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Duncan MacCoinnich's task... Travel to the twenty-first century Renaissance Faire, deflower the Druid virgins, and go home. Only his job is not so easily accomplished with the virgin in question, Tara McAllister. Time is running out. The evil is closing in on them both. Tara finds Duncan irresistible after what was supposed to be a mock hand-fasting binds them.

Myra, a medieval virgin druidess, flees five hundred years into the future in order to escape death at the hands of a cursed witch, landing in the arms of a handsome but cynical twenty-first century cop. Officer Todd Blakely knows Myra is hiding something, but he can't resist her innocent charms. Destiny throws them both into a world of intrigue and mysticism. Can Todd be the true white knight she needs? Or will magic and the winds of time tear them apart?

The number of Deryni was small, for they had been hounded for generations and kept their identities secret. Those who managed to retain their arcane powers concealed their background - for bitter persecution once again swept the land of Gwynedd, inspired by a raving fanatic sworn to destroy all Deryni in a final bloodbath.

London, 1862. A city of over three million souls, of stinking fog and dark, winding streets. Through these streets walks the poet Christina Rossetti, haunted and tormented by the ghost of her uncle, John Polidori. Without him, she cannot write, but her relationship with him threatens to shake London itself to the ground. A fascinating and vivid recreation of the stews and slums of Victorian London - a city of dreadful delight. But it is the history of a hidden city, where nursery rhymes lead the adventurer through haunted tunnels and inverted spires.

Jane and Vincent go to Long Parkmeade to spend time with Jane’s family, but quickly turn restless. The year is unseasonably cold. No one wants to be outside and Mr. Ellsworth is concerned by the harvest, since a bad one may imperil Melody’s dowry. And Melody has concerns of her own, given the inadequate selection of eligible bachelors. When Jane and Vincent receive a commission from a prominent family in London, they decide to take it, and take Melody with them.

After a career spying for Queen Victoria, James Asher enjoyed a quiet retirement until he met the vampire Don Simon, an immortal Spaniard who taught him about the secret society of bloodsucking undead. Now, one of the vampires, the Earl of Ernchester, has turned his back on Britain. When Asher spots him boarding a train for Paris in the company of an Austrian spy, he springs into action. If the immortals can forge an alliance with England’s enemies, then the Empire is doomed.

Dracula Comes to New York: Kim Newman returns to one of the great bestselling vampire tales of the modern era. Considered alongside I Am Legend and Interview with the Vampire as one of the stand-out vampire stories of the last century - this brand-new novel is the first in over a decade from the remarkable and influential Anno Dracula series. Newman’s dark and impish tale begins with a single question: What if Dracula had survived his encounters with Bram Stoker’s Dr. John Seward and enslaved Victorian England?

In 1941 the European war ended in the Farthing Peace, a rapprochement between Britain and Nazi Germany. The balls and banquets of Britain's upper class never faltered, while British ships ferried undesirables across the Channel to board the cattle cars headed east. Peter Carmichael is commander of the Watch, Britain's distinctly British secret police. Its his job to warn the Prime Minister of treason, to arrest plotters, and to discover Jews.

Wu Ying, der ein Jahrzehnt nach seinem Exil in die Sekte des Sattgrünen Wassers zurückkehrt, stellt fest, dass seine Position und sein Platz innerhalb der Sekte im Wandel sind. Er ist stark genug, um ein Ältester zu sein, aber da er seinen Rang nicht durch die normalen Methoden erreicht hat, muss er sich gegen eifersüchtige und beunruhigte Rivalen behaupten. Dies erinnert ihn an seine eigene Vergangenheit, aber jetzt ist er ein Ältester und kann Veränderungen im größeren Stil durchführen.

एक सहज और स्वाभाविक प्रश्न है, क्या मनुष्य अमर हो सकता है? इसका जवाब इतना आसान नहीं है, क्योंकि आज भी मनुष्य उन सीमाओं के पार नहीं पहुँच सका है, जो उसे अमर बना दें। हाँ, कभी-कभी कुछ विशेष व्यक्तियों के लिए प्रकृति ने अपने नियम जरूर बदले हैं। ऐसे ही विशेष महामानव हैं-सात चिरंजीवी। ये सात चिरंजीवी इसलिए कहलाए, क्योंकि सातों जीवन-मृत्यु के चक्र से ऊपर उठकर अमर हो गए। इन सात चिरंजीवियों में परशुराम, बलि, विभीषण, हनुमान, महर्षि वेदव्यास, कृपाचार्य और अश्वत्थामा हैं।.

