Mary M Raichle

Lauren needed to get to space. Now. She'd tried following the rules to get an ID but no one would listen. Either she got to space or she starved to death. Clubbing Idowu Mas, Ceelen warrior, and...

Anger and desperation drove Afya to risk the red tree at the edge of town. Her mother was dying, her little sister already dead, all because of Mother Tabussum. No one would help so Afya risked death...

Shahnaz hummed as he sculpted the Wave around his asteroid tug. It was a simple life, herding asteroids to the space stations at Tasma's core. Until he found a drifting escape capsule. Caelan was...

A case of mistaken identity pulled Jason de Havin from his job working the grill into Master Darius Elshag's office. Thrust into a new relationship, Jason copes. Mostly. The pay is excellent and the...

When death stole one life, she searched for another. Exie used her magic to travel from world to world in search of another place, and another woman, to call home. Grief kept her at Benella's side...

August sat in her car, fingers clenched around the steering wheel. Going to a family barbeque with her girlfriend Janie felt like the biggest challenge of her life even though Janie had insisted it...

Cold. Wilson was ready to let the cold kill him but he couldn't let his little sister Aniyah die. It was Wilson's fault that she was outside in the icy cold, his fault that the Elder had thrown them...

Meyari McFarland returns to the world of Mouse and Snake in a story of finding ones place in a whole new world. Kyle lived at the very base of the Web, the hugely complicated suspension system over...

Kinipela fought with her magic, strictly controlling the need to work the weather and waves surrounding her island. The broken heart left behind by Moanna, her ex-wife, made control that much harder...

Eliza's comfortable life ended when her beloved grandmother died. Her cousin Sandra swooped in and took it all, from the house to Eliza's beloved dog, Miki. Nothing Eliza did worked but the one thing...

The hottest summer in decades was not the time for starting new things. Especially new romances.Padma's life was already nicely settled. She didn't need to date anyone. Not even drop-dead gorgeous...

Refugees from a drought that destroyed their homeland, Lesedi and her family settled in a new land with a whole new climate. Lesedi struggled to find her place not only in this new society but also...

Candy Courtship, Amirah's favorite pastry shop, smelled of yeast and the acrid bright smell of fresh green tea. It was all the more welcoming because of the proprietors sweet, beautiful Calliope and...

Trapped in the checkout line, Youneda had no desire to give advice to baby dragons. He was old and did not want desperately earnest questions that could not be properly answered. As the oldest dragon...

Meyari McFarland returns to the world of Mouse and Snake in a story of a found family and the cycles of life. Ben's terraced garden, cut high into the mountainside where few dared to work, was his...

Wade knew that he had very few choices in life. His family lived at the edge of starvation. He could choose to support them or run away. He could choose to live or die. Either way, the world wouldn't...

Kennet hated being king. Rudrash was a disaster after his defeat of Mage-King Rihab and Kennet had to fix it. If he could. There was a toxic volcano, not enough food and water, and no safe place for...

The last thing Mari expected when she and her sisters arrived in Aingeal City with a load of Dana trade goods was to land squarely in the middle of a marriage alliance. But with a Delbhana plot...

Sweet-voiced little Mistress Betsy knew her way around whips. Chadrick's favorite BDSM club sometimes hosted visiting Masters and Mistresses. So when Mistress Betsy came in to demo whip skills,...

Everyone has plans for Haruka's life. They assume she'll marry her best friend Shahzad, youngest son of Lord Bilal of Breding Manor. They assume she's a pretty face with no mind or will of her own...

The air was thick with moisture, cold and dark as a shadowy tomb. The cargo hold echoed with the whisper of claws against metal grates. Devyn heard the drips. Alone in the dark with alien monsters...

The command staff offices for the human habitat on the Final Oblivion were the most butt ugly places Esme had ever worked in her entire life. Bare steel walls, cobbled together desks, no sound...

Young dragon rider Amynta returned to her senator mother Timo's home expecting conflict, the possibility of good food and a very nice bath. Instead she found the lovely Pallas, a mysterious visitor...

Sand shifted under Simeon's feet, under the stairs, the buildings, the entire town. James waited, eyes on the horizon like a onyx sculpture of a man as he gazed across the misty beach towards the...

Deadly danger reveals incredible powers. Those Gifted with eight Factors erupt into superheroes when faced with death. Only to discover that greater threats lurk under their new world. Meyari...

Meyari McFarland returns to the world of Mouse and Snake in a story of a mother's love struggling to protect her child. Banan had never been violent. She left that to Nakato, her daughter Rafah's...

Pablo ran, panting as the men shouted angry slurs at him, cursing at him. He ducked down an alley behind a warehouse, looking for something that might be a weapon. He had to escape, had to get away...

Tindiere. A world wracked by war, controlled by secret conflicts between hugely powerful mages, filled with the tiny joys found in the quiet moments of life. Eternal Magic collects six short stories...

Exploration of new worlds delighted Berenike. They'd yet to find one that would make an acceptable colony but she enjoyed the process of discovery. Until they landed on one bleak grey world and...

When the Tourmaline Seas docked in Atalya, Raelin expected a normal port of call: trade, exploration, loading cargo. What she got was a stunning offer, threats from the Delbhana and an unexpected...