What happens if you try to retire a god who is not ready to leave?An official from the Ministry of Divinity arrives at a university to decommission a local god. She is expecting an easy decommissioning of a waning god of mischief but finds instead an active god not interested in retiring and university administrators who have not told her the full story about the god. Can the Decommisioner discover the true story of this god in time to prevent his most destructive ...

The past can be a difficult thing to escape…Decommissioner Thirty-Seven is not the most conventional decommissioner at the Ministry of Divinities, but she takes her role of helping fading gods to retire seriously—and feels bad when things go wrong. Take the decommissioning of Laloran-morna, former god of warm ocean waves: she botched that, somehow, and now he spurts saltwater when upset. When seawater invades a development project in Laloran-morna’s old haunts, sus...

Em is a twelve-year-old girl in a floating community off the Gulf Coast. Kaya is a political activist in a terrifying prison. They are pen pals.Em’s wistful message in a bottle finds its way to Kaya, imprisoned above the molten lava of the Ruby Lake. Both are living precarious lives, at the mercy of societal, natural, and perhaps supernatural forces beyond their control. Kaya’s letters inspire Em, and Em’s comfort Kaya—but soon this correspondence becomes more than personal. Indivi...

After catching her husband in the arms of another woman on New Year's Eve, Jolene spins out on the highway--but a mysterious stranger comes to her aid.

The death of his wife leaves Florian the beekeeper heartbroken. Out of love for him, his bees create a duplicate wife to console him, but this act has unexpected consequences for humans and bees alike.

What happens when your child suddenly becomes two children, and both versions are equally real?

Blind seamstress Grazia has an ambitious plan to create a ballgown that can make music, but to do so, she must make a dangerous bargain with a fairy weaver.

In this exciting collection of noblebright fantasy, fresh new fantasy voices and award-winning authors explore grief and hope, sacrifice and heroism. Rediscover the best aspect of classic fantasy - the noblebright ideals that made heroes heroic, even when the world grew dark around them.Thieves, dragons, nightmares, fairy warriors, pookas, enchanted bear-men, and other magical creatures will delight you in these unique tales of possibility, courage, and hope.This anthology ...

The pleasure of your company is requested.Graceful feet tracing courtly steps.Eyes behind jeweled masks meeting across a room of twirling dancers.Gloved hands touching fleetingly—or gripping swords...Anything can happen at a ball.You are invited to enjoy these stories of fancy and fantasy from thirteen authors, framed in the splendor and elegance of a ballroom. Be it at a house party for diplomats and thieves, or Almacks in a side-universe in ...

When he returns to Texas from overseas, U.S. Marine Carter Wallace makes good on a promise. To tell a fallen soldier's wife that her husband loved her. But widowed Savannah Blackmore, pregnant and alone, shares a different story with Carter-one that tests everything he believes. He brings Savannah back to the Triple C ranch, where family secrets-and siblings he hadn't known about-await him. Now the marine who never needed anyone suddenly needs Savannah. Will opening his heart be the braves...

**The thrilling conclusion to the dystopian No Safety in Numbers trilogy where a deadly virus has turned the world upside down.“Self-anointed king Marco remains a fantastic, complex character, and the extended denouement is rather poignant.”—Booklist“A chilling conclusion to a gripping trilogy.”—School Library Journal**When the lights go out, the feat sets in . . .First—a bomb released a deadly flu virus and the entire mall was qua...

Dani's mother is getting married -- again -- because that's what she does, and while she and her new husband jet around Europe for six weeks, 17-year-old Dani is sent to stay with an uncle she didn't know she had in a small community in Cariboo country she didn't know existed. It promises to be the summer from hell. But Dani's uncle turns out to be an okay guy. In fact, Dani really likes him. And she finds romance, too.Suddenly, a summer that had doom written all over it turns into...