A spymaster’s apprentice, a warrior from the Lands of Ice, and a high priest of the goddess of the night.A wizardess who can tap the realm of magic, and three apprentices of notable power.A king suborned by an ancient god.With a dark power rising and the gods caught by surprise, can priest, apprentice and warrior save the lives of those sought for sacrifice by a deity from a near-forgotten pantheon?

A science-fiction rural-urban-fantasy short story. ‘Tis the Season, her favorite season, and Rosalind is home safe, tucked away in a haven as far from her old ‘home,’ and all the places her hunters know to find her, or so she thinks, until she hears a troll roar. With cookies in the oven, and a storm on the horizon, and all she knows and loves a very long way away, Ros is on her own…save for the hunters closing in…and the unexpected guests. With any luck, she’ll be able to escape into ...

A science-fiction short story. Varian is missing, and the changelings are on the warpath. Will Ariel’s adoptive father find Varian, before the changelings make the boy another name to be remembered in a long-fought war?

An ancient deity in a failing prison.A priest passed from one deity to the next, but supported by the gods themselves…A Northlands warrior, a rogue without a master, and a wizardess and her apprentices running for their lives.It’s a race against time, and they must place more than their lives on the line to save the only world they know.

Shifters come in all shapes and sizes. Some can be found in the universes of Odyssey and Miss Delight, or the Pixie Dust setting, and some are found elsewhere. Whether they are laying their lives on the line for their cubs, their mates or their friends, or hunting down some unsuspecting human, they live among the heroes and villains that dwell in our imagination. Within these covers lies a dozen short stories and a swathe of flash fiction and poetry focused on shifters of many forms, from ...

I ran away from home to find a better life—not be forced into one. You can call me picky, but a girl likes to be asked if she wants to work for you, not coerced—and Odyssey should know better. Now, I have to find a way to kick free—of Odyssey, and my trainer, Mack—without getting myself killed. Surviving the mission is just the first step. Getting out from under, that’s gonna take some doing.

Made hostages for a world whose international leaders didn’t know how to behave, we ended up on a new world, one we have to make our own, where every step of civilization has to be earned, all over again. It’s meant to be a world to hide the secret of our survival—but not all the aliens believe we have a right to survive. Torn between two rival factions of an alien race, we have to save our keepers, defeat our hunters, and get a message to the stars.And that’s just if we want to li...

A dark urban fantasy short story. Not all vampires feed on blood. The ones we hunt take your memories before they take your life—and now they are hunting back. We’ve been compromised, and I don’t know who to trust. That comes later. Right now, I just want to make it back to my body alive.

Abby hauled me off the ship before Tens had a chance to stop her—and that’s okay, because I owed Abs a favor. In fact, it was better than okay, because it showed us how much trouble we hadn’t known we were in. But going against the Star Shadow Hunt Pack? Nullifying their contract to keep ourselves unchained and at large? That was going to require something special…and I’m not sure we’ve got that much luck.

Past, present, and future, the alternate forms of Salu and Kia shift to adapt to worlds where peace is a fragile thing often shattered, and we, the observers, chronicle their struggle.

A yearly tradition.A dance not forgotten.A planet torn by a long-running war.Hunted by an implacable, and driven into the ruins of a town he once called home, Mark Leader, Michael, must try to save his people against savage odds.And try, too, to save the woman he loves.Will the secrets of their past save or doom their future?

When the two halves of her soul rejoin, Linna finds herself in a city she does not recognize on a world she thought existed only in her imagination. To make matters worse, the god she serves has rejected her, and she is captured and sold to four princes from a distant land, who require a priest of the sea. What starts out as a journey to regain her deity’s approval, soon becomes a flight for her life. With one prince at her side, and unspeakable evil at her back, Linna embarks on a jou...