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While launching into student life, Shani has to deal with the challenges of moving into a crumbling old house, getting to know her housemates, and the heady desires of new love. all the while, struggling with an unnerving backdrop of shadows and presences only she can sense.

After one crap A-level, Shani got her place at uni through the clearing process, so everything was very last-minute. Thus, she's ended up at the university's 'last chance saloon', a huge, but rundown old townhouse that maintenance seems to have forgotten. Still, beggars can't be choosers. At least she can afford the rent, and for that she's willing to put up with her new neighbours, the ones she can see, and the ones she can't.

But are the shadows that haunt the corners of this crumbling residence going to be as tolerant of Shani and her oblivious housemates?

Enjoy novelette, The Lodger, over a cup of coffee, or are you brave enough to read it by candlelight?!

Mina has only been an Ensign Navigator on the interstellar cruiser, Queen Elizabeth VI, for two weeks, so everything is exciting and new. She counts herself lucky to have been assigned to the same ship as her little brother, Alistair, and she doesn’t want to do anything to jeopardize their posting. It’s an easy mission, a charter flight to Aurelia Prime to celebrate the primeversary of the discovery of Carbon Prime, the reason everyone can travel between the stars.

Yet something is not right and Mina senses the wrongness. That feeling is confirmed when one of the descendants of the pioneers who discovered the miracle fuel is found dead in her cabin, frozen to death by a coolant leak. At least, that is what their leaders are saying. Mina doesn’t believe it. It must be something to do with the strange, impenetrable vessel encased completely in Carbon Prime that has suddenly appeared in their path and is now shadowing them to Aurelia Prime?

No longer trusting the superiors who only seem interested in their glorious history, Mina and Alistair look to lower ranks to investigate what is really going on. Something is bad in the history of Aurelia Prime; something is missing from the official records. Can Mina find out what it is in time to save all on board the QE VI?

Two stories of love and romance sprinkled with real magic.

Of Cats, Curses, and Cheaters: A Magical Romance by Natasha Duncan-Drake

Jack loves his cat, Eric. Eric hates his boyfriend Matt. The reason why will change Jack's life forever.

What Fate Wants: A Fae-Human Romance by Sophie Duncan

Jay just wants to be an ordinary guy, but Fate won’t let him. The fae love-magic he inherited from his dad ran riot at his 17th birthday party, turning it into a orgy. After lots of tests and investigations, everyone has decided it wasn’t his fault, but what is worse for Jay is that no-one can say exactly why it happened, or stop the attacks from happening again.

At last, in disguise and shadowed by his family sprite, Jay starts his final A-level year as a new, anonymous pupil, at Boundlands school, hoping he can finish his education without his magic interfering. Things aren’t that easy for the young hybrid though; when one of the human pupils, Chris, reveals he knows Jay’s secret, it looks like the carefully planned new life is already imploding.

How does Chris know who Jay is and what will it mean for his erratic magic? Find out what Fate has in store for Jay and Chris in this tale of two unusual lives bound together by wild love-magic.