Can you trust me, Lady Darkhelm?Perhaps. Perhaps not. But . . . what choice do you have?The West has fallen, and Daine and her allies are in full retreat. Following her disastrous confrontation with the Trellecs, the Knight of the Road finds herself trapped behind the walls of Swinford—with no chance of escape. The King's Army is at their door, and betrayal waits around every corner. With Eliud and Kirsten waylaid elsewhere on their quest t...

"Truly AMAZING... submerged within a fascinating world!"Thirst rules. Ignorance is power. Nothing is as it seems.Centuries after the boom of the Industrial Revolution, sandstorms ravage the land, chivalry is dead, and the frills and frivolities of the Romantic Era are a distant memory.Marshal Cunningham rules Sagebrush Canyon with lies and an iron fist. But after the horrors he wreaks on Jo’s family, she’ll do everything sh...

The life of a sword-for-hire was often uncertain, but for beautiful, sensual Corson brenn Torisk it was the only one worth living.When Corson was hired by the Lady Nyctasia, it seemed that fortune was smiling at last. The Lady was pretty, amusing, and rich, and her reputation for sorcery, she assured her new bodyguard, was greatly exaggerated.For Corson had little liking for magic, and less for magicians. But she had a high regard for her own skin, and when her employer's e...

A girl in the one place she never wanted to be.Meeting the one person she never expected.But what Peggy Nieman doesn't realize is that her life is about to change, as two broken souls fatefully collide. The only question is: will they heal one another ... or destroy one another?Because one thing is certain ... they can't quit one another.

"Truly AMAZING... submerged within a fascinating world!"Escape into a weather-ravaged Victorian America where drifters roam sandstorm-scoured lands and pirates rule lightning-struck seas. This complete series blends historical elements with post-apocalyptic adventure and swoon-worthy romance.What’s Inside:Dust and ShadowEarth and EmberTide and TempestBorne of Sand and ScornT...

Managing an HOA is murder.He championed shooting deer inside the HOA’s nature sanctuary. Now his corpse is posed curbside, cradling a trophy deer head. The theatrical murder panics residents, and Ted Welch asks Kylee Kane, retired Coast Guard investigator, to help his HOA management firm calm fears. Kylee agrees. Her own mother is getting death threats over her crusade to protect the deer.HOA = DOA terror reigns.When a belligerent owner in another H...

Who knew that finding a rare book would also involve running for her life?When Poe Baxter fled her job as an English professor, she was thrilled to be launching into her career as an antiquarian book dealer with a trip to Edinburgh. But she soon finds that her queries into a particular book’s provenance are drawing some less desirable attention to her and her best friend Beattie. Not everyone is interested in sharing this particular story.Will the women...

A collection of eight stories, Digital Extremities shines a spotlight on ordinary people in a callous yet hopeful future. Set across small towns and remote islands, where neon flickers against old buildings and oaks, this collection paints a unique view of a traditionally cyberpunk setting.In 2089, a woman miscarries and seeks a way to find peace amidst overwhelming grief. Years later, a young man must find a way to pay rent outside of his job at the glassblowing studio. A...

Mira Storm Weather often wondered why people thought she was strange. She always thought she lived an ordinary life.However, events at Halloween would prove to Mira just how extraordinary her life could be. She had inherited magical powers.Now Mira must gain knowledge and courage to fight the evil one in her village, and find her true destiny, as a witch.

The ancient and enigmatic continent of Zannondale had seen its fair share of sorrow. Tortured and despoiled by the wars that had devastated its once glittering realms, it still felt the aftereffects centuries later. And now, from far back into the past, a new and more powerful evil than ever is rising, one that threatens to turn Zannondale’s fields to dust and her cities to ashes.The brutal and merciless Baron Chronus has only one desire and that is to rule over all, no matter what...

How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Neo-Charismatic Pentecostalism has some 600 million followers worldwide, and by 2050 their numbers will grow to 1 billion: that's one in ten people. This is the religion of the Holy Spirit, with believers gaining direct experience of God and all that comes with it: success for the mind, body, spirit and wallet.But Pentecostalism is als...

Originally published in 1852, Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie, with contributions from her husband John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, is a vibrant, humorous, and wry description of their arrival and life in the young country of Canada after their immigration in 1832, and settlement in the rugged backwoods of what is now Ontario-unimaginably difficult, but also breathtakingly beautiful by turns.It is filled with hope and passion for the future that Canada may grow to fulfill, ...