Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis.All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story originsTable of ContentsLa Belle Dame – Sabrina N. BalmickThe Sea Bank of Svalbard South – Octavia CadeThe Heresy Machine – Gerald WarfieldSpoiler: She Leaves Him – Jack Noble

Love is a weakness.Confessing to a crime he didn’t commit to save his lover’s life should’ve been simple. Not easy, but simple. The penalty for treason was certainly death, and Jace came to terms with that the moment he’d made his decision to protect the man he loved.It might’ve been simple, too, if it wasn’t for Elias Ivers.Even when the witch purchases him instead of killing him, Jace is positive he can withstand anything. No witch can break a werewolf, not even the ...

Brought to you by Penguin.In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for "The Eagle has landed."It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle, Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil.But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight ...For in that remote cor...

The breathtaking sequel to the all-time classic, THE EAGLE HAS LANDED, reissued for a new generationThe greatest World War Two story of all time – is not over…By the end of 1943, all evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Churchill has been carefully buried in an unmarked grave in the Norfolk village of Studley Constable.But two of the most wanted ringleaders are still alive…In the fourth hard winter of war, British Intelligence pick ...

The Hundred Years' War is over and newly-knighted Sir John Hawkwood is headed for France to make his fortune as a freebooter. Violence and extortion are rife, and the freebooters will stop at nothing to capture the Papal City of Avignon. This is only the beginning: Italy beckons, and with it, yet more battles against rival mercenaries, powerful cities and the Papal State.

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Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. The best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's first year. Mysterious languages, unusual dogs, solitude, alien communications, and magic. Stories from Joshua Phillip Johnson, Elise Forier Edie, Vanessa Fogg, Gerald Warfield, Meryl Stenhouse, Jeremy Packert Burke, Molly Etta, Jack Noble, Aatif Rashid, L. Chan, Kato Thompson, Jarod K. Anderson, and Octavia Cade. Contents:

A KGB-trained IRA assassin has gone rogue and is hellbent on killing the Pope. The IRA, KGB and British Secret Service are all after him, but can Liam Devlin get there first? Classic Jack Higgins for the new generation.Operating in Ireland to keep the cycle of violence between the IRA and British Intelligence at a fever pitch, hit man Cuchulain targets the pope as his ultimate victim, and two enemies become the only people who can stop him.The third book in the Liam Devlin ...

Classic adventure from the million copy bestseller Jack HigginsIf there’s such a thing as a grade A terrorist then his name is Frank Barry. His ideology is money and his track record is flawless.When the Russians want review copies of the latest NATO missile system, Barry’s the man to deliver them.Stopping him will be near enough impossible, but one man knows all the moves. Martin Brosnan is a poet, scholar and trained killer. A graduate of Vietnam and polished in t...

She can't see the killer But the killer can see her ... Naomi Hannah has been blind since birth. Struggling with living in a small, claustrophobic town, Naomi contemplates ending her life. But then she stumbles across the body of a young woman who has been brutally murdered. She senses someone else there at the scene – watching her. Naomi may not be able to see the killer's face, but she is still the only person who can identify him. As the police begin hunting the person responsible and m...