With this dark and gritty collection—featuring brief tales from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman—there is nothing as easy as dark and white, light and dark, good and evil..

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line.

In #1 NY Instances bestselling author Jim Butcher’s Cold Case, Molly Carpenter—Harry Dresden’s apprentice-turned-Winter Lady—must collect a tribute from a remote control Fae colony and discovers that even if you’re an excellent girl, about Shadowed Souls sometimes you need to be bad…

New York Moments bestselling author Seanan McGuire’s Sleepover finds half-succubus Elsie Harrington kidnapped by a group of desperate teenage boys. Not really for anything “strange.” They just need her to recovery a little woman from the boogeyman. No biggie.

In NY Situations bestselling Kevin J. Anderson’s Attention of Newt, Zombie P.I. Dan Shamble’s most recent client is a panicky lizard missing an eyes who thinks someone wants him lifeless. But the truth is that someone just wants him for a very special dinner…

And NY Times bestselling author Rob Thurman’s infernally heroic Caliban Leandros requires a trip straight down memory lane as he deals wih some overdue—and nightmarish—vengeance involving some quite unpleasant Impossible Monsters.

ALSO INCLUDES STORIES BY

Tanya Huff * Kat Richardson * Jim C. Hines * Anton Strout * Lucy A. Snyder * Kristine Kathryn Rusch * Erik Scott de Bie *

Table of Contents and Cast List:

Intro by Kerri Hughes, browse by Julia Whelan

Foreword by Jim Butcher, browse by Jim Butcher

Chilly CASE by Jim Butcher, browse by Julia Whelan

SLEEPOVER by Seanan McGuire, examine by Emily Rankin

IF WISHES WERE by Tanya Huff, examine by Justine Eyre

SOLUS by Anton Strout, examine by David de Vries

PEACOCK IN HELL by Kat Richardson, browse by Mia Barron

Vision OF NEWT by Kevin J. Anderson, browse by Jon Lindstrom

WHAT DWELLS WITHIN by Lucy A. Snyder, go through by Julia Whelan

HUNTER, HEALER by Jim C. Hines, read by Sumalee Montano

BAGGAGE by Erik Scott de Bie, go through by Mozhan Marno

SALES. Power. By Kristine Kathryn Rusch, browse by Karissa Vacker

IMPOSSIBLE MONSTERS by Rob Thurman, read by Macleod Andrews