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Ten floors One wish How far are you willing to go to get what your heart desires? Dan, already at the end of his rope, has nothing left to lose. Why not traverse the derelict Pelican hotel and fix his crappy life. He’s already lost it all. What’s the worst that could happen?

Toby is a magical talking dog with a problem. Actually, several problems. Clarissa's favourite teapot has suffered an unfortunate magical incident, and it turns out the money to replace it is surprisingly difficult for a dog to earn.

Felicia and Edgar meet as their mothers are dying. Felicia, a teen from an island nation, and Edgar, the lazy heir of a wealthy German family, come together only because their mothers share a hospital room. When Felicia's mother dies and Edgar's "Mutter" does not, Felicia drops out of high school and takes a job as Mutter's caregiver. While Felicia and Edgar don't quite understand each other, and Felicia recognizes that Edgar is selfish, arrogant, and often unkind, they form a bond built on grief (and proximity)....

A collection of legal short stories featuring works by Lawrence Block, Lia Matera, Richard North Patterson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and others. In this collection of courtroom mysteries, the legal profession is put on the stand by some of the finest mystery writers, both classic and contemporary...

There’s no chance of a quiet life when you’ve aliens in your attic. Felicity Westmacott craves solitude. But something with a hearty appetite is stalking the moor and terrifying the locals. And things going bump in the night puts paid to her equilibrium. As does the mysterious appearance of an elderly gentleman. He claims to be a time traveller. Obviously as nutty as a fruitcake, he wants her to run a creche. For baby aliens.

Persecuting witches? Didn’t that fall out of fashion in the seventeenth century? Toby has always imagined so. Why then is his great friend Mabel the hedge witch—a witch who actually lives in a hedge—coming in for so much strife from her local community? That would be because a popular young man has been found dead and all the signs indicate a ritualistic murder. When the police fail to identify a suspect, the locals need somewhere to pin the blame and therefore scapegoat poor Mabel.

Musician and heartthrob Jacob White doesn’t need the blood of Drakkon running through his veins to know he turns heads when he steps into a room. He’s crafted in long, lean muscle beneath alabaster skin and a mane of silky white, shoulder-length hair. He has it all, fame, fortune, and now, thanks to his blood being altered, he can soar through the sky, dance with the stars, and breathe fire. It’s all he’s ever wanted—until he awakens after his first night as Drakkon and looks into the eyes of a woman whose courage and determination truly change his life.

Characterful dark short stories with unexpected twists!

Chesterfield is just like any small town you’ve ever visited. The only exception is the Eldritch being controlling the town, but hey, the rents are cheap. Allow me to tell you thirteen tales of misery and despair unlike any you have ever heard. While I have you here let me just add one more to the population sign. Even if you want to leave you can’t. You belong to Chesterfield now.

Millionaire Garion Gold is the last Drakkon alive on earth, but he doesn’t have to be. His blood holds the power to transform at will or alter any descendant of the ancients. He doesn’t have to live his life alone, hiding from those who seek his blood, secluded in a villa in the mountains of Norway. He can rule the sky with his kind, but the cost to humans is too high. So he remains a man, alone in the clouds, giving up flight and fire for a nobler purpose. He’s suspended in both worlds, belonging to neither, an outcast with a price on his head that has cost others their lives. Never again.

Marcus is a Drakkon as ancient as the stars, stronger than a mountain, and the last of his kind. Men now rule the earth. The time of the Drakkon is over thanks to the legendary Phoenix Amber and the Council of Elders who use its power to transform Drakkon into humans. When the Council discovers he may be hiding a treasure worth more than any dragon horde, they will stop at nothing to have it and transform him against his will. Being human is worse than anything Marcus could have imagined.

Meet Jeff: overworked, underappreciated, and stuck granting 1,000 wishes for humanity before he can retire or get promoted—whichever comes first. Unfortunately, Jeff isn’t your typical genie. He’s a cosmic entity with an attitude problem, a hatred of paperwork, and a flair for granting wishes in the most inconvenient, ridiculous ways possible.

Dear Chess Mistress Hex, As requested, here is the summary of the report I wrote to you, detailing the adventures of your intern, Jhe Aladdin so that you can sell it online as a book. Inside you will find mind-stealing monsters from another universe, mechanics with steampunk limbs, unimaginable secrets, and a war spanning ten thousand universes. Also a very bad alternate rule set for chess.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the mall, rushed a worker, named Steve, who was sick of you all. From Doris to Karen, and that pest, Creepy Santa, Steve wanted to clock them with a big, glass decanter. With the help of an elf, her clothes quite revealing, Steve finished his shopping with much a mixed feeling. After a beer or two, and he’d bought all his presents, Steve went to a house with a marijuana essence. Along with his buddies, their names Dave and Spike, the three amigos partied with beer and ganja alike.

Filibert Bakes a Pie is a delightful story about the young dragon, Filibert, who needs to learn the value of patience and planning and doing things right. Filibert is pig-headed and always in too much of a hurry, but with the help of Mother Dragon and The Troubling Wind (his conscience), he learns a hard lesson!

Standing on the precipice of an untamed land, Tharst Oralok dreams of helping forge a new kingdom for his tribe. For his beloved. And for his son. But as the horizon darkens with the approach of orcs, the fragile foundations of their new home are imperiled.

Stephen Crawford, a dimensional traveler and former physicist, is obsessed with releasing his new friends who he has inadvertently 'captured', removing them from reality and giving him complete control over them. He believes the key to achieving this lies in uncovering the secrets of dimensional travel and manipulating the very fabric of reality. Driven by guilt and a desperate longing to undo his actions, Stephen embarks on a relentless quest, amassing power and control over multiple dimensions.

Hunter has seen a lifetime of war leading augmented troopers into battle on numerous worlds. He thought those days were long gone. He was wrong. His hidden life in the urban sprawl, bright neon lights, and unending crime of the old world changes the day he's tracked down by his Colonel Nakamura, his previous commander. His old friend Kuzma is on the run and missing on Mars, a colony on the brink of civil war. A murderous cult tightens its grip on the colony while rumours of synthetic humans led by a mysterious woman spread like wildfire.

Three lonish short stories linked by the theme of time.

Filibert, the young dragon of Elderberry, is a selfish, insensitive dragon who delights in scaring the poor village children on their way to school each morning. Only after he becomes very ill and loses his fire, does he realize howmiserable the village children must feel and how cruel he had been.