Cat Fantasy

Kat misses her solitary assassin life. Instead of doing one cold-hearted kill after another, she has to deal with two-and-a-half men all vying for her attention. But with a new crisis emerging, she needs to keep her cool and focus on what really counts. Kittens are being taken, including Ryker’s son. Is there a killer on the loose or is someone trying to get Kat’s attention?

They Hide: Short Stories to Tell in the Dark collects 13 chilling tales that weave through the shadows, exploring the nature of fear, powerlessness, and control.

"Koshach'ja gordost', volch'ja chest'" - fantasticheskij roman Dar'i Kuznecovoj, zhanr ljubovnoe fjentezi. Svad'ba volch'ego knjazja i koshach'ej knjazhny - sobytie dolgozhdannoe. Shutka li, bez malogo dvadcat' let proshlo s pomolvki do jetogo schastlivogo dnja! Vot tol'ko ne vse v porjadke v volch'em knjazhestve, inache s chego by ego pravitelju propadat' za paru dnej do sobstvennoj svad'by? Protivnik horosho podgotovilsja i vse produmal. Odnogo tol'ko ne uchel: jelitnogo otrjada ohrany, soprovozhdavshego nevestu k zhenihu.

One moment, he was enjoying a breakfast of salmon trimmings in his home in South Wales. The next, he was teleported across time and space onto the cold stone floor of an evil warlock. Locked in the warlock's tower through day and night, Ben may have to serve him for a while. He'll hate this, especially having to hunt those infernal demon rats when the warlock doesn't feed him well at all.

Turn down the lights, turn up the sound, and enter the world of Billy Brahm - a troubled boy hoping to lift a terrible curse with the help of a mystical cat calling to him from his nightmares!

It's time for the last meow. Her whole life, Kat has been fighting for survival. For her freedom. Now, she's done. She wants peace. Even if that means having to risk everything she loves.

Fateh’s world was changed forever when the Shadows invaded. What makes it worse? The betrayal by people he once thought of as friends and the loss of his mother. Who is truly to blame? Tabor was there before the Shadows and when every tragedy happened.

A contemporary dystopian elegy narrated by a cat imprisoned in a Schrödinger’s box, by the prizing-winning poet and memoirist whose writing "cuts to the core with electrifying force" (The Free-Lance Star). The indelible cat heroine of this unexpected tale recalls her life with “the Mustache...

Charlotte Barreau has tried to maintain a low-key lifestyle but it isn’t easy for a young witch. Then she meets a feisty orange cat attempting to foil the plot of a cultist opening a portal to another world. This magical beast comes to her with a calling, a duty to defend our world against denizens of a dangerous realm called the Umbra Oculus. As they begin to investigate, they find themselves dangerously outmatched. Their opponents are fully-trained adult wizards with serious zeal for their work.

Toby, a magical talking cat, has cut ties with the Office of Kingdom Guardianship, intent on finding his long-lost father and avenging his mother's murder. He thought he left everyone behind, but someone from his past is stalking him. Now he must avoid this strange new menace while he seeks the truth about his family's dark history, a history that threatens to unravel his sanity and cause the rest of the world to descend into madness.

When two alien cats are stranded in a U.N. communication station in Earth orbit, they're captured by saboteurs who work for an industrial magnate. But the telepathic cats easily escape their captors once they've landed on Earth. Now they must help derail the industrial mogul's plan to bring down the entire space industry.

Clinging to life underground after a cataclysmic nuclear war, the remains of the human race are desperate for a way to change the past. Harnessing the power of an artificial wormhole, their only hope to avert global annihilation is to travel back in time and alter the discovery of nuclear fission. Humanity's future rests on the unlikely shoulders of Proteus. Born with a unique genetic mutation, scientists discover that he is the only one capable of surviving the ravages of time-travel. Proteus is sent backward to early 20th-century London...but Time doesn't want the past to change.

Allison Catsworth discovers she has a problem…. While falling to her death, she sees not her life flash before her eyes, but her reflection. A moment of fear brings about transformation into a cat that enables her to land on all four paws, which saves her life. Yet it is in that moment, that everything for Ally changes. A search for answers leads to hypnotic life regression, where she discovers past lives of a lab assistant connected to World War II and feline DNA that is changing her own DNA.

Jessica O'Neil prayed for a miracle that would allow her to pass her Spanish exam. Little did she know that it would come in the form of Earth's annihilation and her capture by mammoth-sized alien cats. Kept in isolation, can she remain sane, escape her captivity, and prove her sentience before it's too late? Or will she and the rest of humanity become nothing more than glorified house pets, or worse?

This is the story of two springer spaniels and their unrelenting quest towards enlightenment. Supported by their trusted companion The Bookshelf, and guided by an unwavering belief in the teachings of the Buddha, they undertake to discover the truth surrounding the reincarnation of the Buddha’s dog. The story takes an unusual twist when a mysterious cat arrives. The cat, Amara, believes he has used eight of his nine lives and is suffering from anxiety and uneasiness.

Über den Dächern von Charlestown erstreckt sich für Matt eine Welt voller Mysterien und Rätsel. Er, ein Gestaltwandler der ganz besonderen Art, hüpft so gut wie jede Nacht als schwarze Katze durch die kleine Stadt und genießt die unendliche Freiheit, die seine tierische Form mit sich bringt - vor allem, weil sie im völligen Kontrast zu seinem monotonen, menschlichen Dasein steht. Sein Leben nimmt allerdings eine unerwartete Wendung, als er auf einen faszinierenden Neuankömmling stößt: einen mächtigen Tigerwandler.

The cats and humans of Chronos College know that time travel is the best job in the world, and nothing bad can ever happen to them in the past except that one time they lost a traveler. And that other time they lost a cat.

The city is destroyed by a monster werewolf, and an epic battle ensues between the monster werewolf and the military, with the werewolf holding the upper hand. Hauck and his friends are trapped underground by the werewolf and must fight for their lives.

Lucia is all grown up and now a knight for The Maidens, but life as the only beastkin knight is far from easy. When Lucia receives her first mission, she meets the second reincarnator that The Voice sent after her, Daric and his small band of knights. Their mission? They want to set out and investigate rumors of a blood anchor. Their mission eventually leads Lucia and the others into the Wild Kingdom, the kingdom for beastkin, where Lucia is reunited with her long-lost twin sister. The Wild Kingdom is suffering from famine and scarce prey to hunt.

At the cusp of the new millennium, Elena and Greg Bailey arrive in Green Springs, Wisconsin, to help her hospitalized mother. As they drive into town, cats are everywhere and seem more populous than humans. Within hours, Elena and Greg discover a horrendous scene in the nearby woods. When they report their finding to the police, the response is not what they expect. If Elena doesn’t get to the bottom of the great wickedness in high places that’s at work in this enigmatic town, all humanity will suffer.