Roxy's got two hammers, a bit of Breaker magic, and the deathbed promise she made to her father.The Seattle Slayers, an elite cadre of fighters dedicated to protecting the city, is having their Trials for new initiates. My dad was a Slayer--one of the best. I thought his legacy might give me an edge in the Trials, but I was wrong. If anything, it made them harder on me.But joining the Slayers is my best chance to save my mom. And, maybe, I need to see if I ...

A CALIBA 2023 Golden Poppy Book Award FinalistJulia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco’s Chinatown.Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she’s drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodi...

Journey west, where magic has risen and the sky has dimmed to an eternal twilight.Roxy Lim watched her father waste away from the Black Wait and now the onset of the disease slowly eats away at her mother. When her long lost Uncle Samuel reaches out with a behest, and an offer to Roxy to cross the Twilight Veil to Seattle, she jumps at the chance to leave Boston and save her mother.She will venture into the west, where magic has risen and the sky has dimmed...

The follow-up to Ebony Gate, the critically acclaimed debut of Vee and Bebelle's Phoenix Hoard series.IT TAKES A KILLER TO CATCH A KILLEREmiko Soong, newly minted Sentinel of San Francisco, just can't catch a break. Just after she becomes the guardian for a sentient city, a murder strikes close to home. Called by the city and one of the most powerful clans to investigate, she traces the killer whose scent signature bears a haunting similarity to he...

One Slayer. Two Hammers. Unlimited Vampires.Roxy Lim is now an inked member of the Seattle Slayers, tasked with enforcing the Oceanic Pact in a city teeming with deadly shifters, devious vampires, and scheming fae.I made it into the Slayers by the skin of my teeth and now I just need to figure out a plan to ship some Cure back to my mom. Cure doesn’t survive the Crossing through the Veil without the right vessel. But earning my stripes with the Sla...

A Slayer's apprentice in peril. A deadly tournament. Roxy and her crew will risk it all to save him.Roxy just wants her old job back, but destiny has other plans. The Slayers made their wishes clear, and now she's back to hustling repair jobs while dodging job offers from a certain prince. But her peaceful life doesn't last for long. O'Malley is still out there, and this time, he's pulled Roxy's old apprentice, Finn, into the Pit for a deadly tournament.Whe...

A Slayer’s Oath. A Forbidden Passion.After Roxy’s victory in the Pit, she has an even bigger target on her back. She needs to leave Seattle and never return. But her sister lands on her doorstep and the Slayers strong-arm her to return to the roster, forcing her to stay in Seattle and risk O’Malley’s wrath.But staying in Seattle means more time with a certain vampire prince. Tyee’s interest in Roxy has been noted by the Queen and now his courtship of Roxy e...

A wonderful collection of ten short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Emerald City Comic Con 2025!Following the success of the Grimoire released at Dragonsteel Nexus 2024, this second Grimoire published at Emerald City Comic Con 2025 in Seattle, WA, creating a new anthology of stories sure to delight. Read a deadly chess game between a demon and a mage observed by Terry Brooks. Fall in love with a lovelor...

A magical collection of ten short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Brandon Sanderson's Dragonsteel Nexus 2025!Grim Oak Press is proud to present the fourth Grimoire anthology for readers who enjoy SF&F stories of the magical and the future. Return to the space station Unity and solve a mystery with Christopher Paolini. Discover brotherly love between ancient dragons alongside Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle. Travel for r...

A wonderful collection of short stories by an amazing list of contributors—all of whom were in attendance at Emerald City Comic Con 2026!In 2024 Grim Oak Press exhibited at Dragonsteel Nexus, Brandon Sanderson's convention in Salt Lake City, UT, where the award-winning publisher released Grimoire, an anthology containing short stories by attending authors. It sold out on the first day.Due to reader demand, a new Grimoire published at Emera...

The no-holds-barred conclusion to the critically acclaimed, action-packed contemporary fantasy trilogy The Phoenix Hoard.Blade.Butcher.Thief.Worldbreaker.Emiko Soong has been called many things. But Worldbreaker is the worst.She unmasked the General and returned to San Francisco where her power is greatest. But the city, once her sanctuary from Jiaren intrigues, turns into her living nightmare. Clan wars erupt and Emiko’s life b...

You may not have ever seen them, but you know them: Bigfoot, Mothman, chupacabras, the Jersey Devil, and Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster. Cryptids exist everywhere around the world on land, in the air, and under the water.Some creatures are recent discoveries; others date back centuries. But where did they come from? What is their hidden history?Collected in this anthology are twenty short stories featuring a wide variety of cryptids as well as the cryptozool...