As a lowly chorus girl in an off-Broadway show, Esther
Diamond dreams about hitting the big time and waits for the
day her break will come. And then it does. Esther is cast
as understudy to Golly Gee, a teenage pop star with little
talent but big press, big Read more...
Brighid, a centaur Huntress, has forsaken her people to
join the humans as an oath-sworn member of Clan MacCallan.
Elphame, the Clan Chieftain who's sacrificed part of her
precious humanity to secure salvation for her lifemate's
people, begs a favor of the Huntress, who's also her Read more...
According to prophesy, "a child from the coast destined to
rule and conceived in the month of the eaten red moon will
make an alliance of the heart to set the mighty as pawns
and drive out the tainted blood rising in the south." Tess,
Princess Contessa of Costenopolie, is Read more...
In the sixth installment of her enormously popular
Outlander series, Gabaldon takes us back to 1772 and the
years just preceding the American Revolution.
On Fraser's Ridge, life is brutal for the early colonists
who make the backwoods of North Carolina their home. Yet
it's these everyday life Read more...
Denver DJ Kitty Norville is keeping one mother of a secret --
she's a werewolf. Her late-night syndicated talk show is a
big hit with the dusk to dawn set. Kitty offers free advice
nightly to the Undead and the lycanthropes of the Front
Range, not to mention those Read more...
Born in a London workhouse, Sarah Connolly's only desire is
to put the city firmly behind her. Physically and
emotionally scarred by her brutal upbringing in one of the
bleakest quarters of the grandest Victorian city of them
all, Sarah has her sights and heart set on Venice, where Read more...
Lord Ryderbourne has chosen a bride for himself. Wealthy,
powerful and handsome as sin, he has no doubt that his
future wife will accept him with giddy delight -- until she
doesn't. Humiliated and rejected, Ryder gallops off for
home in a fearful rage. With thoughts of his chosen's Read more...
Magic has deserted the men, the Sun Mages, of the Yellow
City. No one knows why or how the laws of magic have
changed. Now power flows only from the hands of women.
Untrained and untried, the women's power is still not
stable enough to be a viable help Read more...
"The blood is the life." Born in Amsterdam in the 11th
century, Beatrix Lisse has been a vampire from birth. Bea
never knew her father; her mother deserted her to the
streets and alleys of Amsterdam when Bea reached puberty
and her "Companion" asserted itself, revealing its true
nature to Read more...
"A soldier's destiny is to die young and unexpectedly."
General Jason Wander is the newly hailed savior of
mankind....depending on who you ask. By the time he turned
25, Jason found himself in command of the troops on
Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. He helped win the battle Read more...
Druid sorcerer Cian MacKelter has spent the past 1133 years
trapped inside the Dark Glass. The mirror, one of the
Unseelie Hallows, keeps Cian captive as long as Lucan
Trevayne, the Dark Sorcerer who imprisoned him, pays it a
tithe of pure gold at midnight on Samhain Eve (Halloween)
once Read more...
In THE ARCHONS OF THE STARS, Ailia Shipwright has been
recognized as Tryna Lia, Princess of the Stars; a savior
born in human form to battle and defeat Valdur, the Dark
God. Ailia has grown in power and claims mighty allies, but
her enemy is her equal and more besides Read more...
As Harry Potter prepares for his sixth year at Hogwarts,
things in the Wizarding world have taken a turn for the
worse. The Death Eaters pose an increasingly dangerous and
united front. Powerful witches and wizards have been killed
or simply disappear as the Dark Lord's followers become
more Read more...
Felix Harrowgate enjoys life at the top of the food chain.
Handsome and charismatic, he's the favored lover of the
Lord Protector's brother and a powerful court wizard. And
yet, Felix hides his past from his friends, his colleagues
and his lover. Secrets so shameful that it embarrasses Read more...
This illustrated collection of fantasy, horror, poetry and
science fiction has written works by John C. Wright,
Darrell Schweitzer, CJ Henderson, Will McDermott, Tee
Morris, Tony Ruggerio, Danielle Ackley-McPhail, L. Jagi
Lamplighter, Jeff Lyman, Dan Foley, Melanie Florence, Robin
M. Buehler, Mike McPhail, Patti Kinlock and many Read more...
Since the beginning of Alera's collective memory, its
citizens have channeled the power of the Furies (the
elemental beings that live in water, fire, air, earth,
metal and wood) to bolster their physical and emotional
strength. With the help of their Furies, Alerians have been
able to keep their Read more...
For Melody, marriage is not a celebration of love. As
princess of Harsdown, she has an obligation to her country
to make a marriage of alliance as her parents see fit.
Mel's call to duty comes when Harsdown is faced with threat
of invasion unless Mel is married to Read more...
Imagine a world where the women outnumber the men 30 to
one. Where men are a valuable and protected resource and a
family's fortune depends on the number of boys they've been
able to throw and the price their males command.
Jerin Whistler comes from a line of Read more...
After a 15-year absence, Straif Blackthorn returns to
Druida City to claim his rightful place as GrandLord
T'Blackthorn. As a young man of 17, Straif lost his entire
family to the Celtan Angh virus -- a virus fatal only to the
Blackthorns due to a genetic weakness. His mother Read more...
The war between the hydrogues and the civilizations of the
Spiral Arm continues. The Hansa, Roamer and Ildrians strike
out not only at their common enemy, but also turn against
each other. Culture against culture, brother against
brother, and so they begin to weaken.
The Ildrians engage in a bloody Read more...
Although raised in Northern Nevada, Sue has been a resident of central Illinois for many years where she and her husband Skip own and run an independent movie theater. When she is not busy popping popcorn Sue enjoys reading and spending time with her family.