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AS HUMANS AND MONSTERS CLASH AND ROYAL BLOOD FLOWS, A NEW AGE WILL DAWN…Prince Alexander of Macedon has battled both men and monsters, but his final war will determine his fate…and the future of all mankind. While Macedon’s enemies close in from all corners of the earth, Alexander must fulfill one last prophecy that dictates only he—and he alone—can ensure humanity’s survival against the age of the deadly Spirit Eaters.As the threads of fate draw Alexander closer to his destiny, an exiled queen...

Petra and Kipp discover the truth about the Lincoln assassination while investigating the government's hanging of Mary Surratt in the time-travel adventure, A Conspiracy to Murder, by T.L.B. WoodA flash of muzzle fire...a shot rings out...a president is dead...the fate of a nation is changed.Assisted by a shadowy group of conspirators--ultimately executed by the government--John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln.Among the conspirators was Mary Surratt, who went to the hangman's scaffold...

From bestselling author of SIX OF CROWS, Leigh Bardugo, comes a lavishly illustrated collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice and love. Inspired by myth, fairy tale and folklore, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS will transport you to both lands familiar and strange that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse.Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking be...

The clan of Reinhold fled from the Isle of Light thirteen years ago. Now—armed with her bow and determined to reclaim lost treasures—Princess Arliss wants to go back. One year ago, a mysterious warlord named Thane upturned Arliss’s simple Celtic life when he attacked her kingdom. She fought back with a single fiery arrow. But now, rumors of Thane’s return are surfacing—and he is not alone. Amidst the danger of Thane and his burgundy-cloaked assassin—and against the will of her parents and her...

Mordred is the nephew and son of King Arthur, by his half-sister Morgause. Conceived in sin, Mordred is fated to kill his father and king. As a threat to the throne and his holy office, Arthur sets the newborn child adrift on the sea, hoping death will follow quickly. Yet the infant Mordred survives. Coming of age, he travels to Camelot to become a Knight of the Round Table for a king who can never recognise him as his son. But Arthur is a good king - wise, generous to his subjects and to t...

Would you Travel 900 years into the future to save the lives of some dogs?Alain, Apprentice Apothecary and sometime Alchemist, is on a high after saving the life of his king. After all the excitement he is not content to slip back into everyday life. So when he is offered the chance to travel with his Master to the future and investigate a strange disease in dogs he leaps at the chance.Taken through a portal to The New Forest in 2017, Alain finds life in Medieval England had not prepared him for...

He could see her, the woman the size of a mountain, weeping for a child lost. He could feel that weeping in his heart - all the loss and pain and darkness of the world, on and on, dragging at him like weights that pulled him into deep water. Atti is the Fatal Child. Beautiful and adored, she is troubled by a recurring nightmare of violence and betrayal. She can love no one and trust no one, and she wakes screaming in the nights. Driven by his love for Atti, Ambrose, son of Phaedra, gives up his...

Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga, Ang for short, works repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of Bar-Selehm, the ethnically-diverse industrial capital of a land resembling Victorian South Africa. The city was built on the trade of luxorite, a priceless glowing mineral. When the Beacon, a historical icon made of the largest piece of luxorite known to exist, is stolen, this news commands the headlines.

What magical beings inhabit earth's waters? Some are as almost-familiar as the mer-people; some as strange as the thing glimpsed only as a golden eye in a pool at the edge of Damar's Great Desert Kalarsham, where the mad god Geljdreth rules; or as majestic as the unknowable, immense Kraken, dark beyond the darkness of the deepest ocean, who will one day rise and rule the world. These six tales from the remarkable storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson transform the simple element of wa...

When Elizabeth Lavenza enrolled at Ingold as its first female medical student, she knew she wouldn t have an easy time. From class demands to being an outsider among her male cohorts, she ll have to go above and beyond to prove herself. So when she stumbles across what appears to be a faulty Bio-mechanical one of the mechanized cadavers created to service the school she jumps at the chance to fix it and get ahead in the program.

What fate awaits a girl who hears monsters at night… Sixteen-year-old Jaclyn looks up to her father. An honest man who once fought for the king, he now teaches Jaclyn how to use her wits—and her sword. But he has a secret. And his secret may have a connection to the one thing Jaclyn is hiding from him. Upon hearing “monsters” are terrorizing the small villages around Black Mountain, Jaclyn’s father and his friends head out to hunt them … but they don’t return. Armed only with her sword and thr...

American Royals meets The Winner’s Curse in the first book of bestselling author Brittany Cavallaro’s new duology, set in an alternate history American monarchy where a girl grapples for control of her own life in the middle of a looming war. The year is 1893, and war is brewing in the First American Kingdom. But Claire Emerson has a bigger problem. While her father prepares to reveal the mighty weapon he’s created to showcase the might of their province, St. Cloud, in the World’s Fair, Claire...

Alyss of Wonderland's rules has only just begun and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed Royal Bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss is doing her best to keep pace with the non-stop demands of being Queen while attempting to evade Molly for a few private moments with Dodge. Alyss's life is already a challenging mix of duty, love and imagining when a series of phantom sightings set fire to an urban myth of her imperial...

Perfect for fans of Libba Bray's The Diviners and Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices series, this spellbinding sequel to Something Strange and Deadly delivers a mix of supernatural forces and intense romance, set against the enchanting backdrop of nineteenth-century Paris.With her brother dead and her mother insane, Eleanor Fitt is alone. Even the Spirit-Hunters—Joseph, Jie, and the handsome Daniel—have fled to Paris. So when Eleanor hears the vicious barking of hounds and sees haunting yell...