Five short stories of urban fantasy.Bedtime Story: What kind of fairy tales what an incubus tell his half-human daughter at bedtime?Birthdays: On the wildest, most magical night of the year, Ceridwyn Brent has her birthday.Black Lily: Lily Carpenter goes hunting for a snack at the Dubh Linn pub and gets more than she bargained for.Redemption: Carter Fleming celebrates his forty-ninth birthday by hiring a hooker who is about to change his life, and hers.Nightshade: A murder mystery featuring John Radcliffe and Kate Middleshaw, the Met's finest supernatural detectives.