Fantasy Adventure Short Stories

Lady Sylvia is the personal bodyguard of the beautiful Princess Marisol. However, instead of having to protect Marisol from would-be assassination attempts or any sort of real danger, Lady Sylvia's main duties appear to be making sure the King doesn't catch wind of the Princess's affairs with her fellow knights of the castle. Not that any of them have been able to satisfy her. There's just something that Marisol is missing and she just can't quite put her finger on it. Lady Sylvia may be the only knight in the kingdom she hasn't touched so far. The female knight has a secret weapon that ...

Locked in a losing war with an alien race that regards humans as a delicacy, a military strategist learns revenge is a dish best shared.

A mysterious note from Merlin sends Jack and Annie to Paris, France, for the 1889 World's Fair. Their mission: find four "new magicians" and protect them from an evil sorcerer who plans to kidnap them and steal the secrets of their magic. When Jack and Annie arrive at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, they find exhibits from all over the world and thousands of people attending the fair!

We have a pulse-pounding collection of sword swinging barbarians for your this month along with some sage advice on writing and publishing from best-selling authors. In this issue, Kell Myers returns with another episode in Kara Black's adventures and Ciarán Laverty thrills with his vengeful Hjalgrup in his quest to destroy a malevolent wizard. There is also an original from the talented Toni V. Sweeney. So pick up a copy today.

Stuart Reid is an Iron Master - a Dark Fae with a rare ability to make iron do his bidding. Exiled by the High Fae who fear him, he now lives in a simple house in Shiftertown outside Las Vegas, watching over Peigi, a bear Shifter woman, and the cubs she cares for. Peigi, rescued from an evil Shifter and welcomed into the Vegas Shiftertown, knows Reid and the cubs have helped her survive and heal. When Reid’s people send him a call for help, Peigi senses danger to him - too much of it. She finds she’ll do anything, even sacrifice herself and her happiness, to keep him safe.

Run. Hide. Live the good life online. Early retirement looked so easy on paper. Steal eight million euros from a gangster. Hide inside an online game and enjoy the finer things in life as a bard until the danger had passed. Except Daniel messed up. Now, the gangsters are in the game looking for him and he's stuck with an imbalanced character build in a dead-end starter village. Can Daniel find his own place and a life worth living inside the World of Chains?

Rule #1 - Never enter Lupin Forest during the night of a full moon… Unfortunately, innocent good girl Scarlet Mantle is about to find out exactly why you shouldn’t break Steamydale’s number one town rule. ~*~ Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Not me. Everyone knows that Steamydale’s town rules are archaic and outdated, made a long time ago when the original settlers had to worry about actual wolves. Nowadays I’m more worried about whether they’ll get my latte right at the local cafe. But when I stay out a little too late before heading to my grandmother’s house one night, ...

Eillea, a member of the Nightshade Brotherhood, is given an unprecedented challenge: assassinate the Crown Prince of Tezari. The problem? No one knows his true identity. She attends a ball at the palace to hunt down her target but finds her attention stolen by a handsome stranger who makes her heart race. When Kenix first spots the beautiful girl with stubborn eyes across the ballroom, his heart is lost. Though it’s clear she wants him too, the girl resists their attraction, fleeing his kiss at the stroke of midnight. When he sees her again, she’s in his chambers with a dagger in her ...

They soar through the night, unearthly creatures of legends and lore. Three masters of urban fantasy and paranormal romance explore the rapture of the heavens above, and the darkness below in three all-new stories of angels and guardians, and good and evil. Bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her Guild Hunter universe to tell the story of vampire Noel, and Sharon Shinn returns to her Samaria series to tell the story of a blind angel and the woman helps him---even though she hates and fears angels.

Captain Jim leads an expedition to try and kill the giant sea monster that is terrorising the oceans- but he hides a dark secret as to his motivations for wanting the creature dead. Will his thirst for vengeance cause everyone on the ship to die- or will they get their monster?

This is a collection of six short stories from the Caverns and Creatures series. It includes the following stories: "Slimes and Misty Wieners", "Great Balls on Fire", "Your Anus Is a Gas Giant", "Clear and Present Ranger", "The Mimic's Chest", and "Styxian Stoners May Break My Boners".

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction's top talents, collected by best-selling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois.

Dive back into the worlds of the best-selling Twinborn Trilogy with this collection of eight short stories - including three exclusive, never-before-published works. J.S. Morin peels back the larger Twinborn story to reveal the smaller tales concealed beneath.

PUBLISHER WARNING This work contains high levels of violence, graphic descriptions of death, male nudity and adult themes that may offend some readers. The author recommends readers must be 18+ years of age. FROM THE AUTHOR Welcome to the world of Jack Steel, a journey through worlds both real and imagined, full of heroism, adventure and raw masculinity on an epic scale. These are tales filled with brawn and brutality, where our heroes willingly fight to the death or die trying. As the publisher warning states, these stories are not for everyone. They contain high levels of violence, ...

After three days of hosting his vampiric brothers and their mates, Magnus is at his wit’s end. A sworn viking bachelor, he needs a break from the happy couples. The moment the doorbell rings, he takes the chance to get away from it all. Only to come face to face with a beautiful delivery woman who stirs his blood in a way that only a fated mate could. Donna knows her vision is true the second she meets Magnus’ gaze. Knowing he could send her away before they really get to know each other, she’s careful to hide her true intentions. She wants Magnus to get to know the real her, not just...

An errant encounter with a passing star has flung Earth away from its old Solar System into the dark and cold of deep space. With the entire atmosphere frozen as chemical snow dozens of feet deep, one last family struggles to survive. But what are they to think when they see figures moving in the city ruins? Are Earth's dead coming back to life?

Rhona and her paladin brother, Alastar, belong to a holy people who have waged war on witches and warlocks and their clans from the highlands. But when she uses magic to save his life, their world is thrown upside down. On the run, having left all they knew behind, they have to rely on those who hate paladins. All magic is evil, the high paladin taught.... But Alastar starts to understand that he might have been misled.

1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge! Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper's bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns!

Lisa Peterson is a teenage girl who is coming to terms with the tragic loss of her mother in a riding accident. Lisa swore she would never ride again, but everything changes when she moves to the island of Jorvik and meets Starshine, a mysterious steed with a blue mane. In the stable, Lisa befriends Alex, Linda, and Anne, and together they start to realize that they all have magical connections with their horses—and each other.

As Captains of the Haven City Guard, Hawk and Fisher deliver justice, root out corruption, and fight crime with a deadly combination of sharp steel and even sharper instincts. But it isn't easy. A volatile mix of natural and supernatural violence, Haven is a terrible place to be after dark . . . and not much better during daylight. Guards of Haven collects books #4 through #6 of New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green's beloved Hawk & Fisher series: Wolf in the Fold, Guard Against Dishonor, and The Bones of Haven.