An ancient god-king stirs in his stony tomb and whispers in the ear of the winter king, "None but ye can set me free."Six years have passed since the druid Lyleth resurrected her king and won back his throne. Now, his murderous nephew, Talan, is king of the Five Quarters. But Talan wants more than the throne, he wants immortality, and Lyleth's six-year-old daughter can give it to him. For she is rumored to be the fabled "Child of Death" . . . and Lyleth will stop a...

Two worlds are bound by ancient magic and a bottomless well. When a forgotten king is pulled across the veil into the life of a modern man, the breach awakens forces that have slept for centuries.In the Five Quarters, a kingdom shaped by old powers long lost to memory, the dead stir beneath stone and sea. A child marked by fate becomes the fulcrum of a struggle that spans both realms, drawing together those who would protect her and those who would claim her for darker purposes. As...

"Druids and time travel, battles and first loves. This book is glorious."When a bottomless well opens inside a cave on Malibu Beach, English teacher Hugh Cavendish feels its pull in his bones. The water calls him by a name he no longer remembers, drawing him back to a world and a past life he has spent centuries forgetting.On the far side of the well lies a kingdom on the brink. A devoted druid has broken a sacred law to resurrect her murdered king, but the soul she summons...

The sacrifice is made, the well opens, and the stone that entombs the severed head of the Crooked One falls to dust. Come to build a kingdom of the Sunless, he will banish death by consuming the living.Lyleth and Hugh Cavendish pursue their daughter deep into the buried fortress of Caer Sidi, the realm of souls of the sacrificed who are enslaved to their lord, the Crooked One. But they soon discover that the only one who can kill the immortal god-king is the blood scribe who shaped...

After the Trojan War, a forest sprouted from the blood of a massacred tribe. Seven hundred years later, a slave girl named Dorica is the only one who may enter the Wood and not suffer its curse. There she cuts saplings for her master to make spears that never miss their mark. When a foreigner arrives at the shop seeking a treasure hidden in the Wood, Dorica decides to find it for herself. But the Wood holds something far more precious than any treasure she could imagine."The Wood" ...

These unpublished letters home from major battlegrounds of the Civil War provide important primary texts for historians and Civil War buffs. These letters offer a critical view into the day-to-day life of a U.S. artillery soldier who fought at Shiloh, both battles of Corinth, Iuka, and Vicksburg. Available for the first time in print, these letters have been preserved in the soldier's family for over 150 years. In an effort to make this information available to a wider audience, this book ...

Ghost Stories features twenty-four short tales by twenty-three new international writers that are sure to make you laugh, cry, and send tingles down your spine.This anthology has something for everyone that entertains the idea that ghosts have unfinished business with the living.

"An Absurdly Hilarious Sci-Fi Satire"Filled with a cast of colorful characters and outrageous situations, Seismic Sedition is a near-future, tongue-in-cheek send-up of government bureaucrats, academics and the media -- with a dose of earth-science geekery that's sure to please science fiction fans as well. -- BooktribMeet Professor Terry Joyner, a seismologist who the "Right Side of History" will judge as one of its greatest monsters.