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Oubliez les contes de fées, les abracadabras, les étincelles et la poussière d’ange. La magie, c’est comme l’alcool, le sexe et les drogues : il y a toujours un prix à payer.

Parfois, le prix est minime, juste une bonne migraine. Pas cher payé, n’est-ce pas ? Mais parfois, il est bien plus élevé. Et certains refusent de régler leur dette et la transfèrent à un innocent.

C’est là qu’Allie Beckstrom entre en jeu. C’est un limier, et elle est la meilleure. Son quotidien ? Identifier et traquer les lanceurs de sort malhonnêtes. Elle adore son job, même si elle aussi, paie au prix fort l’utilisation de la magie.

Sa nouvelle mission risque de l’entraîner sur une pente encore plus glissante que son quotidien déjà dangereux. Le principal suspect n’est autre que son père, avec qui elle a coupé les ponts. Et puis il y a cet homme mystérieux qui croise sa route un peu trop souvent à son goût. Qui est-il ? Que lui veut-il ? Et pourquoi, lorsqu’elle fait appel à la magie quand il est dans les parages, elle n’en subit pas les conséquences ?

Allie le sait, dans ce monde, tout à un prix. Même celui de la vérité.

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Using magic means it uses you back, and every spell exacts a price from its user. But some people get out of it by Offloading the cost of magic onto an innocent. Then it’s Allison Beckstrom’s job to identify the spell-caster. Allie would rather live a hand-to-mouth existence than accept the family fortune—and the strings that come with it. But when she finds a boy dying from a magical Offload that has her father’s signature all over it, Allie is thrown back into his world of black magic. And the forces she calls on in her quest for the truth will make her capable of things that some will do anything to control…

Welcome to a new America that is built on blood, sweat, and gears...

In steam age America, men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for the same scrap of earth and sky. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy and carrying the guilt of his brother's death. Then he's offered hope that his brother may yet survive. All he has to do is find the Holder: a powerful device created by mad devisers-and now in the hands of an ancient Strange who was banished to walk this Earth.

In a land shaped by magic, steam, and iron, where the only things a man can count on are his guns, gears, and grit, Cedar will have to depend on all three if he's going to save his brother and reclaim his soul once and for all...

Instead of the deadly force it once was, magic is now a useless novelty. But not for Shame Flynn and Terric Conley, “breakers” who have the gift for reverting magic back to its full-throttle power. In the magic-dense city of Portland, Oregon, keeping a low profile means keeping their gifts quiet. After three years of dealing with disgruntled magic users, Shame and Terric have had enough of politics, petty magic, and, frankly, each other. It’s time to call it quits.

When the government discovers the breakers’ secret—and its potential as a weapon—Shame and Terric suddenly become wanted men, the only ones who can stop the deadly gift from landing in the wrong hands. If only a pair of those wrong hands didn’t belong to a drop-dead-gorgeous assassin Shame is falling for as if it were the end of the world. And if he gets too close to her, it very well could be....

One hundred years ago, eleven powerful ruling Houses consolidated all of the world’s resources and authority into their own grasping hands. Only one power wasn’t placed under the command of a single House: the control over the immortal galvanized....

Matilda Case isn’t like most folk. In fact, she’s unique in the world, the crowning achievement of her father’s experiments, a girl pieced together from bits. Or so she believes, until Abraham Seventh shows up at her door, stitched with life thread just like her and insisting that enemies are coming to kill them all.

Tilly is one of thirteen incredible creations known as the galvanized, stitched together beings immortal and unfathomably strong. For a century, each House has fought for control over the galvanized. Now the Houses are also tangled in a deadly struggle for dominion over death—and Tilly and her kind hold the key to unlocking eternity

The secrets that Tilly must fight to protect are hidden within the very seams of her being. And to get the secrets, her enemies are willing to tear her apart piece by piece.…

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DUES AND DON’TS is a prequel to DEATH AND RELAXATION, book #1 of Ordinary Magic and can be read as a stand alone.

Police Chief Delaney Reed wants three things: a cup of coffee, her life to return to normal, and for the vacationing gods in the sleepy little beach town of Ordinary, Oregon to stop committing petty crimes.

But when a curse gets loose during the town’s famous treasure hunt, putting her childhood crush, Ryder Bailey in danger, Delaney must face the truth, and nothing but the truth, to save her town, her friends, and the man she absolutely should not still have feelings for.

DUES AND DON’TS is a prequel to DEATH AND RELAXATION, book #1 of Ordinary Magic and can be read as a stand alone.

Magic isn’t a blessing with drawbacks, it’s a curse with upsides.

Shame Flynn and Terric Conley hadn't meant to become the living, breathing vessels for Death and Life magic. But they hadn't meant to die, be reborn, break magic, save the world, and kill a few psychopaths along the way, either.

The one thing they had meant to do was to seal magic away so it could never be used to kill again.

When a string of dead bodies–people killed by magic–appear throughout Portland, Oregon, Shame and Terric must scramble to uncover who broke the locks on magic and how.

Before Terric’s sister becomes the next target.

Before the Russian mob locks them in their sights.

Before the question of who can control magic is decided by bullets and blood.

Betrayals and secrets, devils and saviors, fae folk and foul, and a magic stronger than even the gods can tame…

Lovers Lula and Brogan Gauge have dealt with magic, monsters, and gods for eighty years. Bound to travel the lonely roads of Route 66, Brogan’s a spirit with no chance of leaving the earthly realm while Lula, neither human nor monster, is only half-alive.

Their search for a way to break their curse might finally come to an end if the ghost in Illinois is telling the truth about a magical journal.

Lula and Brogan aren’t alone in wanting the journal. If they don’t get to it first, their chance at freedom might just turn into the fight of their un-lives…

Random Hazard has a stupid name and a terrible secret: he’s a wizard.

Wizards aren’t allowed to play in the NHL, but Random Hazard will do anything for a chance to play pro hockey. When his teammate is about to get brained by a puck going fast enough to kill, Random has no choice but to use magic.

Yes, he saved the guy’s life, but he destroyed his own.

Kicked out of the NHL, the only thing left for him is West Hell, a freak league of shifters and drifters more blood sport than hockey.

Being the first wizard in a league full of monsters might get him killed. Or it just might finally prove that magic and hockey do mix...

The Best of Talebones collects 42 of the best and most beloved stories from Talebones magazine. Taken from 39 issues published over 14 years, this anthology includes such writers as Jack Cady, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Marie Brennan, Barb Hendee, Carrie Vaughn, Kay Kenyon, Ken Scholes, James Van Pelt, James Sallis, Paul Melko, Louise Marley, Mary Robinette Kowal, Anne Harris, James C. Glass, Alan DeNiro . . . and many, many more!