20 stories of magic and technologyAlmost everyone carries a smartphone these days. They sit in pockets and on tables. They sleep on headboards and are the first things their owners check in the morning. They’ve edged out more mundane equipment like calendars and MP3 players.They aren’t magical, of course. Or are they?In Untethered: A Magic iPhone Anthology, 21 authors twist reality and call into question the mundanity we hold in our hands. ...

Exiled after her mother's mysterious death, young witch Elara survives the cruel winter by claw and spell, haunted by gnawing hunger and a vision: a cottage made of sweet bread, conjured from need and forbidden magic. But the gingerbread house she creates is more than shelter-it is a living snare, luring the desperate to her door.When famine spreads and children vanish beneath the trees, two siblings-resourceful Gretel and gentle Hansel-stumble into Elara's world. Inside the enchan...

Raina Black steals treasures from warlords, spies on governments and corporations, and sleeps like a baby at night. But after a particularly rough job where she inexplicably wakes up in a tomb in Cairo, things get weird.First, Noah Mason, a man she swears she saw die, approaches her, claiming to be a demon hunter. Then, Noah insists she must fulfill her family legacy by helping him restore the Immortal Brotherhood...before all hell breaks loose. But Raina wants no part of it. Going...

Shadowed RedemptionIn the depths of the night, she stalked the shadows for centuries. Now, her own kind seeks to extinguish her existence.With a legacy stained in blood and a soul burdened by the weight of relentless justice, Mara Whitlock's two hundred years have been a symphony of vengeance orchestrated against those who dared cross the line into darkness. Abusers, traffickers, and monsters cloaked in human skin trembled at the mere whisper of her name....

Eleven-year-old Niki finds her life turned upside down when she's uprooted to the remote town of Seaton, leaving behind so much of what she knows and loves. On their first night there, a lightning storm and deer encounter cause her family to crash just outside the city limits. Strangely, only Niki and her little sister Gerty remember the storm.While everyone emerges from the wreck unharmed, not everyone is unscathed. Niki senses something is wrong. Visions begin to haunt her-vision...

In 2103, the New Republic of Halix rules every aspect of life. Neural link implants monitor and correct thoughts before rebellion can form. History has been rewritten, all books destroyed except the Halix Bible, and every citizen is assigned a zone and status at birth.Seventeen-year-old Juno Rusk lives in Zone E-0, the poorest sector, where obedience is survival. She's never broken a rule - until her childhood friend Mickey Dean returns from Republic service visibly shaken, clutchi...

When Frankie Morales accidentally gets recruited by The Bureau of Unnecessary Heroics-a top-secret organization dedicated to stopping the most ridiculous world-ending threats-he thinks it's a prank. But soon he's battling rogue garden gnomes, facing spaghetti-based supervillains, and trying to keep his team of eccentric recruits from imploding before lunchtime.Armed with questionable gadgets, bizarre missions, and a binder full of rules that make no sense, Frankie and his friends w...

Chloe Mora is an 18-year-old country girl who believes she's destined to live a life of mediocrity. But all that changes when her wealthy aunt whisks her off to the big city for a thrilling adventure. In Cambridge, she falls head over heels for the charming MIT student, Michael Bath, who invites her to his ancestral home, the oldest and arguably the creepiest house in Salem - Pickering Place. As a fan of all things paranormal, Chloe can't resist letting her wild imagination run free with s...

When Noah Mason's boss ventures into Faerieland and doesn't return, he figures he ought to get her back before apocalyptic chaos reigns. Lady Arabella is the only person on earth who can open and shut doorways to the mythical land of magic and terror, and if her power falls into the wrong hands, everyone's screwed.But, he's not going alone.The raven-haired Raina Black with her powerful Seer Stone is by his side, joined by Chinonso the Reaper and Thomas the Time Traveler. Un...

What would you do to save your most precious memories?That's the question that Abigail Bennet, a new mother, must answer in this dark fantasy.The cries of her new baby throw Abigail into rage and desperation. Frightened by foreign anger and overwhelming depression, the first-time mother decides to end her life to spare the life of her only child. But before she acts on her dark intuition, she is overcome by a panic attack and blacks out. When she wakes, she finds herself in t...

Attempting to Define: Mourning is the second in a series of four small poetry books that attempt to define some of life's hardest emotional states. This specific volume addresses mourning in terms of the emotional state of living after a loved one passes. Mourning is also used, in this volume, to refer to the mourning of lost ideals, lost youth, and lost love. As humans, we mourn many things, and this book attempts to cover some of them in humble lines and honest imagery.

Attempting to Define: Love is the first in a series of four small poetry books that create interesting definitions for some of life's hardest to define subjects. Honest, sometimes dark, often sardonic but always joyful, the poetry in this collection attempts to create an honest definition of romantic love. H.M. Jones' poetry is unassuming in form, modern in tone and very playful. Romantic love is often idealized, but Jones attempts to create a work that reveals more introspection and less ...