Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

The air in the room, where there should have been only the smell of wood smoke, was heavy with the sweet, sticky smell of blood. The sounds of the battlefield roared in her ears, the screaming of a wounded horse, the frenzied cries of...

Caina has hated the Imperial Magisterium, the Empire's college of magi, for all her life...and the magi hate and fear her right back.But the Magisterium has much bigger problems right now, and the First Magus is willing to make a deal. If Caina can...

Once a human, now a fae princess, destined to be queen.Layanna Fairling has never belonged to her village, and yet, when it's threatened by a tyrant who wants her dead, she knows she has to protect it. Three mysterious strangers who claim Layanna is...

Lee Mandel's historical novel Moryak revolves around the story of Lieutenant Stephen Morrison, a naval officer sent by President Theodore Roosevelt on a top-secret mission in 1905. Morrison's assignment is to work with British agent Sidney Reilly to kidnap Tsar Nicholas II and remove...

Fighter. Survivor. Outcast.The werewolf Anastasia, illegitimate daughter of Erzsebet Bathory, is able to meet her notorious mother at last. She discovers a pack of werewolves living in the forests around Csejthe and joins their ranks, forgetting her human life and her daughter.Katrine and the...

Strange cosmic powers have awakened in young Arol, a junior assistant at the Sacred Temple in the capital city of his war-torn homeland of Gennebar.Seeking to understand and to control these powers, he goes to study with the elder cosmically gifted sage, Bernarro. Too...

Arol, a boy of humble origins but extraordinary cosmic birthright, approaches manhood in a time of great strife. The brutal Drenarian Empire has enslaved and impoverished his people, the Gennebri. A courageous band of rebels hopes to liberate the province of Gennebar, but first...

Da Vinci's secret pales. Michelangelo concealed an explosive truth in his famous Creation of Man fresco in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. Everything we have been taught about Eve is wrong--she didn't cause the fall of man. Eve carried a far more devastating...

Captain Marta Ramos, the most dangerous pirate in the Duchy of Denver, is back and she and Simms are up to their goggles in trouble. Has General del Toro found a way to use the Infected as an army and can Captain Ramos work...

High adventure in the Kingdom of Oz Dorothy Gale, reporter, is investigating Oscar Diggs, the Secretary of War, and the man she met ten years earlier calling himself the Wizard of Oz. Can she stop his fleet of airships from conquering the Emerald City?...

A prequel to The Golden City...Before she arrived in the Golden City, the infante's aunt-known only as The Lady-sought out a group of specialists from among the most powerful witches in the world. Inspector Miguel Gaspar of Cabo Verde held the distinction of being...

"Written in elegant prose, with an intricate storyline that is woven together like a fine medieval tapestry." -Authors ReadingGet ready to embark on an unforgettable journey with the highly anticipated second installment of the Second Son Chronicles by bestselling author, Pamela Taylor!In My Father,...

Orope: The White Snake explores the mystery of why the Bronze Age ended through the fictional tale of people caught up in the tragedy.Author: Guenevere LeeISBN-10: 1683507398ISBN-13: 9781683507390Publisher: Morgan James FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2018Pages: 286Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d

A wizard's fatal mistake A king wrongly blamed for murder A bloodline cursed until they clear the king's name In 17th-century England, witchcraft is a hanging offense. Tavern maid Miranda Willoughby hides her magical gifts until terrifying visions compel her to seek the aid...

A fantastic historical adventure novel set during the time of the Great Fire of London by the master of the genre G. A. Henty.George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best...

George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902) was a prolific English novelist and war correspondent. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include The Dragon & The Raven (1886),...

Caught between a powerful king and an indomitable warrior, who would you choose to love...for eternity?SHORTLIST - PAGE TURNER AWARDS 2020FINALIST - THE WISHING SHELF AWARDS 2020In the epic sequel to The Lost Valor of Love, worlds collide, and gods and mortals cross paths,...

Kaminishi: Book One Michael Holden wakes up in an impossible reality: mid-nineteenth-century Japan, face to face with Shinjiro Kaminishi, a samurai warlord Michael has seen in a dream. Imprisoned by the warlord and interrogated about the future, Michael has no idea if what he's...

"Jesse is a brutally honest look at the Deep South and the mob mentality that guided so much thought in the '60s. And it raises the question: Are we that much different today?" -David Squires, a former editor, The New York Times, former assistant...

Pride & Prejudice Meets Grimm's Fairy Tales Alexia's nightmares become reality: a dead baron, red-eyed wraiths, and forbidden love with a man hunted by these creatures. After an attack close to home, Alexia realizes she cannot keep one foot in her old life and...

SETTING A TRAP TO CATCH THE MAKERS OF CHAINED WIZARDS.Book 4 of The Chained Adept.A clue has sent Penrys back to Ellech, the country where she first appeared four short years ago with her mind wiped, her body stripped, and her neck chained. It's...

CHAINS WITHOUT WIZARDS AND A RISING COUNT OF THE DEAD.Book 3 of The Chained Adept.The largest city in the world has just discovered its missing wizards. It seems the Kigali empire has ignited a panic that threatens internal ruin and the only chained wizard...

AN ERRANT CHILD WITH DISASTROUS POWERS AND NO ONE TO STAND IN HER WAY.Book 2 of The Chained Adept.Penrys, the wizard with a chain and an unknown past, is drafted to find out what has happened to an entire clan of the nomadic Zannib....

