Ancient Suspense

In 48 BC the Roman generals Caesar and Pompey are engaged ina battle to rule the world. As Pompey plots a reckless stand on the banks ofthe Nile, Gordianus the Finder - who has brought his dying wife, Bethesda, to the Nile seeking a cure from its sacred waters - finds himself suddenly at the heart of a series of treacherous and history-altering events. While Caesar and Cleopatra embark on a legendary romance, Egypt remains ravaged by the brutal contest between the queen and her brother, King Ptolemy.

Visit Ashok's official website meakalpa.com to read an exclusive excerpt from The Bombay Lovecraft Society! Membership comes at a price... From Bram Stoker and CWA nominated and Utopiales Nantes Award-winning author Ashok Banker comes a chilling new novel of occult horror set in 1980s Bombay A masterful fusion of Lovecraftian terror and Indian Gothic that will haunt your dreams long after you've turned the final page. In the shadows of 1980s Bombay lurks an ancient evil that makes the notorious Rockman serial killings pale in comparison. When a struggling artist is lured into the mysterious...

"If you are a fan of Jim Butcher and the Dresden Files, you will enjoy Mark Everett Stone's work." –Fantasy Book Review He has had many names, Frank Vickers, Fred Vaughn, Vince Fredricks, but this ancient immortal is better known as the monster who inspired Mary Shelly. Struggling to atone for past sins, he is forced by the Vatican to locate the infamous Book of Ur, an artifact so powerful it could usher in the Apocalypse. With agents Carter and Branch at his side, he takes on the great evils of the world in the quest to find the book while ruminating on a past filled with strife and ...

Egypt is under attack. Pharaoh Tamose lies mortally wounded. The ancient city of Luxor is surrounded. All seems lost. Taita prepares for the enemy's final fatal push. The ex-slave, now general of Tamose's armies, is never more ingenious than when all hope is dashed. And this is Egypt's most desperate hour. With the timely arrival of an old ally, the tide is turned, and the Egyptian army feasts upon its retreating foe. But upon his victorious return to Luxor, Taita is seized and branded a traitor. Tamose is dead, and a poisonous new era has begun. The new Pharaoh has risen.

The year is 63 BC, and Gordianus the Finder unexpectedly achieves the dream of every Roman: owning a farm in the Etruscan countryside. Vowing to leave behind the corruption of Rome, he abandons the city, taking his family with him. This bucolic life, however, is disrupted by the machinations and murderous plots of two politicians.

In A Gladiator Dies Only Once, the second collection of his award-winning stories featuring Gordianus, Saylor more than meets his own high standards. Set between the events of his novels RomanBlood and Catilina’s Riddle, these nine stories of previously untold adventures from the early career of Gordianus - when his adopted son, Eco, was still a mute boy and his wife, Bethesda, was but his slave - will delight Saylor’s many fans while illuminating details of the ancient world like no other writer can.

A surprising twist brings Amy and Dan back to New England for their first mission on U.S. soil since the beginning of the Clue hunt. But being close to home is anything but a comfort. The siblings have learned that there's a mole in the Cahill organization.... And the traitor is one of their closest confidantes. However, this betrayal is overshadowed when Amy and Dan make an even more devastating discovery: the truth about the Vespers' real plan. Burdened with this terrifying information, Amy and Dan are forced to ask an impossible question: Is it more important to save the hostages...or stop the Vespers?

In the crushing abyss of the Pacific, silence is not peace. It's a prelude to damnation. Captain Ortega commands the USS Caspian, a state-of-the-art nuclear submarine and the apex of naval engineering. His mission is routine, his crew the best in the fleet. But when a sudden, inexplicable power failure plunges them into absolute darkness and silence, their training is put to the ultimate test. It's not a system malfunction; it's a suffocating, complete death of the machine. Stranded miles beneath the surface, the crew's discipline begins to fray as impossible phenomena plague the ship. A ...

The shadows of the past come alive. After twenty years of silence, Dina returns, driven by an insatiable hunger for power and revenge. Her eyes are fixed on the legendary scarab, the key to an ancient power that can reduce the world to ashes. Lillian and Roy Sawyer are the only ones who know Dina's true intentions. But as the swinging sixties are in full swing, Dina's next move remains a mystery. Will they uncover her plans before it's too late, or will Dina finally triumph and plunge the world into a new era of darkness?

