Medieval Fantasy

Tasked to expose a coin counterfeiting scheme, Luca and Isolde travel to Venice just in time for Carnival. Amid the masks, parties, and excitement, the romantic attraction between the two reaches a new intensity that neither can deny. Their romance is interrupted by the arrival of the alchemist, who may be the con artist they’ve been looking for. But as Luca starts to investigate the original charge, the alchemist reveals his true goal—he plans to create the Philosopher’s Stone, a mystical substance said to be capable of turning base metals into gold and producing the elixir of life.

Return to Decize, where conflict between the new foundry and the workers is brewing into rebellion. Join Haywood Vale as he struggles to feed a desperate populace with his garden magic. Now a full Gardener six years after his devastating conflict with the blood mage he might be the only one who can save the city. As a master of Baari's twisting and a dabbler in the devoured god, Bileam, he must make a choice between standing up for the people of Decize or hiding in his gardens. When Haywood makes a desperate attempt to save lives he is swept into a conflict that might topple the city, ...

For the last twenty-five years the kingdom of Khryterdon has known peace and prosperity. But now things seem to be falling apart. Murder during the royal jubilee, the disappearance of a duke and duchess, stolen artifacts, and a neighboring king who feels Khryterdon should pay for its sins. Some regard Khryterdon’s king as too weak, while others dread he is too powerful. And the beautiful and ruthless Duchess of Curlowen is masterfully spinning a web of her own. The Great Chain of Being links them all in a binding union…but can the chain be broken?

Se prohibió el uso de la magia. Los magos fueron cazados y ejecutados. Durante casi trescientos años, los habitantes de Thoria creyeron que la magia ya no era una amenaza, aunque las cosas cambiaron cuando Pyebra decidió cambiar las reglas. Una serie de eventos desata el caos en Thoria. Los magos, que se creían desaparecidos, han vuelto. Algunos buscan sobrevivir. Otros buscan venganza. Y en medio de este renacimiento, una orden secreta amenaza con arrastrar a los cuatro países de Thoria (Pyebra, Sitnor, Morrau y Tesar) a una nueva guerra. Un rey impuesto. Una esposa ambiciosa. Un mago...

Is the Voice Lisa’s Protector or a Predator? When her father Alexander is murdered, Lisa’s safe, carefree world unravels. At 16, her only escape is to flee from the mayhem and chaos that promises to come crashing down on her very being. From her wicked mother. From her drunken stepbrother. And from the greedy church. The year was 1,000 AD. Bright and clever, she becomes the eyes and ears of her papa’s many enterprises. Lisa is his confidant and the son he desires as an heir. Afraid for his own daughter’s future, Alexander shares a plan to her to follow upon his death. Within days of...

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.

1506, Joseon. The people suffer under the cruel reign of the tyrant King Yeonsan, powerless to stop him from commandeering their land for his recreational use, banning and burning books, and kidnapping and horrifically abusing women and girls as his personal playthings. Seventeen-year-old Iseul has lived a sheltered, privileged life despite the kingdom's turmoil. When her older sister, Suyeon, becomes the king's latest prey, Iseul leaves the relative safety of her village, traveling through forbidden territory to reach the capital in hopes of stealing her sister back.

The king is dead. Long live the queen. With Duncan defeated, Gruoch becomes Queen of Scotland. Now, she must rule at Macbeth's side, a difficult prospect as the new King of Scots grows increasingly unstable. To keep her son, her love, and her country safe, Gruoch must call upon the raven. Dive into the final installment of Gruoch's epic tale in Highland Queen, a Scottish historical fantasy, book four in The Celtic Blood Series by New York Times bestselling author Melanie Karsak.

There are some things that even a song can't fix. Ever since Lucifer tried to ease his ache for Elaria by altering human women to look like her, there have been doppelgangers of the Spellsinger on Earth. Now, those Elaria-look-alikes are dying, murdered by assassins who are most likely after Elaria. But assassins are the least of her worries. Greek Gods are disappearing and it looks as if Apollo's warning of Poseidon conquering the Beneath might not be so farfetched after all. As doppelgangers start dropping like flies, the Spellsinger must find a way to save herself and the entire world. ...

