Virtual unrealities, lovelorn cyborgs, talking condoms, avian obsessions, time-hopping infidelities, and literally explosive passions: Romance fiction gets a fantastical makeover in this anthology of 19 new tales of love's complicated labors, lusts, losses, and limerance.

Featuring great works of fantasy, science fiction, magic realism, whimsy, tragedy and romantic trouble by Ruth Crossman, Heather Sager, Jamie Hittman, Elizabeth Stix, Patricia Flaherty Pagan, Jenny Bitner, Marguerite Hogan, Claire Anderson, Enya Mayne, Loren Rhoads, Veronica Montes, Joe Belarge, Jyotsna Sreenivasan, Brittani Jenee' Cal, Liam Hogan, Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman, Katie Kent, Alethea Eason, and Angela Liu.