Synopsis: Masters of Fable & A Coffin of Glass

MASTERS of FABLE
In Short: A fairy demands an impossible payment for a debt. Seven people offer an alternative: seven stories, worth more than all the human souls in the world.

A COFFIN of GLASS
In Short: Two estranged brothers try to reconcile an irreconcilable past as they search for the truth about their mother, who once tried to kill them.

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MASTERS of FABLE
Book Blurb: Several weeks have passed since Mencha Cavallero discovered that her adventure into another world has robbed her of both family and youth - she has been gone too long, and she is presumed dead in the human world. Her friend, Amaranthine, persuades her to begin her recovery at the house of Amaranthine’s aunt, Gwendolyn. But upon arrival, both girls discover Gwen has died; her house now belongs to Amaranth, and she has left behind an unfinished letter that hints that the house is not all that it seems. But before Mencha and Amaranth can puzzle out her meaning, the Fairy Godmother and Wicked Witch of this other world returns to collect her payment for the debt Amaranth owes her. Amaranth refuses to pay her steep price. The Gray Woman will not accept her refusal. Mencha offers an alternative payment: that of seven stories, worth more in magic than even the Gray Woman can demand. The Gray Woman agrees, but gives the girls only seven days to find her stories and the people needed to tell them. But now the house, and the secret stirring in its womb, is beginning to make its own unanswerable demands. Threatened by a ghost and with time running out, Amaranth and Mencha must solve Gwendolyn’s last letter and seek out storytellers willing to give up their tales for the life of a stranger—or forfeit their souls to settle a debt.
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A COFFIN of GLASS
Book Blurb: Ghost, fiend, and angel, fairy, witch, and sprite (1) – who is Morgan Bradley, wife and mother and murderer, who married two men and raised two sons and in one fell swoop, tried to kill them all – but failed? Sixteen years have passed since Morgan’s sons escaped death; Ryan, the eldest, has buried his memories and remade himself. But the past returns in the shape of his younger brother Jamie, who brings documents that throw into question every known fact about the Bradley murders – including their mother’s very involvement. Jamie believes in Morgan’s innocence and wants her acquitted, but his belief does not spring from hard fact, but from superstitions that are slowly eroding his life. Ryan is wiser than his brother’s faith – he is convinced of Morgan’s guilt. But Jamie’s convictions are pulling his life apart, and if Ryan means to save himself, he must reveal to Jamie all he knows about that day. But Ryan cannot bring himself to speak. For the tell the truth about Morgan Bradley is to tell the truth about himself, the self – the monster – he has tried for years to escape. Is Ryan Rainer truly self-made? Or is he simply re-made, a mask of a man beneath which festers the sum of all his mother’s crimes?

(1) Lines are from the poem "Aurora Leigh" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning