Laura VanArendonk Baugh KPACTP

How are animals trained in a zoo for the most endangered species of all? Join Marian and Ana as they travel through a zoo full of magical, mythical creatures, where good training allows for better care of the animals as well as safety for the trainers and public education. Learn about positive reinforcement with some of the most fantastic beasts ever seen-and then try the same techniques with your pets at home! Laura VanArendonk Baugh is known internationally...

Jacob just wanted to have a good time with his friend Samantha and fellow geeks at the fan convention. But when dead bodies start turning up, Jacob has to start a little early on his hoped-for detective career. After all, the police are out of their depth in a world where nearly everyone wears a costume or uses an alias. But Jacob has a secret of his own, and it looks like someone is bent on revealing him to the entire con. If Jacob's history comes...

After generations of war, the fragile new peace hangs by a thread, as Ryuven attacks continue despite the treaty. Shianan leads an exhausted army facing a fresh and magically superior foe. Worried for Ariana, not yet returned from her own deployment, and as demoralized as his soldiers, Shianan is unprepared in every way when Flamen Ande, high priest of the Gehrn cult, re-appears to demand Luca back. Luca was once enslaved to Ande, but that was a lifetime...

The prince-heir's life hangs by a thread, and the last person to see him conscious was the king's bastard, Shianan Becknam. As rumor grows of Commander Becknam's possible fratricide, Shianan pushes away Black Mage Ariana Hazelrig, lest her rise be destroyed by connection to him. Ariana has returned from her abduction to the Ryuven world, bringing an herb which could fight the plague reported through the countryside. Her efforts have resulted in unprecedented...

In the final days of the Genpei War, a court lady, now a Buddhist nun, sits on an undecorated ship with her tiny grandson, the rightful emperor of Japan. They have fled the revolting Minamoto clan across mountains and seas, taking this final stand at what will be known as the battle of Dan-no-ura. Now, with nowhere left to flee, they face treachery too. This award-winning short story has been honored in multiple contests and is offered here by itself...

Get in. Get it. Get out. Get even. Freelancers Galen and Lisveth are specialists in odd jobs that require magic and muscle. They've just been hired for a simple pickup job in a rural town, and surely it will be just as simple as it seems. Surely. Snarky friendship, magic, and small town drama feature in this bonus story from the upcoming epic fantasy series.

Marsden cannot remember his real name, nor how he came to be a valet for the schoolboy son of a powerful magician. Phantom wisps of incense and narrow glimpses of memory are all he has, until he chances upon a family secret which only compounds intrigue. What might his young master Abel know of his amnesia? What binds him to the Wensleys? And why does he, a simple valet, know fragments of magic?

How does one find a shapeshifter who may not even exist? The onmyouji Tsurugu no Kiyomori, a practitioner of the mystic arts, has been engaged to protect the warlord's new bride from the fox spirit rumored to be near. Tsurugu and the shadow-warrior Shishio Hitoshi face an impossible challenge in teasing out a kitsune shapeshifter from the samurai and servants –- if such a creature is even present at all. The handsome mute twin servants belonging...

Someone is waging war against Christmas. Mrs. Claus-like you've never imagined her-is going to stop them. The war on Christmas is real this year, with supply chain issues ranging from lost toys to murdered elves. Mrs. Claus intends to get to the bottom of this, with every skill her valkyrie background can lend. She'll team up with the undead and find out what's really happening this holiday season. 2021 Realm Award winner for Best Audio Drama

The defensive new shield to protect the human world from marauding Ryuven is not yet erected, and Commander Shianan Becknam has been assigned to invesigate a series of Ryuven raids on a farming village. The grey mage Ariana Hazelrig is assigned to his company, so he must negotiate their fledgling friendship in a formal line of command.When a watch goes wrong and Ariana suffers an attack while on guard, she begins to look at other culprits. But protecting...