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In the world of Bertark, Glazia the Nature Goddess of Water and Life takes a magical power from her sister Ceseka, the Goddess of Destruction, to prevent her from coming to Earth and bringing destruction and death with her. Glazia puts that magical power inside her newly born daughter Izzaura and gives the baby to her mortal father Milo to raise. For many years, Izzaura’s life is happy and peaceful, until, during her seventh year, her aunt Ceseka returns with a vengeance. To save her father, Izzaura goes with her aunt willingly, and Milo prays to Glazia for help.

Imagine you are Valentine Day, and a mundane Monday pivots into otherworldly weirdness when the mother-of-pearl-enlaced mirror in your kitchen suddenly shows not your reflection but a sorceress named Izzaura from the hidden world of Bertarct. This sorceress claims the only way to save your father from a mad, poisonous, wild animal sent to Earth from Bertarct is to make a magic javelin with three innocuous objects, using imported honey from Bertarct as the glue. What do you do?

On Keyfaetuun's Fortune Island, Russell is a widowed goatherd who one day notices raccoons are stealing the feed from his goats. When he set up several pain-free traps to catch them and relocate them, he doesn't find a masked mammal with whiskers caught within. Instead, a red-faced, crying, nine-month-old baby has found her way into his trap and into his life.

Princess of the Kingdom of Amethyst is NOT the true princess of Amethyst; her parents merely named her Princess out of love when she was born. Everyone who knows her calls her Prin. However, Prin’s friend Hannah wished she really was a true princess. When Prin is eleven, she sees a frightening sight at the bottom of Mac Maur Lake one day while swimming. A floating form with long, blond hair. Prin’s parents think she imagined it, but Prin starts studying the history of the Kingdom of Amethyst to try and solve the riddle of what’s at the bottom of Amethyst’s only lake.

Cassie and Shea meet on a college field trip, looking at the great artworks of the Italian Masters. After they graduate, they move from New York to Las Vegas. First, they live together, then they got local jobs to pay the bills, and eventually, they make a home. Years later, they get married Las Vegas style but with birthstone pendants instead of rings. They have their honeymoon at the Venetian on the strip. Years later, Shea is working at the Bellagio’s art gallery and Cassie is a landscaper for an Italian restaurant.

Agapaeros “Perry” is a merman living a tranquil life in the Endless Ocean on the planet Entitya, with his mermaid mother Mendina and his merman father Eros. Alas, that peace is shattered when his mother and father lay down to sleep and never wake up. This sudden loss sends a shockwave through the world that even the celestial gods of Entitya feel. One day, swimming in a haze of grief and memories, Perry comes upon a wounded whale. Using what his mother taught him, he helps and heals the young whale with his magic.

Quinn the unicorn of Keyfaetuun has just been the ring bearer at his longtime friend Vaino’s fae wedding. It’s a lonely time for the only unicorn in the world. Taking Vaino’s advice, Quinn leaps over to Fortune Island to see the fae oracle, the Mother of All Seasons. She has foreseen a convergence between worlds. The time is now, and only through this convergence and taking the journey will Quinn find what he seeks. Furthermore, the Mother of All Seasons declares that another lonely heart, a sarcastic and curse cawing raven named Kirby shall go with Quinn.

In the same world where a dragon of fire named Nasrin-Uma helped two human mortal friends and their fae guardian, comes the story that names that world, Keyfaetuun. Nasrin-Uma is not the only elemental dragon guardian. This story delves into more about the dragons, their roles, and what roles their progeny play in the future of Keyfaetuun. Once there were three elemental fairies. Telsha, a water fairy; Jochiam, a fire fairy; and Jochiam’s younger brother Thibo, a fairy with more than a green thumb.

From the same world as Snow, Rosie, and Jabber comes a new tale that takes place in the Kingdom of Amethyst, where dragon guardians of nature, like Nasrin-Uma, are just as real as fae guardians, like Faltorr. Sometimes ordinary people are called upon to right a wrong that was done before anyone in the village of Hydrakon could remember, except the fae. When the Dragon Nasrin-Uma is taken prisoner by a strange, possessed, apple tree, the fae oracle the Mother of All Seasons sends Faltorr to enlist the help of young childhood friends Zvory and Mavin to mount a rescue.

It started in an airport, Allegra and fraternal twin brothers Raphael and Sean met playing with stuffed animals with their parents waiting for a plane to take them to Pasadena in the Nineties. The two families become friends and neighbors and grow up together. Allegra wants to be in the business of making movies like her parents. Raphael chooses to learn to be an actor to be around Allegra. Sean is a very gifted painter, but finds his true talent shines in sculpting stone and then glass.

