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Twenty-five-year-old Parker Newhart moves to Belfast Maine to work for The Belfast Bizarre, a local community news website. Parker’s harsh boss, Beverly, gives her new hire the most challenging assignment ever, according to Parker’s coworkers Owen and Akaysha. She is tasked to interview the rich, reclusive author, Merrick Scott. Grateful people call him and his family the town’s benefactors. Scornful people called Merrick the “Were of Belfast.

Once upon a time, in the world of Keyfaetuun, when the cardinal dragons are different, on Fortune Island, there is a girl named Emilia and a boy named Ossvon, who see each other from opposite sides of a marketplace. In time, the two become close, but life becomes more complicated when Mayanja, the Mother of All Seasons, chooses Emilia as her successor. Ossvon, in anger and sorrow, becomes Keyfaetuun’s first dragon slayer. Yet even Ossvon can’t fight against the entire fae council’s final judgement.

On Keyfaetuun's Fortune Island, Russell is a widowed goatherd who one day notices raccoons are stealing the feed from his goats. When he set up several pain-free traps to catch them and relocate them, he doesn't find a masked mammal with whiskers caught within. Instead, a red-faced, crying, nine-month-old baby has found her way into his trap and into his life.

In the world of Bertark, Glazia the Nature Goddess of Water and Life takes a magical power from her sister Ceseka, the Goddess of Destruction, to prevent her from coming to Earth and bringing destruction and death with her. Glazia puts that magical power inside her newly born daughter Izzaura and gives the baby to her mortal father Milo to raise. For many years, Izzaura’s life is happy and peaceful, until, during her seventh year, her aunt Ceseka returns with a vengeance. To save her father, Izzaura goes with her aunt willingly, and Milo prays to Glazia for help.

Based on a 1796 Scottish ballad, this is a retelling of the tale of a Scottish lord’s son, Tam Lin, who becomes abducted by the fairy queen Morgann while hunting. In Selkirk, Scotland, there is a bit of land between two rivers called Carterhaugh. Lord Robert, who was given the land, then gifted it to his beloved daughter Janet. Janet longs to experience real, passionate love for herself, having witnessed such devotion in her parents. When she picks a rose by a well for inspiration, the most unexpected guardian knight of flowers appears. Tam Lin.

In a time long past, along the Nile, a peace treaty is signed between the powers of Egypt and Rome. As an act of good faith, Arsinoe, Pharaoh Ptolemy's daughter, invites the Roman envoy Albanus to dinner, making for him her three stone soup. As Ptolemy sees the attraction between the two, the pharaoh decides to drive a wedge between the two.

Imagine you are Valentine Day, and a mundane Monday pivots into otherworldly weirdness when the mother-of-pearl-enlaced mirror in your kitchen suddenly shows not your reflection but a sorceress named Izzaura from the hidden world of Bertarct. This sorceress claims the only way to save your father from a mad, poisonous, wild animal sent to Earth from Bertarct is to make a magic javelin with three innocuous objects, using imported honey from Bertarct as the glue. What do you do?

Cassie and Shea meet on a college field trip, looking at the great artworks of the Italian Masters. After they graduate, they move from New York to Las Vegas. First, they live together, then they got local jobs to pay the bills, and eventually, they make a home. Years later, they get married Las Vegas style but with birthstone pendants instead of rings. They have their honeymoon at the Venetian on the strip. Years later, Shea is working at the Bellagio’s art gallery and Cassie is a landscaper for an Italian restaurant.

Once upon a time in the fantastical medieval land of Yule in a kingdom called Yew, Drosselmeyer and Hob were tree spirits by day and could take human form at night. After Clara's father Seth, a good-hearted woodcutter, suddenly dies, Drosselmeyer focuses his one remaining eye on secretly looking after his goddaughter, Clara. She is treated like “Cinderella” by her stepmother Madeline and her eldest daughter Pearl.

Isadora Stilton and Quinn Avery have known each other since before they were ten. They continued being friends through puberty and into high school. Alas, first love withers under the long, icy axe of college acceptance letters. The two young lovers decide to say goodbye to each other and hello to successful careers, his as an actor and hers as a writer. Years later, the dance of life brings them both around to see each other again, and an unexpected health crisis brings them closer than ever before.

