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Against all odds Elena has found herself named as a member of the Ruling Council of the Guild of Families. After the destruction of the Docking Facility and the resettlement of the Guild onto Haven, life is starting to steady and become more stable. For the first time in a while, Elena feels like she can breathe freely. Haven is doing well, her business is prospering and as an added bonus the military has decided to mothball its channel riding program. Relieved to no longer be pressed for meetings with Smith, Elena is looking forward to a return to her new normal thinking her life might ...

After helping a group of families evade capture Elena finds herself stranded skyside during the off season. Despite the presence of Will Thompson, whose ship hitched a ride at the last second, she is feeling pretty good about the situation. Most of the political movers and shakers of the Guild safely returned to Earth at the end of the season taking their mixed political plots with them. Even though there is a lot to do, she feels free of some of the weight that has been placed on her shoulders. But it isn't all a pleasant vacation. The Matrovean raiders are still expanding their territory ...

Elena Calabrese managed to open an earth-based store with very few people realizing that her wares come from several different galaxies. The merchant society called the Guild of Families is conducting business as usual, trying to stay as secret as possible while the military launches their own program of ship building, trying to build their own Channel riding ships that do not rely on Guild trained pilots to operate. The program’s, lead man, Will Thompson, managed to get several of his crew onto the planet RJ457. While bowing to the inevitability of an alliance with Thompson and his men, ...

Elena has been welcomed back into the Guild of Families, an ancient guild with the skill to navigate channels to cross space. When she left it was because she feared The Calling, thought to be a disease that crippled pilots. Not wanting to risk her crew, Elena left the Guild and stayed away for five years, building a new life for herself with Calabrese Imports. However the Guild’s secret was leaked and Elena’s return was required. Caught between the Guild and the military, her options were limited. She returns to life in the Guild aboard her ship, The Storm Chaser, her hold full of off ...

Earth side, Elena Calabrese, Captain of the Storm Chaser and member of the Guild of families has opened a store settling repackaged alien goods to a earthly population. While the business thrives, she is occupied skyside with the newly opened channel and the planet, RJ457 it leads to. The Council has granted conditional rights. Making those rights permanent depends on the Librarians finding what they need on the planet. Elena finds herself working with several dangerous councilors as well as the untouchably powerful House of Librarians. While things are going well at the moment, success ...

After the Masquerade Ball, Alana worries about her sisters' safety. After all, returning through the Eastern Gate wiped their memories so they don't even remember the threats exist. Are those on the other side of the gate still looking to kidnap them as they search for the Lost Princess? While Alana tries to find enough information to figure out who is involved and what they are planning next, she is eager for a rest from the holiday rush at the Sugar and Spice Bakery. Closed for a week, Alana will finally get some down time to think, relax and possibly learn how to wield the magic Serena ...

After being shot, Ivy Chambers settles in to her home in Wildwood to recover and read through her purloined files. Her recovery time is interrupted when the Head of the Mage Clan calls reporting that the golems running the Shadow Council Headquarters are malfunctioning. While she knows very little about golems, Hamilton can't risk anyone knowing he's lost control and since Ivy's ancestor created the golems, she's the one who needs to fix them. With a crash course in golems under her belt, Ivy returns to the archives, but it isn't only her family's actions causing problems. It seems more ...

All her life Cassie has seen strange things. First it was the strangers with feathers and beaks, then there were the normal looking folks who, when her skin touched hers, sent her vision someplace else. Told always to hide what she saw, Cassie worked hard to fly under the radar. But when more of these strange others came to town, hiding became harder and she was caught. Luckily the ones who caught her seem more interested in training her than killing her, at least for now. She begins her training as one of the mysterious Walkers, but is that really what she is, or is Cassie Wilson something...

After surviving an attack by the Brotherhood, Ivy tries to get back to normal life preparing for the launch of Wildwood's retail venture. Wounds start to heal and nightmares fade. Normality seems in almost in reach. Unfortunately, others have different expectations. The head of the Seers shows up demanding Irina and Nick be turned over to him as they are part of the Seer Clan and Hamilton demands she figure out who else the Brotherhood paid off. Can Ivy protect her friends and figure out who is trying to kill them before more attacks occur?

