"Anyone who believes that faeries are wee, golden-haired creatures with dragon-fly wings and sweet intentions has never met a real faerie." –Suzanne J. Willis, "A Silver Thread Between Worlds"Retellings of familiar favourites from new perspectives, and brand new tales share the pages of this collection of fairy stories. Within these tales you'll find fairy music and food, contracts (making and breaking them), changelings, circles and curses–these stories deliver all the things you already love about fairies and a few new tricks as well.A dusting of dragons, shapeshifters and ogres accompany these tales which include feminist fairies overcoming trauma, Norse fairies breaking the rules to interfere in human affairs, intergalactic fairies hitching a ride to a new home, political satire featuring an idiot king and talking animals, a new Robin Archer story, fairy run nightclubs and so, so much more.Altogether this collection...

Doomsday's Child

Peace is merely the calm between storms ...More than three years have passed since Elliot's friends took The Downs sheep farm from slavers. With Tasmania's deaders rotting away and the biker gangs destroyed by their own infighting, life within the farm's fences has been hard but peaceful.Now a new danger threatens the peace, one that can't be vanquished with blades or bullets, humanity's oldest adversary: disease.To save their home, Elliot and Angie must team up with two men they don't quite trust and cross into hostile territory for a secret government cache of medicines.There, they will risk the attentions of a new and powerful enemy … and Elliot will come face-to-ugly-face with some very fresh and very hungry undead …

Doomsday's Child

Mere days after the battle for The Downs, Elliot has a new purpose.With Lewis delivered into relative safety, Elliot has unfinished business with the outlaws who took the boy in the first place.If they still have Lewis's sister, if she's alive, Elliot will combat the dregs of humanity to get her out. And if she isn't? Well. Either way it's gonna cost them …When civilization falls, the violent inherit the earth.***Written in present tense, Rescue Mission captures the immediacy and tension of an action movie.