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Zilrita was at the top of her game, managing the most successful record label in Europe, London Harmony. There was nothing that could derail the squid hugging goth woman, except the smile of the woman she secretly longed for, their receptionist, Jennifer. After an emergency calls her back to Denver after being away for 13 years, Zilrita is forced to re-examine her life and face some truths she has hidden herself away from. Jennifer has faced difficulties, discrimination and bigotry, trying to be the person she has felt she was her entire life.

Eve, along with her sister Zoey, has an uncanny knack for helping people who frequent the Pike bakery at Pike Place Market in Seattle to find love. Her meddling is a thing of legends when it comes to matchmaking. But for Eve, it is a spectator sport as she has never really pursued a romantic relationship of her own. Love was for other people, and she basked in the results of watching people find their happily-ever-afters. Imagine her surprise when serendipity came knocking and she found herself falling head over heels.

Emily has a long day. After fending off another villainous attack during the night shift at Big Burger, all she wants to do is to go home and get some sleep as the sun rises. What's an unpowered girl to do in a super-powered world when she gets home to find the most notorious villain of Big City in her kitchen? An even more dangerous threat to the city takes precedence as after Containment's detention facility is damaged, dozens of criminals escape. But the biggest threat? The person hired to replace the Chosen One as the city's protector...Mega-Girl!

In this short story, Vicky is introduced to Oxford and quickly shuffled off campus as not to embarrass the Dean. She finds a new roommate, Candice, and decides it is her duty to find her a boyfriend. Because "I'd so make an awesome matchmaker!" She inadvertently succeeds in her own hyper-loveable fashion. We also learn some of the reasons behind her dichotomy of genius and scatterbrained personality, and the reason she left her friends and family to attend Oxford.

Best friends Katy and Leigh start college and it is a whole new terrifying universe for Leigh. She is extremely introverted and plagued with anxiety around other people, whereas Katy is fun, social and outgoing.

In this short novella, Olivia flies to Las Vegas on a business trip with her fiancé. And in one day everything in her life goes to hell. After a night of drinking to forget, Olivia wakes up the next morning in her hotel room to find a wedding band on her finger and the person in her bed not who she was expecting. In the 12 weeks that follow, while trying to rebuild her life plans, Olivia learns things about herself and who she wants to be. The biggest lesson? Love can come in surprising packages.

This young adult sci-fi/comedy short story follows a group of alien girls who just graduated school and the madcap road trip they take to go surfing with the popular boys in another star system. Teenage hijinx ensue and accidents soon follow in the Earth system. Oops.

In this horror short story, the world gets turned upside down on up and coming corporate executive, Marci Kendrick, when she visits an exclusive jeweler in Seattle for an engagement ring. Her nightmare begins and she realizes that the simple freedoms we take for granted can be someone else hell.

This short story follows two new mothers and their struggles between new and old traditions. Hilarity ensues as a slightly used MUB (Monster Under the Bed) helps their daughter in a rite of passage. Parenting will never be the same.

This novella occurs 15 years after Ichabod Crane rid Sleepy Hollow of the wraith of a fallen Hessian soldier, the Headless Horseman, which terrorized the village. Now word has spread of the Horseman's return. Ichabod's daughter, Imelda, answers the call to investigate and stop the Horseman at all costs. Armed with her father's sword, fighting prowess, and sharp mind, Imelda uncovers the secrets the Hollow has hidden for so long. New suspicions and old loves complicate her mission, as she finds that all is not as it seems in the little New England town.

This Sucks is the second in the best-selling series of young adult novellas that follow three friends with paranormal powers as they graduate from school and start an odd jobs business together. Violet Parsons isn't your typical teenage girl. She hasn't been since an accident two years ago that almost cost her life. A little paranormal intervention changed her in ways she has kept hidden from even her closest friends.

On her first outing to the forest with her mother, Rain finds herself running for her life from ravenous wolves when she gets lost in the woods. Her mother always taught her than no matter how big you are, there is always something bigger and badder than you out there.

This post-apocalyptic dystopian short story follows Elizabeth, a mechanical and chemical engineer who used to work for a rapid prototyping firm. She uses the skills from her former life to provide for her and the woman she took under her protection, Melissa. The two seem to thrive in adverse conditions to bring semi-modern conditions to their hidden camp. But even after the world ends, you sometimes need something pretty.

This paranormal short story follows Lischca Fonteneau, who takes an internship at the antiquities museum of the city she had finally settled in. She feels that she has finally ceased her lifelong wanderings. Her boss, Kimoura Kaga, seemed hauntingly familiar to her and she couldn't place exactly why. Lischca believes she is finally rid of the curse that had hounded her since the day she became an adult. But the powers that be had other plans for her.

This short story follows two ex-employees of an online gaming company as they struggle to find their way in a dystopian future that has no mercy for the weak. They have each other's backs as they go on a snack run. Heather and Emma have the munchies. Things just got real.

What happens when you mix a coffee house, a college student in need of a math tutor, and a misunderstanding? Angela Sutter is about to find out when she finds herself on an accidental date that will change her life.

One case, two realities. Magic is destroying the fabric of reality, and only Alex King can stop it before it is too late. Alex must find the man responsible using both magic and investigative prowess. But confusion reigns as Alex is male in one reality and female in the other. Alex tries to reconcile finding himself trapped in the body of his female counterpart, along with discovering that the woman he loves is harboring a dark secret.

This short story is set in Europe before the start of World War Two, Jillian tours the clubs as a jazz singer to put a little adventure into her life. She gets more than she bargains for when she does a little favor for the girl who has her eye. She winds up running for her life and discovering a calling that gives her a purpose in life that is bigger than herself.