They say love is magic. So what do you get when you combine love with the magical world? Six exquisite stories that have the best of fairy tales and passionate, sexy modern romance. The Reward of It All tells of a captive in the world of the fae captured to fight against beasts of yore. The Garden is a reweaving of a story from the very beginning of time from a completely new point of view. A hard scrabble life in a tiny village by the ocean makes it so that Seven Tears Are Not Enough, especially when there is a gorgeous selkie involved. In our two stories set in modern times, Fairy Circle Drive is about finding magic in the most ordinary of places, while the heroine of Chimera's Tail sets out to find the powerful love that will save her from madness and death. Finally, in Thrice Always, a life long outsider finds the answers to her dreams and much more. You will laugh, cry, and fall in love with our heroes and heroines as you join us at Elm Books in our magical journeys.

Fae Love: Six Fantastical Tales of Love

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Elm Books

Elm Books is proud to resent the fourth book in our mystery collection, with eight stories featuring a female sleuth and tea. Choose your brew carefully... some are comforting, others are deadly. But whether your style is English, Jasmine, Chai, Green, or Vanilla Cream there's bound to be a cup for everyone! The fourth mystery collection from Elm Books features female sleuths and protagonists from Elm Books veterans along with a few exciting newcomers. In these eight stories you'll find eight wide range of lovable characters. In "A Cup of Chai" Robert D. Hughes proves that detective work is more exciting than biology homework as a college student solves the mysterious murder of a local tea house owner. Professional sleuths in Lee Mullins' "Edith Jones Just Got Game" and Lynn Finger's "Fear on Eight Legs" solve crimes from Philadelphia to the far reaches of the galaxy. Tea is a civilizing influence and a key to answers both for the prim and proper Miss Wisner of Albert Tucher's "Miss Wisner Will Pour" and for a team of psychological researchers investigating an escaped mouse Sharon Nelson's "Civility: Worth a Try When All Else Fails." And justice is on the menu in Stephanie Rico's "Extraordinary Happenstance", Wendy Worthington's "A nice cup of Homicide", and Cheryl Korte's "A Garden of Simples as their heroines dish out boiling hot revenge with two lumps of sugar.

Death and a Cup of Tea

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Tucher, Albert

Mullins, Lee

Mystery

Elm Books presents a full Christmas Stocking of stories for all fans of romance fiction! In these six tales, some very different bad girls -- actually good girls at heart --- indulge their most sensual fantasies while seeking, and finding, true love. In "A Very Chunky Monkey Christmas," M.M. Ardagna shows that ice cream is good, but there are far tastier treats. In Yvette Franklin's irrecerent "Noisy Night," a sexy starlet finds that a hospital maternity ward is the most romantic place to be on Christmas. A newly-met couple does mich more than kiss in Jess Alynn's "Mistletoe in Minnesota." In her action-packed story, "A Partridge in Pear Treacle," M.K. Tournes gives us larceny, secret identities, a high-stakes chase, and family reconciliation along with a solid dose of passion. A grieving victorian gentlewoman's dreams come true in Edith Elton's "The Mad Hewitts," and in Lily Callahan's "Sprig of Holly," a brilliant Shakespearian actress must play the role of her life for a chance at lifetime bliss. All these stories show the true lesson of Christmas romance: that loneliness can be conquered by the redemptive power of true love. We think you'll fall in love with these smart, assertive heroines and heroes who don't have to be monks to be gentlemen. We hope this collection sparks a few Christmas fantasies of your own!

Christmas is for Bad Girls

One summer, Hong goes with her dad to visit her grandmother in Taiwan. She finds two big problems. First, there is an enormous multicolored beetle in the bathtub. Second, her grandma is going to have to close down her dumpling shop because she is getting too old to take care of it by herself. What to do

Superbeetle

S. Michele Chen

Jess Faraday, May 2019: 
Steampunk writing combines imaginative technological tinkering with a 19th century aesthetic. Cheaply done, that means slap some gears on it, call your protagonist 'Lord Crankshaft' or 'Lady Windlass, ' and get it out the door.
But we at Elm Books wanted to dig deeper.
The 19th century was a time of exciting scientific developments: steam power, electricity, refrigeration, and so much more that we take for granted today, but that seemed like witchcraft at the time. But it was also a time of great social inequality and ruthless colonial expansion. It was not the best time, for example, to be female, or poor. And it was a terrible time to be an original inhabitant of a colonized land. And the steampunk genre, like every genre, could do better in representing these stories.
This anthology brings you some of the stories that go beyond the traditional tropes.
Within these pages, you will find lady sharpshooters and dominatrix detectives. You'll encounter vampire forensics, sleuthing Rabbis, and ancient East Asian vendettas exploding onto the streets of East London. And in one spectacular story, one man uncovers a corporate conspiracy to steal the very power of the sun. Perhaps we should have called this anthology Death in the Age of Steam and Sun.

Death in the Age of Steam