Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party. Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect. A prestigious school for young magicians, the Galileo Academy reinvented itself as a place in which students of all cultures and identities are celebrated. In this new Galileo, every pupil is welcome—but there are some who aren't so happy with the recent changes. That includes everyone's least favorite professor, Septimius Dropwort, a stodgy old man known for his harsh rules and harsher punishments. But when the professor's body is discovered on school grounds with a mysterious note clenched in his lifeless hand, the Academy's students must solve the murder themselves, because everyone's a suspect. Told from more than a dozen alternating and diverse perspectives, The Grimoire of Grave Fates follows Galileo's best and brightest young magicians as they race to discover the truth behind Dropwort's mysterious death. But they're about to discover that even for straight-A students, magic doesn't always play by the rules. . . . Contributors include: Cam Montgomery, Darcie Little Badger, Hafsah Faizal, Jessica Lewis, Julian Winters, Karuna Riazi, Kat Cho, Kayla Whaley, Kwame Mbalia, L. L. McKinney, Marieke Nijkamp, Mason Deaver, Natasha Díaz, Preeti Chhibber, Randy Ribay, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Victoria Lee, and Yamile Saied Méndez

My magic is a curse. It got so bad, the Witch Council bound my power. I had to learn the hard way how to live without it. But now it’s back. Only it’s stronger and even more chaotic than before. Every time my magic surges, someone dies. Now a smoking-hot, mundane detective has me pegged as a murderer. Worse still, the Witch Council also thinks I’m a killer. I have to find out who—or what—is really to blame before they sentence me to death. First, I’ll have to get this annoying, super-suspicious, super-sexy detective off my tail. If he discovers my secrets, we’ll be in even more danger. But he’s also the only person who might be able to help me stop the carnage… If you like fast-paced urban fantasy with a kick-butt, snarky heroine, you’ll love The Elemental Witch Series. One-click The Trouble with Magic now.

Gargoyles takes you on a journey into a mysterious world, through bestiaries and traveling menageries, past grotesques and chimeras, through medieval cities and guilds and into huge stone buildings. Gargoyles are an embodiment of form and function—serving a clear architectural purpose but, also, symbolically important. Whether warding off evil, frightening away fear or showcasing human foibles, when a gargoyle was placed on a building, people noticed. The book delves into historic models of arcane craftsmanship and architecture, considering the reasons for gargoyles coming into being and hearing the legends of the gargoyle, both mythic and modern. It, also, covers the emergence of stone creatures into popular culture. For modern magick users, Gargoyles explores the role of the gargoyle in magickal practice, including gargoyle use in elemental correspondences, stone magick, protection, warding, egregores, talismans, animal associations, ritual and spell work.

Isn’t it always the way? I've finally found a guy I like, so of course he’s been infested by a demon. And not just any demon. Oh no. If this deadly hell-spawn manages to escape, it'll destroy everyone I love. The Blood Council have given me just forty-eight hours to fix the problem before taking over. Their solution? Kill the one guy I want to date. So not going to happen. But with my magic still a chaos-factory, and the demon getting stronger by the hour, how on earth am I going to stop it? Add in a dark witch who’s able to control me and a dangerous grimoire that wants my blood, and I'm guaranteed to have a Very Bad Day. If I survive that long…

After her last harrowing battle against void demons, Anna is more than ready for a little normal and a reunion with her mother, where she expects the most difficult task will be introducing her mom to Obsidian, her gargoyle partner. But as soon as Anna returns home, she immediately notices something is wrong. And when she catches her mother digging up and stealing an ancient grimoire from a coven of young blood witches, Anna’s restful reunion becomes anything but peaceful. Soon she’s on the run, trying to save her mom and her gargoyle partner from a coven of young blood witches seeking to reclaim the ancient and malevolent grimoire. But the grimoire has its own plans for Anna and Obsidian. Author’s note: There are two elderly dogs in this tale, one has cancer. But the author and Obsidian don’t like sad endings, so through the awesomeness of fiction and magic, there are soon two new gargoyle-dogs running around this novel.

My family is dead and gone. But they left their grimoire behind. Now it's my job to free the powerful magical beings trapped in the pages. I might just find a whole new family…if they don't kill me first. I was just a kid when my family was executed for starting a magical war, forcing me to live my life in the human world, far away from the judgment and scorn of the magical world—and far away from the weirdos who want me to tell them all my dangerous Lovell family secrets. But when a cursed grimoire containing enslaved magical beings falls into my lap, I can't continue to avoid my family's craptastic legacy of pain and suffering. Now, thanks to the nagging of an annoyingly moral ghost, I'm off to free the powerful (and pissed-off) creatures in the bestiary. I'm nothing like my horrible family. But my newfound attraction to dangerous magical beings who could murder me without a thought… yeah, that might indicate otherwise. Author's Note This story is part of my serial, The Bestiary, on Kindle Vella. It is part of an ongoing series, and I will continue to release new books as the story progresses. A Cursed Legacy is 141,000 words long. The major plot arc is resolved, however since this is a series, a new complication is introduced at the end of the book, so expect a little twist/cliffy. If you are interested in reading book 2 as I write it, you can find it on Vella. Season 2/Book 2 starts on episode 43. You can also read along on my Patreon page. Content Warnings *poly romance, contains MF, MM, FF, NB/intersex romantic interactions, as well as multiples *swearing and explicit sexual content *some characters have suffered trauma in their past, most of which is off page/mentioned in passing *there is one scene where a character with PTSD loses control during a BDSM session. The MC is not actually harmed, but this may be triggering to some readers *stupid humor and a sarcastic main character who is just done with the world's bullshit, but also has a moral compass no matter how much she wants to wish otherwise