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By the author of Legionnaire, the epic new military fantasy continues: Sane men spend the winter season bundled up in their homes near the fire praying for spring to come, so insanity must be on the rise in Winterhaven. With the tenuous unity of the Great Lords fractured by the failures of the Duke’s army in the west and the accusations of heresy against his son, new armies are secretly mobilizing even in this bitterest of seasons. Yet, can even knights as great as William Lord Tavistock and Sir Conn of Edgefield lead armies to victory after the first snows have fallen?

Jewel's arranged marriage, designed to bring peace and prosperity to the Hegemony of Armen and the Cartelite Worlds, is instead stoking the furnaces of inter-galactic warfare. From the moment of her marriage, the enemies of her Armenite husband—a stern and rigid man she barely knows—seek to use her to prove that the Cartel Worlds are unworthy of an alliance which monopolizes the fuel that makes faster-than-light travel possible. Complicating Jewel’s efforts to protect herself and her people are disturbing changes in her very cell structure—changes she doesn’t want or understand ...

Miss Pandora Parson is a lady gambler making her living at the card table in the rough and tumble West of 1874. Traveling with her is bare knuckle boxer, Corey Callaghan, and Patrick Sullivan, his trainer. In these thirteen stories originally published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, the three friends find themselves hip deep in trouble and depend on Pandora’s brains and Corey’s fists to get them out again.

Jewel ran away from an arranged marriage and the Cartel Worlds with just her wits to help her. She returns as one of the wealthiest and most sought-after people in the galaxy. But with great wealth comes even greater danger. Jewel and her new husband must navigate social norms and political mazes that make avoiding hit squads look easy. And the friends of her childhood aren’t quite the people she remembers. They’re all anxious to renew their relationships with her, but which of them are truly trustworthy? Jewel once forced the narrow-minded Armenites to realize that she was indeed an ...

Marshal Sturm marched his musket men deep into the territory of Ahl-Alnaar Ashomol—clear to legendary Madinat Alharir, “the Wandering City.” High Sheik Rami and his top officials are Sturm’s prisoners and the bulk of Rami’s army is further south fighting his rebellious cousin, Sheik Asim, unaware that their ruler has been captured by the hated warriors of Wotan. Now, with the wealthiest city in the empire defenseless before him, Sturm has no choice but to attempt to conquer it—but what chance does his small militia have of controlling half a million southerners who worship the ...

It’s Christmas time in Hadrian’s Well. In most of the country, it’s a period of peace, relaxation, and the renewal of bonds between friends and family, juxtaposed with an equal measure of stress, anxiety and arguments over who is cooking the turkey and who will bring the cranberry sauce. For Undersheriff Joanna Donovan’s chronically understaffed sheriff’s department, it’s all of that plus a dash of new preternatural hazards. But this year is going to be even tougher than usual. In addition to the typical holiday bustle, Amara, the ex-girlfriend of Joanna’s brother, shows up ...

Many feel that the Laws of Wotan clearly prohibit the use of muskets in combat, but that didn’t prevent the Empire of Anjou from introducing them and transforming the face of warfare forever. Now, a full generation after the heretical weapons drove the High Kingdom of Kriegsturm firmly onto the defensive, neither side is yet using the gun to its full potential. That’s about to change. Lieutenant Marshal Sturm, one of a handful of survivors of a battalion decimated by the musket-hating doctrine of his superiors, has developed a new tactic that could flip the battlefield upside down. The ...

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: As an attractive lady gambler in the wild west, Miss Pandora Parson is used to getting a fair share of attention from gentleman admirers. But what is she to do when the man is no gentleman and refuses to take “no” for an answer?

While Marcus Venandus and his legion pluck a second jewel from the crown of Thegn Clovis in Diamonte, Lord Unwen’s army moves in for the kill in Amatista. He has assembled the greatest military force ever seen in the Southern Jeweled Hills and he is determined to crack Amatista wide open with it. Faced with siege engines, scaling ladders, magic, and treachery, while its own legion is far away in Diamonte, how can Amatista hope to survive? Were all of the legion’s valiant efforts for naught? Can anything stop the Fall of Amatista?

Hadrian’s Well hasn’t had an easy time of it lately. Half of the town’s deputies are either dead or incapacitated from a nosferatu attack and the rock troll rampaging through the jurisdiction didn’t improve the situation. Now, Undersheriff Joanna Donovan learns she has to police the annual Oktoberfest celebration with town volunteers rather than hiring trained law enforcement professionals. Yet happy beer-guzzling tourists aren’t the only visitors coming to Hadrian’s Well this season. Will Joanna and her small force be able to protect the town, or will Hadrian's Well be overrun ...

