Meyari McFarland

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  • Bibliography:
    312 Books (8 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2012
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Debts to Recover

1 - Sound of Obedience (May-2013)
2 - Taste of Joy (Jun-2013)
3 - An Unrepentant Bastard (Jun-2013)
4 - Crack of Doom (Jun-2013)
5 - New Boy (Jul-2013)
6 - Be with Me (Jul-2013)
7 - The Nature of Beasts (Aug-2013)
8 - Jam Crisis (Aug-2013)
9 - Controlled Edge (Aug-2013)

Infinite Horizons

1 - Sensory Alterations (Apr-2013)
2 - Another Path to Infinity (Aug-2013)
3 - Wedding Plans (Oct-2013)
4 - Stardust in Your Veins (Oct-2013)
5 - Moon of the Sea (Dec-2013)
6 - Infinite Horizons (Dec-2013)
7 - Dragon Rider's Song (Jan-2014)
8 - Darkness Rising (Jan-2014)
9 - Cloud Cover (Feb-2014)
10 - Ghosts of the Dead (Feb-2014)
11 - Jade Claws (Feb-2014)
12 - Infinite Dreams (Feb-2014)
13 - Bringing the Rains (Jun-2014)
14 - Center (Aug-2014)
15 - From the Night (Sep-2014)
16 - Transformations (Feb-2015)
17 - Midwife to Divinity (Feb-2015)
18 - Memories of Fire (Mar-2015)
19 - Bottling the Cold, Hard Heart (Mar-2015)
20 - Infinite Travels (Apr-2015)
21 - Eternity in a Touch (Apr-2015)
22 - Specialist Class Three (Aug-2015)
23 - Infinite Joys (Aug-2015)
24 - Tiny Futures (Oct-2015)
25 - Candy-Coated Courtship (Oct-2015)

Landslide Romances

1 - Out of Disaster (Feb-2017)

Mages of Tindiere

1 - Inina's Blessings of Joy (May-2013)
2 - Artifacts of Awareness (Jul-2013)
2.1 - Threads of Hope (Jul-2013)
2.2 - Threads of Hate (Nov-2013)
2.3 - Boiling the Ocean Away (Oct-2014)
2.4 - Threads of Birthing (Mar-2015)
3 - Transplant of War (Mar-2015)
3.1 - A Lone Red Tree (May-2015)
3.2 - Tending the Temple (May-2015)
3.3 - Eternal Magic (Jun-2015)
4 - City of the Dead (Jul-2015)
4.1 - Blue, Red, Green (Aug-2015)
5 - Running From The Immortals (Nov-2015)
6 - Hearts of Magic (Dec-2015)
7 - Triumph of the Artificer Mages (Dec-2015)
7.1 - Tiny Gifts of Peace (Jan-2016)
7.2 - Transplanted Destiny (Apr-2017)
7.3 - Transplanted Courage (Apr-2017)

The Manor Verse

1 - A New Path (Aug-2014)
2 - Following The Trail (Feb-2015)
3 - Crafting Home (Feb-2015)
4 - Finding a Way (Jun-2015)
5 - Go Between (Dec-2015)
6 - Like Arrows of Fate (Apr-2016)

A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel

1 - The City of the Ladies (Dec-2012)
2 - Fight Smarter (Feb-2013)
2.1 - Hide and Seek (Apr-2013)
2.2 - Stormy Arrival (Oct-2013)
3 - Repair and Rebuild (Nov-2013)
3.1 - Tales from the Dana Clanhouse (Jan-2014)
4 - Storm Over Archaelaos (Jan-2014)
5 - Facing the Storm (May-2015)
5.1 - Tea and Knives (Feb-2017)
5.2 - Luck of the Dana (Mar-2017)
5.3 - Homecoming (Mar-2017)
5.9 - Delicate Introduction (Dec-2015)
6 - Following the Beacon (Feb-2016)
7 - Coming Together (Jul-2014)
8 - The Solace of Her Clan (May-2016)
9 - Running Before the Storm (Mar-2017)
10 - Fighting the Morrigan's Hand (Jun-2017)
11 - Fitting in (Mar-2013)

A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story

1 - The Web (Apr-2014)
2 - Scavenger (Apr-2014)
3 - Mods (May-2014)
4 - Electric Time (Aug-2014)
5 - Child of Spring (Aug-2014)
6 - Blue (Jan-2015)
7 - Weight of Change (Dec-2015)
8 - Cupboard Full of Seeds (Jan-2016)
9 - One Thousand Eyes (Jan-2016)

Rainbow Collections

1 - Iridescent (Jan-2018)
2 - Spectrum (Feb-2018)

Book List in Order: 312 titles

  • The City of the Ladies

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 1

    On the matriarchal world of Muirin, seven-year-old Anwyn of the Dana Clan had no interest in going to the Delbhana Clan's big party. Her arch-rival Siobhan would be there and Anwyn had promised not to pick a fight with her, no matter how tempting it ...

  • Fight Smarter

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 2

    On the matriarchal world of Muirin, thirteen-year-old Gavin of the Dana Clan was painfully aware that he was being groomed for a powerful position in the family despite his gender. He wasn't sure that he wanted it until he caught his younger sister G...

  • Fitting in

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 11

    Trips around the world excited Cadfael's twin Anwyn but sailing was torture for him. Seasick looking at boats, Cadfael would rather stay home. Except that home was torture, too. Too many women assuming they could touch whatever they wanted. Once he g...

  • Hide and Seek

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 2.1

    Aravel hummed happily as he carefully picked up the white yarn, working it into the blue ribbing for Mother's new socks. Then Anwyn wailed. Her fury at being bedridden made knitting impossible so Aravel went hunting for something better to do. Hide a...

  • Sensory Alterations

    Infinite Horizons - 1

    When Tinesha left her Seattle suburban home to join the space station building program it was with a sense of excitement. She hoped for adventure and something greater to dedicate herself to. Helping humanity expand into outer space seemed like a wor...

  • Sound of Obedience

    Debts to Recover - 1

  • Inina's Blessings of Joy

    Mages of Tindiere - 1

    It was a day of celebration. Valerian's intent had been to enjoy the Festival of the Goddess Inina's Blessings to the world with his daughters and young son. It was a day of joy, a day to celebrate family and loved ones both there and gone on to Inin...

  • The Hole Inside

    Zachary had spent his entire life with a hole inside him where his God's love should be. He did his best to hide it from the people around him but it wasn't easy, especially from his friends. Caleb, Zachary's occasional lover, pushed the boundaries t...

  • Crack of Doom

    Debts to Recover - 4



  • Taste of Joy

    Debts to Recover - 2

  • An Unrepentant Bastard

    Debts to Recover - 3

  • Artifacts of Awareness

    Mages of Tindiere - 2

    Being enslaved was better than dying but only barely. Kennet did what he had to in order to survive as a slave with the knowledge that freedom would risk being found by the people who drove him into slavery. Kennet saw no reason to do anything extra ...

  • Be with Me

    Debts to Recover - 6

  • New Boy

    Debts to Recover - 5

  • Threads of Hope

    Mages of Tindiere - 2.1

    Living in the shadow of Spider Mountain, Gran Anna and her family's little seamstress shop prospered fairly well. Her magical gift expressed itself well through her sewing, allowing her to work tiny bits of magic into the stitches. They kept it secre...

  • Controlled Edge

    Debts to Recover - 9

  • Jam Crisis

    Debts to Recover - 8

  • The Nature of Beasts

    Debts to Recover - 7

  • Another Path to Infinity

    Infinite Horizons - 2

    When death stole one life, she searched for another. Exie used her magic to travel from world to world in search of another place, and another woman, to call home. Grief kept her at Benella's side for entirely too long, long enough that she left with...



  • Feast of the Senses

  • Silken Embrace

  • Three Sisters

  • Eruption Event

    Pablo ran, panting as the men shouted angry slurs at him, cursing at him. He ducked down an alley behind a warehouse, looking for something that might be a weapon. He had to escape, had to get away. His little sister was sick. He'd wanted to get her ...

  • Shadow Dreams

    Shadows shifted over the walls like insects creeping out of the corners in scuttling waves that advanced, retreated, advanced, retreated. Corey watched, teeth gritted. He couldn't cry. He couldn't. He'd get in trouble. Jenner, the babysitter, said so...

  • Stardust in Your Veins

    Infinite Horizons - 4

    Newlywed Falak and her wife Steise hoped that moving to one of the newly opened space stations orbiting beyond Mars would give them a chance at a whole new life. At the very least, it got them away from their abusive families. Unfortunately, familiar...

  • Stormy Arrival

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 2.2

    Anwyn strained her ears to hear what Doctor Bernice said to Father. Ages and ages bedridden from her broken ribs and ankle; she couldn't stand staying in bed any longer. Not one more minute. She didn't care if there was a storm, she wanted to go out ...

  • Wedding Plans

    Infinite Horizons - 3

    Dorcia's wedding plans consumed the household. Hipatia, her younger half-sister, knew that what Dorcia got for a wedding dress, a husband, a new life would never be hers. Her sister's affection and father's regard wasn't enough to block their mother'...

  • Foster Home

    In the aftermath of his Gifts erupting, Pablo finds himself in a whole new world. Gone is his familiar apartment building and run-down school. In their place, he has a brightly colored world full of incredible people who all expect great things of hi...

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  • Repair and Rebuild

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 3

    Rebuilding the future that was nearly lost. When the Tourmaline Seas limped back into port, everyone in Raelin's family was stunned that she'd made it. She'd lost a mast and had so many holes in the hull that it was only with the Goddesses' blessings...

  • Threads of Hate

    Mages of Tindiere - 2.2

    Louisa's life revolved around her mother, her grandparents and their sewing shop. Her burgeoning magic wasn't something that concerned her. Mother and Grandmother Anna both handled it well, as did her aunts and cousins. There was no reason to think t...

  • Stolen Away

    Trapped at his father's court, Coby believed that he would live and die by his father's tyrannical rules. But Coby's lover Rodolf had no intention of allowing that to happen. Stolen in the dead of night, Coby woke to a new home full of warriors, frig...