Stacy Dee Haverly, nicknamed Dagmar, is navigating an even greater grief than the sudden loss of her father. This time, it is the inevitable loss of her mother. Her grief affects her and her estranged grandmother Helena deeply, but Dagmar has four friends she grew up with who have been there for her far more than her distant grandmother. We follow Dagmar in her grief before returning to an earlier time, when Dagmar, Adrian, Iona, Sam, and Rodney all went to school together and grew up as friends.

Two stories that take place at two different Christmas times. Jim and Della struggle during hard times in 1906 New York City. Della has gorgeous hair, and Jim has a beautiful watch. Each of the young lovers decide to give up their most prized possessions to get a Christmas present for the other. Annabelle and Henry each run special shops in the city that have the gifts Jim and Della want, but when Annabelle does much more than help Della, hers and Jim’s love for each other will be put to a series of tests. Wink was an elf baby orphaned in the woods after a winter storm.

Vavra, the first immortal winged unicorn, was born even before the god Mesagan and the goddess Mendina. Over five hundred years later, Vavra’s stepchildren, the twins Cornelia and Cygnet, go to Mauvewood to meet their grandparents and build a relationship with the community there.

It started in an airport, Allegra and fraternal twin brothers Raphael and Sean met playing with stuffed animals with their parents waiting for a plane to take them to Pasadena in the Nineties. The two families become friends and neighbors and grow up together. Allegra wants to be in the business of making movies like her parents. Raphael chooses to learn to be an actor to be around Allegra. Sean is a very gifted painter, but finds his true talent shines in sculpting stone and then glass.

Seven years after the events in The Thirteenth Hour of the Sinuatollion Saga, Kir-rowen, “Kiro,” the immortal daughter of Solange and Clarion, dreams of her grandmother Mendina. Kiro remembers being immortal doesn’t mean she is invulnerable, too. On the contrary, she struggles with a hero inferiority complex, as her parents had saved their people twice. Now, Kiro no longer has the Alicorn Sword to borrow and do good.

Princess of the Kingdom of Amethyst is NOT the true princess of Amethyst; her parents merely named her Princess out of love when she was born. Everyone who knows her calls her Prin. However, Prin’s friend Hannah wished she really was a true princess. When Prin is eleven, she sees a frightening sight at the bottom of Mac Maur Lake one day while swimming. A floating form with long, blond hair. Prin’s parents think she imagined it, but Prin starts studying the history of the Kingdom of Amethyst to try and solve the riddle of what’s at the bottom of Amethyst’s only lake.

On the planet of Entitya, on the rural and medieval island of Sinuatollion, where certain humans and certain animals have telepathic and empathetic bonds, 18-year-old Solange and her foster brother, Leviathan, a fire-breathing, water-swimming dragon, leave their hometown of Gemini to find their individual birth parents. Mesagan, Solange’s uncle who raised both girl and dragon side by side, gives them one clue: a bloodstained stone, which unbeknownst to the adopted siblings is part of an ancient magic sword called the Alicorn.

In three short stories about African animals that take you from ancient times to the modern day, adults and children discover tales about friendship and other invaluable lessons that arrive with living life. When a lion lures a human away to protect his pride, he meets a crab, and their friendship changes everyone’s lives. On the banks of the Nile, the friendship of a hippo and a crane is tested when a class assignment changes the bird’s way of thinking. At Central Park Zoo, giraffe brothers must put their sibling squabbles aside to help a lost dog reunite with her owner.

From the same world as Snow, Rosie, and Jabber comes a new tale that takes place in the Kingdom of Amethyst, where dragon guardians of nature, like Nasrin-Uma, are just as real as fae guardians, like Faltorr. Sometimes ordinary people are called upon to right a wrong that was done before anyone in the village of Hydrakon could remember, except the fae. When the Dragon Nasrin-Uma is taken prisoner by a strange, possessed, apple tree, the fae oracle the Mother of All Seasons sends Faltorr to enlist the help of young childhood friends Zvory and Mavin to mount a rescue.

On the planet Entitya, there were three Gods: Susegi, God of Light, Nefarion, God of Darkness; and Unacoria, Goddess of Love. These three deities came from Mother Universe and brought light and life to their island home, Sinuatollion. Peace was shattered the day Nefarion dared to assault Unacoria. Her revenge on him was just the beginning. Years later in his home on Sinuatollion island, Mesagan dreams about a wolf in a dangerous swamp. When Mesagan hears his father, Susegi, is going to visit a sick friend among the wolf pack, Mesagan decides to go with him.