Fantasy
The Hoard of Mhorrer
Although not a straight historical novel, The Hoard of Mhorrer effectively blends fantasy with real historical events. This is a…
The Swan Maiden
Every civilization has its Helen of Troy legend, and for Ireland during the Iron Age, that would be the story…
Betraying Season
Betraying Season, the second entry in Marissa Doyle’s entertaining series featuring 19th-century English twin sisters Penelope and Persy Leland, takes…
Ice Land
Ice Land is set in the year 1000 AD in Iceland, where Asgard, the home of the Norse gods, is…
Hand of Isis
Following her critically acclaimed debut Black Ships, Jo Graham returns to the ancient world she depicts so well in Hand…
Bright Dark Madonna
Maiden Maeve on her native Celtic isle (in volume one of The Maeve Chronicles) seemed to have a relationship with…
Shaman Winter
In the late 1990s Albuquerque resident and private investigator Sonny Baca is recovering from his latest run-in with his nemesis,…
Heir to Sevenwaters
Marillier returns to the world of her bestselling Sevenwaters trilogy in this historical fantasy. The house at Sevenwaters exists during…
The Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher
This gorgeously designed book is a journal-within-a-journal, the story of a modern-day photographer who finds the papers and photographs of…
Scarlet
Editors' choice
In the second book of his King Raven trilogy Stephen Lawhead continues his re-imagination of the Robin Hood legend as…
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