A hero's daughter is caught between two brothers and a war involving a witch's beast. From the author of the critically acclaimed The Wolf of Oren-yaro rediscovers the epic adventure that pits old legacies against a necromancer's beast in a tale praised for its complex narrative, character development, rich worldbuilding, and a riveting conclusion.Sume Kaggawa promised her father a dragon. Abandoned by an older brother who dreamed of grand adventures, she ...

It has been three years since the undead king’s vengeance has shattered the mage council to smithereens. Rosha returns to find the keepers of Eheldeth slowly losing the very essence that gives weight and meaning to their lives. But that is the least of their problems. A self-proclaimed king has emerged, with ambitions that threaten to bring civil war from one end of the continent to the other. To make matters worse, his rise to power is bolstered by outlaws—the very same outlaws the school...

Sequel to Spells and SensibilityCaptain Henry Tourmaline is having nightmares again. And this time he's not even cursed.But Henry is worried. He might be healed -- but the healing spell left his lover Theo in pain, their magic tangled together. They've uncovered an ominous plot -- but, without evidence, the Royal College of Wizardry refuses to believe them. And Theo's brother, the Duke of Baselton, wants to meet Henry -- but also wants to introduce Theo to a wealth...

Growing up in a quiet farm, young Luc didn't dream of adventures until he fails the military entrance exam. Robbed of the chance to prove his worth to his adoptive family, he crosses paths with a group of vicious, bloodthirsty mercenaries out on a monster-hunting quest...and a young noblewoman with scandal at her heels...

Travis Grayweaver is a witch with two significant problems.First, he has a tendency to run toward trouble instead of away from it without the insurance of a Guild to back him. As a freelancing witch taking odd jobs wherever he can, this has landed him in some trouble with the Grand Council of High Magic.Second, he's madly in love with his best friend Niko, and is much too afraid to confess his feelings to him.Niko, born between the corporeal and ethereal worlds, is a f...

The riveting conclusion to the Legacy of the Lost Mage trilogy pits powerful mages, long-lost kings, and ancient creatures against each other as a family--struggling to protect one child--is dragged right into the blazing center of a war that threatens to bring the continent to its knees.

When Butterflies Howl and Hyenas Kiss is a collection of 21 poems that invites you into a world where the boundaries between the personal and the universal blur—a space where the sensory, emotional, and contemplative converge.Dualities such as dark and light, life and death, pleasure and pain, stagnation and flow, are interwoven throughout. The verses gently nudge you to confront the apparent contradictions inherent in the nature of existence, offering glimpses of reconcil...

This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical school, time trains, magical idols in a magicless place. The stories vary from humorous to tragic to thoughtful, from contemporary authors both new and established.Half of the stories i...

Julian isn't looking for anything real—not from his night job on a phone sex line, not from the clients who pay for five minutes of make-believe intimacy. Julian has a rule against caring, because caring is expensive. Marcus breaks that rule without trying. He calls because he can't sleep, stays because Julian doesn't want anything from him, and slowly becomes the one person Julian doesn't have to perform for. But Julian doesn't know his name. He doesn't know that the cold, unreachable bos...

Love was never meant to save her—it was meant to burn the world down.Lilley Meade doesn’t remember who she was before London, before the dreams of wings and fire. Then she meets Max—fierce, magnetic, achingly familiar—and something ancient stirs inside her. But behind his gentle eyes lies another name… one that Heaven still fears to speak. Lucifer.As the truth unravels, Lucifer and his two fallen brothers emerge from the shadows—angels who once lov...

A teenage boy discovers family in the last way anyone wants to: as bloodthirsty monsters from the countryside.Pablo Santos probably shouldn't try to crack the secret question to his dad's email account. Probably. But after getting into trouble in school yet again--for something that he swears wasn't his fault--he decides to run off to the countryside with his best friend, Rachel Ann, to discover the answer to such a mind-numbingly simple question:...

A police officer. A movie director. A record store manager. What do all these women have in common? They are about to suffer ultimate embarrassment and humiliation when they find themselves in public completely naked!In "Trade for Time", Sheriff Stephanie and her deputy Amy are under pressure to trade their uniforms to a maniac in order to stall during a hostage crisis.In "Marcy Takes A Nosedive", film student Marcy is on the clock to finish her thesis movie, and when she l...