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What do you do when you wake up and realize you have been the villain all along?After years of working for CIRCE, Dr. Holly Eva Foster is beginning to realize why her patients have been dying off: she's killing them, but she doesn't know why.Meanwhile, following a devastating ambush and life-or-death surgery, the Padre discovers that his Packmates and colleagues suddenly revile and distrust him. Watching their behaviour degrade from bizarre to brutal, the Padre escapes, only to run into the arms of his least likely allies: enemies of CIRCE.For the sake of all humanity and other-kind, Eva and the Padre must risk their lives-and their minds-to rebel against one creature's well-intended quest: the annihilation of her own kind.

We come from dust, and to dust we return…Earth is steady. Solid. Reliable. It is the source of life and the thing which sustains it. But it's not always serene and peaceful. It takes a lot to stir the earth but when it does, things get dramatic. Quakes swallow cities. Oceans rise. Mountains crumble. Earth is not weak, and it knows no pity.Learn the strength of Earth and its creations in these eighteen stories, including: rusting dragons; mysterious summer jobs; magical inheritances; and dryads engaged in a bitter war.Featuring: Jane Yolen; Chadwick Ginther; Kevin Cockle; Damascus Mincemeyer; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Catherine Macleod; Mara Malins; Steve Toase; Suzanne J. Willis; Blake Jessop; Buzz Dixon; David L. Craddock; Rose Strickman; Gregory L. Norris; Tamsin Showbrook; Sarah Van Goethem; Tim Ford; and V.F. LeSann.

Earth is a storm-ravaged wastelandHumanity has fled the planet, establishing bases off-world. But disaster has struck the food crops of Luna Base, leaving the Orbitals starving, and Mars Colony ignores their pleas for aid.Hot-headed pilot Janlin Kavanagh will do anything to save her friends, so when SpaceOp captain Stepper Jordan proposes a sketchy plan to save their people, she immediately volunteers. Anything is better than slow starvation, even a risky voyage to an alien solar system in a ship with unproven Jump technology.The mission faces unexpected dangers, and the mettle of Janlin and her crew is tested, against each other and the strange, new species they encounter. Can Janlin overcome mistrust and betrayal to salvage the mission and restore hope to her friends and herself?

The Tantamount is gone. Her captain dead, her crew lost, and Nel Vaughn is broken. Alone, on a world of distractions with a bitter Kelpie who won't let her forget.On the Fata Morgana, indifferent to any survivors, a seven-tailed Kitsune whom some call mad moves towards his own goals. Of Draugr and golems and mist. And someone else Nel believes gone.The Black is a dark place, nearly as dark as the bottom of her drink. When Castor Sharpe comes crashing back into Nel's life, he brings something with him. A mission, a chance. Maybe even hope. But they'll need a crew. And a new ship.

After their escape from pirate captain Margit Ansdottir, Dagrun Lund and fellow Intelligencer Calder Rahmson witness the pirates' destruction of towns along the coast of Swyford. Along with the Lavais shipyards, sea-going vessels and warehouses of food have been destroyed.The city of Tarklee must be warned, before the pirates rejoin their co-conspirator, Grand Freeholder Tarmo Holt. Avoiding pirates at every turn, Dag and Calder journey to the city. But they're too late: Tarklee's harbour is set ablaze.With her sister gone and the looming threat of famine haunting the city, Dag, Calder, and the few remaining Intelligencers must find a way to defeat Tarmo Holt and save the people of the Fair Seas Treaty Alliance.

After her first mission for the Fair Seas Treaty Alliance, Intelligencer Dagrun Lund returns home to find that her twin sister Inger has disappeared. Using all of her skills as well as her strong Trait, Dag stows away on a ship and follows her sister to Strongrock, an island that is home to pirates. On Strongrock, Dag discovers that the pirates are hiding dangerous secrets; secrets that threaten to ensnare Inger and turn her against her country and her twin. When fellow Intelligencer Calder Rahmson arrives to escort Dag back home, the two of them find themselves targeted by the pirates. Fleeing for their lives, Calder and a heartbroken Dag are forced to leave Inger behind. Dag vows to find her sister and save her from the pirates, but when she discovers that the pirates are a threat to the Fair Seas Treaty Alliance, Dag faces a terrible choice between saving her sister and saving the Alliance.

Marie Jenner just wants out.Marie's life has taken a bad turn. Marie's shrink, Dr. Parkerson-who most definitely does not believe in ghosts-has committed her to a mental institution, deeming her a danger to herself and others.As Marie desperately tries to talk her way out of the institution, ghosts start showing up in her room. Most just want to chat, but some of them believe that one of the hospital staff is killing patients. They want Marie to investigate, and they don't care that she's on lockdown or that she's being given meds that are slowly taking away her ability to interact with them. They just want the deaths to stop.When Dr. Parkerson's name tops the suspect list, Marie realizes that she doesn't just need to convince her shrink that she's sane. She also has to figure out if Dr. Parkerson's the killer . . . before Marie becomes the next victim.Marie wants the nightmares to stop. Doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.

