Lori Wick’s bestselling series The Kensington Chronicles (more than 375,000 copies sold) has a fresh, new look sure to please her longtime fans and draw a new generation of readers. Set in the 1800s, this series captures the adventure, wealth, and romance of the British empire. When the king commands Bracken to marry, high-spirited Megan is chosen to fulfill the edict. Unskilled in the ways of love, Bracken finds Megan captivating, yet cannot seem to voice his feelings until he almost loses her forever.
The Black Knight Chronicles: Lots of Vampires. No Sparkles. Serious Snark. BOOK ONE: HARD DAY'S KNIGHT Children are missing. The police are stumped. Halloween is coming, and an ancient evil is on the horizon. The vampires are the good guys. This is not your ordinary fall weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina. Vampire private detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood have been hired to save a client from being cursed for all eternity, but end up in a bigger mess than they ever imagined. Suddenly trapped in the middle of a serial kidnapping case, Jimmy and Greg uncover a plot to bring forth an ancient evil. Soon, they've enlisted the help of a police detective, a priest, a witch, a fallen angel and a strip club proprietor to save the world. This unlikely band of heroes battles zombies, witches, neuroses and sunburn while cracking jokes and looking for the perfect bag of O-negative. BOOK TWO: BACK IN BLACK Vampire detectives Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood investigate a series of assaults plaguing the alleys of Charlotte, North Carolina. The string of hate crimes becomes personal when Jimmy's just-maybe-main-squeeze Detective Sabrina Law's cousin is attacked. Helping a lady out could get the boys killed when they end up in Faerie. Before long, they're up to their butts in trolls, dark fae and a grand battle royale. The odds are against them, but to the boys, this is just another day on the night shift--if the night shift included a steel cage match of supernaturals. BOOK THREE: KNIGHT MOVES Et tu, Vampire? The boys discover they may be tied to a string of serial killings at the college and that they suddenly aren't the only vampire game in town. The vampire count in Charlotte is at least three. Or more. As far as the unhappy boys are concerned, anything more than two is a crowd not to be tolerated. While tracking down the killer and the competition, they encounter coeds, booby traps (not related to the coeds) and a hirsute bounty hunter with a moon fetish and a bad attitude. To catch the killer, Jimmy will have to survive a dive headfirst into the great unwashed horde of Dorkdom (game night at the local comic shop). What's a red-blood-drinking vampire to do? His job. Again. Praise for the Black Knight Chronicles-- "Honestly, this is one of the best books that I've read this year and certainly a new series that I will be following." --Black Lagoon Reviews "This is another great book in what will hopefully be a large and successful series. I know I will be eagerly awaiting the next installment." -- Indie Book Blog "I love this book. It makes me happy in a way that hasn't happened in a long, long time." --Keryl Raist, Author of Sylvianna
There's danger by day and wild conquest by night when Scottish and English nobles clash in this medieval romance bundle. Don't miss a moment as these knights in shining armor launch valiant quests and discover love where they least expect it. Knight Errant: Lady Juliana Verault joined the religious Beguine community to seek safe haven, but when she's entrusted with a letter from the pope that could radically change the church's stance on women, her life is thrown in turmoil. Knight errant Sir Robert Clarwyn has been sent by King Edward I of England to marry her off as political leverage. If he can't find a way to compel her to return to England, he'll lose any chance of regaining his family lands and redeeming his heritage. Can Juliana find a way to use this godsend for her own agenda--without risking their hearts, too? Knight Protector: Blackmailed into marrying her family's enemy, then swiftly widowed by illness, Lady Sorcha Marr must take charge of a clan who hates her. But fate intervenes with the return of her husband's twin--Sir Colin Marr, who betrayed her and led to her downfall. A decade later, he's back to root out the Scottish traitors who have infiltrated his family stronghold, and he must persuade Sorcha to set aside her hostility and treat him as her husband in his brother's place. He needs the cover not only to save Scotland but to protect her inheritance, which his resentful clan would gladly confiscate. Has fate set them up to even an old score, or embark on a beautiful new beginning? Knight Defender: Sent alone to wed a wild Scot to serve the needs of her father and her king, Lady Jessamyn intends to escape the marriage for a nunnery. But her intended is not the monster she imagined--just Baron Raeb MacKai, a man struggling to provide the best for his clan...even if that involves attacking the king's ship that bears her brother. The Scot's secret plot to keep King Edward I from getting a foothold on their rugged coastline will secure his family's future. If Raeb must deny himself the spirited woman who would warm his bed, so be it. But can he truly deny his heart? Sensuality Level: Sensual
"While Balandor celebrates the return of its princess, Grazel turns his nefarious gaze westward, backing the traitorous red army in the Farian civil war. With the tide of battle turning against him, Faria's rightful ruler Lorias commands his trusted general Scardigne to spirit away his mysterious ward."--Page 4 of cover.
