Stephanie Burgis
No killing until the wedding's over. No killing...
It is such a simple, temporary rule - but Carmilla, the notorious Countess Cardenza, will still find it hard to follow when she's confronted by her most dangerous old flame at Mia and Leander's wedding. With appallingly respectable neighbors, shambling zombies, and old enemies on every side, will her reunion with Eliza de Mornay end with murder or kissing - or both?
A novelette
All of Angland knows by now of the famous fall of Honoria Fennell...who can no longer be known as Lady Cosgrave. She lost her marriage of convenience as well as her political career in the mysterious events at Thornfell College of Magic. Now, she has retired to lick her wounds in private, ready to be forgotten by the nation she used to gloriously co-rule...
But deep within the elven dales, one can never be truly certain of being either
Take one ambitious politician and one determined magician with wildly different aims for their next meeting.
Add a secret betrothal, a family scandal, and a heaping of dangerous fey magic in an enchanted wood...and watch the sparks fly!
For just one moonlit, memorable night, Thornfell College of Magic has flung open its doors, inviting guests from around the nation to an outdoor ball intended to introduce
...When a grumpy inventor meets her outrageous new neighbor in the big black castle down the road, more than one type of spark will fly!
Mia Brandt knows better than to ever again allow her true powers to be discovered. Ever since her last neighbors burned down her workshop in a night of terror and flame, she's been determined to stay solitary, safe, and - to all outside appearances - perfectly respectable...
But
