17-year-old Abigail Crumb finds herself regretting her decision to abandon a somewhat normal life in London and sail halfway around the world—simply because Mother called. She finds herself in a mysterious mining camp in the wild, wild west with Once Dead miners that keep falling apart and two sisters Abby must somehow protect. The Peculiar Adventures of Abigail Crumb continue!

Wild, Wild West with mini demons and turbulent magic tempered with a dash of Victorian sensibility. And of course, a clockwork dragon.

Stars in the Darkness is a collection of stories about why being just matters, and what the ramifications are for individuals, groups, towns, countries, or even worlds if justice is not expected, encouraged, or enforced. The stories cover a wide range, from historical fiction to fantasy to alternate realities. Every tale, whether set in ancient Egypt, in a future where only the rich can afford to increase their children’s intelligence through genetic engineering, or about a man turned into a zombie by accident, sends a message about what matters. These stories show bravery, compassion, courage—and consequences.

Twenty-three authors ride with Mercedes Lackey to her magical land of Valdemar, adding their own unique voices to the Heralds, Bards, Healers, and other heroes of this beloved fantasy realm.

Early 1850. Something hungry moves among the hulls of the abandoned ships blanketing San Francisco bay like an abandoned graveyard. The whispers spread, “There be dragons here.”

Why does Abby Crumb get the feeling she might be the dragon’s main course?

When Abby Crumb finally meets up with her mother, her situation goes from disturbingly violent to utterly rotten. Stuck in a mining camp in the middle of nowhere with a family tree that keeps sprouting unexpected branches, Abby sinks deeper and deeper into the bottomless muck of her mother’s treachery. Now Abby must finally confront her dark past before that dark past devours them all.

Jamie Sloan found his super powers sitting in a blackberry bush outside his bedroom window on the morning of his tenth birthday.
Picking blackberries—not high on Jamie’s priority list, especially on his tenth birthday. But Mom insists—family tradition and all that grownup bunk.
Using a beat-up old bucket handed down from father to son for who knows how long, Jamie picks until the bucket overflows . . .
And finds himself holding a bucketful of trouble.

You can get away with a lot of things in Hell—bad singing, bad politics, bad breath.
Even murder.
But no one gets away with stealing Sam the Ham’s delicious Golden Pig.
A laugh-out-loud story about life after death—from a rebel hamster’s point of view.

Eighteen authors join Mercedes Lackey, adding their own unique voices to the Heralds, Bards, and Healers of Valdemar.

ORIGINAL ANTHOLOGY featuring rollicking, tongue-in-cheek tales of women warrior fighting against the stodgy and in the name of freedom of expression, Chicks in Chainmail style!