Duke Gould owns one of the biggest ranches in Wyoming and has held it against rustlers, lawyers, and nature. His single-minded focus on the ranch is total--until the arrival of Natalie Reeves. Natalie is fresh from high society in New York City and she's escaped to Wyoming, away from the machinations of her uncle and his son. Best way to do that is to get married as fast as she can.

Growing up in the jewel-studded caves of the Iron Mountain trolls didn't seem strange to Nanamarvion Seracor. After all, one of those large, aloof beings had helped raise her.And Nanamarvion took for granted having a part-elf Father and a human Grandfather and Great-Grandmother, who were all master savants.And she accepted as normal that her family should load her down with five powerful talismen back when she was still a child……and having one of her best friends be a ...

Nanamarvion has a problem. It's men. The problem is that she wants one. Just for the short term. Her Great Grandmother's affairs were legend. Nana figures that she can follow in her footsteps. Simple, right? After all, Everyone has sex!But it's hard to develop even a short-term liaison when one spends one's time traveling the continent, searching out and destroying Priests of Nelrad.Anyway, few of the men she meets are even slightly attractive to her and those few are general...

When thieves find an abandoned child lying in a monster’s footprint, they have no idea that their wilderness discovery will change the course of history.Cloaked in mystery, Auralia grows up among criminals outside the walls of House Abascar, where vicious beastmen lurk in shadow. There, she discovers an unsettling--and forbidden--talent for crafting colors that enchant all who behold them, including Abascar’s hard-hearted king, an exiled wizard, and a prince who ke...

#1 in a NEW EPIC FANTASY SERIES by 28-times New York Times and international best seller David Weber, set within his Bahzell Bahnakson/War God universe. A swordsman who has been robbed of his past must confront an evil wizard with a world at stake.Know thyself. Its always good to know who you are, but sometimes thats a little difficult.Kenhodan has no last name, because he has no past . . . or not one he remembers, anyway. What he does have are a lot of scars and a...

The first book in the Vows and Honor trilogy unites swordmaster and sorceress in a quest for revenge in this thrilling epic fantasyShe was Tarma. Born to the Clan of the Hawk of the nomadic Shin’a’in people, she saw her entire clan slain by brigands. Vowing blood revenge upon the murderers, she became one of the sword-sworn, the most elite of all warriors. And trained in all the forms of death-dealing combat, she took to the road in search of her enemies.Sh...

The second book in Mercedes Lackey's classic Mage Wars trilogy featuring the gryphons, set in the beloved fantasy world of ValdemarIt has been ten years since the magical Cataclysm, which destroyed the twin strongholds of the two world's most powerful Mages and killed Urtho, creator of the gryphons, sending his forces into exile. Now Urtho's peoples—human and non-human alike—live in a terraced city carved into the face of a gleaming white cliff on the edge of the W...

A woman with the gift to speak to the dead—and the assassin pursuing her—may be the only chance a crumbling empire has of holding back true evil, in this electrifying fantasy romance from the USA Today bestselling author of Radiance.Siora has been on the run for longer than she cares to remember, from her past and her gift. Born with the ability to see and speak to ghosts, she has heard their desperate pleas as an otherworldly predator stalks the ...

A young imperor flees his own kingdom to escape an army of sorcerers in this "lively adventure" of a fantasy novel from the author of The Cutting Edge ( Publishers Weekly).The old imperor was dead at last. His popular soldier grandson, known as Shandie, had succeeded him . . . had he not? No, he had not. The man who sat on the opal throne was not Shandie, but an illusion created by the mad dwarf Xinixo. Year after year, he had been stealthily ensor...

Three stories of power, innocence, and magic.Kinzel the Foolish: Meet Kinzel, 'prentice to Mad Siljan the herb lady. Not quite the village fool. Not quite. And does it take a fool, or a wise child, to bargain with a unicorn?Kinzel the Innocent: Against his master's -- and his own! -- expectation, Kinzel has won a wizard's staff, and, having done so, he can no longer stay in his master's house. So, he sets to see the world, finding it as won...

#1 New York Times bestseller“An epic and a legend” —Washington Post“Quite simply, an American masterpiece.” —Boston Globe“The dialogue in True Grit is exquisite.” —David Mamet“Charles Portis had a wonderful talent—original, quirky, exciting.” —Larry McMurtryCharles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s most enduring and in...

Weredragons, men call them. Monsters. Cursed ones. People who can turn into beastly reptiles.In an ancient world just rising from darkness, they are everywhere. Some wander the plains with clans of mammoth hunters. Others are born in riverside huts. Some live across the ocean where seafaring tribes are discovering the secrets of bronze and writing in clay. Everywhere their curse is the same--people who can grow wings, breathe fire, and take flight as dragons.And everywhere,...