Witches weave curses out of words; the less you use ‘em, the more powerful they are. Blessings are weaker—but you can use them more often, wear them in like shoes. Judith’s red-headed granddaughter Molly, also a witch, curses her way through life, and now look at her—pregnant, a widow, and an adulteress with the spirit…
Tim’s would-be girlfriend has snakes in her hair. His best friend appears to be incombustible. And during the night, a dragon tattoo has appeared on Tim’s arm, a symbol of his half-Korean heritage. Tim MacLaren was an ordinary student at Olympus High, until the day after his seventeenth birthday when he discovered that, like most…
Being dead was unlike anything Chance Phillips had expected. For one thing, he’s forced to change his name. For another, he discovers he can move through time. When Chance learns a friend, an alive friend, is in danger will he and his ghost friend Jeremy be able to save her in time? …
When Thalassa’s Children—the mer-like, genderless protectors of the ocean—experience the trapped and suffocating death of one of their own, a single member chooses to take action. Against the wishes of the collective mind. But can a lone mer ever hope to convince the humans of what they have done to the ocean, in a language…
From USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp, a magical faerie tale featuring an ancient Celtic setting, music, and the ageless denizens of the Bright Court. Can music overcome fey magic? When the chieftain’s infant son is stolen away by the fey folk of the Bright Court, Maeve Donnelly journeys beneath the faerie hill to save…
Mathilde Blackmore needs to move out of her mother’s house pronto, but her new home has to meet some specific requirements in order Young witch Malinda Hazelthorn excels with the wand but sucks at potions work. So naturally her project for the Witches and Warlocks Special Exhibit demands both. As if that isn’t enough, a…
Portia uses her magic to solve problems—theatrical problems. She prefers to work alone, even though her two sisters possess magic, too. But her latest job, in London’s West End, poses problems not only because of the play being performed—the cursed Scottish Play (aka Macbeth)—but because she must deal with a magic she has never seen…
When Cal is “sentenced” to spend her summer outside with a bunch of gawky kids and stinky cows, she’s certain there is no worse punishment. Life without her computer is no life at all. All her friends, at least the ones that matter, are online. There’s no one in the real world Cal wants to…
A heart-warming tale from Annie Reed, one of the founding members of The Uncollected Anthology, a quarterly publication of short fiction some of the best writers working in urban fantasy today. Rolo, a diminutive, courtly peddler of tourist trinkets, has at long last found the woman of his dreams. Unfortunately, she’s trapped in the belly…
Welcome to the eighties! A time when going off to University signified true independence, smoking in the dorm rooms, and partying. Tia has her eye on the resident hottie, Dana. Although she’s not terribly pretty, she hopes she can entice him in other ways. Find out what happens behind closed residence room doors in this…
