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  • Touchstone
    Amy Laurens
    Just one touch will kill you...Kyla’s magical Touch often lands her in trouble - but nothing compares to the firestorm that erupts when her estranged sister calls a meeting out of the blue. Their father lies dying in the hospital from a mysterious illness.Then an anonymous blackmailer calls, giving Kyla five days to find the magical, mythical, possibly non-existent Touchstone -...
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    16,95 €

  • Life Had Other Plans
    Amy Laurens
    In Life Had Other Plans, Amy Laurens provides an intimate exploration of what happens when life throws unexpected challenges our way. With a voice both vulnerable and fierce, whether confronting the harsh reality of cancer or celebrating the simple, transformative moments of everyday life, Laurens’ poetry is a testament to resilience and the beauty in life’s twists and turns. F...
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    10,91 €

  • Mint Grows Even In The Dark
    Amy Laurens
    Claire knows where to find the people reported as ’missing under suspicious circumstances’. Unfortunately, telling the authorities means Claire risks taking the blame for the disappearances. Infuriating. Instead, if Claire wants to see justice in the world, her future-telling tea speaks (metaphorically) crystal clear: Claire must rescue the people from the mysterious, other-wor...
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    8,06 €

  • Christmas Miracle Is Just A Saying
    Amy Laurens
    Arabella’s Christmas Eve out on the town turns to disaster when she drags her best friend, Jenson the wereshark, down to the beach for a calming swim. A swim? Absolutely. Calming? ...Not exactly. With lives now at stake, Arabella needs a miracle, and fast. What she gets? Unexpected allies that unravel old family secrets and threaten everything she thought she knew about the peo...
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    8,12 €

  • All The Things We Saved You From
    Amy Laurens
    To the casual observer, the light shines spectacularly, bathing the skyscraper in the middle of an oaken nowhere, setting windows aglimmer as the sun sinks toward the horizon. To Tristan, however, the bittersweet light both fills him with indescribable joy as his magical talent weaves it into gold - and with deep despair.Because his talent? Everyone wants it.Once, he sacrificed...
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    8,06 €

  • The Ice Cream Crown Skating Races
    Amy Laurens
    Every year, the town of Linderch gathers to watch the Ice Cream Crown Skating Races, a series of trick races skated on a pond of magically deep-frozen ice cream. This year, fourteen-year-old George intends to win. If he loses, his family loses their house. George’s biggest challenge? His year off, with no practice. Or so he thinks.Because this year, something sinister simmers, ...
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    9,95 €

  • And Then I Shall Transform
    Amy Laurens
    Six magical fantasy stories of transformation.In Which Leaves Are Common Sense: No one tells you what to do when your hiking buddy has a sudden attack of lunar-cy and turns into a werewolf three days before the full moon. Annoying at any time, but on a hike with temperatures falling fast? Potentially fatal...Tims Testing Day: Lunchtime at the Tims Compound, and the test that de...
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    11,07 €

  • On The Origin Of Paranormal Species
    Amy Laurens
    Why do werewolves transform with the moon? When did mermaids get their tails? What sinister history underpins the goblin? Uncover the answers to these questions - and more! - in this collection of seven essays from award-winning author Amy Laurens. First published in the critically acclaimed Aurealis magazine, these essays explore the mythological basis of seven of the most pop...
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    11,13 €

  • Change Becomes Us
    Amy Laurens
    In 2022, Amy faced the most challenging decision of her life: stay in the job she knew and loved as a high school English teacher, making a difference in the lives of teens, but continue to risk her relationship with her friends, her family, her health - and her own children? Or leap into the unknown? Amy’s choice resulted in these poems, as she processed her way through grief ...
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    11,08 €

  • Curses With Benefits
    Amy Laurens
    Wrestling with insomnia leaves Harry desperate enough to do the unthinkable: summon a demon for assistance. Naturally he gets more than he bargained for in this two-for-one deal that leaves him fighting for an unexpected ally’s life. Of course, unexpected allies sometimes bring unexpected gifts, as well... A quirky urban fantasy tale about making friends in surprising places, f...
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    5,11 €

