It was supposed to be yet another hike along a nature trail. Tired of the confines of her apartment after a long day at work, Alice heads out for a walk. But instead of the usual birds and squirrels, this time she comes across Wendy Darling, a traveler from another world. And when she returns home, Alice asks to be taken along. She finds herself in a realm where Beauty has been cursed with ugliness for her vanity; where the "charming" Prince keeps a harem; where Little Red Riding Hood is a heartless assassin; where the mermaids will flirt and sing beautiful songs and then drag you to the bottom of Captain Hook's lagoon and hold you there. Welcome to Faerietale.

This collection of twelve stories has everything from Greek Mythology to retellings of classic fairy tales; long and lyrical stories to short, biting flash fictions. And all proceeds go to benefit a fantastic charity: Heifer International.

Ideally, in times of crisis, having family around makes things easier. But Amelia isn't living an ideal life. After a nasty divorce, she decides to leave the city and move into an old fixer-upper. Her plans are complicated when her mother asks her to bring along her manipulative younger sister Lucy, and complicated further when Lucy claims their new house is haunted. Lucy soon befriends the spirit, a man named Evan who claims to have been one of the first owners. But Evan isn't the only spirit around. Lucy tries desperately to get Amelia to believe her, but her sister has heard too many lies from her to listen to her now. As Lucy tries to figure out a plan, the barrier between their world and the ghosts is getting thinner and thinner...

Years after a comet hits the world of Veyrdel, the food supply is dangerously low. The Niveti, who are carnivores, finally stoop to killing Veyrdel's other race. After his classroom is attacked, Rohan gets up the courage to go into his father's time-shifter to try and prevent the violence. But a miscalculation sends him back much further than he intended, and he gets the chance to change not only his future, but everyone's.

Forced to evacuate over a severed world, Logan's mind is more on how to complete his reluctantly-accepted mission than on how to find his fellow survivors. Then he encounters Jia, an Inako who was banished from her village, and his priorities about a lot of things begin to change.

A hesitant truce has been formed in Chalet between the fae and most of the humans, but some never intended to hold to it. Violence is escalating, and the Council seems unable to do anything about it.

Finn, Stace, and Geneva stay and try to find a solution, while Simon ignores the problem in favor of continuing his research in the Neritye mountain. But he ends up exposing them to a much greater danger, when the information he discovers angers the Gods .

Finn, Stace, and Simon didn't expect a perfect welcome upon their arrival in Chalet, and those expectations prove correct. Simon has to deal with the mistrust of most people in the town, and the sabotage attempts from a coworker who never wanted him to return. Stace is thrilled when an old friend of hers finds his way to them-but the feeling fades when it becomes clear that he and Finn don't get along. The Gods and Goddesses quickly surmise that jealousy is at the root of their arguments, and debate over ways to toy with the situation. But those problems pale in comparison to what happens when a sociopath arrives-a fare who's determined to use her magic to tear the fledgling community apart.

Many people know about the Greek Gods and Goddesses--what most don't suspect is that Zeus and the others had a different home world before they ever came to Earth.

After belief in them faded on our world, they returned to their original home, Storybook, and stayed away from humans for years . . . until a spaceship called the Calypso runs into trouble, and the Deities decide to help.

Completely unaware of the divine intervention, the mortals go about their lives. Simon is banished from the fledgling community for his crimes, Finnian leaves of his own volition, Geneva tries to get her work done while dealing with a controlling husband, and Stace struggles to find something familiar in a world that she was brought to against her will.

Their lives are already complicated enough. And then Hera and Aphrodite decide to make a bet. . . .