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Tong Yi works for Huli Transport, a company that specializes in rides and transportation for those who aren't quite human.
When the newest job comes up-delivering a message to Zhang Guo Lao, one of the Eight Immortals-Tong Yi assumes the job will be tricky because the immortal likes to play games.
He has no idea that Zhang Guo Lao isn't the only one interested in "dancing" with him.
Read the second story about Tong Yi and the Immortals' War, "War...
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The Crossroads Hotel. A place between worlds. A place of magic and mystery.
Brice McCleary, fighting a hellish rainstorm from the driver's seat of an old car. Trapped somewhere between Bakersfield and Flagstaff. Hungry. Tired. Stressed near the brink. His only passenger, a beloved cat named Pepperhead.
A passing semi nearly drowns them. Brice must chance an unlit, unmapped exit.
Pain, wonder, and transformation await him at the Crossroads Hotel.
"The...
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Tong Yi carries the mysterious message of Zhang Gua Loa back to his boss.
The immortal had said there would be war. But between whom? And why?
Huli Transport takes advantage of the situation to become the messenger service of choice in the war zone. They promise to remain neutral, and to deliver messages to all sides.
In the meantime, Tong Yi has battles of his own to fight, both with his older brother and his own growing understanding of magic.
But...
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No magic in the world can conquer nerves.
Alistair Ryan screws up his courage and tells Mr. and Mrs. Bello that he intends to marry their daughter, his beloved Janeen.
The Bellos counter with a request: find the missing-and dangerously powerful-rowan wand stolen from their own private collection.
A task failed by even the best wizards and warlocks in the Magical Council....No Magic in the World is part of Uncollected Anthology, Volume 14: Warlocks....
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Ao Dan works as a wizard for Huli Transport. He primarily opens portals to transport messengers and goods between places. Easy. Non-complicated. Even if Ao Dan has taken off time recently to grieve the loss of his partner and has not done any magic in a while. But, hitchhikers can always show up. Dangerous creatures from other planes tunneling through to this world. When a demon nearly kills Ao Dan on his first day back at work, the confrontation...
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Kelly and her friends went all out to match the Big Band Era theme of the local humane society's annual charity ball. They decide to take a break from dancing and explore the old, quirky hotel the event is being held at, and are having a great time...until they watch a young couple walk past them and go right through a wall! Where were the ghosts heading? The answer lies behind the wall itself...
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It's 1883, and the silver boom is well underway in Colorado. Penelope heads to Denver to use her witchcraft to steal a necklace from Diamond Betty, a beautiful woman with a questionable past who recently married a wealthy silver magnate almost twice her age. The diamond pendant contains a demon, and Penelope plans to put the necklace in a place so safe that no one would ever be able to harness the creature's magical powers. But things don't always...
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Some kind of weird Sleeping Beauty curse has hit a Portland, Oregon, suburb.Sounds like a case for Hedgewitch sisters Holly and Willow, and Holly's fae familiar, Cam. But "weird" doesn't begin to describe what's really happening….A new story in the spellbinding Hedgewitch urban fantasy series by the author of the Nikki Ashburne series."Telling the Bees" is part of Uncollected Anthology, Issue 18: Beasties.
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If you're gonna buy a spell, go to someone legit. Bargain spells? Well, you get what you pay for…When hapless Roberta comes to Portland hedgewitch Holly asking for help with a botched spell, Holly stumbles into the spell's trap as well. Her best bet: find the witch who created the spell. In the middle of a snowstorm.And in the process, figure out why Roberta's boss scares her so much…A new story in the spellbinding Hedgewitch urban fantasy series...
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An honest politician: far more rare than hedgewitches, at least in Portland, Oregon.
When one such politician asks hedgewitches Holly and Willow to investigate whether his rival employs a magical advantage, Holly's familiar, Cam, must support Holly through a treacherous investigation...or risk losing her forever.
The first story in a spellbinding new urban fantasy series by the author of the Nikki Ashburne Ghosted stories.
