Alternate World Fantasy

Eighteen-year-old Scott Breckinridge just wants to be left alone to play combat games on his computer and rack up kills. His plans are drastically altered, however, when his great-grandfather Walter has to move in due to failing health. Appalled by Scott’s gruesome video games, Walter voices his extreme displeasure.

THE ALTERNATE WORLD OF KAINNAN IS ANYTHING BUT STABLE... The elusive Wilhelm is still alive and plotting multiple takeovers. Despite hunting him for months, Aaron the Priest seems no closer to uncovering his plans and is forced to seek assistance on earth to stop the tyrant. Following their life-threatening experiences on Kainnan, Noah and Katerina are looking forward to a normal life – if normal includes living in hiding. Along with Ryder and Summer, who are facing challenges of their own, Aaron must recruit them all if Kainnan is to be saved. With the truth and deception rings in play, ...

THE FATE OF TWO WORLDS IS HANGING IN THE BALANCE… Back on Earth after nearly losing their lives on the alternate world of Kainnan, Noah, Katerina, Summer and Ryder are desperate to catch and eliminate the tyrant Wilhelm once and for all. Yet just when they finally have a breakthrough, Wilhelm hunts them down. Within hours, one of them is kidnapped, one is poisoned and one set up for assassination. Even if they succeed in saving each other, Wilhelm is about to unleash a new and deadly weapon which threatens to decimate the people of both Kainnan and Earth. With two worlds in jeopardy, ...

Alternating between nineteenth-century Europe and present-day New England, this tale follows the great British painter J. M. W. Turner - and his scene of artists, intellectuals, and lovers - and Henry, a middle-aged family man whose otherwise mundane existence is disrupted by the discovery of The Center of the World, Turner’s controversial painting of Helen of Troy that had been thought lost forever.

ONE CHALLENGE WILL DETERMINE THE FATE OF KAINNAN… With the impact of Elias Kraven’s deadly virus ever-increasing on both Earth and the alternate world of Kainnan, King Magnus requests Ravyn’s help in capturing Elias. Yet Elias has plans of his own, demanding the King face him in a contest to determine who will rule the kingdom. Within twenty-four hours, Kainnan is embroiled in the seven challenges of the Saptevoca. But as contestants fight to win control of the land for their chosen leader, tragedy strikes repeatedly - for Elias has rigged the Saptevoca to win it. Multiple ...

REVENGE OR REDEMPTION – THEIR CHOICE WILL DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF KAINNAN… When Ravyn Salvatore finds her way onto the alternate world of Kainnan, the last thing she expects is to be followed there by the kidnapping victim she saved two years prior. Still affected by his ordeal, Zavier Montrese will do anything to obtain her help. Yet on arrival they quickly discover they have far more to deal with than each other, for a new threat to Kainnan has emerged. After three epic battles, it had seemed that Kainnan would finally be safe and stable under King Magnus’s capable rule. But in the ...

Known for his New York Times best-selling alternate history novels, Flint is equally a master of shorter forms, and this second large volume gathers more of Flint's shorter works. Including several stories and a short novel set in Flint's celebrated Ring of Fire alternate history series. A commemorative novelette set in Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos universe. A story with Dave Freer, set in his and Flint's popular Rats, Bats, and Vats series. Several humorous short stories addressing Biblical literalism. A long novella in a Martian steampunk setting.

Two more compelling mystery adventures in the magical town of London during the Victorian era. But on a different world parallel to our own. A world where magic and steampunk science co-exist. CASE OF THE BUTTERFLY PRINCESS The Baron treated her like a Princess, but when she vanished, the awful truth would soon be revealed by the clever work of Sherlock Holmes…if he and Watson can escape the same fate first. A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY Ghastly series of murders leads Holmes and Scotland Yard to the sewers deep beneath London. What they discover is that there are no mistakes with this ...

HOLMES IS STILL MISSING BUT NOW HIS GOOD FRIENDS HAVE AN IDEA OF WHERE HE MIGHT BE. A DUPLICATE HOLMES APPEARED WHEN SHERLOCK VANISHED. HIS NAME IS STEAMPUNK HOLMES. WHILE STEAMPUNK HOLMES, A LONG GUN TOTING STEAMPUNK COWBOY DETECTIVE, MESSES WITH WATSON’S MIND IN A FORCED PARTNERSHIP, THE REAL HOLMES IS WAKING UP TO AN EMPIRE DRIVEN BY BRUTAL FORCES AND VIOLENCE.

December 1943. New York City is on fire, reeling from a massive surprise attack by German bombers and American military units have been pulled away from the West Coast to augment meager and embattled units on the East Coast to defend against further anticipated German aggression. A handful of air, ground, and naval units are the only defense on the West Coast. Can the Americans stop the Japanese bombers before they release their weapons on another seemingly impossible target?

