Gladiatrix
Rhonda Roberts

Left for dead when she was two‚ Kannon Jarratt has no idea of her real identity. Now‚ twenty years on‚ she discovers that her mother might be US Time Marshal‚ Victoria Dupree.

Kannon travels to ancient Rome where Victoria is investigating the Hierophant‚ mysterious leader of the Isis cult. To find her mother‚ Kannon becomes a gladiatrix in the service of Domitia Crassus‚ the only person who knows the Hierophant?s identity...more

Hell's Horizon
D.B Shan

The Cardinal is the City and the City is The Cardinal. They are joined at the soul.

When Al Jeery is seconded by The Cardinal from guard duties at Party Central to investigate the murder of a woman at a hotel he little suspects that the dead woman will turn out to be his girlfriend...more

The Twisted Citadel
Sara Douglass

Glass turns to flesh as DarkGlass Mountain rouses from its restless sleep to walk the land and plot the downfall of the Lord of Elcho Falling. Ishbel and Maximilian‚ now utterly estranged‚ ride for Serpent?s Nest‚ not realising that at their backs a cadre of traitors plot their death.

Axis once more takes command of the Strike Force‚ but it is not enough to save him from the gallows of Isaiah?s generals‚ nor from the lover who betrays him...more

The Shadow Queen
Anne Bishop

What if you need the impossible in order to save your people--and you get it? What if what you get isn’t what you want, but it is everything you need? That is the problem Theran faces as he tries to save the remaining Blood living in Dena Nehele, a Territory in the Realm of Terreille. Theran is a descendant of Jared and Lia, the last Gray Lady to rule Dena Nehele. Living in the mountains with the rogues and raised on stories told by Talon, a demon-dead Warlord Prince who lived--and fought--with Jared and Lia, he wants to restore his land and people. But without a strong Queen who remembers the Old Ways, the Blood will never shake off the lingering influence of Dorothea SaDiablo, the infamous High Priestess of Hayll, and the young Dena Nehele Queens will have no one to teach them. There are no Queens in Terreille who can give Dena Nehele what it needs. But Theran has a marker he can call in, thanks to his ancestor Jared. He goes to Kaeleer--and to Daemon Sadi --to ask for a Queen who is willing to come to Terreille and rule Dena Nehele...more