  • Tales of the Dana Clanhouse

    The Dana Clan: wild, unpredictable and bafflingly successful traders.Their children were even wilder, challenging social norms and each other at every turn.This collection of short stories reveals the world of the Dana Clanhouse and it’s many resid...

  • Infinite Horizons

    Infinite Horizons - 6

  • Moon of the Sea

    Infinite Horizons - 5

    Sisters in Conflict Badra and Rida had spent years fishing the moonlit seas together but their relationship was as unstable as their tiny fishing boat adrift in a gale. Badra had done her best for her sister. They had a home. They had work. There was...

  • Choice

    Wade knew that he had very few choices in life. His family lived at the edge of starvation. He could choose to support them or run away. He could choose to live or die. Either way, the world wouldn't care. Every day he chose to support his family unt...

  • Darkness Rising

    Infinite Horizons - 8

    Kia's life revolved around the monsters that stalked her tribe every night. The Dark killed at will and there was nothing that Kia could do. Until one night, Kia's anger overwhelmed her fear. Her life went on a different path, one that she could neve...

  • Dragon Rider's Song

    Infinite Horizons - 7

    Young dragon rider Amynta returned to her senator mother Timo's home expecting conflict, the possibility of good food and a very nice bath. Instead she found the lovely Pallas, a mysterious visitor to her mother's home. Dinner brought a request that ...

  • Storm Over Archaelaos

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 4

    Archaelaos: Distant island where men ruled, against all the laws of nature. When Anwyn’s friend Iola got a letter to come home, Anwyn decided to go with her. A quick trip to a strange land might also get the Dana a new trade deal. What could go wro...



  • Tales from the Dana Clanhouse

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 3.1

    The Dana Clan: wild, unpredictable and bafflingly successful traders. Their children were even wilder, challenging social norms and each other at every turn. This collection of short stories reveals the world of the Dana Clanhouse and it’s many res...

  • Cloud Cover

    Infinite Horizons - 9

    The mission went wrong from the beginning. Leto and her messenger dragon Cloud Song were left scrambling to make sure that the plans they'd stolen from the enemy camp made it home to their commanders. At first, Leto thought that their team would be a...

  • Ghosts of the Dead

    Infinite Horizons - 10

    Survival was hard enough but when your space station was half destroyed and the population was slowly trickling away it became even harder. Paulina lived with the scars of the accident that had nearly killed their station. She wasn't sure if she coul...

  • Infinite Dreams

    Infinite Horizons - 12

    Collecting six varied stories, Infinite Dreams examines what it means to be a woman facing a hostile world. In Dragon Rider's Song, a young woman returns to her mother's home only to find romance and understanding waiting for her. Monsters from outer...

  • Jade Claws

    Infinite Horizons - 11

    Madoka did not know what in the little village had compelled so much attention. Despite Madoka's intention to spend no more than a matter of weeks, Madoka had been in the village for several years. It had been long enough for Madoka to watch little H...

  • Anniversary

    Andy had plans for his fifth wedding anniversary with Thomas. They would have dinner together. There would be sex in the living room on the sheepskin rug. Then they would to go bed and have more sex before falling asleep in each other's arms. Their p...

  • Intruder

    Young dragon Marikellian traveled through dimensions, exploring the universe. It was lonely but Marikellian didn't mind. Much. At least until he encountered a deadly dimension like none he'd ever seen. Sucked in to be eaten, he gambled on his wits an...

  • Valkyrie

    Maria hated Anthony. The teachers at their school doted on Anthony and joined him in bullying anyone that Anthony targeted. He was Gifted and Maria wasn't so Maria was always wrong. Then Anthony's bullying took on overtones that frightened Maria. She...

  • Eight Factors

    Deadly danger reveals incredible powers. Those Gifted with eight Factors erupt into superheroes when faced with death. Only to discover that greater threats lurk under their new world. Meyari McFarland crafts a world where greatness lurks inside of e...

  • Scavenger

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 2

    Noa's life revolved around scavenging for valuables left behind when global warming melted the ice caps and flooded Seattle. Her little nest in the Web was all she had other than her flipper and the precious cybernetic mods her Ma had gotten her. It ...



  • The Web

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 1

    Ruby's world, the artificial jungle suspended from a web of synthetic cables, threatened to collapse around her. A larger than normal storm had driven a drifting ship towards the support stanchions that held up the web. She swam with War Tooth, the m...

  • Mods

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 3

    Bot smasher Nakato dedicated her life to taking the broken tech other people had abandoned and turning it into robots designs that the world had never seen. Only two things drew her from her home high in the Web: her best friend Rafah and commissions...

  • Bringing the Rains

    Infinite Horizons - 13

    Refugees from a drought that destroyed their homeland, Lesedi and her family settled in a new land with a whole new climate. Lesedi struggled to find her place not only in this new society but also in her family's weather magic. One rainy day brought...

  • Coming Together

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 7

    The last thing Mari expected when she and her sisters arrived in Aingeal City with a load of Dana trade goods was to land squarely in the middle of a marriage alliance. But with a Delbhana plot threatening everyone, that’s what Mari had. Question w...

  • Center

    Infinite Horizons - 14

    When friendship is betrayed, there are always consequences. Riley knows this just as well as her former friend Torey did. Yet he wrote a book betraying everything Riley had shared, betraying magic and life itself. In a world where the magic that flow...

  • Child of Spring

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 5

    Meyari McFarland returns to the world of Mouse and Snake in a story of a found family and the cycles of life. Ben's terraced garden, cut high into the mountainside where few dared to work, was his pride and joy, source of his family's food. Twenty ye...

  • Electric Time

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 4

    Meyari McFarland returns to the world of Mouse and Snake in a story of a mother's love struggling to protect her child. Banan had never been violent. She left that to Nakato, her daughter Rafah's best friend, and her other friends. But the relentless...

  • A New Path

    The Manor Verse - 1

    After Shizuka's father suffered a terrible accident, she took on the challenge of apprenticing to the nobility of Ambermarle in the hopes of learning a new career that could cover for his medical care. Breding Manor surprised her with more than just ...

  • From the Night

    Infinite Horizons - 15

    Eashana knew, to the core of her being, that something was wrong. Her sisters were never this silent. But as she drifted towards the airlock, silence echoing in her ears, she also knew that they might not survive this disaster even if they worked tog...

  • Boiling the Ocean Away

    Mages of Tindiere - 2.3

    Kinipela fought with her magic, strictly controlling the need to work the weather and waves surrounding her island. The broken heart left behind by Moanna, her ex-wife, made control that much harder. Then Kinipela's little brother arrived with news o...

  • Tales of Adventure

    Meyari McFarland gathers together six stories of adventure in this first themed collection, Tales of Adventure. Inside you will find a touching wedding anniversary gone wrong (Anniversary). The Web brings a struggle for survival where one wrong choic...

  • Tales of Romance

    Meyari McFarland gathers together six stories of romance in this second themed collection, Tales of Romance.Inside you will find dragon riders suddenly finding love and a sympathetic ear in Dragon Rider's Song, SF adventurers coming together while bu...

  • Blue

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 6

    Meyari McFarland returns to the world of Mouse and Snake in a story of finding ones place in a whole new world. Kyle lived at the very base of the Web, the hugely complicated suspension system over drowned Seattle that supported a city of displaced p...

  • Crafting Home

    The Manor Verse - 3

    Everyone has plans for Haruka's life. They assume she'll marry her best friend Shahzad, youngest son of Lord Bilal of Breding Manor. They assume she's a pretty face with no mind or will of her own. Fatima's plans for her life had fallen apart around ...

  • Following The Trail

    The Manor Verse - 2

    As her older sister's wedding begins, Keiko struggles to cope with a level of society she has never prepared for. Raised a peasant, Keiko is now a member of nobility. Despite that, she longs for the simplicity of her rural peasant life but her family...

  • Midwife to Divinity

    Infinite Horizons - 17

    Dahlia had a problem: a stalker with powers that threatened not just her life but also her carefully crafted identity. Jacks had a problem, too: a magical doom that had destroyed his entire family. Only by trusting each other can they solve the probl...

  • Transformations

    Infinite Horizons - 16

    Ewould had spent his life in an uneasy compromise between his true self and the pressures of his parents and society. No matter what body he'd been born with, he was male. That changed the day he buried his husband. Come what may, Ewould decided to s...

  • Bottling the Cold, Hard Heart

    Infinite Horizons - 19

    Eliza's comfortable life ended when her beloved grandmother died. Her cousin Sandra swooped in and took it all, from the house to Eliza's beloved dog, Miki. Nothing Eliza did worked but the one thing she would never give up on was saving Miki, no mat...

  • Memories of Fire

    Infinite Horizons - 18

    Youneda's life was as comfortable as it could be for an aging dragon with a horde of pottery instead of gold or jewels. One day he received a message that drew him out of his comfortable suburban lair and down to the glittering magical city of Bellev...

  • Threads of Birthing

    Mages of Tindiere - 2.4

    It was one of the most frustrating things in Marjory's life. Her best friend Emily was pregnant again after years of miscarriages but she wouldn't, couldn't, accept any of Marjory's charms to help her safely bear her child. Political forces from outs...

  • Transplant of War

    Mages of Tindiere - 3

    Adane barely escaped war in his homeland. He wanted nothing more than to hide in this new city with his adopted child Chisa by his side. But every choice he makes risks their quiet lives and every day brings the war that Adane fled closer to their do...

  • Mountainous Stretch of Wind

    Etsuko delighted in the challenge of meeting a new species on a new world. Meeting new aliens, learning of their cultures, was her greatest joy. Not as joyful was dealing with new coworkers who seemed to view her as an odd little threat to their much...

  • Eternity in a Touch

    Infinite Horizons - 21

    Exploration of new worlds delighted Berenike. They'd yet to find one that would make an acceptable colony but she enjoyed the process of discovery. Until they landed on one bleak grey world and discovered something so far beyond her expectations that...

  • Infinite Travels

    Infinite Horizons - 20

    Seven journeys: Infinite Travels collects seven stories by Meyari McFarland chronicling travels physical, emotional and metaphorical. Questions of identity, of freedom, of gender and justice are examined in these seven stories that span the genres an...

