Tag: historical fantasy

Bone Crier’s Dawn by Kathryn Purdie

Bone Crier’s Dawn by Kathryn Purdie

Love is a matter of life and death. Bone Criers have been ferrying the dead into the afterlife for centuries, a dangerous duty only possible with the powers they gain from sacrificing their amourés, the men destined to love them and die. But Bone Criers Ailesse and Sabine—along with Ailesse’s love, Bastien—are working to chart their own course and rewrite the rules of the afterlife. […]

March 30, 2021 / 0 Comments
Spellmaker by Charlie N. Holmberg

Spellmaker by Charlie N. Holmberg

England, 1895. An unsolved series of magician murders and opus thefts isn’t a puzzle to Elsie Camden. But to reveal a master spellcaster as the culprit means incriminating herself as an unregistered spellbreaker. When Elsie refuses to join forces with the charming assassin, her secret is exposed, she’s thrown in jail, and the murderer disappears. But Elsie’s hope hasn’t vanished. Through a twist of luck, […]

March 9, 2021 / 0 Comments
Fourth Sister by M.L.  Farb

Fourth Sister by M.L. Farb

Shi, shi, fourth and death. Fourth sister and twin to death. Brother born silent. Blamed for her twin brother’s death, Shisei, the outcast fourth of seven sisters, apprentices herself to a mask maker; but when the local Kazoku accuses the youngest sister of killing his son, Shisei must lead her sisters in a deception that will either save the youngest or condemn them all. A […]

February 10, 2021 / 0 Comments
Of Sword and Shadow by A. L. Soward

Of Sword and Shadow by A. L. Soward

Greece, 1379 She is known by many names, none of them her own. In truth, she is an unnamed slave, nothing more than a weapon in the hands of her owner in his attempts to provoke political mayhem. When she encounters a handsome young man while on an assignment, she thinks little of him—until he attempts to take what she has stolen. But in her […]

February 8, 2021 / 3 Comments
The Jupiter Knife by D.J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey

The Jupiter Knife by D.J. Butler and Aaron Michael Ritchey

Even ghosts need help from a cunning man. Hiram and his son Michael are dowsing a well in Eastern Utah when they hear a cry of help from the ghost of a small boy, torn to pieces by wild animals. Before they can even begin to look into that tragedy, however, a prosperous local rancher is murdered right before their eyes. In an attempt to […]

February 2, 2021 / 0 Comments
Extraordinaries: Whispering Twilight by Melissa McShane

Extraordinaries: Whispering Twilight by Melissa McShane

PERU, 1815. Bess Hanley, fresh from service with England’s War Office and grieving the loss of her dearest friend, embarks on a sea voyage that ends in disaster. Shipwrecked off the coast of Peru, Bess’s Extraordinary ability to mentally communicate with anyone is not enough to prevent her from being kidnapped by a lost tribe of Incas. An Inca Seer’s prophecy that Bess will help […]

January 19, 2021 / 0 Comments
Of Blood and Fire by Jennifer Jenkins

Of Blood and Fire by Jennifer Jenkins

Natalia D’Angelo has spent the last seven years planning for the day she can free both herself and her parents from the brutal clutches of slavery and return back to Valencia to find her little brother, Antonio. To everyone around her, even her best friend, she appears to be just another half-starved young man in the slave camp. This is only one of her lies […]

September 22, 2020 / 0 Comments
Vasilisa by M.L. Farb

Vasilisa by M.L. Farb

“Forest born! Ogre child! You’re nothing but a demon wild!” Vasilisa has always been strong. She’s strong enough to break the arm of the bully that daily taunts her. She won’t because she and her mother are servants at the Orlov manor, and her mother would be punished for her retaliation. Instead Vasilisa bides her time until she is sixteen and can return to the […]

May 18, 2020 / 0 Comments
Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie

Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie

Bone Criers are the last descendants of an ancient famille charged with using the magic they draw from animal bones to shepherd the dead into the afterlife—lest they drain the light from the living. Ailesse has been prepared since birth to become their matriarch, but first she must complete her rite of passage: to kill the boy she’s destined to love. Bastien’s father was slain […]

March 7, 2020 / 0 Comments
The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

“They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart. And they never will.” Alessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power: 1) Woo the Shadow King. 2) Marry him. 3) Kill him and take his kingdom for herself. No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King’s power. Some say he […]

February 25, 2020 / 0 Comments