Athelas never wanted housemates. Now he has three: the gumiho for whom he provided an alibi, the tea-wielding housekeeper who poisoned him, and the young human who might pose the greatest danger of all.All of Athelas's training tells him to kill small, soft things before something else does—or worse, before he grows fond of them and then something kills them. He should at least know better than to worry about the revenge-bent gumiho who is drawing the attention of...

SPINDLE: What do you do when your prince is not a prince, your hair won’t stop growing, and someone has cursed you to sleep for 300 years?If you’re Polyhymnia, you get up with the help of a kiss or two, trailing your hair behind you, and find out who did it. You try not to get killed in the process.And you definitely try not to fall in love with the incredibly irritating wizard who woke you and apparently needs to keep kissing you to keep you awake...

It’s a routine day and a routine job for wheelchair-bound merman Marazul. Just hack into the protective spell around a café and lace it with an encouragement to spend more.What Marazul doesn’t know is that his employers don’t feel like paying him.Or that the person who put the protection on the café has a particular reason for wanting to keep that café safe.Or, for that matter, exactly who it is who has just entered the café…ALL THE DIFFERENT SHADES OF BLUE ...

Even time travellers can run out of time.Marx and Kez have been skipping through the known Twelve Worlds, keeping one step ahead of certain capture by the seat of their trousers, and the vastness of time and space is feeling a tad too small.Kez has always been a bit crazy, but now it’s Marx who is getting mad. Someone is trying to kill them, and that’s the sort of thing he takes personally.To add to their difficulties, there are Fixed Points in time...

There's a body beneath the skip bins. Fae on the forklift. A vampire in the manager's office. And there's definitely something skeevy going on in the locker rooms.Hi. I'm Pet. Well, not exactly Pet. I am a pet.I was meant to stay out of it, but somebody's gotta do something when humans are being killed by Behindkind creatures.Lucky for me, my owners are just as dangerous and inhuman as the bad guys . . . maybe more.

It begins the way it has always begun: with a card on Mabel’s pillow. But Mabel has been in Underland before, and she’s not so anxious to go back. No matter what name it takes, Underland is always bizarre, always mad, always dangerous.There’s the Queen of Hearts, terrifying, powerful, and possibly insane. There’s Hatter, purple-eyed and undoubtedly mad. March Hare has always been one sandwich short of a picnic, and Sir Blanc is missing his wits.And then there’s Jack. Jack t...

What is a maiden to do when her prince is not a prince, her hair won’t stop growing, and someone has cursed her to sleep for 300 years?In Polyhymnia’s case, it seems expedient to get up with the help of a kiss or two, trailing her hair behind her, and find out who did it. Nothing quite works out as planned, however, and Poly can’t be sure if that’s because she never seems to be able to remember things like the mysterious spindle that keeps showing up around her, or if it’s...

‘If you want adventure, you have to march right up to it and kick it in the shins...’At fourteen, barefoot and running wild, Rose is delighted to be apprenticed to Akiva, the witch of the forest. She thinks it will be all enchantment and excitement, and not so much fuss about baths. The reality is much more sober and practical- that is, until she meets a mysterious wolf in the forest and is tricked into stepping off the path...In young, naive Rose, Bastian ...

King Markon of Montalier is at the end of his tether. His son, Prince Parrin, is afflicted with a rather nasty curse that slaughters, maims, or brutally attacks any woman with whom he so much as flirts. After the rumour that sweeps around the kingdom, promising that any woman breaking the ‘curse’ will be eligible to marry the prince, there is no shortage of willing volunteers. Unfortunately, there is also no shortage of bodies piling up.Markon needs to do something, but what? Can a...

Llassar is an occupied country– but nobody seems to know it.Fae began to filter slowly into the land shortly after the birth of the crown princess, Dion ferch Alawn, supposedly fleeing a dark threat in Faery known as the Guardians. But that was fifteen years ago, and now there isn’t a town in Llassar that isn’t populated by or under the control of the fae.Smaller, weaker, and less talented at magic, Llassarians are quickly finding out that there’s no fighting the i...

King Markon of Montalier is at the end of his tether. His son, Prince Parrin, is afflicted with a rather nasty curse that slaughters, maims, or brutally attacks any woman with whom he so much as flirts. After the rumour that sweeps around the kingdom, promising that any woman breaking the ‘curse’ will be eligible to marry the prince, there is no shortage of willing volunteers. Unfortunately, there is also no shortage of bodies piling up.Markon needs to do something, but what? Can a...

Reality has split–and it’s Definitely Not Kez’s Fault.There are Fixed Points in the universe: places where events Must Always Happen, no matter what else changes in the timeline. But Someone isn’t happy with the way things turned out.Someone knows that if those Fixed Points are disturbed, another version of reality can be created.And Someone is desperate enough to risk destroying the universe just for a chance to make their own vision into reality: a vision that wil...