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Cantalira never wanted to be different. She never wanted a Mother's mark. You can't choose your family, and who would choose a witch for their mother? She wants nothing more than to be anyone but May Weaver's daughter. The only way that's ever going to happen is outside the High Valley that's protected them from the Inquisition and the Commoners' War. But Canta doesn't know what the world is like down the mountain. She is not prepared to experience it. When she runs away with her boyfriend, she's puts not only herself, but her whole family in danger.

Stealing from Outer Planet rebels is dangerous. Stiffing the psychotic crime boss that hired you is insane. Captain Melissa Stone did both. Now she’s got to steal back the rebel secrets to save her daughter. Every pirate has an origin story. This is hers.

Purpose defines us. It will define the people we leave behind when we are gone. We are children playing with the powers of a god. Our creations will be as flawed as their creators. The gift of intellect comes with doubt. In the not-too-distant future, tools will become beings in their own right. Factory floors will be the womb of an entire people. Androids will struggle to exist alongside the lesser gods who created them, even as they surpass us. These stories explore that struggle.

People struggle to find their place in the reality they've created by spreading out into the universe. In space, every choice you make matters. There is no safety for the forgotten children on the last stop before Pluto. The Gentlemen scheme to carve up commerce. Pirates hunt the roads through space. And everywhere, the common man tries to find a way for self and family.

Caught in a scandal with Lord Arle that draws the attention of King Harald’s Inquisition, Shenagh is forced to flee her home into the Dark Wood. The young hedge witch, pursued by Master Macon den Lough and his henchman, Cobb, is tested by the forest’s rugged terrain, dangerous predators, and legendary monsters.

Everyone has secrets, some more than others. Megan Stiles has a big one. An impromptu trip to her childhood home brings it all back in a rush of danger. On Seaward Island, the monsters are real, and they are coming for her. She’s got to reconcile her family’s past with her new reality. Her inheritance is more than just money. An old love, a new love, a powerful family, and underworld politics threaten to consume her.

The first duty of a man is to his family... With an army flowing into the highlands like a plague of locusts, Rolf the skull breaker flees the front lines to get his family to safety, but the siren call of glory awaits him. Only the brave will have a seat the at the Father’s table in the afterlife. How will his son ever respect him, if he runs?

King Harald’s bounty made targets of the magi. It’s bad enough to be defeated. Now they are hunted. Rol is the only one in his family who is not a magi, yet. Maybe he never will be, but they’re all in danger. There will be violence. There will be death. If the mage hunters don’t get them the fae creatures of the Great Savannah will.

Greig is the bastard son of the town healer. His father has gone to war, and his mother has fallen into the arms of an enemy soldier that he pulled from the river. It's his fault. It's no wonder his own father wouldn't give him a name. He's just the whoreson. But then the Hand marched into their valley and everything changed.

Greig is the bastard son of the town healer. His father has gone to war, and his mother has fallen into the arms of an enemy soldier that he pulled from the river. It's his fault. It's no wonder his own father wouldn't give him a name. He's just the whoreson.