  • Recruitment
    Amy Laurens
    The sun sinks toward the horizon and sweat drips down Dave’s face as he waits by a deserted road for something-or someone-unknown. This job interview? Not quite matching his expectations. But then again, in the middle of a war between human and fey, why would it? And with his fridge and bank account both running low, Dave hardly cares about asking questions. Until he realises w...
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    5,17 €

  • Love In The Time Of Corona
    Amy Laurens
    The coronavirus lockdown means that Saria’s anxiety flares even when hanging the washing. Pegs all the same colour would help... If she can brave the trip to the shops. Out of toilet paper, Dan heads to the store, prepared to fight for one last roll. But his competition? Significantly cuter than he envisaged. A sweet, meet-cute romance about finding love in unexpected places.  ...
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    4,16 €

  • Caught In The Act
    Amy Laurens
    Thanks to Lifetime Clinic’s time capsule serum, anyone can now live forever-for the low, low price of two million dollars annually. A trio of enterprising thieves attempt to steal one of the capsules... And the sound tech responsible for processing the evidence makes a discovery that calls everyone’s motives into question. Even Lifetime’s. Because this information? Literally li...
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    4,30 €

  • More Than Mushrooms
    Amy Laurens
    The silver silence out in the forest refreshes Lily’s spirits after being housebound with her family for the last three weeks. Hoping for mushrooms, instead Lily finds... something else. Something unidentifiable.Something with the power to remind Lily of everything truly important in her life.A lush, vivid story with mystery elements, for readers who love the soul-deep quiet of...
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    4,06 €

  • Some Impropriety Expected
    Amy Laurens
    Nobody suspects good-natured Skribs’s real job as assassin for the queen. Everyone else’s eyes? Diverted by the gruesome horrors the Northern ambassador brings for show. But Skribs’s attention? Fixed where it really matters: protecting his queen’s back. No one’s getting past this secret hitman today. A cheeky, confident story with ultra-competent characters on display, don’t mi...
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    5,19 €

  • Moon And Morning
    Amy Laurens
    Rory appreciates her big, sprawling family-and the beauty of twilight down at the lake-but sometimes she wishes she felt a little bit less like a freakish unicorn and a little bit more like she belonged. Then a strange (cute) boy trips over her as they wait for the fireworks to begin; but Rory knows how that story goes, and she has better things to do with her time. Especially ...
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    4,30 €

  • Far More Satisfying Than Hell
    Amy Laurens
    Imprisoned in a back bedroom with a darkness deeper than any lack of light for company, Ava bides her time. Fury boils inside her, keeping her going, giving her purpose. Soon-very soon-she can let her rage spill over... And her captors won’t know what hit them. For everyone who ever dreamed of stripping back the darkness to expose every rotten secret-and make the ones responsib...
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    5,19 €

  • As Time Whirls Slowly Past
    Amy Laurens
    A peed-on stuffed unicorn, children who refuse to go to sleep, and a husband absent for five more days: not Ashley’s description of an ideal evening. But maybe, with a little shift in perspective, she can still salvage the rest of her night... A heart-warming slice-of-life story about treasuring the little moments of quiet in a chaotic world.  ...
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    5,15 €

  • What Blood Can Do
    Amy Laurens
    Her father murdered her mother right in front of her. Of course that left traumatic scars. But in her quest for revenge, she discovers nothing about her life matches her beliefs. Confronted with the choice, revenge or truth, she must decide what she is willing to lose... A very short dark fantasy about that moment when your childhood paradigm shatters-and how you move on throug...
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    5,06 €

  • Perfect Destruction
    Amy Laurens
    Kiana’s last day at the magically-charged fence that protects the world from hyper-destructive unicorns: A day of celebration, right? Not when the extraction team runs late and an ominous storm brews-and her partner has been keeping a potentially fatal secret... For everyone who’s ever been suspicious of the perfect-persona of the unicorn and who understands what true sacrifice...
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    5,17 €

