Kathryn: 2617 books

Peppa is just your average Australian young woman, really. 23 years old, widowed and owner of a cat who can speak perfect English. (But no one will believe her about the cat.) Why is she being stalked by one of the customers from her job at the City South Post Office? What secrets does the mysterious...

An intriguing tale of murder, amnesia and the lies we tell ourselves. A young woman wakes in hospital, unable to recall the past eighteen months. Once an awkward, introverted teenager battling Anorexia Nervosa, Kellie-Sue discovers that she has blossomed into a beautiful woman with a loving...

Okay. This is it. I am going to kill myself ... After a suicide attempt, which comes complete with an online suicide note goes hilariously awry Abigail Carter PhD candidate and owner of a gorgeous little kitten named Cedric finds herself blogging all about her everyday life - phone calls from the...

Portia uses her magic to solve problems—theatrical problems. She prefers to work alone, even though her two sisters possess magic, too. But her latest job, in London’s West End, poses problems not only because of the play being performed—the cursed Scottish Play (aka Macbeth)—but because she...

It was supposed to have been a celebration of her upcoming nuptials–a ball to which all the lights of the ton had been invited. Instead, Sophia Lamott must smile, curtsey and pretend she hasn’t just been jilted by her long-standing fiancé. When the relentless sympathy becomes unbearable, Sophie...

Beautiful longhaired tom Wall T runs a tight household. But when the other cats in his pride begin reporting a mouse incursion, he launches an investigation. What he uncovers might change everything he thought he knew about crime and leadership. This delightful detective tale by New York Times...

Sid Sharp is a lonely guy. If only the beautiful Miss Emma Lavender from the post office with whom Sid has secretly been in love with for months, would notice him, he would be a happy man. One busy morning at the post office, a funny kind of fate intervenes for Sid and Emma in this quirky, Roald Dahl inspired frog prince retelling.

At the time she accepted Thomas's proposal Beth thought they'd be together forever. Then the Falklands War stole him away and she struggled to continue with her life. When young Ryan arrives from Australia he brings with him a strangely delightful yet painful echo of Thomas. In fact Ryan's truth puts...

Whale Rock Police Chief Jaclyn Tadero faces the Oregon Coast’s version of the perfect storm: a tsunami warning during a winter squall. And thanks to Seavy County Coroner Hamilton Denne, she finds herself scouring the beach for idiots drawn to the tsunami’s approach. Tadero thinks Denne sent her...

Kisa lives in a family that's almost nothing like Morgan's, but that doesn't stop the girls from being best friends. When the pair find a stray dog in a park, with a strange tag saying "You can keep this dog if you want" on one side and "But I warn you, she's trouble" on the other,...

When Molly and her best friend Joanne accidentally create a disturbance during a patriotic event, the girls and their friends in the school band are flung into adventures that teach them a little bit about what makes America different from the country that the mayor's father gratefully escaped. They also wind up making some unlikely new friends

Reunions, renovations, and rivalry. The perfect recipe for disaster. Ever since she was a young child, Sadie Perkins has had a gift. Call it a sixth sense. Call it clairvoyance. Call it creepy. All she knows is that sometimes she gets a feeling and then someone dies. After her latest relationship...

Emma Baker’s husband, Jonathan, has just divorced her, shattered her heart and left her and her young son, Christopher, to fend for themselves. Bitterly lonely, she accepts a girlfriend’s suggestion to go out on her first night as a newly free woman. She vows not to let a man turn her head, vows...

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story origins. Table of Contents Making the List – David Hammond Beneath the Sea of Glass – Rob Francis Lock Rise – Phil Berry Bluebird – Benjamin Cort Cover art by Kathryn Hammond.