Auntie Heroes

By TC Ross, Malory, Rita Beeman

They've been overlooked, underestimated, and politely sidelined for decades. Fine. That's fine. Let them keep underestimating.

In the pages of Auntie Heroes, meet ten women of a certain vintage who possess particular sets of skills and absolutely zero patience for the alternative. A fire fairy stepmother navigating werewolves and blended family politics. A retired intelligence operative who knits Kevlar scarves and outsmarts Belarusian thieves in a foreign embassy. A grandmother farming fourteen hundred acres with alien assistance - and handling the unfriendly ones with a shotgun full of rock salt. A sharp-eyed matron in a Lovecraftian coastal town who defeats an elder god with Eternal Father Strong to Save and a can of extra-hold hairspray. A suburban gardener who discovers her neighbor's invasive kudzu is a Cold War-era biological antenna siphoning encrypted data from Fort Meade - and handles it accordingly.

Across fairy tales, spy thrillers, alien farms, suburban horror, and the salt-choked streets of a town that smells permanently of low tide, these women share one defining trait: they have been here long enough to know exactly what needs doing. And they will absolutely do it.

Stories include: "Stepmother Ever After" by Nancy Frye - "Calhoun Blood" by D.S. Ligon - "The Squamous Among Us" by Spearman Burke - "Salon and Subversion" by Tuvela Thomas - "A Dressing Down" by Aelth Faye - "From the Ashes" by TC Ross - "Knit One, Sanction Two" by Ted Begley - "Pruning with Extreme Prejudice" by Michael Patrick Coady - "Walking the Beans" by Rick Cutler - "The Knitting Circle at Innsmouth" by Malory

The world has a great many hind ends that require a proper thrashing. We're betting on the lady with the flamethrower.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXFJD5WS
• ISBN13: 9798257583667
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"