Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

It is the late 19th century and a mysterious airship orbits through the foggy skies. Its terrible secrets are sought by many, including the Royal Society, a fraudulent evangelist, a fiendish vivisectionist, an evil millionaire and an assorted group led by the scientist and...

A mysterious explorer hires a team of adventurers to join him in a hunt for a monstrous beast, in this rip-roaring sequel to Fury From the Tomb. When Egyptologist Rom Hardy receives a strange letter from his old friend, the bounty-hunting sniper Rex McTroy,...

JUST WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE TIME MACHINE RETURNED? Having acquired a device for themselves, the brutish Morlocks return from the desolate far future to Victorian England to cause mayhem and disruption. But the mythical heroes of Old England have also returned, in the hour...

"A mixture of science fiction and folktale, past and future, primitive and present-day . . . Thunderous and touching."-Financial Times After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas...

Amidst the many calamities of the late 14th century something sinister is at work among the sisters of la Tres Saunte Annunciacion, a force the women and the men around them seem powerless to fight. What is overwhelming both the holy and the damned?...

From the bestselling author of Longbourn comes the magical story of a young girl in search of her mother...who just might be a mermaid. - "Baker's writing seduces." --O, The Oprah MagazineMalin has always been different, and when her father dies, leaving her alone,...

One of NPR's Best Books of 2017!Finalist for the RT Award for Best Fantasy Novel "Winter Tide is a weird, lyrical mystery -- truly strange and compellingly grim. It's an innovative gem that turns Lovecraft on his head with cleverness and heart" --Cherie Priest...

From Harry Turtledove, "Master of Alternate History," comes a tale of minor league baseball set in an alternate Great Depression America full of wild magic Since the Big Bubble popped in 1929, life in the United States hasn't been the same. Hotshot wizards will...

PRISM AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR A superb, standalone adventure in Leanna Renee Hieber's groundbreaking, critically acclaimed Strangely Beautiful series, full of passion and power. From childhood, Violet Rychman has dreamed of a coming war, of death and battle on an unimaginable scale. She has seen and...

The world that the former monk Thomas Neville knows is crumbling about him. The Holy Mother Church of Rome is losing its power and men are coming to question the nature of religion and the role of those who rule them by sword and...

Once the great Glacier enclosed the Raumsdalian Empire. Now it's broken open, and Count Hamnet Thyssen faces a new world. With the wisecracking Ulric Skakki, the neighboring clan leader Trasamund (politely addressed as Your Ferocity), and his lover, the shaman Liv, Hamnet leads an...

1940. The skies above London are filled with German planes on nightly raids, a Blitz that brings a barrage of bombs that pound the city into rubble. Each morning Londoners face the night's handiwork and though they are presented with the possibility of sudden...

Following his spectacularly reviewed Half-Made World duology, Felix Gilman pens a sweeping stand-alone tale of Victorian science fiction, arcane exploration, and planetary romance in The Revolutions. In 1893, young journalist Arthur Shaw is at work in the British Museum Reading Room when the Great...

The Danu. The "little people." Everyone who is Irish knows of this mystical race. Many doubt they ever existed. However, there are as many today who claim that they are still among us. What if the Danu were not myth but were based on...

Gideon Smith and the Mask of the Ripper is the finale in David Barnett's riproaring steampunk adventures about a Britain that never was...but should have been. In an alternate nineteenth century where a technologically advanced Britain holds sway over most of the known world...

It is the dawn of a new century in San Francisco and Delia Martin is a wealthy young woman whose life appears ideal. But a dark secret colors her life, for Delia's most loyal companions are ghosts, as she has been gifted (or some...

For over half a century, Richard Matheson has enthralled and terrified readers with such timeless classics as I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, Somewhere in Time, and What Dreams May Come. Now the Grand Master returns with a bewitching tale of erotic...

Mythology and magic come alive in this collection of Irish fantasy stories by some of today's finest authors. Ireland is a nation that holds fast to its history and heritage, and nowhere is that more true than in its folktales and legends. From the...

Alexander the Great ruled the greatest Empire of the ancient world, but he was ruled by his mother, called Olympias. There are as many legends about this powerful Queen as there are of her famous son, and the stories began long before she even...

Enter the world of Kagaya-hime, a sometime woman warrior, occasional philosopher, and reluctant confidante to noblemen--who may or may not be a figment of the imagination of an aging empress who is embarking on the last journey of her life, setting aside the trappings...

The second novel in this gripping historical fantasy series, set in an alternate first-century Britain, follows Orla Paorach, freedom fighter and daughter of a Boudica-like warrior. "Orla! Hurry, girl! You must come with me!" Orla Paorach's life was overturned for the first time when...

In this new historical fantasy, a young man must use the power granted by a goddess to infiltrate the realm of Faery and save a kidnapped victim before the door is sealed once again. Orphaned when still a toddler, Nicholas Withybeck knows no other...

Alisanos, the deepwood, is more than just a forest... ...it is sentient, and predatory. Home to demons and worse, its mercurial boundaries can suddenly shift miles in any direction to encompass previously safe human lands - and those taken by the deepwood are forever...

Nicholas Flood, an unassuming eighteenth-century London printer, specializes in novelty books -- books that nestle into one another, books comprised of one spare sentence, books that emit the sounds of crashing waves. When his work captures the attention of an eccentric Slovakian count, Flood...

Simon. Something frightful has happened to Jamie. Please come . . . When James Asher is found unconscious in the cemetery of the Church of St. Clare Pieds-Nus with multiple puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, his wife, Lydia, knows of only one person...

