Cindy Lynn Speer

Miss Tasmin, Since we are eventually to be married, and now that I have set forth on my own in order to secure our future, I suppose that it is my duty, as well, to get to know my intended a little more than I do now. So I have taken it into my head to write to you, and it is my hope that you will reply to my missives as best you may; the letters, and my receiving of yours, may be a bit sporadic since I will be at sea a great deal of the time, but it is better than nothing at all. Now, if memory serves me, it is near the day of your birth, and since, again, if memory serves, you are soon to begin your seventh year, I have enclosed a doll. My sister-in-law-to-be favors this type a great deal, and so I believe that you might, as well. Yours, William Tasmin, William's wife-to-be, was chosen by a spell-as all civilized wives and husbands are chosen-when he was 7 and she was just an infant. Unfortunately, Tasmin is from the North, a place of magic and strange ritual, and William is from the South, where people pride themselves on being above that sort of thing. They ought to have been married when Tasmin turned 18, but William was a little tardy calling for his bride. That's all to the good in his family's opinion. Who wants a Hag for a daughter-in-law? Tasmin, on the other hand, would like to know what's keeping him. When he's framed for murdering his patron, Tasmin takes matters into her own hands, harnessing the wind to bring her to William's side. There, she plans to clear him of murder-and finally celebrate that wedding they've been planning. Assuming, that is, that William actually wants to marry her. "...a fantastic journey through love, murder, mystery, and...magic." eBookguru.org, Book of the Month "Beautifully written, The Chocolatier's Wife will draw you into its spell..." The Long and the Short of It "A well-written and entertaining read...I would heartily recommend this thing of beauty to anyone who likes a fantasy cozy mystery." Mrs. Giggles "...lighthearted, fun, magical, beautiful, and romantic..." Tales from the Hollow Tree

Andromeda Pendragon has been trained her whole life to be an agent of Balance, an organization that acts as a supernatural UN to keep the peace among werewolves, vampires and magic users. It’s a busy start for a new agent--all she has to do is prevent a war, solve several murders, stay out of prison, keep the world from learning about things that have been secret for hundreds of years and preserve the stability to the agency she was raised to be a part of. And then there’s Alaister, the man she loved and let go because no normal man wants a girlfriend who hangs out with creatures from his nightmares. The man who re-enters her life at a party the night a young woman is savagely murdered. The man who has a few secrets of his own. But nothing--and no one--will unbalance Andromeda Pendragon...

Cindy Lynn Speer (The Chocolatier's Wife) brings us a collection of short stories,a mixture of re-told fairy tales and purely original fiction.