Joanna just wants to spend the holiday curled up with her coven of handsome professors, but family obligations wait for no one. Instead of wintery cuddles, she's up to her neck in the Pike brothers and their wives, a cast of political figures invited to their dinner parties and, worst of all, Callum's father, Duncan. Duncan Pike is a nasty piece of work-not only did he place a young Callum in the heart of an ugly war, he disapproves of Isaac and Aiden. Duncan...

A wounded young man becomes an inheritor, but his inheritance may well be the death of him.In the Georgia backwoods stands a magnificent estate - its inhabitants the possessors of awesome powers passed on from generation to generation. Local residents look upon those who dwell within with respect and fear ... trusting their fortunes and futures to the mysterious Master of Cardalba. The sudden death of his foster parents brings young Ronny Dillon under...

When seventeen-year-old Gracie Hart gets caught stealing a ride on a circus train, she expects to be arrested. Instead, she is offered a job as the new assistant to the circus magician and knife-thrower, Jack. He's charismatic and genteel, but his aim isn't perfect-hence the position opening.; ; The work is better than jail, but once Gracie starts performing with Jack, she begins finding threatening notes hidden in her costume. At first, she thinks...

This time, his destiny will not be ignored.For five years, Ronny Dillon has denied the pain and the power that is his birthright - hiding away in the halls of academia far from Welch County, Georgia. But an urgent summons has arrived from his half-brother, and Ronny knows he must return to the ancestral mansion - where his past was erased, his dreams damaged ... and his future and life very nearly destroyed din mists of magic and illusion. For there...

Elvan, eldest of House Galmoth, is content to stay in and always eager to jump into character. Someday, he will find a facade that suits him, one that meets his mother's expectations of him. He's spent the last two years playing investigator, raking through ledgers to clear his mother's name while ignoring his family business and noble House crumbling around him. When the last servant quits, Elvan is forced back into the world and must choose between...

Dana Bedwen may have become a dark mage despite her wishes, but now she needs to learn how to use it. As she graduates from University, she also needs to settle in the rural area she is being sent to, to repay for her education.There, in Kesteven, she'll continue her magical apprenticeship, with her two Magical Masters following there, even as her husband, Detective Jack Taylor, starts uncovering some of the area's dark secrets. The Society of Learning,...

A cursed diamond…a cyborg detective…and a gang of would-be jewel thieves in Victorian London! All her life, Molly Dark has been haunted by the restless dead-and now she's finally able to do something about it. When the rich and monstrous take what they want, Miss Dark and her crew steal it back. At least, that's the idea. In reality? In reality, the irritable inventor walks out, saying she doesn't believe in ghosts and has important scientific...

Cora, a reformed (mostly) thief and code-breaker, takes jobs no one else will take along with her fellow adventurers (sometimes called heroes). When Professor Humphreys accidentally creates a monster, the rag-tag group must search his booby-trapped, riddle-infested house for the antidote. For the first time, Cora may be out of her league. Which could mean bad news for everyone. Gaslamp fantasy mixes with TV's Leverage in this story that originally...

Introducing Tessa Preston in this Jane Austen meets ghost hunters short story Approximately 5,500 words or 22 printed pages. For fans of Charlie N. Holmberg, Olivia Atwater, Tilly Wallace, and C. J. Archer! In this short story, the fashionable and eccentric dowager Dame Hartwell has lured the reclusive Miss Tessa Preston to attend her drawing room séance. If Dame Hartwell can't convince Miss Preston, her former protégé, to return as her medium-in-residence,...

From the author who brought you Bound Sorcery and The Dragon Corps, a new series where Epic Fantasy meets SteampunkSaira doesn't know how she ended up in a mountain cave. She's not quite sure where she got this magic sword, either - or the tattoo on her arm. In fact, Saira can't say for certain who she is. What she does know: she wears the face of a woman long dead, and the most powerful wizard in the world is hunting her ...From mountaintops to a...