In the sweeping epic Bellosio: An Age of Miracles an unmarried princess fights for her throne amidst an invasion and a struggle for secular reforms, while a mystical abbot from an arid outpost arrives and becomes pivotal to the world's destiny.Bellosio is where destiny and divinity collide on a terrestrial planet where life was seeded by an ancient, ethereal being. This creator, known as the "Cog," has nurtured three distinct prim...

A fight for power and scientific enlightenment plagues a planet's inhabitants in the intricate fantasy novel Bellosio. Foreword Reviews (Four Stars)Bellosio was a finalist in the Foreword INDIES Book Of The Year Awards 2024, FantasyBellosio is where destiny and divinity collide on a terrestrial planet where life was seeded by an ancient, ethereal being. This creator, known as the “Cog,” has nurtured three distinct primate species, each with their own path and purpose. Yet, ...

A Catholic priest in free fall, newly out of the closet and HIV+From impulse-or inspiration-Joe Tierney picks up and leaves his shattered life in the Midwest. He heads for what he hopes is a warm and welcoming gay society in Palm Springs.His friend Edward Brockton, an Episcopal priest he met in a clandestine support group for HIV+ clergy, has gotten him a maintenance job at an exclusive gay guest house in Warm Sands, Palm Springs. And Joe wants to reconnect...

Ridmark Arban is the Gray Knight, leading the defense of Andomhaim from the brutal Frostborn.Yet the realm of Andomhaim is riven with civil war. The false king Tarrabus has usurped the crown in the name of the shadow of Incariel, and the loyal lords must fight the ruthless rebels.Unless Ridmark can defeat Tarrabus and reunify Andomhaim, the Frostborn will prevail.But Tarrabus Carhaine, deadly and wicked, will not be defeated without terrible cost...

Humanity pushed its way to the stars - and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out.Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they've built a religion in which every Safehold...

The latest novel in the New York Times-bestselling series begun with Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, and By Heresies Distressed.Young Cayleb Ahrmahk has accomplished things few people could even dream of. Not yet even thirty years old, he's won the most crushing naval victories in human history. He's smashed a hostile alliance of no less than five princedoms and won the hand of the beautiful young Queen Sharleyan of ...

'THE HARD-BITTEN CHAMPION OF BRITISH HEROIC FANTASY' - Joe Abercrombie'HEROISM AND HEARTBREAK . . . GEMMELL IS ADRENALINE WITH SOUL' - Brent WeeksA century has passed since the heroic defence of Dros Delnoch. But the people of the Drenai face a new terror: a mad emperor kept in power by two forces of unsurpassed evil. The Joinings are werebeasts of awesome power. The Dark Templars are warrior-priests whose fighting skills are without equal....

The sequel to the New York Times best seller Off Armageddon ReefThe world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of the rest of the world at Darcos Sound and Armageddon Reef, and broke them. Despite the implacable hostility of the Church of God Awaiting, Charis still sta...

In David Weber's By Heresies Distressed, the battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun.The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human freedom. Crowned Empress of that empire, Sharleyan has found in Cayleb's arms the love she never dar...

This discounted ebundle includes: Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, A Mighty Fortress, How Firm a FoundationAn android from the far human past awakens and learns her fate: to provoke technological progress that has been stifled for centuries on the planet Safehold.In David Weber’s bestselling Safehold series, humans have fled from Earth, which their enemies, the Gbaba, have left in smoldering ruin...

War is no longer coming.It is here.Mar is no longer the nameless thief who clawed his way out of the streets—he is king, warlord, and the most dangerous force in a world that fears what it does not understand. With a skyship at his command and magic no one else can wield, he has taken the fight directly to the Brotherhood of Phaelle.And he is winning.But victory has a cost.Each battle pushes him further from the boy he once was and deeper into someth...

An empire at war. Three fates intertwined. The Magician. Horace has destroyed the Temple of the Sun, but now he finds his slave chains have been replaced by bonds of honor, duty, and love. Caught between two women and two cultures, he must contend with deadly forces from the unseen world. The Rebel. Jirom has thrown in his lot with the slave uprising, but his road to freedom becomes ever more dangerous as the rebels expand their campaign against the empire. Even worse, he feels his connect...