CHARITY NEVER FAILETH (Summary)

Eimh Mac Leod knows better than to follow the sound of crying into the woods. Crying in the middle of the forest means nought but trouble, and the people of Fairview Township want none of it. But Eimh can't abandone the little water-kin bairn she finds abandoned in the woods. Changeling or not, it's still just a baby, and no Latter-Day Saint can leave a helpless baby to die in the forest. Her parents let her keep the baby, and he causes little enough trouble once Eimh gets the hang of things.

But the Kindly Ones aren't the only folk making trouble near Fairview. Contention brews between the Saints and the rest of the Missourians. Eimh's Da fears violence is inevitable, but Eimh prays it isn't so. Yet she can't help thinking her Da might be right when a riot breaks out in a nearby town and her brothers lose their jobs at the local mill and end up badly beatn for admitting they follow Joseph Smith's church. Eimh only feels safe in the presence of a very large, very special stray dog that attaches himself to her side when the trouble starts. But when a mob comes to Fairview, even a faerie hound may not be enough to save her family.

CHARITY NEVER FAILETH tells an alternate/fantasy history adaptation of the real-life Missouri Mormon War of 1838, when the state government sanctioned attacks against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Combining Old World superstition, real-world history, magical realism, LDS traditions, and lesser known bits of Scotch-Irish folklore, CHARITY NEVER FAILETH showcases one of the darkest times in LDS history as well as the far-reaching consequences of a single act of reckless kindness.

LADY OF HYAKKI YAKŌ (Summary)

Thread-witch Grant Ishida has three goals now that he's finally graduated high school: get accepted to Parsons School of Design, get as far away from the town of Hyakki Yakō as humanly possible, and forget the fact that he's descended from a long line of witches. Magic didn’t save his parents from dying in a car accident when he was ten, or prevent his own motorcycle accident that left Grant barely able to walk and destroyed his dream of playing football—so what good is it?

But Grant's grandparents have always claimed that their powers are a gift from the otherworldly beings living in the abandoned Victorian-era hospital just outside of town, and that one day those powers may help Grant save someone he loves. When his younger brother Keith and several other kids are taken by a yokai—monsters of Japanese myth—from the strange realm inside the decrepit hospital, Grant realizes his grandparents were right. Now he has no choice but to step inside the crumbling building that masks a beautifully bizarre world reminiscent of feudal Japan; a world populated by ogres, ice maidens, vindictive demons, fox people, and preternatural samurai. A world ruled by the mysterious yokai lord known only as the daimyo.

In order to rescue his brother, Grant will have to team up with Lady Ayame, a warrior in service to the daimyo. Ayame's duty is to prevent the yokai from preying on humans. With her honor at stake, she will stop at nothing to rescue the missing humans and put a stop to the monster that dared defy the laws of their realm. But Ayame has secrets of her own that will either guarantee Grant's success…or get them both killed.

Weaving together feudal Japan, Japanese folklore, and a dark and twisty retelling of "The Snow Queen," this is the tale of a witch who risk everything to save his family, a samurai who will risk everything to save her honor, and a world of Japanese myths and monsters transplanted from their native land to modern America.

EIDOLON (Summary)

In the principality of Thule, the young crown princess Madeline Usher has committed suicide; her brother the prince is dead of an illness. With no heirs to succeed them, the royal House of Usher has fallen. In its place rises the House of Prospero with Lady Morella Prospero ascending the Midnight Throne.

Janine Fortunata is a young noble, the heir of her House, groomed since early childhood to one day take the family seat on the Council of the Eight Noble Houses. She was also the late princess's best friend and a member of the Raven Society, a secret vigilante team of nobles organized by Princess Madeline before her death. When a letter from the princess proves her death was no suicide, Janine must uncover secrets going back centuries, a conspiracy of dark magic, murder, and the ravenous specter of a long-dead princess who once ruled all of Thule with an infamous lust for blood and no mercy. A princess whose name was once spoken only in frightened whispers—Ligeia.