  • Facing the Storm

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 5

    When the Tourmaline Seas docked in Atalya, Raelin expected a normal port of call: trade, exploration, loading cargo. What she got was a stunning offer, threats from the Delbhana and an unexpected need to step into her elder's shoes. The rest of the t...

  • A Lone Red Tree

    Mages of Tindiere - 3.1

    Anger and desperation drove Afya to risk the red tree at the edge of town. Her mother was dying, her little sister already dead, all because of Mother Tabussum. No one would help so Afya risked death to find a path that would bring vengeance against ...

  • Tales of Wonder

    Meyari McFarland gathers together six stories of wonder in this third themed collection, Tales of Wonder. Inside you will find dragons both dark and light, sisters struggling to make ends meet who face death together, new worlds and future modificati...

  • Tending the Temple

    Mages of Tindiere - 3.2

    Once every ten years a Priestess tended to the temple, painting its murals. Barirah was proud to have that duty but her heart ached for the children she and her wife Jabirah had not been blessed with. But a day of prayer sometimes leads to more than ...

  • Late Arrival

    When Lusala was small his big sister went into space to explore and find new worlds for humanity. It's been five years for her, fifty for him. But now, finally, Osumare was home, so very late. With everything that had happened, Lusala worried that he...

  • Eternal Magic

    Mages of Tindiere - 3.3

    Tindiere. A world wracked by war, controlled by secret conflicts between hugely powerful mages, filled with the tiny joys found in the quiet moments of life. Eternal Magic collects six short stories from various ages in Tindiere, showing the spread a...

  • Finding a Way

    The Manor Verse - 4

    Atif's life seemed as though it was set in stone until the day his father's ship ran around. Then everything changed for the worse. Starvation seemed inevitable until Atif decided that he wouldn't let it continue. He volunteered to be an apprentice t...

  • The Eternal Librarian

    When humanity went to the stars they took many things with them. Brencis, the Eternal Librarian, ensured that they took the books. Unfortunately, humanity also took along their greed, their blindness and their short-sighted focus on all the wrong thi...

  • Into the Wave

    Piloting was dangerous, especially when you grieved. Keola knew that better than most. The Wave drive affected electronics, making them unreliable. It also affected human minds, sending them chasing after memories and too distracted to pilot the ship...

  • City of the Dead

    Mages of Tindiere - 4

    Kennet hated being king. Rudrash was a disaster after his defeat of Mage-King Rihab and Kennet had to fix it. If he could. There was a toxic volcano, not enough food and water, and no safe place for people to live. On top of that, his old enemy Elder...

  • Blue, Red, Green

    Mages of Tindiere - 4.1

    Cold. Wilson was ready to let the cold kill him but he couldn't let his little sister Aniyah die. It was Wilson's fault that she was outside in the icy cold, his fault that the Elder had thrown them out. So it was up to him to save her even if it mea...

  • Infinite Joys

    Infinite Horizons - 23

    Meyari McFarland returns in a joyful collection of science fiction stories focusing on women of all types. From scientists exploring new worlds to space liners catering to their guests every needs, the search for joy infuses this collection with deli...

  • Specialist Class Three

    Infinite Horizons - 22

    Naya found certain aspects of her job… difficult. The excessively controlled environment, the fussy clothes, the endless paperwork. But dealing with the passengers on the space cruiser during their three month journeys was not. There was joy to be ...

  • August Highs

    August sat in her car, fingers clenched around the steering wheel. Going to a family barbeque with her girlfriend Janie felt like the biggest challenge of her life even though Janie had insisted it was casual, jeans and tennies. That didn't mean Jani...

  • Checkout Line

    Trapped in the checkout line, Youneda had no desire to give advice to baby dragons. He was old and did not want desperately earnest questions that could not be properly answered. As the oldest dragon in the store, Youneda was trapped between question...

  • Smell of Joy

    Few dragons collected teapots. Youneda didn't care. They pleased him and his hoard was worth enough to allow him a comfortable life in the suburbs. Nothing bothered him anymore. At least until a new neighbor in the suburb shattered everyone's peace w...

  • Maintenance

    Deidre frowned at the porch. Damn the pixies she had allowed to move into the floorboards.They'd eaten through the joists and now she had to repair the deck without destroying their nest. Unfortunately baby Mori had already fallen through and been bi...

  • Fairy Dragon Blues

    Soggy leaves squished under Janie's boots. Fixing the back fence wasn't a fun job but it would go quick with the whole pack. At least until they reached the unnaturally flooded stream. Crossing a swollen stream shouldn't be deadly but Janie found a w...

  • Tales of the Opening

    Quiet moments from a fantastic world: Tales of the Opening contains six stories from the Unification universe where humans and dragons argue about lawn maintenance while pixies fly overhead. Meyari McFarland creates stories of the fantastic filled wi...

  • Candy-Coated Courtship

    Infinite Horizons - 25

    Candy Courtship, Amirah's favorite pastry shop, smelled of yeast and the acrid bright smell of fresh green tea. It was all the more welcoming because of the proprietors sweet, beautiful Calliope and her twin sister Hayden. Four months had won Amirah ...

  • Tiny Futures

    Infinite Horizons - 24

    The solution to Leisl's construction problem came wrapped in an opportunity. When Cassidy came over to help Leisl install a tub in her new tiny house on wheels, Leisl expected nothing other than a functioning tub. But Cassidy was huge, strong and ado...

  • Dancing on the Edge of the Waterfall

    The air was thick with moisture, cold and dark as a shadowy tomb. The cargo hold echoed with the whisper of claws against metal grates. Devyn heard the drips. Alone in the dark with alien monsters hunting her Devyn feared death. In the dark, with no ...

  • Drifting Leaves, Misty Skies

    Sand shifted under Simeon's feet, under the stairs, the buildings, the entire town. James waited, eyes on the horizon like a onyx sculpture of a man as he gazed across the misty beach towards the booming waves. The waves summoned James' magic away fr...

  • Stars Drifting Ever Upwards

    Gisela paused, one foot planted on a fallen log, the other buried in a mound of long brown pine needles. Beaten, cast out with her sisters, Gisela burned with fury that Harbart had turned on her this way. She'd left their village to protect her siste...

  • Running From The Immortals

    Mages of Tindiere - 5

    Trapped by the blood magic that tied him to his mother, Juraj knew escape was impossible. Elder Danek controlled Nadezda, their town, everyone he saw and touched. But a forced engagement to a woman who loathed Juraj pushed him to run. It wasn't enoug...

  • The Blade Was Not Brass

    T'was the Nit Before Christmas is a light hearted, Christmas short, that tells the story of the origin of St. Nick as Kody hears it from the big man himself. Only a few days old, Kody the first of Dustmopiers nits, is already following in his mother...

  • Delicate Introduction

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 5.9

    The six days between new and old year in Aingeal were a time of feasting and family. Gwen was more than happy to feast. She'd rather spend less time helping her brother Cadfael shop instead of eating. Until Tierney Nolan walked in and stole her heart...

  • Go Between

    The Manor Verse - 5

    Ando Sora could negotiate any deal in Ambermarle, no matter how reluctant the parties were.He was the best. Everyone agreed. But the one thing he had never been able to negotiate was his love life.Hounded by his parents, Sora found himself falling in...

  • Hearts of Magic

    Mages of Tindiere - 6

    Blood Magic stalked Juraj. He had escaped his home town but Elder Danek still hunted him.His sole ally, Besim, held a Hearts of Magic. Together they set out to the Concordance to enlist the aid of the other Hearts of Magic.If Juraj wanted to free the...

  • Triumph of the Artificer Mages

    Mages of Tindiere - 7

    There had to be a spell to kill his enemies. Juraj and Besim fled the Concordance of the Hearts of Magic, clinging to the hope that there was a solution. The question was what it would cost Juraj and Besim. They weren't strong enough to free the worl...

  • Weight of Change

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 7

    Amelia stopped, panting. The mountain loomed ahead, dropped away behind. Cedars had long since been replaced by scrubby wind-twisted spruce. She trusted Jen and Danny but this was huge. So huge. Amelia didn't know if she could leave her parents, her ...

  • Broken Sword of Night

    Jamie was king, granted by the right of the Black Sword of Night. Except he wasn't king, not now that his Knight and lover Ainsley was dead. No one was until the Black Sword was restored. A year after the sword broke, Jamie ran to Ainsley's memorial....

  • Cupboard Full of Seeds

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 8

    Skye had to get the onions planted. Onions and garlic. It was time, past time, for them to be in the ground. Claudine and Felicia didn’t seem to understand how important it was. If Skye didn’t work, didn’t give grow squash and potatoes and bean...

  • One Thousand Eyes

    A Mouse and Snake Cyberpunk Short Story - 9

    Creating a monster was easy when you were surrounded by them. Kelby's robots weren't monsters until now. But his lovers Braxton and Dawson had played Kelby like a fool until they abandoned him for each other. Now Kelby had to figure out how to go on ...

  • Tiny Gifts of Peace

    Mages of Tindiere - 7.1

    Nonna's granddaughter hated her fiancé and the upcoming marriage. Couldn't blame her. The man was a useless lump. She'd had husbands like that. It was annoying other than the daughters they'd sired for Nonna. Nonna's daughters hadn't inherited the m...

  • Consort

    Keelan glared, hands clenched so tight they felt like wire strung over steel blades ready to spring loose and cut someone to ribbons. Not someone. Father. Again. Always. The battle for his and his siblings' freedom never ended. Keelan couldn't win, n...

  • Orange Thief

    A shriek from the back yard usually was bad news. Not this time. Instead of her neighbors stealing oranges, Garnet found a beautiful girl stuck in the highest branches of her tree. Getting her down set off a chain of coincidences that were anything b...

  • Following the Beacon

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 6

    Nolan hated parties. Which didn't matter when Mother ordered him to attend a Delbhana ball. He wouldn't risk a beating for disagreeing. It looked to be another evening on the sidelines until Dana Gwen, notorious trader and brawler, asked him to dance...

