Historical

The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. But with all that has happened—with what I fear is coming—I am not sure it matters anymore.

The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school....

"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." –Booklist In the vein of The Time...

Rezkin lives—a secret known only to a chosen few. Now, Azeria is one of them. Joining forces, they avoid discovery while seeking the power to stand against Caydean's demons.

Behind the towering walls of Belduar, Calen Bryer and his companions stand in defense of the city and its new king. In over a thousand years, Belduar has never fallen. It has stood as a bastion of hope. But the Lorian empire are at its walls once more, and the Dragonguard are coming....

Believed to have vanished generations ago, a fae kingdom dreaded by mortals is ascending once more, bound to reclaim what was lost by violence and bloodshed.

When Elise agreed to break a vicious curse over the man she loved, she never imagined he was a lost fae prince. But Valen left her to carry out vengeance for his slaughtered family....

The author presents a collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. "Beseiged": Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary character in the Outlander novels and a main...

Rising in the shadows, Rezkin is free from the shackles of power. But the darkness is his home, and there he stalks his foes. His friends, alone and scattered, face the war with an empty throne.

Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters....

Rise of Empire contains Nyphron Rising and The Emerald Storm, books 3 and 4 of Riyria Revelations. A puppet is crowned. The true heir remains hidden. A rogue's secret could change everything. War has come to Melengar. To save her kingdom, Princess Arista runs a desperate gamble when she...

Team Weird is back causing havoc in the Time Police in this irresistible spin-off series by international best seller Jodi Taylor, author of the Chronicles of St Mary's. If you love Doctor Who, Ben Aaronovitch and Jasper Fforde, you'll love the Time Police. The Time Police do not have problems...

Every kingdom Rezkin touches has shattered, and the turbulence in his homeland is spreading across the Souelian. From the shards of kingdoms past, he begins to forge a new empire. But there is a price to pay for power, and the balance has come due....

Morgan Pendragon has another name now: Morgan Le Fay. As her true heritage slowly emerges from the mists of the past, Morgan renounces one possible future as the new ruler of the fierce Siabra fae and the wife of the Prince of Claws and vanishes through a portal....

Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To...

After more than 500 years of exile, the heir to the empyre is wary about his sudden reassignment to active duty on the Goblin War’s front lines. His mission to rescue an outpost leads to a dead-end canyon deep inside enemy territory....

When Royan Al Simma is the victim of a vicious attack that leaves her husband dead, her only thought is that she must continue their joint work....

Theft of Swords contains The Crown Conspiracy and Avempartha, books 1 and 2 of Riyria Revelations. The Crown Conspiracy is the first book in the captivating Riyria Revelations. They killed the king. They pinned it on two men. They chose poorly. There is no ancient evil to defeat, no orphan...

After losing the only person he ever cared about, Alexander, a rogue artificial intelligence, opens a portal to an alternate dimension to escape his grief. Scanning trillions of different dimensions, Alexander finally finds a world that is reminiscent of the only time he was ever happy....

Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born... For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, Royce returns to Medford with Hadrian but the two receive a very...

The past never dies, it only lies in wait. The necromancers are awakening an ancient power. The lines between different epochs are blurring. While his enemies weave their deceitful web, Maximilian Richter invokes an ally who remembers a pre-abomination world. Lives are the pieces in this chess game. Those who do not fear death—it's their move.

India Steele ist verzweifelt. Ihr Vater ist verstorben, ihr Verlobter hat sie um ihr Erbe erleichtert, und niemand will ihr Arbeit geben, obwohl sie jahrelang ihren Vater, den Uhrmacher, unterstützt hat. Vielmehr scheinen sich die Uhrmacher von London vor ihr zu fürchten. Auf sich gestellt, verarmt und am Ende ihrer Kräfte lässt sich India vom einzigen Menschen anstellen, der sie nimmt – einem geheimnisvollen Mann aus Amerika. Einem Mann mit einer seltsamen Taschenuhr, die ihn regeneriert, wenn er krank wird.

This world resembles our own, the difference being that aristocratic clans with magical abilities hold all power here. Those without magic are called "nulls" and seen as nothing more than failures. Ivan, our hero, had been marked for death—until an old warrior saved him, and the spirit of his mighty ancestor gave him magical talents. And now Ivan has inherited a princely title. However, being a young head of a noble house, he is a prime target for the empire's ambitious aristocrats. One wrong step could lead to conflict.

