Crusades Fiction

Far in the future, 60,000 light-years from Earth, a loose confederacy of Terran exiles is locked with the enigmatic Protoss and ruthless Zerg swarm. Each species struggles to ensure its own survival among the stars in a war that will herald the beginning of mankind's greatest chapter - or foretell its violent, bloody end. Danny Liberty was a good reporter...too good. When his investigations struck too close to the heart of the corrupt Terran Confederacy, he faced a simple choice: continue his current series of exposés, or take a hazardous new assignment covering the Marines.

Comic-Con, 2036. The world is rocked by the bizarre and inexplicable materialization of Cateklysm Catholicon - a colorfully clad whack job decreeing that humanity's only hope lies in the lessons found in superhero comic books. "Cateklysm's Challenge" is born, enticing even the most skeptical with a prize that promises "the power to change the world".

The Ember War comes to its epic conclusion! The Ibarra Nation launches a final assault to liberate Earth, but the Geist have laid a trap for Ely Hale and the Crusade. The Geist are on the cusp of releasing their dark god Malal onto the galaxy, ensuring doom for every soldier, Armor and sailor fighting for their very souls. Ely Hale is the fulcrum on which the battle will turn. He is one soldier against a dark tide, but he is not alone, for the Saint lives.

Jenn has lived and trained at Spain's Sacred Heart Academy Against the Cursed Ones. She is among the few who have pledged to defend humanity or die trying. But the vampires are gaining power, and the battle has only just begun. Forced to return home after death takes a member of her family, Jenn discovers that San Francisco is now a vampire strong-hold. As a lone hunter apart from her team, Jenn is isolated and at risk. She craves the company of her fighting partner, Antonio: his protection, his reassurance, his touch.

In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I.

Christian Hunt and the small band of Camp Holly survivors begin their trek west toward Hoover Dam. There, Doctor Tripp believes she and the refugees that have fortified the dam can develop a cure from Christian's blood. Zombies are an ever-present danger, opportunistic humans threaten their very lives, and scabs are evolving into apex predators, with humans on the menu. As if the near impossibility of making it past all of these obstacles wasn't enough, Christian strives to search for his family. Did his parents or sister survive?

Dale's worlds are facing unprecedented dangers from horrors beyond the scope of understanding. Facing threats beyond the power of gods, all creation is at risk.

Abandoning the safety of England for the perilous shores of the Levant, Estienne Wace is thrust into the turmoil of the Fifth Crusade. Burning with righteous purpose, he is determined to reclaim the Holy Land in the name of Christ. War rages along the banks of the Nile as a crusading army besieges the Saracen city of Damietta, certain that the price they pay in blood will return the glory and treasures they crave. But as the Black Lion roars, and the siege grinds on, Estienne’s unwavering faith is tested more and more by the grim reality of this brutal conflict.

Bill Blair finds the land by accident - three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife at a time when women chafed at the conventions imposed on them.

Mr. Henty weaves a story of the life and times of King Richard the Lion-hearted that is yet to be equaled. Cuthbert de Lance, the hero of the story, is of Norman blood on his father's side and Saxon by his mother. By providing timely aid to the Earl of Evesham, Cuthbert is rewarded by being allowed to go to the Crusade as his page. He gains a reputation for valor and prowess due to gallant deeds, and his resourcefulness not only helps King Richard but aids Cuthbert in many a 'hairbreadth escape'.

Black Widows Complete Second Series includes the complete second season of six Black Widows episodes, previously only available separately: The Black Widows are an infamous, all-female mercenary unit. Aboard their heavily-armed ship Medusa, they embark on secretive missions throughout the crumbling Confederacy as it wages a terrible and bloody civil war. Each of the Widows is an elite operative, with skills and expertise that command a high price. Their very names spread fear and terror into the hearts of their foes. Episode 1 The Black Widows are offered a mission they cannot refuse, and ...

The Crusaders, led by Richard I of England, are encamped in the Holy Land, and torn by the dissensions and jealousies of the leaders, including, besides Coeur de Lion himself, Philip of France, the duke of Austria, the Marquis of Montferrat, and the Grand Master of the Templars. The army's impotence is accentuated by the illness of Richard.

Dark lord, demon spawn, prophesied realm destroyer. With a demon for a father, Damien Maleficus Bloodthorne’s destiny could be nothing but nefarious, and with the completion of his most vicious spell, Damien is on the cusp of fulfilling the evil inevitability all of his dark machinations have led to. And then, her—bubbly, obnoxious, blonde.

A country controlled by fundamentalists. Brutal campaigns to the Middle East. Can a young man thrust into war stand up to a relentless race for power? The Religious States of America, 2089. Billy Ray Cooper will do anything to provide for his family. So to pull his parents and siblings out of endless poverty, he enlists and undergoes the gruelling selection process to join the modern Templar special forces. And after being accepted into the elite fighting unit, he immediately finds himself deployed overseas to wrestle Jerusalem away from the Caliphate in an all-out offensive. Unprepared for...

After years of planning, the Lunar Free State is going to war, on a crusade to liberate the people of Tatanna from the evil Bugs. For Lorna Greenwood, this will be a trial by fire—her first mission with her own command, the Predator-class destroyer LFS Lynx. She’s looking to get some payback for her last trip there eight years ago, which didn’t end well.

The book, the cup, the sword; ancient alien relics buried on Earth have been recovered. But before they can be put to use, two old friends must be saved. Angelica and Jax codenamed Angel and Spartan have been gone since the end of the Voy invasion. With no communication received from the two original members of the Pack Protocol, the search begins. Daniel will lead a team to discover the truth and the nightmare that waits for them.

Rome 1209. No enemy of the Pope is safe from Gabriel. No one escapes the enforcer of a thousand faces, until one day he spares a heretical Cathar leader. This evokes the wrath of the Church, and the hunter is given one last chance, failing which he must forfeit his life. Gabriel's new target is a dangerous, renegade Templar, whose carefully concealed trail leads him from Palestine to the Baltic Sea. But the fate of the mysterious Templar is ominously intertwined with Gabriel's own past. What he doesn't know is that two warriors from the Order of the Livonian Brothers of the Sword have been ...

With the great battle between man and the undead apparently won and the situation seemingly in hand, the president leaps into action to take all the credit he can for saving the country and defending the Quarantine Zone. Surrounded by battalions of television news crews, he authorizes Operation Swift Stand in which he commits the nation's entire rapid deployment force in a show-stopping extravaganza designed more to rekindle patriotic fervor and to lift his own sagging poll numbers than to stop the undead.

The Holy Land in the year 1193. Guillaume de Born, an unscrupulous Templar Knight on a secret mission to meet with the Assassins, acquires in Jerusalem what he believes to be the holiest relic of Christianity: the fabled Ark of the Covenant. On his way back to the port city of Acre, he is ambushed by his Templar brothers. They rob him of the treasure and leave him badly wounded in the mountains of Galilee. Deeply humiliated, he swears revenge. With the help of a young Muslim man, an unconventional Jewish woman and two daring Christian knights, he sets out to reclaim the sacred relic from ...

Ronny Caldwell is no longer the awkward and unsure teen he once was when he became a member of the Dragovihk Clan. The young wolf is now a force to be reckoned with and a vital part of the clan’s inner circle. His family has grown to respect and appreciate him, and Ronny has become someone they can count on and call in when situations get rough, and when his uncles ask him to continue fighting the battle they started together, will they finally win? Or will Ronny's crusade crash and burn, taking his family—and his mate—down with it?