The second installment in the world of Ruxandra Dracula. Dark fantasy, historical fiction, horror, paranormal, with a sprinkle of dark romance. Join Princess Ruxandra, as she continues to exist in a world that is brutal and cruel and terrifying, but you’ll love to follow her through it. A slave to her own fears and desires, sometimes, but at her core, good. A gorgeous, complicated immortal, who loves art and beauty, and who risks herself to save the innocent time and time again.

Gudrun grows up behaving sometimes like a boy, sometimes like a girl. After death, she gets a tour of Heaven and its surprises. She is given a job caring for those like herself who have never really come to grips with who they are.This allows her to understand why she’s had a confused life, and her two halves are reunited.She grew up in a turbulent world of war in the 11th century. But she had periods with no memory of the past few years, when it seemed she had changed sex. It couldn’t be true, could it?After a life cut short, she roams Heaven learning her new duties and coming to grips with possibilities she’d never even conceived. Finding her other half at last, it seemed it had all been true - in a way.

Desire calls. Danger Lurks. But...** **When Destiny McCree wakes up beside a dead man on an Oregon beach, she knows only this: she has to keep moving, keep searching, and keep one step ahead of the forces that have been pursuing her from the heart of Scotland to this isolated spot. Why? The death of her lover has left her alone, with little memory of her past. A glimmering serpent-shaped ring is the one clue she has—and a bargaining chip in a most dangerous game. Enter Trae Wilson, a master thief with a sexy, knowing grin and a secret agenda of his own. Destiny and Trae both have powers far beyond the human—and both are running for their lives. Together they’re riding a tide of danger, magic, and lust…but with killers stalking their every move, they must use any means necessary, even each other, to survive—until the shocking secret of one woman’s destiny finally unravels.…

With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all. Magi political elections are imminent, and the factions are in need of a pawn. If Locke agrees to play the role, sorcery will be used to purge the venom from his body - though the process will be so excruciating he may well wish for death. Locke is opposed, but two factors cause his will to crumble: Jean's imploring - and the Bondsmage's mention of a woman from Locke's past: Sabetha. She is the love of his life, his equal in skill and wit, and now, his greatest rival. Locke was smitten with Sabetha from his first glimpse of her as a young fellow orphan and thief-in-training. But after a tumultuous courtship, Sabetha broke away. Now they will reunite in yet another clash of wills. For faced with his one and only match in both love and trickery, Locke must choose whether to fight Sabetha - or to woo her. It is a decision on which both their lives may depend.

He was Ramses the Damned in ancient Egypt, but awoke in opulent Edwardian London as Dr. Ramsey, expert in Egyptology. He mixes with the aristocrats and samples their voluptuous lifestyle, but it is for his beloved, Cleopatra, that he longs, and will do anything to be with.... *From the Trade Paperback edition.*

When Laedron Telpist's sorcery training is interrupted by a knock on the door, what once seemed a proper profession must now be hidden. In a world where priests and mages vie for the limitless power of the elements and a new Grand Vicar has sworn death to all sorcerers, Laedron is tossed into a nightmare which would see his destruction at every turn.When Laedron Telpist's sorcery training is interrupted by a knock on the door, what once seemed a proper profession must now be hidden. In a world where priests and mages vie for the limitless power of the elements and a new Grand Vicar has sworn death to all sorcerers, Laedron is tossed into a nightmare which would see his destruction at every turn.From the home shores in western Sorbia, through the Cael'Brilland heartlands, and even across the seas to the great city of Azura, Laedron finds himself embracing old friends, consorting with unlikely allies, and confronting potent enemies. As he struggles to train himself in spellcraft, Laedron must face that he lives in a time when the utterance of a simple spell could be the signature on his death warrant.

The 5th book in the Tunnels series. The Styx have surfaced. The only ones to stand in their way is Will and his friends, and a rag-tag team of retired commandos.

The latest creature to emerge from Rob's closet is a cross between Chewbacca from Star Wars and Harry Potter. Rob names him "Potterwookiee" ("Hairy" for short) and soon Rob finds himself treading water as he tries to figure out how to care for his mixed-up friend. Great laughs and great books help Rob along the way.

