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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. But beneath the smell of camphor and sawdust lies something darker. Something born from the Professor's own forbidden magic. Vlkoslag isn't just a showman—he's a magician who wields real power and uses it to manipulate both magic and men.

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.

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. But Gwendolyn Robbins, Director of Genetics at the Wildlife Foundation, sees a dying world that cannot heal on its own. Defying the Council’s orders, she dares to recreate the creatures of legend, pegasi and unicorns, from the genetic remnants of the Ancestors. As politics, fear, and faith collide, Gwendolyn’s work may hold the key to restoring life, or doom what remains of it.

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. Trapped in the Chaos of Thynitic and her torments, will Brular's faith be enough to sustain him as he seeks a way to escape and to avenge himself on the elf who betrayed him.

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. Now, haunted by guilt and forbidden help from the gods, the kappa seeks redemption in a single, selfless act—calling forth the celestial kirin, bringer of justice and hope.

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. For Ledesma, a scholar obsessed with uncovering the secrets of this matriarchal society, it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the Games are far more than tests of skill. They are a selection process. And the true prize may not be wealth or citizenship, but something far more unsettling.

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.

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. When a powerful storm tears through the wards protecting Eternal Escapes Cemetery, one guardian senses a devourer rising from the darkness; an ancient, lost soul twisted by fear. As it reaches for the soul of the cemetery’s director, the guardian must risk its own essence to save her and restore peace to the dead and the living alike.

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. The healer Briana prepares her family for the sacred Guardian Ritual, a rite that will bind one soul to the land’s protection. But love and jealousy weave their own spells. When Adairia and her beloved Leathan are caught in Harailt’s dark ambition, a single act of envy sets a curse in motion that will echo across generations.

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 and when she fails in her testing to become a Flame Dancer she is seduced by Thynitic, The Lady of Chaos.

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. For ten years he has tried to hide the fact he was born with mage powers, but an accident in the training arena results in his arcane powers killing a fellow recruit. His only hope is the Arms Master of the guard who stands by him and the now broken blade that once belonged to his grandfather—a knight of Oliaric the Lord of Order and

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.

Genetic Engineering and cloning leads to the development of a popular exotic pet business. However, some exotics are very limited and tightly controlled due to their dangerous nature. This just leads those who want one to take the risk and look outside official channels and go into the Long Grass to find the animal they want. But is it really worth the risk to own a velociraptor as a pet?