Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

BOOK TWO IN CHARLES E. GANNON'S VORTEX OF WORLDS EPIC FANTASY SERIES A little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing . . . but knowing the full truth might get you killed. Druadaen, Outrider for the once-mighty Dunarran Consentium, has proven that...

A BRILLIANT AMERICANA FLINTLOCK FANTASY NOVEL SET IN A WORLD OF APPALACHIAN MAGIC THAT WORKS Fifteen-year-old Sarah Calhoun has one bad eye and a natural talent for hexing. All she wants is to be left alone--especially by outsiders. But her world gets turned on...

A centuries-long peace is shattered in a matriarchal society when a decade passes without a single girl being born in this sweeping epic fantasy that's perfect for fans of Robin Hobb and Circe. Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably...

The battle continues in this silkpunk fantasy as science and destiny collide against the will of the gods in this final installment in the epic Dandelion Dynasty series from the "genius" (Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award--winning author of the Eternal Sky series) Hugo, Nebula, and...

A Guide to the World of A Cry in the Moon's LightFather Daniel and his Right Hand of God Order are a secret society fighting hideous creatures of the night. For decades, they've gathered relics and created weapons at a place called the Forge,...

In a time of castles, muskets, and hideous creatures of the night, a beautiful woman travels across the treacherous Dark Forest to be by the side of her dying grandmother. With only a young carriage driver to protect her, she must use her wits...

If Phoebe's magic doesn't behave, London will be a disaster.Phoebe Hart is one of the dragon-linked, those chosen by a young dragon as a companion, who get magic in return. Her family and country neighbors have never been happy about her abilities, so she...

Shadows of Atlantis: Book Two of the Golden Age Series. DD Adair's Golden Age Series gathers years of research into a rollicking fantasy that is "historically probable," and set in the Golden Age of Atlantis. Step into the intrigue, the crystal technology, romance, metaphysical...

For almost seven years Jakub Danowicz pined after his friend and fellow criminal cohort Cheshire Bloom, until tragic circumstances brought them together. Now they're...dating? Lovers? It might take just as long for them to figure it out If their personal lives weren't challenging enough,...

1972. New Orleans. The remaining six Deschanel siblings live with their long-suffering mother outside New Orleans, in the historic family plantation. Each of them unique. Each of them born with a gift. In some cases, a gift they wish they could give back.Two years...

The Bible had made history, changed societies, created art and also caused murders-quite a lot of murders in fact. The latest one is the killing of Professor Karl Fehr of the University of London. He provided the long missing archaeological proof for a daring...

The Alluring (1931) is what is known as a Robinsonade--an account of a castaway on a desert island and his hard battle for physical and psychological survival. F licien Champsaur, having decided to write a Robinsonade, aware that he was following in a great...

Young knight Konrad de Felseneck, last descendant of a noble line, discovers that a curse hangs over his family: women are the curse of the Felseneck since the betrayal of his ancestor during the first crusade. Then he falls into the hands of the...

Pan's Flute (1897), Etruscan Amour (1898) and Setne's Women (1903) are three bold and lurid mythological fantasies dealing with erotic obsessions and ancient civilizations.J-H. Rosny A n is the second most important figure in modern French science fiction after Jules Verne. Rosny, who was...

Marie-Jeanne L'H ritier de Villandon (1664-1734), a relative of the better-known Charles Perrault, was among the most important creators of the fairy tales genre. This ground-breaking collection gathers four stories originally published in 1696, a year before Perrault's Tales of Mother Goose, the classic...

Maurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose...

Delphine de Girardin (1804-1855) was the daughter of famous writer and playwright Sophie Gay (1776-1852). She began writing at an early age, publishing two books of poems in 1824 and 1824, and a popular collection of children's stories in 1833. She later married writer-journalist...

In the 1890s, Josephine Balsamo, a.k.a. Countess Cagliostro, is poised to take over the powerful crominal conspiracy known as the Black Coats. One person stands in her way: Irina Putine, a female detective, who happens to be the half-sister of Ars ne Lupin, the...

In New York, the Mage Ormus, claiming to be the reincarnation of Tutankhamun, has gathered around him a coterie of disciples chosen amongst the world's wealthiest elite in order to relive the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt. One of them, the Duchess of Rutland, may...

In a world where no one can die, she alone can kill... COBWEB EMPIRE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book Two) is the second book of the intricate epic fantasy flavored by Renaissance history and the romantic myth of Persephone, about death's ultimatum to the world....

Many are called... She alone can save the world and become Death's bride. COBWEB BRIDE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One) is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death's ultimatum to the world. What if you killed someone and...

Wingfield barely survives the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery. He then marries the beautiful Montezuma's Daughter. But tragedy and vengeance skulk in the wings of whirling pages! You will never forget MONTEZUMA'S DAUGHTER * * * I, Thomas Wingfield, of the Lodge and the...

Leonard Outram, a young Englishman who's just lost his fortune along with and his fiancee's hand, makes an oath: he'll win back his home and live happily ever after. Really! Well, sort of. Leonard ends up in Africa, which, at that point in history,...

Curtis, Allan Quatermain, and Captain John Good nearly die of thirst in the desert, nearly freeze to death on the mountains and nearly get killed in a massive civil war in Kukuanaland -- and finally make it to King Solomon's mine, where Gagool, the...

Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his Son...

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With meticulous attention to historical detail, Crimson Sky brings to life the clash of two great civilizations. In 1598 when the Spanish come into the land, the Puebloans fight for their faith and their culture, and in the end, for their lives. Zia's world...

The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" is a horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. The novel is written in an archaic style, and is presented as a true account, written in 1757, of events occurring earlier. The narrator is a passenger who was traveling...

An ancient map points the way to a lost treasure, and two men will stop at nothing to possess it. Finn dreams of adventure on the high seas, but when a messenger appears in his sleepy fishing town with a secret message, he finds...

The House of Crimson & Clover continues in the ninth volume, The Hinterland Veil. Bravery conquers fear. Fate races time. The Deschanels are scattered across Europe in a last bid to protect what matters most. Finn gets closer to finding Ana every day, but...

"There are too many secrets."Until now Trinity had never used magic. He lives in exile, ousted on the night of his birth to a remote priory to be raised with all the feminine grace of a princess, isolated and ignorant of his true heritage.Then...

"...one could be forgiven for dismissing her as a rather dismal, unqualified heroine." Catherine Morland, an awkward young lady enchanted by gothic novels and their promise of adventure, finds those promises unexpectedly fulfilled. Her simple holiday to Bath has taken quite the turn, becoming...

A nightmare come true - Silas is captured by mage hunters. Determined to rescue the man she loves, Lainie braves the perilous crossing through the Gap to follow him and his captors into the mage-ruled land of Granadaia. There, she discovers a betrayal beyond...

The secret of Lainie's forbidden magical gifts has been exposed, and Silas wants to take her far away from the Wildings to a place where she can be safe. To earn money for the journey, Silas signs them up to work on the big...

In Lilith the aptly named protagonist Mr. Vane follows a specter through a mirror in his haunted library into a fantasy land of the past where he meets Lilith, Adam and Eve, and a host of others. He explores the nature of original sin...

Young Dick Haldane sets out on his first sea voyage aboard the S.S. Star of the North, from the deck Dick sees a Ghost Ship. A large fullrigged ship with white canvas sails all crimson from a last expiring gleam of the Sun's afterglow....

What do an aggressive, self-centered jerk, an uptight Asian genius, a ditzy blonde beauty, and a laid-back surfer dude all have in common? They are all transported back in time thousands of years to Early Earth. Once there, they train with wise element wielders,...

Once a hunter of renegade wizards, Silas Vendine now finds himself on the wrong side of the mages' law with his illegal marriage to Lainie, who has her own forbidden and supposedly impossible magical powers. On the run from the law, Silas and Lainie...

Once a hunter of renegade mages, now he's the one being hunted. Silas and Lainie have defeated the dangerous rogue mage who brought Lainie's hometown to the brink of open warfare. But the town of Bitterbush Springs isn't big enough for two wizards, or...

"A promising series opener that's a fantasy page-turner and compelling coming-of-age tale." -KirkusThurmond, an unlikely hero, may be young and poor, but he dreams of fighting with the famed Brotherhood of Underworld Adventurers, an elite group of warriors that slay monstrous creatures for the...

"...a sophisticated and fantastical twist to the beloved Cinderella fairy tale." -- A. G. Howard, author of the Splintered Series When Eleanor Brice loses a glass slipper, she unexpectedly gains a royal fianc and a way out of her abusive stepmother's house. Unfortunately, eight...

Ronan Corvers wants nothing more than to change the world for the better so he can live up to his family's values of helping those in need. When the elderly couple he helps after school goes missing and a horrifying creature makes an attempt...

LEGACY is the first of an exciting trilogy set in rural Southern Maryland. Gigi, the matriarch of the Big House, shares her family heritage. Her great-grandchildren reluctantly, yet respectfully listen to the stories of ancient Ch'Lera. As three generations attempt to live peacefully under...

When the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, clearly desperate times call for desperate measures! This is where King Arthur's wizard advisor Merlin and his friend Morgan enter the picture. Merlin needs all of his attributes as a Bigfoot, shapeshifter and immortal to...

The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 is a historical romance written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1826.It is the second book of the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and the best known to contemporary audiences. The Pathfinder, published 14 years later in 1840,...

Ever since raiders from the north began attacking villages, Lady Nicole Montagna has known that defending her people would come at a cost. The betrothal of her sister Chloe to a neighboring lord seems the perfect solution, forging a powerful alliance. But shortly before...

Olivia Geroux knew her king was reluctant to marry her, whatever the negotiations had arranged. But she never expected to find handsome, arrogant King Rowan obsessed with his stepsister instead. And before she can determine what course to take, she overhears her greatest ally...

An Indie Next Pick Now in paperback, Natasha Pulley's witty, entrancing novel . . . burnishes her reputation as a gifted storyteller (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall with an injury that...

Night-Black Sorcery and the Wrath of Malevolent Gods More than any writer since Robert E. Howard, Keith Taylor has a unique ability to evoke sheer terror amid the remote and haunted reaches of the ancient world. His tales of Kamose, archpriest of Anubis, the...

An anthology set in the 80's.The Treasure Keeper by James Agee Jr.What would you do for the chance to have your idea turned into a music video by none other than MTV? When a contest promising fame and fortune comes to their small hometown,...