A captivating volume of over forty short stories full of love, hope, and fear, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Barbara Erskine is a born storyteller. The tales in 'Encounters' illustrate her extraordinary talent for capturing the spirit of a place and drawing us into the...

Cruel tyrant Taxian-jun killed his way to the throne and now reigns as the first ever emperor of the mortal realm. Yet somehow, he is unsatisfied. Left cold and bereft, abandoned by all he held dear, he takes his own life...only to be reborn anew. Awakening in the body of his younger self--Mo Ran, a disciple of the cultivation sect Sisheng Peak--he discovers the chance to relive his life. This time, he vows to attain the gratification that once eluded him: all who defied him will fall, and never again will they treat him like a dog.

In a land riven by civil war, new dark powers rise from the depths. Talembur seeks the lost Raven's Keep and the sword hidden within it. His quest has brought him to the city of Cadeira, ruled by High King Zelos Pendragon, one of the two claimants to the high throne of Owyllain. But deadly plots swirl around the would-be High King, and unless Talembur can unravel them, he might perish alongside Zelos. For a new dark power is rising and turning its eyes to Cadeira...

When a Victorian fossil hunter discovers a baby pterodactyl, she vows to protect him, with the help of a fellow scholar—her former fiancé—in this enchanting and transporting historical fantasy. “Scholarly and clever but still full of heart . . . Five baby pterodactyls out of five...

A Voodoo witch must navigate a magically and racially divided nineteenth-century New Orleans to save her mother—and the soul of the city itself—in this lush debut novel inspired by the life of Marie Laveau. “A riveting read that does not shy away from both the light and the dark aspects of...

Seit Jahren arbeitet die junge Robyn Moore in der Londoner Detektei Robinson & White, um ihrem Ziel einen Schritt näher zu kommen: in der Zeit reisen zu können und ihren verschwundenen Vater zu suchen. Eigentlich sollte sie sich, im Wilden Westen angekommen, darauf konzentrieren, den Geist von John Cartwright zu erlösen. Allerdings nutzt Robyn die Chance, um endlich in der Vergangenheit zu graben und nach ihrem Vater zu suchen.

A compelling standalone dark fantasy set in a gritty post-WWI Britain that has been overrun by the fae, from the award-winning author of Altered Carbon “One of my favorite books of the year, destined to be a classic.”—Tim Lebbon, New York Times bestselling author of Secret Lives of The...

Nel 1893 non esistono streghe. Non più. Le tre sorelle Eastwood si chiedono se, recuperando antiche parole dimenticate, non sia possibile trasformare le suffragette in streghe. Perseguitate da forze che vogliono impedire a una strega di votare - e forse persino di vivere -, le sorelle dovranno immergersi nell'antica magia, tessere nuove alleanze e recuperare il legame che le unisce. Perché le streghe non esistono, ma esisteranno.

Ottilie Rushforth hides from the mighty Sorcerer’s Guild as secretary to a has-been detective. But Ottilie is also Entwined—threads of magic run beneath her skin, and the Guild would trap her in service. Working on a plan to escape the Guild forever with her estranged fiancé, the enigmatic poet, soldier and smuggler Lewis Illing, Ottilie must track down a mysterious artifact, claim the bounty, and leave the city forever. 

After defeating Volrath and saving the Mortal Realm from his rule, Bran decides to venture on a journey of his own and goes in search of his people. The Worldbreakers. This journey, however, is far more dangerous than he had ever expected. The Lost Realms, where the Worldbreakers reside, have been separated from the Mortal Realm by more than just a portal only a Worldbreaker could create—they have been separated by time.

Druadaen, Outrider for the once-mighty Dunarran Consentium, has proven that there are irreconcilable contradictions between magic and physics on Arrdanc, the world of his birth. And what is his reward for this important discovery, made against all odds and at considerable personal risk?...

I'm Cat, and I've officially hit the third act of my fantasy nightmare. There's famine sweeping the land, war brewing like a badly-timed sequel, and—plot twist!—Damien Drakonar, the infuriatingly hot dragon prince I may or may not love, is now facing off against his own brother, Crown Prince Thorne. Yeah. Family dinners are awkward. Oh, and did I mention the whole "I've been promised to another" situation? Because nothing says "happily ever after" like a surprise royal engagement and a kingdom on the verge of collapse.

