Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

A lady of resources has the power to change the world-if she can stay alive long enough to do it.Lady Claire Trevelyan had been looking forward to glittering balls, congenial society, and relief from pursuit during her stay with Lord and Lady Dunsmuir in...

What if King Arthur's queen was every bit as heroic as he was? Find out by immersing yourself in this epic story of the power couple whose courage and conviction would shape the destiny of a nation. Gyan is a Caledonian chieftainess by birth,...

The fate of the world rests on his shoulders. Will he crumble? Ahmed's faith is strong, and so is his sword-arm, but as for details, those were for his fallen master. Now, he must somehow rise to the task of leading his men and,...

As a young girl, Brynhild of the Peoples of the North, the tribe of the Angles, is doomed to die in the Spring Thaw ritual to save her people. She skirts this death to become a warriormaiden destined to ride with Odin into battle,...

Brier Chastain's powers have already destroyed two cities. With every use, she finds it a little harder to keep them from overpowering her. Palmer, her cosmic counterbalance, is growing weaker, and she has no one else to help.Plagued with half-formed visions and other useless...

Huntress Ro LeFèvre is hired to hunt the sirens who have been sinking the king of Angleterre's ships, and in turn, vast amounts of his wealth. All who have gone before her have failed. Fleeing heartbreak, Ro gladly accepts, but there's just one problem....

An old Denver home holds the shade of a haunted past. It's 1986 and waitress Freja O'Connell is remodeling a century-old house in a seedy part of Denver known as Five Points. Dead broke and needing money to restore the old Victorian charmer, she...

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a finalist in the USA Best Book Awards in the Historical Fiction category, Devil Knows: A Tale of Murder and Madness in America's First Century is a mystery-in-the-archives thriller written with great charm and cinematic flair. In the...

Praise for Dawnflight, 2nd Edition: "Intense." Jessie Potts, USA Today In a violent age when enemies besiege Brydein and alliances shift as swiftly as the wind, stand two remarkable leaders: the Caledonian warrior-queen Gyanhumara and her consort, Arthur the Pendragon. Their fiery love is...

I am a child of the Goddess Morrigan...I was born in the land of Éire...And my heart blazes with its fury...I have lived through the ages...I seek to right those who have wronged...I am the Maintainer of the Balance...The Balance must be maintainedEvil reigns...

The Sword of God The saga continues... In a time of faith and violence, poetry and magic, mirage and cold steel, old religion battles new. A young girl comes of age, a woman rides a sacred camel to rally her clan, and a man...

THE WITCHES OF TEPOZTLÁN (AND OTHER UNPUBLISHED OPERAS) describes the cases of four different and rather obscure operas written by equally obscure composers whose existence, whether fictitious or real, is never confirmed by the author. By intertwining these four stories in the form of...

1899. The mood of fin-de-siècle Paris is one of the old order crumbling away, as ancient superstitions are replaced by scientific discoveries. The director of the Théâtre Tragicomique is intent on staging an updated version of Faust to usher in the new century --...

They're everywhere. Their name is like a talisman that opens all doors and bends all wills. The man who can pronounce that name is master everywhere -- Gentlemen of the night! In 1830 London, the Marquis de Rio Santo, leader of the criminal empire...

Saul Imbierowicz's life literally changed when Al Capone murdered him, and he was reborn as a vampire. Now Saul is working for Eliot Ness, trying to take down the famous gangster. But Saul's new "life" isn't what he expected, and an offer from Capone...

To find the fountain of youth - what would that entail, to live forever, to pass through many generations, without dying? Would it be a blessing or a curse? We are taken on an amazing journey, as the man originally known as Kroudhr, Vizier...

In 1804, aboard the ship AURORA, Emma journeys to America and is quickly thrown into a life of uncertainty. Newly orphaned, she is adopted by the Fiedlers. They are Harmonists who help settle the Indiana wilderness that later becomes the town of Harmonie. Emma...

The magician Luce has arrived back in the kingdom of Proster in hopes of getting help to search for where the magic disappeared. He finds that his friend Zebulon is dead and Zebulon's, Driscoll, currently sits on the throne. Driscoll is more than happy...

In the tradition of Borges, Nabakov, and Bolaño, The Red Album is a work of fiction that questions historical authenticity and authority. Divided into two parts, the book begins with an edited and footnoted narrative of dubious origins. In the second part, a section...

The Eye of Mayenga is a heart-throbbing novel centred in a remote, rural African village of Mayenga. The village is a lethargic place that appears to have been left behind with respect to world trends and realities. Its residents seem trapped in times gone,...

She waits on a frosty street corner in old Russia, armed with the gadgets her sponsor gave her. Ivanov draws near-to her, to his death. But first, she needs to know: Vasiliy Ivanov, good man or bad? Killing a good man risks her integrity-and...

Australia, approximately 2020BP This year's annual fishing contest heralded the start of the celebrations for the tri-annual Bunya-nut harvest. People came from all over the east coast to meet old friends and extended family and to compete. Walking south from Darumbal lands along the...

The Fethafoot Chronicles Book 2 Australia, around 39,987BP (before the present) This chronicle comes alive from the legend of a great sweeping saga, which covered the lives of four Australians who lived and died numerous generations ago. Their meeting and lives together left an...

In a not-too-distant Australia, an authoritarian Green government has taken power, and has ruled for a decade on the premise of dealing with "the emergency". Turner, former cop, former convict, sets out for Canberra with a radical mission: assassinate the Prime Minister. Travelling through...

Myth or reality, what are the hidden forces that shape our destiny?Spirits Over Time and Oceans is an epic tale of demons emerging from the past, and the awakening of an extraordinary artist who possesses the powers of a goddess. Delia's spiritual quest to...

