A new adventure of Peter Crossman, special agent of the Knights Templar — a man prepared to administer last rites with one hand while wielding a flamethrower with the other. Now an ancient manuscript of peculiar power has surfaced, and Crossman's assignment is simple: Get it for the Temple at all costs. This will lead to conflict with entities secular and otherwise — and to a new encounter with Sister Mary Magdalene of the Special Action Executive of the Poor Clares. From the husband-wife ...

Before her adventures begin in the acclaimed Mageworlds series, Beka Rosselin-Metadi was just trying to be a regular spacer, flying under an assumed name so she could experience life out from under the constant shadow of her famous war-hero parents. Her first shore-leave is on the avaricious asteroid of Suivi Point, where she and shipmate Ignaceu LeSoit set out to find themselves a good time. The good time finds them first, though, as Ignac' is kidnapped and Beka is dragged into a murder p...

The Prequel to Mageworlds:First their scoutships appeared above the outplanets. Raiding parties followed, then whole armadas bent on loot and conquest. The Mages break the warfleets that oppose them. They take entire planets. Who can stop them?Not Perada Rosselin, Domina of Entibor. She's the absolute ruler of a rich world and all its colonies, but Entibor's space fleet is too small to mount a defense. And Perada herself, just back from school on distant Galcen, is almost an ...

The new novel in the sweeping Mageworlds series.On the planet Entibor, Arekhon sus-Khalgath sus Peledaen has found shelter and domestic tranquility with his old love, Elaeli Inadi, at the price of what he had left behind: a dispersed and shattered Mage-Circle, an estranged brother who had tried to kill him, and a homeworld on the cusp of massive cultural upheaval.Arekhon finds himself impelled homeward by strange dreams and prophetic visions. The Great Workin...

A pilot goes undercover to hunt down an assassin in this classic space opera adventure sequel to The Price of the Stars.Blockaded, restricted, and forgotten—the Mageworlds would never threaten the Republic again.A broken and drifting ship, it's long-dead captain still strapped in the command seat: that's what free-spacers call a starpilot's grave. When one of these derelict craft appears in the Net, the artificial barrier zone separating the Republic...

The Fifth Book of Mageworlds:Welcome to Khesat, glittering jewel of the Central Worlds. Khesat, where decadence is an art form and intrigue is a way of life--and where, more than twenty years after the end of the Second Magewar, power struggles within the ruling family threaten both the Mageworlds and the Republic.The Khesatan crisis has broken the spaceways apart, reviving old alliances and buried rivalries. Warring factions, criminal guilds, and supranormal forces all have ...

"So cool! Sort of like if the Pope and Aleister Crowley had written James Bond."-- Rosemary EdghillContains:"Stealing God"The Holy Grail has vanished and it's up to Peter Crossman to get it back."Selling the Devil"A headless corpse, a holy sword, and a missing girl; Peter Crossman has until dawn to find the common link."Sleeping Kings"The Spear of Destiny was supposed to be safely hidden. Why do a bunch of cultists think they have ...

Contains:"The Last Real New Yorker in the World"It's the future. New York City is an amusement park. And the guy who calls himself The Last Real New Yorker in the World is about to get an offer he can't refuse."Dies Irae"First time in print! A military SF story in the Groogleman/Land of Mist and Snow continuity."Remailer"Pretty Enid is looking for lost Fremont. She hires a not-reporting to look for him. That starts a wild ride of mystery and dea...

When Val Sherwood and her friends went for a hike with the Sunset Hills Ecology Club, they didn't expect to see more than the usual wildlife. But when stories told around the camp fire came true, Val had to find a way to live 'til morning.The first published work by the award-winning and best-selling team of Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, reprinted here for the first time, "Bad Blood" inspired a series of three young-adult horror novels.

Contains:The Queen's MirrorHolly and IvyJenny NettlesA Tremble in the AirWitch Garden

"Foreshadowing of impending doom and a bit of dark humor woven into the story kept me waiting in suspense for what what was to come." -- Sift Book Reviews +++ This story originally appeared in Newer York, edited by Lawrence Watt Evans, Roc, 1991. +++

Told in the spirit of an old sailor's fireside tale, "Jenny Nettles" is a middle-grade supernatural story set on the high seas, featuring true-to-life historical detail, real seafaring superstitions, and a delicate introduction to the atrocities suffered by the Scottish Highlanders after the Battle of Culloden and the Jacobite Rebellion. First published in Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers, "Jenny Nettles" provides a spooky scare and an engaging gateway to learning more.A spec...