The gods are gone. Her brother is missing. One retired assassin must confront her past to save his future…Immortal Kat Dubois has traded in her sword for a flask. Hard drinking helps ease the grisly memories of her former trade: an assassin of immortals. She’s perfectly content to spend eternity in her Seattle tattoo parlor…until the mysterious disappearance of her brother finally brings her out of retirement.With a charmed deck of tarot cards and her trusty sword, Kat se...

★ **A Stonewall Honor bookFor fans of Amari and the Night Brothers and The Okay Witch comes a hilarious and affirming cozy fantasy about the adventures of a girl who discovers she is the descendant of a powerful witch coven.**Becca Slugg is bored. It’s the tail end of summer, and it feels like she’s done nothing but run errands for her family’s Cape Disappointment Beach Inn,argue with her frustratingly overprotective mother, and have one-sided conve...

Is that sugar in your tea, or something else?And really, how would you know?Just how "life imitates art" is a perception we often take for granted, the ongoing fusion of technology into our daily routines may soon twist into wondering what is real, and what is not.Is AI really for our betterment … or the first steps towards subjugation?Artificial Sweetener is a collection of 17 speculative fiction short stories and poems from SpecFicNZ members exploring the w...

In the fog-drenched coastal town of Port Carmine, Elara Vine runs The Quill & Alembic — part rare bookshop, part apothecary, all magic. A trained ink witch, Elara extracts the living resonance from first editions: Hemingway's raw courage, Austen's quiet clarity, Christie's razor intuition. She sells these essences to clients who need them, believing her craft is precise, controlled, and harmless.Then a client drinks what she gave him — and turns up dead.Detective Leo Hayes ...

In Fern Glade, words don't just matter. They bind.Winter closes in on the threshold-town of Fern Glade as its wards begin to fail. Charms unravel. Protections slip. Even the air feels like it is listening for something you did not mean to say.Kiera Allison, an eighteen-year-old witch with both light and shadow in her blood, has vanished into the Shadow Realm. Hollow Root does not need chains or blades. It offers paper, ink, and a single clean sentence that ...

Dashing tales of heroics and everyday life abound in the second System Apocalypse short story anthology. Competing alien and human settlements clash, and a simple party planner is caught between in After Party. A New York trashman and his friend fight off loan sharks and exploit the System for gain, finding treasure among others garbage in Completely Trashed and a prisoner must decide between his humanity and humanity itself in WWMRD?With over ten stories from exciting new...

Return to the Witch Walker world of Tiressia by visiting this collection of spicy tales, containing six bonus scenes and two novellas.What might've happened if Raina and Alexus hadn't been interrupted in Frostwater Wood? What romantic moments did Helena and Rhonin share while alone at the Jade River? What in the devils occurred in Fia's palace between Alexus and Raina to rattle an entire city in City of Ruin?And what's the story between the Frost K...

The Ether changed her. Now it wants her back.Shunned by her coven and scarred by her time in the Ether, witch Mira Owens is more isolated than ever. Gabriel, once her fiercest protector, has pulled away, consumed by the transformation reshaping him. But solitude offers no safety. A parasitic monster hunts Mira, tearing through reality and feeding on stolen witches—and it won’t stop until it claims her.Emmit Harker prepares for a deadly journey into the Ethe...

Shunned and ostracized Mira is alone in her own community.Creeped out by her new bodyguards, Mira jumps at the first chance to get out of Emmit's apartment and back on the case. Getting closer to Gabriel is an added benefit, even if he can't decide what he wants. While Gabriel and Emmit butt heads, Mira struggles to keep her bad karma in check. Getting someone killed is bound to leave permanent black marks on her soul.Gabriel is torn by wanting to keep Mira...

Georgia’s concerns about Sam’s paranormal client amplify when that same client goes missing, and Sam’s a suspect in his disappearance. She’s entangled in Guild Artemis businesses because of it, putting Benjamin at risk of discovery when the Hades Hound insists on defending Sam. But when a prominent local turns up dead, is it a new case in the serial murders that same client is accused of? Or does Georgia have another problem on her hands?

When the boundary between past and present blurs on the cusp of Beltane, ancient secrets stir within the walls of Moonfell.The three Moonfell witches discover mysterious journals and magical instruments in the long-abandoned India Room, unwittingly activating a supernatural connection to 1792 India—where their ancestor Fitz Westerly's past holds the key to their present danger.Fitz, a powerful witch and supernatural hunter, made his fortune tracking paranor...

Georgia’s decision to leave Whitewitch Island doesn’t go as planned when a children’s birthday party turns to murder. What’s worse, her friends Olive and Holly Henry are involved. To complicate matters further, Georgia and her friends all seem to be struggling with a feeling of being out of sorts that interferes with the investigation and the reluctant inquisitor’s ability to focus. With digging into a mysterious death her final act as police chief for Whitewitch Island, Georgia’s struggle...