When Jamie's Great Uncle Albe goes missing, he leaves behind a large estate, a house in the middle of nowhere and a legacy Jamie never suspected. He finds out that the creatures of the Fae are real and it was Albe's job as Keeper of the Crossroads to keep the more destructive members of the Fae from devastating the human population. Time is running short as the Lune Merdos approaches and ancient rites threaten to destroy the crossroads, eliminating the one thing that separates the human world from that of the Fae. Now the job of Keeper is Jamie's, can he manage to find out who killed Albe ...

Brownie Oxford, now going by the name Bonnie Brown, is trying her best to avoid notice. She found someone to teach her the skills she needs to control her abilities and people have stopped leaving dead bodies on the lawn in front of her apartment building. Unfortunately, she is surrounded on all sides by Federal Agents trying to confirm she is Brownie Oxford so she once again be an asset. Maintaining her guise as a mild mannered seamstress and student of fashion isn’t easy, especially when the beast supposedly trapped by the Searchers starts visiting and ghosts start making demands. Can ...

All she wanted was a cup of coffee. What she ended up with was getting knocked out and interrogated by the military. They knew she owned an imports store. They also knew she was a member of the powerful Calabrese family, one of the families that made up the Guild. Elena was once a pilot, capable of taking a sailing vessel from the oceans of earth and into ancient channels that reach across space and into other worlds. After being gone for five years she is suddenly thrust back into the world of Guild politics she had left behind, walking a thin line between mafia like laws and the ...

Janelle spent the winter in Lucinda's house learning the spells necessary to create the Gingerbread House required by King Theodore. But the spells are only a part of it. Can she convincingly pretend to be Darla and leave her old tradition behind? Will the sorcerer sent with them realize that she too has sorcerous magic? And why create a Gingerbread house so far away from any village or town where it is little likely to be used? So many questions, but with so few answers Janelle can only learn her spells and see what will become of The Gingerbread House.

The last survivor of of a fallen people is offered as a sacrifice to protect her adopted village. Surviving will lead her to the truth of what happened to her people, her death will see them lost and forgotten forever.

Thirty years ago, Robert St. Claire established a portal to another planet in a far distant galaxy. His scientific achievement was kept secret by a group called the Conclave who wanted to reap the benefits of this new world, Tarnos, without sharing with the rest of the world. Wanting to test a social, educational and genetics based experiment, twenty five children were sent thought to Tarnos. Only three survived. Now with the Gate failing, those children, now adults, are returning to earth. Can Robert help them establish normal lives, blending with other humans or are they destined to spend...

Once again Ivy Chambers has found herself shot. As a fire mage who tries to obey the laws of The Society governing all of the Hidden Clans, at least where anyone could see, Ivy never thought she was the sort of person anyone would aim a gun at in the first place, let alone shoot. But she isn't to be left to heal in peace. The Seers have lost sight of their future and need a Seer untied to them to craft visions. Ivy's friend Irina is their only hope and Ivy has to work to keep her safe and the entire Seer Clan from attacking Wildwood, all while trying to deal with the various political ...

The Guild is changing. Elena knows that with Riko's death, change is inevitable. With the Guild still feeling abandoned by the council still causing tensions, the long-term plans between her and the elderly councilor come out into the open. Not all will be pleased, in fact she expects when he learns of it, Hashi will probably try to kill her. But before the season opens and she worries over Hashi's retribution, there are trade routes to secure and a planet to run. Mateo and Kiera are expecting the birth of their twins, the first human children born on Haven and while Elena worries about ...

Looking through an antiques store, Kay comes across and old, ornate mirror. Deciding it would go well with her bedroom refresh, she buys it and takes it home. But the mirror proves to be so much more than she bargained for.

With her English degree in hand Tansy MacDougal decided to take a year in the corporate world to figure out her next steps. She bounced from one temp job to another, never staying long as random misfortunes seemed to follow her. Malfunctioning office equipment and soda machines that shoot cans out as though they were missiles become common. As she fears she is about to be dismissed yet again, Tansy receives word that her Great Aunt has passed. As she deals with the estate she discovers that real magic exists and that her Aunt's death might not have been an accident. Can she figure out what ...

Having fled Balosh and the assassin Harold Red Hand for the safety of the Hidden Kingdom, Nameless settles into the Academy to catch up on his studies before the other students return for autumn classes. But things don't go as smoothly as he hoped. No one knows what skills he will develop or when but his new friends are prepared to help where they can even though his rising power proves unexpected and hard to control. While Nameless learns to trust those around him and struggles with his new identity as someone other than the Prince's assistant, he stumbles into plots and political ...