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A Stormcaster from Estlon is summoned by the prophecy of a great ancient dragon, Frostbite. He is tasked with helping the dragon conjure up storms that the small world of the Havershaw Island has never seen before and bring about an Eternal Winter. A young Moon Elf war orphan, named Winter, is fostered by the village gate warden and a healer midwife and finds herself thrust upon a quest to find the ones responsible for the massacre of her village. Along the way, Winter and her companions, Kenjin and Talia, are joined by a runaway slave-girl named Rebecca and an apprentice Wizard named ...

Pain, trauma, and abuse seem to be all thirteen-year-old Allison McClanahan knows. Shame, humiliation, and fear was her life before her ambitious case worker, Ms. Rebecca Aisling, took her case and took her under her protective wings. Rescued from an abusive, drug-addled father and the loss of her mother, Allison finds herself placed in foster care. Everything is a whirlwind of confusion. She doesn’t know who she is or where her place is in this world anymore. She yearns for answers and a night without bad dreams and nightmares. Marjan Mehri, an outsider to some but a young woman of hope ...

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.

Mari Parenteau was eight years old when she was inserted into the astronaut training program with an international crew of scientists, specialists in the fields of astrophysics, botany, and engineering. Six years later, she wakes from her stasis coma sleep aboard the international space station, Oberon One, now in orbit between Ganymede and Callisto, on a long-term expedition to explore and investigate Jupiter and its four Galilean moons of Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. Six years lost and gone... a childhood abruptly shortened against her will. She wakes in the shadow of a stormy ...

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 ...

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, ...

Taken into the world of the great immortal artists, painters, musicians, and composers, Diana Tremont must learn to adapt to the existence of a vampire if she is to be worthy of her eternal gift. As one of the Orchid, she must become a guardian and custodian of the beautiful, creative, and those touched by the Muse with the Divine Spark. AislingTuck, is just a wanderer, loner, and high school wallflower trying to navigate a life of constant change and upheaval. When she meets Diana Tremont, she can no longer hide or shy away. She finds herself thrust into the center of a centuries' old ...

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 ...

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 ...