Fiction - Fantasy - Historical

The Aether always held the universe together... but in the nineteenth century, it just might tear it apart.London, 1865. A world being torn apart by supernatural terrors.A drunken adventurer who just wants a quiet life.A genius whose inventions tend to make bad situations worse.A...

IT IS THE LATE 1800S AND THOUGHTS OF HELL AND THE DEVIL ARE ALL SCARY BEDTIME STORIES TO JOSEPHINA. THAT IS UNTIL A SON OF HELL COMES TO EARTH. In the small village where she lives, Josephina's life is predictable and mundane. Desperate for...

Magic took them hostage. Can a secret from her troubled past set them free?Eccentric social outcast Lady Gwenevere St. James knows many secret things: magic, alchemy, artifice, and even the truth about the long-forgotten faeries. But she does not know why common criminals are...

Deckard O'Shea has come to terms with his family's birthright, even if it is one he would've never chosen. His world as he knows it is in shambles as King Arthur's true nemesis, Jakobus, has orchestrated mayhem and panic. Along with the newly formed...

Religious war erupts between church and king and shapes a young man's fate in eleventh-century France . . . Born of nobility in France in the year 1066, seven-year-old Tristan de Saint-Germain has his fate thrown to the winds upon the execution of his...

In this tale, people scattered throughout the world are woven together in the valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Forty years after Napoleon's defeat, the development of modern warfare on the Crimean Peninsula sends reverberations across the globe, alerting all of the growth in technology,...

Wet areas got wetter and dry areas got drier. The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. And they all met in Nineveh. A massive global drought combined with an epic contamination of the world's limited fresh water supply combined with the privatization...

*** WINNER: Realm Award: Book of the Year 2023 *** What if you could edit memories with a single touch? The world-that-was is gone, lost to everything except living memory . . . but remembering comes at a terrible price. Sixty-two years after the...

The Tonneburg woods are in danger...or so says the forest ranger who approaches Holo and Lawrence with a curious request--help convince his lord to not chop down the trees that have always provided for their people. Sadly, Lord Tonneburg hasn't made this decision lightly....

Our heroes have finally escaped from the Roq and are on their way to meet with the Sharai tribes as the djinni ordered. But travel through Outremer is not without dangers. The desert is a deadlier foe than any man.Then there is the matter...

First published in 1922, "Captain Blood" is an entertaining tale of pirates by Rafael Sabatini, the Italian-English author of adventure and romance novels. "Captain Blood" tells the story of Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician who had traded his past life as a sailor...

In an alternate version of ancient Rome, a trio of patrician sisters and an ambitious senator use wit, charm, and magic to realize their dreams for the city they love.The Dictator is dead; long live the Republic. But whose Republic will it be? Senators,...

A cursed diamond...a cyborg detective...and a gang of would-be jewel thieves in Victorian London!All her life, Molly Dark has been haunted by the restless dead-and now she's finally able to do something about it. When the rich and monstrous take what they want, Miss...

Martin Teebs is desperate. Rosita Luna, The Belle of Lincoln has given birth to his son and his friend Billy the Kid is on a collision course with Pat Garrett. Martin must find his way back in time to help Billy and to protect...

Three siblings of noble heritage. A great land under threat by an unknown enemy and secrets with the power to destroy everything built. One choice looms over all who walk the land of Nahwalla: Tradition or truth?Kamau Kimoni believed his future was set in...

New Allies and Enemies Rise From the Ashes.In Albastine, dying in the Republic's service is only the beginning. Charged with training the necromancer-generals responsible for leading the city-state's undead legions, Cassius wants nothing more than to recover from his wounds, rebuild his marriage, and...

Only the dead can save the living.In Albastine, the dead are made into mindless servants known as Attendants, incapable of harming the living unless commanded to by the soldier-necromancer Legates.Forced into an early retirement, Legate Gaius Cassius Calvus struggles to find purpose in his...

The ocean is vast and deep. What lurks beneath can tear boats asunder.Richard Shaw, an insurance investigator from Lloyds of London, arrives in Rio de Janeiro in 1851. He is there to discover why so many of the great sailing ships of the world...

A fight to the death...Vampire Gloriana St. Clair is shocked when the queen of the pirates ends her own life rather than surrender to the king's justice. Peace at last and her lover Jeremiah Campbell is off to Edinburgh to share the good news....

"A breathtaking romp of a plot, prose as sparkling and luxuriant as a diamond sautoir, and at the heart of it all a sense of wondrous possibility."--The New York Times Now an International Bestseller, a New York Times Editors' Choice Pick​, an Indie Next...

Before he captained the Jolly Roger and hunted the boy who would never grow up, Jay was just a boy himself. We forget that. We're supposed to forget that.He wants you to remember. After all, this is your story as much as it is...

All The World's A Stage, As They Say...In 1876 Philadelphia, Benjamin Grimm knows real life is much like the theater-people play their parts, hiding behind the illusion of their lives and never revealing their secrets. When he reunites with his childhood friend Eleanor Banneker,...

In this installment of the bestselling Gunnie Rose series, sisters Lizbeth Rose and Felicia, as well as brother Eli and Peter, are reunited in Texoma--only to break apart before the Wizard's Ball held in San Diego, which will determine all their fates.Lizbeth Rose is...

Dark, mournful, and beautiful, Sarah Tolmie's The Fourth Island is a moving and unforgettable story of life and death on the hidden Irish island of Inis Caillte. Huddled in the sea off the coast of Ireland is a fourth Aran Island, a secret island...

Cinema has only just reached picturesque Hawkinge-By-Hythe, but the mayhem already has people reeling!When the town's first picture palace shows a horror film, it unleashes a terrifying werewolf.The worst kind, too. Not content with scaring people, and pinching their chickens, it keeps rearranging all...

