"You must leave this Palace and your father's Kingdom for a year and a day. You will only have the ground for a resting place and the sky for shelter in all that time. You will take neither food nor money and live only by your own efforts. Put on this ring."
The love of making toys hides the power of a mage. With the death of the king and the rule of a tyrant comes danger for mages. Only he is a toy maker and over looked and that is their mistake. Toys come in all sizes and not all are safe, in fact some can kill.
For a knight and soldier, death comes with the icy touch of a spell. Only that death does not last as magic brings him back many centuries later. He finds the kingdom once more facing the same enemy and has need of his knowledge and skill. Now he must journey north and find the remaining relics he had searched for in his time.
He's dead, Jim. Actually, Jim is dead. On the verge of dipping the old crankshaft for the first time, Jim blows a gasket in the pump and keels over. Now, he's wandering the world as a spirit with unfinshed business. He died a virgin, and he's hoping to change that now, but does he have a ghost of a chance?
Lars isn't quite content with his life, but all that is about to change. With a move and new start in a neighborhood filled with something unexplained, life is going to get a whole lot better.
A Seosamh O'Niall Tale
Reporter Seosamh O'Niall had seen it all and gotten really good at reporting on it. That was until he got a call one night from his sister's godfather, a cop working on a recent serial murder case. In a dark, rain-wet alley he found he only knew half of what "it all" entailed. When he saw the sheet covered lump that was his sister laying in the alley, he learned the rest of "it all." His soul demanding justice, his study with druids allowed him to seek it. But all power comes at a price.
And now for something completely different. Once upon a time, Bob Fischer was a professional hit man, a torturer and psychotic, emotionless murderer. He was also a parent any child would love to have and a genius inventor, making multi-millions on his patents and who just happened to live in Paradise. Note that Garrigeld Island, Bender Bay and Bungun don't exist. Don't you just wish they did? And all this is written archetypally in Australian.
A Sex and Demons Story Magic can't fix Laurel's social ineptitude, but it can make her very beautiful. Too beautiful. Home from college on winter break, she doesn't recognize the impact that her magic has on her family and friends. And then there are her enemies...