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Monica doesn't remember yesterday or last week or even last year. She wakes up every morning in the company of 19 other women all without memories. And every day, Monica grows more certain that there are secrets being kept from everyone.

Alex is a critically acclaimed painter and artist. Their work hangs in galleries around the world. But this new piece needs something they can't quite capture. Something special. Not just any inspiration will do.

Sidal works as a seraph of the wall, a glowing beacon of safety in a world where the night spawns demons and the darkness is dangerous.

Nariah doesn't do romance or dates, which is why her best friend has gone through the trouble of setting her up on this one. On Valentine's day. Elidee is a romantic, but Nariah just wants to stay at home with a book. That is, until a hellhound crashes the party.

Arata is investigating an occultist, but in order to get him to talk, she convinces him that she's an academic researcher interested in his work. The work, it turns out, is bloody.

Zach left small town Edenburg twenty years ago. He got out, went to school in Tidewater, started a business, and never forgot his first love, Mason Gilbert. When he hears Mason's mother has died of a stroke, he drops everything to help his best friend get through it. But Zach left for a reason.

Since Zach abandoned him, Mason has managed to make a small space for himself. He hides his sexuality and, in return, no one brings it up. It's a system that works just fine until his past comes charging back in an off-white Bronco to save the day. Mason doesn't need saving and Zach's unwanted protection is unraveling the life he made.

Tidewater sent Zach back to Mason when Mason needed him most, but Mason is losing clients and credibility. People are choosing sides. Zach thought he was coming back for happily ever after, but he's starting to feel like the big bad wolf.

Nariah is in high school, plays tennis, is learning how to navigate friendships, and hunts zombies. In every graveyard, a large black dog, a Grim, is buried to protect the dead. But when the dead rise, the Grim rises with them to protect the living. And when the Grim rises, Nariah goes to work. If her mom says it's ok, that is.

Maj is no longer Earth Standard Human. They've been modified by their father to be stronger, faster… and smaller. They've found their long-lost sister stranded on a prison planet where everyone serves the GSA in their trinordia mine. But Maj isn't going to be stranded for long, and they're taking their sister with them.

Nariah Boyd didn't think reports of a kidnapping in the city had anything to do with her. The city is big, it was run by vampires who made their own rules?anyone could disappear for any number of reasons.

But then the kidnapper comes for Elidee, Nariah's best friend, and he snatches her right from Nariah's back yard. Nariah's the only one who saw it happen, she's the only one who knows what the kidnapper really is, and she's the only one who can stop things before Elidee becomes something else.

Read additional stories in The Bone Witch series in UA 31 A Diversity of Dragons and UA 34 Summer Solstice.

Maj and their motley crew are out of fuel and cash. They can dock their stolen space ship, but they can't leave until they pay docking fees and have some gas. The crew agrees it's time to take a shipping client, but the client Maj finds has valuable cargo, and now the entire crew is at risk.