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Defrocked Hindu love god seeks virgin amnesiac runaway bride! Sent to Los Angeles by her Delhi family when she was only nine, Rathi grows up into a prim, virginal overachiever. Now she’s a lonely, workaholic attorney in a high-power women’s rights firm in Chicago. Having coffee with the mailroom...

A rock starlet whose biological clock is ticking... An ancient demon under orders to make a goddess out of the starlet... A precocious Parisian teen with a bottomless bank account and a stalker obsession for the starlet... And a son of vodou whose life tangles with the others as time runs out for...

Aren't you tired of doing everything right? Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong? Coed Demon Sluts. Always room on the team. ____________________________________________ Brainiac Melitta is repeating her senior year of high school after a horrible betrayal spins her...

When lovers hide from themselves, how can they find each other? Debby is a happy-go-lucky slob hiding her inner hottie under a bushel. Bruce is a too-hunted hunk hiding his straight sex drive behind a flamboyant beautician disguise. She asks him to make her over so she can seduce another...

Aren't you tired of doing everything right? Wouldn't you like a second chance to go back and do it wrong? _________________________________________________ Cricket's family may be ready for their 98-year-old great-grandma to go gently into the good night, but she sure as hell isn't. So when hell comes...

Connie Corda has always been the nicest woman in Hollywood. But when her beloved husband dies and their best friend mysteriously drops her, her lonely, widowed misery spills over into her work. Vince Davis doesn't mind angry women. Four women with tempers have married and divorced him so far....

A galaxy in peril . . . The story begun in The Reefs of Time continues. The time-tides caused by Karellia’s defenses have brought the malicious Mindaru AI out of the deep past into the present, threatening Bandicut and Li-Jared, who have arrived at the backwater planet—Li-Jared’s homeworld—to...

In the grandfathers’ time, when few yet living had been born, the People worshipped the horse, and served him, and took the gifts that he gave them: his meat, his hide, the milk of his mares. But he had not yet granted to men the greatest gift of all: the gift of riding on his back, and racing the...

In the dawn of time, women ruled, and the people had no word for war. Then the horsemen came. Sarama is the last of the White Mare’s servants, descended from an ancient line conquered long ago by warrior tribes. Her father is the king of one such tribe. Her twin brother Agni is the...

Long years after the White Mare came to the people of the Mothers, bringing the wild horsemen from the sea of grass and changing the world forever, the world is changing again. The Mother of Lir is dead, her heir cast out amid dire omens. War is coming—such a war as the people have never seen, fought...

This light-hearted Regency folly stars Miss Clarissa Harlowe who wants a quiet life—but falls in love with a smuggler, the marquess of St. Tarval. Tarval's sister, Lady Kitty, is determined to write a dramatic Gothic to save her brother’s mortgaged estate—if she can reach London. Clarissa's...

Time travel is a dream long held by human beings. Who hasn’t had fond thoughts about showing Nicola Tesla their personal Tesla Coil or taking him for a drive in an electric car that bears his name? The devil is in the details of the technology, which is what ties together this collection of short...

The stories in this collection were first published inAnalog Science Fiction and Fact magazine between 1990 and 2011. They feature the adventures of eccentric kilt-wearing anthropologist / archaeologist / xenologist Rhys Llewellyn and his able assistants, Yoshi Umeki and Roderick Halfax. Given...

The magic of Polia is broken, the delicate connection between its male and female elements, sundered. Blame for this and other calamities both natural and political has long been laid at the feet of the White Mothers – rare adepts who can handle both male and female elements. The young widow, Kassia...