“Hedging the Witch"...
11) The Sweet Shop
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Tong Yi waits for something to happen-for his brother to return from the war zone, for his boss to trust him again, for his magical training to be expanded.
Something. Anything.
Then powerful wizard Uncle Bei takes him to The Sweet Shop-a magic shop more special and strange than Tong Yi has ever imagined.
Tong Yi finally returns to the war zone as well, delivering a message to a client he'd never expected.
But he must now make a decision about...
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Ian Carter, a young man stalked through the streets of Sunnyvale, California. Stalked … by a castle. Today the castle forces the issue. Today Ian must go inside. His sanity may not survive. "The Castle Between Madness and Magic" -- a contemporary fantasy short story full of subtle magic and driving questions. From Stefon Mears, author of the Spells for Hire series.
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When a god backs your credit card, the rewards are out of this world...Phil Jeffries, a musician with a very special credit card. Mercury Federal Credit Union. Excellent terms. Low interest. Bonus points for paying the balance every month.
Phil Jeffries, about to discover that those bonus points can change his life.
If he can live with the consequences. “Where Credit's Due" — an imaginative short story of contemporary fantasy that examines the...
14) Dark Valley
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Mia Jones accepts her dream job of exploring and mapping out the acres of gardens at Dyffryn Tywyll historic estate in Snowdonia, Wales, decades-long-neglected and overgrown. She doesn't know about its history. She doesn't know what lurked beneath the tangled bramble and ivy. So much she doesn't know when she took the job… From the spellbinding author of Ghosted and Beautiful Beast, gripping short story "Dark Valley" won't be easily forgotten. "Dark...
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Love. Sorcery. Freedom.
To save the people she loves, Erynn consented to carry within herself the soul of the cruel man who once enslaved them-Sebastian, London's criminal mastermind and soul-dealing sorcerer. Day by day, she wonders whether she will become as evil as he was-and whether her friends will be forced to kill her to keep that evil from destroying them all.
Now, Sebastian's restless soul wakes her in the darkest hours of night. He compels...
16) Red Rose
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Shadow finds himself on a Houston street with no memory of arriving there. In fact, remembers nothing about anything at all. In his pocket, he finds a single clue to his identity: an address that leads him to an alley behind a notorious tattoo shop owned by a local god.When he begins to see things that no one else can-magical things-Shadow suspects that he's not a normal amnesiac. Or even human.Can he unravel the mystery in time to save his life and...
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Snoopy and Charlie Brown take a trip down memory lane in this Level 2 Ready-to-Read based on the new Apple TV series, The Snoopy Show!
Snoopy writes a book about his younger days, but Charlie Brown has a few corrections! Discover their story in this fun beginning reader starring everyone's favorite beagle and boy pair!
18) Badlands
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A time mage, a secret underground lab, and a pack of werewolves hunting in the Badlands…Time mage Marcy Zimmerman wants to take the Internet world by storm. Her plans for world domination keep unfolding right on schedule. But when a cry for help draws her alpha wolf mate Lukas from Boston to the rugged western badlands, Marcy goes along to guard his six.Marcy and Lukas walk into a tripwire of corporate shenanigans, a gigantic cowboy with problems,...
19) The Scales
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It was a town of a hundred and eleven souls out in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming. After Jeremy Quick disappeared, a hundred and ten.
Private investigator Linda Crow has been called in by Jeremy Quick's employer, an oil conglomerate, to find out what happened to a man who was good with his hands, good at fixing and cajoling the isolated oil pumps, good at keeping the peace between farmers and the rest of the locals.
Only the oil pumps know what...
20) Fairy Tale Fates
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Beauty has a Fate. A Destiny. To keep dating loser and "beasts" until she manages to find that prince hidden underneath that bad boy exterior.
But what if she doesn't want to? What if she wants to take control of her own destiny?
Fairy Tale Fates is part of the Uncollected Anthology, issue 16: Fairy Tales
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