Morgana Swift is a researcher of the occult... but also much more. When called for an expedition in the Scottish Highlands, she expected a study in ancient lore, but when a young (and clearly undead) girl crosses the street in front of her car, she begins to realize she’s into something much darker than that... Join her in her first adventure, one where she discovers her true self and her true powers.Special Edition illustrated by Daniel Comerci.

By NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR H.M. Ward. This new series of novellas have a Gothic feel with a dark twist reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe's famous stories. This dark tale is like the fables of old, with a twist...While other seventeen-year-old girls are dreaming of marrying the prince, Ella is hoping that she doesn't get caught. Ella is a thief, forced to live that way by the witch who slaughtered her father fifteen years ago. Since that gruesome ...

Summoned to the royal palace by the King, Alaith spends his days either handling the dragons that plague the kingdom, or holed up in his lonely tower. Unusual in appearance, manner, and his method of taming dragons rather than slaying them, his only distractions from his painfully outcast state are caring for the tamed dragon who resides with him, and admiring the handsome Lord Trey—and arguing with the infuriating Prince Rythe.

To save the life of the crown prince, Starwick took a curse upon himself, but the curse leaves him in excruciating pain alleviated only by Tyrwick, the king's bastard son and a man who has always despised Starwick. If he wants to live they must find the man who cast the curse and take back the ring he stole, but Starwick's real challenge is not hunting a man—it is fighting his own despair, reinforced by Tyrwick's cold disregard and his own shadowy life.

An Erotic Bedtime StoryTormented by a yearning she cannot identify, an improverished young girl is visited in the night by an unknown lover who initiates her in the realm of pleasure and love. But when her attempts to reveal her lover break the spell, she must journey far and wide, and pass a treacherous test to be reunited with her lover.

Fable™ Heroes, available May 2, 2012, on Xbox Live Arcade, gathers a range of heroes and villains from across the epic videogame saga—and the Fable™ companion eBook series delves even deeper into their greatest triumphs, darkest secrets, and never-before-seen origins. In the second story, evil will be unmasked—but nothing is ever what it seems when Jack of Blades has the upper hand.

The Order of the Soul has been disbanded for years, the sisterhood of the Warriors scattered to the winds. But when Makena wished to learn the Warrior's Way, Jhyssa took the young neophyte under her tutelage.Now the impossible has happened -- war has broken out in the land, and the battlecry sounds once more. Will Makena heed the Warrior's teachings or seek her own way?

"Word and Deed" is a short story set in the Medieval time period.Death or an arranged marriage, Verity refuses to accept the choices.Verity Favian's father dies unexpectedly. Her half-brother, Verdon, lays claim to all their father left behind: title, castle, and her. Verdon cannot touch the land set aside for her dowry so he offers her hand for sale to the highest bidder. Lord Silvanticus, a man renowned for his military power and close ties to the king, makes the winning ...

A Tor.Com Original short story set in the world of Peter Orullian's Vault of Heaven seriesLayosah has lost five sons and her husband to her kingdom's endless wars; all she has left is an infant daughter and a dangerous idea.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Desiree feels the most at home with her clockwork creations, but Claude worries about all this science and Darwinist nonsense—after all, where do clockwork fairies fall in the Great Chain of Being?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When a boy is given a box by an angel who asks him to care for it, the task shapes his entire life.Originally published in DRAGONS AND DREAMS (edited by Jane Yolen) this is one of Bruce Coville's personal favorites among all his stories.

In this sequel to Lovers and Beloveds, MeiLin Miranda continues the saga of the Antremont family, kings of one continent, would-be emperors of another, and subjects to the whims of gods.Estranged from his family, Prince Temmin Antremont struggles within the Lovers' Temple to choose obedience above his forbidden love of Allis Obby, the human host of a goddess. All the while, enemies inside and outside the kingdom are plotting against the Antremonts, and the gods prove once ...