A love story with a supernatural twist by the author of Legionnaire. Middle class, average-Joe, Paul Steele dies minutes after a terrible argument with his wife—dies, but doesn’t quite depart for the hereafter. Instead he wakes in the body of billionaire energy-magnate, Griffon Knight, and no one—not even his wife, Char—will believe he’s come back from the dead to be with her again. Trying to convince her he’s still Paul only succeeds in making her think Griffon is crazy. Yet Paul is not the kind of man who ever gave up easily and he’s not going to quit until he wins his wife ...

The Pembroke Steel and Tales of the Tomahawk series collide in this gripping short novel revealing what really happened when Mitch Pembroke, Kit Moran, and Ansen Grost met in between the Allied and German armies in No Man’s Land. After the war, the three men would encounter many creatures that modern science could not explain, but it was in the ruins of an old church surviving between the two armies that they first learned how dark the world truly is. A peril that dwarfs the threat posed by the Germans is creeping out to feed and demonstrate the true reason why the area is called No Man's...

Earl Marshal Sturm just crushed the invasion of Kriegsturm by Ahl-Alnaar, but unless he can teach the southerners a hard lesson, the Sturm Front knows that his saber-rattling neighbors will return. With this in mind, Sturm has gathered a force roughly half the size of the army he just defeated to venture down the Spice Road toward the legendary city of Madinat Alharir. He knows he’s walking a tightrope. If he can humiliate High Sheik Rami though further losses, he can put an end to the man’s ambitions to conquer Kriegsturm. But if he loses this army, there is nothing left in Al-Andalus ...

The unicorn, one of the greatest of the legendary creatures, is all but extinct in the world with only three surviving in the Black Forest in Germany. At least, there were only three until one impossibly shows up in Hadrian’s Well—the very first to ever be sighted in the Americas. The appearance excites people in a way that rock trolls, brownies, water nymphs, and nosferatu couldn’t—attracting politicians and thousands of tourists to the small town to see the endangered creature. But not everyone has the animal’s best interests at heart and if Undersheriff Donovan and her deputies...

Marcus and his legion have knocked Morgantia and Granate out of the war, but that didn’t stop Diamonte from laying siege to his adopted home of Amatista. The invading army is simply too large to confront directly, so Marcus has determined to invade Diamonte itself to force his enemies to break their siege and come defend their own homes. There’s only one problem with the plan. Diamonte has an army of reinforcements heading through Angosto Pass toward Amatista and a second army trailing after the legion trying to catch it from behind. Can Marcus blaze his way through the opposition or ...

After capturing the cities of Malaquita and Hessonita in a surprise invasion of Diamonte, Marcus and his legionnaires now have to face a Diamonte host that dwarfs the legion and its cavalry. To defeat it, he develops an audacious plan to wear down the enemy soldiers while preparing to deliver Diamonte its most humiliating loss yet. His only problem is that his allies are less trustworthy than his enemies. Can Marcus and his legionnaires outwit friend and foe alike to win their most important victory yet?

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: All is not right at Fort Bridger. Miss Pandora Parson and Corey Callaghan arrive to give testimony in Lieutenant Ridgewood’s dereliction of duty trial. With the court inclined against him, it looks like the good lieutenant is going to be found guilty. The only thing standing between an honest soldier and an unjust conviction is a certain lady gambler and her bare-knuckle boxer friend.

This book can be ordered at a 66% discount if ordered before 2/13/23. Young Willem has survived battles and assassinations, but his claim to his father’s lordship will not be secure until his formal Oathtaking at a ceremony attended by the Great Lords of the duchy. For those who still hope to push him aside, time is getting perilously short. Yet those who have already acted against him are not as dangerous as the great men who are coming; and those who wish him ill have so many ways to dispose of one irritating young man. Be it through the joust, the duel, or even open rebellion, ...

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine: When lady gambler, Miss Pandora Parson, and bare-knuckle boxer, Corey Callaghan board the train out of Cheyenne, all they’re expecting is a hot dry ride through the August countryside. A simple game of cards looks like the perfect way to pass the time. Little could they know that one of their fellow passengers has a little mayhem on his mind—enough so to make this one memorable Pandora’s Journey.

If not for the quick action of a passing stranger, Mina Raintree’s bad-news sister would have bled out in the road. Now the hit-and-run driver who put her in the hospital has fixated on Mina with pathological fury. He wants something Ally stole from him, and the stranger who saved Ally’s life is the only thing standing between Mina and the madman. But who is this good Samaritan who’s always at the wrong place at the right time to help Mina? And is he, like Ally’s crazy-eyed assailant much more than he appears to be? There’s a supernatural community hiding within Philadelphia ...