Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

The Jasmine Throne has been hailed as a series opener that will undoubtedly reshape the landscape of epic fantasy for years to come (Booklist, starred). Now, award-winning author Tasha Suri's provocative and powerful Burning Kingdoms trilogy continues with The Oleander Sword.The prophecy of the...

What connects an ancient map carved in a cane, a disgraced descendant of Chinggis Khan, and a secret Chinese society?1257 AD, Kaifeng, China: Dailus, a European bronzecaster taken as a slave by the Mongols, builds mighty siege cannons for the Khan, but discovers there...

Will a foreign land offer the protection she seeks?While Brannagh prospers under her brother's reign, Princess Fiona and her daughter, Clare, are finally enjoying the freedom they have desired. The young widow hopes a tranquil life by the sea will provide healing from past...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The second book in Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series. "A triumph! A powerful tale layered in history and myth. I loved every page."--Nora Roberts With her classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced...

S. A. Chakraborty continues the sweeping adventure begun in The City of Brass--"the best adult fantasy I've read since The Name of the Wind" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir)--conjuring a world where djinn summon flames with the snap of a finger...

Angela Graham is a Tome Traveller.She can walk in worlds made of words, and her favourite novel, WildWood, is the perfect escape from memories of the Great War. However, her Uncle Clement insists Travelling is more dangerous than it seems, and as WildWood crumbles...

The Tales of the Otori continue...After the devastating battle of Takahara, the Otori have allied with the Saga clan to defeat the Arai and give their clan any chance of survival. But their fragile alliance is threatened by Lord Saga's descent into paranoia and...

The Roman Empire never fell. The Gods are real. Ships are alive. In the Province of Britannia, ruled by descendants of King Arthur and on the brink of an industrial revolution, young Maia Abella is on the run. Something unseen has murdered her cruel...

It's been almost three years since Gwen, a 21st century librarian, fell back through time to become King Arthur's Queen Guinevere. Arthur's drawn the legendary sword from the stone and beaten his jealous brother. The only thing left to do is prove to his...

Lilith can't remember ever having a roof over her head, warm clothes, or enough food in her belly. So when Lord Graves offers those things in exchange for a simple theft, she happily takes the chance. She soon finds that the situation is far...

A curated collection of magic...and murder.When a set of bound manuscripts written on magician-made paper is brought to the Glass Library, Sylvia and the professor send the owner away. After all, the library collects books about magic, not containing it. But the murder of...

A wanderer. An outcast. A Queen. Against the customs of the land, Kigal is amongst the few still willing to bury the dead. It is a life that has left her wandering, without friend or home, but she spreads her message of justice for...

If you are looking for a traditional retelling of the history of the great fornicating lovers Tristan and Iseult, why, just keep on looking. This book is not for you. But, if you want to see the hidden secrets of this ancient tale clarified...

"You will become a banshee," said the Wise Woman. "Your people need your powers."Shona Campbell, the daughter of a Scottish chief, expected an arranged marriage with a distant cousin, a nice gentleman from the Highlands. No problem...until she is told she will marry a...

A massive collection of wonderous science fiction and fantasy stories from New York Times best-selling Mercedes Lackey. Includes Fiddler Fair and Werehunter for the first time in one volume. A massive collection of wonderous science fiction and fantasy stories from New York Times best...

Sumptuous and addictive, An Education in Malice is a dark academia tale of blood, secrets and insatiable hungers from S.T. Gibson, author of the cult hit A Dowry of Blood. Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient,...

It the year 790 A.D. Thord? and Zivh have reached the pirate slavers town of Aldeigjuborg, Staraya Ladoga in Russia and must make a life for themselves in the terrifying world of the Viking Rus. My Enemy s Head is the second book in...

From New York Times bestselling author Owen King, who "writes with witty verve" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a "richly imagined" (The New York Times) Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers...

A heroine's story of alchemy, love, and battle continues in The Pawns of Isolda, Part 2 of the Herlot of Alonia Medieval Fantasy Series. Herlot and Movo escaped execution in Herlot of Alonia, yet their journey has only begun as they search for a...

Kyle Murchison Booth, archivist at the Parrington Museum, has heard of Thirdhop Scarp. Everyone has. The house has been notorious ever since the night that homeowner J.A. Cathcart murdered his entire family, and was found cupping the heart of his eldest daughter in his...

The headsman of Nuremburg, Franz Schmidt put an end to hundreds of convicts, each of whom merited a line in his ledger: "Schober was beheaded by favour; Marti was hanged, and the bleachers made him a pair of very white hose, a doublet and...

Legend says Guinevere spent her final days in penance in a convent, but that is far from the truth.Having escaped death at the stake, Guinevere longs to live a peaceful life in Brittany with Lancelot, but the threat of Arthur's wrath quickly separates the...

BANDOLEROHell-bent on a spree of murder and mayhem, the infamous Juan Rubio Latorro, El Bandolero, strikes terror into the hearts of the innocent and bathes the west in blood. Unstoppable, he robs and kills with impunity, leaving a trail of broken bodies and destruction...

Detective Sergeant Mariko Oshiro has been promoted to Japan's elite Narcotics unit--and with this promotion comes a new partner, a new case, and new danger. The underboss of a powerful yakuza crime syndicate has put a price on her head, and he'll lift the...

India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether,...

In the spring of 1955, new-minted vampire Diana Chilton rejoins civilization after the Fae boot her out of her self-pity, and meets an old friend, Jack Garrett, who recognizes her as a vampire. Jack proposes that he and Diana start a secret magical group...

