The Price of Civilization: The Complete CollectionA boy crawls through a tunnel a thousand feet beneath the hills of Laurium, hauling silver ore in the dark. He will not see daylight again. The silver he mines will fund Athens's navy. The navy will win the war. The war will be called the birth of Western democracy.His name is not recorded.The Price of Civilization is a six-volume history of the ancient world told from the bottom — from the ...

At the Midnight Ball, leave your inhibitions at the door and be who you were born to be…In the magical kingdom of Sydlandia, 17 year old Grace is hiding a secret.You see, she's the heir to the Sydlandian throne. But according to hundreds of years of tradition and history, those with her particular secret are not allowed to be Queen.Grace is torn between two worlds: the one where she is queen, reigning over her people with strength and authority.Then there's the...

At the height of the Roman Republic, perhaps one person in five in Italy was a slave. Rome's roads, its grain, its silver, and its law all ran on people it owned — and the civilization we still admire could not have lasted a day without them.Bread and Chains tells Rome's story from the bottom up. It follows the enslaved into the wheat fields and the silver mines, the kitchens and the bedrooms, the gladiator schools and the law courts that defined a living person as property to be s...

The civilisation that made the most coveted ceramic of the medieval world, the celadon its Chinese rivals ranked first under heaven, fired it in a kingdom that owned a third of its people. For close to a thousand years it ranked people by birth and bound the lowest to the foulest work, and the art and learning the world still admires could not have stood a day without them.Celadon and Chains tells Korea's story with the unfree at its centre: the potters whose celadon a museum keeps...

The greatest empire medieval Africa produced sent its king to Mecca in 1324 with sixty thousand attendants, five hundred enslaved men walking before him each carrying a staff of gold. The world still talks about Mansa Musa's pilgrimage. It does not often talk about who carried the gold.Gold and Chains tells the story of Africa's great civilisations — Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Benin, the Swahili cities, the forest kingdoms — with the unfree at their centre: the salt-cutters of ...

Startling new allies.A realm of angels.Dark shadows closing in.Mitchi thought spotting a wyvern in the forest would be the most pulse-pounding moment of her life. Until, that same wyvern attacked her tiny village. Left orphaned in the wake of the violence, Mitchi sets out to avenge her mother and the other townsfolk who paid the ultimate price.Includes all three books in the bestse...

A cross between Riverdale and Pretty Little LiarsTropes: Grumpy Sunshine, Class Difference, and Man or Woman in Peril"Takes readers on a captivating journey through young adult contemporary mystery" - Aussie Book Addict"L.L Hunter crafts a tale that intertwines youthful sass with the allure of a bad boy, creating a compelling blend.""Readers seeking a young adult mystery with elements of crime and a touch of romance will find this series opener an engaging s...

In February 1978, electrical workers digging beneath downtown Mexico City struck a stone disk three meters across, carved with the dismembered body of a Mexica goddess. The stone had lain face-up under the colonial plaza for four and a half centuries.Her name was Coyolxauhqui, "Bells-Her-Cheeks." She was the daughter of the earth mother Coatlicue, the sister of the war god Huitzilopochtli, and the defeated leader of an army of four hundred southern stars destroyed by her brother at...

The mysteries didn't stay in Summervale…Being married and settling into a beachfront home hasn't prevented Darcie Ryder from unraveling mysteries. And her private investigation business just landed a doozy of a case.A little girl has gone missing in Salem, Massachusetts.Yet this situation runs far deeper than a lost child.Secrets and lies run deep in the girl's family, which hit too close to home for Darcie's liking. Terror roots deep in her core as she reali...

The brand new romantasy series from L.L. Hunter. Coming late 2026!

The civilisation that taught the world that a single self looks out of every pair of eyes was built and sustained by people it placed below the reach of touch. For more than two thousand years it ranked human beings by birth and bound the lowest to the foulest work — and the philosophy, the temples, and the empires the world still admires could not have stood a day without them.Lotus and Chain tells India's story with the unfree at its centre. It follows them into the quarries that...

What if you had the ability to see into the future? What if you knew how someone might die?Would you do something about it?This is Adelaide Paige's dilemma.She wakes up one day with the ability to see into the future, but she has no desire to be a savior. All Adelaide wants is to graduate college and to become a Forensic Scientist… maybe even date a little. She just wants an ordinary life.But her world is turned upside down when two dead girls turn up at the ...