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Kristine Kathryn Rusch
September 1920, New York City: Phillipa D'Arco makes a living investigating the past for the United States Government. Bloodless, they call her, making her one of the best operatives. So…
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The acclaimed short story that inspired the award-winning novel, The Enemy Within.
February, 1964: Two men die in a squalid alley in a bad neighborhood. New York Homicide Detective Seamus…
So many mysteries in the past. So many opportunities, as well. While Portals, Inc. uses historians to test its time travel devices, historians use Portals to test their theories.
Neyla…
When Augusta (Gussie) Kirilli discovers that someone wants to destroy her entire family, she has to warn them. But they're scattered all over the Qavnerian Protectorate. So she hires the…
Small-town detective Becca Keller must struggle with her own demons when her ex-husband calls her to help with a mass grave unearthed at the site of his resort-restoration project in…
One of the most decorated and famous novellas of the 1990s, The Gallery of His Dreams remains a timeless tale of love, loss, and the power of art.
Mathew Brady…
In a world where Apollo 8 veered tragically off course, the event sent the astronauts, and the space program, hurtling into space, lost and helpless. The tragedy so affected eight-year-old…
THE FEY ATTACK
A grisly ambush at Serebro Academy starts a race to uncover secrets that might save the Academy or destroy it entirely.
Magical maps, Fey spies, treachery and…
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Getting a book into readers’ hands means achieving that modern marketing buzzword: discoverability. And the simplest way to gain that reader recognition? Branding.
Branding helps readers find an author’s work…
Retrieval Artist Miles Flint is on a mission to bring down a corrupt law firm. Then a journalist working with him is murdered, and Miles may be next. But before…
When Roderigo and Izzy form a group to stop the Angel of Death from taking more innocent lives, they realize they need help. One by one, Roderigo recruits people who…
Cammie pursues the lairs of the undead. She knows the savage bloodlines and sees the growing ranks of their wounded, desperate children. In this new novel by an award-winning and…
Five of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most popular cat stories. They run the gamut from the award-winning The Secret Lives of Cats to the whimsical The Poop Thief. Other stories in…
The short novel that started the entire Retrieval Artist series, The Retrieval Artist introduced Miles Flint to the world. Hugo-nominated, chosen as one of the best stories of the year…
All of his short life, Paavo Deshin has seen ghosts. The same two ghosts who have now approached him on the school playground, ghosts who look older and actually smell…
Hadad Yu recovers things for a living. Things, not people, not animals. Things. Until he gets in trouble and must work for the alien Gyonnese. They want a person to…
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, famous for her range as a writer, shows her amazing diversity in this collection of short mystery stories. From the examination of a crime scene in The…
The five magical stories in this short collection include stories of fairies and shapeshifters and magic shops. In this collection, you’ll find the heartwarming Flower Fairies, the whimsical The Poop…
These ten stories all appeared at Christmas time. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, called one of the best short story writers of her generation, has compiled ten of her best favorite Christmas…
Christmas stories abound, but hardly anyone writes stories based on Thanksgiving or New Year’s Day. This collection of five stories has two Christmas stories, Boz and Loop, but it also…
Think about it: Santa sneaks in during the dead of night. He steals cookies, drinks some milk, maybe tracks ashes all over the living room. Yeah, he leaves presents, but…
Oregon provides the setting for all five stories in this collection. The stories range from the whimsical The One That Got Away to the moving Patriotic Gestures. The collection also…
The Carnival Sniper-as famous as Jack The Ripper. And like Jack The Ripper, never caught, his identity lost to history. In 1913, the Carnival Sniper terrorized Vienna, murdering the famous…
Kristine Kathryn Rusch ventures into (darker than) Zenna Henderson territory in her effective and atmospheric two-track story ‘The End of the World.’ -SF Site Small-town detective Becca Keller must struggle…
Why can’t Larissa remember the man who says she saved his life? Larissa Johanssen has spent her adult life running from her own memories of trauma. As a top-notch journalist…
Five different women-a CPA, a lawyer, an Internet service provider, a bookstore owner, and a crime scene investigator-find themselves in the middle of crimes, crimes so personal that they threaten…
In this WMG Writer’s Guide, international bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch discusses the destructive ways peer workshops and the quest for perfection derail many writers’ careers. Listening to critics and…
Detectives come in all shapes and sizes-and in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s five-story collection, they work the mean streets everywhere from a science fiction convention to the Moon to a world…
Two days ago, Moira escaped the Midwest with Kasey and her Barbie doll in the back seat of a beat-up van. Now, on sun-drenched Highway 95 in nowheresville Nevada, she…
Readers know Hugo-award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch for her serious, deeply thought-out science fiction. But the former editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction also has a silly…
When Robert Cooper first sees Nathalie Renard, he finds himself drawn to her. She seems ethereal, magical. And when he finally meets her, he finds her even more beguiling. But…
The entire world convulsed in the middle of the 20th century. Everything changed-even the magical universe. From faerie to mages, from wizards to war criminals, the Second World War touched…
The Pane expect perfection of their living windchimes. The difference between a performer’s life as the biggest star on Djape and a ruined career comes down to one mistake. When…
California, a land of mystery, a land of magic. Assassins walk the streets alongside angels. Romance blossoms in the City by the Bay, while death stalks a Los Angeles science…
TEEN IDOL DAVY MOSS DIED ALONE ON A MOUNTAIN ROAD. NO ONE EVER FOUND HIS BODY. Davy Moss died fifteen years ago, but his fans keep him alive. They see…
A major force in fantasy and SF–and author of the award-winning novella Gallery of His Dreams–tells the terrifying story of an actor’s bloodiest role. Violent nightmares possess Thomas’ sleep. A…
The ten stories in this collection revolve around secrets, lies-and crime. Kristine Kathryn Rusch, called one of the best short story writers of her generation, has compiled ten of her…
Fifty years after a stormy sea swallowed Spencer Chadwick at the treacherous Devil’s Churn, his old sweetheart, Addy, finds herself face-to-face with a past she hoped to forget. She fled…
One of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most acclaimed short stories becomes one of her most original novels. February, 1964: Two men die in a squalid alley in a bad neighborhood. New…
The Moon barely survived the devastation of Anniversary Day. The second round of attacks planned to kill millions more. With the life of every human and alien on the Moon…
