*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.

“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...

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 ...

How do we tell the good from the bad when they look the same?Elemental Witch and Magic Shop owner, Samantha Hawthorne, faces her future with the knowledge she was raised, taught, and groomed by the very evil responsible for the disappearance of her mother. Threads of Arcane Magic linger alongside the guilt Samantha endures for killing an innocent in her failed pursuit for revenge.Now Clerics, the Witch’s Judiciary Branch, appear and request her aid in proving the s...

Adjusting to the news her wolf is more than just a Familiar while lobbying the Witch's Parliament to remove her recent warlocking, Samantha Hawthorne is approached by an Alpha Werewolf. Two of his pack are missing and he asks Sam to help find them.Before she can answer, the Alpha marks her with a bite in order to guarantee her assistance, and to declare her his mate should she fail.Now it's a race against the Alpha’s venom to find the missing pack members while battling Cer...

Bloodless victims trouble the Castle Falls Sheriff’s Office as David Flanagan is called in to be held accountable. He knows his sire is in town and responsible for the deaths, but he fears he’ll lose Ginger’s love if she and her family discover what he was while under Ezra Tremere’s power.Tremere introduces himself to Ginger and the entire Blackstone / Donahue family come together to save the life of David in an attempt to stop Tremere’s plans which could also mean the end of Ginge...

Zoë Martinique was just your average, single female, past 25, looking for love and/or exciting job opportunities. Then life handed her the dubious ability to travel outside of her body at will—which she turned into a career, hiring herself out as a literal spook.But one night things get out of hand while she is out-of-body: Zoë witnesses a murder. What’s worse, the killer is also a traveler—who not only sees her but tries to pursue her.To save herself, Zoë must somehow guid...

The next chapter in the investigations of Zoë Martinique (next chapter after Wraith).While hiding in Daniel Frasier’s hospital room, Zoë receives a request by a restaurant hostess to investigate an accident allegedly caused by ghosts, or more precisely, Shadow People.But when Zoë and Rhonda agree to check it out, they discover the hostess that requested them is missing and her ex-boyfriend, Dags McConnell, none other than the pantsless bartender Zoë once met at Fadó’s, has ...