Fairy Legends

People have always been afraid of the dead. Since the dawn of humanity, people have both cared for those who are deceased yet also tried to keep them away. There are a myriad of legends and beliefs about the dead coming back, and one of the more persistent ones is of the vampire.

All seventeen-year-old Quill wants is a break from the family business. Flowers, plants, the generations-old garden. What he wouldn’t give for a taste of the outside world. Normalcy. But his mom won’t let him out of the house, telling him he’s just not ready … All because he’s a dryad. Well, not just any dryad, but a male dryad—the first ever. And unlike everyone else in his family, he hasn’t a lick of magic. Just a shock of green hair, matching green eyes, and a growing frustration that there’s an entire world out there waiting to be discovered.

INTRODUCTION What I propose with this narration is a brief collection of fables, partly taken from my book: "The most hidden treasure" and partly unpublished, whose main theme is the death. The reason why I have decided to write some histories in which this taboo of the western world is treated, is for exorcizing the fear to die. Until we won't succeed in finding the elixir of the long life, a thing can be foretold with certainty to anybody: " whoever is born, sooner or later he will die"; this prediction may afflict some and spur others, to give the best of themselves before the final ...

Rue anticipated a significant cost to obtain the werewolf's assistance, but she never imagined she would be the payment. Desperate to discover what happened to her missing parents, Rue stole the Shadowgate Mirror and fled into the depths of Fangwood Forest. Her heart pounded with fear as she stumbled over gnarled roots, for within the shadows of the trees, fugitives were hunted by more than just the authorities. Legend whispered of a werewolf, cursed to ensure those who evaded justice faced the consequences of their actions. Only time would tell if the werewolf would succumb to his ...

When Petunia, the youngest of King Gregor's 12 dancing daughters, is invited to visit an elderly friend in the neighboring country of Westfalin, she welcomes the change of scenery. But in order to reach Westfalin, Petunia must pass through a forest where strange two-legged wolves are rumored to exist. Wolves intent on redistributing the wealth of the noble citizens who have entered their territory.

On a September evening in 1931, John and Jack, two of the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, discover a plea for help on a medieval manuscript - which seems to have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson! When they rush to warn him, Hugo walks through a door in time - and vanishes into the past. And in that moment, the world begins to change.

Wendy doesn't remember anything about Neverland or the experiments done on her there as a child. Seven years later, all she wants is a normal life, but shape-shifting shadows plague her dreams and turn her life into a waking nightmare. When the shadows attack at a football game and a boy disappears right in front of her, she realizes these wraith-like shadows are real. They're not just haunting, they're hunting.

For some, the only way to possess magic is to steal it from others. Born without magic, Davis is an outcast in his own shapeshifter family. Yearning for his father’s approval, he sets down a path that intertwines with Iris, a girl whose own ambitions are hindered by a mysterious illness. Their quest leads to Yuras, one of California’s smallest towns, unremarkable until they discover a cave of magic-transferring stones. Now they have a chance to change their fates. But they’re not alone.

Bound together by a single ancient text, the unforgettable characters of Cloud Cuckoo Land are dreamers and outsiders figuring out the world around them: 13-year-old Anna and Omeir, an orphaned seamstress and a cursed boy, on opposite sides of the formidable city walls during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and octogenarian Zeno in an attack on a public library in present-day Idaho; and Konstance, decades from now, who turns to the oldest stories to guide her community in peril.

War is destroying the galaxy. Esmae has vanished without a trace. A terrifying, ravenous beast is devouring the stars one by one. Titania is offered a gift that may well be a curse. Alexi, the exiled prince, is asked to pay a heavy price for his mistakes. And far, far away, on a dark, mysterious planet, a sleeping god stirs awake. As the end of the world draws ever closer, Esmae and Alexi must decide how far they’ll go to win - and who they’ll sacrifice along the way.

Some people bomb auditions. Sadie Ramirez throws up during her tryouts on TV show America's Top Talent. Her performance is so bad, it earns her a fairy godmother through the Magical Alliance's Pitiful Damsel Outreach Program. Enter Chrysanthemum Everstar: a gum-chewing, cell-phone-carrying, high-heel-wearing fairy godmother in training.

