The Adventures of Grant Scotland series is an entertaining mix of fantasy, mystery and espionage featuring a hero whose many faults provide almost as much challenge to him as the formidable obstacles he must face as he attempts to impose sanity upon a world rapidly descending into chaos. This collection contains the first three books in the series: Spy for a Dead Empire, Spy for a Troubled King and Spy for a Wayward Daughter.

AELFA, THE GRAND CAPITAL of the once mighty Aelfan Empire, has fallen. Barbarian leaders now inhabit her buildings and attempt to ape her customs. Meanwhile, war parties and nomadic tribes still harass her broken legions across the shattered remains of her once rich lands. All that stands against them now is the city of Zyren, the last bastion of Aelfan rule.But at least one man in the captured city stands with Zyren, too. Grant Scotland, a man leading a double life because his own...

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AMONG THE ASHES of the mighty Aelfan Empire, the House of Gregyan seeks to forge a new kingdom—one where both Huthan and Aelfan alike can prosper. But old prejudices and ancient traditions and an exiled enemy threaten the peace. Caught between compassion for his home and allegiance to his fallen empire, Grant Scotland finds himself trapped in the turbulent machinations of enemies and friends. As he works to uncover mysteries about his past and new threats to his future, he moves perilously...

Racial tensions in Aelfa simmer and threaten to boil over when the harbormaster is found dead and the Huthan oppressors threaten to crack down in the Lower Docks. As Grant Scotland finds more questions than answers in the journals of Berthul Magnussen about his father's treachery, he is drawn into a murder investigation, a kidnapping plot and the nefarious machinations of the city's biggest crime lord—Mr. Quinn. In order to stop Quinn's plans and save the city from being thrown into open r...

Rapid changes come to Aelfa, a city ruled by a foreign king but controlled by a crime boss. While King Reynard remains absent, the nefarious Mr. Quinn spreads his own influence and increases his power. Everyone in the city seems to be under his thumb, including the luckless Grant Scotland, caught in the middle of a web of intrigue and trying desperately to unravel the machinations of those thirsting to make a play for power in the once-proud ancient city. When a mysterious foreign investor...

China thirsts for more energy resources, the prize of the New Great Game going on across the globe involving adventurers, analysts, sailors and spies. In the eye of the storm, Lieutenant Paul Bennett of the US Office of Naval Intelligence must navigate the hidden dangers on his mission to uncover the truth before sparks ignite and turn this unseen conflict into a naval war on the edge of Asia.

BETRAYED, ABANDONED, AND POSSIBLY HUNGOVER, Grant Scotland returns for one more adventure. Aelfa is being invaded, his oldest friends are now his enemies, and the mysterious Books of Creation and Unity are sprouting up like weeds in his own backyard. Powerful people are targeting Aelfa as the place for a world-changing event and Grant, as usual, can't seem to get out of the crosshairs.

GRANT SCOTLAND HAS A LEAD on finding a man who might be able to tell him the truth about his father's treason. When his quest for justice leads him to the dark world of another family's intrigue, he finds that not even the frontiers of the Aelfan Empire are far enough away to escape the dangers of fortune and fate.

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When a Music Hall hypnotist escapes from the London County Asylum she leaves a single word on the wall of her cell - scrawled in blood: ‘MAGISTER’.Terror then stalks the capital’s streets as the killing spree begins. But why does Superintendent William Melville of The Special Branch call upon the skills of brilliant stage magician Michael Magister and his glamorous assistant Phoebe Le Breton to help capture the murderer? Especially as Michael is one of those named on the death list...

To catch a killer, send a monster.There's a realm. Wreathed in ice and snow, drowning in the dark, Assevan needs a different kind of hero.There's a god. Merciless and cold, and quick to anger, the Lord of the Dead insists upon one thing only: vengeance for a murdered soul.And there's a man. A ruthless killer, Konrad is detective, judge and executioner in one. Dauntless, relentless, monstrous, he stands alone against the dark.Meet the Malykan...