Monsters. They are not always easily spotted, and often easily misunderstood. Sometimes, the monsters must be slain-and sometimes, they must be saved . . .In this collection of ten folkloric fantasy and science fiction stories, you will find a motley crew of characters facing off against monsters or accepting the monstrous within themselves, including:~a ruthless mermaid who must make a deadly choice to free her little sister from a dangerous mistake;~a galactic gravedigger branded a traitor for burying a rebel-and forced to decide between her beliefs and the future she's fought to build;~a once-wicked queen who must face her darkest self in order to help another young woman avoid an unhappy fate;~a ghostly creature trapped in a spaceship full of secrets-secrets that may destroy the young man set to inherit the ship's dark legacy;~and a desperate thief on the run, who must decide whether the wolf shifter tracking her down is a foe . . . or her best chance at survival. Full of beauty and brokenness, romance and revenge, madness and mercy, these stories may just have you rooting for the monsters . . .