Krish Nayar is damp. He's cold. He's an American lost in the foggy woods of Wales and sporting a sprained ankle. When a handsome renaissance faire player in shining armor, Bleddyn ap Rhys, rescues Krish from stumbling around and getting even more lost, Krish...

Have you ever asked yourself how everything that exists came to be? Or... about extraterrestrial involvement in what we are? Well... the subject matter is covered during the training of a warrior priest by the Murovian Empire (The Motherland). The events depicted in the...

World War II veteran Edward Bond's recuperation from a disastrous fighter plane crash takes a distinct turn for the weird when he encounters a giant wolf, a red witch, and the undeniable power of the need-fire, a portal to a world of magic and...

A true tour de force for de Camp, The Glory That Was brings together many of the themes the author excelled in writing about, including time travel and alternate history. Earth in the twenty-seventh century is ruled by a constitutional monarchy, though both the...

Fran oise le Marchand deserves to be reckoned a significant, if slightly shadowy, figure in the revival of contes de f es in 1730s and 1740s France.It is not obvious why either of the two novellas translated here, Florine (1713) and Boca (1735) had...

The French Fantasy Treasury serves as an introduction to French fantasy, which has a long and noble history, quite distinct from its British and American counterparts. Its three volumes chronicle the history of the genre, from its origins through modern times, and include stories,...

The French Fantasy Treasury serves as an introduction to French fantasy, which has a long and noble history, quite distinct from its British and American counterparts. Its three volumes chronicle the history of the genre, from its origins through modern times, and include stories,...

Edith Piaf liked to sing about la vie en rose, "life in pink," in other words, life seen through rose-tinted glasses. This volume of Tales of the Shadowmen is another kind of song altogether, one dedicated to la vie en noir, the darker side...

The international anthology devoted to paying homage to the world's most fantastic heroes and villains returns in this eighth installment. This time, the stories focus on those who provoke or entice evil... Agents Provocateurs who thrive in the shadows and lurk on the periphery...

First published in 1845, Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni is a classic Gothic occult novel. Set in 1789 during the French Revolution, the book follows the story of an immortal Rosicrucian brother whose origins trace back to ancient Chaldea. To gain immortality, Zanoni becomes an adept...

"Time for Patriots is a delightful adventure with marvelously crafted characters so realistic I could swear I knew them." Guillermo Alfonso Calvo Mah , Professor of English and Political Science, International Relations Directorate, Universidad Aut noma de Manizales. "Time for Patriots is a fascinating...

Men Like Gods is a novel written in 1923 by H. G. Wells. It features a utopian parallel universe. Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre....

In the bleak night, beneath the stretching limbs of the shadowy elm, a shot rings out -- and the hurrying Edgar Huntly arrives to find his friend Waldegrave insensate and bleeding on the ground. Who could have murdered such an honest, blameless man? Walking...

On the third day he asked Zweete how it was that his left hand was white and shriveled and who were Umslopogaas and Nada, of whom he had let fall some words. Then the old man told him the tale that is set out...

Mars is supposed to be dead... Bizarre quakes are rumbling over the long-dormant tectonic plates of the planet, disrupting its trillion-dollar mining operations and driving scientists past the edges of theory and reason. However, when rocks shake off their ancient dust and begin to...

Many tales are told of the Syldoon Empire and its fearsome soldiers, who are known throughout the world for their treachery and atrocities. Some say that the Syldoon eat virgins and babies-or perhaps their own mothers. Arkamondos, a bookish young scribe, suspects that the...

Under the tutelage of Lee Pefley, Reuben learned what must be done. And when the time came, he left Alabama and took up the task of conquering the world, or at least the Occidental share of it. This novel is a chronicling of Reuben's...

One Thousand years ago Norse explorers reached North America during the Viking Age. What if they had stayed? Join the adventure as we begin rewriting one thousand years of history!*Loki's Rage will continue the Markland Settlement Series first begun in The Landing as rival...

The sea dragon Yong wants a bride.Chung Jo wants her father to regain his sight.They will strike a bargain, and Chung Jo travels to Yong's palace beneath the sea.Author: Erica LaurieISBN-10: 1543271014ISBN-13: 9781543271010Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2017Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x...

The Legendary deeds of Hermes have twice elevated him to greatness: In the first book: 'Hermes the Olympian', he became the "messenger of Zeus", helping to save the family of the Olympians from terrible enemies. In the second book: 'Hermes the Egyptian', he is...

The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated. The Library of Congress has declared it "America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale." The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical...

After the Great War, Alejandro Ferreira wandered across Europe, unable even to remember his name, until one night in Lisboa, a young woman recognizes him. She brings him home to his family--one he can't recall, but very much wants to keep. His seer's gift...

The truth of his family has always been a mystery, but finally Killian Thomas is given one chance to find answers to his past in a strange realm. A mysterious community, bound to protect the realms, promises to help him on his quest if...

The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship he...

In this "riveting" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) conclusion to the Dark Talents series, Kim Tavistock is undercover in Berlin as the wife of a British diplomat but when she uncovers a massive conspiracy that could change the course of the war, she's the only...

What if the love of your life lived a thousand years before you? In the Steampunk Old West, Vincent comes across a giant puddle in a courtyard and sees the reflection of a girl instead of his own reflection. Her name is Leena, and...

Catherine arrives at Thornwood Abbey on the heels of rushed marriage to a man who is little more than a stranger to her. The gothic style mansion her husband calls home is shrouded in fog and a sinister past. Shortly after they arrive, neighbors...