Seventeen stories from NY Times and USA Today bestsellers and award-winning authors that will lure you to the darker side of faerie tales. More Grimm than Disney, in this collection you’ll find twists on Snow White, Hansel & Gretel, Rumpelstilstskin, The Snow Queen, Cinderella, The Pied Piper, Alice in Wonderland, and Red Riding Hood, plus new tales paying homage to the old traditions.Shadows cannot exist without light, however, and you’ll find enough happily ever afters to lift yo...

“We’ve arrested your grandmother for murder.”That's what my home town Sheriff told me when he called to let me know Mama D was in trouble. I packed everything and headed to Castle Falls, South Carolina to figure out what's happening.Three bodies later and I find myself, and the hot new small-town doctor, up to our broomsticks in trouble. My family and I set out to find the real killer before my missing sister’s name shows up on a list in The Book o...

*All new, exclusive stories!* Six brand new tales of adventure, love, and treacherous fey magic from six award-winning, bestselling authors. Enter these fantastical realms where dark powers lurk and the ordinay world can be transformed in a heartbeat to a place of wonder—and danger. From the hidden fae folk dwelling among mortals to the challenges of babysitting a malicious fairy, these tales will cast their enchantment over you!Cover by Howard David Johnson.

Samantha Hawthorne lives a rather curious life in New Orleans running a magic and herb shop. As an Elemental Witch in the Big Easy and owner of a wolf Familiar as well as the head of a former Faerie Queen, curious is as quiet as it gets for Sam.Until children start turning into blood-thirsty Changelings and attack their parents.When one of these children shows up in front of her shop, Sam and her friends are determined to find out where they’re coming from and where the exc...

Ginger Blackstone needed a change in her life. Getting a call from her home town’s Sheriff, then hearing him say, “We’ve arrested your grandmother for murder,” wasn’t it.Three bodies later and Ginger finds herself, and the hot new small-town doctor, up to their broomsticks in trouble. Ginger sets out to find the real killer before her missing sister’s name shows up on a list in The Book of Ill Deeds.

DARKNESS EVERYWHERE...The Sixth World is a dangerous place, with deadly hazards lurking around every corner. Everywhere shadowrunners go, from the top of the world to the deepest, darkest sprawl neighborhood, someone’s always looking to make their rep by taking you down.World of Shadows is the second anthology of original Shadowrun short stories, each one showcasing some of the most far-flung, treacherous locations around the world. From a scientific missio...

SOME SECRETS CAN KILL YOU…Kazuma Tetsu is a Technomancer—one of the rare people who can manipulate the Matrix without technology, using only the power of their mind. But Kazuma is on a more personal mission—he’s searching for his missing sister, Hitori. Following her trail leads him into a tangled web of corp execs, mercenaries and double-crossing rogues—usually just another day in the Sixth World.But as Kazama digs deeper, he uncovers a plot t...

SHADOWRUNNERS OF ALL KINDS…Shadowrunners don’t live only in the shadows. Sometimes, they break into the light. In Sixth World Snapshots, get a glimpse of shadowrunner lives from all over the Sixth World.Watch a senior citizen shadowrunner punish a corporation for its greed—and get paid at the same time. Root for your favorite contestant in a glitzy cooking contest held in the wild and wooly Barrens. Follow a detective as he becomes prey for the wild hunt. F...

Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything to go after some really big rats. Crossing genre lines through science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical, and mainstream, these adrenaline-pumping stories about taking risks offer nothing but ...

Eldritch means eerie, weird, or spooky. Perhaps, all three. Come to New Orleans where the Witches rule and the weird just keeps getting weirder.This is an omnibus of the first three books of The Eldritch Files, together in one convenient volume.Book I - Elemental ArcaneSamantha Hawthorne lives a rather curious life in New Orleans running a magic and herb shop. As an Elemental Witch in the Big Easy and owner of a wolf Familiar as well as the...

Chattanooga, Tennessee 2009Before Detective Crwys Holliard moved to New Orleans, he was a detective in the historic city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. As a bit of a lone wolf, he had his ups and downs as he made his way through life, until everything changed when a tragic part of Crwys's past makes his lover a target in a serial killer’s vendetta against women who have crossed Crwys’s path. Unfortunately, this also makes Crwys the prime suspect in their deaths.-----

Darren "Dags" McConnell wants to recover the memories of his childhood. Memories that could hold the key to what happened in a fire that took his mother and left him buried inside a tree. When conventional means of memory recovery prove useless, Dags finds a spell promising to shine a light on his past.But like all spells, it lacks one final ingredient. He travels to Savannah, Georgia to collect the dust of his ancestors. A chance reunion with an old friend searching for his missin...