Owen has an opening in his chest, and inside it lives a talking bird named Gail. When he's 14, he's forced on the run, leaving behind his sheltered life away from people to live with his uncle and cousin in another state. He starts high school, explores his queerness, falls in love, and tries to find his place in the...
Joe and his friend Jerry find a merman washed up on the beach, but he turns out to be very much alive and interested in Joe, though not so fond of Jerry, judging from the way he tries to kill him. After a seduction involving lots of frustration and dead sea creatures, Joe finds himself falling for the man, but their communication barrier and differing survival needs complicate...
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Newt, a professor and scientist, gets threatened into furthering his research on stimulating latent shifter genes quickly and so enlists his best friend, an alpha shifter, to help---by having sex. But as experiments progress, he starts to realize he may actually be enjoying...
Ragnar is a walrus shifter who lives alone in a lighthouse and secretly moonlights as the town's local legend, the Selkie King, and he's not happy when he has to host an art student for the summer. But as they're kind of stuck together, Ragnar starts warming up to Kel, and Kel realizes there's more to the lighthouse keeper than his gruff...
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Harrow, brilliant necromancer and bone mage, has agreed to help the Emperor and is now living on his space station along with him and four others. But something has gone wrong, she's being guided by letters she wrote to herself but doesn't remember writing, one of her teachers wants to kill her, and none of it will even matter if the revenant of a dead planet kills...
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In this anthology, three teens on their way to a convention all end up temporarily stuck in a small town with a bit of magic. Ed chases after a ghost with a cute boy, Rome goes on a mysterious scavenger hunt, and Fielding uses his ability to see echoes of the past to do something good with the help of two new...
When Shrike, a fae, is crowned Oak King, he seeks out someone who can help him defeat the current Holly King he will have to fight, and the magic leads him to Wren, a human. As the two men spend time together, they grow closer, tackle problems that come their way together, and try to figure out how to save Shrike's life from future Holly...
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When Yuri gets evicted, the attic Dixon lives in gets awfully crowded, what with his cousin Sabina and Uncle Fonzo living there too, so they go apartment hunting, but Yuri wasn't the only one evicted. Developers have come to town, there may be spellcrafting afoot, and Dixon and Yuri are determined to save the town that means so much to...
Samhain is drawing near, and the Dominion Sect is going to make their move to make their leader a god and bring about Hell on Earth. Patrick and Jono, along with their pack and the alliances they've made with mages, vampires, fae, and gods, will have to stop them to save the world, and hopefully Patrick can fulfill his soul debt in the...
Eugene is a spoiled prince in a high fantasy kingdom, but one day he finds a flyer and decides to join an adventuring party. They reluctantly allow him to join because they're desperate, and frustration (for the characters) and hilarity (for the readers) ensues as they set off to investigate disappearances in a nearby...
