Dip into this charming collection of Teacup Magic cozy fantasy chaos, including a map, a timeline and a heap of author’s notes prettily written on flying paper birds.Including:“The Wedding Breakfast”“The Bramble Hour”“The Thornbury-Swift Letters”“Hotel Charybdis”“The Delphi College Letters”“Weddings for Peacocks”“Saucers & Sorcery”"A buoyant bubble of glittering delight, Saucers and Sorcery deepens my desire to run...

When heavy November rains threaten to flood the small town of Black River, New Brunswick, the community calls on the hydroelectric company to open the gates of its dam and drop the water level. But local management has been overruled by their parent company and ordered to keep it closed. It's got some people hinting it's time they took things into their own hands.Seventeen-year-old Stanton Frame is caught in between: his father is manager at the dam, but his girlfriend, Je...

The Hathaways of Gramcercy Street have always been daredevils, cursebreakers, trouble. Don’t look now, but the ghosts are closing in…FAITH thinks she’s haunted by scandal and family expectations but no, it’s a bone witch. She’s being haunted by a bone witch.CHARITY throws herself at every haunted castle she can find, to avoid her disappointing marriage… but even an expert on ghosts can find herself out of her depth.IMOGEN fell in love with the victim of the...

When three teenage friends oppose the annexation of their favourite beach by a prominent businessman, their efforts to keep it public are rebuffed or ignored. Their actions quickly move beyond conventional protest, despite the warnings of an adult friend -- the gentle, enigmatic Dexter Lully. As the friends, frustrated and desperate, are driven towards the dark, morally ambiguous world of direct action, one embraces it, one is thrust into it, and one teeters on the brink, appalled at the w...

When three teenage friends oppose the annexation of their favourite beach by a prominent businessman and philanthropist, their efforts to keep it public are rebuffed or ignored. Their actions quickly move beyond conventional protest, despite the wa ings of an adult friend, the gentle, enigmatic Dexter Lully. As the friends, frustrated and desperate, are driven towards the dark, morally ambiguous world of direct action, one embraces it, one is thrust into it, and one teeters on the brink, a...

ColorlandHe said slowly, “You know how sometimes something happens, and afterwards you think what you could have should have done, if only you had the nerve and the confidence to do it, but of course by the time you think that, it’s too late.” Isolde nodded.Wenden mumbled, “Only, like, all the time.”“Well it’s like having the nerve and the confidence to do it straight off, at the moment you need to do it,” said Ridge.Life changes quickly from carefree, innoc...

Robert Rayner's latest novel based in New Brunswick shows how the encroachment of age in a rural community's life exposes it to the perils of progress. White Rock Island, an isolated rural community, becomes a defiant island of souls intent on preserving itself when it is threatened by economic decisions of the provincial and federal government which tax it but threaten to withhold services that would sustain the community. When a bigger, stronger entity threatens a much smaller one, the o...

The Seashore Boarding House, nestled in the woods on the rocky shore of Pocomoonshine Bay in the late ’twenties, is a haven for travellers on the lonely dirt road nearby, and for the villagers and workers of the woods communities, offering shelter, food, first aid, abortions, and the comforts of its girls.At the centre of the house and its operations is the enigmatic figure of Nurse, who tells her girls, “You are nurses, as well as chamber maids, cooks, waitresses, and prostitutes....

Bella Hathaway is on the case after inheriting her aunt's townhouse full of dangerous artefacts and talking teapots. Only problem? She's not a cursebreaker. Bella has always been the quiet member of the daredevil Hathaway family, translating magical languages, wearing sensible skirts and avoiding perilous adventure.With the help of the beast next door and his sprawling library, it's time for Bella to step up to her family legacy, translate an untranslatable demon language, locate t...

Dana D'Artagnan, a brash young spaceship pilot from the outskirts of the Solar System travels to Paris Satellite hoping to join the Royal Fleet. She finds treachery and court intrigue, and makes three great friends, the chaotic and dashing Musketeer pilots Athos, Porthos, and Aramis.Enemies close in around Dana and her new friends, including the mysterious Agent Ro, the powerful Cardinal Richelieu and the seductive spy Milord.Only they can save the Solar System. All for one...

Miss Seabourne investigates!Murder mysteries, high society sorcery and family scandals abound in this magical Regency-inspired fantasy world. This collection contains the first three Teacup Magic cozy gaslamp fantasy novellas:1. Tea and Sympathetic MagicMiss Mnemosyne Seabourne teams up with a fascinating spellcracker to foil the kidnapping of the Duke of Storm, and prevent a forced marriage.Featuring: charmed croquet, meddling mammas, and w...

“We lived in a world that did not allow women to breathe; how could we be anything but monsters?”Tansy Rayner Roberts retells the stories of seven women from Greek mythology, giving voice to the scorned, the sidelined, and the monstrous.A young gorgon finds acceptance at the Medusa Club. Atalanta spills the truth behind the myth of the Argonauts. Scylla suffers through a series of terrible college roommates. Handmaids in Sparta get more than they bargained for when...