  • April Showers
    Amy Laurens
    From quiet courage to moments of magic, April Showers captures the heart of a world in lockdown. Written in April 2020, these six short stories explore resilience, hope, and wonder against the backdrop of a time when the world paused. Embracing magic within everyday life, these stories balance the tension of isolation with moments of hope and the healing power of family and nat...
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    10,94 €

  • Shadows Never Lie
    Amy Laurens / Amy Lomas
    Candance jogs through the hot city evening-something that usually brings her calm. But tonight, she attends the biggest work event of her life. Nerves about the dinner keep plaguing her. Then she trips over a little old woman in the street. The woman warns her: Avoid the dinner tonight.The cryptic warning rattles Candance. And that’s before she realises what the consequences of...
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    4,04 €

  • Sorcerers Always Lie
    Amy Laurens
    Adela’s hand? Burning with pain from a magical bullet strike. Hard to concentrate with that much pain distracting you. She must push it aside and raise the protective bubble around their campsite though, because the middle of a guerrilla warzone? Yeah. Not a good place for Adela and her friends to sit around unprotected. But of course, the pain isn’t the only thing distracting ...
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    4,01 €

  • The Chaos Shark
    Amy Laurens
    The summer sun bakes the boat, the catch, and the bait. Everything stinks of salt and prawns, and Ellie just needs a break. Falling overboard trying to reach her brother’s litter? Not quite the break she intended. But Ellie takes advantage of the opportunity to swim for shore and spend some time exploring. Of course, finding confirmation of one of her town’s oldest legends? Als...
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    5,15 €

  • Crystalline And Bright
    Amy Laurens
    The voices haunt Amberly-or rather, they nag her, a constant, invisible stream of criticism keeping her company while she survives a boarding school where none but a few teachers like her. A good thing the milky-teal river at the edge of the school also keeps her company. It likes her, it keeps the other, critical voices at bay-and Amberly kind of thinks that maybe sometimes sh...
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    4,08 €

  • Rest For The Wicked
    Amy Laurens
    On her way home from her day job in the middle of a heatwave, all Linny wants from life right now? A cold shower. Then the head of her dive team pages: a salvage job out on the reef. Even better than a shower - if Linny gets there in time. She’d better. Because today, a centuries-old mystery awakens on the reef. Everything Linny knows? About to come crumbling down... A haunting...
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    4,04 €

  • Bs By Bioluminescent Light
    Amy Laurens
    She waits alone on the dark park bench, missing the family who no longer call. She waits for the tiny pollinators who fill the park each night - if not her life’s triumph, then at least something she feels rightly proud of. If only she had someone left to share her wisdom with. A quiet science fiction story about the future of humanity - and family.  ...
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    4,10 €

  • The Other Carly
    Amy Laurens
    The last time Joanna saw Ryan, someone died. Still, unlike everyone else, Joanna trusts Ryan. But does she trust him enough to help her enact revenge on her high school nemesis, who bullies her cruelly and mercilessly? Does she need to trust him, if she doesn’t care about the consequences? A dark, young adult fantasy tale about bullies, revenge-and unexpected consequences.  ...
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    3,99 €

  • Desperate Measures
    Amy Laurens
    Katrina just wants the perfect dress for her wedding day. But the dress shop makes error after error. Desperation sets in. But even Katrina underestimates the consequences of the dress shop’s mistakes... A short horror tale about the dangers of agreeing to bargains without fully understanding the costs.  ...
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    4,06 €

  • The Remarkable Insight Of Jellybeans and Understanding
    Amy Laurens
    She sits on the lounge with her partner, sharing an unfulfilling jar of jellybeans. For the first time in her life, she dares to dream of something more. If only she could find the courage to act. For everyone who dreams of freedom, and of being truly loved and known. Also includes the short story Understanding.  ...
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    5,17 €


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