Once upon a time in the fantastical medieval land of Yule in a kingdom called Yew, Drosselmeyer and Hob were tree spirits by day and could take human form at night. After Clara's father Seth, a good-hearted woodcutter, suddenly dies, Drosselmeyer focuses his one remaining eye on secretly looking after his goddaughter, Clara. She is treated like “Cinderella” by her stepmother Madeline and her eldest daughter Pearl.

On the planet Entitya, there were three Gods: Susegi, God of Light, Nefarion, God of Darkness; and Unacoria, Goddess of Love. These three deities came from Mother Universe and brought light and life to their island home, Sinuatollion. Peace was shattered the day Nefarion dared to assault Unacoria. Her revenge on him was just the beginning. Years later in his home on Sinuatollion island, Mesagan dreams about a wolf in a dangerous swamp. When Mesagan hears his father, Susegi, is going to visit a sick friend among the wolf pack, Mesagan decides to go with him.

On the planet of Entitya, on the rural and medieval island of Sinuatollion, where certain humans and certain animals have telepathic and empathetic bonds, 18-year-old Solange and her foster brother, Leviathan, a fire-breathing, water-swimming dragon, leave their hometown of Gemini to find their individual birth parents. Mesagan, Solange’s uncle who raised both girl and dragon side by side, gives them one clue: a bloodstained stone, which unbeknownst to the adopted siblings is part of an ancient magic sword called the Alicorn.

In three short stories about African animals that take you from ancient times to the modern day, adults and children discover tales about friendship and other invaluable lessons that arrive with living life. When a lion lures a human away to protect his pride, he meets a crab, and their friendship changes everyone’s lives. On the banks of the Nile, the friendship of a hippo and a crane is tested when a class assignment changes the bird’s way of thinking. At Central Park Zoo, giraffe brothers must put their sibling squabbles aside to help a lost dog reunite with her owner.

Seven years after the events in The Thirteenth Hour of the Sinuatollion Saga, Kir-rowen, “Kiro,” the immortal daughter of Solange and Clarion, dreams of her grandmother Mendina. Kiro remembers being immortal doesn’t mean she is invulnerable, too. On the contrary, she struggles with a hero inferiority complex, as her parents had saved their people twice. Now, Kiro no longer has the Alicorn Sword to borrow and do good.

The world of Keyfaetuun has four dragons, but never did it have a single unicorn … until the fae guardian of the Kingdom of Zenith, Madame Astrid, took a foal from its mother and fed the foal magic milk, which transformed him. Then she stole a baby girl from her parents and gave the little unicorn to her “daughter” as a pet. But when the daughter grew up and was taken to live in a tower, she said goodbye to her unicorn friend she called Quinn. After Madame Astrid was punished for breaking the rules.

Tim McGilicuddy and Edgar Escobar didn’t like each other from the very first day of fifth grade. When Lindsey Ruess stops them from coming to blows and the teacher lets them off with a warning, Tim decides he’s much happier losing himself in his favorite video game than going with his parents on a trip to Wales. Which means Tim has to stay with eccentric Aunt Ophelia, who hangs scary paintings in her bathrooms.

Once upon a mountain in Norway, when trolls were still believed to roam in nature, a miner named Bjorn took a beautiful pink stone from the mountain to give to his beloved Elin. Years later, their daughter Kari and her friends Louisa, Torsten, and Ottar grew up playing together, but their innocence was broken after a near fatal accident involving Torsten and Ottar. Nine years after the accident, the four of them were still friends; however, things changed again when Torsten went into the forest for snowdrops and disappeared.

In Ancient Greece after the Trojan War, as described in The Iliad, there were a brother and sister, Avel and Syma, who suffered at the hands of their stepfamily. Until three Goddesses decide to visit the siblings and give them tests and gifts to help change their lives for the better. In the kingdom where the brother and sister live, the Goddess of Love wants the young ruling queen Charis to find love again, so the goddesses again take part in bringing Avel, Syma, and the young queen together, changing the lives of all three of them, so much so that it would be painted on pottery one day.

Chip, a thoughtful chocolate chip is unique in a bag of chocolate chips. His view of the world gets much bigger and slightly scarier when Mother Daisy and her daughter Kit open the bag and Chip starts talking to a nearby Egg. Soon Chip's wonder at the wider world gets scary when he sees what happens to his friend egg and what Kit does to his fellow chocolate chips. With the transformational process of mixing and baking Chip gets turned into a brownie, but that doesn't change his thoughtfulness.