From Ireland to India, Hong Kong to London, join a cast of wanderers, ancient heroes, and more for adventures that go to the heart of what matters most in life. For the first time ever you can get 5 Rucksack Universe books in one e-book box set:WanderThe Martini of DestinyHome Sweet RoadForever the RoadThe Lotus and the BarleyThe Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fi...

The world could be hers.After leaving her native Ireland nearly a decade ago on her sixteenth birthday, Aisling has traveled the world in pursuit of one goal: Make her own destiny, on her terms, and become known as the greatest fiddler in the world in the process.Now, in Cairo, Egypt, at an impromptu party at the pyramids, a man shows up and offers her the world… as long as she earns it.If only her past hadn’t turned up too.A grumpy camel. A...

Lost parents. An unescapable city. A daughter who will not stop.Soarsha wants three things for her tenth birthday: sushi, chocolate cake, and listening to Wandering Heroes with her dad.Sure, she longs to find her mom, lost in the wasteland beyond Dedalo’s prison-bar skyscrapers and impassable ringwall. Yeah, she wishes her classmates would stop tormenting her. Especially after she sneezed during her bully’s sharing time.Better to let the shadow mons...

An ugly satchel holds an uglier truth.Nia Fox gave up everything for Guru Deep, so the perfect CEO could have the perfect executive assistant at his beck and call, every moment.Nia loves working for Guru Deep. He sees a path for the future that few comprehend. She knows today’s groundbreaking ceremony for the Lotus, the new company headquarters in south London, dominates Guru Deep’s thoughts.But why did he insist on wearing that damn satchel? The br...

Finally. Proof.In the Mexico City night, the cops freed the prisoners and locked up their torturers. Nearby, the reporter picked up a torn scrap of fabric.What looks like plain black silk turns out to be covered in subtle yet intricate patterns.The very tongue of life, rendered in thread.Something small. Torn from something larger. World-renowned roving journalist BS Trotter knows that little clues add up to big revelations.And she k...

The truth sleepsAednat had nothing but her family, until The Blast took them and everything Aednet knew of home in Ireland. Aednat finds herself in France, with people who seem more like myths, in a rich world unlike anywhere she ever dreamed of belonging.Yet in caves in Ireland, strange images from the past tell the tale of a present unfolding in fire.Aednat and her companions make their way to find answers to the questions burning the world. But i...

The trouble is, kindness is trouble.Disgraced. Jobless. Kicked out of the butler's guild. Pennyton believed he had done the right thing. The kind thing. Look where that got him. Yet when he answers a surprise knock on his door, Pennyton finds himself where he least expected: on a one-night gig driving a carriage for a rich journalist who paid in full and up front.Trouble is, now Pennyton sits on his freezing arse. In the dark. On a hard carriage seat behind impatient horses...

One little package. So much trouble.Turn over the dream, or die. Rebecca’s job, her life, have all been a lie. But if the price for knowing the truth is death, what can she do against the very people she used to work for?The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue—all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair’s storytelling has “unive...

The trouble is, kindness is trouble.Disgraced. Jobless. Kicked out of the butler’s guild. Pennyton believed he had done the right thing. The kind thing. Look where that got him. Yet when he answers a surprise knock on his door, Pennyton finds himself where he least expected: on a one-night gig driving a carriage for a rich journalist who paid in full and up front.Trouble is, now Pennyton sits on his freezing arse. In the dark. On a hard carriage seat behind...

Not all that gleams is light.“Guru Deep and I met in the receiving room at the penthouse of his hotel in London, four days after his father’s murder.“The death of Deep Inc. CEO Guru Deep has left the business world reeling. Within hours of the discovery of the bloody scene at a Kyoto, Japan, subway station by local police, word spread not only around the world but also into the sky, where the disemboweled corporate genius’s twenty-five-year-old...

The bite is worse than the burn.Not knowing who he is, where he is, or what he is, Unnamed awakens under a dark sky full of smoke. Who is he? Why are his clothes… and his skin… in tatters? In a world on fire, what sort of person will he become?The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue—all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair’s storytel...

Good dog. Bad man.Highlow will never understand humans. Not even his wonderful sausage-giving Master.Humans smell through their eyes, talk instead of sniffing arses, and believe there's a maximum number of sausages a dog should eat at one time.What Highlow really doesn't understand, though, is the strange, hard, round thing he finds near the Black Cliffs of Dover. He especially doesn't understand why some newly arrived, orange-suited Fancyman is so ...