Five years ago, one of the wealthiest businessmen in America was assassinated by a professional sniper who was never caught. Now, the dead man's brother has finally tracked down the killer. The assassin, a man known only as Kelton, has retired and is happily married, living on the outskirts of London, his past buried and forgotten.But when a bomb explosion kills Kelton's wife and maims his daughter, the past comes flooding back, and now it is Kelton's turn to seek revenge -- with t...

Four hundred years in the future, two superpowers have carved up the galaxy and share an uneasy truce.But the Union launches a clandestine mission to kill the Empire's leader, setting in motion a train of events that leads to a revelation that will forever change the balance of power. In response, the Empire unleashes the ultimate weapon, propelling a Union spy into a timestream populated by only one other person: a young physicist from a backward planet he calls Earth, who is desp...

A quarter of a century ago, Andrew Barclay wrote a best-selling novel. He has never produced another book. Now a young PhD student from Los Angeles has tracked down the recluse to a backward town in a third-world Central American country.Looking for material for her thesis, she visits the writer; but instead of the brilliant author of memorable prose she finds an aging alcoholic whose twenty-five-year effort to produce another novel has generated nothing he deems worthy of publicat...

In this second book about the land of Palindor, Malthazzar's devious general, Shadow, pits Michael against his mother, the High Queen Catherine, as Reglandor invades the Third Land.Each believing that the other is evil, Catherine and Michael are led toward their inevitable confrontation, while behind the scenes Malthazzar gloats as his revenge against Catherine unfolds.

In this third book set in the Three Lands of Abuscân, Catherine returns to Palindor along with her middle-aged son Michael and her rebellious teenaged grand-daughter, Diana.The book intertwines the stories of Catherine, Michael and Diana, along with many other characters from the earlier books, as well as several new ones. For the first time we meet Phendric, the grandson of Drefynt, of whom it was prophesied long ago that he would be "great and saving ", and Toldwyn, long dead and...

The world's first thinking machine has been created -- not by a university or a research organization, but by a brilliant iconoclast working on a British Caribbean island and funded by a shadowy Japanese group descended from the ancient samurai class.A secret group inside the American government co-opts a young NSA signals intelligence agent to work with one of its own agents in order to obtain the machine from the Japanese.But they aren't the only ones interested in steali...

Couched in the form of extracts from the diary of a young female poet, D. R. Evans carries us intimately from her earliest memories through her college career as a scholarship winner at an elite Oxford college, engagement and marriage, emigration to America, and her eventual death of cancer in South Dakota.The pages are filled with Penny's doubts (many) and certainties (few), her early successes and mounting failures and frustrations, and her search for meaning in a world in which ...

In the ski resort of Pinetree, Colorado, a middle-aged lawyer collapses and dies.At first, the explanation seems obvious. There are just a couple of loose ends that don't quite make sense. But the more the police and his next of kin try to build a picture of how Matthew Chambers died, the more it seems like something is seriously wrong somewhere.In All or Nothing, D. R. Evans brings his knack for astute characterization to the mystery genre, giving us a novel in which death...

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In the hills of Arkansas, two convicts flee an accident when they are being transported to prison. On the run, they take a family hostage, but the fugitives reckon without the faith and resourcefulness of the family they have taken prisoner.One of the fugitives lost his own faith years before; but as the police close in he must come to terms with the events that caused him to lose faith, and decide whether he can keep running from the law... and from God.Nowhere to Run was ...

Many years ago in the land of Palindor, a fire swept through the Holy Barrows of Perendeth, destroying all the books of knowledge and taking the lives of all the Holy Gnomes who lived and studied there. At least, that is what the citizens of Palindor believe. But two young gnomes, the brothers Trondwyth and Drefynt, escaped the fire that fateful night.Now an ancient evil threatens Palindor. The once good Queen Cerebeth has ruled for many years, but remains mysteriously young... and...

The War of the Spider Queen explodes!From the burning sands of Anauroch to the limitless labyrinth of the Underdark, an epic quest for the very essence of the Spider Queen takes one startling turn after another. Powerful forces are at work to find answers to where Lolth has gone. She may return as something greater than she was, or she may have gone from her drow children forever, leaving them to their own devices in a chilling Condemnation...