Four retold stories of the classic, Sleeping Beauty. At The Edge of Dreams by Angela Brimhall Five years ago, Aurora was forced to live at Thornhurst Manor, the city insane asylum. Every night she dreads sunset when sleep becomes a wicked game of survival. When Aurora is kidnapped and imprisoned in The Briar, a vision reveals the desperate man in the next cell is her […]
Ironwood City, Colorado 1891 Isabelle Delacroix never expected to find her destiny in the alley behind her mother’s dried goods store. Yet after discovering a wounded stranger lying in a pool of his own blood, her ancient, Gypsy magic testified she had done just that. Risking her family’s displeasure and town gossip, she takes the man in and tends to his injuries. As he recovers, […]
Demigoddess Hester Grayson’s own soul is at stake when she works with the dead. Either they cross over to the spirit world in a timely fashion or become hideous wraiths doomed to haunt her forever. After a bombing at a Stonehenge lace factory, Hester is surrounded by more spirits than ever before. Spectris everywhere, with only Sir Death to call upon for help. Undaunted, Hester […]
The ghosts are angry, thinking I’ve neglected them. Do not forget us, they call out from the grave. I won’t, I promise them. Upon my life, I won’t. Being a demigoddess in 1892 Stonehenge, Colorado isn’t all one might suppose, especially when the dead are involved. Yet as Veritas of the Rocky Mountain sovereignty, it is Hester Grayson’s calling to help restless spirits cross over […]