
April still searches for her mother who vanished nineteen years ago from the fountain at Hotel Bellagio in Vegas. Catherine Stine offers Maizy of Bellagio. Sometimes a flooded kitchen isn’t the unluckiest thing to happen to you. A necromancer is on the frozen moon of Saturn where the dead do scream. To save what he can from spreading corruption, he turns to the ancient river serpents, but they’ve grown old and distant and may not hear his call at all.

Death magic blights the land, threatening everyone and everything. Hyrn the horned god of the woodlands is learning the meaning of fear. Simon Kewin offers us The Waters, Dividing the Land. A young woman, filled with regret about the past, goes on a journey and discovers more than she bargained for. River Fairchild presents You Can’t Go Home Again.

All seems well until a vicious storm tears through her Texas community, and Angelique learns there are worse things than a little change. Puberty hits Angelique like a gut punch and brings about a change, forcing an unexpected revelation about her past. Or do they? Angela Brown gives us Extraordinary. She jumps in, happy to trade her problems for a life in which worries don’t exist. Her daughter needs everything, the rent is being raised, Evernee’s job barely pays minimum wage, and she has little hope for better.

Evernee Weems wants to escape this world in the worst way. When a drowned girl changes her mind about suicide, Merliss and her associates face a fearsome, preternatural creature. What she finds might be more than she can handle. Harlow Grayson has the chance to rid herself of a pesky ghost but she must first brave a haunted riverboat and recover a family heirloom. Gwen Gardner gives us Shake, Rattle and Row. Water is spectacularly beautiful but also treacherous. Raging storms and magical rainbow fountains. A haunted journey on a riverboat, water sprites borne of pennies, preternatural creatures, ancient serpents, and the Lady of the Lake lurk in dark waters.
