BadAss Faeries It's Elemental Author:Danielle Ackley-McPhail (Editor), L. Jagi Lamplighter (Editor), Jeffrey Lyman (Editor) The Bad-Ass Faeries are back and they are in their Elements! Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Spirit...It's time to get down to basics, for the fae answer to a natural order. A lineup of bestselling authors is joined by Kimberley Long-Ewing, Judi Fleming, Danny Birt, Peter Prellwitz, DL Thurston, James R. Stratton, Patrick Thomas, Bethany Herr... more »on, Keith R.A. DeCandido and Lee C. Hillman. These authors make it clear why one doesn't mess with Mother Nature...or Bad-Ass Faeries.
Contents:
Introduction (It's Elemental) • essay by Danielle Ackley-McPhail
Spin, Weave, and Measure / Kimberly Long-Ewing
On Rocky Ground / L. Jagi Lamplighter: Mab, Mephisto, and Erasmus go to the mountain to pay a debt, but can they pacify the earth before the mountain comes down around their ears?
Friends in Dark Places / Judi Fleming
The Flying Rock / James Chambers: Daniel seeks to give his son and daughter a taste of childhood magic before they grow too old to embrace such things, but the winds blow as they will and he soon wonders will his children even see another day.
To Thy Sylph Be True / Danny Birt
Stormbringer / Peter Prellwitz
The Face of the Serpent / DL Thurston
The Legend of Buck Cooper and the Child of Fire / James Daniel Ross: it only takes a spark to start a fire, but what will it take to stop one ? Buck Cooper and the brigade must stave off the flames of a war most don't even realize is being waged.
The Ties That Bind / James R. Stratton
Looking a Gift Horse / Patrick Thomas
Melia's Best Wave / NR Brown: an oceanid decides she's ready for bigger things, like tackling the deadliest stretch of coastline anywhere. Will she conquer the Mavericks or wipe out for all time?
Fairyland Local #2413 / Bethany Herron
Fifteen Percent / Jody Lynn Nye: Marcel Dorner learns it's best to get into the spirit of things when your literary agent is a filandiere, or more than just your career might not survive...
Undine the Boardwalk [Cassie Zukav] / Keith R. A. DeCandido