This is a collection of short stories from the collection of T.A.L.E.S. itself. A sentient library that pulls stories from the multiverse in which it resides. All stories in this edition deal with something having been lost in one way or another. We would love to have you! 

Blooming Disaster- By Jamie Dalton
 Botanical witch Willow Thorne has survived countless disastrous blind dates, but losing an eyebrow to a combustible fire elemental might be her breaking point. When water elemental first responder Eli Santiago comes to her rescue, their instant chemistry seems like the perfect antidote to her romantic disasters. But when they’re tasked with creating magical safety measures for Haven Cross’s biggest festival, their combined elemental energies prove dangerously unstable—just like their ancestors who failed to work together a century ago. As festival preparations intensify and their professional partnership deepens into something more personal, Willow must face an impossible choice: pursue a relationship that could literally destroy her life’s work, or accept that some elemental combinations are doomed to repeat history. Sometimes the most tempting connections are the ones that burn everything down.  

Tropes: Small Town Paranormal Romance, Magic, Matchmaking Best Friends, Grumpy Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Spice Level: 0/5

Stormhart Academy: Gravity & Fate by S. R. Breaker

Cass’s day is already off to a terrible start. She’s always felt like an outsider at Stormhart Academy, a school where students train their abilities to prepare for an ominous war. While others impressively wield ice or fire, her power—precognition—never seems quite useful when it matters.  Oh yeah, also, her sister Belle has vanished. Again.  Unfortunately, the one person who can help her find Belle is Jake Noble—the annoyingly powerful, effortlessly cool, and way too good-looking gravity manipulator who’s never spared her more than a passing glance. But desperate times call for desperate measures. Between keeping Belle out of trouble, rival fights, dodging the academy’s watchful eyes, and navigating the unexpected chemistry between herself and Jake, Cass has her hands full.  And while she may be able to glimpse the future, on a day like today, when everything seems to be spiraling out of control, can she predict what happens next?

Tropes: Academy, Magic, Opposites attract, Forced proximity, He falls first & harder, Spice Level 1

A Whisper of Secrets and Ashes by Jada McCrary

A devastating plague, the missing cure, and a healer who didn’t plan for love…

I’m Faelynn, a healer and servant of the fae God. I’d sworn off every fae male who set his sights on me … until him. Dreythis was … unexpected. He has the answers to the questions I face, and resisting his pull on our journey will be no easy feat.
The fae in my city are sick with a mysterious plague, and my healer magic has done little to help. With so many dying, I never expected that crossing paths with this fae warrior would lead me to the cure. But will solving one problem only bring me to another?
And what sort of ancient power have we stumbled upon that should have stayed buried?

Tropes: He falls first and harder; she’s grumpy/he’s sunshine; reluctant hero; magic and fae

Spice level 1

Train of Lost Souls- DC Gomez

There is never a boring day at Haven. With only a week before Halloween, the two active Reapers can’t stop hearing train whistles. Unfortunately, they are the only ones that can’t and there is no train in sight. But their curiosity is just as bad as Constantine’s, the 5000 year old talking cat, and they are determined to figure out what is really going on.

Tropes: Found family, ghost train, lost souls, reapers, talking cat

Spice Level: 0/5

Finder of Lost Things – Sarah Lewin

Clara is on the run, but she doesn’t know from what. All she knows is that it’s not safe to return home until she finds answers. Haunted by fragments of memory and a gut-deep sense of danger, she searches for something vital, something with the potential to change her world, and the future of those she cares about. With nowhere safe to go and no one she can trust, Clara must untangle the secrets buried in her past before they destroy her future. More than that, the future of magic itself is at stake. The clock is ticking.

Tropes: Lost family, repressed memory, the chosen one, but she doesn’t know why, secret heir, allies or enemies, no safe place, the lost key, Spice Level 0/5 

Found by the Dragon — S.R. Griffith

I needed a break, not a handsome as sin magical man, but fate has different plans for me!

Down on my luck, a lost fifty-dollar bill flutters past me and I chase to grab it. A bit of magic sucks in the money and I fall in with it. What I find in the pile of money is a dragon, and he has a mission for me: keep the ‘knight’ away from his money. When I step into the light of day, I realize I’m not on Earth anymore and I’m in a fantastical, magical world with dragons, witches, and no electricity.

As I struggle to find my way home, I’m finding out there is more to this world than meets the eye.

Tropes: found family, insta love, witchy MMC x human FMC, there is open door spice

Lost to the Shadows – Jess Elizabeth

Eyes may be the windows to the soul. But shadows are the doors allowing darkness in.

The people of Osawah are losing their shadows and along with them, their souls and their magic. Morana is the only shadow witch on the island of Osawah desperately trying to figure out who or what is responsible.

Tropes: Paranormal Romance, Dark Magic, Fated Mates, Revenge, Shadow Daddy, Age Gap (16 Years), “Who did this to you?”, 

Spice Level: 2

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