Stories by @casting0101

Saffron Everleigh Mysterys

Saffron Everleigh, an assistant/researcher in the Botany Department at a University in London, becomes an amateur detective when her botanical knowledge and inquisitive nature draws her into the investigations of a series of crimes.

Dragonriders of Pern (Series)

A series that follows the people of the far-off planet of Pern as they manage dragons and fight off invading spores from another planet, called threads. This series spans 24 different novels, short stories, and collections. So far, this story listing will incorporate the characters from the main series, the first three volumes (centered on Lessa), Dragonflight, Drangonquest, and Dragonsong.

Dragonflight

HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD? To the nobles who live in Ruatha Hold, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise—and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa’s world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . -Goodreads

Weyr Search

Weyr Search was originally published as a short story but it is also the first part of McCaffrey's science fiction novel Dragonflight. Weyr Search is about a young woman, Lessa, who seeks revenge on the lord who slaughtered her family and took control of her family's hold and a dragonrider, F'lar as her seeks for new weyrwoman and the future leader of a Weyr community on the planet Pern

Tales You Win

focusing on the forbidden love story between Grim, the daughter of a powerful crime lord, and Beast, her loyal bodyguard, set within the violent underground world of the "Tales" fight club,

Devious Little Liars

Everybody lies, Princess. Some of us are just better at not getting caught.” He murdered my uncle then covered it with fire. A fire that should have killed me, too. Instead, he hauled me from the floor while flames licked the walls, strong arms holding me close. He saved my life. Now I want to know why. I never saw his face. All I know is the letters on his shirt. SVH. Saint View High.

Promises and Pomegranates

Doctor Kal Anderson assumes his heart worked at some point in his life. But at thirty-two years old, the organ in his chest seems to play a mechanical role at best. His cold, emotionless existence gives him an edge as a fixer and in-house physician for the Mafia, while his judgment is impartial and complication-free. Until Elena Ricci, his boss’s twenty-year-old daughter.

Trickery

Willa Knight: Dweller. Slave. Non-magical being. In Minatsol, being a dweller means that you are literally no better than dirt. In fact, dirt might actually be more useful than Willa. Her life will be one of servitude to the sols, the magic-blessed beings who could one day be chosen to become gods. At least her outer village is far removed from the cities of the sols, and she won’t ever be forced to present herself to them... Until one small mistake changes everything, and Willa is awarded a position to serve at Blesswood, the top sol academy in the world—a position that she definitely did not earn. Under the sudden, watchful eye of the gods, she will be tasked to serve the Abcurse brothers, five sols built of arrogance, perfection and power. They are almost gods themselves, and under their service she is either going to end up sentenced to death, or else they are going to ruin her so badly that she will wish for it. Either way, she is in trouble. -Goodreads