Blood is on his hands... ...or so everyone keeps telling him. Michael has no memory of the night that cast him into the shadows with cries of 'Murderer'. His adoptive sister, Isabella, does him the greatest of favors: throws him onto the streets. On the run with a price on his head, he searches for the truth, for safety, and for his head to stay firmly attached to his neck. Dark medieval times now carry his fate. His first steps lead him down the precarious path to an assassin by the name of Julianna. It appears she has a mission of her own. One that leads Michael back to where it all began...

Love at first sight! I have spent my entire life searching for the perfect wing-whang. But until I'm taken by the dwarven general, Jaden Antida, no man has ever measured up to the heroes I’ve created in my books. A burly and overbearing alpha male, he’s crude, growly and dominant. He says he’s on a mission to destroy the secret entrance to Dwarfholme. And he says he’s my mate. Having written books where the hero and heroine instantly fall in love, I know he’s one hundred percent wrong. There is no way this infuriating “male” person can be my perfect match. But when a cave-in ...

Thomas Bulfinch introduces us to the gods of the Greek, Roman, and Norse mythologies. We learn their stories and we also observe the similarities between the deities of yore. Comparing these stories and characters to those of some modern religions may produce some surprising results!

This is what happened. I saw it, and it is a true tale. So begins the story of Merlin, born the illegitimate son of a Welsh princess in fifth-century Britain, a world ravaged by war. Small and neglected, with his mother unwilling to reveal his father's identity, Merlin must disguise his intelligence - and hide his occasional ability to know things before they happen - in order to keep himself safe.

The year is 1328 and Bruges is under siege by the Chatelaine of Hell and her army of chimeras – creatures forged in the deep fires of the Hellbeast. At night, revenants crawl over the walls and bring plague and grief to this city of widows. Margriet de Vos learns she's a widow herself when her good-for-nothing husband comes home dead from the war. But he didn't come back for her. The revenant who was her husband pulls a secret treasure of coins and weapons from under his floorboards and goes back through the mouth of the beast called Hell.

Shetland Hall's white stone walls were sanctuary to many lost. The night the flaxen-haired beauty breached them and collapsed on the middle of his bridge, Lord Bayne Halcombe made a vow to find out who had left the woman so badly bruised and a promise to himself that he would never give her up. Ceslie Arewyn had one quest, save her younger brother from a certain death. When their dark-haired savior, Bayne, comes to her aid and offers his protection, she’s forced to make a vital decision. Should she forgo her own promises and stay with the man she’s come to love? Or should she continue ...

The retelling of an ordinary woman who had no voice in the literary classic of Beowulf. When a young girl’s life takes a crushing dark turn, she’s sacrificed to the dragon for shaming her community. Alone in the wild, she discovers special skills that enable her to survive, gives birth, and raises a child who has both physical and mental abnormalities. Grendel's Mother is an evocative story of a young woman whose life is shattered by circumstances beyond her control and paints a poignant picture of the history of one of the most infamous monsters of Norse mythology. - Amazon reader

Rome, 1518. The church is tarnished by greed. Peasants are rebelling. Tumultuous times demand drastic recourse - before the devil gets his due. Johann Faust is a renowned magician, astrologer, and chiromancer traveling through Germany with his successful troupe: the orphaned juggler Greta and his loyal companion Karl. The avaricious Pope Leo X now requires Johann’s services to replenish the papacy’s drained coffers through alchemy. But the devil, with whom a regretful Johann once agreed to an unholy trade for fame, wants something else.

Paul grows up in a typical village in England toward the end of the reign of Henry III. He plays in the medieval mud; he helps his doting mother to make and sell string; he befriends a basilisk. But when he is finally orphaned, Paul begins to wonder about the world outside Dundonnedon. Once he leaves home to find his fortune, Paul quickly learns that it takes more than he has to survive in ye big, olde world. He falls in with a traveling troupe of actors keeping a secret... meets a musical trio of meandering wastrels... waits tables at a family-friendly tavern in the angriest town in the ...

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, ...

Born on Christmas Eve, Arthur Pendragon is the illegitimate son of the married duchess Ygraine and Uther Pendragon, brother of a great king: a union Merlin arranged. But Arthur's birth is not welcomed by everyone: his father demands he be hidden until a legitimate son can be born, and Merlin is forced to give the babe to his own childhood nurse for safekeeping and go into hiding....