Lee French

Portland has a ghost problem.Sixteen-year-old Claire wants her father back. His death left her only memories and an empty locket. After six difficult years in foster care, her vocabulary no longer includes "hope" and "trust".Everything changes when Justin rides his magical horse into her path and ta...

Even the Spirit Knights could not see this coming. Sixteen-year-old Claire wants her father back. His death left her only memories and an empty locket. After six difficult years in foster care, her vocabulary no longer includes "hope" and "trust". But everything changes dramatically when she encount...

Real superheroes wear denim.All Bobby wanted was a girl to come home to after a hard day of work. Like the last one said before she left, he was going exactly two places - no and where – and he was happy with that. But somebody had other plans for him. A murder. The Terrorist Watch List. For what?...

Portland has a guilt problem.

Detective John Avery, under the influence of an evil spirit, destroyed his own life. Now free of its influence, he wants to pick up the pieces and start over. If only he could snap his fingers and undo all that damage. Somehow, he'll find a way to make amends with his ex...

It all comes down to this. Bobby has to find the girl, save the woman, wake the team, stop the disaster, open the door, and eat the partridge in a pear tree. Not even Head Cowboy can do it all alone. Like it or not, he needs help, and the only places he has left to look for it are the unlikely ones....

Everyone got comfortable. It was understandable, really: soft beds, good food, contentment. Not for Bobby. Together with Stephen, he's shaking off the torpor and getting into bed with Privek. Nothing is out of the question to find the lost eleven. Will the Vampire-Dragon Inquisition turn out to be s...

Alice used to hate winter. Since she developed the power to create ice, it's not so bad anymore. Except for one tiny little problem.Guilt.Everyone else forgave her. She still has to forgive herself. If only she knew how.

Victoria Godhand, the unflinching chief negotiator for her father’s megacorp, wants a lot of things. Respect tops the list.Ross Lynch, her father’s hand-picked successor and the company’s COO, also wants a lot of things. Victoria tops the list.If she can’t have what she wants, neither can he...

On the run for a crime he committed, Hideo has only the shirt on his back and memories of a beautiful wife, a great job, and an exclusive view from his bedroom. The once-respected surgeon has to learn to live on the streets of Darkside Seattle, a place no one sane wantsto go and no one stuck there c...

Isabella Acosta has lived in the barrio half of the Darkside her entire life. No cops, no laws, no way out.Respected for surviving so long, she keeps her head down and doesn't make waves. Until someone puts a gun to her nephew's head. She'll do anything to protect the boy she helped her brother rais...

Honored Sentinel Tester Ikumi Hane has seen more of the island nation of Chanes than most. Her sworn duty to test boys for the grave honor of selection to defend their people takes her from one tiny village to another, over and over. Soon, she plans to retire to a modest life with her husband to dot...

For hundreds of years, the Blaukenev clan has wandered across Tilzam, from one end to the other and back. Each wagon carries history, love, laughter, pain, sorrow, and secrets. Their greatest secret of all may be Chavali, the clan Seer.Spirits use her. Spirits damn her. Spirits save her.Nothing surp...

Adjusting to her new life as a soul-bound agent of the Fallen has Chavali pushing herself harder than ever before. Between learning to fight, dealing with idiots, and climbing stairs - lots of stairs - she has little time to waste on thoughts of the future. Or the past. When another agent fails to r...

Portland has a dragon problem.Now genuinely a Spirit Knight, sixteen-year-old Claire wants to know everything about the job. Fate dumps a dragon on her and she only has more questions. She knows how much she needs training and wishes she could snap her fingers to learn everything at once.Justin can ...

The empire of Rome has a gorgon problem.

Trapped in a loveless marriage to a heroic gorgon slayer, Iulia wants revenge for her husband's thoughtless act of cruelty. She will do anything to see her husband laid low, even sacrifice herself on the altar of her own goddess. Trivia, the Queen of Ghosts, M...

Without a Sultan, corrupt Fire Dancers and their pompous Caliphs abuse power and wage fruitless wars across the parched sands of Serescine.Fakhira wishes her family could afford to solve their problems with magic. Sometimes, wishes come true. In the worst possible way. A simple peasant, she'll have ...

Recognized at last for her obvious talents as an agent of the Fallen, Chavali now reaps the reward for her competence--Administrator Eldrack uses his new favorite tool for every mission he can. Even the truly pointless ones.But for Chavali, clan must come first. She chafes as Eldrack takes her away ...

Portland has a Knight problem.Now that the Spirit Knights' demesne has accepted sixteen-year-old Claireinto the order, she only has to convince all its Knights she belongs. Forcedinto a test to prove her worth, she discovers more than anyone wants her to.Meanwhile, Justin runs around playing janitor...

Spring brings warmth, sunshine...and unexpected tragedy, as Chavali loses a hard-won friend under suspicious circumstances.Just in time to help her ignore her pain, a new mission to find the agent's killer - and recover his precious cargo - sends her to Harbor City, the jewel of North Cascain. A pla...

Portland has a mutant cockroach problem.Death didn't solve anything for Claire. Now condemned to an eternity of roaming the Earth as a sixteen-year-old, she has to figure out this whole ghost thing from the other side. Lesson one: memories are power. Lesson two: this sucks.Drew has no idea how to ha...

Shadow is no ordinary cat. He's a familiar, bound to the soul of his pet human. The binding gives him brains and a pawful of tricks to use them. He’s got the night to himself in this short story, and makes the most of it, getting into trouble like only a cat bonded to a vigilante spy can...

Given the burden of safeguarding a precious treasure at a tender age, Sabetia is placed squarely in the middle of a fantastical legend. Swords, demons, magic, a curse: it has everything a great epic tale should. All she needs to do is face the danger that could threaten the world if left unchecked. ...

An avalanche begins with a careless word.

Chavali's notorious temper continues its downward spiral as the long winter keeps her trapped underground among the Fallen. One little rumor flung thoughtlessly in her face sets off a cascade of events that pulls her into a clash far bigger than the usual pet...

Portland has a witch problem.

Claire expects Christmas vacation to deliver an earned respite from thinking, doing, and obeying. She gets to sleep in and play with dragons. Right? Of course not. Ghosts don't care about vacation.Drew wishes magic could finish high school for him. Who cares about calcul...

Real superheroes wear denim.

Bobby Mitchell has a dragon-swarm sized problem. Framed for a murder he wanted to commit, his life takes a turn for the desperate--and weird. His biggest problems used sound like a country song. Now, he hangs around with a vampire, werewolf, ice queen, and more...