Cinderella’s magic shoes. Could they be the same ones that the Wizard of Oz squirrelled away? Assuming they can change form. Who made them? From what?

If you had to pay magic shoes for transporting you, would you rather give up a few life years or pay in blood?
And what - or who - do the mirrors and magic shoes have in common?

Tales of the Shoes is a sister set to Tales of the Mirrors and contains 5 short stories:

1. To Shape a Shoe – the genesis story of the shoes AND the magic mirrors;
2. To Find a Way – about the Wizard of Oz discovering the shoes;
3. To Steal a Pair – a Cinderella sequel about Ella’s Godmother’s thievery;
4. To Get Revenge – about magic shoes on loan to other characters (previously in the Once Upon a Name anthology);
5. To Break a Bond – about the fate of magic shoes after they’ve gotten rather used to carnage.

These short stories link to the author’s other works, but are related standalones that can be read separately as small soundbites.

Love at first sight exists, right? Even when your teen crush is an immortal who sees you as nothing more than a sweet kid.

Zack was smitten the moment he laid eyes on Ava when she first visited Heaven, Texas, bringing with her a hailstorm in July. That was 13 years ago. She still looks and he still feels the same. At 25, while his peers are seeking jobs and travelling the world, he applies for an internship to be closer to the woman of his dreams - to woo her before his time runs out.

Ava, affectionately dubbed “Ice” among her fellow goddesses, has confined herself to life at the North Pole, in her kingdom of snow and snuggly solitude, and taken on the thankless job to keep Earth’s glaciers from melting. What else can an immortal Goddess of Frost do, if temperatures drop whenever she goes South? Her serene existence is disrupted when a new and rather familiar seismologist arrives at her weather station. Instead of the cute boy she met years ago, who is this hunk of a man who tells her to call him Theo, not Zack?

Will Ava figure out what's wrong with Theo before it's too late? Why has there been a series of tectonic events across the globe ever since they met? And does making a new god qualify as personal gain when saving Iceland is also on the line?

Fire & Ice is book #4 in the series, but can be read as a standalone. Meaning: to read book #4 you don't need to read the love stories of the other goddesses:
book #1 Charm & Mayhem: The Goddess of Fate; or
book #2 Life & Death: The Goddess of Light; or
book #3 Love & Money: The Goddess of Luck
...but those might be fun options. 😉