Fantasy
The Philosopher’s Flight
If you can get past the absurd source of the “magic” that powers this world (sigils drawn in various powders…
Hiddensee
Maguire is one of the first and finest modern fantasists to translate fairy tale characters into realistic historical settings, and…
Call of the Morrigu
It’s 1798, a particularly tense time in always rebellious English-occupied Ireland. However, the troubles haven’t yet reached the country estate…
A Gathering of Ravens
This novel creates a rich, grim fantasy world made from Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic myth with strands of Tolkien. Obscure…
Stone Circle
In 16th-century Pesaro on the Adriatic coast, Antonius, a young man of common background, is born with an ability to…
Perilous Prophecy
This reprint of the prequel to Hieber’s Strangely Beautiful series weaves Greek mythology into a supernatural Victorian England and Cairo.…
The Tiger’s Daughter
In an Asiatic medieval fantasy world, the Hokkaran Empire rules most lands. But a dark evil surrounds the empire, invading…
Summerwode
1194, England: As this book opens, Templar assassin Guy de Gisbourne, born as noble Gamelyn Boundys, camps in the Shire…
Dark Maiden
Editors' choice
When we first meet the Black Maiden Yolande in 1350, she is crouching behind a tub armed with bow and…
Witchborn
Editors' choice
1577. Elizabeth I has returned England to a moderate Protestantism. However, some think that her cousin, the Catholic Mary, Queen…
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