Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in a new world of dark fantasy from...

Diana, the Roman Goddess of the hunt, lives alone on the far edge of the Roman Empire. When an old friend arrives looking for help, Diana finds herself thrust back into her old life, and old problems. With innocent lives caught in the crossfire,...

As World War II dawns over the United States, the newly-formed Office of Strategic Services calls upon the Conjurus, people born with the ability to control various elements, to assist in the war effort. Among them is Jay Loalin, and his first mission hits...

Karueq wages war against the Eleverians on the edge of history. He commands the forces of darkness against their armies of light. It is a war to win souls, define freedom, and give that freedom to the world. But this war is at a...

Critical Mass - is it really fiction?The world is at a crossroads of a discovery that will rewrite history and change the balance of power on Earth. Destruction or the betterment of mankind is at hand.The fate of the planet rests in the hands...

I have produced two dragonling sons, but only one has become a full dragon. Without another crystal, my second son will fade away. Together with my dragonmancer girlfriends and an army of soldiers, we're going into the Subterranean Realms to find more crystals. But...

Paul Dear is a good and clever boy, but he's special in ways that even his adoring parents could never have imagined. For by day, in London's Kensington Gardens, he walks and talks with the pixies and sprites and other magical creatures that dwell...

High above the blood- and mud-soaked trenches, a young girl pits herself against army mages in high stakes aerial duels with bullets, spells, and bayonets. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff and she is the Devil of the Rhine, one of the greatest soldiers the...

In Gemma Files's horror-fantasy debut, former Confederate chaplain Asher Rook has cheated death and now possesses a dark magic. He uses his power to terrorize the Wild West, leading a gang of outlaws, thieves, and killers, with his cruel lieutenant and lover, Chess Pargeter,...

Set in a world of human conflicts, fantastical martial arts, sorcery and celestial magic, Alice Poon's debut fantasy, The Heavenly Sword, follows a martial maiden's heartbreaking adventures in her quest for love and justice.The goddess Chang'e, reborn as Shandong village girl Tang Sai'er, is...

"You may think you know my story. My name has been bandied in ballads and jests, for good and (mostly) for ill. High Queen, priestess, adulterer... but first and always a woman. Courage and honor shaped me; ecstasy transported me; grief, betrayal and terror...

In 500 AD, in old Welsh Briton, King Arthur has died, leaving behind a devastated kingdom. Drowning in despair and disillusion, Merlin, a man in his prime, abandons Arthur's realm to fall into ruin and begs for his own death to come. But when...

Since he became the guardian of the Gate between our world and Feirie sixteen hundred years ago, Nick Medea, once Saint George, has battled to keep the darkest Feirie--the Wyld--from invading the mortal plane. With the dragon an unwilling part of him, Nick maintains...

Real heroes never die. But they do get grouchy in middle age. The beloved King Ik is dead, and there was barely time to check his pulse before the royal throne was supporting the suspiciously shapely backside of an impostor pretending to be Ik's...

The Minotaur stirs. Evan is drugged to forget the gods' quest.Evan and his companions are entrapped by the Amazon Queen Antioche and her warriors. Memories and allegiances are tested. The Dark Master's victorious revenge over the gods is almost complete. The plight of the...

"The single most beautiful, solid, unearthly, and unjustifiably forgotten novel of the twentieth century ...a little golden miracle of a book." -- Neil Gaiman Lud-in-the-Mist is a flourishing town and the capital of the Free State of Dorimare, located at the confluence of two...

Dreams are pointless when you're destined to serve the Devil.Alexander Pike VI inherited far more than a name from his father. He has been saddled with the family curse for the past seven years, tasked with completing jobs for the Devil.Hope.Joy.Love.Freedom.These were never in...

At the peak of Rome's might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages. In Killing the Hydra, Lucius Metellus Anguis returns to North Africa, determined to investigate the death of his...

A love triangle. A medieval world. A superpower to die for.On a rescue mission to save her spurned lover, Sophie is exiled to a terrifying realm. Her ex, her dog, and her soulmate are sent there too.Fortunately, in this parallel universe, Sophie has a...

John Dee is a confidant of Queen Elizabeth I. He is a scholar and mathematician who dabbles in the occult and is known as 'the Queen's magician'. He unearths a remarkable object which appears to have fantastic powers, and uses it to save his...

The mind-blowing new novel from C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death's Daughter"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!" --Publishers Weekly"Many have spoken about how angels can be both terrifying yet beautiful, but few...

Inspired by the classical ancient world and authors such as C J Sansom, Retribution is the second Drakenfeld novel, in Mark Charan Newton's thrilling fantasy crime series.When justice fails, revenge follows . . .Having just solved a difficult case in his home city of...

Inspired by the classical world of Ancient Rome and authors such as C J Sansom, Drakenfeld marks the start of the thrilling fantasy crime series by Mark Charan Newton.They'll kill to hide the truth. He'll kill to find it.The monarchies of the Royal Vispasian...

From acclaimed short fiction writer Nisi Shawl comes a brilliant alternate history set in the Congo, where heroes strive for a Utopia and endeavor to live together despite their differences. Now with a beautiful new cover and a foreward from award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull....

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Diana Gabaldon returns with the "vast and sweeping" (The Washington Post) newest novel in the epic Outlander series. War leaves nobody alone. Neither the past, the present, nor the future offers true safety, and the only refuge is...

A woman discovers an impossible connection that transcends time and place in this stirring, unforgettable novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Thief. "A splendid mix of time travel, romantic yearning, and moving on after grief."--Publishers Weekly Isabel Griffin has...

