Noblebright fantasy is fantasy with a thread of hope even in the darkest hour, with characters who strive to do the right thing, even when it costs them everything. In this exciting collection of noblebright fantasy, fresh new fantasy voices and award-winning authors explore grief and hope, sacrifice and heroism. Rediscover the best aspect of classic fantasy - the noblebright ideals that made heroes heroic, even when the world grew dark around them. Wizards, princesses, peasants, schoolchildren, griffins, and the song of the stars shine brightly in these wide-ranging tales of possibility, courage, and hope. This anthology features stories from: JA Andrews, Gustavo Bondoni, Christopher Bunn, M.C. Dwyer, Yvonne Eliot, Francesca Forrest, Chloe Garner, Corrie Garrett, Joanna Hoyt, Cate Isert, Glenn James, Jim Johnson, Ville Meriläinen, A. K. R. Scott, Sherwood Smith, and John Taloni.

After a series of murder-kidnaps shocks the city of Elysium, agents Trucillo Brown and Baby Joe Magnum follow the trail to a remote desert town. Another kitten has gone missing, and nine lives don't help against a serial killer.Beneath the town lies a secret, not hidden but forgotten, and its long sleep is coming to an end. Spider Mafia awakens, ready to raise the body count from half a dozen to billions.

Thursday Forrester's journey continues in Series 2 of The Post-Apocalyptic Tourist's Guide.After an alien symbiote chooses Thursday as its host, it replaces his debilitating illness with wanderlust and spurs him onward to carry on with his travels. In a small Oregonian town, the aimlessly wandering Thursday finds a still-functioning radio and a broadcast that promises knowledge about the strange swarms hunting sources of electricity. A way to control the swarms is vital for technology to return, and Thursday may have found the first clue.Episode 1 of Series 2 -- The Post-Apocalyptic Tourist's Guide to Joensuu, Finland -- will launch May 9th, 2018. Subsequent episodes will follow every 2 weeks featuring new tourism guides with new adventures in new locations. Visit www.tpatg.com for more information.

After leaving behind the ashes of her home in Victorian London, Amelie Trace comes to a rural village to trade her governess' gown for a schoolmarm's attire and rebuild her life. When she comes across an odd notation in the schoolhouse, the young widow finds the rumours of monsters stalking in the woods to be true, and that she has become a threat in a war beyond her ken.Far in the future, Phantom Jack and his cadre of heroes prepare for battle against brother-gods feeding on human suffering. They seek the Ghost Notes, a score of magical music, last seen in a rural English village. With the Notes, mortals may challenge the song of the gods, but as the strength of the brothers dwindles, their sister's grows. Before their final challenge, Jack and the cadre must decide whether to let the gods fight on and change nothing, or end them and risk releasing the fiercest of the three, sealed away by her brothers for fear of powers capable of ending humanity altogether.A tale of friendship, romance and Speed Metal, Ghost Notes is a modern fantasy adventure.

A Little Human Ingenuity By WILLIAM HUGGINS The Rake, the last great champion of the Game--a bloodsport recreating mankind's battles against alien foes--is given an opportunity to face those old foes once again! The Burning Fish By JIM BREYFOGLE Seeking out the Burning Fish for a client, Mangos and Kat instead find a strange cult of folk devoted to a simple life--who would kill before giving up their secrets! For I Have Felt a Fire in the Head By ADRIAN SIMMONS Irish prince Maenach MacScannal faces the hordes of the Danes on the bloody fields of mag sé liathdaimh, armed with his faith and his blade, Takes-The-Hand! La Molejera By MARIE BRENNAN An anthropologist seeks to solve the mystery of Chalchihuitlan's "grinding woman." What's her significance? What is it that she grinds? For what does she wait?! Pale Moon's Bride By VILLE MERILÄINEN Her parents have been driven to madness, and her siblings are dead by their own hand--what unearthly curse has afflicted Amanda Corrine Dubois' family?! Pawn to the Queen By CHRISTINE LUCAS At his mentor's dying request, the High Priest of Anubis must right a dreadful wrong--recover and return the canopic jars of Queen Tetisheri to end a curse! People of Fire By JENNIFER R. POVEY A sinkhole swallows a research expedition in Siberia, and only one woman survives! Beneath the earth's crust, in halls of fire, Peri finds a lost civilization! Blue-Like-The-Sky By SPENCER E. HART Slayer-Of-Wolf's hunting party is alarmed when a mysterious fire falls from the sky--stranger still is the mysterious blue woman he finds where the fire has landed! Doomsday Shard By KEN MCGRATH Serenity Deadline has been hired to jack the Doomsday Shard, a deadly piece of hardware that could end the world--but she's not the only woman after it! Titan By REBECCA DEVENDRA The colonists of Titan have been a fierce and independent lot since breaking away from Earth--some with a grudge might even resort to murder to stay independent! The Handover of the Scepter of Greatest Regret By HAL Y. ZHANG The war and killing is finally over, and all that's left is the ceremony to commemorate the peace--except the alien ambassador has died just before showtime!