One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage remains relatively unknown. There exists beneath the waters of the Mediterranean the physical remnants of a vast maritime infrastructure that sustained and connected the western world’s first global empire and economy. The key to this incredible accomplishment an...

Ships of Steel is the first in a line of anthologies for the fan of Space Opera, Space Westerns and Science Fiction Adventure stories. Call it what you like, but these four novellas are filled with aliens, robots, spaceships, pirates, assassins all set on far planets or the depths of space."Rolling Stone" by M. D. Jackson introduces the space agent, Steel, and his spaceship Darling."The Hidden Heart" by G. W. Thomas features Sudana and Zaar, characters from his book Whisper...

Ride the trail to Devil's Gulch, a Western town where strange things lie in the shadows. The Weird West was never weirder in this shared world anthology set in a town haunted by ghosts and worse. "If Music Be the Food of Love" by M. D. Jackson gets things rolling with a man seeking a lost macabre masterpiece. "Dark Raven" by T. Neil Thomas follows hanging Judge Galbraith to a haunted house where he will win (or lose?) a bet. "The Black Lake" by Jack Mackenzie has a quest for the location o...

While exploring the Black Pyramid, Jonathan is confronted by the Goddess ISIS! She states that Jonathan has become too proud. She curses him with a three-part curse: First, he will lose his best friend, Second, he will lose his oldest friend and Third, he will lose his mentor. Jonathan tries to ignore the vision of ISIS, BUT The curse works. Nathan is kidnapped, and his best friend, Jonathan, is at a loss for how to save him. Now, Jonathan and Abdoullah will do anything to get their friend...

Rogue, a combat android made as a human decoy is allowed to break away from the battlefield. After wandering across a post-apocalyptic wasteland for some time, she returns to civilisation in search of a technician who can help her with a systemic problem. When a gangster mistakes her for a famous Captain Rogue is drawn into a world of violent cyborgs and rare technology that will change the course of her future forever.In Rogue Assembly, you can expect to see an android with a comp...

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, as Costanza Casati reimagines the rise to power of the Assyrian empire’s only female ruler, SemiramisKINGS FALL, QUEENS RISENothing about Semiramis’s upbringing in ancient Assyria in the ninth century BC could have foretold her legacy. Born to a woman scorned by Aphrodite and raised as an orphan on the outskirts of an...

Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, is intelligent and highly trained. But he succeeds all too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship-and the result is a new government inimical to the Empire and disgrace for Jimjoy. After surviving two assassination attempts, Jimjoy realizes that it's his own imperial superiors who want him dead: that, in fact his worst enemies could now become his best friends. Jimjoy switches sides, joins the Ecolitan Institute and changes his i...

In this conspiracy thriller, a special investigator and a librarian go in search of treasure, uncovering a mystery with global historical consequences. Incomparable riches, like none other in history, are close to being revealed . . .An email from a dead man, and an encrypted letter from the sixteenth century both hint at a treasure trail, leading back to the greatest Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.India Summers and Brandon Walker team up to attempt to locate...

Miles and his Dendarii mercenaries are on a mission in Jackson's Hole to retrieve a geneticist, who unexpectedly says he won't leave until a certain "monster" is neutralized and a tissue sample is taken from it. What Miles finds is something vastly different from what he was led to expect… ("Labyrinth" follows ETHAN OF ATHOS in the Vorkosigan Saga)Written by Hugo and Nebula Award winning New York Times bestselling author Lois McMaster Bujold.Novella chronology: "The Mountai...

In this conspiracy thriller, a special investigator and a librarian search for the missing tomb of a Fourth Dynasty Egyptian pharaoh. Man fears time. Time fears the Pyramids . . .The Pyramid of Cheops. The largest and most enigmatic of them all. Possibly the greatest monument of all time and truly a tomb fit for a Pharaoh . . . Or was it?Despite finding a sarcophagus in the King's chamber, many experts now believe that Khufu, the Pharaoh at the time was nev...

They're not called the Awesome Egyptians for nothing! The foul pharaohs and their suffering slaves got up to all sorts of terrible tricks. Read this book to... * Meet some fabulous pharaohs... and their mummies * Make revolting recipes for 3000 year old sweets * Discover which king had the most blackheads * Find out why some pharaohs wore false beards * Learn to become an Ancient Egyptian in 10 not-so-easy steps! If you like your history horrible, the Awesome Egyptians and their moaning mu...

GIVE PEACE A CHANCEA Kzin's instinctively combative responses make for poor diplomatic relations between species. But now that their "first you scream and then you leap" approach to interstellar relations have led to three straight losses to the hairless hominidae of Sol III, there has begun to arise in Kzinti consciousness the faintest glimmering that there may be a Better Way. And in the resulting calm between wars, humans and Kzin are beginning to collaborate.Now the Uni...