Brody has found paradise. He dives in crystal-clear water for rock cod on the pristine coral reefs of the African Coast. His life is sun, sea, sand, and freedom, then wash and repeat. His shoes and his past life have been thrown in a corner—lost and forgotten. All he needs these days is a pair of swimming shorts and a face mask. This is the life he dreamed of since he came to the coast of Africa—carefree and peaceful. It's time to wash the memories of war from his mind. Hassan is at the tiller, ever vigilant, his eyes flicking from the tranquil ocean to the cloudless blue sky. His life ...

Teenager Rebecca “Becka” Williams, her younger brother Scott, and her friend Ryan Riordan are swept into heart-stopping encounters with an all-too-real invisible world - a world fraught with deception and spiritual adversaries that promise goodness and enlightenment but will stop at nothing to destroy life, sanity, and human souls.

Stella, an archaeologist specializing in Anasazi culture, and David, a mysterious Navajo boy, are on the run from something terrifying. As they flee up into the snowy mountains of Colorado, they are carjacked by criminals. Caught in a blizzard, they must take refuge in what they believe is an abandoned cabin. It's at this cabin that they will face horrors beyond their imagination.

They were born in the middle of a battle, into a world at war. And from their first moments of life, twins Satyrus and Melitta were fighting for survival. Their father, a Greek mercenary, was cut down not long after they had taken their first breath; their Scythian mother was cruelly murdered when they were still children.

The final thrilling tale of the House of Appius Julianus. A new and deadly threat has emerged at the outskirts of the Roman Empire on the Danube, one that threatens to throw the entire region into chaos. Correus, risen to prefect of a cavalry ala on the border, and Flavius, advisor to the emperor, have both attempted to warn the erratic Domitian of the seriousness of this foe, but to no avail.

Strokes of memory. Shadows of betrayal. And a love that refuses to fade… In Rockport Harbor, photographer Mia Collins and harbormaster Noah Sullivan have rediscovered a love as steady as the lighthouse guiding their coastal town. But when a cryptic postcard arrives, their peace unravels, pulling them into a centuries-old mystery. Their search leads to Newport, where Mia is offered the role of Keeper—guardian of her family’s hidden legacy. As she accepts this dangerous inheritance, Noah stands by her, their bond tested by a powerful criminal network and a rival family guarding long-...

In Rome, 80 B.C., on a warm spring morning, Gordianus the Finder receives a summons to the house of a then-unknown young advocate and orator, Cicero. Ambitious and brilliant, the 26-year-old Cicero is about to argue his first important case. His client is a wealthy farmer, one Sextus Roscius of the town of Ameria, who stands accused of the most unforgivable act in Ancient Rome: the murder of his father.

When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history.

As Caesar marches on Rome and panic erupts in the city, Gordianus the Finder discovers, in his own home, the body of Pompey’s favorite cousin. Before fleeing the city, Pompey exacts a terrible bargain from the finder of secrets: to unearth the killer or sacrifice his own son-in-law to service in Pompey’s legions - and certain death. Amid the city’s sordid underbelly, Gordianus learns that the murdered man was a dangerous spy. Now, as he follows a trail of intrigue, betrayal, and ferocious battles on land and sea, the Finder is caught between the chaos of war and the terrible truth he must finally reveal.

Uncover the secrets lurking beneath the waves in this haunting blend of history, myth, and obsession. In 2014, Jane Wilson stumbled upon a hidden cave on her family's coastal property near Port Phillip Bay, Australia, a discovery that would unravel her life and rewrite the history of the land she thought she knew. What began as a curious exploration of an Aboriginal rock carving, etched with the eerie image of a squid-like creature, spiralled into a relentless quest to unearth the truth behind the bay's mysterious past. From ancient Indigenous myths of a monstrous leviathan to colonial ...

🔥BLADE & TRUE BLOOD meet UNDERWORLD🔥 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Suspenseful, sexy, and delicious…” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “LOVE this whole series!” ~ Sugar B In Book 3 of the Alpha Claim series by NYT, USA TODAY, Amazon Top-15 and #1 Dark Fantasy bestsellers Tamara Rose Blodgett & Marata Eros, bloodlines mean everything—and survival is anything but guaranteed. 🩸 Murphy is a vampire bounty hunter with one rule: don’t get involved. But when he’s assigned to protect Grace—a woman hunted for her ancient genetics—duty and desire collide. She’s on the ...