Mystery, Murder and Magic...When his nemesis from schoolboy days hires metaphysician Ned Mathey to investigate his father's murder, Ned turns to his friend and sometime lover, detective Julian Lynes, for help. Together, they must navigate a maze of deceit, danger, their painful past and,...

Roman ruins. A reluctant time traveler. And an army under threat.Can one woman slip back through time to avert a slaughter and save the man she loves?When ancient ruins are discovered on a Northumberland farm, just south of Hadrian's Wall, emotions boil over as...

"For all of you who need some great fantasy to read while you're waiting for The Winds of Winter...try Quillifer, by Walter Jon Williams. WJW is always fun, but this might be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting...

I like things neat, so shoot me. Or poison me. Or run me through with a broadsword. Doesn't matter how you try to end me, werewolves are immortal. Back to liking things neat... I've been killing forever, both as a wolf and as a...

The story focuses on a nine-year-old visionary, Kahlo, and her archeo-astronomical speculations in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. There is no written history of ancient Chaco residents, yet Kahlo sees things others don't. Her mother, Aurore, is trying to solve her sister Ashleigh's death that...

The second book of the Aven Cycle explores a magical Rome-inspired empire, where senators, generals, and elemental mages vie for power.Latona of the Vitelliae, mage of Spirit and Fire, is eager to wield her newfound empowerment on behalf of the citizens of Aven--but societal...

At the end of '4 Empty Graves', Martin Teebs finally got his happily ever after....or did he? With nagging doubts about the six months between the end of Old Lincoln Days and his final trip back in time to Lincoln, Martin must examine exactly...

Powerful enchantments. Danger lurking in every corner. Can this trio of unlikely friends serve the fae crown without triggering another disaster?Jessamine is heartbroken over an unexpected tragedy but has no time to grieve before the throne delivers an ultimatum: become a spy or face...

After the Japanese bombed Hawaii, a group of men from North Alabama joined the coast guard as counter guerilla warfare troops designated to defend against Nazi-Italia saboteurs, whose targets were in this area that contained TVA dams and nitrogen plants. President Roosevelt, General Bill...

Can a woman trapped in a loveless union escape without sacrificing her precious grandchild? Ireland, 1055. In an ancient realm where time weaves a tapestry of love and loss, a woman trapped in a loveless union must find the strength to break free, even...

A vast empire's greatest foe. A conquered people's last hope. His name is Hanuvar, and he will set his people free! When the Dervan Empire came for the city of Volanus its people fought block by block, house by house until most of them...

Magic requires knowledge...It requires precision...But most of all, it requires a sheer force of will strong enough to break reality.Siobhan still dreams of becoming the world's most powerful sorcerer. But she has once again been forced to face the horrifyingly dark side of their...

William Dickenson, man of business to the earl of Shrewsbury, knows that raising the rents on farmholds will ease his master's cash-flow problem. But Lord Shrewsbury imposes such huge increases on one manor, Glossopdale in the Derbyshire Peak District, that none of the tenants...

"In the wake of her mother's passing, Layla Hurley unexpectedly reconnects with her mother's sisters, women she hasn't been allowed to speak to, or of, in years. Her aunts reveal to Layla that a Gullah-Geechee island off the shore of South Carolina now belongs...

A HERO TO SOME. A VILLAIN TO MANY. THE TRUTH FOREVER BURIED.The man who became known as Esrahaddon is reported to have destroyed the world's greatest empire -- but there are those who believe he saved it. Few individuals are as divisive, but all...

Friends by chance--or is it fate?Damian Raske and Jullanar Thistlethwaite are about as different as can be. Damian is a young swordsman, dreaming of being the best in the world, hardly aware of what lies beyond the outskirts of his city, let alone that...

If you ever long for simpler times, be careful what you wish for...November 24th, 2023. The night just after Thanksgiving. The worst night Thomas Wilson has had in his life. A life filled with toil and strife amidst the complexity of the 21st century.What...

A cursed prince. An aspiring assassin. No good deed goes unpunished...Once upon a time...Crown Prince Boris's life was perfect - a wife, a child and his father's favour for a job well done. Until his brother's traitorous plot steals everything from him, forcing him...

A stolen child. A knight in search of salvation. Only one can weave a new destiny.Once upon a time...Raised in the royal court, Isaak spent years training as a knight and waiting for the opportunity to win back the Rumpelstiltskin lands after his father...

Toyuk is the tale of a boy from an ancient indigenous Sierra Mountain tribe with an unquenchable thirst for truth. Troubled by dreams of strange people and places that defy his imagination, Toyuk prepares for his tribal rite of passage into manhood but wonders...

Edinburgh, 1779. An academic rivalry turns deadly.George Stephens is a lousy medical student. Lacking the social and financial resources to succeed in Edinburgh's elite medical school, his dream of becoming a physician appears over before it began.Then George comes to the attention of two...

One of the seven will die. There's nothing they can do to stop it.1970. New Orleans. The seven Deschanel siblings live with their long-suffering mother in an historic Garden District mansion. Each of them unique. Each of them born with a gift. In some...

THE TRUE STORY OF THE BRONTË SISTERS AS ONLY TIM POWERS COULD WRITE IT. This is a ghost story. It is a story about werewolves, and things that go bump in the night. It is a story of an ill-fated land, the pathless moors...

Mere Venoma Noir, the fourth Sister of Power, proves to be the most challenging yet for Viktor Brandewyne. She sets him to retrieve an amulet stolen by a notorious slave trader with a reputation for ruthlessness to rival Viktor's and a talent for black...

Step into this myth-haunted debut historical fantasy inspired by a true story, in which a young woman's quest to free her clan and become the legendary Fire Seer of Mull pits her against the Ancient Enemy of all Reality. "The hero's journey navigates a...