Lorsque le roi est victime d'un complot meurtrier, son fils Antarès doit impérativement se marier pour revendiquer la couronne. Mais un mystère tragique plane sur les prétendantes... Déterminé malgré sa nature oisive et décadente, Antarès se met en quête d'une jeune femme issue de la lignée d'Athéna, candidate exilée dès sa naissance à la suite d'une funeste vision. L'héritier ignore encore qu'elle est loin d'être l'épouse idéale qu'il avait imaginée.

Margaret of Ashbury wants to write her life story. However, like most women in 14th-century England, she is illiterate. Three clerics contemptuously decline to be Margaret’s scribe, and only the threat of starvation persuades Brother Gregory, a Carthusian friar with a mysterious past, to take on the task. As she narrates her life, we discover a woman of startling resourcefulness.

As a rival monarch takes his rightful place on the throne of a nearby land, it becomes more imperative than ever that King Kelson produce a long-awaited heir. Love is set aside for duty-and Kelson the king must make the choice that Kelson the man can not.

Junio de 1778. El mundo está completamente revolucionado: la armada inglesa se está retirando de Filadelfia en busca de George Washington y, por primera vez, parece que los rebeldes pueden ganar. Pero a Claire Fraser y su familia les están afectando peores revoluciones. Su anterior marido, Jamie, ha vuelto de entre los muertos, y le exige saber por qué, en su ausencia, se casó con su mejor amigo, Lord John Grey.

Yamada no Goji is a minor nobleman of ancient Japan who has lost everything - except a single purpose: keep a promise to the woman he loved. In order to fulfill his vow, all he has to do is fight a horde of demons and monsters, bargain with a few ghosts, outwit the sinister schemers of the emperor's court, find a way to defeat an assassin who cannot be seen, heard, or touched - and change the course of history.

Le grand retour du tueur à gages Don Benvenuto. Au cours du tournoi de Lyndinas, l'épreuve de force s'est envenimée entre la noblesse restée loyale au duc Ganelon de Bromael et les chevaliers qui ont pris fait et cause pour son épouse répudiée. Des manigances étrangères ont contribué à jeter de l'huile sur le feu... Car quels sont les intérêts la République de Ciudalia au sein du duché ? Pourquoi appuyer les ambitions militaires du duc contre l'Ouromagne ? Quelle est la réelle mission de l'ambassade envoyée à la cour ducale par le podestat Leonide Ducatore ?

Der Krieg zwischen Assassinen und Templern richtet im viktorianischen Zeitalter verheerende Schäden an. London, 1851: Als Pierette, eine wagemutige Akrobatin, die auf der Weltausstellung auftritt, die Mathematikerin Ada Lovelace vor einer Bande von Schlägern rettet, gerät sie in die uralte Fehde zwischen Assassinen und Templern. Doch Lovelace ist schwer krank. Sie teilt Pierette ihre Geheimnisse mit und schickt die Akrobatin auf die Suche nach einer schrecklichen Waffe – der Maschine der Geschichte –, die sie für eine rätselhafte Gestalt namens "der Magus" entwickelt hat.

Jane and Vincent have finally gotten some much-needed rest after their adventures in Italy - then Vincent receives word that his estranged father has passed away on one of his properties in the West Indies. His brother, who manages the estate, is overwhelmed, and no one else in his family can go. Grudgingly, out of filial duty, the couple decide to go.

Acclaimed fantasist Mary Robinette Kowal has enchanted many fans with her beloved novels featuring a Regency setting in which magic--known here as glamour--is real. In Valour and Vanity, master glamourists Jane and Vincent find themselves in the sort of a magical adventure that might result if Jane Austen wrote Ocean's Eleven. After Melody's wedding, the Ellsworths and Vincents accompany the young couple on their tour of the continent. Jane and Vincent plan to separate from the party and travel to Murano to study with glassblowers there, but their ship is set upon by Barbary corsairs while en route. It is their good fortune that they are not enslaved, but they lose everything to the pirates and arrive in Murano destitute.

P. N. Elrod's novels of The Vampire Files blend the seductive shadows of classic noir into a sanctuary for a most unusual private investigator-vampire Jack Fleming. In Elrod's newest novel, Jack is under the gun when the New York mafia wants his hide, and the love of his life is wanted for murder.