Patrice Sarath

Patrice Sarath is an award-winning filmmaker and author living in Austin, Texas. This, her debut collection, gathers her finest short fiction from more the past two decades and adds a brand new story (currently being adapted into a film).Featuring tales set in the same milieu as the author's Tales of Port Saint Frey novels alongside contemporary fantasies, deep space skulduggery and much much more, this collection is perfect for all fans of great stories well told. "What distinguishes all these stories is Patrice's ability to create complex and believable characters... a rare gift." - Martin Owton from his Introduction.Forward By Martin Owton Murder on the Hohmann Bad Dog The Star Seed Witches Meet at Midnight Pilot's Forge Joe Fledge's Jump The Night of Their Conversion Spider Hell: A Rescue Mission Pigs and Feaches Blood on the Snow Caro Comes Home Red Ned Mederos and the Sea Girl of Port Saint FreyThe Lunch Thief Into the Dark Ice A Prayer for Captain La Hire Theo Ballinchard and the Oranges of Possibility About the Author

House Mederos was once the wealthiest merchant family in Port Saint Frey. Now the family is disgraced, impoverished, and humbled by the powerful Merchants Guild. Daughters Yvienne and Tesara Mederos are determined to uncover who was behind their family's downfall and get revenge. But Tesara has a secret - could it have been her wild magic that caused the storm that destroyed the family's merchant fleet? The sisters' schemes quickly get out of hand. Gambling is one thing, but robbing people in the night is another ] Together the sisters must trust each another to keep their secrets and save their family.

After the shocking events of last summer, the high society of Port Saint Frey has plenty to gossip about. Who was the Gentleman Bandit? Why hasn’t he been captured? And what really happened that night when the Guildmaster disappeared? When the Guild hires Abel Fresnel, a detective with special powers of his own, to find the answers, Tesara and Yvienne Mederos have to avoid his probing questions and keep mum about their role in the events of that dark night. Everything’s more or less under control until a dead man turns up in the dumbwaiter… File Under: Fantasy [ Card Sharks | Sharp Sleuth | Magic Fingers | Dial S for Sisters ]

House Mederos was once the wealthiest merchant family in Port Saint Frey. Now the family is disgraced, impoverished, and humbled by the powerful Merchants Guild. Daughters Yvienne and Tesara Mederos are determined to uncover who was behind their family’s downfall and get revenge. But Tesara has a secret – could it have been her wild magic that caused the storm that destroyed the family’s merchant fleet? The sisters’ schemes quickly get out of hand. Gambling is one thing, but robbing people in the night is another… Together the sisters must trust each another to keep their secrets and save their family. File Under: Fantasy [ A Family’s Honour | The Fleet That Was Lost | Pistols in the Dark | An Ace at Cards ]

Pride and Prejudice's Mary Bennet gets her own story... The third of five daughters, Miss Mary Bennet is a rather unremarkable girl. With her countenance being somewhere between plain and pretty and in possession of no great accomplishments, few expect the third Bennet daughter to attract a respectable man. But although she is shy and would much prefer to keep her nose stuck in a book, Mary is uncertain she wants to meekly follow the path to spinsterhood set before her.Determined that Mary should have a chance at happiness, the elder Bennet sisters concoct a plan. Lizzy invites Mary to visit at Pemberley, hoping to give her sister a place to grow and make new acquaintances. But it is only when Mary strikes out independently that she can attempt to become accomplished in her own right. And in a family renowned for its remarkable Misses, Mary Bennet may turn out to be the most wholly unexpected of them all...

So you say you want to read something new, by people you never heard of, stories about stuff you probably never thought about before? Like credit cards programmed to defraud you, squeezing you for everything you're worth; or how Richard Nixon could be a character in a Lovecraftian play. (Okay, those are kinda plausible.) But I bet you never once thought about the world's noonie, or that moonshine just might have theological ramifications. It's all right inside these pages, a folding map to Cryptopolis, the secret city. Welcome, take a look around, make yourself at home. Careful - you don't want to get lost.