Captured Tales
Step into illustrated fantasy stories filled with strange creatures, unruly gardens, dark guardians and wonderfully questionable decisions.
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Audience: All readers
A self-appointed dragon knight demands a steady mushroom perch, until he discovers the small lives sheltered beneath its cap. A funny Tiny Scales tale about listening before giving orders.
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Audience: Grown-up humor
A mischievous Sugarwild sprite wins a kiss and a wish from the night-bloom keeper. Her glowing garden fantasy leaves him bound to an impossible tas...
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Audience: All readers
A tiny garden show-off promises to carry a dewdrop across a bellflower bridge. When the petal bends and the whole garden watches, he discovers that...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Petalgrip volunteers a pair of wonderfully capable hands and promptly puts the rest of himself somewhere inadvisable. With a rainkeeper flower,...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Madame Sucklewink calls in a discreet botanist to solve one stubborn garden problem. But with a sticky bloom, a pipette, and nosy neighbors nearby,...
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Audience: All readers
When Autumn refuses to surrender Forest Park, Winter arrives with freezing winds, official paperwork, and no patience for unfinished trees. Their d...
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Some tales share characters, places and continuing lore. Others are complete little universes of their own.
Continuing worldThe Sugarwild GardenA jewel-bright botanical kingdom where tiny residents make very large messes.
Continuing worldTiny ScalesLittle dragons, enormous feelings, and a connected world of bright corners to explore. Meet curious hatchlings and pocket-sized grown-ups across enchanted groves, snowy hideaways and bustling villages. Some adventures are gentle; others have a wicked sense of humor. Follow each tale’s audience label to find your kind of trouble.
Independent talesStandalone TalesOne door, one world and a complete adventure waiting on the other side.
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Quilliam has spent his life admired from a safe distance. When the gloriously overdressed Lord Beauregard volunteers for one dangerously sincere embrace,...
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Audience: Dark or intense
Twenty-seven cobalt mooncaps keep an ancient hunger sealed beneath Vesper Vine. When one guardian disappears and the vine begins consuming its reservoir of s...
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Audience: Dark or intense
Relic thief Orren Vey arrives at Coralwood carrying twenty-seven stolen memories and a plan to rob the Tidal Moon. But the living staircase remembers every c...
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Queen Gourdelia has never trusted a dessert that can maintain eye contact. When a terrified little tart invokes the Seven Courses of Procrastination, a simpl...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Sir Nectarback awakens inside a possessive Belladazzle with no trousers, a vicious hangover, and one catastrophic gap in his memory. The entire Sugarwild Gar...
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Audience: Dark or intense
Orin Vale sees a fortune in the Emerald Stair, where an enchanted fern tends the dreams of sleeping strangers. But cutting those desires free awakens a recko...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
When a notorious nectar beetle is found crushed beneath a moonpetal, Niblick Budmouth is discovered hiding nearby with the victim’s jeweled wing wedged betwe...
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Audience: Grown-up humor
Mirella Mosswhistle asks the ancient Amethyst Moth for true love and receives Bramble Fen, a kind, wonderfully imperfect moonbee keeper. When Mirella returns...
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Audience: All readers
Pippleslot considers himself a visionary with unusually flexible hips. But when his latest shortcut leaves him wedged inside Madame Blushcurl’s prize bloom, ...
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