  • Blood Worms

    Esme covered her mouth and nose before sucking in a deep breath. The kill room stank of death. Odd thing was the skull, hole punched through the top. Question was who'd done it and if there was money to be made turning them in. Getting intel led Esme...

  • Infinite Love

    Meyari McFarland returns in a collection of eight stories centered on love. From new courtships to the ashes of failed marriage to magic bringing two people together in every way, the Infinite Love collection has stories that will touch your heart. I...

  • Price of the Gift

    Anan shut their eyes, heart hammering in their chest as if it was trying to knock the box out of their arms. They couldn't afford another punishment, not after the last one. But the box held a demon and the master of the library didn't care about Ana...

  • The Return

    Decades. Maram had spent decades without seeing the stars slip into the Wave, since piloting a ship. She'd expected to die with her feet covered in dirt. But then the ships came back and Maram realized that there were bigger threats than old age. She...

  • Stitched Lines, Watching Eyes

    Noga bent over her stitching, neck aching in fear of Gul Maes' heavy cane coming down on her. Seven days until Mistress Kelly was married off to Gul Maes' brute of a son. Noga kept her head down. Wasn't safe to challenge someone like Gul Maes. But wi...

  • Floating Paper Strips

    Efe's body betrayed her. Daily. She couldn't walk, couldn't run, couldn't do all the things a page should do, no matter how hard she tried. That was just the way it was. Until Father Abijah decided that the way it was wasn't good enough. Then a whole...

  • Gossamer Threads

    The thread slid over Ashanti's fingers, softer than baby's hair, finer than a spider web. Weaving a new marriage for two people was a heavy task but one Ashanti took on with joy. Her stitches would shape their lives for decades, transforming separate...

  • Like Arrows of Fate

    The Manor Verse - 6

    Yuki's clothing shouldn't bring battles with her mother every day. Shouldn't. They did. She truly didn't need that on a day that included Samurakami Kaoru. Kaoru would have preferred anything other than confronting Yuki but duty required it. Hands sh...

  • Out of the Tower

    Laurie's entire life had been spent in the tower, subject to her magic and her whims. Then chance gave her the opportunity to escape and Laurie seized it with everything she had. The world outside was wild, dangerous and fraught with other spells as ...

  • Saving Imani

    Visiting the beach hadn't been Haruka's best idea. It was hot, sandy, and her shoulders were already burned. Leaving seemed like the best option. Until martial artist Imani Bakalov ran up with a problem that Haruka should ignore. She didn't. Because ...

  • The Solace of Her Clan

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 8

    Eoghania's quiet live changed when a man from her past tried to rob the Dana. Sean didn't want to break any laws. He certainly didn't want to fight the Dana. But he had two infant daughters who would die without his support. Their marriage of conveni...

  • Adventures of Snails

    Grandma Kaede's house should have been hopelessly run down and unlivable. Sasha's inheritance couldn't be that good. In fact, it was a puzzle in near-perfect condition. Then the contractor who came to fix the flaws drew Sasha her out like a snail eme...

  • Infinite Magic

    Meyari McFarland returns in a new collection of eight stories wrapped around magic. From that moment of reentry to space to finding love to fairy tale magic warping lives, Infinite Magic delivers the best straight to you. Includes eight short stories...

  • Assumptions of Debt

    A new master only meant more abuse as Tommy paid off his debt. Master John Boles was different. Even as Tommy's past came back, full of torture and fear, Boles kept Tommy safe. Better still, he wasn't alone anymore. With Jay at his side, Tommy finall...

  • Collected Debts

    A world twisted by debt, tortured by terrorism: Meyari McFarland explores how debt and slavery intertwine in the best and worst ways in this collection of thirteen short stories and novellas.Explore BDSM, romance, and adventure in:Feast of the Senses...

  • Clash of Lines

    Running for his life was normal for Ru, just part of living in Hexal City. Running with Nthanda and uncovering a plot to destroy both Nthanda and Ru's long-lost family? Not normal at all. Just meant Ru had to kick ass and fight for his future. And th...

  • Crumbling of the Soul

    The patio rippled under Ysan's feet. Two generations of drought had transformed the Library of Truth into a ruin.Just like Ysan's life.One slim thread of hope remained for the world. If Ysan and his friends could muster the courage to sacrifice thems...

  • Joining of Lines

    Duty defined Jing Althus' life. Duty to Nthanda, his cousin. To the Ceelen who expected him to lead if Nthanda fell. Someone had targeted the Ceelen for destruction. Only one person could help Jing discover them: Iman Hogarth, conman, genius and the ...

  • Consort of the Crystal Palace

    Imani had a problem: Bala Wirnhier, Platinum Consort of the Crystal Palace. Since her arrival, Bala had taken over. Overnight, Imani had gone from Chief of Staff to clerk. Nothing Imani did made a difference. That wasn't going to last. Imani would no...

  • A Delicate Shade of Rust

    Lauren needed to get to space. Now. She'd tried following the rules to get an ID but no one would listen. Either she got to space or she starved to death. Clubbing Idowu Mas, Ceelen warrior, and stealing her jumpsuit and ID weren't smart but it was n...

  • Fragments of a Chain

    Mohana stumbled, head screaming with pain in the blinding sunlight as shouts echoed around him. His memory wiped, battle raged around him. Mohana had no idea which side he was on. But one side wanted him dead while the other, especially Tiyamike, ris...

  • Stranded with You

    Min-Su stared. The interstellar comms were down. All space liner travel was cancelled indefinitely. She was stranded. Not acceptable. Finding a way home pitted Min-Su against a hotel room stealing assassin named Sushila, fierce Drathanni, clone siste...

  • Break Apart, Reform

    Cahya sighed as she collapsed into the couch. Just the thought of having a couch made her skin itch. Or maybe that was the exhaustion. Six assassinations in as many days had worn her down, just like her friends Lamar, Sheridan and Pesti. What she wan...

  • Reunited Hearts

    Strange how life went. Hasenkamp had built an empire on to have it swept out from under him by the Drath. So he started over on Tasma, expecting nothing to work. But an old lover with allies promised to bring new opportunities in, if Hasenkamp could ...

  • The Crimson Vest

    The crimson vest slithered through Guanyu's fingers, delicate embroidery snagging against the callouses on his palms. Embroidered by his mother before her death, it was everything he'd set aside to keep his job. Which was gone now. So off job hunting...

  • One Moment of Change

    Alex shuffled his feet as he waited in line. His back ached. Stupid how much his back ached. Fleeing Melin to escape Yong's abuse was desperate. But what choice did he have? It was Yong and rape or leave everything he knew behind. Better to change ev...

  • A Simple Life

    Shahnaz hummed as he sculpted the Wave around his asteroid tug. It was a simple life, herding asteroids to the space stations at Tasma's core. Until he found a drifting escape capsule. Caelan was everything that Shanaz wasn't: Gensyn, strong and hunt...

  • Creaks and Groans

    Purple and green billowed as he exhaled. Pixie dust. Felix's one vice, helped his knees stop aching and his body remember what it was like to be young. But this batch brought rage instead of youth, violence instead of relief. Not a good thing to infl...

  • Under the Blackberry Vines

    Addison studied the blackberry vines. It wasn't right that no one had celebrated Caelan and Shanaz's getting together. Not right at all. He'd make them a pie, wish them well. And maybe in the process of it all he could figure out what to do about Rus...

  • Out of Disaster

    Landslide Romances - 1

    A summer vacation in an American park turned life and death for Jiro and his friends. They alone survived.Decades later, the fortune Jiro's lost family had left rediscovered him.Garret Hampton offered Jiro a whole new world, money and power beyond hi...

  • Tea and Knives

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 5.1

    Cadfael desperately needed to look grown up. Desperately. The day had gone from bad to worse as disasters piled on and now he was the only one who could entertain the Affrica sisters until grown-ups were available. But looking grown meant grown-up at...

  • Homecoming

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 5.3

    Raelin stared out over the sea, trying to figure out what had her on edge. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary for an approach to Aingeal Bay. But there was a baby volcano under the surface of the water and plots back in port to destroy the Dana so ma...

  • Luck of the Dana

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 5.2

    Lovely. Gwen glared at the swiftly sinking Drifting Cloud and cursed her luck. Mother giving birth, Captain Nia's leg broken, everyone else busy with a myriad of disasters: this was all on her. Something had punched a hole in the Drifting Cloud's hul...

  • Running Before the Storm

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 9

    Political plots? Check. Injured shoulder? Yes, check. Still. An infatuated enemy directly opposing her? Oh yes, another check. Raelin's shore leave while the Tourmaline Dreams was refitted and refurbished was the worst one yet. Constant pain and exha...

  • Door in the Wind

    Wind whipped around them, icy one second and then dry as a desert the next. Akuchi stood firm against it. The door in the wind blasted them, carrying threat from another world. Or perhaps that threat had already come through with the creeping unnatur...

  • The Heat of the Thorn

    Xun stopped, panting. She ached. Climbing the mountian to the Valley of the Thorns was hard enough without her new teammates. Keanu Marchetti was as cheerful as Garnett Daughterty was dour. Demigod and Mage matched with Xun's gardening. Together, the...

  • Mind's Eye

    The Mind's Eye: Her crew held her together day by day, scrabbling for a living at the margins of the solar system. Meade would fix everything if she could, her pilot's seat's squeaking on up to the glitchy engines and too small fuel tanks. But Captai...

  • Rising Sword of the Blue Flames

    One would think that killing a god and then fighting a monster from another world entitled one to a bit of a break. One would be wrong. Garnett wasn't happy to be in Boitumelo tracking down a rogue spell. Or dealing with another Ancient God. And if K...

  • Transplanted Courage

    Mages of Tindiere - 7.3

    A bomb arched overhead, crackling with fire and lightning runes inscribed all over its blackened body. Rafi ducked. Magic. War. He could deal with that. Facing Chisa and Princess Abra courting each other? No. He couldn't face that. But what Rafi want...

  • Transplanted Destiny

    Mages of Tindiere - 7.2

    Sixty-three years of war had taken its toll on everyone in Rudrash, Chisa included. He was old. So old for someone who still felt so young. His body was failing him. Worse, it was failing Na'im. His magical younger brother and weapon against their en...

