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A collection of short stories by Rachel Conlin-McLeod. A kid's magic show has an unexpected twist in "Disappearing Act". A young gymnast in Special Olympics illustrates good sportsmanship in "Spirit". In "The Midnight Club", a few too many drinks served by a familiar face leads to an experience one man will never forget. In the "Black Dance", an overconfident, hard-to-please king acquires a new slave-concubine who gives a drop-dead performance no one can forget. "Something Useful" is the subject of an interesting rivalry among friends that goes just a bit too far.

A collection of previously unreleased short stories and character sketches from Rachel Conlin-McLeod, "What Dreams Are Made Of" offers stories exploring dreams. Meet an orphan who reads a special bedtime story to an unexpected house guest. Be with a girl who mourns the loss of a mother and yearns to be with her somehow. Follow a gymnast recovering from trauma and flashbacks as she steps back into the gym again to reclaim her dream. Encounter a lonely Deaf girl who imagines a world where she can finally belong and make friends.

An orphaned boy is brought to Silvanest and the House of Charity at the Temple of Maywen under the care of Matron Acolyte Neisa. From across the Rhye Sea, from the besieged town of Oakenfell, in the Kingdom of Tobril, a young girl and her family are taken captive to Havershaw Island under the banner of the D'Avoneese. From these beginnings, we follow Edalis, a troubled orphan with a restless spirit and callings he cannot explain becoming an apprentice Stormcaster, and Rebecca, a slave-girl of a cruel master, Davin D'Avoneese, desperate for freedom. Two lives in the midst of their personal ...

The Dragon's Tear amulet is gifted to the Romani, Moon and Tsigane, for their role in the rescue of Amy Cavanaugh; and yet the reward seems to be more than they bargained for. Strange omens and visions warn of new dangers and threats and now Moon and Tsigane must reunite with Amy Cavanaugh and her grandmother, Colette Paul-Michelle. Meanwhile, in East River, Amy and her friend, Robyne Sheridan, are also plagued with visions and omens and must rely on themselves and some new allies, The Bridge Club, to navigate through the confusion and fears they carry inside. Visions of wolves and vampires...

Colette Paul-Michelle was a nurse serving on the French front during World War II when she met an unusual soldier with a mysterious amulet. From that night, her world and very existence has changed. A vampire, Colette struggles to maintain her humanity and decide for herself where her true heart lies. Adopting a mortal family, Colette challenges and breaks all the rules and codes. With the help of the amulet, the Dragon's Tear, Colette seeks to protect her granddaughter, Amy Cavanaugh from the enemies and threats that now come to claim the amulet artifact as their own and punish Colette for...

An abusive, murderous father. A mother gone. Paige Tucker, a self-guarded girl, is placed with the Raymond family in a foster home feeling overwhelmed with fear and anger. Navigating a life forever changed will be hard, but one night she hears the howling of wolves, and finds her life suddenly full where she expected only emptiness. New friends, new purpose, and the promise of new adventure. With the help of new friends, Paige discovers that she holds inside herself the spirit of her mother, and her mother's many secrets. Her heart beats differently. Hers is the heart of a wolf. A past ...

Rachel Conlin-McLeod's adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson classic short story, "The Little Match Girl". Set in Moscow, in Tsarist Russia at the turn of the century, Nadia is a poor little girl thrown from her home by her drunk, grief-struck father. In order to return home and appease her father's demands, she must set out into the cold wintry streets of Moscow and sell a tray of her father's matches from his candle shop. Along the way, Nadia experiences many things and finds the matches she carries to be of great value.

Now taken aboard an alien warship, the Executor, Mari Parenteau and her companions, Akiko Senada and Victoria Bradley, must do what they can to survive and navigate relations with their new hostess, a physician named Phey La. As they are processed as prisoners aboard the Executor, a startling revelation is made, and their intended fates are revealed to them. The captives of Oberon One will have to stand trial and answer for three-hundred years of Earth's history! Three hundred years marked with violence, atrocity, and destructiveness. The outcome of this trial could bring them quick ...