Outer Banks of North Carolina-Hatteras Island, 1868Just two remain...After losing their mainland family, Emily Bennett convinces her brother, Joel, to move their lives to the barrier islands of North Carolina for a fresh start.Owning and managing a bed-and-breakfast sounded easy enough, but when Emily...

To thwart a curse, a fake king enters a fake marriage-but his sacrificial death will be all too real.As the king of Sippar, Ahsan is surrounded by unparalleled luxury, fawning attendants, and a gorgeous wife. It's the life he's always dreamed of, except for...

Rosaline's ex-fiancé is a god. At least, that's what he claims to be. He could be a purple gnome for all Rosaline cares, she just wants him out of her life. Unfortunately, his presence is the result of a curse she brought upon herself...

Jessica Sierra takes us on a journey through both space and time on a quest for existential belonging. A hyper metaphorical exploration of the relationship between the earth and the self. This is a gripping tale of personal discovery laced in vivid imagery and...

Having released Egypt from Ay's clutches, Ankhesenamun returns to Crete to retrieve Intef from the underworld. But a deal struck with a god, even a minor one like a gate guardian, cannot easily be undone. Once again, Ankhesenamun will be tested. Once again, she...

Silas Mercer has faced wily boggarts, mad faerie queens and enraged forest spirits.But can he withstand a daemon who is losing his mind?Pitch and Sickle are left bruised, battered and reeling after their confrontation with the Verderer.They have learned a startling truth behind the...

Silas Mercer is a dead man walking.And the mysterious Order of the Golden Dawn have big plans for their newest ankou and his deathly bandalore.Life as a servant of death has its challenges.But the biggest one of all is Silas's daemonic guardian, Pitch.He may...

ERIC BRIGHTEYES - A BOOK THAT INSPIRED TOLKIEN. With original illustrations.Rider Haggard is among a small selection of Victorian and Edwardian writers whom Professor J.R.R. Tolkien (author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) acknowledged by name. In her introduction to this...

In the land of Dorimare, on the shores of the Dapple and the Dawl, the law-abiding residents of Lud-in-the-Mist are plagued by an illegal influx of fairy fruit enticing people to acts of poetry, dancing, and other dangerous flights of fancy. When respectable Mayor...

In the land of Dorimare, on the shores of the Dapple and the Dawl, the law-abiding residents of Lud-in-the-Mist are plagued by an illegal influx of fairy fruit enticing people to acts of poetry, dancing, and other dangerous flights of fancy. When respectable Mayor...

A dark, gorgeous reimagining about what happened to Captain Hook after Neverland from the bestselling author of Wendy, Darling--filled with eerie suspense and heart-breaking anguishOnce invited, always welcome.Once invited, never free.Captain James Hook, the immortal pirate of Neverland, has died a thousand times. Drowned,...

A lush, feminist re-imagining on what happened to Wendy after Neverland, for fans of Circe and The Mere Wife Find the second star from the right, and fly straight on 'til morning, all the way to Neverland, a children's paradise with no rules, no...

A new Civil War is brewing. With the city of Bewelcome as its headquarters, Allan Pinkerton's Detective Agency leads a siege on Hex City, the town founded by "Reverend" Asher Rook and his consort, the Mayan goddess Ixchel. Monsters prowl the battleground, rocket trails...

Welcome to Hex City. Population: magicians.Thanks to hexslinger "Reverend" Asher Rook, sorcerers now have a sanctuary where they can live and work in peace. But a storm is coming--a tempest known as Chess Pargeter.Infuriated by his former lover Rook's betrayal and sacrificed in the...

"Weaves a spell of darkness that's mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love." --New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches In post-World War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must...

Enter through the looking glass into Queens of Wonderland, Book Two in the Defenders of Lore series, in which Knights of the Round Vanessa and Michael must follow Captain Hook into Wonderland alongside Alice to crush his treacherous plan and deal with an ongoing...

Enter through the looking glass into Queens of Wonderland, Book Two in the Defenders of Lore series, in which Knights of the Round Vanessa and Michael must follow Captain Hook into Wonderland alongside Alice to crush his treacherous plan and deal with an ongoing...

"Ruff renders a very high-concept, imaginary world with such vividness that you can't help but feel it's disturbingly real."--Christopher MooreIn this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the...

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance...

A novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of alternate history in the worldSalamis is the fifth (standalone) novel in Harry Turtledove's critically acclaimed Hellenic Traders universe, detailing the adventures of two cousins, Menedemos and Sostratos, who work as seaborne traders following the...

A novel by one of the most acclaimed writers of alternate history in the worldSalamis is the fifth (standalone) novel in Harry Turtledove's critically acclaimed Hellenic Traders universe, detailing the adventures of two cousins, Menedemos and Sostratos, who work as seaborne traders following the...

Twelve sensational Sherlock Holmes short stories from a bestselling master of the genreMaverick detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful chronicler Dr. John Watson return in twelve thrilling short stories.The iconic duo find themselves swiftly drawn into a series of puzzling and sinister events: an...

Author: David MadsenISBN-10: 187398247XISBN-13: 9781873982471Publisher: DedalusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/1998Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.80h x 5.06w x 0.70d

Fairy fruit is being smuggled into Dorimare.Lud-in-the-Mist, the highly influential early fantasy novel you've never heard of, but praised by numerous authors throughout the years. Originally published in 1926. In its main character, Master Nathaniel Chanticleer, Mirrlees prefigures Bilbo by a decade, in a...