Return of the Richmond Vampire tells a cryptic tale of the Church Hill Tunnel collapse and the urban legend that it spawned. In October of 1925, one of the most catastrophic railroad disasters in history occurred in Richmond, Virginia. In the aftermath of the...

For as long as he can remember, Alric dreamed of being a hero; of defeating a dragon and saving the princess, but his royal position would never allow it, until...The arrival of the Mercerian Emissaries demands a princely escort, and being neither the heir,...

In the depths of night, customs officers board a galley in a harbor and overpower its guards. In the hold they find oil and silver, and a naked boy chained to the bulkhead. Stunningly beautiful but half-starved, the boy has no name. The officers...

Long before George MacDonald and William Morris, Charles de Fieux, Chevalier de Mouhy (1701-1784), a one-time friend of Voltaire, prolific author of popular and mildly scandalous potboilers (including the first sensational novel about the Man in the Iron Mask) and polemicist, penned one of...

The Tiber Bridge tells the story of Ancus Marcius, Romes fourth king, a man of power and ability haunted by the ghosts of his past, and of Vel Prasanai, a cast-out Etruscan who becomes his bridge builder. Conflict between gods and mortals intensifies over...

The body slave of a violent and perverse aristocrat, Apollonius dreams of murdering the Roman senator who engineered the fall of his wealthy family. When he is befriended by a mysterious physician from Thessaly, a man reputed to be a magician, Apollonius finally gets...

As World War I rages, there are evils--both living and dead--that only a witch can see in a spellbinding novel by the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of The Raven Spell.With her husband off fighting at World War I's eastern front, Petra...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER! The blockbuster danmei/Boys' Love novels from China that inspired the animated series! In this final book (Volume 8), read the conclusion to this epic historical fantasy about a prince and the mysterious man by his side, in English for...

Maggie must rise above the psychological and physical challenges of a rape and near-death experience which creates constant nightmares of stalking. Her driving ambition is to become the greatest Irish dance instructor in Ireland while grieving for her son whom she was told perished...

A barely remembered childhood. A search for enchanted treasure. Can a gentle man discover his past and be reunited with his birthright? Ireland, 500. In an ancient land where forgotten tales and mystical wonders abound, a man with a fragmented past embarks on a...

A knight in disgrace...Banished to the cold northern reaches for doing what was right, Lady Maddalena is a knight in exile. Now the reluctant warden of an isolated, snowy prison, Lena is determined to keep her head down and serve her two-year sentence. No...

PFC Kevin McClure knew when his cousin, Lou Aguilar, on duty over fifty miles away, experienced something horrific, for although their link, that total sharing of thoughts and senses, had been broken in childhood, an empathic connection, at least on Kevin's part, was still...

Two young women race to turn the tide in a Florida on the brink of civil war... Everyone knows that Jonnie trains and races the limerunners, the deadly water horses that live in the swamps and streams around the town of Sawgrass, and that...

FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE EZEKIEL CRANE NOVELS AND THE GRIM DAYS MYSTERIES!A Holy Land...A Holy War...A Holy Terror Against EvilIn the final years of the first Kingdom of Jerusalem in a vault hidden deep beneath the Temple Mount Baron Gregory De...

The second book in the enthralling and lyrical Sumerians trilogy, retelling the Epic of Gigamesh, perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Lucy Holland and Jennifer Saint. Now is the time for the gods of war Gilgamesh, soon to be crowned King of Uruk, travels...

Njal Tokeson has defeated the threat to his people and taken up the mantle of the mighty Bear King. As he begins to help put England back together, a stranger from Njal's past arrives on the shores of Eaglecrest. While all seems joyful, Odin...

1819, EnglandMiss Margaret Andrews' sister disappeared into the future three years ago and Margaret hasn't seen her since. Julian St. John brings her to visit, but only for a day, since his wife Claire is about to give birth to their first child. He...

Renowned author Peter S. Beagle returns to the world of The Last Unicorn in this resonant and moving two-novella collection, featuring the award-winning "Two Hearts" and the brand-new "Sooz." The Last Unicorn is one of fantasy's most revered classics, beloved by generations of readers...

All Astolphos Auriolis wants is to live a quiet life and repent for the disaster he had wrought upon the continent of Aurillia a century ago. Still, a deal is a deal, and the consequences of turning down the request of the Queen herself...

Moving from China's Opium Wars of the mid-19th century to the California gold rush and the taming of the Wild West, this epic historical fantasy follows the quest for an ancient Chinese dragon lost in a strange new world. A neglected orphan, an angry...

Romance, adventure, and spiritual depth in a rich, compelling historical fantasy. The prophet's name is Kol Abaddon-the Voice of Destruction. To Alack, a young shepherd boy, Kol Abbadon's visions of coming destruction fascinate and disturb. But when Alack begins to see visions of his...

Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving justice. This reimagining of Zorro--featuring a heroic warrior sorceress--weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest into a swashbuckling, historical debut fantasy with...

"A fast-paced romance about the Islamic invasion of Spain and the legendary Battle of Covadonga A skilfully choreographed tale packed with epic events, bloody battles, diabolical and erotic intrigues, featuring a cast of larger-than-life characters, detailed historical reconstructions and fabulous costumes. The author explores...

The author writes, "By an example of the trials, adventures, and victories of a burgher family of the generation of Philip II and William the Silent, he strives to set before readers of to-day something of the life of those who lived through perhaps...