On the busiest shopping day of the year, idealistic students wade into malls across America carrying concealed devices they believe will cause chaos at the checkouts. But at the nation's largest shopping center, the results are incendiary - and people lie dead.

With over 40 stories to choose from, this collection celebrates women's fiction in all its guises.

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace - and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust.

Features six seriously seductive tales of paranormal passion.

Victor Holland comes flying out of the night into the path of Catherine Weaver's car. Horrified by his broken body, Cathy rushes him to the hospital, praying for his survival. But, her nightmare had just begun. Because Victor is running for his life, and their shocking encounter has put Cathy in mortal danger.

They called him Nemesis and he was everywhere. But the night he saved Deborah O'Roarke from an attacker he rediscovered the sweet ache of longing. As Gage Guthrie he could woo her. But the idealistic prosecutor abhorred his vigilante approach to crime fighting. So how could he reveal he was the phantom who lurked in the Night Shadow?

A short-story anthologies from some of the biggest names in fiction. It is suitable for crime and thriller fans.

With an execution order on her head, Yelena has no choice but to escape to Sitia, the land of her birth. As she struggles to control her rare powers, a rogue magician emerges - and Yelena catches his eye. Suddenly she is embroiled in battle of good against evil. It will be her magical abilities that will either save her life - or be her downfall.

When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder - able to capture and release souls - spreads like wildfire, people grow uneasy. Already Yelena's unusual abilities and past have set her apart. As the Council debates Yelena's fate, she receives a disturbing message: a plot is rising against her homeland, led by a murderous sorcerer she has defeated before.