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A life free from immortals, magic, fae, chimera dung, and politics should be an earthly paradise, right? Right? Turns out, that's not the objective truth. Haunted by ghosts of powerful demons from the past, secrets are revealed. Possessing Hell's most powerful magical weapon might help me peel back the curtain, but who knows if I'm ready to deal with what it exposes.

What happens when you stand up to those who want you dead? Against those who would crush the world? It's time to find out.

When my idea of sneaking into the Burning Chasm for a recon mission was shot down by everyone, including the King of Otherworld, I probably should've listened. Now I was stuck inside a chasm full of the blackest souls of the world, and I could get caught any moment by the very evil we were trying to fight. Would I be able to get out in time, or was this the end for me?

The first time I went looking for Kym, it was because he was a relative of a murder victim I was investigating. Every time after that? It was because I realized he was my mate. For the first time in my long existence, I'd found something more important than my work. But with children getting kidnapped and an evil unlike I'd ever seen growing stronger, my realm and my king needed me more than ever. Could I really make a choice between my family and my mate?

When I launched the knife to stop the warlock aiding the enemy's escape, it took me a moment too long to realize the man I'd killed was my mate. When I met Wren again in Otherworld and he thanked me for killing him, I realized my hasty action had turned out to be his salvation. I'd never been the kind of person someone went to for comfort, but could I be that for my mate while also protecting him from the evil we're working to defeat?

Born on the last day to exist, Felix Chance roves the world untold. Mystery hounds his steps as he unlocks his secret past and seeks the love he left behind. What's real? What's not? Felix knows—more than he'll ever tell.

All demons have magic. Except me. And that's just the beginning of my troubles. An ancient demon, one of Hell's most powerful magic users, has disappeared. Rumors have it that he's in the Overworld, living among mortals and hiding while he plots to bring down demons and angels alike. And I’m the lucky one who got tasked with the job of bringing him back to answer for his crimes.

Fantastic Fables of Foster Flat returns to the mysterious town of Foster Flat with eight of Bradford's best short stories. While some of the stories are lighthearted and fun, others are hauntingly on the edge of horror. There is a curio in these pages for every listener--a burned-out writer waiting for her muse to strike, a curious museum of masks where things are not as they seem and a Chinese restauranteur with a head-scratching dilemma are just a few of what you're going to discover in this collection.

Track down a killer, collect the reward, enjoy a well-deserved drink. Shouldn't be too hard, right? That's what Never, a 400-year-old Werewolf with a taste for cocktails and violent justice, thinks—until the experienced Enforcer learns the case involves a long-dormant evil that threatens the magical world. Turns out she and the ex-boyfriend she's vowed to kill are searching for the same girl: a fellow Were who shares her rare ability. Is he the villain Never believes him to be—or something worse?

Miriam craves escape from her dead-end life in Iowa City. A stranger's offer could make her dream come true... or plunge her into a nightmare. Sara, reporter for a struggling paper, stumbles on a cryptic recording—one she doesn't remember making. Could uncovering the truth destroy her career... or her family? The quiet suburb of Bolingbrook masks dark secrets. Stories about local paranormal activities fill the pages of the local tabloid, Bolingbrook Babbler. Are they just tales or terrifying truths? Will Miriam embrace a dark path? Will Sara risk everything to expose a secret?

Eerie Ashwood may look like a regular college student—she has a job at a local diner and attends classes at the community college—but she’s not. She’s a Hushed, a living secret made of flesh and blood, spawned by the death of a human who had something to hide. While the Hushed blend in among humans, they are haunted by an overwhelming urge to spill their secret to those whom it would hurt the most. But once a Hushed tells their secret, they drop dead.

Under constant attacks, Matt and Natalia have weathered the storms of multiple plots against them. Now, with her ability to use her powers hampered by Dark magic, can she survive being held captive by one of the monsters from her past?

Sky left his home town of Shiyeth seventeen years ago, leaving behind his heritage as a light mage and severing ties with everyone except Declan, his friend and inseparable companion of his boyhood. When his cousin, Asher, approaches him with pleas of help and requests for protection from Declan and his dark magic, Sky has some hard choices ahead.

The Witch Sphere is in turmoil. In the years since a stunning betrayal sent shockwaves through society, the Sphere was hit with another crisis: witches are giving birth to more typics (non-witches) and their numbers are diminishing. Nadia is determined to help but finds hers efforts at the Witch Health Organization entangled with the political machinations of her powerful mother.

The vampires, the werewolves, the ghouls—Daniel and Tina Hyde wiped them out, to make the world a safer place. But nature abhors a vacuum, supernature even more. Something has got to fill the gap left by all those monster clans. The question now is, what happened to all the old aliens, the Martians, the Bug-Eyed Monsters, the Reptiloids, and the Greys? They’re coming out of the shadows with a vengeance, and Daniel and Tina Hyde are about to discover that there are much worse things than monsters. Fortunately, the Hydes love a good fight.

Alice acorda em um quarto de hotel, onde nem mesmo se lembra de ter chegado e recebe visitas de criaturas misteriosas e malucas que insistem em repetir que ela está perdida. Este conto faz parte da antologia brasileira Hotel Fantástico: Vol.2022, um dos 19 projetos selecionados para o Pitching Editorial do Rio2c de 2023.

Praised by EM Forster in his essay series Aspects of the Novel, Flecker’s Magic is a fantasy in which imaginative American Spike Flecker, an aspiring young painter enduring a life of poverty in Paris while he learns his craft, meets a girl in a café who tells him that she is a witch. The girl gives him a ring, which will grant him one wish. But faced with the omnipotent power of the wish, how is the young man to decide just exactly for what he should wish?

Over the past few years, Kit Colbana has dispatched some of the worst threats the non-human races could have imagined. Her grandmother's pet assassin failed to kill her so Kit wasn't surprised when yet another unwanted memory from her past shows up, looking to take her down. But her blood-hungry, homicidal aunt disappeared without a trace only hours after arrival.

When a man Chance Fortunato swore to find turns up in Colombia, he must accompany a group of Sentinels, elite battle mages, to make good on his vow. But when what was supposed to have been a simple rescue mission becomes a deadly ambush, Chance finds himself at the mercy of an ancient conspiracy. Pushed beyond his limits and unsure of who he can trust, Chance must race against an elusive foe to assemble the missing components to a ritual capable of unleashing something more powerful than Hell itself.

Being a forty-something divorcee with a college-bound teenage son is a freaking cakewalk compared to wielding my unruly magic. Did I mention that my newly discovered sister wants to kill me? After a hellish week spent with older-than-dirt archdruids and a few new enemies, I’m ready to get home so I can hug my kid and sleep in my own bed. But nope, that’s not how my crazy magical mid-life works. My spirit magic has been triggered, and a ghost’s cryptic message gives me more bad news. Something worse than my psycho sister might be after me. Awesome.