There's a storm brewing over Eerie-on-Sea, and the fisherfolk say a monster is the cause. Someone has woken the ancient Gargantis, who sleeps in the watery caves beneath this spooky seaside town where legends have a habit of coming to life. It seems the Gargantis is looking for something: a treasure stolen from her underwater lair. And it just might be in the Lost-and-Foundery at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, in the care of one Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder. With the help of the daring Violet Parma, ever-reliable Herbie will do his best to figure out what the Gargantis wants....

The Tree of Enlightenment (The Seeds of Enlightenment) is a story for all ages about a six year old boy named Zion who comes of age in his village in Africa by participating in the traditional ceremony of initiation. With the Seeds of Enlightenment in him he travels to America with his family where his father has gotten a big job, but all through his life as he grows up in America, Zion returns to his village to partake in the fruit of the Tree of Enlightenment, eventually bringing his own family there as an adult, and returning to the Tree of Enlightenment as an old man.

How far will magical women go to save their people and perpetuate their civilization? When killer hornets invade the land of Oksay, an island in the Pacific Ocean, the women of the isle must use wit, perseverance and a bit of magic, to concoct a plan, that rewrites history and re-creates mankind using......yep, bears. Enjoy this fantasy of the rise of a people after having a face to face encounter with destruction.

Turtle is scavenging a drowned town when she saves a stranger’s life. There’s something special about Kai—an attraction she’s never felt before. She would do anything to see him again. But Turtle can never truly be with Kai, because Kai is Normal, and Turtle is one of the Mer, kids whose genes were illegally hacked before birth and who now have working gills as well as lungs. Turtle lives on an old cruise ship with the other Mer in order to be close to the water she needs to survive.

Why can’t sea witches have their happily ever after? The sea witch, Calypso, was unjustly banished by the crown prince she was once set to marry. Now cursed to live as a hideous beast, Calypso spends her days alone, hiding in shame with only a surly crab for company. When her best friend Luna, princess of the merfolk, goes missing, Calypso reluctantly emerges from her sea cave to team up with the crown prince she hates in the search for the missing mermaid. Forced to work together, the feuding pair journey ashore in a harrowing race against time to save the princess. But will Calypso ...

First rule of thievery: Don't be a hero. When Eli broke the rules and saved the Council Kingdoms, he thought he knew the price, but resuming his place as the Shepherdess' favorite isn't as simple as bowing his head. Now that she has her darling back, Benehime is setting in motion a plan that could destroy everything she was created to protect, and even Eli's charm might not be enough to stop her.

Clara's people—witches—are on the run. The Paladins' centuries-old war against witches and magic has neared an apex, and they're quickly gaining the upper hand. Suddenly armed with "holy relics" of uncertain origin, they're taking down magical Anchors, kidnapped witches, and made life in the Ordinary world generally unsafe for people of magic. Many witches have retreated to Underhill, the ancestral home of the Fae, where witches are building new towns and villages and regretfully leaving the Ordinary behind. Clara, a few of her friends from school, and her parents and their team of ...

Jobe and Paracleus might have split up, but they reunite again in a series of events from the Legends of Arria. An epic fantasy series, the Legends of Arria features a group of heroes trying to defeat the evil dark lord Doomba. Jobe and Paracleus get caught up in the drama. In these excerpts, Jobe becomes part of the Knights of Arria while Paracleus tries his best to protect Jobe from such dangerous shenanigans. They also meet a talking falcon named Fato, who is a bit peculiar and suspicious. Then all hell breaks loose as Jobe and Paracleus are separated, with Paracleus presumed dead. Can ...

Many years ago, the magical kingdom of Avalon was left desolate and encased in ice when the evil Snow Queen waged war on the powerful country. Its former citizens are now refugees in a world mostly devoid of magic - which is why the crown prince and his protectors are stuck in...Arizona. Prince Alexei, the sole survivor of the Avalon royal family, is in hiding in a town so lame that magic doesn't even work there. Few know his secret identity, but his friend Tala is one of them. Tala has secrets of her own - namely, that she's a spell breaker, someone who negates magic.