A desperate deal is made between a certain money lender and smuggler, a known double-dealer named Kinkaid. A life for a life to the dark, mysterious fugitive, Lord William Crandall. A beautiful and clever young woman of the countryside village of Gales-Faerie Way, Cara of Swans, lives a pleasant, simple life caring for her grandmother, Grammy Swan, in a little cottage by a pond where swans and pixies, sprites, sylphs, and nixies watch over her. Her days are spent in herb gardens, swan watching, and daydreaming with a precious mandolin, the only remaining token of her beloved mother. ...

Sacrificing freedom to ensure the safe return of her Oberon One crewmates and friends, fourteen-year-old Mari Parenteau and her crewmate, Akiko Senada, are prisoners and slaves of Proxima under the watchful eye of Dr. Phey La of the Academic Caste. Mari thinks she has a plan to save Earth from an alien invasion by the Centauri of Proxima Centauri-B... but when things seem desperate and uncertain, Mari needs to think of escape and survival. What she needs is a bright idea. What she finds is a unique friend with a guiding light. On the Centauri warship Executor, a ragtag crew of Centauri ...

An innocent couple. An impossible home invasion. On a brutally cold, stormy December night, Akiko and Tran Nguyen are savagely murdered in their apartment. Their killer? Unknown but able to perform grizzly acts without leaving behind a single trace. No prints, no trails to follow, no forensic evidence to guide investigators anywhere but in circles. The special crimes task force of Hartford has only one potential witness. Akiko and Tran Nguyen's Deaf thirteen-year-old daughter, Miyoko Nguyen. Found asleep undisturbed in her own locked bedroom, Miyoko is woken from dream into horrible, ...

Cedric the Damned. Rachel the Youngest. David the Loner. Smudge the Festering. Four very different immortals with four very unique memoirs. Strangers to each other but brought together by unseen hands and machinations. Each of them believes they exist as a solo movement, but they unknowingly become woven together in a macabre symphony as their lives and exploits cross paths. Midnight Rhapsody is also an exploration into the personal, intimate reflections and experiences of four immortals--vampires. Each staring into the mirror of their mind where their mortal lives are reflected upon. What ...

Corrin is an indentured servant of House D'Avoneese with a bit of a wild and stormy streak. She loves her mischief as much as she desires her freedom. Unfortunately for her, Lord and Lady D'Avoneese have run out of patience with her jokes, pranks, and wild shenanigans. An unexpected abandonment leads to an incredible encounter with a bubbly, sometimes fluff-headed cleric named Calla, a crafty old tinker of a shaman named Brann, and a rather handsome but troubled elf named Lethuel who seems determined to hunt and kill a dragon. This dragon reveals herself to be just as stormy and chaotic as ...

A Changeling shapeshifter, Ophren, reluctant to even be an "almost" Druid, is given the opportunity to finally escape the life she dreads. Summoned by elder Elves of Silvestri, Ophren must find and rescue a Sun Elf child born of a rare and sacred bloodline of Silvestri and help restore her to a throne destined for her and her alone. Krenn, the Sun Elf in question, begins her adventure with very few memories but a life of seafaring and chores and modest contentment ahead of her. Purchased as an orphaned slave from the city of Arrabel when she was only a very young child, Krenn's life has ...

It begins with a woman enjoying a morning jog. Along the way, she gets sort of turned around. Streets no longer seem so familiar, subtle changes here and there appear among the scenery. Places appear and disappear or apparently relocate themselves. Faces change, names become unclear, and the lines between dream and reality find themselves getting blurred. Is Erika Lunport losing more than just her sense of direction? Is she lost in a loop of strange dreams or is there something more happening to her? Is she lost in dreams or are these hallucinations? What began as a morning jog becomes a ...