Bundle story: “The Bifurcated Man” by Louisa Swann

Celia Briggs. Daughter, assistant,and apprentice to San Francisco’s most successful personage, the venerable Dr. Joseph Briggs, physician and warlock extraordinaire. Celia detests the new constable in town, but when an unusual corpse shows up on the autopsy table, she tries to set aside her dislike and help track down the killer, a task that would…

Bundle story: “Paper Trick” by Brigid Collins

Everyone recognizes Claire Krane’s artistic gift when she’s working with paper. Everyone except her parents, that is, who are too busy with work to have time for her. Her nanny is the only one who knows the true extent of Claire’s ability to bring her paper creations to life, and she’s stressed the importance of…

Bundle story: “Old Spice Love Knot” by Steve Vernon

“She formed from the shadows, like a whisper of smoke braiding together into a physical form. She was standing there in front of me, a drab and lonely looking girl with long straight black hair that was gently smoked with a hide-and-go-seek of gray.   Penelope.   Shaking her head as if to tell me…

Bundle story: “Skywalkers” by Marcelle Dubé

  Night after night, Gisèle roams the streets of Montreal near the half-built Great Victoria Bridge, searching for whatever is unraveling the warp and weft of her island city. What she finds shakes her belief in herself, and reveals an ugly truth about the Fey who live in uneasy proximity to the humans.    …

Bundle story: “Home is Where the Cauldron Bubbles” by Brigid Collins

Mathilde Blackmore needs to move out of her mother’s house pronto, but her new home has to meet some specific requirements in order to be a proper place for an independent young witch like herself. Ben Wilson promised himself long ago that he’d never again do anything foolish for the sole purpose of impressing a…

Bundle story: “Your Cheatin’ Heart” by Rebecca M. Senese

Following a cheating husband and his tarty blonde, PI Tiffany Waters witnesses the explosion of the lover’s motel. The police find only one body: the husband. Now Tiffany must save her own husband from a mystery man who demands her photos of the lovers’ meeting. But how can two copies of the same photo be…