Sharon Joss: 17 books

Everyone faces dark times. Everyone looks for a light to get through. These fifteen stories show teen heroes/heroines using creativity and heart to find their inner “spark” to overcome adversity, evil, or ignorance. In this anthology for all ages, join a girl who struggles to accept the zombie...

Alchemy changes more than dross into gold. It changes steampunk stories into stories of magical transformation. These thirteen stories combine science and magic into do-not-miss alternate history stories that span the globe. Travel with a soul-stealing carnival, meet the Grand Dangoolie, put on some...

From baking a magical love spell to having the opportunity to rectify a mistake from the past to hunting a serial killer, Debut Writers’ Showcase highlights stories from Fiction River’s first year that marked a first professional sale for these up-and-coming authors. Since first appearing in a...

Time-travel stories open the entire world and all of time to writers’ imaginations. The fifteen writers in this third original anthology in the Fiction River line explore everything from Chicago gangsters to Japanese tsunamis, and travel from 2013 to the nineteenth century to a vast future. Featuring...

A CONSPIRACY OF MAGIC In this alternate history thriller, 19th-century technology and the supernatural collide outside London, when airships and aerialists from across Europe converge on the Isle of Dogs for an air show. Among the crowd, a master thief with his eye on the Queen's jewels, a...

A DANGEROUS BUSINESS… Deep in the Crags of Corrah  old Yellowsmoke jealously guards her nest.  Pyrs and Taredd are about to take the biggest risks of their lives, matching wits with the most clever and dangerous predator on Aurum: a broody craggon. 

Nothing can hurt the dead. They’re lucky that way. As Mattie Blackman's personal life with Rhys heats up, the dead frantically appeal to the Hand of Fate for help. An ancient evil is stirring. Cursed by a vindictive cult of sorcerers that law enforcement doesn't dare confront, Mattie...

LET THE SPIRITS REIGN As Grand Marshal of the annual International Spirit Festival & Gala, Mattie Blackman soon discovers that fame isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Some days, even the Hand of Fate can’t get much respect. The week-long bacchanal has brought every sort of spirit, demon,...

Mattie Blackman is the last living descendent of the Goddess Morta. As the new Hand of Fate, she discovers her powers over the undead can't help solve her problems with the living. When Shore Haven's supernatural community is threatened and her friends begin to disappear, Mattie must solve the mystery...

Sometimes, every deal is a bad hand. Mattie's oath to Morta is under siege, and now there's hell to pay. With an immortal sorcerer and his demon on the rampage, and a feud about to explode between the lycans and the witches, only a bad deal with the dead can help Mattie lift a centuries-old...

Sentient spacecraft QOSSA leads his fleet through deep space into battle, a hundred million years before the dawn of man.  Across the galaxy, Professor Art Ingram opens a crate containing pieces of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

A NOBLE MISSION Called across the galaxy to assist in a military recovery operation, forensic entomologist Angie Schirmerhorn seeks to uncover the cause of death in a doomed landing party on an unnamed planet.  As she chafes under the military protocols, Angie soon realizes she isn't the only one with a bad feeling about this operation… 

Ex-cop Mike Bane is a shape-shifter with two beasts.  One is a 300-lb black jaguar with a taste for turtle meat, the other is a psychotic Olmec shaman named Tehuantl with a taste for blood.  When the cat is happy, everybody’s happy.  When the cat is unhappy, Tehuantl comes out and people die. When...

A DANGEROUS ADVENTURE, A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, AND GOLD The embargoed planet of Aurum contains the richest deposits of gold in the galaxy. Accessible only once every four years to the wealthy elite attending the Gold Festival, master engraver Renly Harkness is determined to rescue his missing brother....