In the last surviving City of the Fae, the General Administration exerts total control over every story. After all, if the stories fail to garner belief, the city will die.Bea, a lowly cabbage fairy, wants to be respected and taken seriously. Finally, she is given a chance to prove herself: All she has to do is oversee a simple True Love story. Easy! Except that Bea's heroine won't marry the hero, the ugly sister plans to overthrow the King, and a mysterious hooded stranger is dete...

The Fairy's Tale is the first novel in The Pathways Tree series. With surprising plot twists and compelling characters, The Fairy’s Tale is a whirlwind adventure into the sinister world behind classic folk tales and myths.Bea is a lowly cabbage fairy, but she dreams of being an official Fairy Godmother. So when she is finally given a chance to prove her worth, Bea is determined to make a success of it. Besides, how hard can a Happy Ever After story be? Every girl wants to be rescue...

All Bea’s done is make mistakes. Now her friends are paying the price…Once upon a time, a lowly cabbage fairy ran away to Ӕnathlin, the last surviving city of the fae, centre of the stories, and home of the General Administration. She was going to be the first fairy to become a godmother and run the best Plots anyone had ever seen.Only things didn’t work out like that. Not even close.Banished and alone, Bea’s only solace is that she can’t cause any ...

The Academy is the second novel in the ongoing fantasy series The Pathways Tree. Heartfelt, spooky and with more than a little mystery, The Academy will have you turning the pages to find out what happens next! It sees the return of fan favourites Bea, Melly, and Joan (amongst others!) and introduces you to a host of new characters you'll fall in love with.Bea’s back! But life at the Academy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Being the only fairy is bad enough, but then the rumours o...

The Princess And The Orrery is the third novel in The Pathways Tree series. It heralds the return of the ever-charming genie, Seven, along with fan favourites Bea, Melly, Hemmings, Joan, Mistasinon and Chokey as they pit themselves in a race against time to save the world. Set in the spaces between fact and fiction, myth and modernity, The Princess And The Orrery will have you turning the pages to find out what happens next!Betrayed by the woman he loves, kidnapped, tortured, and s...

An Undertaker's Diary is based on the diariesthat the authorkept during his 7 years as an undertaker.The stories are told 'through his eyes' and in a raw and down to earth way that will absorb the reader in each and every varied encounter with death.This is not for the 'fainted hearted' and contains gruesome and often disturbing accounts of tragedy and death from plane crashes to house fires, murders to hit and runs. If you have ever wanted to be a 'fly on ...

The second installment in the all-new series from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater! Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after....

A murder. A mystery. A legacy to uphold.Feuding with her over-protective mother, Abigail Grimshaw rebelliously stops at St. Michael’s church against her mother’s order to “hurry home,” and runs straight into danger.There, Abbie encounters an unexpected supernatural complication: she sees—and talks to—the Earl of Ashford. He died in 1816, but death doesn’t stop this Regency ghost from charging Abbie with the safety of two scared children. A demon has murdere...

Do you believe in magic?A Grimm descendant, with a family legacy of saving innocents, is drawn to solve supernatural mysteries in present-day Britain.Book 1: Death Takes a DetourFeuding with her over-protective mother, Abigail Grimshaw rebelliously stops at St. Michael's church against her mother's order to "hurry home," and runs straight into danger.Book 2: Death Shifts GearsAbbie must prove she can...

In this "astonishing fantasy debut," a mother and a mysterious Chinese man—who is more than he appears—search for her missing daughter in San Francisco ( Locus).Offering "a deft blend of the oldest of magicks in a dragon, and the newest of sorceries in computers" (Anne McCaffrey), this is the incomparable novel that garnered Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick Award nominations, and earned its author the John W. Campbell Best New Writer award.

'A cracking read' – Susan Calman'Stuart MacBride is an automatic must-read for me . . . always fast, hard, authentic – and different' – Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series**Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Val McDermid, Blood, Rust and Steel is darkly funny and gripping Scottish crime at its very best.All good things must come to an end . . .**Acting Detective Inspector Roberta Steel has never been shy, b...

The answers lie below…Book 3 in the Doyle Witch Fairy Queen trilogy.A shamanic witch and a poet, Lenore retreats into the world of books to escape reality. And why wouldn’t she? For Lenore, reality includes seeing ghosts and forecasting death. It also means Connor, the handsome policeman with an eclectic taste in reading.But when her friend dies under suspicious circumstances, she can’t hide anymore. And she’ll have to talk to Connor about ...