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A Cottage in Cornwall: Spring is in the air in Cornwall. Julianne's next event is a favour to her employer: coordinating the wedding of Lady Amanda's friend and mentor. But Julianne is distracted by personal matters. Her long-distance romance is on the rocks, and when Matthew returns to Cornwall, he brings news. Can she help Lady Amanda to pull off the perfect surprise wedding? And will Julianne and Matthew have their happily ever after?

In Metairie, Louisiana, a young woman revels in the solitary exercise that is riding in an elevator, as across town, a father attempts to pedal his way back into his childhood via a late-night bike ride in his quiet suburban neighborhood. Meanwhile, a young executive climbs the corporate ladder through the strangest of mind-bending means as just moments earlier, a lonely man awakens in his car to the fact that he may have the latent impulses and instincts of a serial killer. If only they knew just how interconnected their seemingly different timelines will become.

Johnny always liked to go exploring in old abandoned homes. Johnny especially liked to explore on stormy days because it gave the old houses and eerie feeling. There was only one place Johnny dared not explore and that place was Worley Manor because as legend has it there is supposed to be buried treasure in the family crypt and no one has been able to dig it up and be alive to tell about it. After Johnny's adventures in the abandoned houses he would like to tell tall tales to his classmates about his daring escapes and how they were haunted.

The fate of the Campbell Family fortune has suddenly been put in the hands of the youngest and only remaining child Kimberly Campbell. Kimberly is not sure she can take on a business that has been passed down in her family for generations, but she is left with little choice. She either steps up to the plate or watches as everything falls apart. While fighting to save the family business, Kim must also struggle with trouble in her new marriage. To complicate matters further, family secrets make her question whether or not she is making the right decision at all.

Pax Thayer is what folks might consider damaged goods. Disfigured by a horrific accident that destroyed his career and stripped him of his promising future, he’s become something of a recluse out of necessity. He knows he’s not an easy sight to behold, and he doesn’t blame people for looking away. When he finds himself drawn into a budding friendship with his new neighbor at Pemberton Manor, Pax has a hard time believing that she sees him as more than a pitiful, misshapen monster.

In a moment of uncontrolled passion, Harvey Jones commits an act that triggers an avalanche of pain and suffering in the lives of those he loves. When he bargains with God for the life of his son, Harvey faithfully fulfills his side of the deal...but he's blindsided by betrayal when God doesn't. What will it take for him to open his heart and accept the gift of Grace he's offered?

Galaxy's Edge is a Hugo-nominated bi-monthly magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old stories, a serialization of a novel, columns by Barry Malzberg and Gregory Benford, book recommendations by Jody Lynn Nye and Bill Fawcett and an interview conducted by Joy Ward.