Kristi Helvig

Ballerina by day. Assassin by night.Here are the two most important things to know:1.I am going to be a professional dancer.2.Every fairy tale you've ever read is a lie. A prince didn't rescue Rapunzel from her ivory tower nor did a huntsman save Little Red Riding Hood from a voracious wolf.I did. The men might get all the credit for it but I'm the one who makes bank. Sure, the official versions of these stories are altered in books but I'm good with that. I have bigger goals-like Juilliard School type goals. Shifting between my world, with its ballet classes and homework, to the parallel world of Liralelle, with its witches and trolls, can be jarring at times but I've gotten the hang of it. That is, until the day a troll crashes my Sleeping Beauty audition and I'm asked to kill the most fearsome witch of all. Yet the pay for this final job will cover my entire Juilliard tuition-if only I can live long enough to make it there.

Four award-winning, bestselling fantasy and science fiction authors weave chilling tales of paranormal adventure, suspense, murder, and horror. After his father is laid to rest, a man must come to terms with a terrible family inheritance. An urban legend becomes all too real for a teen who takes a shortcut through the woods. Four friends visiting an escape room realize their time has run out. A young man working in a morgue discovers something is feasting on the inhabitants. Grab this creepy collection, crawl under your covers, and open the pages-if you dare.

Hide...or be hunted.When a pair of faerie wings fetch big bucks online, 17-yo Lila Kincade realizes her kind aren't just oppressed; they're hunted.Due to prejudice and hostility by humans, half-human/half-faerie Lila lives in a world where faeries are required to register with the government and bind their wings in order to look like everyone else. Her fear of being discovered results in a pathetic social life and unfashionable clothing options-fitted tops just don't provide adequate wing coverage. Lila is haunted by repetitive dreams involving a shack in the woods, and when photos of dismembered wings appear in her school locker, she soon realizes that she is the killer's prime target. As faerie corpses pile up around her, Lila embarks on a mission to save her race from extinction. She must figure out who she can trust and stop the killer before she-and all faeries- are obliterated forever.