The immortal knight, Sir Richard of Ashbury, hunts his nemesis through centuries of war... AD 1190, England. A young knight's family is slaughtered. As the lords of Europe seek to retake Jerusalem from the mighty Saladin, Sir Richard swears an oath of vengeance against Earl William de Ferrers, who has returned from the dead with an insatiable thirst for violence. Richard stalks William and his savage knights across Europe to the Holy Land, fights in the crusades' bloodiest battles alongside Richard the Lionheart and unearths a secret of great evil under the hills of Palestine.Vampire Crusader is a thrilling novel for fans of historical fiction and action-adventure -- the kinds of novels by authors such as Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow. This is not an ordinary vampire story. It is a series spanning 800 years from the 12th century to the present day and featuring the most exciting and the darkest periods of English and European history. If you love action-packed historical fiction then get Vampire Crusader now.Wherever there was great death and evil in the world, William was never far. I fought him in the New World, the Far East and in Napoleon's Europe. I tracked him through the horrors of the Black Death and the overwhelming destruction on the Eastern Front.He was crusader, outlaw, khan. He was a count, a cavalier and a cardinal.William was a murderer, a devil.A vampire.Vampire Outlaw, Book 2 in the Immortal Knight Chronicles, is available now on Amazon. Praise for the Immortal Knight Chronicles: "Highlander meets Interview with the Vampire" "These vampires are bloody murderous, cruel, ferocious bastards, lurking in the darkness trying to bite your head of your body (or slice you open... sometimes on a meat hook)""Recommended for history and vampire enthusiasts because it integrates both sublimely." "I recommend this book to everyone with a love for historical fiction and fantasy!""If Bernard Cornwell wrote vampire novels he'd do extremely well to match this.""Historical fiction with a twist!" "I was captured by this awesome story about knights, romance and bloody murders." "A rip-roaring, blood soaked yarn fraught with danger and tension.""Just like that I was hooked. These weren't the glamorous vampires that we are so use to reading about in books now-a-days, these were ruthless, blood-sucking parasites and I loved it.""The author did a wonderful job of masterfully creating characters that were true to the era and the writing was so excellent and the plot was so gripping, I found myself, turning page after page.""I would recommend it to everyone."
In the second book of the Arcana Chronicles Evie has now fully come into her powers as the tarot Empress. And Jackson was there to see it all. In the aftermath of killing Arthur, the tarot Alchemist, Evie realizes that a war is brewing between the other teens that, following the apocalypse, have been given powers and its kill or be killed. Things get even more complicated when Evie meets Death, the mysterious, sexy Endless Knight. Somehow the Empress and Death share a romantic history - one that Evie can't remember, but Death can't forget. She is drawn to the Endless Knight, but is in love with Jack. Determined to discover why she's been granted these powers, Evie struggles to accept her place in a prophecy that will either save the world, or completely destroy it.
Day time detective and night time monster hunter Tam Paradiso is trying to keep everyone alive. And then the super hot 17th century, time traveling English playwrite Christopher Marlowe shows up. Can Tam and Kit Marlowe track down the beast before time runs out? Will Tam face her feelings for Kit before it's too late?
The Earth on the brink of destruction. A New World of Magic and Danger! Can Phil stay alive long enough to enjoy his escape from destruction?The world is ending.Yet in the midst of its destruction, there's Haven, an escape from the pending doom. Unfortunately, this doesn't include Phil. After losing his sister, he's miserable and just looking to survive. When he illegally finds a way into Haven, he discovers it's a world that's unlike anything he's seen before. Haven is alluring and constantly changing. But it's also dangerous, and Phil soon realizes there's someone who wants him dead.In exchange for his safety, Phil makes a bargain to retrieve a magical item located somewhere in a deep forgotten forest. But time is running out, and if he doesn't find it in time, his death is guaranteed.
A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Able and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Able remains a boy, and he must grow in every sense to survive the dangers and delights that lie ahead in encounters with giants, elves, wizards, and dragons. His adventure will conclude next year in the second volume of The Wizard Knight, The Wizard. Gene Wolfe is one of the most widely praised masters of SF and fantasy. He is the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, the Nebula Award, twice, the World Fantasy Award, twice, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British Fantasy Award, and France's Prix Apollo. His popular successes include the four-volume classic The Book of the New Sun. With this new series, Wolfe not only surpasses all the most popular genre writers of the last three decades, he takes on the legends of the past century, in a work that will be favorably compared with the best of J. R. R. Tolkien, E. R. Eddison, Mervyn Peake, and T. H. White. This is a book---and a series---for the ages, from perhaps the greatest living writer in (or outside) the fantasy genre. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess." On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within herself at the fact that she has set her mind and heart on loving and helping to make such a good knight or good man-at-arms." On the worthiest amusements: "The best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come." Enter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior. Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling, fighting, appearing in court, and engaging fellow knights. Composed at the height of the Hundred Years War by Geoffroi de Charny, one of the most respected knights of his age, A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry was designed as a guide for members of the Company of the Star, an order created by Jean II of France in 1352 to rival the English Order of the Garter. This is the most authentic and complete manual on the day-to-day life of the knight that has survived the centuries, and this edition contains a specially commissioned introduction from historian Richard W. Kaeuper that gives the history of both the book and its author, who, among his other achievements, was the original owner of the Shroud of Turin.
