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In this delightfully creative WMG Holiday Spectacular anthology, award-winning editor Kristine Kathryn Rusch offers a carefully curated collection of sweetly romantic holiday stories to add a delightful whimsy to the season.

In this volume, you will find romantic suspense, Regency romance, sweet romance, andmore. In other words, something to...

Publisher’s Note: This edition is significantly revised and expanded from the 2017 edition.

The power of magic flows through all acts of creation. The power of magic harnesses desire...

Sigils are symbolic signatures.

They invoke, calling in what we desire. They evoke, calling forth that which we wish to manifest.

Sigils represent something...

Welcome to Pride Street, where corgis run, men are in love, and mystery lurks just around the corner!

There’s trouble among the mums and lilies at Pride Street’s favorite florist. The flower shop cat, Sapphire, has gone missing! Sure, show cat Sapphire is snooty and aloof, but she’s also part of the neighborhood, and ill equipped for life on the...

Welcome to Pride Street, where corgis run, men are in love, and mystery lurks just around the corner!

It’s an ordinary dinner out with the humans at How We Roll. Corgi Marsha and her sidekick, Klaus, have just settled in beneath the courtyard table, angling for a bite of salmon skin when, with a loud crash, their favorite waiter collapses!
Did...

When a ghost shows up, screaming...You figure out a way to help.

Jasper is a furniture-restoring, ghost talking, leather daddy just trying to live his life in Berkeley, California.

Yeah. Trying to live his life and help the desperate dead.

Here’s a collection of six tales of mystery, ghosts, queer love, and Jasper’s big heart.

This collection...

When a witch gets a warning…

My name is Sarah Braxton, and I’m a witch. It’s heading on toward Samhain—Halloween for you civilians out there—and there’s another mystery afoot. Someone is leaving dead rats on doorsteps, with a warning painted in blood. Yuck.

Ghouls are massing, the centaurs are worried, and the ghosts are no help. It’s going to...

All stories show us who we can be. And belief in magic? That’s up to us.

Time. Hope. Magic. Loss.

These stories, though touched with magic, reflect the human condition.

Stories all do, don’t they? Or they should. Whether a story is light and bright, or swims in the murky depths, all stories hold up a mirror to who we are now.

These stories include...

In a world where djinni walk and drakes fly, one knight must embrace their true power.

Tegan has a roving eye and a fierce heart and loves nothing more than to ride with per comrades, and fight the forces that seek to chain humanity once more. A Knight of the Steel Clan, Tegan is heading back from routine reconnaissance and finds a portal gate...

You can’t always run from danger.

My name is Sarah Braxton, and I’m a witch. It’s the height of summer tourist season, the bookshop I run with my mouthy cat, Rhiannon, is finally in the black. I’m prepping for the Wag a Lot Charity Fun Run, I’ve got good friends, and my boyfriend loves me. Life is good. Or is it?

A strange gargoyle just appeared...

Cats. Foxes. Spaniels. Faery. Fantasy. Science fiction…

These stories are filled with whimsy and possibility. They look at what happens in the places most humans never even think to look. The places animals know so well. These are stories filled with the magic of surprise. They ask what life might be like if we sought past the ordinary.

So here...

Cats. Foxes. Spaniels. Faery. Fantasy. Science fiction…

These stories are filled with whimsy and possibility. They look at what happens in the places most humans never even think to look. The places animals know so well. These are stories filled with the magic of surprise. They ask what life might be like if we sought past the ordinary.

So here...

To protect her son.
To protect their friends.
To save innocent lives…

Raquel, Selene, and Lucy must battle forces outside of their control. Can they overcome the dangers that stalk the Portland streets? Is their magic strong enough to overcome evil?
Can they save their city…and even find love?

The Witches of Portland are on the job.

If you like...

To protect the sacred waters.
To stop another killing.
To save the soul of the city itself…

Moss, Alejandro, and Tempest must battle forces outside of their control. Can they overcome the dangers that stalk the Portland streets? Is their magic strong enough to overcome evil?
Can they save their city…and even find love?

The Witches of Portland are on...

Things are missing in Seashell Cove. What’s a witch to do?

It’s a beautiful summer in Seashell Cove, and the tourists are out in force. So is a thief. Things have gone missing in town, the ghosts are upset, Rhiannon the cat is fighting with our local gnome…

And there’s a new witch in town, one who arrived without announcement and set up shop.

Am I...

My name is Sarah Braxton, and I’m a witch.

My cat Rhiannon and I run Seashell Cove’s only bookshop, though it’s a toss-up which of us is actually boss, with a ghost called Biff jockeying for position, too.
Think that’s strange? Trust me, we’re not the strangest things in Seashell Cove. Haunted inns? Cranky gnomes? Centaurs that dance around in...

My name is Sarah Braxton, and I’m a witch.

My cat Rhiannon and I run Seashell Cove’s only bookshop, though it’s a toss-up which of us is actually boss, with a ghost called Biff jockeying for position, too.

Think that’s strange? Trust me, we’re not the strangest things in Seashell Cove. Haunted inns? Cranky gnomes? Centaurs that dance around in...

The icy cold of a winter’s day. The darkness of the longest night. The brightness of lights, reflected in puddles on a city sidewalk.

These five magical stories reach deep into our hopes and rattle the walls of old fears. They open us to the places where magic lives, where we risk our hearts, heal our memories, celebrating the warmth of shared...

It was a rainy winter’s day when Joshua’s shop door opened…

Goth dandy and shop owner extraordinaire, Joshua has good intentions for the new year. He wants to love his partner, grow his business, and rekindle his lackluster magical practice. His life is settled, stable, and good. It just needs a little bit… more.

Then an archangel comes knocking,...

Everyone loves a good ghost story. Somehow the creepiest, scariest ghost stories always feature sadness at their core.

From a story about a woman who must face her ghosts on Christmas Eve night, to a ghost detective stuck in his own cemetery helping other ghosts move on by solving their own murders, to a ghost who writes letters to the living—...

Welcome to Seashell Cove, where the waves are treacherous, and the occupants are… strange.
Centaurs just outside town? We’ve got ‘em. Cheeky gnomes? Check. Ghosts? Yeah, we have those, too.

My name is Sarah Braxton, and I’m a witch. I also run Seashell Cove’s only bookshop, though my cat Rhiannon will tell you she’s the boss. Frankly, that’s a...