Every issue of the Bards and Sages Quarterly strives to bring readers and entertaining and eclectic collection of speculative fiction tales by both new and established authors in the genres. In this issue: stories by Rick Danforth, Lisa Fox, Brad Goldberg, Michelle Ann King, Shi-Li Kow, Michelle Muenzler, and Lisa Voorhees.

Bards and Sages Quarterly (October 2022)

A bad boy can make a girl feel so good.

 Grace's attraction to her new web designer, amateur boxer and all-around playboy, Ryan Granger, is off the charts. But the bad boy of programming is not someone she needs to get entangled with. She's got too many responsibilities and no time for games. She has deadlines to meet and a sick father to care for. Ryan is tempting, but being with him is completely unrealistic. Still, a girl can fantasize, right?

 Ryan wants Grace badly, but while he's building her website, they have to keep things strictly professional. Thankfully, walking her home during a city-wide blackout is on his own time and whatever happens in the dark doesn't count. He's falling hard for Grace and he is a man used to winning. The only problem is, he's got to convince her that he's worthy of her trust.

A Kiss in the Dark - HarperImpulse Contemporary Romance (A Novella)

Sometimes one kiss can change everything.

 New Year's Eve is supposed to be a night for celebration and new beginnings. For best friends Kat and Dean, it is a nightmare filled with disastrous dates and enraged ex-girlfriends!

 Lucky for them, they've got each other to help laugh off the embarrassing, and downright inappropriate, moments. But then midnight rolls around and neither of them have anyone to kiss.

 There's no doubt this is a night they will always remember.

 The real question is whether it will be a night they want to forget.

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