June's five years beside Rauf are being erased by people who know exactly what happened. His newly restored sight is slower to recognize the problem than his other senses.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
A secretly powerful husband can fix almost anything, but the sharper early reversal gives his mother-in-law a desk on the other side of the negotiation.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
Caroline can tell her rescuer when she has had enough porridge. Telling him that she has no wish to marry is a rather different undertaking. The distance between those two conversations gives this werewolf romance its sharpest scene.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
Ginny can order enough bottled water for a city. It takes a request for one extra plane ticket to show her how little she knows about the people she means to save.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
Bai Jiu has a warehouse of food and two hungry children. In the Gao household, getting breakfast past the kitchen door takes more ingenuity than stocking the warehouse.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
Shen Yun’s old handset can withstand heavenly lightning. Its more interesting talent is remembering three years in his company from the other side of the screen.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
A missing friend sends Zhang Yuanqing a card, and a family story turns frighteningly literal. A dead stranger becomes the most persuasive witness in the opening of Realm Walker.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8
In Silver City, a young inspector can see a thing his colleagues cannot. The case moves when he lends his papers to someone who knows a song he has never heard.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–12
Rowan Rhodes trades drinking water for discarded packaging. Eight chapters later, the terms on which she offers rope to a stranger have become a question of character.
Opening story chapters 1–8 · catalogue entries 1–8