Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

No soul should be lost... Some ancient tales are written, or whispered, from the lips of generations, young and old. Legends, frozen in time, of brave heroes and soulless villains. Stories that conjure the imagination of valiant knights, riding on steeds, wearing white armor,...

Before they would take their place among the best known minds of the twentieth century, a youthful trio of men-Joseph Campbell, John Steinbeck, and Ed Ricketts-became best of friends among the fecund hills of California's Carmel Valley. As Depression and Prohibition gripped the country,...

The best-selling series continues in Book 2, A QUEEN'S COMMAND.The legend of Tal Harrenfel lives on, and a new song spreads across the Westreach. But though Tal and Garin overcame one enemy, victory promises to be short-lived...Garin struggles with his inner demons. Tal is...

Every day is the same for Cosette. Get up, clean, make breakfast, and meet her stepm鑽e's and stepsisters' every demand.That is, until an encounter with a fairy of the forest-or is she a witch?-and an invitation to a f黎e in honor of Monsieur Gautier...

Treachery! Treason! Trolls!Fooled into believing they are returning heroes, the entourage's royal welcome is cut short when they mysteriously collapse; all but Nikki, the one nobody trusted.Lady Nicole Arendale's past is shrouded in mystery, but it's slowly unravelling as secrets long buried are exposed,...

Wizard War is the story of Maxwell, who discovers he has magical powers. He is trained by the council of wizards who provide Maxwell with his introduction to magic and the wizarding world while teaching him about the perils of dark magic.Author: Paul SmithISBN-10:...

For so long she tried to resist, but the woods call... beckoning her with their secrets.Never one to shy away from adversity, Albreda grew up the day her mother died.Now, her courage is put to the test when she finds herself lost in the...

Lawrence Galloway, managing editor of New York tabloid The Daily It, was given the exclusive story of the experiments of Professor J. Hendricks Morgan, whereby he had perfected a system which would resurrect the dead... provided he have access to the subject's skeleton and...

Magic is dying out and the only people who can stop it are a psychopathic dark wizard and an autistic mage with crippling anxiety.Nikolai and Medea must work together to discover why magic is declining. Their research takes them to America, where Medea struggles...

Winner of the Aurora Award for Best NovelHell is empty and all the devils are here.The Chatelaine has come.The year is 1328 and Hell has overrun Bruges. Demons stalk the streets and revenants swarm the walls. The city's men have fallen and only widows...

The greatest mystery of the ancient world remains the identity of who set fire to the Great Library in Alexandria.One hundred years later, Heron of Alexandria-the city's most renown inventor and creator of Temple miracles-receives coin from a mysterious patron to investigate the crime....

Wizard War is the story of Maxwell, who discovers he has magical powers. He is trained by the council of wizards who provide Maxwell with his introduction to magic and the wizarding world while teaching him about the perils of dark magic.Author: Paul SmithISBN-10:...

ABOVEThe year is 1590. The City of London flourishes, the most brilliant jewel in the crown of Elizabeth I, Gloriana, the Virgin Queen.BELOWThe Onyx Court is London's faerie shadow. Ruled by Invidiana, its heartless queen, it reflects and distorts the glory of the mortal...

For fans of The Song of Achilles, a queer and fiercely feminist retelling of a little-known Greek myth: the ultimate story of sacrifice and forbidden desire--now in a deluxe reissue. In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal wife; she loved her husband...

Professor James Scott Hamlin, who was born in 51 BC, is going to leave the position that he has held since the late 1990s.Someone is murdering Hamlin's friends and family all throughout Europe.It was 27 B.C. when you assisted someone in escaping from prison....

Gavin's powers are fading and his end draws near as war rages across the satrapies in the second novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week. Gavin Guile is dying. He'd thought he had five years left -- now he has less...

Gavin Guile is missing, leaving Kip and his allies to face the White King's horde in the fourth novel of the NYT bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Week's. When does an empire fall? The Seven Satrapies have collapsed into four-and those are falling before...

In 3rd century Ireland, strife and war have torn apart the island of Eiru.The fall of the Fianna and the subsequent collapse in prosperity have given rise to a new faith, determined to expel the pagan ways in favour of a new God. In...

In 3rd century Ireland, strife and war have torn apart the island of Eiru.The fall of the Fianna and the subsequent collapse in prosperity have given rise to a new faith, determined to expel the pagan ways in favour of a new God. In...

In 3rd century Ireland, strife and war have torn apart the island of Eiru.The fall of the Fianna and the subsequent collapse in prosperity have given rise to a new faith, determined to expel the pagan ways in favour of a new God. In...

In 3rd century Ireland, strife and war have torn apart the island of Eiru.The fall of the Fianna and the subsequent collapse in prosperity have given rise to a new faith, determined to expel the pagan ways in favour of a new God. In...

Snowveil, London, 1840.Miss Emmaline Shaw struggled to keep her newly frantic magic under control so as not to stir the attention of her ostentatious society. However, during the ball where she celebrated her brother's return, Sir Percy Cromwell, the new handsome gentleman in town,...

It's the summer of 1963, and three teenage boys are busy destroying their innocence, provoking the local law, and sitting in silence as grizzled elders dispense the local lore. Just the usual stuff if you're a kid growing up in the Texas Hill Country....

A New York Times BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerSeptember IndieNext PickA new door opens... Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. After a desperate attempt to prevent corruption and...

The Chronicles of Hanuvar Continue--Sword and Sorcery Heroics Abound! Gladiators, legionaries, scheming sorcerers, and dark gods had battered Hanuvar but not stopped him. The great Volani general now returns to the land of his enemies! Hanuvar had pledged to find the remnants of his...

