Magic has returned to the modern world, and Clara Dumaine wants nothing to do with it.Unemployed, broke, and attending her ex's funeral in Scotland wasn't how she planned to spend Christmas. Meeting Scott MacIntyre, handsome, mysterious, and clearly keeping secrets, wasn't part of the plan either.But when masked attackers target her, Scott offers protection and an impossible explanation: her ex stole something magic and dangerous, and now killers think she knows where it is...

Why, with absolutely no idea what Brexit actually meant, did the UK vote for Brexit?Why, rather than vote for the best-qualified candidate ever to stand as US President, did voters opt for a reality TV star with no political experience?In both cases, the winning side promised change and offered hope. They told a story voters longed to hear. And in the absence of greater, more unifying narratives, then true or not, voters plumped for the best story available.Once upon a...

In a world where magic is returning after centuries of absence, Professor Adrienne Imlay has been able to balance her secret shamanic abilities with her academic career. But when she becomes entangled with Philidor Magnus, a charismatic inventor with a dark secret, she is drawn into a deadly plot involving demons, rival industrialists, and shadowy magical authorities. When rifts to other dimensions threaten to tear her city apart, she must confront her own abilities and the ethical quandar...

In the free port city of Barramar, the only law is the law of money. Here, the dingy taverns and the opulent teahouses alike thrum with the whispers of dark dealings. It's a place for the ruthless — spies and smugglers, or the desperate—refugees running from war, opression and poverty. Trust is a rare currency and alliances, as fluid as water.After spending their youth on opposing sides of a brutal war, Tanit Murali and Padma Amrithar are as different as night and day. One is a for...

Yolanthe Cinderfire has spent years hiding in plain sight—a rebel's daughter working as a maid in her own aunt's manor. Her invisibility shatters the day she saves a stranger from a bear and discovers he's Prince Imran, heir to the empire that destroyed her country.When the young man she secretly loves is arrested and sentenced to death for rebellion, Hawa, a mysterious woman from her mother's past, offers her one chance to save him: impersonate her noble cousin and steal the Imper...

Mistress Quicksilver, a refined antique dealer, is about to put up for sale a most unusual collection. One of the items attracts many diverse and nasty individuals. She has to protect her merchandise, while managing the marital problems of her friend and the blunders of her teenage son. But Quicksilver is a retired barbarian shaman and has more than one trick up her silken sleeve...

In Barramar, everything is for sale, whether spells, weapons, or forged documents. But there's one thing you can't buy: a quiet life.Padma knows this all too well. A former noblewoman, now a war refugee working as a courier, she tries to raise her daughter and keep a low profile. Except her latest delivery has painted a target on her back. Everyone wants it. Gangsters. Spies. Even the Temple of the Money God.Money is precisely what ...

After centuries of absence, magic has returned, causing panic and controversy..Adrienne Imlay hopes only to forget and get herself forgotten. But when unexpected fame draws her into the limelight, she has to face a string of unexpected events: the dreaded arrival of elections and politics into her lab, a series of thefts, the disappearance of another colleague, and finally, an unsanctioned research project going way beyond her worst nightmares.Assisted by unlikely allies an...

To save her dying mother, Else is ready to cross the dangerous forest to the house of the terrible witch who owns the only cure. But on her way, she meets an old warrior who suggest a risky bargain...