Medieval Fantasy

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface. Frozen structures of bygone eras span across massive ice-wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within them. The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface, but that doesn't mean it's safe... Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The depths themselves shift over time, more contraption than rock.

Having brought Juliette back to the living, James Christianson is ready to lead his small group of followers against King Hafton. However, he soon learns that the only way he can truly destroy the menace of the undead is to visit an isle, one that he is not even sure exists. There have been times when James has thought he was a fool, but this time he might have met his match.

Born into a war almost as old as Sol and Lune themselves, Lumen, Lady of Fenn Manor has watched her family sacrifice for years at the altar of her country's ambitions. Alone and unprotected when the enemy army arrives on her doorstep, she faces two impossible choices: run north to her countrymen, or protect her home and bear the company of the temperamental General Westbrook. As the army’s stay stretches on, Lumen learns what she’s willing to sacrifice and what cannot be surrendered.

For as long as she can remember, Tova has lived among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. Her own home and clan are long-faded memories, but the sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as one who can cast the rune stones and see into the future. She has found a fragile place among those who fear her, but when two clans to the east bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.

Kingdom of Gododdin, AD 580: After defeating the Angles at the Battle of the Caledonian Wood, Languoreth, her daughter Angharad, brother Lailoken, and the warrior Artúr mac Aedan are reunited. But all too soon, fate pulls each back to their own path. Artúr receives a mysterious summons from his father in Dalriada. Languoreth and Lailoken return to Strathclyde with the dangerous former bishop Mungo in tow, determined to maintain the fragile peace between the Christians and the people of the Old Way.

Discover the Magic of ‘Castlestone: Ascension’ – The Beginning of ‘The Dragon’s Promise Saga’ Step into the enchanting world of Fyrsgard, where the shadow of an ancient tower stands as a silent guardian over a realm teetering on the brink of chaos. ‘Castlestone: Ascension’ is the gateway to an epic saga where the fate of an entire world hangs in the balance. Threatened by the relentless power of the Undying King, his dragon abominations shake the very foundations of the realm's last remaining free city. Brecken’s Awakening: A Tale of Destiny, Prophecy, and Power Meet ...

Bound by more than the search for a fantastical stolen tome, Eilean and Hoel plummet through the mirror gate into Leoneyis—a world on the brink of disaster as its sovereign’s reign begins to unravel. Enemies converge to destroy King Andrew, who has become headstrong and paranoid. His influence is undermined, and his kingdom is vulnerable. That’s what happens when a king is betrayed by a queen.

Every hundred years, the Wild Hunt rides. Every hundred years, blood is spilled. For generations, the clans of ancient Scandinavia have lived in fear of a legend made flesh—a spectral force known only as the Wild Hunt. It descends without warning upon gatherings of people, indiscriminately slaughtering anyone too slow, too unprepared, or too brave to run. No one knows where it comes from, and no one has ever stopped it. If they can even be stopped. Astrid of Clan Lodjur was only a child when the Hunt came for her people. One day when the clans gathered to finally name their first king, ...

She summoned a monster, thinking it would end the visions. Instead, it claimed her body and soul. Yvrenn The moon haunts me. Every dream is soaked in sweat and shame, a horned beast pulling me into heat and hunger I can’t explain. I thought the ritual would end it. Just herbs, blood, and desperate hope. But what came from the forest wasn’t a vision. It was real. Galthar. He dragged me from the clearing, bound my wrists, and took me across the Veil into a fortress of shadows and stone. He says I’m the chosen. That my body belongs to him. I hate him. I crave him. And with every breath, ...

Gripping tales that abound with fantastic characters and astonishing twists and turns, Greek myths confront what it means to be mortal in a world of powerful forces beyond human control. Little wonder that they continue to fascinate readers thousands of years after they were first told. Gods and Mortals is a major new telling of ancient Greek myths by one of the world's preeminent experts.

When Princess Matilda is eighteen years old, tragedy strikes the royal family, and she becomes the only child of the king of England - the de facto heir to the throne. As her dying father persuades the barons to pledge allegiance to her, Matilda returns to England - but the lords and clergy do not like an independent woman. And Matilda is nothing if not headstrong. When the old king dies, the country is plunged into instant chaos. So begins a fierce battle between cousins that will go down in history as a time called 'The Anarchy'.

One by one, the powers that threaten the land of Orszag have fallen. Only the demon Arnyek remains. Immortal, uncaring and unstoppable, Arnyek waits far below the ruined city of Nagyvaros for the day he is free to destroy the world. Desperate to stop him, Konrad the Sorcerer plunges into forbidden magic and turns against those closest to him. But Konrad must learn a difficult lesson: no matter what path he takes, he cannot stop the End of All Things.

A strange twist of fate allows the lovely Laersona Wylos to narrowly escape death in the ethnic cleansing of the Peretians ordered by the cruel King Laurenso. Her father was not as fortunate and was brutally murdered by the king's men. Heartbroken and alone, Laersona vows to avenge him and her people by destroying the man who ordered their demise. Her thirst for royal blood takes her on a dangerous journey to the castle where she meets the king's dashing young prince and learns shocking royal secrets. Will her growing feelings for the prince distract her from her true purpose and how will ...

She doesn't know he's a dragon, nor the danger she's in. He doesn't know how much he needs her. As an orphan in a small town at the edge of the vast Black Forest, Hannah is grateful for what little she has. She lives with her grandmother, one of the town’s witches. Despised by the townsfolk, it is unlikely that she will ever find her place in their world, or someone to share her life with. Not only that, but witches have been murdered in recent months and Hannah may be next. Louis is a powerful, shape-shifting dragon. In ages past, he had terrified villages and towns. Now, he has emerged ...

The world has seen what Eric can do. Is this the one man who can defeat the demon Krytoes? He has proven himself to the mortals, but must now establish himself in the eyes of the Gods themselves. Many have claimed to be the Gate Keeper, but none have ever survived the Trials of Ashbarn. Let the trials begin! This book is intended for mature audiences. The Legend of the Gate Keeper Series Reading Order: The Shadow: (A standalone prequel: Book 0) Land of Shadows: (Book 1) Siege of Night: (Book 2) Lost Empire: (Book 3) Reborn: (Book 4) The Trials of Ashbarn: (Book 5) End of Days: (Final Book)

It’s circa 1278 Ottokar, King of Bohemia, has used the last two years to build an army of allies and buy the neutrality of other powerful princes. Despite bending the knee to the emperor-elect, Rudolf I, King in Germania, in 1276, Ottokar is more determined than ever to get his revenge. Will the King in Germania be victorious again, or will Ottokar finally claim the imperial crown? Don’t wait, buy your copy today to join the emperor-elect and the other lords, ladies, and knights on this exciting Medieval adventure!

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe.

In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international best-selling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries later with an epic of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own way, to find a new place for women in the world - a world inspired this time by the glittering, decadent Song Dynasty.

Robert Ekans is a young computer programmer who has recently come into a small fortune when the gaming company that he is working for has a successful public stock offering. With some of the proceeds from a stock sale, Robert buys an old mansion. While exploring the attic of the mansion he finds an old bed frame. Little does he know that this relic is about to launch him on a magical adventure of a lifetime. Barwell Hollings presents this tale of medieval magic, adventure, love and self-discovery.

Over 400 years before Columbus "discovered" the New World, it is believed that someone else already had - Icelander Bjarni Herjolfsson. Over the years 985-986, Herjolfsson was attempting to reach Eirik the Red's colony on Greenland when he was blown off-course. He sighted a coastline covered with woods, and thus was the first to glimpse a piece of North America.