The Bear Prince (and other fantasy folktales) is a collection of three folktales from a fictional universe. When small magics are real, what stories do parents tell their children at night? What tales do storytellers spin, so their listeners will...
When 5-year-old Kinahran breaks her leg falling off a crate (she was pushed!), she's stuck in her mother's cabin on their clanship - much to the dismay of both child and mother! Kinahran is bored, unable to play all day with her young friends in...
When her clanship's sensors are damaged, Captain Klarin-yal hires an expensive human expert to effect repairs. Unfortunately, the human is afraid of reptiles. More unfortunately, during the explosion, a reptilian pet escaped into the ship. Even worse...
Mortal women have always fascinated gods - and wind-spirits have carried news of a beautiful princess to the sun-god, Allyon. But his servant, sent to investigate, falls in love and defies his master. Narrated by the Wind-priest Ches, who inserts a f...
Coli-nfaran and Klarin-yal have a problem: their clanship's new leader wants to make the Choosaraf into a pirate-hunter instead of a merchant craft, and the hothead probably isn't any good at it. The only way they can save their ship and home is to r...
When the clanship stops at an uninhabited, terrestrial planet, Kinahran and her friends want to play and explore. (The grown-ups make them help look for useful planetary resources to trade, as well.) But a mishap leaves their adult mentor wounded and...
Kinahran (Moonfur to humans) and her little sister Embereyes are on their own, determined to make their fortunes and not return to their clanship in defeat. But making fortunes requires jobs, and two Kintarans with little experience can't be picky...
In the universe of the Kintarans, there are tall tales of what lies in the far reaches of space, some eerie and some merely odd. And sometimes the tales are tall indeed, but a pirate-hunting ship finds that they may also be true.(A seque...
The story has been adapted more than once: the mysterious, somewhat murderous, Phantom of the Opera - the "Angel of Music," a disembodied voice who tutors Christine, a poor chorus girl, until she can take the stage and sing solo. But when she does, a...
The Lord Alchemist must be immune to hostile potions. But in all the country, there are only two known immunes: Iathor Kymus, the Lord Alchemist, and his feckless brother, Iasen.Kessa is a half-barbarian herb-witch, arrested for crimes she didn't qui...
Sarafina was content to be an accountant, insulated from the public as she kept the numbers behaving and played chess with her fellows. But when the First Daris Bank is bought out, her indenture is sold to a cruise ship and Sarafina is thrust into a ...
Haatha Chaas'-Eighth is an Mmsar poet, content to live alone though his brothers all have families of their own and think he should have apprentices, too. Unfortunately, someone left a clutch of eggs in Haatha's back yard, and now he's got...
Coli and her sister have gotten their ship out of hock, but without enough crew, the Choosaraf will slide back into debt. They need a Negotiator to help the merchant clanship recover - and Coli will have to find one on her own, without her sister...
To ensure his sons' immunity to hostile potions, the Lord Alchemist defied tradition to marry the only immune woman for generations: a half-barbarian. Jani's been hired to blackmail the Lord Alchemist into disinheriting his "mongrel & qu...
When the dragons attack, Elian Wilding braves the assault and marches into her city to save as many people as she can. Three days later, she wakes up, alive despite her dire encounter with a deadly black dragon. Her left arm is mangled beyond repair,...
It is a truth universally acknowledged: that a single tom in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a queen. And a civilized feline must go about snaring such a tom with grace, wit, and a good heart, for to do otherwise invites social ruin a...
War is coming.It has been almost a year since the Dragonbitten warned the king and queen of the coming invasion. Now, the Kadians sail for Calenor and the fate of the kingdom rests with two young women. Elana Montaire Valentine never imagined she wou...