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The Chronicles of King’s End
A woman with nothing to hide—except the truth—meets a man with nothing to lose—except his heart. And he’s just arrived in town to fire her.
Meet Pansy Little
Since her mother vanished, Apprentice Field Agent Pansy Little is the sole guardian of King’s End, protecting it from a supernatural force only a select few can see. The arrival of an agent from Enclave headquarters doesn’t bring relief. Instead, it means Pansy’s well-crafted charade is about to collapse.
Meet Henry Darnelle
Principal Field Agent Henry Darnelle doesn’t want to be in King’s End, but he’s been blackmailed into performing Pansy’s field agent evaluation—with explicit instructions to fail her.
Distractedly handsome and unfailingly correct, he surprises Pansy—and himself—by defying orders to fire her. Instead, his curiosity is piqued by both Pansy and King’s End.
Together, they investigate, unearthing intricate ties that bind their families. Together, they might even be falling in love.
But someone with a decades-old obsession is watching, maneuvering behind the scenes, someone won’t rest until blood is spilled.
Welcome to King’s End, where discord falls from the sky and an eccentric twenty-something patrols the streets with her pink polka-dotted umbrella. Where one misstep won’t merely bring disaster—it might spark the end of the world.
For six grueling summers, Pansy Little has trained at the Enclave’s Academy, keeping a low profile and hiding her Sight from everyone but her two best friends, Jack Ling and Mortimer Connolly. This year, she’s set to graduate, if not at the bottom of her class, then somewhere in the unremarkable middle.
But her newly issued umbrella is anything but unremarkable: pink with white polka-dots, fringed with attention-grabbing ruffles. Her umbrella seems intent on calling attention to itself, much to Pansy’s dismay.
But her umbrella may be the least of her problems. Mort is poised to graduate at the top of their class. All he needs is for his team to win the capstone exercise. His secret weapon?
Pansy’s Sight.
Then there’s that sharp-eyed principal field agent among this year’s evaluators, the legendary Henry Darnelle—and the ever-present shadow cast not just by him, but by an unseen foe.
Pansy’s Sight, her umbrella: they might just be her salvation.
Or her downfall.
Coffee and Ghosts
Katy and her grandmother have always used coffee to catch ghosts. It pays the bills and keeps them in high-end beans. But after her grandmother dies and a rival ghost hunter moves to town, Katy fears things will never be the same.
She’s right.
From a beguiling and charismatic ghost whisperer to her new partner’s ghost swallowing brother and even a (short) stint behind bars, Katy navigates her new reality, uncertain her skills are equal to the tasks at hand. But are these things mere distractions–or do they hide something darker, far more sinister, something that has a long-held vendetta against Katy?
To survive, Katy must uncover an ancient secret. She must brew her very best Kona blend. She will need to rely on unexpected and unpredictable allies.
To survive, she will need to trust what’s in her heart.
When Christmas brings both strangers and ghosts of the past to Springside, ghost-catcher and expert coffee-brewer Katy Lindstrom fears her new business, new relationship, and quiet hometown will never be the same.
She’s right.
The ghost of a jealous dead husband. A sexy siren of a spirit who has a claim on Malcolm. It will take more than some excellent Kona blend to permanently rid Springside of both the unwanted ghosts and the necromancers who brought them to town.
But Katy harbors a secret, the sort more than one necromancer is willing to kill for, and this time, the stakes are higher than she ever imagined.
This time, to keep Malcolm, Springside, and even the world safe, Katy must do the one thing she vowed never to do.
And once she does, there’s no turning back.
Reluctant necromancer Katy Lindstrom is worried about mixing business with pleasure. All she wants is a few hours alone with her more-than-a-business-partner, Malcolm Armand.
Before they can sort through their feelings over a cup of Kona blend, another necromancer lands on Katy’s doorstep.
Malcolm’s father.
He brings with him tales of old betrayals and fresh lies. But a bigger danger lurks in Springside—a powerful ghost sent to destroy Malcolm’s brother.
This is just the start.
After Katy uncovers long-held family secrets, she finds herself entangled in past and present—and on a mission to find the truth. To unravel the mystery that links her family with Malcolm’s, she’ll need to bargain with a powerful entity and face retribution from the necromancer community.
Where Katy must go, Malcolm can’t follow. This time around, she’ll need to make the ultimate sacrifice. This time, to save Malcolm, Springside, and everything she loves, Katy will need to give them up forever.
When Katy and Malcolm discover a secret stash of Springside ghosts, they can’t tell if they’re on a rescue mission, walking into a trap—or dealing with something far more sinister.
But the simple act of freeing the ghosts sets the past on a collision course with the present.
Katy has always known the past can haunt. Usually, that’s something she can fix with freshly brewed coffee and some Tupperware.
This time, old enemies lurk in the shadows, pulling strings and weaving inescapable webs.
When she falls in, survival may be impossible. But to escape, Katy must navigate threads from the past, deal with capricious spirits, dubious allies, and ruthless adversaries.