The ability for people to control (to some extent at least) fire has long been held as one of the major events that contributed to human evolution, but when fire eludes or escapes our control it is also one of the most destructive forces on earth. Associated with passion, power, transformation and purification, fire is a ferocious element with an unquenchable appetite.Discover the power of Fire and the creatures that thrive on it in these twenty-one stories, including: the true inspiration behind Jim Morrison's songs; a special weapon used in World War II; the secret in the depths of a mortuary furnace; a fantastical card game; and a necromancer out on what may be his last job.Featuring: Blake Jessop; Kevin Cockle; Lizbeth Ashton; Dusty Thorne; V.F. LeSann; K.T. Ivanrest; Hal J. Friesen; Laura VanArendonk Baugh; Krista D. Ball; Mara Malins; Claude Lalumière; Susan MacGregor; JB Riley; Damascus Mincemeyer; Heather M. O'Connor; Gabrielle Harbowy; R. W. Hodgson; Chadwick Ginther; Wendy Nikel; Annie Neugebauer; and J.G. Formato.

Kara Fonti finally has a home, people she considers family, and a magical ability that keeps Reo free from his Guild. Nothing can ruin her happiness; not Mage Guild, not her mother, not even the fact that Reo is avoiding her.But when her friend Chal goes missing in Seyoya, Kara leaves her safe haven, determined to use all of her talents to find him. And she does, by falling into the same magical trap.When wild magic creates chaos, Kara, with Reo at her side, is the only one who can stop it. Or can she?

Marie Jenner is going home.When Marie's slightly-more-than-boss, James Lavall, decides it is vital that he speak to her mother, face to face, about Marie and all her secrets, she follows him to Fort McMurray to make certain that he doesn't learn everything about her life before Edmonton.What Marie doesn't realize is that her stalkery ex-boyfriend, Arnie Stillwell, has gone home, too. And he's managed to get himself killed, just about the time James rolled into town, making James "a person of interest" in the Stillwell murder investigation.Marie's going to have to figure out who really killed Arnie to get James off. She's also going to have to figure out a safe way to move Arnie's spirit on to the next plane of existence, because the last thing she needs is for him to go all stalkery on her now that he's dead.Murder can really put a kink in a Jenner family reunion.

From the South three sisters fair ran athwart the gloom.Dressed of fur and fierce of tooth… the maidens of the moon.Jimmy Finn is having a real bad day. He woke up drunk and on the wrong end of a nightstick. He lost his job, and had to see his shrink. Now the cops are after him, he's falling apart, and his only friend is a volatile drug lord. How could it get any worse?As smoke envelopes the city, he finds himself on the run, and out of time. He's either losing his mind, or becoming a monster. Or maybe it's both. Jimmy Finn has one last hope. A long-buried family secret, lost above a mysterious town in the mountains, full of bizarre shadows and a strange girl that haunts his memories.

Why should being murdered keep a girl from living it up a little? When Jerry Powell inherits a torn, bloodstained book of poetry he has no idea that it contains the soul of Anastasia Romanova; but when he accidentally awakens her ghost, he discovers that death hasn't dulled her sense of mischief and joy for life. Between driving across the continent to start a new job in a new city, fending off a shady Russian antiquities collector, and ignoring his worsening migraines, Jerry doesn't have time to cope with his undead royal houseguest. Unfortunately for him, time isn't on Jerry's side.

Timo Valendi's place in Mage Guild-the most powerful of all of Tregella's guilds-seems secure. His mother is a magically formidable and politically important Mage and he's apprenticed to the Mage Guild Primus, the head of the guild and the most influential man in the country.But Timo has a secret, one neither his mentor nor his mother want to know. Like Kara Fonti, the half-sister he is forbidden to see, Timo has unmagic-a rare ability that allows him to see and manipulate the spells others have created. But unlike his sister, Timo is also a powerful mage. When he no longer can count on the protection of his mother and the Mage Guild Primus, Timo is forced to contend with the corruption that lies at the heart of Mage Guild. Even help from his sister Kara and her unguilded allies can't guarantee his safety. Timo must use all his skills and abilities to save himself-and those he cares for-from Mage Guild.

Marie Jenner is at it again!As she tries-one more time with feeling-to pull her life together, she takes on the case of Honoria Lowe, a woman of interest in Eddie Hansen's gruesome murder by crucifixion.Since Marie knows where Eddie Hansen's spirit is, she figures it will be a slam dunk. All she has to do is ask him who nailed him to the tree, and she'll have one in the win column for her more or less boss, James Lavall.But James thinks Honoria's either crazy or lying, and doesn't want to take her case. Worse than that, Marie can't find Eddie. He should be right by the crucifixion tree, but he isn't. Of course.There's never a ghost around when you want one.

Luta Paixon has plenty of trouble on the Tane Ikai, with relationships in flux and the sticky problem of two captains on one ship. But when an alien artifact, the remnant of a long-ago war, shows up on the other side of a newly-discovered wormhole, the crew also find themselves pressed into the service of the Nearspace Protectorate. The Tane Ikai's task: covertly deliver an alien historian to the site to decipher its meaning-and possible threat.Jahelia Sord is a woman with a grudge against the world, and against Luta Paixon and her family in particular. She has her own secrets to guard, and an alliance with the notorious PrimeCorp-one she'll keep only as long as it suits her own hunt for vengeance.When a mysterious attack leaves them stranded in an uncharted new system, Luta, her crew, and Jahelia must try to put their differences aside and decide who to trust, while they uncover a shocking truth about the Chron war and what their old enemies are so afraid of . . .

When drama teacher Paul Samson decides to put on a High School production of Macbeth, he forgets that it isn't just The Scottish Play, it is The Cursed Play. And Paul soon learns just how cursed. After grappling with his principal, the PTA, his family, and his students, he must contend with witches, ghosts, and skeletons from his past. The show is destined from the outset to end badly, but no matter how desperate or dangerous circumstances become, Paul cannot cancel the play. Theatre has but one rule and one rule only: the show must go on.