Today’s women don’t stand around waiting for a hero. These days, women are quite capable of solving their own problems and slaying their own dragons (or demons, as the case may be).

In this all-new anthology, Kerrie L. Hughes and *New York Times* bestselling author Rachel Caine have collected original stories from thirteen of today’s most exciting urban fantasy and paranormal authors. Each story features a strong heroine who kicks butt and takes names in a dangerous world and makes that world a better place for everyone in it—except the bad guys, of course. And if she finds a bit of romance along the way, well, a little heat warms the heart and sharpens the mind…just as long as the man can keep up.

Includes:

Shiny by Rachel Caine
In Venito Veras by Karen Chance
Hunt by Rachel Vincent
Monsters by Lilith Saintcrow
Vampires Prefer Blondes by P.N. Elrod
Nine-Tenths of the Law by Jenna Black
Double Dead by Cheyenne McCray
A Rose by Any Other Name Would Still be Red by Elizabeth A. Vaughn
Superman by Jeanne C. Stein
Monster Mash by Carole Nelson Douglas
Wanted: Dead or Alive by L.A. Banks
Mist by Susan Krinard
Beyond the Pale by Nancy Holden