Mystery, murder, and adventure on Mars…Mars in 1815 is a world of wonders, from the hanging ballrooms of Tharsis City to the air forests of Patagonian Mars, and from the ice caves of Noachis Terra to the Great Wall of Cyclopia, beyond which dinosaurs still roam.Now the famous jewel thief, the Glass Phantom, has come to Mars, and sixteen-year-old Harriet George’s hapless brother-in-law, Bertrand, has been ordered to track him down. Bertrand has never been mu...

A missing Martian. A sinister plot. A Napoleonic spy. . . Boundless adventures await in Book 2 of The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb middle grade sci-fi series!If Edward thought life was going to be easy in Lunae City, he was very, very wrong. The moment he intercepts a thief escaping from Lady Harleston’s town house, he is caught in a terrible scheme that threatens all of Mars. Soon he’s fighting off vicious sea serpents, battling a small army of heav...

Mars in 1816 is a world of high society, deadly danger, and strange clockwork machines. Pterodactyls glide through the sky, automatic servants hand out sandwiches at elegant garden parties, and in the north, the great dragon tombs hide marvels of Ancient Martian technology.Twelve-year-old Edward Sullivan has always dreamed of becoming a spy like the ones he reads of in his favorite sci-fi magazine, Thrilling Martian Tales. Instead, he spends his days keeping his eccentric family fro...

A ghost searches for revenge in ancient Egypt. A boy unearths the bones of a dragon. A girl risks awakening a dark god to save her dog…He reached out a hand and touched Grace’s cheek. The touch made her shiver. “You can’t save everyone, Grace.”“I don’t want to,” Grace whispered. “Just her.”At the Gates and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen fantasy short stories.Reviews of stories in this collection"This is th...

Nik Thorn should know better than to get involved with gods.But when a priest of a hated god asks Nik to save his life, Nik can hardly refuse, particularly when the priest knows exactly how, where, when, and why he is going to be killed. How hard can it be?Of course, that’s not Nik's only problem. When is it ever? A god has been murdered, the city’s high mages are about to go to war, and fury is rising in the streets.Agatos will burn.The...

Mystery, murder, and mosasaurs, with a fabulous girl-spy heroine.Mars, 1816. For almost a year, Harriet George has been training to be a spy in the British-Martian Intelligence Service and things are not going well. She has been failing in tasks she knows she ought to be able to achieve. Now she has been given her first assignment, and Harriet knows that if she doesn’t succeed, it will also be her last.Together with her brother-in-law, Bertrand, Harriet has...

Becoming a mage-for-hire hasn't quite turned out the way Nik Thorn hoped.Sometimes you just have to take whatever job is on offer, whether it's a missing pet, a curse to break, or tracking down a cheating husband. And sometimes it turns out to be something else altogether.And if theft, murder, and blackmail aren't enough, there's a high mage involved.This is not what Nik signed up for.Meet Nik Thorn for the first time in this pre...

What do a smuggling gang, a curse that won't go away, and a frequently lost dog have to do with each other?Answer: they're all here to disrupt Mennik Thorn's hard-earned peace and quiet.As the sole freelance mage in the city of Agatos, Mennik is used to some odd clients and awful jobs. But this time, one of his clients isn't giving him a choice. Mennik might have forgotten about the smugglers whose operations he disrupted, but they haven't forgotten about h...

A cat, smart and cunning, clever and mischievous but very helpful: he is just the sort of friend we’d all like by our sides.The youngest of three orphan brothers is left destitute after his parents’ death. But such an apparently sad situation takes a quite unexpected turn for the better when he inherits what appears at first to be a small, quite ordinary cat.But it turns out to be the greatest inheritance of all! Our cat is not only clever and brave, but he is also a talkin...

Sleuth of St. James's Square, The by Melville Davisson Post offers a concentrated, compelling experience within fiction / mystery & detective. This concise work presents carefully drawn characters and purposeful plotting that together explore themes of choice, consequence, and human connection. The prose is precise and economical, balancing vivid scenes with clear pacing to maintain narrative momentum. Ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful, accessible read, the book is well-suited to book...

A retelling of the classic fairy tale for 21st century youngsters by a master storyteller.We are all familiar with Puss in Boots, of course, but there is a lot more to him than a pair of boots. What about the hungry snake or the rabbits? The story as we usually hear it today is a very much shortened version of the original.Fairy Stories have been told for hundreds and hundreds of years. No one really knows when they started or who first wrote them - or told them I expect. T...