And if she fails?
No one she loves will have a future.
Fairy Tale retellings
Familiar stories. Unfamiliar magic.
Everyone knows what happens in a fairy tale—as long as everyone stays on the path.
But step into the woods, wander beyond the familiar story, and things become a little less predictable.
A Rapunzel with hair of teeth and claw must decide whether the tower is sanctuary or prison. A girl cursed to speak in toads discovers that an apparent affliction can become an army. Red ventures into the forest for a wolf rather than away from one. And a golden-haired girl returns to an enchanted wood where bears, princes, and old magic are not quite what they seem.
Along the way, there are marvelous boots, dangerous witches, a scarred war prince, a dashing Bandit King, and more than a few consequences for anyone foolish enough to underestimate a fairy-tale heroine.
Straying from the Path brings together two novellas and four short stories inspired by familiar tales including Rapunzel, Puss in Boots, Diamonds and Toads, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
For readers who like their fairy tales clever, slightly dark, and full of unexpected magic.
Because anything can happen when you stray from the path.
Young Adult Fiction
1st Place: 2015 International Digital Awards, Young Adult Novel
The shyest girl on the speech team has exactly one goal: make it through the season.
Joining speech team is the only way sophomore Jolia can save her grade—even if public speaking is her worst nightmare.
Tournament season brings fierce rivals, quirky teammates, and Sam Romero, the star speaker from Fremont’s biggest rival…and the boy who used to be her best friend.
As competition turns into friendship—and friendship into something more—Jolia discovers that speaking in front of hundreds of people might be easier than telling the truth.
A heartfelt YA romantic comedy about first love, fierce competition, and finding your voice.
The hardest secrets are the ones we inherit.
Seventeen-year-old MacKenna Meyers has spent her life navigating the minefield of her father’s moods—and preparing to follow in her late mother’s combat boots.
Her plan is simple: earn an Army ROTC scholarship, prove she belongs, and convince her former-Ranger father that she’s every bit the warrior princess he raised her to be. Instead, he forbids her from joining the military and refuses to explain why.
Then MacKenna’s grandmother gives her an old Iraqi ammo crate filled with her mother’s belongings from the first Gulf War. Hidden beneath a false bottom is a journal written in poetry—and a secret her mother took to the grave.
As MacKenna reads, the heroic story she has always believed begins to fracture. Her parents’ past is far more complicated than she imagined, and the truth may explain the grief and fear her father has carried for sixteen years.
Meanwhile, MacKenna’s own carefully controlled life is coming apart. Her place on the synchronized swimming team is in jeopardy. Her best friend is pulling away. And Landon Scott—the boy who kissed her and then vanished five years ago—is back, carrying dangerous secrets of his own.
Caught between the future she wants and a past no one will discuss, MacKenna must decide what courage really means: following the path her mother took—or finding the strength to choose her own.
A moving young adult novel about first love, family loyalty, and the hidden wounds of war.
A YALSA 2012 Popular Paperback pick in the Get Your Geek On category!
Too bad it doesn’t cover any of the really tough questions. Like:
- How do you maintain some semblance of dignity while wearing an insanely short skirt?
- What do you do when the head cheerleader spills her beer on you at your first in-crowd party?
- And how do you protect your best friend from the biggest player in the senior class?
Short Stories
From a post-apocalyptic cityscape to the year’s most disastrous prom, follow eight different heroines as they navigate their way through time and space and AP World History. Includes:
The Trouble with Firsts
Glass Slipper
Speechless
Breaking Plans
Just a Matter of Time
The Maze
What Little Remains
Inside Out
Here be dragons … six of them.
Often mercurial, preternaturally perceptive, always inscrutable.
What if you had to barter for your village while tied to a stake? Or if the one thing you always wanted–a dragon of your own–was forever denied? Where might a midnight chase through a stately hotel lead?
From adversary to lover to devoted friend, from epic to urban fantasy–follow six heroines as they encounter six very different dragons. They’ll barter and bargain, chase and be chased, and in the end, learn the true meaning of dragon’s bane.
Dragon Whispers gathers together the dragon stories from The (Love) Stories for 2020 project:
- Aleag the Great
- Knight at the Royal Arms
- Fire and Ivy
- Dragon’s End
- Heart Whisper
- Dragon’s Bane
Let the adventure begin!
From urban fantasy to epic, fairy tales to the future, contemporary to the historical, this full-length collection from Charity Tahmaseb contains four dozen stories and spans fifteen years of writing.
Sometimes somber, often humorous, these quirky and imaginative stories revolve around love lost and love found, familial and sibling love, friendships, and more. Genre-encompassing and often genre-defying, these tales run the gamut of invisible prom dates to dragons to the end of the world.
Here’s How We Survive gathers together all 48 stories from the (Love) Stories for 2020 project and includes award-winning and previously-published stories along with ones written exclusively for this collection.