December 1943. The momentum of the Second World War has shifted in favor of the Allies, and American confidence in the security situation has soared in the past few months. City lights and radio stations are back on across the East Coast as normalcy has returned to America. While Germany may be down, though, it isn’t out, and the Luftwaffe has developed the technology to get Nazi Germany back in the war.

The war had taken everything from Lina Sucherin - her parents, sisters, a fledgling romance...even her faith in herself and her psychic abilities. All of it ripped away with the fall of the Third Reich and the brutal Soviet sack of Berlin. Three years later, amid the suspicion, paranoia, and fledgling brutality of communist East Germany, danger threatens the only people Lina cares about, forcing her to overcome her lingering self-doubt.

Edinburgh, October 1940... When Nazi troops march triumphantly along Princes Street, James Baird feels drawn to watch the parade. It’s his punishment, for at 20 years old, and a Philosophy student at Edinburgh University, he is ashamed he has done nothing in the defense of his country. Behind him, he cannot look at the high ramparts of Edinburgh Castle, for they are festooned with garish red swastika banners. Sickened by the music and swaggering Nazis, James soon takes refuge in the Edinburgh University bar, determined to drown his sorrows before returning home. As his new role in German-...

Ottanger always believed his mutation to be chance or perhaps the actions of fate. Or even the result of pollution on a hellish overpopulated Earth, ruled by a totalitarian Committee and its ruthless Inspectorate. But, when Ottanger is captured, tortured and made the subject of a strange experiment by the Inspectorate, he discovers otherwise - his mutation allows him to walk between alternate worlds. When Ottanger is thrown from his timeline from the far future, he meets the Fenris – humanity’s future form.

How in the world is he the one knocking on her door? Rachael Barnes has been writing about Silverwood Academy for almost three years. In her make-believe world, vampire hunters train up-and-coming slayers to defeat the bloodsuckers that hide in the dark corners. But when Rachael kills off her main character, everything starts to get strange. There’s an earthquake, her cat starts acting crazy, and friends from her old job ask her where she's been as if she still works there. Just when Rachael begins to question her sanity, a knock at her door confirms she's either lost her mind or written ...

THE SINS OF THE PAST ARE RETURNING TO HAUNT THEM… The wedding of Florentine to Gabriel will be Kainnan’s event of the century, uniting two royal families to finally provide Santtu and Cereise with leaders who can be trusted. With King Ochran keeping to himself, and his siblings Viggo and Lucretia dead, peace appears possible at last. Even Lilyanna, devastated over Jonas’s impending marriage to the Loyalist leader Nina, has met someone who might heal her broken heart. Yet within days, Ochran’s drugs and manipulations, the growing threat of the Loyalists and a tragedy of unimaginable ...

FACE THE TRUTH – OR DIE… Having chosen to throw her lot in with the hedonistic Queen Lucretia, Sienna battles to maintain her sanity in a kingdom devoted to pleasure at any cost. For like a beautiful fruit with a rotten core, seductions, kidnappings, deadly drugs and memory-wipes hide behind the glitter and glory of Cereise. Meanwhile Sienna’s friends languish in prison, fighting for their lives as the ruler toys with them all. Their one hope is Resistance leader Jonas’s promise to recruit assistance and return to free them. Yet when Lucretia moves her timetable up unexpectedly, he ...

OVERWHELMING DANGER DEMANDS UNIMAGINABLE COURAGE… When her twin Aidan goes missing, Milla is convinced he has fled into the turbulent world of Kainnan; a place their parents once visited but have long kept hidden from them. With four companions, she secretly crosses into Kainnan to find the kingdom in chaos. Lust and gluttony, fear and violence, drugs and deception - freeing Aidan from Carcel Prison is just the beginning. A fortuitous encounter allies them with the Archan Underground; the organization fighting to de-throne the destructive rulers of Kainnan. Yet even with such backing, the...

Time is running out for planet Earth. Marseria, the insidious Martian plague, has been infecting our planet for over twenty years and has resisted every human effort to eradicate it. With all life on Earth facing extinction, the only solution left is to directly access a specific piece of Martian technology. But, according to diaries left behind by Ogilvy the astronomer, the Martians have hidden it at the lake on the moon.

Quinn Bradley has learned to use the magic of another world. And that world is in danger. Having decided to betray CASE Global, he can finally reveal his origins to the Enclave and warn them about the company’s imminent invasion. Even if it means alienating Jillaine...and allying with someone he’s always considered his adversary. But war makes for strange bedfellows, and uniting Alissians against such a powerful enemy will require ancient enmities - as well as more recent antagonisms - to be set aside. The future of their pristine world depends on it.