Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

NEW SERIES FROM R. J. LARSON Legendary creatures have emerged from ancient realms to stalk mortals. Words, long forgotten, are spoken for the first time in a thousand years, and the soul of an ancient forsaken empire is stirring to life. One family has...

Series: Capt. Jesamiah Acorne & his ship, 1719VOYAGE FIVE: ON THE ACCOUNTCaptain Jesamiah Acorne is in trouble. Again. Arrested for treason and smuggling, believing his beloved ship Sea Witch lies wrecked on England's North Devon Coast, his only hope of escaping the noose is...

Pen & ink pictures explore a fantastical history of dragon evolving alongside humans. Short, whimsical, commentary with a subtle message of learning to work with those who look different and have different talents.Eighteen black and white drawings illustrate the rise of civilization, and how...

The Unicorn Tapestries in New York are a medieval masterpiece-and a mystery. No one knows who wove them, who for, or when. Elayne knows . . . kinda. At least, she's been told by her father that their ancestor wove them. Not only that,...

Now an HBO(R) series from J.J. Abrams (executive producer of Westworld), Misha Green (creator of Underground), and Jordan Peele (director of Get Out and Us), this brilliant and imaginative novel by critically acclaimed author Matt Ruff makes visceral the terrors of Jim Crow America,...

Ever wonder who or what delivered the elements of life to Earth and gave our world its first drink of water?What happened when Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens met for the first time?Who inspired that first human to use symbols to write the first words?Where...

A warrior running from his future. A djinn running from her past. Can they save the city...or will they doom it?Tripoli, 1289: Trapped by black magic in a hostile future, John Bessarion is determined to find his way home to a family and homeland...

Osraighe: Ireland's shadowy centre, a desolate region of forest, marshes and mountainous terrain where unwary travellers are 'swallowed' and never seen again.Caught up in an intra-tribal conflict when her latest mission turns sour, the woman warrior Liath Luachra finds herself coerced into a new...

Fate, time, and destiny have a way of balancing the scales set off-kilter by the actions of the greedy, whose desires are driven by a never satisfied lust to have more. Sky Tipio, a budding young Navajo artist living near Silver City, New Mexico,...

Ireland 188 A.D: A land of tribal affiliations, secret alliances and treacherous rivalries.Liath Luachra, the young - and deadly - woman warrior, has survived two brutal years with mercenary war party "The Friendly Ones" but now the winds are shifting. Dispatched on a murderous...

A secret affair. A disfiguring punishment. A burning need for revenge.Kyrra d'Aliente has a bad reputation and an arm made of metal.Cast out of the safe and luxurious world of silk to which she was born, played as a pawn in a game of...

In 1945 seventeen-year-old Sal Hecht feels like a prisoner in New York City. For four years, he dreamt of fighting in the Second World War and being a hero. Now that the war has ended, it seems, at least to Sal, that his life...

What if eternal life isn't enough to save you?Edward Tudor once ruled England as Edward VI. Now, he is regarded by God as the most powerful Guardian ever commanded to protect\ the Holy Grail: the vessel created by God, healing Edward upon his "death"...

A diabolical plot is afoot to kill thousands by connecting England's railway lines to a deadly curse. The beautiful and mysterious Mingli Zhao, Special Inspector from Scotland Yard, enlists the help of Leopold Kazsmer, the Great Enchanter, who summons Jewish daemons to pepper his...

Having resigned his position at Bow Street, John Pickett waits in vain for someone-anyone -to engage his services as a private inquiry agent. As weeks go by with no responses to his newspaper advertisement, he has taken to spending his days wandering idly about...

The People of the Mist, an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Lesser-known among Rider's works, this novel is perhaps more famous for being the origin of the phrase "Per Ardua ad Astra"--through hardship to the...

Michael Johnston brings you the first in a new epic fantasy series inspired by ancient Egyptian history and King Lear. The ruling family of the Soleri Empire has been in power longer than even the calendars that stretch back 2,826 years. Those records tell...

Author Blue Spruell reimagines TARO - Legendary Boy Samurai - in an historical fantasy adventure of warlords, swords, and magical beasts from old Japan.Lost in the mists of Mount Fuji . . . But no one can escape destiny.The year is 1596, when samurai...

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have...

From all corners of the Known World, Maura, Borne, Halla, Whit, Fynn, and Morgan must come together once more to strive against a sea of rising conflicts. The power struggle between Roth Nelvor and the lords of the Lower Realms rages on, while the...

Even the great may fall.Wu Ying's idle winter, one filled with training and recovery, is throw awry when his Master and Elder Yang return, injured. The Three Seasons poison fills Master Cheng's veins, slowly killing the powerful Elder. His only hope - a rare...

The story of Julie D'Aubigny is well known. Her tumultuous childhood, her powerful lovers, her celebrated voice. Connected to most of the nobility of 17th century Paris, feted for her performance, unwilling to live by the rules of her society, she took female lovers,...

The Song of the Skylark (1880) is quite uncategorizable, defying classification as a novel, yet its complexity stretching the notion of a book-length "poem in prose". It is unique in the annals of French literature, although it has certain affinities with Edgar Quinet's Merlin...

If you had a friend who was over 2,000 years old, wouldn't you want to know about their life?Amy is a witch. She's lucky enough to have a familiar - not every witch or wizard is assigned one by the Familiar Council. Familiars are...

The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang's acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and...

1719Approaching England's North Devon Coast Captain Jesamiah Acorne is worried. A Royal Navy frigate is trailing in his wake and Sea Witch has a cache of contraband aboard. His instinct is to hoist sail and flee, but he cannot attract attention for his wife,...

