Dalon is a storyteller, Karí is a daydreamer. Armed with a mind-reading amulet, they try to craft the best folktale retelling their village has ever heard.

There aren’t many ways to fatten a purse in the sleepy fishing village of Lurit. Dalon sells smoked fish by day and peddles stories to eager listeners some nights. He works with Karí — a girl struggling to find her place within her potter family — by using an amulet called the King Eyes to watch her mind. With Dalon’s easy way with words and Karí’s vivid imagination, their stories soon develop a small but loyal audience.

A trading caravan is arriving in a handful of days, and Dalon sees an opportunity to earn more money from the influx of visitors. On a tight deadline, Dalon and Karí juggle family duties and daytime chores with preparing their next story, all the while trying to keep their illegal use of the King Eyes a secret.

In a bustling settlement with blood-sucking shapeshifters and sentient machines, some folks are not what they seem to be.

Yaya is a highly-advanced humanoid machine, trying to earn the final credential that will make her the guardian of her creator's orphaned daughter. Eager to prove herself, she takes on an assignment to determine whether the village's newest tofu-peddler is an aswang — a dark creature that disguises itself as a human but drinks human blood.

It's a risky assignment, for if Yaya fails, she will lose all her previous credentials. But that won't be the worst part of failure. If Yaya mistakes a human for an aswang, she condemns an innocent person to pain and shame. Yet if she mistakes an aswang for a human, she allows a dangerous creature to roam freely.

Follow Yaya's investigation in the fantasy sci-fi novella, Metalmade, where a land inspired by precolonial Tagalog society uses magical technology to resist the most formidable of Filipino mythological creatures — the aswang.

A mishap with forbidden magic separates Sano from his mother, and his only chance of reuniting with her lies in magic even older and stranger than anything he's ever known.

Sixteen-year-old Sano was only trying to save a village from a landslide, but the illegal magic he used catches the attention of powerful warriors. Chased out of his isolated home in the tropical forests, Sano ventures into a kingdom he barely knows. The only help he can get comes from a reluctant companion, Anina, who seeks the secret to gaining magic — a secret that his mother might be keeping. Together, they must find a way to reunite with Sano's mother while evading warriors, thieves, and scammers.

But it's a dangerous time to be a fugitive in the Kingdom of Dayung. Still reeling from a recent rebellion, the people of the kingdom are slow to trust and quick to conspire. The greedy, ruthless king is desperate to eliminate any threats to his power. And to top it all, a mysterious wind is plaguing the kingdom, turning people into wood.

Dive into the tale of The Malicious Wind, where high-stakes magic and unlikely friendships collide in a world inspired by Philippine mythology.

Scholar Likasan has been studying two things for a decade: magical amulets and the elusive art of staying composed. A visit to the town of Ring Lake might just test her skills with both.

Likasan is an apprentice to her adoptive parents, scholars who study the history and function of magical amulets. When they ask her to retrieve an amulet carried by her uncle, an emissary to the settlement of Ring Lake, Likasan agrees despite the town being the place of her miserable childhood. But once she arrives, her uncle and his amulets are nowhere to be found.

As Likasan investigates the disappearance of her uncle, she finds that the gnarly politics of Ring Lake has grown thornier than what she remembers. Corruption remains unchecked among the nobility and a faceless thief is siphoning off the town's treasury. It's clear that the crocodiles of Ring Lake aren't simply the ones prowling on its marshy borders, and the longer she investigates, the deeper the town's teeth and claws sink back into her.