A Raggedy Moon Books Collection

Dive into these stories of heroism, love and adventure. A panicked bachelor faces an arranged marriage. A Roman noblewoman trains to become a gladiatrix. A young Roman boy is torn between love for his ailing grandmother and duty to an empress. The award-winning author offers these stories and more as she brings to life men and women struggling to survive and thrive--the eternal human condition.

Humans—and the occasional ghost—intent on murder, revenge, and righting wrongs take center stage in these tales. Meet a grieving mother witnessing a death-row execution, a wronged bureaucrat condemned to a future drug rehabilitation center, an Alzheimer’s patient trapped in his own deteriorating mind, a ghost on a mission of justice, and more in this collection of the author’s best dark fiction.

What would you do with an extra hour of life? Kiss your sweetheart? Graffiti your workplace? Find out how one man uses his bonus hour in "Time Again." Check out how a young woman deals with a "transforming" experience, Alice overhauls Wonderland, a mother takes on the devil who wants to marry her daughter, and more in this collection of five of the author's best fantasy stories.