I would have preferred it if he’d knocked me out. Instead, the Shadowkiller’s spell had frozen me, making it so I could see, and hear, and think but not act. So I couldn’t do a damn thing about him slinging me over his shoulder like I was a bag of feed. My friends were under […]
Category: Fantasy
Year of the Chameleon – Shannon Mayer
Written in Starlight – Isabel Ibañez
Legend says if the jungle wants you, it will have you. The tree line looms ahead, smothering and terrifying in the dying light. Long tentacles of fog snake around thick trunks, as if readying to choke the life from anyone foolish enough to enter. The sharp trill of birds and buzzing locusts are the only […]
Wrapt in Crystal – Sharon Shinn
Travel on the commercial cruiser was excruciatingly slow, but the vast Moonchild fleet made few visits to Semay, and the planet’s government had asked that this mission be started, at least, as quietly as possible. So Lieutenant (Special Assignment Officer) Cowen Drake came in by the conventional route, and divided the long slow days between […]
Witherward – Hannah Mathewson
Witching for Joy – Deanna Chase
“DO you think a jury would acquit me if I murdered her?” Joy Lansing whispered to her makeup artist. “I’d vote innocent,” Sam Catts said as she scowled in Prissy Penderton’s direction. “If she asks you about Troy Bixby one more time, I’ll—” “Joy,” Prissy drawled in the sickeningly sweet voice she used when she […]
Wintersteel – Will Wight
TİMAİAS ADAMA HAD BEEN a guest of the Heaven’s Glory School for almost three months. They were a collection of backwards savages who had forgotten nearly everything about the sacred arts. It was astonishing, really, how ignorant they were. But they let him inside the labyrinth. He marched over scripted tiled floors, past endless rows […]
Winterkeep – Kristin Cashore
Wings of Ebony – J. Elle
BULLETS DON’T HAVE NAMES. But if they did, chancesare one would have mine. Or someone brown-skinned like me. Metal slats chill my legsand I shimmy sideways, craning for a better view from the bus stop, careful to keep the onyx stones fused to my wrists covered. Up all night, I watched the sun rise like […]
Wild Sign – Patricia Briggs
Sissy Connors, PhD, checked her GPS, adjusted her backpack, and continued her trek into the mountains. Common sense told her there must have been an easier way, but none of the trails on the USGS map seemed to go exactly where she needed to travel. She was an experienced hiker—her doctorate was in botany and […]
Where Dreams Descend – Janella Angeles
When Villains Rise – Rebecca Schaeffer
NITA STARED at the cell phone screen, her eyes wide and her mind still trying to process what she was reading. It was eerily silent all around her. Normally, she never noticed the sounds of Toronto, the roar of cars, the hum of air-conditioning units, the honks and shouts and creaks of life. But she […]
When the Grave Calls – B. L. Brunnemer
A scream ripped from my throat as I hurled my phone across the room. It hit the wall, shattering on impact. The Templars were useless. “We have our own plans for the necromancer. And they don’t concern you,” the last Templar had said. Plans! They had plans that didn’t involve killing that abomination! I shoved […]
What Big Teeth – Rose Szabo
We Free the Stars – Hafsah Faizal
Warmaidens – Kelly Coon
THE DEAD COULD rise on this kind of night. In some ways, they already had. The cool air nipped at my shoulders as I knelt in the dirt, encircled by an elite group of warriors called the Koru who protected the queen. Torchlight reflected off their copper scorpion helmets. The scars they wore on their […]
Vicious Spirits – Kat Cho
AS WITH ANY tragedy, it came about because he loved. When he was on the cusp of manhood, a young man met a girl. She was beautiful, desired by everyone in town, and— unbeknownst to him—desired by a powerful sansin. However, despite the many scholars and noblemen offering their love, she chose the young man […]
Vampires Never Get Old – Zoraida Córdova
Unravel the Dusk – Elizabeth Lim
I had a mother once. She taught me to spin the finest yarn and thread, made from silkworms raised in our courtyard of mulberry trees. Patiently, she would soak thousands of cocoons, and together we’d wind the gossamer threads onto wooden spools. When she saw how nimbly my little fingers worked the wheel, spinning silk […]