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This collection of short stories delves into the steampunk realm, visits the paranormal, and encounters everything in between.

Bianca Harker wants out of the life facing her as a prostitute's daughter. Her plan to live with her grandparents is short-lived when they marry her off to an airship merchant. When he dies suddenly, Bianca decides to fight for the failing business. The chance for independence is within her grasp...as long as she can save the business.

January, called Jan, hates her new town. There’s nothing to do this summer in Memoir Falls except hang out in the dusty streets with other bored kids. Sure, she’s got a great boyfriend, but then there’s Charisse, who is cruel, and Samuel is just plain creepy. As summer progresses, the unease in Memoir Falls heightens. Whispers dog her steps, and memories she’s sought to block out resurface.

Thomasine Lisowski has always hated her grandmother’s farm. A dark presence hovers over it. She’s thankful they moved to the city when she was younger, but now she and her parents are back for a funeral and that dark aura is stronger than ever. A ghost leads Thomasine to suspect there’s more to the farm than just her imagination going wild. Mysterious murderers and a cult-like mindset stain the Lisowski name. This trip to the country might be Thomasine’s last - because the family plans to never let her leave.

Annie Carmichael is excited for the summer. Bonfires, the lake, and peaceful days on the family farm are just what she needs before her hectic senior year begins. Best of all, her family hires a hot new farm hand who seems more than a little interested in her. The calm is shattered when her sister's best friend, Nora, disappears, leaving behind her toddler son. The police are stumped, assuming the young woman simply left Cloverville. Annie's sister knows Nora would never abandoned her child. Annie sets out to discover the truth - one she may not want to really know.

With blood dripping from her wrists, 17-year-old Tabitha hopes to find peace in death. Instead, the Gray Man sucks her into his kingdom, where she must obey him to die. The Gray Man sends suicide victims to steal enchanted items he needs for his return to his homeland. Tabitha must cheat and steal – even commit murder – or face physical pain and mental torment. When the Gray Man reveals her mother’s suffering, Tabitha realizes the life she left is the only thing she desires.

Clark used to be a miner, until he drank from a vial he swore was absinthe but was actually an invention to give him the ability to raise the dead. Now Clark seeks to fulfill his father's wishes to keep other inventions away from Senator Horan. His beloved Amethyst is along for the ride. Deceit, drama, romance, the insidious underbellies of gangs... How can she not be involved?

An asylum patient has a cryptic vision: Clark will overthrow the presidency. She's just insane...right? When a clockwork lion kidnaps their daughter, Clark and Amethyst's calm new life shatters. Hunting down the beast leads the Grishams and Treasures to a conspiracy not just against Clark but also against the country.

While watching a play in Zink Garden, a mechanical actor goes haywire and steals a box that Lady Rachel holds dear. When Edna goes after the machine, she realizes its actually an urchin in disguise. He leads her into the cursed Zink Hotel. Edna doesn't believe in curses. But, maybe, she should.

Thirteen-year-old Charity can escape her unpleasant reality by stepping through the parlor closet of her mother’s new home, a mansion built in the 1800s. In her hometown of Talbot, New York, in the year 1880, she doesn’t have to worry about her depressed father skipping his medications or her mother flirting with her coworker. Instead, she gets to know the hatter’s son, who shows her a lifestyle of manners and pride. Few have ever accepted Charity’s old-fashioned ways…until now.

Serena Cole can kick serious butt, thanks to young women only she can see. School bullies aren’t a problem, but Serena’s mental health might be. To shield Serena from a dark secret, her family tries to convince her that her friends are imaginary. Fleeing her distrustful aunt, Serena joins her mother on an archaeological dig at Kistishi Island.

A podcast with Jordan and Elizabeth Work. We believe that God is at work in your life, in your family, and in our nation. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works - (Eph. 2:10).

Life at Castle Ambrose isn’t all bad for Janna. She has a secret - she can communicate with the sea serpent living in the loch. When merchants visit Castle Ambrose, Janna hears that the earl of Ambrose’s sons are still alive but imprisoned. If she can free them, they can round up rebels from across Hamlin and rid themselves of the filthy usurper.

When 15-year-old Edna Mather tears an expensive and unfamiliar pocket watch off her little brother's neck, he crumbles into a pile of cogs right before her eyes. Horrified, Edna flees for help, but encounters Ike, a thief who attempts to steal the watch before he realizes what it is: A device to power Coglings-clockwork changelings left in place of stolen children who have been forced to work in factories. Desperate to rescue her brother, Edna sets off across the kingdom to the hags' swamp, with Ike in tow.

Missing treasure, a dying aunt and a child left behind are more than enough mysteries for Viola. Viola is a young teacher in the settlement of Hillside, NY in the 1890s. She adores her Aunt Helen, but her aunt has secrets. On her deathbed, Aunt Helen reveals she abandoned her young daughter, Bessie. Determined to reunite her aunt with Bessie, Viola sets out to find the child. Viola is in for more shocking news as she unravels the past.

In 1600, Alven took revenge on her neglectful family through the dark arts. Her village burned her as a witch, but she immortalized herself as a Wittewijven, the Dutch spirit of a healer, and sought the English god who’d taught her his evil magic. He created a world for her, but she had to populate it by kidnapping people from Earth. Death haunts the living.

In an Alaska owned by Tsarist Russia, steamtech is melded with spirit magic to create a mighty machine. The elements are plentiful, but the Higher World crumbles and the local Inuit people are consumed. When their father dies, the council denies Fanya her inheritance and sells her sister into slavery at the behest of the mysterious Zachary Finley. Fanya's quest to protect her sister and regain what's rightfully hers leads her from the Underworld of Stalgorod to the untamed wilds of greater Alaska. It isn’t just Zachary Finley who wants Fanya to suffer.

Darkness once twisted Adelaide Dinsmore’s mind, but she thought she had grown out of that. Her job as a teacher in Hedlund proved that - until she discovers one of her students dead and the town turns against her. As her mind starts to crumble, she is offered a new job, this time as a governess for Gentleman Bennett’s granddaughter back east.

Fort Gifford, a reconstructed fort from the Revolutionary War, draws people in every year for the holiday celebration. Mauve loves volunteering at Fort Gifford, and the holiday celebration is her favorite time of the year. This year, however, might be the last. Can Mauve save the place she calls home? Hiram likes reality TV more than he does history. Fort Gifford is one of the last places he wants to visit, but it might be the place that finally brings him happiness and true love.

After losing her parents in a horrific terrorist attack on the Twin Towers, 15-year-old Honoria and her older brother escape New York City to Arnn. In the lure of that perpetual darkness, Honoria finds hope, when she should be afraid. Perhaps, the witch can reunite her with her lost parents.