Doctors tell Raj that his son Emret won't survive his illness. As Raj struggles to prepare himself and Emret for the inevitable, he's confronted by Moslin, his son's nurse, who’s been filling Emret’s head with fairytales about heroic quests and powerful disease curing miracles. Emret now thinks that all he has to do is find the mythical Red Tree from the nurse's stories, and he'll live."...a delightfully honest and refreshing tale..." -Amazon Reviewer"...superbly written...full of life and personality..." -Amazon Reviewer"...a gripping fantasy tale that always seems to twist just when you think you know where it's headed." -Amazon Reviewer"A really cool read from an author that I'll be following in the future." -Amazon ReviewerDoctors tell Raj that his son Emret won't survive his illness. As Raj struggles to prepare himself and Emret for the inevitable, he's confronted by Moslin, his son's nurse, who’s been filling Emret’s head with fairytales about heroic quests and powerful disease curing miracles. Emret now thinks that all he has to do is find the mythical Red Tree from the nurse's stories, and he'll live.In an attempt to protect his son from further emotional damage, Raj asks Moslin to stay away from Emret. He returns hours later to find them both missing.He searches the fairytales for clues to where they may have gone and stumbles upon stories that, strangely, he already knows. He saw them in a vision just before his son disappeared.

The First Realm is starting to shake itself apart under the strain of the Second. Dora's new powers offer some hope to stabilise it, but she can't hold the world together and keep tabs on Rel at the same time.And the Clearseer is about to find a new and dangerous ally...In the year 2492, the luxury cruise ship, Hennepin, makes a mysterious emergency stop to the distant Treadway Station. As the ship arrives, Card, a maintenance worker, goes outside to make repairs on the station, and returns an hour later only to find all 25,000 residents have gone missing. As he tries desperately to escape the nightmare unfolding around him, he discovers he may share the same fate as his crewmates.Incident on the Hennepin is a short science fiction story (18 pages, 7931 words) peppered with a mild amount of suspense and horror.

Amelia is a normal teenager, or so she thinks... she is a rare breed, but not just rare she's the only one of her kind. Her blood line is dangerous and she soon finds out why, but that's not all Amelia finds herself in the middle of an ancient battle.When her mother dies Amelia moves to her grandmother's house on the Scottish boarder. She thinks she's just a normal teenage girl but she's about to find out just how wrong she is. She has become of age and because of this everyone who get close to her is in grave danger. Her body and mind are confused and with two boys in the picture hell bent on protecting her can she make the right decision or will her family and friends suffer?

A Fairish and Goat tale. Sparkly the dragon eats some bad troll. Naturally, this leads to profound conversation. Unnaturally, Fairish is beginning to not entirely loathe the one-eyed goatherd she's bound to for all eternity ...On an alien world of giant insects, Rover strives to be like every other drone and mate with the queen. When he isn’t able to perform his drone duties, he struggles for acceptance and finds friendship and love in an unlikely place—among humans. Along Rover’s journey he finds he holds a key to helping humans overcome their infertility on his planet and offers a solution for uniting his people with the newcomers to his world.“The Day of the Nuptial Flight” is a 10,000 word science fiction novelette originally published in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

Short story based on In Search of Infinity: Living Through the Glass following Oscar, the deeply troubled Divine Infinite creator of Cerebes. His status as the all-powerful leader has led him to desire an heir to pass his legacy on to. After a failed attempt to produce a son, Oscar finally fulfills his wish and learns a hard lesson in being careful what you wish for.The sea sings its siren song as Jenny enters the waters. Time lapses but as our foundling notes, time is just a matter of a point of consciousness. She floats on the sea and communes with those like her, the foundlings of Nirvana. She is content, at peace, yet not happy or joyful. She wonders what is missing in her life. It won't take long for her to discover what that missing part is. Could it be that Jenny and the sea are one?

“Books alter men, and men, in their turn, alter worlds.” Soter is a man who has been haunted by World War I. But when he’s sent to investigate the disappearance of Lionel Maudling, the owner of a grand country house whose heir may be accused for his death, he encounters a home that will lead him to nightmares he could have never imagined. Maudling’s estate houses countless books of every sort—histories, dramas, scientific treatises. But none seems to offer Soter any hint to Maudling’s whereabouts, until he’s led to an arcane London bookseller where the reclusive scholar made his last purchase. What Soter finds at the end of a twisted maze of clues is a book like no other, with a legacy that will put everything he knows in danger… An inventive horror novella from internationally bestselling author John Connolly, this is a story of madness, of obsession, and of books’ power to change the world.