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Quinn the unicorn of Keyfaetuun has just been the ring bearer at his longtime friend Vaino’s fae wedding. It’s a lonely time for the only unicorn in the world. Taking Vaino’s advice, Quinn leaps over to Fortune Island to see the fae oracle, the Mother of All Seasons. She has foreseen a convergence between worlds. The time is now, and only through this convergence and taking the journey will Quinn find what he seeks. Furthermore, the Mother of All Seasons declares that another lonely heart, a sarcastic and curse cawing raven named Kirby shall go with Quinn.

Seven years after the events in The Thirteenth Hour of the Sinuatollion Saga, Kir-rowen, “Kiro,” the immortal daughter of Solange and Clarion, dreams of her grandmother Mendina. Kiro remembers being immortal doesn’t mean she is invulnerable, too. On the contrary, she struggles with a hero inferiority complex, as her parents had saved their people twice. Now, Kiro no longer has the Alicorn Sword to borrow and do good.

Based on a 1796 Scottish ballad, this is a retelling of the tale of a Scottish lord’s son, Tam Lin, who becomes abducted by the fairy queen Morgann while hunting. In Selkirk, Scotland, there is a bit of land between two rivers called Carterhaugh. Lord Robert, who was given the land, then gifted it to his beloved daughter Janet. Janet longs to experience real, passionate love for herself, having witnessed such devotion in her parents. When she picks a rose by a well for inspiration, the most unexpected guardian knight of flowers appears. Tam Lin.

From the same world as Snow, Rosie, and Jabber comes a new tale that takes place in the Kingdom of Amethyst, where dragon guardians of nature, like Nasrin-Uma, are just as real as fae guardians, like Faltorr. Sometimes ordinary people are called upon to right a wrong that was done before anyone in the village of Hydrakon could remember, except the fae. When the Dragon Nasrin-Uma is taken prisoner by a strange, possessed, apple tree, the fae oracle the Mother of All Seasons sends Faltorr to enlist the help of young childhood friends Zvory and Mavin to mount a rescue.

In a time long past, along the Nile, a peace treaty is signed between the powers of Egypt and Rome. As an act of good faith, Arsinoe, Pharaoh Ptolemy's daughter, invites the Roman envoy Albanus to dinner, making for him her three stone soup. As Ptolemy sees the attraction between the two, the pharaoh decides to drive a wedge between the two.

Isadora Stilton and Quinn Avery have known each other since before they were ten. They continued being friends through puberty and into high school. Alas, first love withers under the long, icy axe of college acceptance letters. The two young lovers decide to say goodbye to each other and hello to successful careers, his as an actor and hers as a writer. Years later, the dance of life brings them both around to see each other again, and an unexpected health crisis brings them closer than ever before.

It started in an airport, Allegra and fraternal twin brothers Raphael and Sean met playing with stuffed animals with their parents waiting for a plane to take them to Pasadena in the Nineties. The two families become friends and neighbors and grow up together. Allegra wants to be in the business of making movies like her parents. Raphael chooses to learn to be an actor to be around Allegra. Sean is a very gifted painter, but finds his true talent shines in sculpting stone and then glass.

In the same world where a dragon of fire named Nasrin-Uma helped two human mortal friends and their fae guardian, comes the story that names that world, Keyfaetuun. Nasrin-Uma is not the only elemental dragon guardian. This story delves into more about the dragons, their roles, and what roles their progeny play in the future of Keyfaetuun. Once there were three elemental fairies. Telsha, a water fairy; Jochiam, a fire fairy; and Jochiam’s younger brother Thibo, a fairy with more than a green thumb.

Once upon a time in the fantastical medieval land of Yule in a kingdom called Yew, Drosselmeyer and Hob were tree spirits by day and could take human form at night. After Clara's father Seth, a good-hearted woodcutter, suddenly dies, Drosselmeyer focuses his one remaining eye on secretly looking after his goddaughter, Clara. She is treated like “Cinderella” by her stepmother Madeline and her eldest daughter Pearl.

Once upon a mountain in Norway, when trolls were still believed to roam in nature, a miner named Bjorn took a beautiful pink stone from the mountain to give to his beloved Elin. Years later, their daughter Kari and her friends Louisa, Torsten, and Ottar grew up playing together, but their innocence was broken after a near fatal accident involving Torsten and Ottar. Nine years after the accident, the four of them were still friends; however, things changed again when Torsten went into the forest for snowdrops and disappeared.

