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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.

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.

Every Saga has its nearly lost tales… until they are found again. One such tale is one that happened before Mesagan’s Gathering, before the Thirteenth Hour, before the Convergence, in a valley near the Mane Mountains, where Enda the stone sage made his home. He often did business with a...

The island of Marigold in the land of Keyfaetuun has been a peaceful kingdom ever since Rumpelstiltskin’s New Spin was settled. But when the famous spinner seeks to move on, he passes guardianship of Marigold to Pavi, a plucky fairy who spends much of her time as a hummingbird. One day, she...

In Seattle, friends Macy, AJ, Kieran, and Luke attend the local Renaissance fair. They go into a tent called Seeking Hearts and are charmed by Sam, the Game Master, into playing a tabletop Role Play Game with dice based on the Greek myth Cupid and Psyche. Subtly, the lines between in game and real life start to blur as the relationships become more revealing between the friends. The game inspires them in their real lives the more they play, week after week.

Twenty-five-year-old Parker Newhart moves to Belfast Maine to work for The Belfast Bizarre, a local community news website. Parker’s harsh boss, Beverly, gives her new hire the most challenging assignment ever, according to Parker’s coworkers Owen and Akaysha. She is tasked to interview the rich, reclusive author, Merrick Scott. Grateful people call him and his family the town’s benefactors. Scornful people called Merrick the “Were of Belfast.

Once upon a time, in the world of Keyfaetuun, when the cardinal dragons are different, on Fortune Island, there is a girl named Emilia and a boy named Ossvon, who see each other from opposite sides of a marketplace. In time, the two become close, but life becomes more complicated when Mayanja, the Mother of All Seasons, chooses Emilia as her successor. Ossvon, in anger and sorrow, becomes Keyfaetuun’s first dragon slayer. Yet even Ossvon can’t fight against the entire fae council’s final judgement.

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.

Mesagan, immortal son of the God of Light Susegi and the Goddess of Love Unacoria, was born with the gift of foresight. But one thing his parents taught him was that the future is always changing, affected by one’s choices in the present. It has been three months since the events of Cole’s Hunt and only nineteen years since Mesagan told Deucalion “Cal,” the light wolf he loves, “See you in twenty-eight years.” Mesagan met Rislucian, Cal’s young son from a previous relationship during the events of Cole’s Hunt for a reason.

On the planet Entitya, on the island of Sinuatollion, Mendina’s father Susegi, God of Creation and Light, offers Mendina the chance to have her soulmate made for her, but she declines, having met her first love Tarius. She and Tarius live a life together and have a daughter, Solange, staying together for almost nineteen years. When Tarius is mortally wounded by Tajincour, son of the God of Darkness, Nefarion, neither Mendina’s kiss of love nor her unicorn horn are able to heal him, and Tarius dies.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.