Leah R Cutter

Set your cauldron to bubbling, and read these fifteen tales of magic, sorcery, and enchantment What if you could smell magic-or go to a bar and get a shot of magic to go with your cocktail? Will an aging sorcerer's last pupil ever learn anything? And what could possibly go wrong when a pair of witches enter the local chili cook-off?Includes stories by DeAnna Knippling, Leah R. Cutter, Robert Jeschonek, Debbie Mumford, Annie Reed, Rei Rosenquist, Alicia Cay, James Pyles, Grayson Towler, Jamie Ferguson, Dayle A. Dermatis, Thea Hutcheson, Leslie Claire Walker, Sharon Kae Reamer, and Steve Vernon.

Chocolates and Truffles and Bon Bons, O My Shar Opalbender hates her life.Okay, maybe that's a bit strong. Emo, even.Despite her Dwarven heritage, and her family's expectations, Shar finds no joy in faceting, setting, or polishing gemstones.Her true passion?Chocolate.What better way to prove herself to her family (and herself) than to enter, and win, the Realms' renowned contest, Chocolates Galore And maybe, just maybe, with some magic, luck, and a little help from her friends, Shar also can discover the true meaning of life.If there is one beyond chocolate.Seems unlikely at best.Come enjoy this lovely cozy fantasy with low stakes, delicious chocolates, lots of breaking of the fourth wall, and utter silliness.

A cozy fantasy tale of friendship, work, and going out into the world. Oh, and snow cones When the Ice Elf Elbriarien Itamar-or just El, for short-fails to get her Mage Mark after her apprenticeship, she decides to leave the frozen north and head south.Someplace where snow doesn't stay piled up in corners during the heat of summer. Maybe walk barefoot in the sand next to the ocean. Perhaps even chuck out all her learning and take work in a bar. (A fate worse than death, at least according to her parents.)However, without her Mage Mark, El cannot legally practice spells or do complicated magic. Just little things, cantrips native to her Ice Elf heritage.Join her as she makes her way in a new life and a new city, finding friends, business opportunities, a love of snow cones, and perhaps, if she's lucky, a sapphic love as well.

The Milltown Chamber of Commerce throws their first annual barbeque competition. One of AJ's old friends even believes she has a chance of winning.Until one of the competition organizers drops dead.Poisoned.Murdered.And all the clues point at AJ's friend.Can AJ clear her friend's name? So many other things keep drawing her attention away. Including AJ's mother, who arrives in town without warning.AJ, quite frankly, would rather deal with a killer than her scheming mother.However, she might have to face down both...Grilled Sand and Witches-a cozy paranormal woman's mystery-continues the adventures of AJ, the quirky characters of the charming Pacific Northwest burg of Milltown, and will leave you hungry for more.Let the water-and the magic-flow.

A vision comes to AJ just before she leaves her old life, showing her an unknown dead man. Great. On top of breaking up with her ex, leaving her job, starting perimenopause, and going to spend the summer with her bratty younger sister, AJ worries that the stress has made her crazy. Crazier. Something. She determinedly goes forward to Milltown anyway, taking a job as a manager at an old inn, while trying to figure out who the dead man is and why pools of water keep glowing when she stares at them. Seriously. Crazier. The Witch is Inn-a cozy paranormal woman's mystery-introduces a woman coming into her powers, the quirky characters of the charming small town of Milltown, as well as a ghost who regularly knocks things over when she wants attention, like a particularly annoying cat. The first of the Water Witch Mysteries. Let the water-and the magic-flow.

Everyone knows that the cities of the gods had fallen. Tanelith has grown up among the ruins of one such city and visited to another.However, after escaping from the slavers, visiting the Tree People, and other cities of her own people, the Elves, she believes that at least one city still flies far above them.Can she find it?And once she's there, can she convince those mythical, lost people to help those in the world below?Stairs of the Gods-the second book in a truly epic dark fantasy series-follows Tanelith as she travels to the edges of the known world, searching for a way up.Be sure to read the rest of the books in this finished series

Xiao Yen loses her luck at the most inauspicious time: just before her first employment, protecting foreigners with her magic while they travel through the Middle Kingdom, along the last part of the Silk Road.Despite contracts and agreements, Xiao Yen's fealty remains with her family. She must distinguish herself on the road in order to catch the eye of a legend and earn an immortal peach.How can Xiao Yen hope to fulfill her promises to either her family or her clients when, due to her missing luck, she fails at everything she turns her hand to?Come travel with Xiao Yen on a magical journey through a magical land in this unusual, vividly-told historic fantasy.

Tanelith only knows the ruins of one of the crashed cities. Myths say that the gods used to live there, floating in palaces far above the ground.The other races-like the Dwarves and the Humans-blame Tanelith people, the Elves, for the ancient war, for how far the rest of them have fallen.And artifacts still hide among the broken walls and buildings. Miracles and mysteries. When slavers drag Tanelith to the Human lands, to witness the hatred that causes people to treat her kind like animals, she must escape.But can the past save the Elves from the hatred of the other races? Can the future?Ruins of the Gods-the first in a new epic dark fantasy series- follows Tanelith as she struggles to find her place in the world. And the gods that abandoned and betrayed them all.Be sure to read the rest of the books in this finished series

Judit had thought her choices were lousy before.Now, she has forbidden aliens in control of the engines, a ship designed to break down regularly, and the Cartel hunting them through every system in known space.What's worse?She cannot trust the crew. Even Saxon has been compromised by the death of Camelot.But Judit cannot fight the entire galaxy on her own, though Isten help her, sometimes she's angry enough that she thinks she can.Somehow, this crew has to come together. Learn how to run a con together to save themselves. Or everything-all those second chances-will be lost.Project Nyx-the second book in the space opera series The Long Run-continues the chase through alien space stations, corporate machinations, and the importance of finding just the right threat to get your crewmembers to behave.Be sure to read all the books in this completed series, starting with Project Nemesis

The Universal Trading Cartel has Judit trapped.Her choices stink: prison down on a planet, or serving the Cartel as another peon in their soul-crushing machine.Her savior? An alien trying to break the stranglehold the Cartel has over all trade.Her job? Command an experimental spaceship containing more secrets than anyone will ever imagine, let alone believe. Enough to get them all killed if the truth ever comes out.Her shadowy boss calls it Project Nemesis.She'll be free of the Cartel or die trying.Project Nemesis-the first book in the new space opera series The Long Run-takes you on a wild ride with aliens, corporate espionage, and, oh yeah, lots of snark.Be sure to read all the books in this completed series