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1) Dream Flight
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A Heroka story. Lilith Hoyl is a Heroka of the bird totem-a shapeshifter who hates the humans who killed her mate and hunt her kind. But when she meets a young girl awaiting a critical operation, their mutual love for birds brings joy back into both their lives. "One expects magic with this set-up, and magic does, indeed, follow, but pain cannot be forever vanquished, for either the girl or the Hoyl. The story charms as well as pains. In other hands,...
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A Heroka story. Aurora Award Finalist story from a multi-award winning author. Lilith Hoyl awakes to find herself a prisoner in a top-secret government laboratory. To win her freedom, all she needs to do...is prove that she's human. If you enjoy shape-shifter and conspiracy stories, you'll enjoy this tale.
3) Spirit Dance
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AURORA AWARD WINNER A Heroka story. The Heroka are an ancient race of shape shifters, drawing vitality from their animal totems. Gwyn Blaidd, a Heroka of the wolf totem, has been a recluse ever since a deadly battle with the Tainchel, the covert government agency that hunts his kind-a battle that cost him the woman he loved. But to save an old friend, Gwyn must again face the Tainchel-and his own dark past. "A vivid and wonderfully written tale about...
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Jan Mirocek used to be a hunter. A very special hunter. Once, he had hunted the things that haunt the forests of the night in every culture of the world. The kallikantzari of Greece. The loup-garou of France. The kitsune of Japan. Were-beasts. Shape-shifters.
Until one night, Jan made a mistake, and the woman he loved died.
Now he shuns the dark and his own past, hiding in a big city. For the were-beasts never come here. Or do they? People are dying...
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Paulo and Dino run a quiet little bar in Toronto, happily retired from their former gig of being immortal gods on Olympus...and Asgard...and... Well, let's just say they've been around. But their peaceful retirement ends when Pop drops in. And the Father of the Gods has brought company. Unwanted company.
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Aurora Award Finalist. Alexander King has everything-wealth, power, a business empire over which he rules. But lately, the corporate game in which he excels has lost its thrill for him. He needs a new game. And then, on the crowded streets of Toronto, in the dead cold of winter, she appears before him. The Dancer. Achingly beautiful, half-naked, and dancing to a song that only she and King seem to hear, she becomes King's new obsession, an obsession...
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Charlie the Pearl-con man, gambler, and ever absent father-is about to catch the dream that he's chased his entire life-the secret of good luck. But it's a secret that could cost Charlie the only thing in the world that he loves more than a winning streak-his daughter.
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Vaya is an immortal Valkyrie and favorite daughter of Odin All Father, sworn to carry dead heroes from the battlefields of Earth to live forever in Valhalla. One day, she intervenes on the battlefield to save the life of a soldier who has captured her heart, and is forced by Odin to choose between immortality and the man she loves. Vaya chooses love, not knowing that the hardest choice still lies ahead of her.
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Best New Horror Selection
Cath, a beautiful young sidewalk artist, is driven by a mysterious hunger that feeds from the portraits she draws of her victims. Joe loves Cath still, but as Cath's hunger grows, so does Joe's fear--fear that one day she may draw him down.
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