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The dragon of Kural is dreaming of a song that is not his. He stirs and tries to shrug, but his wings are pinned. Seventeen-year-old Emlin is about to become a fully-fledged crafter of dragon-inspired stained glass. Then her mother is murdered following a mysterious, nighttime trip to the palace. The Watch hasn't a clue who the murderer is, so Emlin vows to find the killer herself. A series of attacks on her and her sister glassmakers make...

From homeless urchin to world-class adventurer, Alan Shaw has tackled magic, myths and machines, lost love and made one fatal mistake. Now, his past is catching up with him. Haunted by the murderous Mister Slay and his blood curse, Alan finds himself in constant pain, embittered by loss, and weighed down by regret. With his life as a globe-trotting Privateer at an end, Alan now works as London's best preternatural investigator, and moonlight...

I saw a fury on the street today."Talons and teeth. Lairs and labyrinths. Those beasts we fear and those we secretly admire. These are stories about monsters.Featuring 52 very short stories, Monstrous Ink is a deep-dive into the murky waters of monster-dom from which so many of our most beloved sci-fi and fantasy stories came. Told with sharp insight, spiky humour, and spine-tingling atmosphere, these tales explore what it means to be a monste...

Echo's beloved bayou has been swept away, and with the destruction rises a dark force more powerful than any hurricane.When she and her best friend Danica arrive to help the survivors, they discover that the flood is the least of their worries, something sinister threatens Echo's cherished matriarch, her family, and the very fabric of her life.It will take every supernatural power at her disposal to defend and protect her home and her people, ...

In the dying days of the old asylums, three paths intersect.Henry was only a boy when he waved goodbye to his glamorous grown-up sister, approaching sixty, his life is still on hold as he awaits her return.As a high-society hostess renowned for her recitals, Matty's burden weighs heavily upon her, but she bears it with fortitude and grace.Janice, a young social worker, wants to set the world to rights, but she needs to tackle challenges closer...

The Grabber is just a fright tale."Former street kid Jarka was born with a crooked foot and uses a crutch, but that no longer matters now that he's an apprentice Wysman, training to advise the king. When poor kids start to go missing from the city's streets, though, Jarka suspects that whatever's causing the disappearances comes from the castle.Now he needs to watch his step or risk losing the position he fought so hard to win… but when someon...

I want to hear everything, Osiris. All that you can tell me."In the desert town of Mahrae, a young fox is about to discover his power.A single bolt of crystal energy begins Aidan's journey, one that will test him to his furthest limits and deepest loyalties. The gryphon Osiris takes Aidan under his wing and together they battle shadows and suspicion to bring warring nations to the pinnacle of invention and prosperity - the new city Nazreal.But...

This isn't a self-help book. But I hope it will support you anyway.Beginning as a therapeutic exercise that was never supposed to be read by anyone else, the Down Days blog attracted readers from across the globe with its blunt, honest and poignant description of what it's really like to live as a creative with depression and anxiety.Down Days tells it like it is, breakdowns, anxiety loops, awkward social situations, out-of-touch doctors and p...

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Somewhere in me a scream is rising, but I contain it. Just."Diazepam-fogged Amy isn't the best person to investigate an unexplained death, but she's the only one Jay can get through to.On the run from her troubled past and controlling older (ex) lover, she winds up on a Welsh eco farm where she starts to rebuild her life, grounded by the earth and healed by the salt air.But it isn't just her inner self that she manages to uncover. There are li...

What shapes the way we see ourselves?An administrator is forced into early retirement, a busy doctor needs a break. A girl discovers her sexuality, an older man explores a new direction for his. An estate agent seeks adventure beyond marriage, a photojournalist retreats from an overwhelming world. A woman reduces her carbon footprint, a woman embarks on a transatlantic affair. A widow refuses to let her past trauma become public property, anot...

The possibility of my imminent demise loomed overhead."Heather Kütz would like nothing more than to be a regular teenager. After striking a deal with Death to save her sister, she gets stuck in an endless loop of lives, all ending just before her nineteenth birthday.When, during her eighteenth life, Death unexpectedly sweeps her into his domain, she's ready to give him a piece of her mind. But then he tells her about a group of rebellious spir...

For fourteen years, she lived as an unwanted Jane Doe.But when her empathic powers suddenly and violently kick in, she becomes a supernatural empath who is as much a risk to herself as to others. Fleeing both her old name and the new nightmare her life has become, Echo Branson seeks a mentor deep in the Louisiana Bayou who can help her control her newfound abilities.Re-emerging four years later into a world where she must hide her supernatural...

Stuck in a city far from home, street kid Doniver fakes telling fortunes so he can earn a few coins to feed himself and his friends. Then the divine Powers smile on him when he accidentally delivers a true prediction for the prince.Concerned about rumors of treason, the prince demands that Doniver use his "magic" to prevent harm from coming to the king, and so Doniver is taken--dragged?--into the castle to be the royal fortune teller.Now Doniv...

Engalise is a city under siege. Without a government or the usual series of formal laws, relative peace is kept under the premise of the Ten Free Rights of the Individual.Freedom Protection Agent Jaq Pilakin specialises in investigating violations against the First Right: life. As a freelancer, she's forced to pick up the less lucrative cases cast aside by the big agencies, and stumbles into a scene where an artillery strike by the besieging f...

Alan Shaw is at it again.From homeless urchin to world-class adventurer, Alan has tackled magic, myths and machines, lost love and made one fatal mistake. In an effort to come to terms with what he has done, Alan heads into the East and disappears from the world.His new partner, the loyal and straight-talking pilot, Merry, might just bring him out of his darkness. Or maybe Alan's curse will take them both to places from which they can never re...

It's been a hell of a first day." Jon May has been the Governor of Elysium for a few hours, and he's already facing a belligerent Chief of Security, an ex-Operations Manager imprisoned for killing the previous Governor, and an amorphous energy mass that has its own agenda.So now Jon has to decide who to trust, his Security Chief will barely talk to him, and his only allies people who are, according to the Republic, dangerous criminals. With le...

Amy was five when she vanished during a family trip, only to be found hours later, clutching a golden acorn and claiming to have visited fairies. Now she's eighteen, and the fairies are calling her back.While attending a wedding deep in the Antrim glens, the voices grow darker and their song takes hold. Not sure if she's mad or if the fairies are real, she flees, drawing well-meaning Simon into her fairy-fuelled road trip.To escape their hold,...

I am the girl the Lost Boys lost."Queens and Scoundrels. Witches and Rebels. Grifters and Goddesses. These are stories about heroines.From prolific poet and writer James Webster, featuring 52 very short stories, Heroine Chic is a celebration of the heroine's place at the heart of science fiction, fantasy, and reality. Told with humour, daring, and gorgeous lyricism, these are tales of magic, love, adventure, SCIENCE! and much more.

In a bitterly divided nation where security trumps civil liberty, unemployed David is on the verge of sinking into the 'Zeroes' - a destitute underclass numbering millions. But then JobNet's advanced virtual reality world offers him a gateway to a worthwhile future, and a chance to rejoin society.But David is an unwitting pawn in a deadly conspiracy to topple the Government: he's the ideal carrier for an intelligent virus designed to shatter t...