  • The Ice's Voyagers

    Xun's breath puffed into the air, crystallizing in a cloud. So cold. If Chifundo hadn't begged… But she had. And Xun had to answer her, treking all the way up to the glaciers over Turnbull. Only to discover that Chifundo didn't want her. Or need he...

  • Thief of the Moon

    Rich brown velvet that wasn't actually real gave under Keanu's fingers as he slowly sank back into the chair he'd been offered. Oh, so graciously offered. One could hardly be offended at all. Except Keanu knew that he was in danger. Because someone h...

  • Silent Voyages of the Last Winter

    The Silent Winter: floating library that drifted in the sky far above the highest peaks. Only three people lived on it, sworn to keep the evil books from infecting the world below. Or was there? Prince Cyrille returned to the Silent Winter, intent on...

  • First Snake of the Dwindling Ships

    The Headquarters of the Snakes of the Empire was a black blot against the white marble of the Holy City. Akuchi would rather be anywhere but here. Bonding to Prince Cyrille was the best thing that had ever happened to him. It had taken him from this ...

  • Kiss of the High King's Illusion

    Cyrille strolled to the library window overlooking the east rose garden, Akuchi by his side. Misty rain fell outside. Odd for his favorite place in the world to be so grim but then the murderous ghost haunting the High King's library was a great thre...

  • Living Beginning of the Storm

    Keanu clung to his form. Only Cyrille, his beloved First Follower, kept him from being blown apart by the power of the sea surrounding him. Baby gods should never confront the Gods of the Sea. They just shouldn't. But the team needed Keanu so he had ...

  • The Roses of the Slaves

    The air stank of roses. Nothing good came from roses, especially these. Garnett kept one hand over his mouth to keep the pollen out. He would not give the Goddess Gyanyu a chance to capture him again. Not after escaping all those years ago. But there...

  • Fighting the Morrigan's Hand

    A Matriarchies of Muirin Novel - 10

    Aravel stood at the bow of the Harmonious Song, studying the twin cities of Yuzuki and Masumi in Chinwendu. Halfway around the world from home, Aravel didn't expect to find an old enemy stirring up the same stupid strife. But Delbhana Cahan had marri...

  • Red Lords and the Darkest Hunter

    The steppes were cold, stunningly cold, not that Xun felt it. The blood of Dorji Kita shielded her from the worst of it.Unfortunately, it also prevented her from seeing and hearing the dark threat lurking under the steppes, waiting to flood out and c...

  • Gods Above and Below

    Gods dwell in everything. The sky, the earth, roses, frogs, everywhere. Above, below and between, the Gods imbue everything with life. And death. When Dorji Kita goes mad and kidnaps Prince Cyrille and his soulbond, the warrior Akuchi, it falls to ga...

  • Daring to Love

    The path to love isn't always straightforward. Sometimes you have to take a risk to find what you're looking for. And sometimes what you need comes from unexpected places bearing gifts. Meyari McFarland has crafted six stories of girls falling in lov...

  • The Lights of the Stones

    Six hours of training, riding, helping build a wall around Countess Delaney's fortress and now Akuchi had to go to a party. He'd been on battle fields that felt less like a trap than this room did. Until he realized that this was a true trap, that ma...

  • Stripped Lords of the Way

    If there was one thing tha Cyrille accepted, it was that his horse, Sunshine, was a nervous wreck. Twitchy, shying at everything, prone to bolting at the least provocation. He didn't care. She was lovely and he'd never chose a different horse. Stil...

  • Waves of the Falling Moon

    The eclipse was coming. Xun roamed her mother's place halls, unable to sleep. Restless energy filled her; Dorji Kita's energy. She would have called it boredom with being home if it weren't for visiting deities, prophecies of destruction… …and Xu...

  • Wings of the Dreaming Abyss

    Sweat dripped down Garnett's ribs to pool at the beltline. Coming home, back to his house and his friends and his former lover Kali, wasn't something he'd planned on doing. But when home called, Garnett came. Because Kali had changed since the eclips...

  • Dark Visions

    Sometimes life leads you down a dark path. A very dark path. You can succumb to the darkness or find your way back into the light. If you're lucky and brave. Meyari McFarland collects six stories of darkness to entice you away from the light. Include...

  • The Shadow of Time's Courage

    Su Magee's house was… squalid. Strange from a woman who took such care with her appearance. The mud-walled hut was something she'd expect from the poorest of Mama Rosario's people, not someone who worked at court. Except no, it wasn't Su Magee. Anc...

  • The Snows of Obsession

    Snow drifted implacably out of the sky. The clear blue sky. Keanu frowned, unsure what ancient magic could have created this pocket of snow in the middle of the jungle. As the others left, Keanu hesitated. And then found himself trapped, his power bu...

  • The Shores of Twilight Bay

    Tai bounced on her toes, the dock rocking underneath her. Icy cold water washed up over her toes. At least her friends would be here soon for a week-long vacation. When they arrived, Tai's heart lurched because wow. Wow. They'd brought their new room...

  • Clouds Drifting Overhead

    Jyoti bounced on her toes, eyeing the traffic whizzing by. Could she make a run for it? No, not a chance. Too many cars and too many people brought out by the sudden sunshine in Seattle. Ketut was going to laugh. Nothing Jyoti could do about that but...

  • Dark Butterfly

    Dana shivered in the chill air on her hotel balcony. Damn Mother anyways. If she had her way, Dana would never see Mother again. Except that she would. Inevitably. Because shadows come to life and magical maids showed Dana just what Mother had been h...

  • Found Family

    Families come in all sorts and sizes. From brutal lovers to tender lovers, strong parents to the dead we've left behind, family defines us all in many ways. Meyari McFarland has collected six stories of families in all their varied glory for your rea...

  • Godly Interventions

    What is a god but one with the power to change, destroy, improve your life? From ancient gods long forgotten to parents guiding your life and the power of cats to move us, gods come in all shapes, sizes and powers. Meyari McFarland has collected six ...

  • Day Hunt on the Final Oblivion

    The command staff offices for the human habitat on the Final Oblivion were the most butt ugly places Esme had ever worked in her entire life. Bare steel walls, cobbled together desks, no sound dampening at all; It sucked. Made for easy eavesdropping ...

  • Day of Joy

    Cymbals clashed as drums made of old bowls, binds and a Saurid's belly sounded. Emse dodged past the musicians. A Day of Joy on the Final Oblivion. Not a bad thing though Esme preferred the days where it was food everywhere over music. Still, good to...

  • Emperor of Shards

    Water dripped relentlessly, each drop echoing like the blows of a hammer nailing shut a coffin. A coffin that doomed Cyrille. He glared at the darkness around him, at the monster he couldn't see. This was not going to be his end. No so-called 'empero...

  • Dragon Tails

    Dragons lurk in myths and legends. Great ravenous beasts, wily tricksters, gods gifting man with science and fire, they fill many roles. Partner, historian, lover, child, destroyer and unknowable aliens, Meyari McFarland has collected seven stories o...

  • The Slithering Spark

    Fire in the night. Garnett didn't know what had happened to Abiah Knutson hundreds of years ago but since the eclipse Knutson's house caught fire every night. A mystery, to be sure. Not one that Garnett wanted, despite his curiosity about Knutson's m...

  • Captive in the Waves

    The air Keanu had summoned dripped moisture. As it should. A thousand feet below the surface, one expected dampness. One did not expect the Gods of the Sea to request Keanu and the team locate a baby god. Even less did one expect that Keanu would kno...

  • The Girl of Silver Clouds

    Five Holidays. Five celebrations, none of which Caron truly wanted to attend. The thought of facing them, even with her friends, made anxiety race through her. No matter how much Caron wanted to flee, she couldn't. Wouldn't. She couldn't allow her an...

  • Gods Between and Behind

    Gods live in all the quiet places. Behind every single event, a god lurks, alive, dead, undead.Their power buoys up the world and tears it down.When Gods threaten mortal life, one team is called in to deal with it: Xun Rosario and her God Killers.But...

  • Parenthood

    Parenthood is the greatest adventure of all, helping shape the future though the hearts and minds of children. It is not an adventure that everyone is prepared for. Some rise to the challenge. Others fail. Children endure and carry the lessons they'v...

  • Secrets in the Prayers

    Sinead stared out over the ocean as the Tourmaline Seas sailed away.Adrift in a new land, Sinead would survive. She would. No matter how different life was in Atalya, it was not insurmountable.But a mystery revealed a threat that Sinead had not antic...

  • Better With You

    Divorce. Morgan supposed she should consider it a defeat. She didn't. Now she was free at last. It was glorious, though she desperately needed furniture now.Quinn's life was a disaster. Customer service sucked, even with commissions. Her apartment wa...

  • Fossil History

    Red Rock was gorgeous, no doubt about it, hot but gorgeous. Vivian's fossil site on Turtlehead Mountain was more beautiful than most.Not that it mattered if she couldn't get her fossil out of the field without it shattering into rainbow glitter and t...

  • Iridescent

    Rainbow Collections - 1

    The rainbow has infinite shades, just as this collection covers the spectrum of fictional possibilities.From contemporary romances like The Shores of Twilight Bay to dark fantasy like A Lone Red Tree and out to SF futures in Child of Spring, Shades o...

  • Cradle of the Day

    Adjusting to life on the Graceful Swan had not been easy for Ale Aukema. Yes, it was better than living in the Undercity. Safer, at least.But she had no idea how to handle the social side of things. So when King Ru Shashi asked her to be his aide, to...

  • Hidden Eyes

    Dust coated Vivian's lips. Two hours of driving into town with her ex-boyfriend Ash was bad enough. Having him dump her way far away from the loading dock with her fossil was worse.But she'd made it back to town, gotten her fossil to safety and now s...

  • Immortal Sky

    It was supposed to be a test. Just a test.But the simple test of the new Warp Drive turned into a struggle for survival for Chea Mullane.Murder, malfunctions, sabotage, all of it stacked up against her as time ticked away towards Chea being launched ...