In a post-apocalyptic world thrown back into medieval times, young Prince Parno McLeod's family troubles have gone from bad to worse of late. His father has been murdered by his insane sister and his brother has only narrowly escaped death at her hand. Now...

Edward Teach has sown chaos from the dark waters of England to the New World's shores. And the near-impossible to reach island is no exception. With its inhabitants wrapped in turmoil, Edward Teach stands on the cusp of claiming the mysterious island's most treasured...

The Twelve Realms exist in peace where for the beautiful and kind-hearted Princess Caityn, life is perfect. Even her betrothal is to the man she loves, High Prince Theiandar. She is surrounded by loving family and is protected from all harm. That is, until...

Love remembers; love supports. Love defends. But above all else, love overcomes all obstacles. Love is the greatest force of nature. Nothing is ordinary, simple, or easy when you're a cat adopted by Henry. Invading constructs. Killer machines. Betrayal. Noelle wouldn't trade even a...

Legendary Sheriff Bill Tilghman is approached by a Hollywood film crew and asked to film a jail break with real outlaws for a Hollywood film. The producers want men as famous as Tilghman to make the movie more exciting, which leeds to including men...

On the vast waterworld of Aquasilva, the priestly Domain controls magic, weather, and history itself. Determined to crush every last spark of resistance against their despotic rule, they have launched a brutal Inquisition in order to root out dissent and heresy wherever they find...

Each an acclaimed author in his own right, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have collaborated on some of the biggest bestsellers in science fiction history, including the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Footfall, as well as Lucifer's Hammer, Inferno, Oath of Fealty, and...

Author: Richard PurtillISBN-10: 1414055943ISBN-13: 9781414055947Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/17/2004Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.46d

She wasn't looking to claim the heart of a dragon, but when this bluestocking goes toe-to-toe with a brooding, broken Highland warrior, she'll find just how easy it is for him to make her burn.In Victorian England, gossip is often as precious as gold....

A new dark historical fantasy from the "supremely gifted"* Cherie Priest, author of Mapelcroft and Boneshaker. In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Tom s Cordero operated a weapon more devastating than any gun: a flame projector that doused the enemy in...

An embittered wager between Zeus and Hera results in the banishment of the most powerful Amazon leader, Queen Elektra. Sent to Hades, she leaves behind two precious gems and the Golden Girdle, holder of mysteries and the gift of immortality for the rightful owner.In...

Faced with certain mortal demise, 18th-century hostages combat unnatual entities, but when confronted with life onboard a brigand ship, Seth and Kathryn must learn to exploit the craftiness learned from haunting events lived long ago as Caribbean pirate to defeat a mystical Celtic diety....

Before they were crewmates, Changa, The Tuareg, Panya, Mikaili and Amir Zakee all experienced their own adventures. The stories in this exciting anthology give a glimpse of their lives before the fateful safari that binds them as a family and changes each of them...

From the frigid steppes of Mongolia to the illustrious heart of the Songhay Empire, Changa has sailed the high seas and trekked across treacherous landscapes. He has battled men and monsters, the living and the dead, survived countless perils, acquired and lost fortunes, commanded...

When fifteen-year-old Curtis Jefferson, a mischievous but good-natured African-American youth, is caught crossing the blurry line between prank and delinquency, he finds himself unjustly sentenced to a yearlong confinement at the notorious Fort Grant, a penal outpost in the middle of the Sonoran Desert....

Dr. Clotile Lejeune, a wounded but resourceful expert on ancient languages in Seattle, has her quiet world shaken when she learns that her father, from whom she has been estranged for 25 years, has been murdered in her Louisiana hometown, leaving her a 2000...

In the last volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the worlds of the living and the dead collide in a final confrontation that will leave Nocturne and Solis forever changed.... Three talismans adrift. Two mad kings. One poisonous crown. As dark forces gather at...

In the third volume of the Fourth Talisman series, the hunt is on for the three daevas whose powers saved the world once before.... On the White Sea, realm of smashers and sea monsters, a ship is carrying Nazafareen and Darius to the Isles...

In the second volume of the Fourth Talisman series, Nazafareen's path takes a twist, setting her on a journey into the heart of the maelstrom... It's been a thousand years since the Avas Vatras tried to burn the world to ashes. A thousand years...

Nocturne, a wilderness of eternal night.Solis, a wasteland of endless day. Nazafareen is a Breaker, a mortal who has the rare ability to shatter spell magic-although her power carries a high price. With the memories of her former self erased and nowhere else to...

A SHADOW FALLS OVER THE CHURCHForty years have passed since the Brethren saved humanity from extinction - but out of their victory, darkness has risen. The Brethren find themselves torn in their calling as evil pollutes the Church, kills in Christ's name, and fills...

THE WORLD IS CAST INTO DARKNESSIn the year 1336, the Brethren, a secret brotherhood dedicated to fighting against war and sowing peace, find themselves little more than an ill-conceived idea as everything they thought to be true is put to the test.Thirteen years after...

A deadly illness lays Calev's retinue low and he must ride on alone to present a document to the Empire's ruler to preserve peace in his homeland and prove his ability to become Old Farm's next chairman. If he fails, his world will crumble....

When Eric Banyon's flute playing accidentally frees elven noble Korendil from a magical prison, he suddenly finds himself caught up in a desperate fight against an evil elf lord who plans to conquer all of California.Author: Ellen Guon, Mercedes LackeyISBN-10: 0671878638ISBN-13: 9780671878634Publisher: BaenLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Aufleur is a city of honey cakes, decadent ritual... and a secret war fought by an army of beautiful monsters. The Creature Court die and bleed to keep the daylight folk safe, but no one even knows they exist. Who will be the new...