A collection of fifteen original stories set in the magical realm of Valdemar, a place where individuals who have been gifted with special abilities gather, includes a new novella by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon.

"After the wildest wedding ever, Katherine 'Kitty' Katt-Martini and her Alpha Centaurion husband Jeff are hoping life will settle down. But alien attacks are on the increase, and someone is testing a dangerous new drug on unwilling subjects within their group. As if that's not enough, Kitty and a number of the A-C women are expecting their first babies. No one is certain what this baby boom will lead to, but after almost losing Kitty in childbirth,...

After nursing a broken heart in California, Kim Murray takes sword in hand and returns to the magical country of Dobrenica and encounters ghosts, magic, murder and mystery as she tries to understand all the different faces of love.

When off-Broadway performer Golly Gee vanishes into thin air, Esther Diamond is approached by the producers to take Golly's place--even as other female performers start to disappear all over the city.

"Teenage delinquent Angel Crawford lives with her redneck father in the swamps of southern Louisiana. She's a high school dropout, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and has a police record a mile long. But when she's made into a zombie after a car crash, her addictions disappear, except for her all-consuming need to stay 'alive'"--From www.amazon.com.