  • Spectrum

    Rainbow Collections - 2

    The spectrum has shades through all hues, just as this collection covers the spectrum of fictional possibilities.From grief driving magic into new worlds in Another Path to Infinity to religion filling The Hole Inside and onwards to romance, cyberpun...

  • Doors of Shores

    Imani needed a vacation. When her friend Tumelo offered her his vacation cottage on Whidbey Island, Imani went for it.She didn't expect her neighbor Kyo Skala, retired gymnast and utterly tempting diversion.Kyo hobbled around her little cottage, grat...

  • Emerald Blast

    Steam billowed around Esme Amsel, stained sulfur-yellow by the coating on the dome.London MacNeil and her spanking new train, sent special by the Queen to find out everything there was to know about Hell and the blood worms, were gonna get Esme and C...

  • The First Roses

    Jie's new life with xyr adopted parents Kunzang and Dumisani was hard work. Lots of hard work. More hard work than xe'd expected.Gardening and hauling dirt and, most importantly, making sure that Kunzang didn't overdue it while xe was pregnant.Why Ku...

  • Molten Avatar

    Heat pounded through Ariel's spacesuit.Hammer: hottest planet in the union. Good name for the place. The heat really did hit you like a sledgehammer between the eyes.Scientific missions to figure out Hammer's secrets were one thing. Dealing with anno...

  • An Island Forgot

    Moving always sucked. Truth of nature. Minke let her forehead drop against the moving truck steering wheel. Shoulda known better than to volunteer to move stuff for her friends with a storm coming in.Snow in the Puget Sound meant everything was shut ...

  • Avoiding the Reunion

    The Final Oblivion was far larger than Dana expected. Sure, she'd known that her cousin Esme had been assigned to a big one but she hadn't expected a full solar system sized station. Just the human habitat was the size of Earth's moon.What she had ex...

  • Desire's Escape

    Grey did not want to go down to his birthday party. At all.Father had deliberately invited the three people Grey most feared in all the world. Each of them seemed to feel some claim on him. His opinion of that did not matter at all.Leaping from the l...

  • Escape

    In lockdown, there is no escape. Kenzie carefully measured off a strand of green embroidery thread. The precise movements, small and dainty, didn't set Devon off. Normally. Nothing had been normal since lockdown, though, especially with Devon.&n...

  • A Lover's Act

    A garden party was not the place for a war.Fen knew that, right down to her bones. Mother had taught her to behave over a lifetime of beatings, harassment and abuse, all endured in silence.Apparently, though, Briar didn't know that. Insulting Mother'...

  • Wolf Warlock

    The Wild Hunt.The new Lady of the Hunt called. Tamara, Etelka and Dax answered the call even though they were barely more than pups.They slipped into the physical world, running to the Lady's call. Only to find that she hadn't called them, not exactl...

  • The Lived Glory

    Lindsey jerked, biting back a curse as raindrops fell from the cedar branches overhead right down the back of her coat. That plus the rain on her glasses made her all but blind to the cedar canopy overhead and ferns crowding Suridner's trail.Obnoxiou...

  • The Mother of Ransom

    Amahle bit xyr lip as xe peered over the edge of the balcony.Station manager'd brought in bruisers, big ones, to hunt xem out. Not just Amahle but also Dana and the kids that'd survive his slaughter.They couldn't face down those guns. Or the people c...

  • A Rainbow for Menally

    "Menally's dead."The harsh whisper stopped Imani in her tracks. Her girlfriend, her best friend, dead?No way. It wasn't possible. Imani wouldn't believe it, couldn't believe it. Especially not when Ping had been stalking Menally for years, trying to ...

  • The Rings of Icy Mist

    Ice crystals bloomed in the air as Chisomo panted. So much snow. She'd never known it could be this oppressive. This cold.Getting to the monastery where she would learn magic couldn't happen soon enough.But when Uzoma dragged her to the front door, s...

  • Stellar Darkness Adrift

    The emergency lights blinked, slow as the heartbeat of a dying man.Kawehi watched them, trapped in the debris left by an explosion that had rocked the Stellar Darkness. He couldn't move, couldn't call for help, and could feel his blood slowly drainin...

  • Breaking Free

    The hottest summer in decades was not the time for starting new things. Especially new romances.Padma's life was already nicely settled. She didn't need to date anyone. Not even drop-dead gorgeous Jaden from work.But a late Friday night at work opene...

  • Passage of the City

    June leaned over the balcony railing, letting the weight of her arms pull at her. Mist hid the Web beneath her. This high up, all you saw were balconies, railings, cables and blackberry vines tangled together.The ground far below was beyond her sight...

  • The Silk of the Guardian

    Lior City of Bebine, city of stilts and priestesses and storms. As grateful as Sinead was to be back on the sea, she could do without the thousand and one rickety platforms balancing on stilts she had to cross.For foreigners in Lior needed permits to...

  • Wedding in the Soup

    Sasa hummed as she peeled carrots. The soup was going to be perfect. Nice and thick and rich, just what they needed for a day spent installing a new super-amazing sixty-five inch TV.Van's new TV. They'd spent their entire Christmas bonus on it after ...

  • The Healer of the Flight

    Blood filled Kunzang's mouth, sweet and metallic. Not Dumisani's fault.The first shift into your dragon shape was always tough. At least Dumisani hadn't broken the wall when she flung Kunzang away. Or broken Kunzang's back.Instincts and draconic form...

  • Pink Trucks and Bow Ties

    Dating sucked. Rahat sighed and stirred xyr drink just a bit too forcefully.Xyr blind date had disappeared into the bar, never to return apparently. Xe wasn't what was expected, too chubby and old and unattractive.So xe left only to be stopped at the...

  • The Sharp Secret

    Yijun paused at the door of the tiny shop, skin prickling. The smell was old mold despite the icy cold enveloping xem. Creepy as hell dolls all around xem. Xe wanted to run right back outside but the jocks that'd chased xem were still out t...

  • The Widow's War

    Robin dug her toes into the cold, damp sand. The storm coming would wash away the wood, pull back the bits of shell. It would destroy the ashes that were all that was left of Ikram.A brawl. He'd died in a barroom brawl instead of on...

  • Mortal Stream of the Undead Sky

    Eko set xyr back against a block. Big, solid, wide enough to hide ten of xem.Needed it. Henny and Ade were missing in the mist, possibly dead because there weren't enough explosions going off. Not enough gunfire, either.How the hell had Rajani Pavic,...

  • Prescription for the Perfect Dinner

    Hyacinthe shuddered as she snapped back into her body. Or forward? Down? Hell, time travel was confusing.Didn't matter. She was back before everything went wrong and this time she was going to make sure she kept her family safe.Not those assholes she...

  • Schrodinger's Choice

    Chalk drifted in the air. Micha coughed as she struggled to clean the chalkboard by herself.Stupid Mr. Benenati. Teachers weren't supposed to yell at the kids. Or make one kid clean the whole classroom by herself just because she tried to stop him fr...

  • Sensory Hoard

    Mayami snorted, twin jets of fire shooting from her nostrils. Her whole damn family was a giant pain in her tail.Horde this, hoard that. Why was it so darn important that she pick a 'proper' hoard?She was still young, too young to get stuck on one th...

  • Shifting Towers of Fire

    Mawunyo crouched low behind his shield. Nasim lay beneath the shifting tower of fire, seconds away from death.No.He would not allow it. Eight years married. Twenty-one years best friends. He would not lose Nasim.The curse of the towers of fire would ...

  • Dark Places

    Dreams. War. Winter and aliens and curses.The Dark Places collection by Meyari McFarland will take you into the dark places we all fear to tread.Includes six stories sure to stay with you after you turn off the lights.The Haunted Half-LightThe Blade ...

  • The Haunted Half-Light

    Clouds billowed overhead, monstrous, dark, shot through with lightning that never struck. Kanti stared up and up and up as ashes drifted around her.Her nightgown drifted in a wind she couldn't feel. No heat, no ash, no sound.You're dreaming.A dream o...

  • Sire of the Found System

    Merlyn carefully pushed the blackberry vine out of his way. Thing had thorns as long as his thumbnail, about a billion of them.This whole forest was creepy as hell. Both Pema and Ash seemed happy to be clambering over fallen logs, stomping through bl...

  • Streams of the Final Shores

    Madeline bent and braced her hands against her highs. So much pain. Absolutely everything hurt, and she couldn't see a thing.Dream, nightmare, it has hard to tell the difference between that and reality. Until she spoke, light bloomed, and Madeline r...

  • Theorem of Bright Half-Life

    Octavia raised her chin, pursed her lips and carefully traced her absolute favorite bubblegum pink lipstick exactly around the edges of her lips.Maybe not the best choice for a Pacific Northwest lesbian bar but Octavia knew what she wanted and what s...

  • Adrian

    Adrian loved his sister Michi but her marriage was going to drive him crazy. Once she was off on her way to Montana to start a new shifter pack with her mate Sal, he could relax. Heck, once he got them all off to the reception he'd be done.At the rec...

  • Cradle of the Future

  • Ghost Black Spaceship

    Esme breathed slow. Deliberately. Worst damned idea in the universe. The worst. Putting all three of the Mullane troublemakers, Esme, Ariel and Dana, in the same place at the same time was guaranteed to cause trouble.She didn't know how. Or when. Or ...

  • Mutant Blue Eden

    Madhu stood at the shore, xyr whole body shaking with the effort of exploring under three times normal gravity.Their new world was raw, undefined, barren. Except under the raging grey sea in front of xem. Everything was so very strange.And dangerous....

  • Rings of Beginning

    Minke blew a drop of sweat out of her eyes. Again. Too many boxes carried up too many steps.Helping Finely move into his new apartment was fine. Cast on his leg meant he sure couldn't do it. The weird part was afterwards when Finley's neighbor Ndidi ...

  • Through The Year

    Love and holidays go hand in hand, all year long. Through The Year binds together seven amazing short stories and two full novellas in a collection that's sure to be a favorite for years to come.Includes:The Girl of Silver CloudsDoors of ShoresPink T...

