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Enchanted tells twelve stories of magic, power, and the choices we make. Between love, duty, and the whims of fate, these characters each fight their own battles. Some win, some lose, and others discover something entirely new. In Final Wishes, Theresa learns that her father, the king, has lied to his people for years. Stand with Duilya in The Forever Storm as she faces an assault on her kingdom that she cannot survive. Walk with Gweyr through The...
2622) A Heart for Hubris
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It is the Olympian goddess Nemesis’s duty to punish hubris, but what happens when the results of her work don’t turn out as planned?
Psyche would’ve been struck down for usurping Venus’s worship if she hadn’t caught Cupid’s eye.
The maiden Ambrosia finds out she is the daughter of a virgin goddess.
Arachne’s skill at weaving wins her fans and enemies in Olympus.
Her attempt to punish Midas for his greed goes awry.
She receives...
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What you see (at first) is not what you get in this collection of nine previously published tales of shape shifting and transformation. An Alaskan student of wildlife biology finds it difficult to write convincingly about what she knows. A proud and beautiful princess loses her popularity when cursed (in a way probably familiar to many readers) by a wicked enchanter. A lonely Cajun fiddler has a close encounter with his royal but scaly ancestor. In...
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A selection of stories about love and romance from the best storytellers of the world including Shakespeare, Chekhov, and Turgenev trying to express love in all its forms. This volume opens with iconic Romeo and Juliet's tragic love story dating back to antiquity, followed by very passionate and quite unusual love between a doctor and his patient in 'The District Doctor' by Ivan Turgenev. And last, but not least, a story from the master of human relationship...
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A must-read collection for fans of Wright's Dragos Primeri series. From the author of SEASON OF THE DRAGON, a "reproduction" of character Quen's favorite storybook, complete with illustrations. This volume opens with The Saga of Ilkay, the short story Quen quotes in Season of the Dragon. Discover Ilkay's adventurous journey to the dragon's lair in this story that parallels Quen's. The story also reveals additional details about one of the dragons...
2626) A Knot of Trolls
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North-lands spellcasters who reach too boldly for power transform into trolls-grotesque villains wielding a potent magic and destined for madness.
Spanning the North-lands history, from ancient times to the pastoral present, A Knot of Trolls features seven such evildoers. Seven trolls and the ordinary youths called by chance or by destiny to take a stand.
"The Troll's Belt" stars motherless Brys Arnsson, challenged as much by his own deceit as by...
2627) Tales of the Fantastic
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53rd Street Publishing invites you to Tales of the Fantastic, a five-story collection of the finest fantasy of international selling author, Rita Schulz. In the collection, you will find stories of a tormented werewolf, sibling ghosts, fairies who need to help, and partying aliens. So join us on a journey to wonder and amazement you won't want to miss.
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When reclusive best-selling novelist, W.C. Lumin, is diagnosed with a terminal wasting disease, he gathers his family and close friends together at his isolated mock gothic mansion and presents them with an ultimatum; they will each write a short story which his wife, Edith, will turn into a full length W.C. Lumin novel to fund a revolutionary course of treatment. If they fail in the task, they will be cut out of Lumin's will without a penny.The Stoat...
2629) From Embers
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In the high mountain passes of the remote Drakespines, spring is always a time of awakening. But this year it wakes an ancient terror. Originally written as the prologue to the Dragonprince trilogy, From Embers provides a dramatic glimpse at the first day
2630) Crystalline and Bright
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The voices haunt Amberly - or rather, they nag her, a constant, invisible stream of criticism keeping her company while she survives a boarding school where none but a few teachers like her.A good thing the milky-teal river at the edge of the school also keeps her company. It likes her, it keeps the other, critical voices at bay - and Amberly kind of thinks that maybe sometimes she glimpses the river's face.Hold tight as Amberly finds out just how...
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Prepare to be disturbed…A private investigator hunts for his client's missing stepdaughter in a dieselpunk Los Angeles while keeping secrets of his own…A middle-aged recluse has a phobia about teenage girls…In a medieval England, what do the women get up to when all men and boys fall asleep every full moon? A young boy and his alchemist master try to find out…Will Charlotte Bronte be tempted by the devil…?All this and more as dark, quirky...
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Family friendly Un-Adult-A-rated fun! Does size matter? Is bigger better? That's no small question to Tom Little-the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but he's got far grander ambitions-to become the muscleman at the top, the ringmaster. Now, drawing on some dark ancient secrets and mystic texts, he's about to get his wish. Imagine a pint-sized Mickey Rooney on steroids, trading up into a body like Burt Lancaster's....
2633) Notes from a Thief
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Lady Bianca Jane of the Waters is a daughter of the second noblest house in all of rich Ithale. She's wealthy and well-respected, and she's a thief. It started as a game, became a challenge, and now it's an obsession. She needs to get it right, to prove s
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A wicked stepsister frets over all the ways in which she failed to receive her mother's love. A lost woman travels through an enchanted forest looking for someone who can remind her of her name. A girl must wear down seven pairs of shoes to gain help from a witch. A fox makes a life with a human, but neither can deny their true natures. A young woman returns to her childhood home and the fantastic stories she left there. A man lets himself be taken...
2635) Rebellion Is Due
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Everywhere he looks, 15-year-old Urmillian sees his people suffering under brutal foreign occupation. High taxes drive poverty and malnutrition, while the execution of anyone suspected of resistance has the people of Tarlah on their knees. Urmillian longs to join his father's uprising and free his people, despite father's orders to protect the family home. When occupying soldiers turn on the Tarlahans, Urmillian's younger brother calls for aid. But...
2636) Adela Cathcart
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Fairy tales told around the fire on Christmas Eve-including "The Light Princess," "The Shadows," "The Golden Key," and "The Giant's Heart."
Reminiscent of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, MacDonald's attempt to package a collection of short stories in the guise of a novel is built around a group of snowbound travelers attempting to pass the time in a country house by sharing stories in hopes of distracting young Adela Cathcart from her illness. Early...
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Eight tales of Faerie magic and adventure, spanning the centuries from Ancient Ireland to a near-distant future.BENEATH THE KNOWECan music overcome fey magic? When the chieftain's infant son is stolen away by the fey folk of the Bright Court, Maeve Donnelly journeys beneath the faerie hill to save the child. Her only weapon is a simple pennywhistle, and the music running in her bard-gifted blood.FAE HORSEAccused as witch, Eileen must flee for her...
2638) Cry Baby Bridge
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At the edge of every town there's an old bridge that breeds tragic tales. Car crashes on prom night. Pregnant women meeting their doom. Children falling into the rushing water below. No one knows if these stories are true, but everyone knows someone who's experienced something strange there.Welcome to Cry Baby Bridge.If you venture here at the right time of year, on the right kind of night, you might hear a baby crying in the wind. You might see some...
2639) The Trouble With Pixies
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All Michael wants is a quiet evening in his new home, but an unexpected visit puts paid to that. Hattie isn't here to welcome her new neighbor, though. There's something in Michael's attic that shouldn't be there. Several somethings, in fact.
Hattie says they're invisible to everyone but her. Michael thinks she's crazy. But, armed with a paintball gun, Hattie's going to prove him wrong.
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The Witches in Love Collection Part 3 & 4: 12 Fantasy Fiction Romance Short Stories.
The Lady Of The Woods
Lord Godfrey Merton finds himself frustrated on taking the wrong path which sees him soon lost in the wild woodlands.
The Prince's Choice
Prince David of Stratford has to make the choice of a wife from Lord Merton's many daughters.
A Journey's Start
Zachary is eager to embark on a new beginning far away from the mundane life he had once known....
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