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A collection of short dark fantasy and horror fiction. Twelve eerie tales and a novella. Read with a flashlight under the covers. Some of the tales are fun, some even thoughtful, but others might give you the strange feeling something is creeping up behind you. In that case--beware the thing under the bed.

an urban fantasy/paranormal romance novella, YATo stride the planes, wield the power.Maggie and Rowan are best friends. Rowan knows she's a witch, but practical Maggie has no idea she herself is a mage.Until the moon teaches her otherwise.Until a rotting presence threatens Rowan.Until a young man with the amber eyes of a wolf changes Maggie's mind about pretty much everything.

This Harbingers Omnibus edition includes all four volumes in the Harbingers fantasy series: Blackbird Rising, Halcyon, Firebird, and Ghost Bird. The first two books in the series (Mirin's Saga) follow the young minstrel Mirin as she struggles to survive in a dangerous world where assassination, rebellion, and civil war have destroyed everything she has ever known. The next two books (Keera's Saga) follow the journey of Mirin's daughter Keera as she sets out to avenge her parents. Her quest...

Who is Silence? He can't speak to tell anyone the role he played in the conspiracy called The Rising, and he can't remember it anyway.He knows only that he needs to find two people: a friend, and a woman who means more to him than life itself.How can he possibly carry out these tasks? Especially if he dwells, not in this world, not across that river, but somehow betwixt and between.

On a troubled planet orbiting a double star, violent conflict upends the lives of a young man and a young woman. Like the stars in their alien sky, they are doubles. Double the trouble. Double the danger.Jackev's twin brother Encer is dead. Somehow, he's still around.A powerful and controlling insurgent force trains Anith to help Jack with Encer's gnawing presence. She's a twin, too. Twins have special abilities, so she and Jack keep being told. Special ways to join minds. ...

Imagine picking up a phone and hearing an alien voice. Or pressing our noses against glass to watch aliens work on the other side.When Jane Wiseman's children were young, they loved to listen to the bees through arboretum phone--other-worldly communications--as they watched the bees work behind glass.Poetry give us the hotline into unfathomable twists and turns of our universe, including those in our own minds. Language becomes the pane of glass through which we reach, tryi...

Minstrel? Spy? Witch? What is Mirin, really? She's a young girl. She's a boy. She loves her sister. She loves a man. What is she, and more important, who is she? The gods have given her a task, to save a realm, to save a queen.In a brutal world where the young are forced to grow up fast, Mirin's story is about coming of age too soon, about love and betrayal. It's about the heavy costs of standing for a cause but standing for it anyway because it is the right. About...

The origin story of Caedon, villain of the Stormclouds/Harbingers fantasy series, and his brother Maeldoi, the Dark Rider.The gwrgi are not werewolves. Not exactly. But the strict gwrgi discipline trains a gwrgi not to let his inner beast come out. What happens if he's taken away by a demon instead? One brother to the castle of the arch-demon mage, Gilles de Rais. One to the harsh discipline of the gwrgi capital--and all their suspicions. And when gwrgi brothers raised as enemies c...

Book I of the Stormclouds fantasy series, prequel series to the Harbingers novels.A peregrine for a prince. A tiercel for an earl. But a gyrfalcon for a king.Now here was a gyrfalcon of Ranulf's own, and she was a a noble bird, a falcon of the black morph, a presence so dark she seemed almost like a shadow. At his approach, she mantled and made several harsh cries. Ranulf jerked back. What kind of bird had the standing to accuse a king?In matters of...

One for sorrow. . .two for mirth. . .three for death. . .four for birth. . .five for silver. . .six for gold. . .seven for secrets never told.The true journey is the journey to the human heart. In a fantasy world at war, Keera and Gwyl voyage across the Great Sea to forge a new life for themselves. Their journey of discovery points them down a mighty river into the deep interior of an unknown continent. where the conflicts of the old lands follow them to the new.Always the ...

Keera has revenge in mind, and boundless confidence. After all, her magic powers are second to none.With outrage, she finds her powers stripped away from her. When she finds she must fight her battle with only her wits and her grit, how can she possibly prevail? She is young and has no war-skills.But the girl has friends: an old mage who helps her, a young man with a twinkle in his eye who can't get her out of his mind—and a ghost.Book III of the Harbingers fantasy ...

NEAR IMPOSSIBLE ODDSHow can the ragtag band of The Rising hope to prevail when they fight without resources; when they are picked off one by one? When they face an evil man backed by an unimaginably evil force?John's young brother Wat must take up his brother's fight, struggling against the powerful enemies of The Rising and his own self-doubts.In the grasp of their enemy Caedon, the Princess Diera and the man she loves have their own battle to fight.