Paris 1880, the City of Electric LightClockwork nobles of the Court promenade through the halls of Versailles, while Watcher spheres and cyborg police menace citizens of France in the streets. The Royal Scientist Doctor works frantically on an automaton designed to replace the failing...

A country at war.A journey fraught with danger.To find happiness, she'll risk everything. Including her life. Five years after living the trauma of forced servitude, 21-year-old Ula leads an idyllic life as lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Praed. Content to live a sheltered life,...

Circus Home- A Novel of Life, Love and New Jersey is one of the most admired novels of 2023.JUST ANNOUNCED- WINNER 2023 eLit GOLD MEDAL for Literary Fiction!WINNER- 2023 BookFest Book Award for Historical Fiction!NOMINATED FOR THE Pacific Book Awards in Historical Fiction!NOMINATED FOR...

God's Mirror is a historical sci-fi fantasy story where a young woman finds herself teleported to 19th century England, during the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Melanie Jacinta Barrett struggles to survive in this strange primitive world, her memories of life in the 20th...

Magnus discovers a new enemy, one born from the past: A son of Samuel wants revenge. There are competing theories, one: that time moves in a straight line from birth to death, one step after another along a path. Or two: time is a...

"The powerful themes of revenge, redemption and healing are beautifully rendered in a story where love is the most potent magic of all." --Adriana Trigiani, author of The Good Left UndoneRage burns brighter than any spellfire...Deep in the birchwoods of Norway, magic courses through...

What would you sacrifice to change your legacy?As the Industrial Revolution threatens the way of life for many, it gives birth to rebellion. Ned Ludd, leader of the Luddites, directs an offshoot of the uprising to terrorize the factories of Scotland. While tensions between...

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all set in 1920s Appalachia Leslie Bruin is assigned to the backwoods township of Spar Creek by the Frontier Nursing Service, under its usual mandate: vaccinate the flock, birth babies,...

A war torn Ethiopia and an America in the throes of social unrest provide the backdrop for a poignant story of loss, famine, war, faith and love. Guided by spirit elephants, haunted by hyena-men, The Lion of Djibouti is the quest of two brothers...

Set in an alternate version of early 1900s England, Copperhead is the sequel to Tina Connolly's stunning historical fantasy debut. Helen Huntingdon is beautiful--so beautiful she has to wear an iron mask. Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take...

The year is 1889 and the San Francisco gold rush is in full swing. Seeking adventure, Duncan MacLeod, member of an age old race of immortals, sets out for the Alaskan territory. He and his friends soon find themselves trapped in a frozen hell.Author:...

This novel of some 230 pages presents a New Orleans family, the Kaufmanns, for four generations from 1909 to 1977. Backstory is that the Confederates won the war of 1861-65. George, the patriarch. Is an immigrant. He worked as captain of the Jackson Ave....

Kill the Empress, save China. That is what people from all sides are telling Jiayi. She not only has the power to kill the empress, but to set up a new future for China. Jiayi has spent her life as a palace slave. Freedom...

When War Wages, Even Innocents PerishTwo years have passed and the war between the kingdoms of Shen and Wei rages on. The dark sect moves in the shadows, striking against the noble Verdant Green Waters Sect, damaging, killing and kidnapping their members.Among the victims...

From award-winning Historical Lesbian Romance author Edale LaneWhat happens when heroes fall?Murder strikes Milan, threatening the city's future under an ominous shadow of war. Was it the Spanish, the Germans, the Milanese, or were darker forces at play? The city is thrust into a...

"The old men say their fathers told them that soon after the fields were left to themselves a change began to be visible."After an apocalyptic event has decimated London, Richard Jeffries tells how England returns to a state of nature and surviving people live...

After the last Ice Age Mesolithic Hunter Gatherers settled by a lake in a valley in what is now West wales. They discovered the Nature Spirit of the valley and over the years she watched over them and saw them develop. She watched their...

In Hastinapura, Atiratha and Radha find a baby floating in the river. In the palace, the impotent King Pandu is forced to abdicate the throne while his bastard half brother Vidura conspires with his queen Kunti. The blind King Dhritarashtra struggles against his autocratic...

Welcome to Calatini, an enchanting Regency-inspired kingdom filled with faegifts, witches, and heartwarming romance.Miss Selena Midor is lonely, close to destitute, and trapped far away from home with her cruel uncle. She's grown accustomed to outwitting him to keep herself safe, but when she...

Frankenstein is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition...

Ankhesenamun has lost everything, including her position as queen. But there is one thing that might save her yet: the Eye of Horus, a fabled artefact which is supposed to confer ultimate power on the one who wields it. If she can find it,...

Engineers always find a way!Jens-Peter Oberacker thought the secret research facility for magical craft would be peaceful and quiet--the perfect place to finish his engineering research paper. He didn't expect a violent gang of thieves to have their eyes on the ships, or having...

1526 is an Interlocking puzzle of characters and situations bound together by a central mystery - an entertaining epic, speckled with folklore, romance and battle that brings the early 16th century to life.Turkish forces destroy the Hungarian army and kill the king, throwing the...

A dark force has awakened in the Highlands.Scotland, 1388. After Fergus Scott of Eildon travels north to investigate reports of a malevolent presence, he encounters the ferocious Alistair Mor.Drawn into battle against enchantment and death, Fergus is aided by the lovely but quick-tempered Seonaid....

Luella Winthrop doesn't know whom she can trust. Her heart is divided, and difficult truths wait for her at every turn. With even her magic beyond her reach, isolation could not have come at a worse time. Her goal is as simple as it...