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Open your heart to the holidays with these stories of unexpected love . . . A BABY FOR CHRISTMAS * Lisa Jackson The uneventful Christmas Annie McFarlane expected is suddenly anything but. First, there’s the adorable baby left on the snowy doorstep of her Oregon cabin. Second, there’s the...

RITA Award Finalist Katie Schmidt runs The Bowen Bride, a wedding dress shop in charming Bowen, Nebraska. Rumors abound that a woman who wears a Bowen Bride creation stays married forever, drawing hopeful brides to the heart of farm country in search of a dream dress. Katie plays into...

Sometimes the need for blood outweighs all else.. Barbarian-Princess Ivy will do anything to save her people, even if it means forming an unlikely alliance with Lukor the goliath. Bloodlust is driving her father to provoke the other five races into war, a war the precious few barbarians will...

It's not every day you get a second chance to live. Crystal Wynter wants nothing more than to be reunited with her boyfriend, her mom, and her friends, but six months have passed since she almost accidentally started the apocalypse. Six months since she saved the world. Six months since she...

It's not every day you get sucked into a portal to Hell. Crystal Wynter’s life is in turmoil. She’s banished demons to Hell, only she’s stuck there too, with the witch Gavin, a close friend and a good kisser, and Vince, who may or may not still be her boyfriend. As the trio struggle...

It's not every day you accidentally open a portal to Hell on earth. Crystal Wynter only wanted to free her reincarnated self from the clutches of the witch who was sacrificed to bring Crystal into the world as the embodiment of magic in her first life. She couldn’t have predicted the effects...

It’s not every day you face extinction. If there’s one thing Crystal Wynter knows, it’s death. She died before. She came back. Her town died. She saved it. But now, the lives of all those with magic are threatened. The witches, shamans, seers… everyone, including Crystal. The...

It’s not every day you face extinction. If there’s one thing Crystal Wynter knows, it’s death. She died before. She came back. Her town died. She saved it. But now, the lives of all those with magic are threatened. The witches, shamans, seers… everyone, including Crystal. The...

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away... - John le Carre Vengeful undead. Demons. Hungry rats. These creatures and more haunt city streets, unlit hallways, deep space, and the corners of your imagination in Re-Terrify. Send shivers down your spine with 18 horrifying tales from...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our July 2017 issue (#130)  contains: Original fiction by Zhang Ran ("An Age of Ice"), Rich...

A sweet/clean Beauty and the Beast retelling. An orphan who grew up thieving on the streets to survive, Yukari has excelled at keeping herself invisible and alive, until a foolish lapse in judgment lands her on the criminal overlord Amund’s bad side. Only one safe place is left for her to...

Eight authors and eight different takes on four dramatic elements selected by our readers—an older heroine, a wise man, a Bible, and a compromising situation that isn’t. Set in a variety of locations around the world over eight centuries, welcome to the romance of the Bluestocking Belles’...

Unbeknownst to Eliza Berkeley, the second daughter of a baron, the man she thought she was going to marry was not Stephen Huntington, the Duke of Wyndale. Thankfully, the reprobate does not appear for the wedding. The true duke arrives instead. Will a match formed originally through deceit blossom...

Louisa Wycliff, Dowager Countess of Exeter, wants only for her darling daughter, Anna, to find a man she can love and marry. She suffered through trials to find love herself. Appallingly, Anna has her sights on a scoundrel of a duke. Her mother insists on Anna befriending a marquess’s son, a man Anna finds far too rude. Can either man be the right one for Anna?