When the sun diminishes and darkness begins its reign, we become introspective storytellers. Every culture has their own winter lore and in the pages of Evergreen: Tales of Winter Shadows some old tales take new roots.Love is eternal, but it must change with circumstances.Certain holiday traditions are crucial to observe.The solstice battle comes down to a grieving daughter.A young woman follows a single light through darkness, toward her future.Reve...

Life's a Beach.A rivalry that turns romantic, a flippant flirtation, an eternal love rediscovered within the sandy pines.Beach Shorts is a unique collection of stories filled with love, laughter and promises made by the water's edge.Find a great reading spot and escape to Sparta, follow the poetic reunion of two souls, or ride the waves with a surfer who finds her great love.Your perfect beach read awaits.

During the cold winter months, we mirror the Earth as she lies quiet, waiting for the return of warm days. We gather around yule fires and perform rituals to lure back the sun. Drinking wassail, singing songs and exchanging gifts, some of us tell stories of the longest night.Stories of new love and old magick.Stories of the Holly King and his fight for the season.Of death and lives well lived.Of succumbing to the most feral parts of ourselves.Of the ...

Abby, a transfemme videogame YouTuber, finds an anonymous package left at her door. Inside is a VHS tape that seems to call to something within her, and opens up a door to the 40-year-old mystery of Polybius. The urban legend claims that an arcade cabinet allegedly caused madness and hallucinations in its players while it was installed over a single month in Portland in 1981. The package indicates that there may be even more to the story.Something about it compels Abby on a journey...

In the dark days of plague and poverty, when the church rules with an iron fist, and knowledge is punished with fire, an orphaned girl stumbles upon a legacy of magic. Lucie has only ever known her small farm and the overprotective care of her brother, Tilo, until she learns of the Gathering. Run from the village of Hamelin by the tyrannical White Bishop, these exiles have been forced to live apart from their families. Lucie discovers that she and Tilo are part of this group, expelled from...

In 1518, a woman started dancing on the streets of Strasbourg and could not stop. No priests, physics or leaders could help as more and more people joined her, jaunting as their feet bled and their bodies broke.Centuries later the mystery endures, explained as mass hysteria, mob mentality but suspected to be something much more sinister. In this fourth collection of Utter Speculation, nine authors offer stories of witches and wishes, love and longing, of music and mastery and the d...

Inspiration is a living thing and it is hungry...Terra Desmarais's success as the next big artist in NYC is absolutely inevitable. Her patrons, the associates, Mr. Black, Mr. Silver, and Mr. Green, can practically taste the raw talent dripping from the enigmatic trailer park prodigy's dollar store paints.Up and coming pastel artist Cedric Fleck is a lucky discovery of the associates. Rescued from oblivion by Mr Green, put up in a studio by Mr. Silver and pa...

In a ruthless world, we must become monsters to survive.A bitter woman terrorizes her husband's perfect new wife.A predator stalks a college town, seeking a very specific type of prey.Found family can be the most unforgiving of all, when a mother, maid and lover fails to care for her boys.Girls go out alone at night, exhuming the lies their town propagates to keep them in line.A fussy baby and an ignorant husband leave a new mom feel...

At the edge of every town there's an old bridge that breeds tragic tales. Car crashes on prom night. Pregnant women meeting their doom. Children falling into the rushing water below. No one knows if these stories are true, but everyone knows someone who's experienced something strange there.Welcome to Cry Baby Bridge.If you venture here at the right time of year, on the right kind of night, you might hear a baby crying in the wind. You might see some things you didn't belie...

When the winter solstice tucks the land beneath dark covers, and the frost hovers at the edge of warm beds, it is time to slow, to sleep and to let our minds escape. The dream world in winter can be many things; a place of refuge, of exploration, a fantasy to pursue, or a journey to the truth. The gods speak, the worlds shift, and our imaginations are free to explore all snowy paths. Like the Aurora, it swirls across our sleeping minds, lighting up places we cannot see when awake.

BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • BOSTON.COM BOOKCLUB SELECTIONA celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor’s door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this masterful essay, told in wise and luminous prose that pushes back the dark.

Pomegranates is a dystopian tale, where climate change is an all-too-real backdrop to the events of the novella. Persephone is in the Underworld, relating her family's history to a human who's found his way there. As events unfold, and we see the horror her anger has unleashed on the world, we're drawn deeper and deeper into the heart of this amazing story. The author has drawn a vivid picture of the world's decay set against the backdrop of the repercussions of a dysfunctional family. And...