Misha Millik, a hearth witch brought to Chisolm Keep by the headmaster, feels out of her depth at this magic school for the children of established magicians. Branded a misfit by the wealthy students, she finds a friend in a stray cat who can talk to her. Desperately unhappy and completely inept at any kind…
Jetpack is a WordPress plugin that packages a number of features that are provided to people whose sites are hosted on WordPress.com. If you’re hosting your site on WordPress.com, you already have these features; if you’re hosting your site somewhere, you will need to install the Jetpack plugin (which is free). The Related Posts feature…
Clara works hard, juggling high school, her waitress job, and eking out time with her friends. And now, finishing work far too late on a school night, she wants nothing more than to get home and sleep. But dark and otherworldly things lurk in the shadows of her city. “City Shadows” is…
Alicia was tired of spending nights alone in her empty little house, and was willing to try something weird or something stupid if it would keep Horatio at home. Her friends told her how to find the house of a witch who lived in a house with a door made from wood stolen from the…
Regina Victoria Edmondson rules as Queen over the nursery she shares with her twin brother Tobias. Except when she allows him to direct their play as Raj. However, on the rambling country estate where they live, neither of them control the gardens, where time moves in an unorderly, disquieting fashion. Secrets hide there. Deadly secrets….
Sixteen-year-old Magnificent Maggie Fontaine is close to giving up on her oh-so-wrecked life. When she accidentally runs away from home, she doesn’t even expect to make it very far before something worse happens. But running away might actually bring her closer to home, and when all hope is lost, a little bit of forbidden magic…
Helena runs Paranormal Manifestation Services—PMS for short. When she’s hired by Beth and Marguerite to find out why a ghost is bothering Marguerite, she doesn’t expect to get a crush on Beth…which makes things especially awkward when she learns who the ghost is. Rainbow Reviews called this short story “unexpectedly romantic [and] heart-wrenching,” and it…
Take Stranger Things and blend it with Buffy. That’s the spirit of the Sal Van Sleen adventures, a YA paranormal adventure series featuring a funny and mischievous hero who must face down the forces of evil threatening his small home town. In “Shadow of the Midnight Moon,” the discovery of a magical note starts Sal…
Tucked in a tiny corner of Pike’s Market is Starling’s Chocolates, where a sorceress conjures magical confections to make people remember their fondest memories or forget their worst moments. Or even fall in love. Everything was just fine until Mr. Corporate America walked into Orriana’s shop. Will he buy her out or steal her heart?…
“You wake and remember why he haunts you. Blood washes off in the shower. You cry and never feel clean.” Lillian Bryan goes to the office each morning and tries to ignore her co-workers’ stares, and her boss’ suspicions. She wants to believe that the battles she fights each night aren’t real, that it’s all…
