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Author Sarah Kennedy is clearly as gifted as her main character, almost supernaturally at home in the 16th century as she combines the striking vocabulary of the time with her own poetic talents to create a rich and original tapestry of language. Such writing! Sarah Kennedy brings a lost world blazingly to life. Lee Smith Sarah Kennedy reanimates lost perspectives of Tudor England in her . . . story of Catherine, a former nun displaced by Henr...

1549. Freed from the galleys, the Scottish Reformer John Knox continues his mission as God's messenger to strike at the roots of papistry. A prophet without honor in his own land, he is welcomed as a chaplain by Edward VI in England. But by challenging the liturgy of the English Protestant Church, he makes dangerous enemies, and with Edward's untimely death and the accession of the Catholic Mary Tudor, Knox is forced to flee persecution. Despi...

Hailes Castle, 1511. Midnight on a doom-laden Hallowe'en and Elisabeth Hepburn, feisty daughter of the Earl of Bothwell, makes a wish - to wed her lover, the poet David Lindsay. But her uncle has other plans. To safeguard the interests of the Hepburn family she is to become a nun and succeed her aunt as Prioress of St. Mary's Abbey, Haddington. However, plunged into the political maelstrom and religious turmoil of the early Scottish Reformati...

Love, murder, betrayal, and adventure with the transportation of convicts from Britain in 1787 and the founding of the penal colony that became Australia. With the American colonies closed to Britain the goals overflowed and the criminal under-class posed a growing threat to the property-owning classes. A solution was required to deal with the overcrowded prisons. The answer lay in colonizing the continent on the far side of the world - Terra ...

The second in the Jack Vizzard series of historical fiction following the events of First Fleet. Lieutenant Vizzard is sent to the coast of France as that turbulent country declares war on Britain. His mission: escort and protect a government agent carrying valuable intelligence of vital importance to Prime Minister Pitt's government. Captured by a traitor, Vizzard must first escape France, then survive, then make his way home across dangerous...

A chance meeting in a tavern on Martinique brings a man from Brewer's past back into his life. Brewer discovers this man - a mentor of his when he was a raw midshipman - has turned to piracy, and Brewer is determined to track him down and end his reign of terror over British shipping in the Caribbean. Captain Brewer soon discovers that still waters run deep when he is kidnapped by his former mentor and warned to stop while he still can. With t...

Cammy and Vlad are back! Cammy is still grieving after violent death of her friend Heather, but her life is about to get way more complicated. First, there's the appearance of children who can turn invisible, then a stalker huldra - a magical creature with a tendency to kill her lovers - follows her to her place of work, and there are all the unanswered questions her friends keep asking her. But it isn't just Cammy having problems, Vlad must ...

By 1781, the American Revolution had been going on for six years. The British are unable to decisively defeat the Continental Army and end the rebellion. Even though the British Navy now controls the port city of Charleston, South Carolina, local militia are proving very effective at disrupting British overland supply lines and avenging predations. Royal Navy captain Darren Smythe is in love with Melody Winters, a rebel living in British-occu...

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A real game of Thrones that changed Europe Lies, intrigue, betrayal: An average day at the Congress of Vienna. Kings, Czars, and Emperors dance a diplomatic minuet what will determine the fate of Europe for a century. Officially, Royal Marine Major Thomas Pennywhistle is the British Naval Attaché. Unofficially, he is on a covert mission to protect the prince Regent. Because the man who murdered his brother is the same one who threatens his pri...

It is late 1797, and Ireland teeters on the brink of rebellion. Seventeen-year-old James Lockwood, fresh from school, defies his aristocratic father and takes a commission with the Westmeath Militia Regiment. Posted to the regimental barracks, he is thrown head-first into military life, struggling to fit in while grappling with the duties of a junior officer. He faces numerous challenges: the Irish enlisted men are distrustful of their officer...

Captain William Brewer has returned from the South Atlantic with hopes of spending some time with his wife, Elizabeth, and their new daughter, Anne. There is a new threat in the Caribbean - a pirate named Black Rose has created a panic among merchant sailors. The attacks are becoming increasingly violent and deadly, and the pirate always leaves a calling card to claim responsibility - a single black rose on a victim's body. Brewer is drawn in ...

1976: USS Redstone, the oldest ship in the Fleet, is ground zero for the newest idea in the Navy: integrating women onto ships. While engineers of Redstone labor to prepare quarters for women, the ship is tapped to bring priceless cargo across the Atlantic for a public relations tour. The State Department wants to put a new face on US-Arab relations, and the face they choose is the three-thousand-year-old solid gold image of Egypt's boy king: ...

For nearly 40 years, Hale Michael Smith was one of my dearest friends. First he was friends with my step-father, Myron Becker, even though they were a generation apart in age. Both of them had grown up in New York. Both of them had driven taxis in New York City. Both of them had entered the medical profession: Myron as an underage Navy corpsman in 1942, Hale as an older than usual medical student at Georgetown University. When Hale was invited...

An axe age, a sword age, " Bookwyrm chanted. "A wind age, a wolf age." "Brothers shall fight and slay each other, " sang Knut. "Garm howls in Hel, and the wolf runs free." It's late Winter, and Robin's still isn't used to Asgard. Last year she left Valhalla without permission. "I don't want to fight and die at Ragnarok, " she told her new friends. "I want to win!" Every day, they swore their oath on her magic sword Frostbite, even the snarky s...

Vlad Dragulya--Vampire Hunter???When Cammy, Seattle hipster, part-time barista and college student, survives an attack by a pack of vampires, she resolves to learn more about what is going on in the shadows of her city. What she discovers is that none other than Dracula himself is involved in vampire abatement efforts. She asks to join forces, and refuses to take "No! Absolutely not!" for an answer. So Cammy ends up moving in-minds out of the ...

The Book of Invasions is a globe-spanning adventure, a romp through history and mythology, a grudging love story, and an all-in battle against an evil hidden in plain sight. The world is stunned by the inexplicable murder of a dozen climate scientists at a remote research station in Greenland. When twenty-six-year-old Ricky Crowe, sister of a slain researcher, unexpectedly comes into possession of a parchment map found in Greenland's 5, 000-ye...

Briseis' world is shattered when her hometown is sacked thanks its proximity to Troy at the height of the ancient war. The great Achaean warrior Achilleus kills her husband and takes her as a captive slave, and her loyal heart fills with the desire for revenge. Beautiful yet embittered, Briseis soon struggles with feelings for the brave and noble Achilleus, but finds herself a pawn as he battles his ruthless king, Agamemnon. Briseis, pushed an...

Paris! 1861, City of light, art, scandal and great expectations, where extreme wealth rubs against raging poverty, with insurrection roiling beneath the surface. In the United States, the war of 1861-65 destroys families and communities. Three survivors decide to leave behind the ruins of their former lives. Union cavalryman and aspiring artist Jack Volant, a survivor of Gettysburg, sails to Paris to pursue his artistic vision. Charlotte Stuar...

I know you never knew your grandfather, but now you can touch what his hands touched and create beauty.... Be like him, dearest Orla, recognize, make, and be beauty in an often ugly world." These words were to have a profound effect upon Orla.The acclaimed Orla Paints Quartet continues!Orla Castleberry returns to her New Orleans home after a year as artist-in-residence at Manhattan's New York University. Her topical exhibit "Portraits of AIDS"...