Carol Hightshoe

The Firebird rises—not from legend, but from the heart of a star. Technician Brianna Wells is supposed to monitor solar activity, not chase myths. But when the rhythmic pulses of a distant sun begin to match the ancient chants of the Firebird legends, data and folklore collide.

Once, the Sea Horse roamed the open Zuiderzee, returning drowning sailors and children to shore. The people called him Saltwarden, keeper of those taken too soon. But as dikes rise, channels narrow, and salt water gives way to lakes and canals, the world that sustained him begins to disappear.

Faith, Fear, and Fortune-Professor Vlkoslag sells them all. In the rough-edged boomtown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, Professor Vlkoslag's Traveling Medicine Show rolls into town with its usual mix of spectacle, sleight of hand, and snake oil.

In a house that remembers, Rowan must learn who they truly are. After losing their parents, Rowan is sent to live with Isolde; the quiet, distant aunt they barely know. But her old house, wrapped in ivy and secrets, seems almost alive. A strange glass panel shows memories Rowan never lived.

In a village where the old ways still whisper through the heather, power and faith collide beneath the light of the solstice moon. When Harailt, a disgraced noble’s son, seeks forbidden knowledge, his arrival stirs forces best left sleeping.

When a mischievous kappa decides to teach humankind a lesson in gratitude, his theft of the Dragon King’s sacred Tidal Jewels unleashes a catastrophic tsunami upon Japan. What began as a prank to remind mortals of divine blessings becomes a tragedy that shakes heaven and earth.

Every ten years, the mysterious world of Eleutheria opens its planetary shields and invites outsiders to compete in the Palingenesi Agon. A series of strange and ancient contests said to honor rebirth, renewal, and the power of the human spirit.

When the ruthless Captain of the Black Witch sets sail in search of a legendary silver hoard, he defies both reason and the will of the gods. The winter winds come early that year. A harbinger of something far older and far more dangerous stirring beneath the ice.

Centuries after a devastating war shattered Earth’s ecology, humanity clings to survival under the doctrine of “The Balance” a belief that nature must recover without human interference.

Brular has served Hellevar since he was a young child, now he has risen to be named Keeper of the Flame for the secluded temple of Mt. Veri. But, the paradox of an beautiful elf who also seeks to follow the path of order will lead Brular to face Thynitic the Lady of Chaos.

Sheltered within an ancient oak at the heart of an old cemetery, a clan of winged guides waits for the storm’s eye. To human eyes they are omens of death. But, in truth, they are the gentle keepers who guide lost souls across the veil.

All Krystall wanted was a quiet meal, a hot bath, and a place to rest her weary bones. Instead, the Duke's guards dragged her before their lord; a man desperate enough to beg a retired dragonslayer for one last service.

Born under the watchful eyes of the wolf star, Wolf Shadow was never meant to live an ordinary life. Named by the shaman Star Wolf and chosen by the spirits, she defied her tribe's traditions to become a warrior. She is one who walks between the living and the dead.

Trapped in a place where they are constantly faced with new opponents and challenges, Kyrianna and her friends will also have to face the Goddess Thynitic and her chosen Torliana....

When she decides to try and discover her past, against the advice of Frayrith, she ends up as a slave in the temple of Thynitic, the Lady of Chaos. She will eventually come to serve Thynitic as her Daughter of Chaos....

Torliana is an elf who seeks the ways of order. She enters the temple of Hellavar - Lord of Order and Fire to train as a monk in his service. Despite four years of training, she still finds herself desperate for acceptance in the temple....

A former mental health worker returns to the abandoned asylum she once worked at to lay to rest the ghosts of her past and finds an unexpected welcome from one of those ghosts....

Dywnia, speaker for Thynitic, seeks allies to fight the humans who are threatening to destroy the forest of Kilenter and the elves who live there....

Delavan is a young man who only wants a chance to join the town guard and defend his home against the evil elves who regularly attack it....

Leathan has been forced to live for centuries as he sings of a deep, painful loss. One night he is visited by a priest and a ghost who change that existence forever.