Ball Gowns. Calling Cards. Hell Hounds. Cassandra Weaver is hiding an infirmity from a society—and a family—that demands perfection. Henry Stewart is hiding from his former Faerie masters, trying to remember what it means to be human. Simple enough, except that their little town of Drixton conceals a secret as old as the church bells. The Queen of the Unseelie Fay is hunting a mortal […]
If Phoebe’s magic doesn’t behave, London will be a disaster. Phoebe Hart is one of the dragon-linked, those chosen by a young dragon as a companion, who get magic in return. Her family and country neighbors have never been happy about her abilities, so she hopes to find her place in London. But neither her dragon nor her magic behaves as she would wish, and […]
A ghostly warning. A missing person. A house of secrets. No one loves trouble—and Jael Hawkins is a troublesome girl. Everyone says so. When yet another relative tires of her, she is banished to Moon Hollow with the family’s other black sheep. There, her aunt and uncle make her feel welcome for the first time, and she meets the intriguing Sebastian Westwood, in whom she […]
“What do you do with a secret that might get someone killed?” Tenny assumes it’s a joke when someone writes to her advice column on a matter of life and death. After serving as a nurse in the Great War, she doesn’t want more trouble. But when a local turns up dead on her neighbor’s southern Utah homestead, she feels responsible. The murderer is probably […]
An arranged marriage. A family curse. A deadly secret. Kate agrees to an arranged marriage with the mysterious Thomas Westwood to save her family’s estate, but not everyone welcomes her at Wishwood, her husband’s crumbling manor. The family members talk about a curse, lights move through the ruins at night, and Kate’s maid won’t spend the night in the house. Thomas is hiding something from […]
A Greek odyssey in 1920s Utah. When Helen immigrates from Greece to Salt Lake City only to discover that her arranged marriage has fallen through, she struggles to find purpose in a country that doesn’t seem to want her. Can fellow immigrant Demetrios convince her that the American Dream is worth fighting for? An earlier version of this novella appeared as The Picture Bride in […]
If Huang-Fu doesn’t find gold, he won’t make it out of the Utah desert alive. Huang-Fu just wants to survive his job digging for gold with Eugene Hansen so he can go home to California or maybe even China. But when outlaws shoot Eugene, the old prospector sends Huang-Fu running with a map carved in bone. The map may lead Huang-Fu to an incredible treasure, […]
Evie Lewis finds little to look forward to in the Christmas of 1944. Her older brother, Albert, is missing in action in the Pacific Theater, and every day she sees the horrible effects of World War II while working at Bushnell General Military Hospital in Utah. Then, strange things begin to happen at work. Someone is going through Evie’s files, and a hospital employee may […]
Dorothy Osborne’s family has sacrificed everything for King Charles of England, living in exile in France after the king’s defeat by Parliament. Dorothy knows it is her duty to marry well and help her family, which means finding a wealthy suitor: Royalist, or maybe French, but never a Parliamentarian, and not someone of her own choosing. William Temple struggles to commit to his father’s Parliamentarian […]