Urban fantasy offers a diverse playground for some extremely powerful stories. Professional writer and editor Kerrie L. Hughes pulled some fantastic tales out of 14 top writers for this fifth installment of Fiction River. Set in urban lands from modern Portland, to a future Detroit, to a wild Washington, D.C., and ending the tour in London, these top writers take the idea of "Hex" and stretch and twist it into stories with a magickal grip on the imagination.

The full list of authors includes: Annie Bellet, Annie Reed, Anthea Sharp, Dayle A. Dermatis, Dean Wesley Smith, Jay Lake, Jeanne C. Stein, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Leah Cutter, Lee Allred, Lisa Silverthorne, Nancy Holder, Seanan McGuire, Stephanie Writt.

Read by: Jane Kennedy, Jerimy Colbert, Barton Grover Howe, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith