*All new, exclusive stories!* Six brand new tales of adventure, love, and treacherous fey magic from six award-winning, bestselling authors. Enter these fantastical realms where dark powers lurk and the ordinay world can be transformed in a heartbeat to a place of wonder—and danger. From the hidden fae folk dwelling among mortals to the challenges of babysitting a malicious fairy, these tales will cast their enchantment over you!Cover by Howard David Johnson.

HE ISN'T SUPPOSED TO EVEN TALK TO A HUMAN... MUCH LESS FALL IN LOVE WITH ONE.Sixteen-year-old Ryann Carroll has just run into the guy who saved her life ten years ago. You might think she'd be happy to see him again. Not exactly. She's a bit underdressed (as in skinny-dipping) and he's ...not supposed to exist.Seventeen-year-old Lad knows the law of his people all too well: Don't get careless and Don't get caught. It's allowed his race to l...

Humans have always suspected vampires exist. Now they know for sure...As long as I can remember, I’ve longed for a different life—one filled with adventure, excitement, and romance.This wasn't exactly what I had in mind…One minute I was riding in a horse-drawn buggy on my way home to my quiet Amish village— the next was torn by the screech of car tires, and twisted metal, and the white hot lance of pain. There was no doubt in my mi...

A snapshot of ecocriticism in action, Coming into Contact collects sixteen previously unpublished essays that explore some of the most promising new directions in the study of literature and the environment. They look to previously unexamined or underexamined aspects of literature's relationship to the environment, including swamps, internment camps, Asian American environments, the urbanized Northeast, and lynching sites. The authors relate environmental discourse to practice, in...

Ryann is torn between two kings… two brothers. Lad, the king of the Light Court, is her first love. Nox, the new king of the Dark Court, came through when she needed him most and won her heart.But Lad has revealed a secret to Ryann that devastates her and tears at her loyalties. And though Nox and Lad are fierce rivals for the girl they both love, an even bigger problem threatens them all.The unsuspecting human population of the world hangs in the balance o...

How can you trust your heart when you're not even sure it's real?Seventeen-year-old Mireya and her classmates are the youngest people alive on Earth in 2055, kept protected on a military base she's never left.She's never wanted to leave, never questioned why she's been content to stay there her whole life—until she runs into Heath. Actually, he bumped into her with his Gideon Corp delivery van. She's not hurt, but she is baffled.Why did the alluring...

The Darkness is Coming...Ryann and Lad are together and in love but not yet bonded. Wedding plans are underway, but they cannot marry until the mourning period for his father, the murdered king, ends. Waiting is sweet torture and gets harder all the time.Nox and Vancia are touring the world with his band The Hidden and enjoying their honeymoon. They’re also working to convince the holdout tribes in Europe, Asia, and Australia to disband their fan pods and s...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...Culley Rune is the perfect guy—as far as anyone can see. Inside, he knows he's unlovable, unworthy, unwanted. He's done terrible things in service to his father, the corrupt leader of the Dark Council--including playing a pivotal role in the mysterious new drug epidemic that's sweeping the human population of the world.Now that he's lost his one chance at a real relationship, there's no reason to change his ways. He mi...

Abigail Byler is a resolute pacifist. And a vampire.Believing she can never be with the guy she loves and knowing she doesn't fit in at the Crimson Court, Abbi has left the hills and caverns of Virginia for California. Working now for the Vampire-Human Coalition, she hopes to make the best of the unexpected turn her life has taken.That's easier said than done when her heart still longs for her first love, Reece—and when tensions between humans and vampires ...

Give in to the Glamour as the saga continues...17-year-old Ryann Carroll thought she knew who she was… a small-town Southern girl just trying to survive her parents’ messy divorce and find some peace for herself. She thought she knew what she wanted… a summer job, a car, a first date that didn’t suck, and NO complications from a serious relationship—any guy in her life would simply be icing on the cake.But now… she’s not only in love, her boyfriend ...

Mireya is back where she started, but everything is different now.She's at the top of her class on the military base, her doting parents are actually proud of her, and she's surrounded by the friends and classmates she's known all her safe, protected, predictable life.Everything would be perfect if it weren't for the troubling dreams and the occasional hallucinations she gets. Mireya knows the visions aren't real, but they feel like memories of a life she n...

Just when she was settling in at the Haven (and getting almost used to the scary but exciting idea of becoming someone's mate), Mireya's world was rocked by the surprise arrival of two newcomers… Daniel and Heath.She's thrilled to see them both safe and sound. Her would-be mate—Elias—is definitely not. He suspects Heath is a spy for the evil Apollo Gideon and doesn't trust a word he says. He trusts him with Mireya even less.She's not sure what to believe be...