Tales from the Archives are short stories set in the world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. They explore events mentioned in the novels, characters seen and unseen and may include novel teasers of things to come. This volume includes:Bitter Pill by Bill BlumeMiss Sharpe is not used to working for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. She is used to being a killer for hire, the Jade Dagger, an artisan of death. Yet when called on to find an immortal in the city of he...

When does an allergy attack become a crime? When it's a city full of dragons about to blow!Anyone who knows anything about dragons should be aware that they have an innate need to hoard. Most keep this urge in check, gathering stamps or books, but when the infamous Dug decides to steal all of the allergy medicine in England, things get ugly. Now, a city full of dragons are fighting back a firestorm of sneezes. If Special Agents Windsor and Kensington don't find the Dug's stash of d...

"Fantasy, espionage, and action make for pure fun on the page as a pack of supernatural teens come into their powers in THE DRAGON SPY." - Alma Katsu, author of Red Widow and The HungerThe Cold WarTo gain an advantage over the Soviets, the CIA uses genetic testing to identify children who are more than human and place them in the Greenhouse, a covert school to turn them into weapons in the war against the Soviets. Lynna Harrison, who is half-human and half-...

"If Buffy ever went on a date with Edgar Allan Poe, I'd imagine Gidion's Hunt might come close to detailing their escapades. Move over Sookie, step aside Spike… There's a new southern-fried fangtasy now on the shelves and it's well worth sinking your teeth into." --Clay McLeod Chapman, Author of What Kind of MotherFor Gidion Keep, hunting vampires is easy—it's high school that might kill him.Hunting vampires is a Keep family tradition. Dad quit the business...

"If Buffy ever went on a date with Edgar Allan Poe, I'd imagine Gidion's Hunt might come close to detailing their escapades. Move over Sookie, step aside Spike… There's a new southern-fried fangtasy now on the shelves and it's well worth sinking your teeth into." --Clay McLeod Chapman, Author of What Kind of MotherFor Gidion Keep, hunting vampires is easy—it's high school that might kill him.Hunting vampires is a Keep family tradition. Dad quit the business...

The Order of the Hunt trained Aden to be one of their best spies and assassins. Then three years ago, he cut all ties with the Order and went into hiding.Running from the Order's death mark on him, Aden scrapes by working as a bounty hunter until someone frames him for assassinating the most powerful emperor in the East.Now, every fool with a dagger is pursuing him, and the Order's hunters are closer than ever to catching him.Aided by an underworld information deale...

When Art awakens to discover his left hand missing, he soon learns that isn't the worst part. No one, including his wife, remembers him ever having a left hand. His determination to prove something stole a piece of him and to get it back turns into an obsession that threatens his marriage and his job. Only one person believes his story. A one-handed mural artist named Heidi reveals the thing that stole Art's hand did the same to her two years earlier. The more he learns about the monster t...

Belinda Middleton is about to lose her job at the county library. Just as she thinks she won't find new work elsewhere, she's invited to interview for a position overseeing a private library. Her meeting with the mysterious Leonard Ward reveals what makes this library unique and that what he really wants from Belinda might kill her.

At the end of the 19th Century, technology has allowed the British Empire to conquer the skies and the oceans, but no machine can overcome death. When a young assassin named Yu Sharpe is dispatched to Hong Kong, her task is to hunt down a man who holds the secret to immortality. What she finds will force her to face the one death that still haunts her."Bitter Pill" is a steampunk short story inspired by Chinese mythology and the Six-Day War of 1899.

For one pair of swordfighters, their marriage is worth going to Hell and back.Ty and Dani are a modern-day, swordfighting husband-and-wife duo who help with exorcisms until a demon kills Dani's mother and all of their fellow exorcists. Now, they're on a quest for revenge through the realms of Hell, and killing the demon is just the start of the journey. To keep the demon from reviving, Dani and Ty must escape Hell within seven days and cast the demon's head and hea...

Ayleen Torr travels the galaxy on a quest for revenge, but before she can get the blood she's owed, she needs the means to survive. To earn enough coin, she chases down a bounty on Antares III. Just as she's about to catch her target, she finds herself turned into the one on the run. If she doesn't find a way off-world in a hurry, getting paid will be the least of her problems.

Grab your passport for a journey to the Deadlands and its collection of world-changing stories.Meet a young man with the power to destroy the world. Then walk among the living darkness of Purgatory Alley with a boy who was born without a shadow. Sneak into a cemetery with a twelve-year-old girl who gets paid to raise the dead. Chase terrorists in a steampunk future. Join a young hunter as he searches for a pair of vampires. Discover the lost secrets of Camelot beneath the waters of ...