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Song of the North
Roman Britannia, AD 366. Minna, a servant girl of mixed Roman and British blood, feels out of place and discontented…
The Serpent Garden
Riley’s exquisite tale begins in England in 1514 and follows the life of Susanna Dallet, daughter of a Flemish artist.…
The Fire Waker
The second in what, judging by the last page, is intended to be a series, The Fire Waker should have…
Gladiatrix
Gladiatrix is set in the 2nd century, at the height of the Roman Empire, whose rulers were a discordant mix…
Christ the Lord:The Road to Cana
The saga of Anne Rice—from lush pseudonymic S&M erotica, through vampires and witches given flesh-and-blood reality we common mortals never…
The Messiah
Author Marek Halter was born in Warsaw and at age five crawled with his family through the sewers to escape…
Mary of Nazareth
When Herod’s mercenaries make one of their nighttime raids on Nazareth, quick-thinking young Miriam—later renamed Mary by census officials—helps the…
Age of Bronze, Volume 3: Betrayal, Part One
Graphic used to mean a novel of Lady Chatterley’s ilk, but now it means what geriatric me calls a comic.…
The Sword of Revenge
Editors' choice
This is the second of a trilogy set in the Roman Republic during the period before Julius Caesar. The first…
The Triumph of Deborah
It’s the early Iron Age, and the Hebrews, surrounded by enemies, struggle to survive in the Promised Land. Judge and…
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