From Ireland to India, Hong Kong to London, join a cast of wanderers, ancient heroes, and more for adventures that go to the heart of what matters most in life. For the first time ever you can get 5 Rucksack Universe books in one e-book box set:WanderThe Martini of DestinyHome Sweet RoadForever the RoadThe Lotus and the BarleyThe Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fi...

The trouble is, kindness is trouble.Disgraced. Jobless. Kicked out of the butler's guild. Pennyton believed he had done the right thing. The kind thing. Look where that got him. Yet when he answers a surprise knock on his door, Pennyton finds himself where he least expected: on a one-night gig driving a carriage for a rich journalist who paid in full and up front.Trouble is, now Pennyton sits on his freezing arse. In the dark. On a hard carriage seat behind impatient horses...

One little package. So much trouble.Turn over the dream, or die. Rebecca’s job, her life, have all been a lie. But if the price for knowing the truth is death, what can she do against the very people she used to work for?The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue—all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair’s storytelling has “unive...

The world could be hers.After leaving her native Ireland nearly a decade ago on her sixteenth birthday, Aisling has traveled the world in pursuit of one goal: Make her own destiny, on her terms, and become known as the greatest fiddler in the world in the process.Now, in Cairo, Egypt, at an impromptu party at the pyramids, a man shows up and offers her the world… as long as she earns it.If only her past hadn’t turned up too.A grumpy camel. A...

Not all that gleams is light.“Guru Deep and I met in the receiving room at the penthouse of his hotel in London, four days after his father’s murder.“The death of Deep Inc. CEO Guru Deep has left the business world reeling. Within hours of the discovery of the bloody scene at a Kyoto, Japan, subway station by local police, word spread not only around the world but also into the sky, where the disemboweled corporate genius’s twenty-five-year-old...

Get married in the pub… if you can open the doors.“Whisky and Weddings Since 1 A.B.,” proclaimed the sandwich board on the black and gray cobbles under the overcast, muggy, Scottish summer sky. “Walk-ins welcome!”The couple makes their way hand in hand, ready to tie the knot. But the Dram Ring Pub and Wedding Chapel’s doors stay stuck shut. Is it a test… or a sign?If you like Scotland’s Royal Mile in Edinburgh, or if you’ve ever wondered what might ...

Every hero needs a secret identity.“After touching the warped post, Aisling tried to wipe her skin clean of the black smudges. Little streaks of white shone through the charred-black wood that had once comprised the walls, the floor, the ceiling. In hair, white streaks indicate age, but in this burned-out one-story building, they were a reminder of a time before fire and ruin.”While a scarred world rebuilds, Aisling gave up globetrotting to embrace the dest...

She knows what he will ask, but not how she will answer.A bird poops on a blue dragon.A gleaming white Tiger Pagoda stretches high above a city of bamboo scaffolding.The moment Jade steps into Hong Kong’s otherworldly Aw Boon Haw Garden, she knows she approaches a crossroads of her life. What love will the lifelong wanderer choose: the man, the road… or something else? If only Jade had gotten that extra cup of coffee to help her decide.“Last...

An ugly satchel holds an uglier truth.Nia Fox gave up everything for Guru Deep, so the perfect CEO could have the perfect executive assistant at his beck and call, every moment.Nia loves working for Guru Deep. He sees a path for the future that few comprehend. She knows today’s groundbreaking ceremony for the Lotus, the new company headquarters in south London, dominates Guru Deep’s thoughts.But why did he insist on wearing that damn satchel? The br...

The trouble is, kindness is trouble.Disgraced. Jobless. Kicked out of the butler’s guild. Pennyton believed he had done the right thing. The kind thing. Look where that got him. Yet when he answers a surprise knock on his door, Pennyton finds himself where he least expected: on a one-night gig driving a carriage for a rich journalist who paid in full and up front.Trouble is, now Pennyton sits on his freezing arse. In the dark. On a hard carriage seat behind...

The truth sleepsAednat had nothing but her family, until The Blast took them and everything Aednet knew of home in Ireland. Aednat finds herself in France, with people who seem more like myths, in a rich world unlike anywhere she ever dreamed of belonging.Yet in caves in Ireland, strange images from the past tell the tale of a present unfolding in fire.Aednat and her companions make their way to find answers to the questions burning the world. But i...

With knowledge comes hope… or the potential for annihilation.A hundred years ago, The Blast burned, scarred, and scared the world. Now people start to try to understand what happened. What The Blast means. And if it could happen again.The Rucksack Universe series combines alternate history, speculative fiction, myth, adventure, globetrotting, and intrigue—all with well-poured pints of beer. Library Journal says Anthony St. Clair’s storytelling has “universe...