In a corrupt city where the police are as cruel as the crime lords, and plagued by strange blackouts, hallucinations, and nightmares that make her question everything she knows, Janine will need help discovering the truth. The only people she can trust are her cousin Berenice—aristocrat horticulturalist by day, lethal swordswoman by night—and Roderick Montresor: fellow Raven, the sworn enemy of Janine's family, and the man she's secretly loved for years. With fealty and forbidden love on her side, the Raven Society at her back, and a bloodthirsty killer calling themselves Red Jack stalking her and the other Ravens, Janine will have to uncover the truth behind what really happened to Princess Madeline and save the people she loves from the ancient evil brewing beneath the city. Unless that evil has already taken root inside her.

SAMEDI (Summary)

There is a world that mixes Victorian and medieval sensibilities and style, sorcery and science, the mythical and the mundane…

When Brigida de Marfil finds a young gentleman beaten unconscious outside the grounds of the traveling Moundshroud Carnival, she and the other members of the carnival take him in and nurse him back to health. Though the young man—who calls himself Mr. Samuel Byron—is courteous and gentle, Brigida knows there's more to him than meets the eye. The roiling mass of darkness posing as his aura is the first clue; the Grim Reaper visage that covered his face when he stopped some drunken audience members from harassing her is another. Whatever he is, Sam has a mission at the Moundshroud Carnival, and Brigida is determined to figure out what it is.

Samuel Byron is no ordinary gentleman of means. He is actually Baron Samedi, a ghede—a prince from the royal family of Haitian death-masters, immortal vodouists with mastery over the dead, dying, and diseased—and he's on the trail of his younger brother and the men who have persuaded him to use the ghede death-magic for evil: Ernest Frankenstein, younger brother of a late and infamous European scientist; and the cruelly beautiful Lord Dorian Gray, who seeks the key to eternal life. Samuel knows these men mean to trick Loraj into mingling death-magic with mortal science to unlock the secrets of immortality and ultimate power of life and death. If Samuel doesn't stop his brother in time, innocent humans could die, and the Ghede royal family will put a stop to Loraj once and for all—by any means necessary.

Torn between protecting his misguided younger brother and stopping Frankenstein and Gray, Samuel finds himself in need of Brigida's help…because Brigida is no ordinary carnival aerialist. The daughter of a Spanish witch and a flesh-eating wendigo—with some fairly powerful magic in her blood, a ravenous darkness burning inside her, and a tame chupacabra as her familiar—Brigida is more than equal to the task of helping Samuel stop Gray, Frankenstein, and their growing army of undead monstrosities. It's Haitian vodoun and Spanish witchcraft against unnatural science; and with the help of the other "unique" individuals of the Moundshroud Carnival, Samuel might just stand a chance of getting through all of this alive.

As long as the ghede royal family never finds out about Brigida and the carnival.

TIGRESS SHARK (Summary)

Ren Fa snaps awake in a back alley in Kaitei City with no memory of how he got there or where is he is or even who he is. He only knows three things: his name, the name of the man who woke up in the alley next to him, and that he has to get out of the city before a nebulous someone from his forgotten past tracks him down and kills him. In order to escape a city in the grip of a tyrannical governor, he and the equally amnesiac Li Jiang sneak aboard a merchant vessel taking books to the far-off city of Gaôzu.

Only it's not a merchant vessel. It's a disguised nauto-aeroship—a ship fueled by alchemy that can travel by sea and air—and it's captained by one of the most notorious pirates in the Yè Xiàn Ocean or the Yún Sea of Clouds above it. The government calls her a necromancer and a criminal. The oppressed citizens of the empire call her a hero. Her men, ghost-warriors rescued from the empress's slave camps, call her simply Captain Mŭlăohŭ, the Tigress.

A dethroned princess with an unusual connection to the sea, Mŭlăohŭ has more important things to worry about than two stowaways on her ship. She has a little sister to overthrow and an empire to take back. But Ren may hold the key to doing just that, if his secrets and his past don't get them killed first.

In an alternate steampunk world resembling a dystopian Imperial China, where condemned men are sentenced to eternity in terra cotta prisons and mermaids have razor teeth and a thirst for blood, where sky pirates are the good guys and smuggling books is a capital crime, this is the story of two sisters vying for a throne and the man caught between them…who may or may not be an enemy. TIGRESS SHARK will take you from the Beijing-like city of Kaitei to the depths of the Yè Xiàn Ocean, from the Valley of the Emperor's Necropolis to the heights of the Jade City floating in the Yún Sea of Clouds as Mŭlăohŭ and Ren lead the first wave of a rebellion five years in the making.