Short Story (under 7.5K)

Jagati has seen more battlefields than she can count over the centuries. She and her team move from war to war, doing what they can for the living and bringing peace to the dying. On an alien world she is about to encounter something new, even to her.

Alianara is the last of her generation of dragons, entrusted with seeing the new clutch born into the world. However, her peaceful existence is interrupted when a young human crashes into her cavern where she is brooding her eggs. The intrusion is unexpected and has even more startling consequences.

Dying, broken, his identity lost, one man has fought his way out of the hands of his kidnappers. Tortured by the Collectors for control of his magic, he has only one goal left: to heal the place they had ripped him away from. He remembers that pool and the spirits living within its waters. Yet, Owen has been hoping and praying for the return of this man, and he is determined to wake Manu’s memories.
Love has to be stronger than the pain both of them have been through, but will it be enough to mend all the damage the Collectors have left behind?

Rafe wakes up from a dream into what feel like another one, only this one is more of a nightmare. He knows it has to have something to do with the strange connection between him and Louis. The question is what.

Tristan is back in his own world and things seem to be going smoothly. When he gets a call from his agent that Jake, the director of the latest two Power Up films wants to meet with him to have a chat, of course he goes.

Kira is a vampire/werewolf hybrid with a career in the assassination business. She's very good at her job, but there will always be problems when she must hide her true nature from her own kind. A once beloved face from the past is going to be an issue.

Two stories for lovers of horror and curses: If Wishes Were... by Natasha Duncan-Drake and Happy Families by Sophie Duncan.

Earth no longer belongs exclusively to humans. Ever since the hoard came demons roam the wreckage of old Earth just as humans do. Karon spans the divide, both human and demon, and, yet, neither at the same time. At the mercy of his vampire heritage he seeks a trade with a powerful demon prince and can only hope that his price will be accepted.

The bargain has been sealed, Umi is now a vampire and belongs to Hieron as his concubine. Yet, Hieron cannot reconcile himself to the secrecy behind his new slave, it makes him dangerously angry and the vampire lord lives up to his warning to Umi that he will be cruel.

Hieron, vampire lord of Harkham, is unaccustomed to visitors in his private bedchamber unless he has expressly invited them. Such an unsolicited intrusion should mean the interloper's death.