In this great science fiction novel, Andre Norton brings to new life the legendary King Arthur and the wizard Merlin in the light of modern knowledge of a lost period of history and today's understanding of science and interplanetary communication. Yet, as in all Norton's wonder novels, this is a fabulous adventure in fantasy. Here is Merlin, half star-born, gifted with the advice of an alien intelligence, given the task of renewing civilization and starting humanity again up the ladder to the stars. Here is Arthur, unaware of his stellar heritage. 

A Belletrist Book Club Pick A Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick A Most Anticipated Book from the Boston Globe, Barnes & Noble, Literary Hub, BookRiot, Goodreads, and Town & Country “Casey Scieszka’s debut novel is absolutely delicious, like Tuck Everlasting for grown-ups. The premise...

West African-inspired historical fantasy fiction.

Ren war einst nur ein feiger Alchemist, der sich hinter Tränken und Ausreden versteckte. Doch als ein globales Ereignis plötzlich einen Weltboss vor ihre Tür setzt, braucht die Gilde mehr als nur einen Heiler – sie braucht Super Ren.

Sie wurde aus einer Prophezeiung geboren, von Magie gezeichnet und für eine Liebe bestimmt, die ein Königreich erschaffen – oder zerstören – konnte. In einem Zeitalter, in dem Stämme um die Vorherrschaft kämpften und Legenden noch geboren wurden, wurde Gwendolyn von Cornwall bei ihrer Geburt mit drei Gaben – oder Flüchen – der Fae gezeichnet: einer Prophezeiung, der sie nicht entkommen kann, einem Antlitz, das die Wahrheit in den Herzen der Menschen enthüllt, und Haar, das sich nur dann in Gold verwandeln wird, wenn es von wahrer Liebe geschoren wird.

More than two hundred and fifty years after the infamous Pendle Witch Trials, the spirits of rival witches Demdike and Chattox remain tethered to their bloodlines—watching, waiting, and bound by unfinished business. Now, in the late eighteen hundreds, a pragmatic midwife and a troubled young psychic—descendants of the two witches—are drawn into a haunting legacy. An ancient being is stirring—an angry god of the old world, hungry for vengeance and ready to consume the future.

Jamie n’a qu’un but : venger les siens. Pour cela, il convainc Léo de repartir à ses côtés pour traquer le coupable, abandonnant une Atlantide dont l’équilibre est plus que jamais menacé par les Abysses. Mais lorsqu’Éléonore découvre que son frère, Léandre, a disparu, la pirate est submergée par la terreur et la rage. De retour en France, elle devra affronter des ennemis plus dangereux que jamais pour espérer le sauver.

Kann man zu einem mächtigen Krieger werden, obwohl man von der Göttin gezeichnet wurde? Kann man sein Herz an einen Fremden verlieren, obwohl man dem Tempel seine Treue schwor? Raven wurde als Prinz geboren, doch statt auf edlen Pferden durch Wälder zu jagen und in Schlachten zu kämpfen, arbeitet er als Knecht in einer Silbermine. Von seiner wahren Abstammung ahnt er nichts und sein einziger Freund ist ein Rabe. Kara hat sich für ein Leben im Tempel entschieden, weit weg von allem, was sie einst binden sollte.

Vikings of the Broken Raven: Ashes of the Fallen is a gritty, cinematic saga of survival, vengeance—and the kind of loyalty forged only in fire. Fresh from the inferno that ended Book One, Erik Stormson and the battered crew of the Broken Raven wash up on a hostile coast where the air itself seems poisoned with ash. Their ship is wounded. Their men are worn to the bone. And the land is watching.

The Night Devils rule the seas without mercy. For two centuries, they have held the Merithian Empire at bay, binding them to an ocean of blood. Yet, the unit faces disbandment for its growing power and brutality. And when the vice admiral mysteriously vanishes, order falls to the infamous Commander Grenyard - a sailor feared for his searing hatred and cruelty. Thrust into this storm is ten-year-old, Todd Witherow. Conscripted into his late brother’s squadron, Sabre, Todd must endure war and survive Grenyard’s wrath while concealing a secret deemed punishable by death.