Only a fool believes... ... in witchcraft. Stalking the border between the Ottoman and Christian worlds, only the bold survive this wicked mystical land. Does a power older than Christianity haunt these untamed passes? It doesn't matter... Thaddeus found himself ready to quit, anything...

An Appalachian Elementals Historical Dark Fantasy standalone side taleBenjamin Schnell is the possessor of secrets he wishes he could bury beneath the rich Nolichucky river flat dirt he farms alongside his dear friend, Conall. But secrets lead to lies, lead to more secrets, and...

The line between good and evil blur in the final installment of best selling enemies - to - lovers series The Aermian Feuds.Sage knew destroying the Warlord wouldn't be easy, but she never anticipated the toll it would take on her kingdom and her...

"I am Winn Neilsson, Chief Protector of the blooded MacMhaolian. Husband to Maggie and father to our children. Brother to Benjamin," Winn replied, "And first born son to Pale Feather of the Paspahegh people, our Great Chief Dagr."Winn is a seventeenth century Paspahegh warrior,...

"For Fans of Game of Thrones" (Michael Dirda, Washington Post), An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of Thrones Beginning with the Palm Sunday battle of Towton, the bloodiest ever fought on English soil, Wonders Will Never Cease...

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,...

A Wall Street Journal bestseller.Dead wizards, stolen enchantments, and broken promises force a young spellbreaker out of the shadows in the next thrilling installment of the Spellbreaker series by the bestselling author of The Paper Magician.England, 1895. An unsolved series of magician murders and...

'You may have noticed, ' said Maut, 'that the Tree is on the move.'On the edge of the town of Kottow stands the tallest (and oddest) Tree in the land. It's a staid and solid arbour - until the Tree picks up its mighty...

Isadora Spence knows two things: 1) she's tired of all the wars and wants them to stop and 2) she never wants to see Maximillion Sinclair again. Sparks fly when rising desperation leads Isadora and Maximillion to attend a political delegation together in the...

How does one choose between two suitors, when one doesn't love either of them?Poor Lady Diana is being forced into marriage by her new stepmother, who doesn't care who she marries, so long as she no longer lives at her father's house.But while Diana...

From award-winning, genre-hopping author C. S. Johnson comes an original fairy tale that's sure to enchant you ... The first time I fell in love with Princess Mele was when I saw her smile, and I fell in love with her the second time...

Donald Sidney-Fryer has been a towering presence in the world of fantasy literature for more than five decades. As an octogenarian he continues to exhibit his expertise and broad literary range in this volume of miscellany. The volume leads off with a substantial work...

From Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series, comes an epic novel of ancient Greece, Titans and treachery, and the women who dare to rise up against the tyranny of the Golden Age.My mother told me that men would speak about the...

A Lord cursed for sixteen years.A Princess manipulated by sorcery.One enchanted evening is their only deliverance.Seeking justice, Princess Scarlett challenges her stepbrother with a serpentine ordeal, unaware that her treasonous act will endanger her father the king, threaten her two royal sisters, and assist...

Everyone has Secrets. PRAGUE, 1870.After joining the Order of the Crystal Daggers, led by her dauntless grandmother, Lady Penelope, Eleanora Svobodov set out to save her kingdom from oncoming devastation.And she failed.Following the attack on Prague Castle, Eleanora is determined to redeem herself. She...

Everyone has Secrets. PRAGUE, 1870.After joining the Order of the Crystal Daggers, led by her dauntless grandmother, Lady Penelope, Eleanora Svobodov set out to save her kingdom from oncoming devastation.And she failed.Following the attack on Prague Castle, Eleanora is determined to redeem herself. She...

In war, nothing is holy. Emperor Constant's crusade is teetering on the edge of disaster. In the wake of a devastating battle, everything has changed: the East is rising, bringing equal measures of hope and despair to Urte.For Elena and Kazim, the victory is...

"Jeff Wheeler has always been one of our more dependable storytellers. Knight's Ransom adds to his reputation. A fine page-turner." --Terry Brooks, New York Times bestselling author.From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Jeff Wheeler comes an epic new series of warring kingdoms, deadly family...

Henry McCarty William H. Bonney Billy the KidHe's one of the most famous figures in the Old West, no matter what name he goes by. His exploits are the stuff of legend, but the most fantastical of all of them have been lost to...

Under a freezing Arctic sky, a wolf carries a baby to a remote village.Taken in by the villagers and named 'Vulchanok' or 'Little Wolf', the lost baby grows into a happy little boy.But night after night, his dreams are walked by his rescuer, the...

What if the myths and legends were once real? What if gods and demons really walked among us--and the heir to the throne of Arthur was one of them?Volume Two contains the second three installments in The Last Pendragon Saga: The Pendragon's Quest: Although...

When a captain trades his cargo of ice to bring home a djinn bride, his life in coastal Maine will never be the same."In the wake of the American Civil War, ship's captain Matthew Perry and his best friend and first mate William Johnson...

Around 1000 years ago, Ferdousy, the most epic Iranian writer, created Rostam-the highest top heroic imaginary characters in Shahnameh. His famous fantastic book in the world about him is Rostam's 7 Adventures. Now, at age 94, Col. Mahmoud Iranpanah (the writer of many adventure...

In 1282, David and his sister Anna crashed through time to save the life of their father, the last Prince of Wales. Thirteen years later, David is a grown man--husband, father, and High King of Britain. He is also the Duke of Aquitaine, a...