  • Forgotten Spring

    Parris leaned back on xyr heels, studying xyr lovely little balcony garden. Stalks of corn with purple leaves towered over xyr head while beans with bright red leaves and electric blue flowers spilled across the balcony. Xyr tiny water garden held lo...

  • Undead Dragon Hunter

    Ivory lay at the edge of the bluff, the scrubby grass all around her itchy against her scales. Stupid elders and their stupid decisions about the stupid ancestors' bones.Only sensible thing to do would be to move the bones somewhere secure from human...

  • The Billionaire's Kidnapped Beauty

    Dell hurried through the crowds of Pike's Place Market, sweat dripping down her spine. Radha was going to catch her. She just knew it.Ducking into one of the shops was desperation but it changed everything when Dell ran into Jyoti. Who took one look ...

  • Heart's Paradise

    When your heart dreams, sometimes it finds paradise.The Heart's Paradise collection brings together seven romances that are sure to bring joy to your life.Includes seven stories of love, change and growing together.Rings of BeginningDesire's EscapeWe...

  • In Case of Emergency

    Andy opened his eyes.Two years after the end of the world and he still looked for Torres by his side. Silly of him. Torres was gone and all Andy had left was the morning broadcast to keep him going. It was all that got him to haul himself into his wh...

  • The Street of the Phoenix

    Chinoso wasn't sure what was up with the Phoenix. Decent ship. Bit battered and the sheer number of minor repairs needed was odd.But the crew looked at her like she was Drath when she gave them what they needed to take care of their own stuff. Not to...

  • The Fortunes of the Evening

    Lupe glared across the ballroom, clutching her flute of champagne, while Aviv tugged at her elbow. Another wedding. Another damned wedding and Lupe was still single. Forty and single, no less.Her relatives wanted to set her up? Fine. Great. Bring it ...

  • Questionable Empires

    Eight worlds. Eight adventures. Eight brushes with death, destiny and destruction.In Questionable Empires, Meyari McFarland collects together eight exciting stories of adventure, danger and discovery that are sure to grab you and not let go even afte...

  • Whisper of Andromeda

    Wisdom glared. They'd taken her ID. They had no right to take it, none at all. Even less right to drug her and question her like she was a Banger from the Undercity.Be easier to bear if the walls stopped melting. Or was that her brain melting?Kelsey ...

  • Gathering of Shadows

    Darkness abounds, creeping into the corners and sweeping over all life, all hope, all freedom.In Gathering of Shadows, Meyari McFarland explores the dark corners of the heart, mind and reality in ways that will haunt you after you put the book down.S...

  • Moonshine and Thistle

    Snow drifted downwards, a gentle implacable dusting that slowly crushed everything under it's growing mass. Lacy grunted as she hefted another shovelful. A hundred miles from a big city, thirty from the closest tiny town, they were trapped.Or not. Th...

  • Coming Clean

    Sweat-stale air that stank of blood and vomit puddled around Phoenix as they drooped against the pear-shaped airlock door blocking them from home. Blood dripped down their cheek. Cleaning up was going to be a joy.Phoenix really didn't need the bruise...

  • Kindred Tapestry

  • Tea with the Courtesan

    The room smelled of salt and dust. Fusty. Old, bedraggled with lace stained dark by grime. Courtesans were not messy. Grimy. The First Courtesan of the Holy City, Tatenda Accorsi, most certainly was nothing of the sort. And yet the smell filled Purdi...

  • The Thief's Prayer

    Aaren's fingers slid over the tile, scrabbling against the wet, the slick. He prayed.As hard as he could to the gods he knew weren't there, weren't real, didn't care. The slide stopped. He scrambled back to the rooftop, haul intact.But his feet still...

  • Gravity's Shadow

    The walls curved as the Wave Drive engaged. Briar braced herself, trying to cope as the Wave grew and grew and grew. She'd never been on a spaceship with a Wave this strong.

    Too strong. The Wave thundered around her, warping reality along wi...

  • A Lady of Wisdom

    The Courtyard of the Courtesans glimmered in the slant of the evening sun. Summer's lush growth of ivy and morning glories had bronzed as frost crept in on the night's breeze.

    Along with death. Or perhaps the death had been there all ...

  • A Smuggler's Tale

    Morgan ducked down behind a plasteel crate bigger than xyr runabout. Frankie Delaney. What in the name of the Drath was Frankie Delaney doing on Tasma Station 2?

    Had to be a trap. It had to. He'd hired Morgan to smuggle a load and now...

  • Whitehorn's Band

    Iseul leaped past Chikondi, flinging himself straight down into the deepest part of the pool. Laughter sounded above him as he sank under the churning surface of the water.Beautiful. The peace enticed him to stay until his lungs burned and a tiny gol...

  • Frozen Chronicles

    Stav blew out a breath as he stopped just shy of the crest of the hill. The Riinder Mountains stretched towards the sky around them, sheer rock faces high above.Covered in snow.Heavy ledges of snow drifts loomed, threatening to sweep down to extermin...

  • In Thrall of Destiny

    In Thrall of Destiny holds ten stories where destiny rules for good and evil. From destiny thwarted by conspiracy to finding a new path in life after discovering hidden secrets, these stories will take you on ten adventures into distant, strange w...

  • A Picture of Scandal

    Candle light turned the heavy drapes black. Worthless for Chas to escape when he was dressed in dove-grey silk. He cast about desperately for a place to hide from Phoenix Tanzer, the man who wouldn't take no.Really, if Chas only knew why Phoenix was ...

  • The Sun Doctors

    Chi hummed under her breath as she rocked on toes to heel. Patience. A nurse was patience personified.Even when her doctors were idiots who couldn't see what was in front of them and when their so-called patients were ancient aliens more amused by th...

  • With Wing and Wit

    Magic dances between these stories, tying them together into a tapestry of wings  of fancy and wit. From ancient magic binding souls to traps sucking them away, these stories by Meyari McFarland will take you to new worlds filled with wonder, ma...

  • Band Together

    Family shapes us from the time we're born until the day we die. The scars family leave on our hearts influences everything. Good, bad, indifferent, the bonds of family wrap through this collection, showing just what we can become when we find our tru...

  • Blood and Years

    Leigh squatted down, letting the bamboo around her hide her from view. Last damned thing she wanted to do was deal with Kagiso Novak but the twerp wouldn't stop stalking her. He kept trapping her places and staring at her, talking about how he wanted...

  • A Heart's Mischief

    Jade Bulgarelli kept his chin high, his pace firm and his expression blank as he marched out of Castle Manor. Uncle Badr's refusal to accept Jade, yet again, would have been devastating if not for Chas Abaddon.Lovely, sweet Chas who looked like an an...

  • A Risky Architecture

    Though Chas, personally, would have far rathered never set foot in Castle Mansion ever again, their Majesties had been quite clear.Castle Mansion must be taken in hand. The staff have to be evaluated and trained. Honeymoon or no, Chas, newly made Lor...

  • Destiny of the Delbhana

    Raelin hummed as she strolled through the Dana ballroom towards the buffet table. Cousin Daire's wedding was the biggest event of the season with everyone important invited.Even Princess Delbhana Siobhan who glowered death at them all.The feud betwee...

  • Family in Progress

    Chi leaned back against the door to xyr quarters, slowly sliding down to the floor. What an incredible, horrible, amazing, wonderful day. They'd escaped Earth and then Randal had nearly raped Chi.Captain Narang had saved Chi. Xe was free, finally fre...

  • Jason

    Jason Long gently turned the stick, angling his de Havilland Twin Otter away from the island-dotted waters of the Puget Sound. Almost home. Hopefully his Twin Otter would get him there in one piece.The engine trouble he'd had on the last couple of fl...

  • Pride of Hearth

    Home: love it, hate it, stay forever or leave as quick as you can. Home defines us in so many ways. Each of these stories looks at finding home, building home, what it takes for home to be a home at all.A Risky ArchitectureThe Crimson VestPrescriptio...

  • Storm Necklace

    Madison hummed as she turned the stone over in her hands. The blue-green crystal felt heavy for its size. And warm, especially compared to the frost on the windowpanes or the hip-deep snow piling outside her workshop.She wanted to run away from it. L...

  • The Eternal Race

    Winter coming to Camano Island meant Garnet needed to decide what to do with his life. A summer spent on the beach left him stuck between the aftermath of his father's death and choosing a future.Then a wolf shifter with a broken leg landed in his la...

  • Itoro

    Itoro's thighs burned as he climbed the heavy wooden stairs up to the top of the otters' waterslide. It was huge. Terrifying. Delightful.Shifters weren't supposed to be afraid. Itoro always was. No one scolded him for it but it still bothered Itoro t...

  • The Scent of Revenge

    Kiran scrubbed his hands over his face. The Shifter Council had to listen. They had to. Evan Michelakis had destroyed so many lives, including Kiran's, but he was the one who got sympathy, not his victims. Entire packs had been torn apart but that wa...

  • Banger's War

    When a smart-mouthed street fighter met a mind-controlled rich kid in the tube, it exposed a conspiracy that sparked a coup.The tube stank of urine. Aruna curled her lip as she picked her way down the spiral stairs dotted with rotting trash. It was l...

  • Grim Ambitions

    Ten tales of darkness, told by Meyari McFarland. Dreams bring power… and threats in the real world. Winter sucks the life away. Aliens consume not just ships but souls. And ghosts hunt revenge against the living in these dark tales.Streams of the F...

  • Light of Joy

    Enter a world of love, family and joy in this twentieth collection from Meyari McFarland. Here you will find stories of new love, of found family, of creating a place for you and those you care for in a world that isn't always kind. Ten short stories...

  • Out of Place

    Sabah sighed as he cautiously dropped into one of the black fake-leather seats by gate S12. Another trip to Japan and Sabah would rather stay home. It used to be glorious to write travel articles about Japan but now it was drudgery. He should do some...

  • Demon's Gun

    Dark places and twisted hearts rule this collection by Meyari McFarland. From clinging to live with a prayer to seeking the truth no matter the cost, these stories delve deep into the night for the truths hidden there.The Thief's PrayerDark Butterfly...

