A young woman rises from the streets to battle a sinister evil in this magical fantasy adventure by the bestselling author of the Darwath series.Something is amiss with the world's magic. Spells don't work the way they used to—when they work at all. Only the powers of the Crystal Mages remain as they were, powers founded on the use of the mystical element adamis, the harvesting of which has enslaved the peoples of the Twilight Lands.They need a hero.At...

A novelette of 14,000 words in the Antryg Windrose series. Joanna's cousin Robyn is positive her newly-wed husband has been possessed by some evil spirit, who is actually much nicer and more polite than the original... but given the amount of power it takes to possess, Antryg is pretty sure there's something dangerous afoot. He and Joanna go to investigate in one of those lovely resort towns on the Central Coast of California, which seems to consist entirely of occult and New Age businesse...

From a New York Times–bestselling author: A former spy is recruited to unmask a vampire hunter in this Locus Award Winner.James Asher, a retired member of the Queen's secret service in Edwardian England, has settled into quietude as an Oxford professor of philology with his physician wife, Lydia. But his peace is shattered when he's confronted by a pale aristocratic Spaniard named Don Simon Ysidro, who makes an outlandish claim that someone is killing his ...

A novelette in the Winterlands series, 18,000 words. John Aversin and Jenny Waynest are summoned by a succession of hideous prophetic dreams about a monster... only there's no monster in sight when they reach the targeted realm of Teruvar. And, moreover, there's supposedly a supernatural Guardian there already to prevent such things... So in that case, reasons John, why expend all that energy calling us? And what do those dreams have to do with the ancient legends of the Night Gods, or the...

From a New York Times–bestselling author, three novels of a modern-day medievalist beset by murder and magic—"A fabulously talented writer" (Charlaine Harris).As a student of medieval history, Gil Patterson is a woman familiar with dark stories. She knows the Crusades, the Black Death, and the other horrors of the Middle Ages all too well, but it is another kind of atrocity that has begun to haunt her dreams. She sees forces of evil assaulting a beleaguered...

Sequel to the Windrose series. A Las Vegas hotel is haunted by a trans-dimensional being which has started randomly killing the hotel's guests. Exiled wizard Antryg Windrose and his partner, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton are hired to investigate, and discover there are not one trans-dimensional being, but two: one of them criminal, the other insane. They must figure out what these are, and how to get rid of them, without being killed themselves.

Three fantasy novels of war and wizardry by a "fabulously talented" New York Times–bestselling author (Charlaine Harris).In The Ladies of Mandrigyn, a brilliant mercenary must lead his army against the forces of the most powerful wizard alive. Gifted with courage, strength, and the intelligence to know when to fight, Sun Wolf is the greatest mercenary in a land overrun by war. With his first lieutenant, Starhawk, at his side, he has laid waste to ...

An idealistic young prince convinces an aging warrior and a struggling witch to help him kill the dragon that is terrorizing his kingdomAs a vicious dragon stalks the Southlands, Crown Prince Gareth ventures to the forbidding North in search of the only man who can kill it. He is Lord Aversin, the Dragonsbane, whose dragon-slaying days have won him renown across the land. But when Gareth finds Lord Aversin, he discovers the mighty hero is squat and bespectacled, th...

Magic and technology collide in the first book of the Windrose Chronicles by the New York Times–bestselling author and "fabulously talented writer" (Charlaine Harris).In a world where wizards are relegated to ghettos, it is no surprise to see one murdered in the street. But for Stonne Caris, a young warrior monk who sees the killing and gives chase to the culprit, there is nothing ordinary about seeing a murderer disappear into a black, inky portal. The Arc...

Sequel to the Windrose series. Computer programmer Joanna Sheraton's hippie mother asks the help of her daughter's partner - exiled wizard Antryg Windrose - in getting rid of a spectre which seems to be haunting the New Age Consciousness-Raising Center in Bayou Chien Mort, Louisiana. Upon arrival, Antryg and Joanna begin to suspect that there is a lot more going on than anyone is willing to admit, with results potentially more deadly than noises in the night and a little blood on the walls...

A Sherlock Holmes tale narrated by Mrs. John H. Watson. While Sherlock Holmes deals with what appears to be a straightforward case of a missing wife, Watson's wife Mary is confronted by reports of a mysterious stranger who has been drugging poor women on London's poverty-stricken East End... and then neither robbing them nor doing them any harm. No crime has been committed, yet Mary is certain that evil of some kind is being prepared.

A novelette of 14,000 words, a sequel to the Windrose Chronicles, which began with The Silent Tower and The Silicon Mage. Antryg Windrose, exiled Archmage from another universe, is called upon by a Los Angeles biker who claims that his girlfriend has been abducted by shadowy beings from across the Void. Antryg and his companion, computer programmer Joanna Sheraton, go in quest of the missing woman, and find that other people, in other universes, are being inexplicably kidnapped, too. The q...