Mary Catelli: 38 books

The ruins held an ancient magic. Alice Ladybird learns that her stepsister learned it.  And is using it without shame or pity. What she has not learned is how to stop her.

When the dragon does not come for the annual maiden to devour, the knight Theodore sets out for adventures, hoping to find what the dragon is doing. He finds more than he thought he would.

A collection of tales of wonder and magic. A prince sets out to win his way to the dragon's lair. A woman fights a curse on her lands. A man returns to his castle, bringing a magical sword, and worse things. And more tales. Includes "Dragon Slayer", "The...

Widowed, caught between two feuds, Katie was desperate enough that the Witch Prince witched her wits away, so that she let him steal her baby. Then there was no reason for him to not let the bewitchment fail, then.  What, after all, could she do against him?  Even the witching woman would...

Who but a fool would linger after Zavrien laid his curse?  Ill luck can kill -- and all the more in Zavrien's enchanted, endless winter, haunted with ice giants and frost fairies. When the soldier Gareth is cursed, the young wizard Perriel learns how dangerous lingering can be.   But she can hold out a sliver of hope for breaking the curse -- if it doesn't break them first.

With their lands withering for want of protection from the wind, they hear a demand from the wizard:  the jewel of the tiger. Jyron, realizing it may be simpler than it looks, sets boldly out to get a jewel from the lair of a man-eating tiger.  To find that simplicity does not mean ease.

"The sea of sand touched many shores -- the meanest beggar's brat knew that -- and many sands drifted up from them, but Persinette always maintained that black sand meant death, and mingled with red, a bloody death." Kyre still had to work for his living.  Even it meant taking a job from a wizard. . . .

A short story of magic and reunions. At long, long last. . . . For five long years, Sanchia has held the lands of her husband alone, while he fought in the desperate war against malign shades.  Much will change when he returns. Especially because he brings the magical sword, found in the mountains, with him.  And, it turns out, other things follow.

Isabelle had come to the seaside to rest while she suffered melancholia. But a haunting song wafts over the village one day, ready to lure all to danger.

She knows that it is magic, but what magic is it? Have the Good Folk made her baby look differently than he had before? Or had they snatched him entirely, and left a changeling in his place? And what can she do against Sir David's sly comments on how he can help her?

The library holds many marvels.  Lena and her betrothed Erion had found things that helped the beleaguered Celestians of the city. But when the king's caprice decides to sacrifice Erion to protect himself, Lena can only hope a legend can help her.  A legend of just kings.  And lions.

A wolf wanders the land. . . . Charity had thought it dreadful, being sent like a package to a man who might refuse to take her on as a ward.  But when a wolf comes to look her up and down in the woods, and the man she is sent to greets her, making her wonder if she remembers something that never happened, she finds that there are problems far worse than that in the duchy.

Shipwreck is not enough -- though no ship will sail by, the mermaids have found the stranded sailors. And worse, the cargo of wines and liquors is seeping into the sea.

Tales of Wonder and Magic A woman, sent to a far off duchy, finds a mysterious wolf haunting the forest, and learns there are secrets no one even suspects. Playing with props for amateur theatricals has more consequences than any of those doing it dream. . . act with care. A king's...