In Ancient Greece after the Trojan War, as described in The Iliad, there were a brother and sister, Avel and Syma, who suffered at the hands of their stepfamily. Until three Goddesses decide to visit the siblings and give them tests and gifts to help change their lives for the better. In the kingdom where the brother and sister live, the Goddess of Love wants the young ruling queen Charis to find love again, so the goddesses again take part in bringing Avel, Syma, and the young queen together, changing the lives of all three of them, so much so that it would be painted on pottery one day.

The Kingdom of Saphalite is watched over by the nature deities The Lady of Waterfalls and Father Tempest. During a storm, an impulsive decision will change the fate of Saphalite forever. The two deities are worshipped, and the kingdom is ruled by the kind King Darius and the wise Queen Freya. Their two sons Darrow and Bowen have differing approaches to ruling, especially with their parents going away on a brief vacation. They also have contrasting opinions regarding their hair.

Cole wakes in a dark cave with no memory of his real name, what happened before the cave, or anything else from his life. The only thing he knows for sure is he is always cold, even though he lives on an island and it's summertime. Just when Cole is making his cave into a home, everything changes when he helps out two Davinay Players who nearly fall off the mountainside seeking mountain goats and Gem Dragons in equal measure. It isn't until Cole comes down from his mountain cave and joins the Davinay Players that he begins seeking answers about his past and, by doing so, finds his destiny.

In the land of Beryl, there is a forest, and in those woods lived Widow Abigail and her two dear daughters Snow and Rosie. The girls are opposite to each other in their dispositions, but they love each other dearly. Living off what the forest provides, they play games and help their mother with chores around the home, but the sisters love most for their mother to tell them stories after dinner. One winter’s night, the line between fairy tale and reality begins to blur when their mother begins the tale about a forest spirit who falls prey to his own inner demon of greed.

In three short stories about African animals that take you from ancient times to the modern day, adults and children discover tales about friendship and other invaluable lessons that arrive with living life. When a lion lures a human away to protect his pride, he meets a crab, and their friendship changes everyone’s lives. On the banks of the Nile, the friendship of a hippo and a crane is tested when a class assignment changes the bird’s way of thinking. At Central Park Zoo, giraffe brothers must put their sibling squabbles aside to help a lost dog reunite with her owner.

On the planet Entitya, there were three Gods: Susegi, God of Light, Nefarion, God of Darkness; and Unacoria, Goddess of Love. These three deities came from Mother Universe and brought light and life to their island home, Sinuatollion. Peace was shattered the day Nefarion dared to assault Unacoria. Her revenge on him was just the beginning. Years later in his home on Sinuatollion island, Mesagan dreams about a wolf in a dangerous swamp. When Mesagan hears his father, Susegi, is going to visit a sick friend among the wolf pack, Mesagan decides to go with him.

On the planet of Entitya, on the rural and medieval island of Sinuatollion, where certain humans and certain animals have telepathic and empathetic bonds, 18-year-old Solange and her foster brother, Leviathan, a fire-breathing, water-swimming dragon, leave their hometown of Gemini to find their individual birth parents. Mesagan, Solange’s uncle who raised both girl and dragon side by side, gives them one clue: a bloodstained stone, which unbeknownst to the adopted siblings is part of an ancient magic sword called the Alicorn.

In this short sequel that takes place during the same time as Snakes and Diamonds, we follow King Roscoe, left behind in Malachite after the war between Malachite and the Amber Empire. Roscoe meets another who had been frogged by the Wizard Henry, Celine, the former Queen of Malachite’s neighboring kingdom, Obsidian. Celine tells Roscoe she knows of one who might be able to help them, Philla of Beryl, the fae daughter of Oberon and Titania. But Roscoe, frog or no, is determined to get back to the Amber Empire, so the two frogs part ways.

The world of Keyfaetuun has four dragons, but never did it have a single unicorn … until the fae guardian of the Kingdom of Zenith, Madame Astrid, took a foal from its mother and fed the foal magic milk, which transformed him. Then she stole a baby girl from her parents and gave the little unicorn to her “daughter” as a pet. But when the daughter grew up and was taken to live in a tower, she said goodbye to her unicorn friend she called Quinn. After Madame Astrid was punished for breaking the rules.

Tim McGilicuddy and Edgar Escobar didn’t like each other from the very first day of fifth grade. When Lindsey Ruess stops them from coming to blows and the teacher lets them off with a warning, Tim decides he’s much happier losing himself in his favorite video game than going with his parents on a trip to Wales. Which means Tim has to stay with eccentric Aunt Ophelia, who hangs scary paintings in her bathrooms.