Adam Stemple

In Singer of Souls, young Douglas fled his American life of drugs and petty crime, arriving in Scotland to be taken in by his stern but fair-minded grandmother. Unfortunately, his career as a busker was interrupted by the fey folk who invisibly share Edinburgh's streets, who dragged him into their own internecine wars. Now Douglas, usurper, sits on the throne of Faery-holding the Queen and the land hostage with his all-powerful magic and his unflinchingly...

"Snail, a midwife's apprentice in the Unseelie Court, meets Prince Aspen, a Seelie prince being held as a hostage in order to prevent a war. In thinking that they are stopping the war, they instead trigger one"--

Silex is a talking gargoyle on a cathedral in Scotland who moonlights as a detective, assisted by a team of Scottish street urchins who do the grunt work.

It is the waning days of the Russian monarchy. A reckless man rules the land and his dragons rule the sky. Though the Tsar aims his dragons at his enemies-Jews and Bolsheviks-his entire country is catching fire. Conspiracies suffuse the royal court: bureaucrats jostle one another for power, the mad monk Rasputin schemes for the Tsar's ear, and the desperate queen takes drastic measures to protect her family. Revolution is in the air-and the Red Army...

A demon gargoyle takes a scrappy runaway under his wing. The gargoyle, the runaway, and a hard-edged priest turn their attention to a series of killings that may have ties to political unrest, as well as to the supernatural.

Presents a collection of true animal stories from different historical periods, including the tales of Balto the Alaskan sled dog, Smoky the Bear, and Internet sensation Christian the lion.