Cardui: 16 books

Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose—or are forced—to leave home and familiar places. Recommended by Booklist (American Library Association), Library Journal,...

Andera Rowe’s wedding day is coming up—the day when her position as Paathi Rais’ secondary wife, bound to obey her in all things and kept completely at her mercy, will stop being a temporary arrangement and become the rest of Andera’s life. The day when Andera will be put on public display...

While attending university in exotic Ralaath, Liera fell in love with Lady Maash. Now she moves in Maash’s rarefied circles of artists and landowners, nobility and libertines. Liera’s learned enough about Ralaathi customs to get by under most circumstances, but she doesn’t know what’s expected...

When a mage of the Society of Trimegistus enters his shop, Lieth Alsander is in over his head. By offering a device for sale that would allow ordinary, non-magically-talented people to detect when magic is being used, he's come to the attention of the Society, and such attention is seldom good. But...

When Andera Rowe decided she wanted the beautiful, charming Paathi Rais as a third partner in her marriage with her husband Farren, she wasn’t expecting to become the secondary wife herself, subject to Paathi’s every whim. She certainly wasn’t expecting to love it. But after a period of domestication,...

Andera Rowe and her husband Farren moved from Berreca to Ralaath five years ago, and Andera loves everything about Ralaath: the climate, the food, and especially the customs surrounding marriage and relationships. In Ralaath, it’s common for a married couple to take a secondary wife, and Andera...

Marion has had enough of charming rogue Nowandthen’s get-rich-quick schemes. After a disastrous stint in the army of the King of Autumn, all Marion wants is a steady job with nobody shooting at her—none of which tends to be in the cards when Nowandthen is around. The trouble is that Nowandthen...

Nelada is an alchemist who grows fruit with potent erotic effects; her husband Ezale is her enthusiastic test subject. But when Nelada brings a strange man into the laboratory to help test her latest product, Ezale's enthusiasm is about to get pushed to new limits . . .

Mari was an outcast in high school after her ex-boyfriend told the whole school about her weird fantasies. Now she’s broke and and looking at a future of working at Walmart and living at her mom’s house, until her friend Larissa makes her an offer: Jenn and Rafaela, the two richest girls from...

Kaitlyn Watson loves it when her girlfriend Wednesday—part-time witch, full-time nerd, and all-around bedroom genius—ties her up, teases, and torments her. But lately Kaitlyn’s been wondering what it would be like to be the one swinging the whip. And finally, after a brush with death with an...

Lynn Kennedy has survived three months as an apprentice of Grandmaster Eris Andromeda Carmichael. She’s suffered brutal punishments and sadistic mind games. She’s also gained magical skill and knowledge beyond what she knew was possible, as well as a beautiful and brilliant girlfriend magically...

Kaitlyn Watson messed up bad. An old high-school friend of hers took blackmail videos of her and her girlfriend, Wednesday Newland (part-time witch, full-time nerd, and all-around bedroom genius) and Kaitlyn didn’t tell Wednesday about it. The whole thing ended with Wednesday almost getting killed...

Spending the summer with your girlfriend’s family is a big step, especially when your girlfriend’s grandmother is a dead witch who cheats at Words With Friends. But Wednesday’s grandma has insisted that Wednesday come to her haunted house in the woods to learn magic for the month of July, and...

Kaitlyn Watson’s first semester in college, her best friend Jessie dared her to play a prank on Wednesday Newland—part-time witch and full-time nerd. The prank backfired, but what started with Wednesday punishing Kaitlyn by using mind control to publicly humiliate her ended with Kaitlyn and Wednesday...