I work, he rented the back room and asked me to work it. There's only one problem… He's my brother's best friend.

"You're nothing. Just a nobody that wasn't wanted."Those words have played in my head since I was five years old.Every night, when I close my eyes, I relive that moment. The heat, the smoke, and the cruel smile on her face. For the longest time, I believed them. All I wanted was to find a place to belong, to be needed. But who could ever need me, a prey shifter? How can a rabbit be useful, especially when I lack elemental magic?The guys saved me tha...

Marrying a mobster was the worst decision I ever made.Joey Lucrazi ratted on his entire family, and now because of it, I'm forced to live in fear of retaliation. I count down the days in witness protection until I'm caught, but it turns out reality is worse than imagination when Leandro Rigiano—the most ruthless hitman in the five families—comes knocking.Six feet of tattooed muscle stomps into our quiet house and takes his revenge, revealing that the rat I ...

Donny Valentino is the name that haunts me.This was supposed to be my last hush money payment to a dirty cop for a crime I didn't commit. I've been tethered to danger since I was a little girl because of my last name. Of course, when I see the light at the end of the tunnel, it's stripped from me… by him, a ruthless up-and-coming mob boss with no business being this hot.Donny's the guy they call to kill the hitmen. And now he's trapped me for the rest of my...

I wanted answers.To know who I was and where I came from. How had I ended up in those woods all alone? Why didn't I have elemental magic like everyone else? What made me so different?I thought I wanted it more than anything, but I was wrong. Everything is spinning out of control as my past and present collide, leaving me feeling like a stranger to myself.I always wanted to find my home, a place where I belong, but what if home isn't a place? What if...

An intriguing new scientific theory that explains what life is and how it emerges.What is life? This is among the most difficult open problems in science, right up there with the nature of consciousness and the existence of matter. All the definitions we have fall short. None help us understand how life originates or the full range of possibilities for what life on other planets might look like.In Life as No One Knows It, physicist and astrobiologi...

Knowledge is power, or so they say.I'd wanted answers, but the cost was higher than I was prepared to pay.I'm supposed to be powerful, one of the last of my kind, yet I feel anything but.I've let down my friend. Someone who's never given up on me despite our differences and how crazy I might drive him.My bonds are strained, and the people I love keep getting hurt because of me.I won't keep letting that happen. No matter what it takes...