Epic Suspense

Follow Prince Braxton in volume one of this trilogy blazing a sizzling trail spanning the greatest century, 1860-1960. A century of world wars, engineering marvels, romance-defying social morays, revolutions, spies, and requited and unrequited love. In this historical dystopia, the author has expunged the Victorian royal family, replacing it with one worthy of reigning over the world’s most powerful empire.

A chilling and dark fantasy from bestselling author Raymond E. Feist. Successful screenwriter Phil Hastings decides to move his family from sunny California to a ramshackle farmhouse in New York State. The idea is to take some time out, relax and pick up the threads of his career as a novelist. Good plan, bad choice. The place they choose is surrounded by ancient woodland. The house they choose is the centrepoint of a centuries-old evil intent on making its presence felt to intruders.

Reeling from the deadly events at Ogdam Oasis, Duchess Jacqueline Arienta Xavier is eager to leave the Duchy of Kwatalar behind. She rides to Pettraud, seeking aid from her allies and determined to convene a War Council. As preparations for battle unfold, Jax is swept into her husband’s family turmoil, meeting many of Perry’s brothers for the first time. She soon learns that Duke Pettraud’s health is failing, and the fight for his crown has turned ruthless. But within the castle’s shadowed halls, Jax senses something far more sinister at play—dark forces stoking the flames of discord.

In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with France is suspended by a truce. But for Thomas of Hookton, the hero of Harlequin and Vagabond, there is no end to the fighting. He is pursuing the grail, the most sacred of Christendom's relics, and is sent to his ancestral homeland, Gascony, to engineer a confrontation with his deadliest enemy, Guy Vexille.

Days before her marriage to the king of the neighboring Sunruta Kingdom, Princess Annabel of Najir is abruptly betrayed by her fiancé and thrown into prison with her magic knight under suspicion of being a spy. After being held captive for months and informed her kingdom is no more, Annabel passes out in a burst of destructive magic, only to awaken as her 12-year-old self, six years before her political marriage. Armed with knowledge of the dark future to come, she now has another chance to bring about a new fate.

Dr. Miranda Ecouvo, forensic therapist of the City, just helped put a serial killer behind bars. But she soon discovers that her investigation into seven unusual murders is not yet complete. A near-death experience throws her out of time and into a realm of labyrinths and spirits. There, she encounters brothers Chance and the Trickster, who have an otherworldly interest in the seemingly mundane crimes from her files.

In No Road Home, Sam Grodin emerges from ten years in a brutal South American prison, alone, lost, and forced to start over. Wrongfully convicted and abandoned in a foreign land his only comfort the fading memory of his Mary, and the hope that she still waits for him but, every day without her deepens his longing. Beyond the prison walls hides its dangers, where every step forward pulls Sam deeper into a labyrinth of betrayal, haunting memories, and powerful forces that will stop at nothing to protect their secrets. Sam must face terrifying truths to survive. Drawn to a beautiful, ...

Found guilty of possessing magical powers and sentenced to death in Ixia, Yelena Zaltana must flee to the southern lands and seek sanctuary with her family. A family she hasn’t seen in fourteen years and who could be her only hope of survival. But Sitia is unfamiliar, and she’s treated with suspicion and even hatred by the people she thought she could trust – including her own brother.

Zwei Jahre sind seit der gescheiterten Invasion der Marat vergangen. Und während Tavi dem Ende seiner Ausbildung zum kaiserlichen Spion entgegenfiebert, droht Alera bereits neue Gefahr. Denn ausgerechnet als Kaiser Gaius Sixtus schwer erkrankt und die Mächtigen des Reichs ihre Intrigen vorantreiben, bewegen sich die Furcht erregenden Vord auf die Hauptstadt zu - uralte Schreckensgestalten, für deren Wiedererweckung auch Tavi mitverantwortlich ist.

The Land of Five is being systematically torn apart by war, and witch Lilith Lace has a number of problems. First - having been captured in the Battle of Ignis by the Elemental Coven, she's now being held - well, she really has no idea where, so getting back home again is going to be hard, if not outright impossible.

Hook is back. Or at least that's what my partner, the Mad Hatter, aka Maddox, claims. And I should totally believe him. He does have the sight after all. But I can't. I just won't. Because Hook...he was my world. And the day he died in my arms, I nearly died too. It's taken me forever to get to a good place again, and that's why I won't go looking for him. I won't go searching for a ghost. Besides, I have a case. Crow shifters. Bank heists. And lots and lots of stolen goodies. Just what I need to keep my mind off of Hook.

The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clownface makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they know.

Someone is killing the Hollows in New Orleans. After freeing the city from the yoke of Remy, the immortal, Madison and her coven start building a new social system based on freedom and democracy. But years of relying on the protection offered by a dictator has made the witches soft. Now their sacred spaces are under attack, and dangerous entities are slipping into the city.

Struggling with the sudden death of his father and his mother’s downward spiral into mental illness, eleven-year-old Marco is haunted by dark forgotten memories and the fear that he’ll lose a second parent. But when a mysterious enchantress appears with a promise to cure his mother, Marco soon finds himself dragged into a dangerous quest to retrieve a powerful weapon hidden at the heart of the magical World of Souls. Along the way, he’ll be forced to unravel his father’s secretive past – and reconcile with the long-buried darkness lurking within his own psyche.

Having been drawn to the wild for a number of years, young Luke McKinney is forced to leave 1839 St. Louis for the North Country even sooner than he expected to go. At 17, along with a female companion and an elderly father figure, he is literally running for his life. With the law pursuing him and the wilderness unforgiving, he finds himself caught up in a survival system that has nothing to do with civilization or laws. Then the unthinkable happens, the only love of his life is taken from him.

After receiving a letter from a trusted family friend and mentor, Asher, shield mage and scribe of the king, travels with his team to the picturesque city of Cloudfall. He is joined by the ever-inquisitive goblin She, the magically talented Etta, and his brother Colin, a knight in training. As they travel, they will encounter manifestations of lost and forgotten evils, and will either live or die by the decisions they make. Can they stop the corruption, or will they be too late?

No longer the leader of the Olympians, Konstantin has now gone into hiding. Konstantin is vulnerable, and Anderson believes now is the perfect time to destroy his nemesis. He orders private eye Nikki Glass to use her powers to locate Konstantin, and she balks at the idea until a series of attacks leads her to believe that Konstantin is gunning for her and Anderson instead of remaining safely in hiding. Nikki's search is complicated by Cyrus - Konstantin's son and the new leader of the Olympians - who threatens retribution should his father be killed.

Fierce and ambitious, Aina Solís as sharp as her blade and as mysterious as the blood magic she protects. After the murder of her parents, Aina takes a job as an assassin to survive and finds a new family in those like her: the unwanted and forgotten. Her boss is brutal and cold, with a questionable sense of morality, but he provides a place for people with nowhere else to go. And makes sure they stay there.

In a darkened cell, a brutally deposed dictator lies crippled - deprived of his power, his freedom and his eyes. On the edge of utter despair, his only companion is the young boy who brings him his meagre rations, a mere child who fears his own shadow. But to one who has held and lost the highest power, one thing alone is crystal clear: even emperors were mere children once. Ten years later the new ruler's son watches uneasily over his father's empire.

As war between Alden and Oridia intensifies, King Erik must defend his kingdom from treachery and enemies on all sides - but the greatest danger lurks closer to home. When the war began, Lady Alix Black played a minor role, scouting at the edge of the king's retinue in relative anonymity. Though she's once again facing an attacking Oridian force determined to destroy all she holds dear, she is now bodyguard to the king and wife to the prince. Still, she is unprepared for what the revival of the war will mean.