A breathtaking new vision of a legendary tale. Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.

The "searing" (New York Times Book Review) first novel by Whitney Terrell, author of The Good Lieutenant A New York Times Notable Book When a young debutante's body is pulled from the Missouri River, the inhabitants of Kansas City-a metropolis fractured by class division-are forced to examine their own buried history. At the center of the intrigue is Booker Short, a bitter young black man who came to town bearing a grudge about the past. His ascent into white Kansas City society, his romance with the young and wealthy Clarissa Sayers, and his involvement in her death polarize the city and lead to the final, shocking revelation of the wrong that Booker has come to avenge. With razor-sharp detail that presents the city as a character as vivid as the people living there, Whitney Terrell explores a divided society with unflinching insight.

Calder is the Huntsman of the Royal Forest of Blodwen, a job he loves more than anything else in the world. Well, almost anything. But the greatest love of his life took a different path ten years ago, and so Calder focuses on his forest and friends.Then the king returns home early-and married to a beautiful woman who proves to be a terrible witch. Though Calder manages to not fall under her spell, it's only a matter of time before she realizes he's not bewitched, and Calder joins the other rapidly accumulating dead.The kingdom's only hope lies in finding a sorcerer of equal power, but the only one Calder knows of is the man he hasn't seen in ten years, and lives in a kingdom too far away to reach in time...Author's Note: This story was first published in Fairytales Slashed Volume 2. It has not been significantly revised.

What if the Huntsman helped Snow White defeat the Evil Queen? Snow White's heart has been broken repeatedly by those she once trusted, leaving her feeling betrayed and alone. Placing all her faith in the Huntsman, she clings to the hope that he is deserving of her trust. When she defeats the Evil Queen, she realizes she wants more from him than just his loyalty - she craves his love. The Huntsman helps Snow White regain her rightful throne. But the thought of witnessing her marry someone else is unbearable for him. He asks her to relieve him of his duties, but she refuses. Excerpt: His lips met mine in a fiery kiss filled with passion, exactly how I imagined my first kiss to be. His mouth was rough underneath my soft one, and his earthy taste filled my senses. I moaned into the kiss, and his tongue slid between my lips, discovering more of my mouth, and deepening the kiss. The kiss went on forever, our hands never leaving each other, and our lips fused together with a desperation that took my breath away. I broke off the kiss to take in some much-needed air, but I never let go of him. “Take me. Ruin me for any other man in the world, and make me yours,” I said. The wedding was planned to happen in two days, so I needed him to take my purity so I couldn’t marry the prince. I was already planning to rearrange the wedding so it would be an intimate ceremony between us. “I’ve been yours from the moment I first saw you in the woods,” my Huntsman said. That moment felt like a lifetime ago when I had first fled the castle because my stepmother had tried to kill me. So much had happened since then, but my feelings for him had remained the same. He was the first man to show me compassion, and not be under the spell the evil queen seemed to be able to cast on men. “And I yours. But I need you to take me as only a husband would take his wife so there is no doubt about it that I am yours, forever.” --------- Reader advisory: This story contains explicit sex scenes between two consenting adults. The Huntsman is a 3,1k word, steamy, hot, erotic, Snow White fairytale Retelling, short story. Explicit sex scenes, standalone, no cheating or cliffhangers. ---------

Though his home was undamaged when the Wolf-Queen attacks, Tristan loses it anyway. His father abandons him, sells their pottery shop, and leaves him with nothing but a rucksack full of worthless mementos. Desperate, he turns to his estranged uncle for help who gifts him an ancestral sword: a great paramarion from a bygone age. Tristan's only option is to join the mysterious Huntsmen and track down the horrors that haunt his village in the slim hope of finding the fortune he needs to buy back his home and restore his family. The Huntsman and the She-Wolf is an action packed story of a young man carrying the responsibility of teaching himself to survive at the same time he tries to win back everything taken from him. It is a story that will appeal to readers who love adventure and understand that faith in a cause is a guidepost in the journey of life we all take.

The hunt is on... To find a killer, to save the life of a friend. On hearing that his cousin is short-handed for the harvest, Nicholas Elyot takes a group of friends back to the family farm to help. But after a deer hunt in Wychwood ends in tragedy, suspicion is directed toward the huntsman, a boyhood friend of Nicholas. Yet the victim has made many other enemies, any one of whom could have shot the fatal arrow. Can Nicholas uncover the real killer before it is too late? A totally scintillating medieval whodunnit full of twists and suspense, perfect for fans of Edward Marston, E. M. Powell and Sarah Hawkswood.

Sweet 16 or the coveted 18th birthday are milestone moments in a young girl’s life, but the only age Lillian Clemens is dreading of turning is 21. That would mean she's officially old enough to accept the title of Huntsman, an elite fighter born and raised to battle against the supernatural creatures that roam this earth. The only barrier between the human race and the monstrous demons scattered abroad, feasting on the unsuspecting innocents, unable to protect themselves. The night of her first mission, plans go awry and her own Huntsman partner is killed. Shouldering the blame herself, Lillian doesn't refute the rumors that it was her fault Nikolas is dead. The first lesson Huntsmen are taught is to keep your head in the game and not hesitate. But she'd failed. She'd broken the cardinal rule. Two months later, Lillian's planned the perfect mission, to attack and eliminate the creature that took Nikolas away from her. He was the first person that hadn't judged her based on her gender. Since the creation of the Huntsmen organization, only men have been appointed to the prestigious position. But with her father, Oliver, being the Huntsmen Leader, she was born into a role that she couldn't escape. Lillian hasn’t spent a day where wishing she was a man didn't cross her mind. Life would be so much easier. But then it wouldn't be hers. With the mission a success, but not approved by her father, Lillian is punished and given the ultimatum to either train and succeed to become a Leviathan, or die trying. Leviathan's were more ruthless and cunning than Huntsmen, or at least that's what Lillian had always been led to believe. Leviathan's were the soldiers sent in when a mission was deemed too dangerous for a Huntsman. They were the cleanup crew, so to speak. In her quest to assume the title of Leviathan, Lillian must fight for her life against dangerous creatures, but she must also learn that not everyone in this world is as cruel and maniacal as her father and the Councilman who wishes her dead. Opening herself up to the right people, and laying her trust and her heart in their hands, might be the only thing that'll keep her alive.