A Readers Take Denver Anthology featuring: A RELIC OF MAGIC AND GOLD by HM Hodgson She’s accused of stealing a powerful relic. He’s helping to clear her name—or is he? Evangeline is thrilled to kick off her spellcaster career protecting powerful relics - until she's accused of stealing one of the dangerous artefacts under her protection. Forced to use her magic to escape, Eve runs into private investigator Raph Smith. Hiring the sexy PI seems like her best - only - option to clear her name and stay out of a Knights Templar dungeon. Raph Smith always gets his missing person - though the reason why is a closely guarded secret. So finding a lost trinket box should be easy money. And while accepting multiple clients for the same job is a big N.O. in the PI world, when you’re being blackmailed, subject to a magical binding contract, and one client is a thief, you do what you must. But the relic has a deadly secret too … and those who know the truth will do anything to find the artifact, including killing everyone who stands in their way. As the sheets heat up, and with their hearts and heads on the line, how can Eve and Raph trust each other, let alone defeat the evil hunting them all? HOUSE OF LIES AND SORROW by Emily Blackwood Jade Farrow will die tomorrow. Her fate was decided years ago, when her useless father made a deal with the greedy fae king to save his own life. Now, she is being sent to marry one of the five ruthless fae princes. The only problem is that she is not the first human to marry a fae prince. And like every human wife before her, Jade is going to be killed before she can find a way out. Malachi Weyland is the heir to the fae throne. It’s the reason his brothers have despised him all these years, and it’s the reason his father is adamant on finding him a human wife. Malachi has one job, and that is to unite the fae and human lands. But Malachi has a secret, and it’s one that gives him h