  • Shared Hope

    Ten tales of hope from Meyari McFarland: Past choices bring dire consequences as winter threatens death. A single choice allows new opportunities for the future. Stubborn refusal to give up yields a future unimagined. Hope spins through all these tal...

  • Hope in the Dark

    Rutendo stumbled from the elevator to his apartment door, fumbling for his keys. So tired. If his school debt weren't so bad, he'd find a different job. A different apartment. A different life.Too bad he had no hope of change.Except an exhausted inju...

  • Garnet

    Winter coming to Camano Island meant Garnet needed to decide what to do with his life. A summer spent on the beach left him stuck between the aftermath of his father's death and choosing a future.Then a wolf shifter with a broken leg landed in his la...

  • Sunshine Remains

    When storms blow through, it blocks the sun, and everything seems dark. Despite that, the sunshine remains, waiting for a chance to break through. The stories in this collection capture both the storms and sunbreaks that illuminate the darkness and w...

  • Guardian of the Temple

    Exiled from her home, Dana Sinead walks alone. Her friend and savior Dana Raelin is half a world away, leaving Sinead to find her own way. But the forces that nearly killed Sinead have spread their tentacles throughout the world to threaten not just ...

  • Out of Darkness

    Darkness always gives way to light... eventually. Darkness consumes the world. Eating away at the foundations of society, crumbling our resolve and gaining power by the moment. Yet it isn't unstoppable. Contained here are ten tales of coming out...

  • Tidal Zone

    Six months filming trash in the Great Garbage Patch from under the water's surface had dolphin-shifter Barrie ready for a vacation. A good long one, preferably with someone cute. Once his report was done at the Seattle Climate Change conference, he w...

  • Dandelion Intrigues

    Ellington whistled along with the birds as he strolled across the University of Montana quad in shorts. After the Arctic blast shut the school, the sun was a blessing.Just wasn't enough to keep him from freezing. Pretty quick, Ellington jogged painfu...

  • August Dust

    The dust bit at Juniper's eyes, sucking the moisture right out. Figured that the biggest auction of summer would happen on the hottest, driest day of August. If her son Aster weren't so fascinated by the offered junk, she'd be cool in the shadow of t...

  • Dawn's Confessions

    Dawn on a new world brings risks. And choices.Wisdom stared at the mountains that cut across the horizon like cobalt paper cutouts, watching them shift pink as dawn crept up. How odd to have a horizon, to have six habitable planets, after generations...

  • The Cat in the Coffin

    Death Hidden in the WallsWhen His Majesty made Chas the Lord of Castle Manor, he'd assumed that it would be a simple enough job. Discover where Lord Badr's missing adopted heirs went. Learn where his money had gone. Have a lovely working honeymoon wi...

  • Indomitable Survivor

    Survival at All CostsIn the darkest times, survival seems impossible. All the forces of the world are arrayed against you and it doesn't look like you can win. You try. You fail. You get knocked down.And then you get back up.Meyari McFarland brings f...

  • On Armored Wings

    The branches of the Worldtree cradle all life. And all time.Standing in the temple of the God of the Sea, Vili aches from the war he won at the ultimate cost. There is no changing death, not even for the Man Out of Time. Still, Vili wishes wish that ...

  • Out of Time

    Time slips away from us all, until there's no time left.If there was one thing that Adam knew, it was that Granny Lativia was as big as the world and twice as enduring. She'd saved him and his three best friends from being sold to adoptive families a...

  • Justice for a Scoundrel

    Kidnapped, beaten and memory wiped: Lakshmi had to get away. Now. Sweat crawled down Lakshmi's hopefully not broken ribs as she purposefully sauntered up Neelam City's docks, away from the ship where she'd been tied up. One minute she'd been dri...

  • Cauldron of Life

    Life takes many forms. Ziv wheezed as she trudged up the final slope of the caldera they'd been assigned to explore. Between her and Pema, they should get a good idea of what was going on in it. Turned out, though, that their new world had ...

  • Ghost Shadows

    Magic entwines with dreams. Ghosts haunt the shadows.In the space between day and night, magic slowly blooms. Dark and dangerous, cutting and violent, the magic of dusk and everything that exists on the cusp of death fills this collection.From dream ...

  • The Curse of the Blank Page

    A Deadly Mystery and a Missing Cat Lord Jade Bugarelli gratefully settled into his newly rebuilt library with several books to read. After all the adventures recently, a chance to sit and read was a treasure. Though nothing compared to his belov...

  • Drowned Seattle

    The end of the world as we know it isn't really an end at all. How could it be? What humanity knows and expects is just one in a long sequence of climates that have come and gone over millions of years. Losing one world means gaining another, on...

  • Like Acid in the Gut

    Tomato sap was the worst. Of all the produce Carol had to harvest, tomatoes were bar-none the worst. So itchy and sticky and gross. Durga never believed her. She'd scold Carol about picking them too gingerly, but Durga wasn't the one who'd be it...

  • Barter Economy

    2020 changed everything.For the better.Spring 2020 was as different as anything Kanta had ever experienced, including transitioning. She really wasn't sure how she'd survive until things got back to normal. No one was.Thing was, she wasn't all that s...

  • The Gathering of the Wind

    With the rains comes the Gathering of the Wind.Caron should be there already to guard her friends as they summoned the winds that brought rain the Holy City. It was her duty and her honor.Instead, she stood on the back step of her mother's house, hid...

  • The Heart's Husband

    Forgotten But Not Gone If Wynne didn't love his husband and their daughter so much, he would walk out of Lord Hathaway's mansion and never come back. Damned lilies were making him choke. And die. But when the sudden allergy turns out t...

  • The Lives of Evening

    Trapped in an icy tomb.Ami woke at a shout from her twin Jun to discover that their rover was encased in ice from an experiment gone wrong. Their new world looked lifeless, between the ice forests that formed every night and the expanse of desert, bu...

  • Ten Days of Harmony

    Harmony takes work, especially when you don't fit anywhere. Giang stared at the werewolf pack's huge Victorian house. Xe shouldn't be nervous. The pack wasn't likely to chase a dryad like Giang off, but xe couldn't help but worry about how xe wo...

  • The Well of Time

    Scents of a Long-Gone Past Trinn stood, one paw held in space, as she breathed in the scents of the Well. Centuries of human lives lived in the Well filled her nose, carried in strata like slowly-formed sandstone. Such an old site, holding ...

  • The Absence of Wrath

    The whole thing screamed danger. Manu knew he should keep walking despite the rain, despite the lack of coat or umbrella or anything, but with his roommate Kapua wanted by the police and nowhere safe to go, the offer of a ride wherever he wanted...

  • Hometown Mercy

    Damned flowers, always trying to grab Bobbie's garbage truck.Didn't matter that the world had ended a good while back. People still needed their trash pickups. Needed their link to Seattle and civilization and the long-gone days when mammoths didn't ...

  • Heat Shadow

    Death crept down shimmering rays of sunlight.The shadows of the Sonora desert marked Robert's soul. Always had. Always would. The desert shaped his magic as it had his entire life.Which was a good thing when a dark young mage drove up the gravel lane...

  • Heirs of the Frontier

    Frontiers challenge us as humanity expands into all new worlds.The frontier stretches above us, a river of stars that guided sailors across seas and a future that promises struggles and hope in equal measure. There's hope when you push out into new t...

  • River Summer

    Lurking in the water, Gods sang of debts and change.Water lapped against the side of the barge, slapping, gurgling, endlessly burbling along against the hull, carrying songs of fish, of snake-heads flowing up and down the river, of mer chattering, cl...

  • Blanket Check

    Finding your heart sometimes takes a change of view. Blanket Island was the very best place in the Puget Sound to have a vacation, even during the earliest part of spring with rain and wind and freezing ice. Martie loved it. Loved the island, lo...

  • Cat in the Garden

    Lillies loomed like tigers about to strike, bobbing ever closer. Nat should've stayed in Uncle Zac's house. He should have. It was dusty and scary and the shadows that moved like cats scared him, but it was better than Uncle Zac's garden with th...

  • Piano Shorts

    There's beauty in music. And magic, too. After Dale's grandparents died, the only thing he wanted was Grandpa's old upright piano. It wouldn't stay in tune. The ivories were worn down with fingerprints of its age. And it sang out music that...

  • A Primitive Sunlight

    On a failing spaceship, finding home was their only hope. Reese kept his mouth shut as Captain Brant bullied their pilot Jaiden. So much rested on this mission to their new world's surface. Probes only told you so much. Some things needed boots ...

  • Building Family

    Family Finds You In All Kinds Of PlacesMeyari McFarland brings you five stories of families built from strange, beautiful situations. From a dragon's horde of their new family's music to surprise wedding rings in the middle of moving a friend's apart...

  • A Chance for Tomorrow

    Dawn Opens All New ViewsRandi grinned as she deliberately stomped her way through the piles of scarlet maple leaves. Best time of year, autumn. So many amazing leaves to crunch! She would've spent her whole morning, her whole day, charging through pi...

  • A Hole in the Snow

    Love waits patiently. Hate lingers in the cold.The way home takes Ignatz through thigh-deep snow, but he doesn't hesitate. Aunt Ruth would be waiting. She was always waiting with her bitter comments and scathing glares. He would have preferred to go ...

  • Winter Rose in Darkness

    In the Darkest Part of the Night, There's Comfort in Wandering.Kaitlyn's favorite fleece blanket, as soft as the softest kitten belly fluff, settled around her shoulders as she slipped from her bedroom. The house sat dark, quiet, resting before tomor...

  • A String Full of Pickles

    The Simplest Pleasures Are BestFran whooped as she pushed off the Rainier Square platform and zipped off into the fog towards Union Square flying like a superhero with her arms outstretched. Giggling. Because of course she had to giggle as she flew.T...

  • Kindred Tapestery

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    From kitten-sized to monstrous, Kindred Tapestry traces the lines of ten different types of dragons, all penned by Meyari McFarland.Teenage dragons finding their hoards mingle with ancient gods transforming everyone around them and beyond in these en...

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The first book by Meyari McFarland, The City of the Ladies, was published in December 2012.

Yes. Meyari McFarland has 8 series.
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