Two years ago, they ended an invasion. Now, they must prevent an uprising.When peace is shattered by a southern king, the northern Ó Mordha tribesmen must once again join the fight.As the freed invaders amass at the seat of the High King, they are...

This story begins in the year of 1665 on an island forgotten to time and tells the tale of Richard Forsyth; a story of love, loss and revenge between devils and angels.This book charts the journey of how Richard, a man once so gentle...

Aleksandar Ziljak is one of Croatia's leading writers of science fiction and fantasy. His work has been translated into many European languages. As the Distant Bells Toll takes you on a dizzying trip from Ancient China to modern Croatia via the Caribbean and Japan....

The second part of Arthur and Jo's strange adventures throughout the land of Discoucia, and a time when Archie the Water Goddess has made the ultimate sacrifice to rid the world of her nemesis, Cordelia Paradise, the Fire Goddess.However, things rarely go to plan...

Death rides the blood of a pale horseJune 1893.Undead prowl the streets of Glasgow at night hunting for blood. They, in turn, are hunted by the formidable Lady Delaney and her apprentice Kerry Knox, whose fight against the secret society ruling Glasgow will lead...

A lone thief fleeing conflict is trapped in a city being torn apart by intrigue, and finds his talents gain him the unwelcome attention of vying factions. His endurance and cunning are tested to breaking point as he struggles to stay alive and the...

January, 1890 - Britain threatens Portugal with an Ultimatum: Abandon south-east Africa or face a naval bombardment of Lisbon. Three centuries earlier, the poet Luís de Camões described the region at issue -Behold the lake which is the Nile's source. And the green Zambezi,...

In Samuel Trevan's history the Reformation was aborted. In England, the 'Spanish Armada' was welcomed ashore. In his 2000 A.D. the Church rules the known world. A continent-spanning Christendom benignly guides the lives of millions from cradle to grave - and beyond. The supernatural...

1915: Violet Dobson is horrified when husband Billy signs up to fight for King and Country. Billy is already her hero - she doesn't need him to prove it. As Billy heads to France, Violet has her own battles to fight, living with Billy's...

If you enjoy reading about the legendary adventures of Ulysses or Odysseus, and stories about Aeneas, the Trojan hero who survived the sack of Troy following the Greek trick of gaining entry to the city inside a wooden horse, and the aftermath of this...

JACK THE RIPPER What really happened to him Victorian London and in a very short time, the inhabitants of the slums of Whitechapel will find that they have a bigger worry than the usual deprivation, disease and crime. There's a killer in town but...

Ahmose looks after the menagerie at the temple of Amon Ra and is a secret devotee of the Aton. The vengeful Ra transforms him into a golden bird, damned to live forever and only turn into a man for a few days every five...

Fear and panic welled up inside her as she struggled but her efforts of escape were to no avail... Many years ago, on the small Aztec island of Tolico, hundreds of people with extraordinary blue eyes were kidnapped from their native kingdoms and brought...

Following a row with his girlfriend, Jane, Chris Price goes walking on the snowy Fens to try to find her. When he is overtaken by hypothermia, he awakes to find himself in the same place... but in a different time! Taken in by the...

Miraculous, the great Roman warrior who fought at Caesar's side, finds himself in a very strange situation... Slain by a worthy fighter and with a curse placed on him by his jealous and cowardly enemy, Maxim, he is forced to roam the streets of...

Cyrus Darian's misadventures continue ... In this exciting sequel to the award winning first instalment, Darian finds himself the unwilling master of a ghost army. In order to rid himself of these embarrassing pests, Darian sets off on yet another misadventure with his inventor...

Beth Briggs and her policeman husband, Danny, lead busy lives, coping with the pressures of work and three children as best they can. but Beth's mother, Daisy, isn't always a ray of sunshine! 'Why are you still working?' is her constant complaint. As a...

Ankhesenamun has never been safe in all her short life -- not even with her beloved husband and half brother Tutankhamun. Daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and the fabled Nefertiti, and married at one time to her father, she is forced to marry Tutankhamun by...

Doctrines boast of ancient creatures that abode with Deity - beings far more subtle than naïve humanity might even begin to comprehend. Entities far older still: that might well have been in attendance when the Firmament parted and Earth came to be - beasts...

The tale of two children, Elizabeth and Thomas, left at the mercy of their mother's sister, Maria, as their father has passed from the plague and their mother lies ill. Maria and her husband, Earl Morgan, live in a very old castle where the...

When an Oxford University student decides to steal an intriguing object from the Pitt Rivers Museum to further his studies, he gets more than he bargained for. It's 1497 and Albrecht Durer produces the four witches engraving. But there were really five women, not...

Josephine Mowbray flees the butchering of her family at the hand of the Isma'ilites and stumbles into the protecting arms of the Knights Templar. But the Templar are not what they seem, and their mystery will lead Josephine on a journey that changes the...

This book is the second novel by Allingham who came late to the lists with his great romantic story of Arthur Thomas's Quest.Tristan's quest is an epic story despite spanning only one year in present time. Unknown to Tristan, King Arthur has sent Merlin...

The story begins when retired police superintendent seventy-year old Arthur Thomas, has been, for many years, an emotionally locked down childless widower. He believes that his love of the Arthurian romantic legends of Camelot inspired him to persuade fellow frustrated inmates Tristan, Percival and...

One man. One planet. One destiny. Frederick Frater leads a hum-drum existence working in a Victorian bookshop. But one day an apparition walks into the shop - a beautiful young woman. Her father's extraordinary invention changes Frederick's life. The adventure that follows takes us...