Alternate World Fantasy

Rick Strickland hasn't flown a plane since he died over three centuries ago. But after being sucked into the vortex during a fae attack on Headquarters, he lands in the back of a doomed airliner bound for London crowded with helpless passengers and a poisoned crew. He soon discovers this world is strangely different from the one he's used to. The American Revolution failed and territory east of the Mississippi remains colonized. The Republic of Texas controls land to the west and is the dominant hemispheric power. Nazi Germany controls most of Europe, but despite the date there has been no ...

Nothing will prepare you for the gripping finale of Luke Romyn’s epic SHADE TRILOGY. “With this author, you never get vanilla. A blind protagonist in an action thriller? You’d think it couldn’t be done, but he pulls it off as he takes us through the multiverse to battle monsters, human and otherwise.” Amazon Review for ASH. With the great enemy unveiled, Ash and Cass must find a way to save the multiverse. The dreaded Skullcrafters hide in a nightmarish world called Dusk. They invade minds and control thoughts, tapping into your fears to turn them against you. These creatures have...

What do you do when you find out your entire life is a lie? A strange feeling overtakes Ally Bowen. Her arms shiver. Her hair stands on end. An overwhelming sense of terror seizes her body. It’s like nothing she has ever experienced before. Suddenly, she witnesses the murder of a handsome stranger sitting across from her in the library. Or did she? Realizing this was a premonition of his death, Ally races to warn him. He feels familiar, but why? With demons and "The Conspirators" working against her, Ally must race to uncover the truth about who she really is before it’s too late.The ...

Every choice has consequences. That fact is coming all too clear to Basha and Lamont as they have to deal with the fallout of their actions. Basha is given by Tezcatlipoca a life-changing choice concerning Lamont’s fate and future. Lamont is teetering on edge, and only Basha can decide where and how he shall fall. Besides that problem, some of their friends are either dead or missing. To find their friends, they must travel to an alien world that is on the brink of ecological catastrophe in some unknown part of the universe to find them and release them Then they must travel to the very ...

Have you ever considered where you go when you dream? What if it is really true that when we dream, we could live another life? What price would you pay to go through the gate of dreams into that other life? Two teens travel to a dream world of awesome beauty and deadly peril. For Lamont Corazon, a 15-year-old novice dreamer, going through the gate is a chance to discover his true destiny. He is the opener of the gate and the obstacle to be overcome. Lamont witnessed how a young man went through the gate of dreams leaving behind a distraught young lady. But is it really true to fulfill that...

Young, ambitious, and in possession of the Mandate of Heaven, Zhu believes utterly in her own capacity to do anything – endure anything – that will bring her closer to being crowned Emperor. But Zhu isn’t the only one with imperial ambitions. Her neighbor, the former courtesan Madam Zhang, wants the throne for her husband – and her powerful kingdom has the strength and resources to wipe Zhu off the map. The only way for Zhu to defeat Madam Zhang is to gamble everything on a risky alliance with an old enemy: the beautiful, traitorous eunuch general Ouyang.

In the Shadow of the Towers compiles nearly 20 works of speculative fiction responding to and inspired by the events of 9/11, from writers seeking to confront, rebuild, and carry on, even in the face of overwhelming emotion.

Proto wakes up in the misty halls of the palace of Somnus, the Lord of Dreams. Why is he there? Who knows? But as long as he’s there, he’s been given a job—to visit sleeping people’s dreams and try to make sure they turn out properly. By guiding dreams to the right conclusions, Somnus and his crew of dream visitors help keep the world from going off the rails. During his adventures as a dream visitor, Proto fails, makes a fool of himself, and—against all odds—makes friends too. And maybe more than friends . . . ? It’s hard to tell. There’s something off in how people here are looking at him.

When the first Martian cylinder crash lands in England, Ogilvy the astronomer barely survives the deadly heat ray from the attack by aliens. He then accidentally stumbles upon the truth about the Red Weed and sends vital evidence to scientists in France on board HMS Thunder Child, but the ship is attacked by a Martian tripod.

Three men in three different parts of the world are murdered by a supernatural creature. One that is able to hide itself in the body of a human. Holmes must solve the mystery of the mouth of horror before many more men die.

What if legends aren’t really legends? What happens when pixels, imagination, and dice are replaced with steel, flesh, and arcane power? Shad, Derek, Fred, and Jeff are just ordinary guys. They did their time in Iraq, hold regular jobs, and spend some of their free time playing RPGs on their game platforms and at the table. Until they were shanghaied into a place where magic and the mystic had been banished from Earth. Eventually, with great difficulty they returned home and got on with their lives, only to be blackmailed into returning yet again. They chose to pursue their blackmailer ...

What will the eminently logical Sherlock Holmes do when he finds himself in a world where nothing makes sense? Where knights in shining armor fight the Trojan War, where he must ally himself with a famous outlaw from the American West, and where Doctor Watson's insights are just as relevant as his own? Dennis McCarty has written the most unusual piece of Sherlock Holmes fan fiction ever, and possibly the most literary.

A misguided time travel experiment in the 25th century fans out to impact hundreds of parallel universes. Heinrich Schloss had arrived at Berlin's Tempelhof airport in 1982 to pick up his wife. After a brief migraine-like spasm, he opened his eyes to Tempelhof in 1941 to witness Hitler's death in an airplane accident. A history professor who had grown up in a divided Berlin was now a party chieftain in Nazi Germany. All those speculative conversations around the table with colleagues about what could have been changed to avoid the fall of Germany now had immediacy.

In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and now females must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are some who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night....

Two young witches, once inseparable, are set at odds by secrets and wildly dangerous magic.

France, 1918. Nurse Marcelle Marchand has important secrets to keep. Her role as a spy has made her both feared and revered, but it has also put her in extreme danger from the approaching German army. American soldier George Mountcastle feels an instant connection to the young nurse. But in times of war, love must wait. Soon, George and his best friend Philip are fighting for their lives during the Second Battle of the Marne, where George prevents Philip from a daring act that might have won the battle at the cost of his own life.

Lee and Mal went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor four years ago, and only Lee came back. She thought she’d lost Mal forever, now miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has Mal been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn’t gone unnoticed by MI5 either, and their officers also have questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power – and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor.

While researching why Freud failed to win a Nobel Prize at the Nobel Archives in Sweden, a psychiatrist makes an unusual discovery. Among the piles of papers in the "Crackpot" file are letters addressed to the executor of Alfred Nobel's will, written by several notable Nobel laureates - including Rudyard Kipling and Marie Curie - each offering an explanation of why and how Stonehenge was constructed. Diligent research uncovers that Alfred Nobel added a secret codicil to his will, a prize for the Nobel laureate who solves the mystery of Stonehenge.

"Within a wee highland parish between a loch and the sea, "Ian MacDonald lived a solitary but agreeable existence."That is until he discovered a mysterious globe that transported him into the multiverse. Little did he realized that, within a world, where medieval and rococo civilizations fought for supremacy, he had awakened creatures who sought to right past transgressions; using the ink of men's blood. Some will declare allegiance with dragons, while others will sacrifice their lives for honor. For within the darkness if, but a shadow remains -- there is light. "Show me the man who has ...

The fifth novel of adventure set upon His Majesty's New World. With new allies joining the war against the blue men, humans living on the new world have reason for optimism. But the enemy has not been sitting idly by, and having identified the weaknesses of the American Pacifica Territory, he is now poised to launch a new offensive. Reinforced by veteran General Sir Andrew Skeen and a division of elite soldiers from the Indian Army, the Royal Newfoundland Regiment must help defeat a blue assault, or both new and old worlds might be in peril.