Alternate World Fantasy

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...

Tony Fallow has a sticky problem: Everything that isn't bolted down literally wants to be near him! Fearing he must be one of the Sovereign, a remarkable new minority of superpowered people who recently revealed themselves, Tony travels to the Donner Institute for Sovereign Studies with hopes of being cured. But as he tells his story to a human doctor working at the institute, the boorish Tony soon finds his problem might be more complicated than he suspected.

Miriam Beckstein has said goodbye to her comfort zone. The transition from journalist to captive in an alternative timeline was challenging to say the least. As was discovering her long-lost family, the Clan, were world-skipping assassins. Now civil war rages in her adopted home, she's pregnant with the heir to their throne and a splinter-group want her on their side of a desperate power struggle. But as a leader or figurehead?

Her life is overdue, and tonight she has to pay. Rachel Dankworth finds her name on a library due date card. The fine? Her entire existence. “You shouldn’t be alive,” the card whispers at midnight. “You stole someone else’s story.” Nineteen years ago, Rachel survived falling through ice when she should have died. Now the Emberwick Library has come to collect—with interest. Text crawls beneath her skin like living tattoos. Her body flickers transparent at the edges. She’s being erased, word by word, paragraph by paragraph. “You’re nineteen years overdue,” warns Dexter, ...

Return to Decize, where conflict between the new foundry and the workers is brewing into rebellion. Join Haywood Vale as he struggles to feed a desperate populace with his garden magic. Now a full Gardener six years after his devastating conflict with the blood mage he might be the only one who can save the city. As a master of Baari's twisting and a dabbler in the devoured god, Bileam, he must make a choice between standing up for the people of Decize or hiding in his gardens. When Haywood makes a desperate attempt to save lives he is swept into a conflict that might topple the city, ...

Three great tales, packed with magic, mystery, and terror. CASE OF THE DARK MASTER A new kind of weapon strikes London a deadly blow. It sucks everything into a vortex, leaving only a crater behind. An unthinkable weapon, it must be stopped! Even Captain Nemo and his famous Nautilus are drawn into a supernatural conflict that has an undercurrent of being run by an old enemy of Sherlock Holmes. Can Holmes and his companions discover the truth behind the weapon and who made it before it's too late to save London? RULES OF DARKNESS What is the dark secret of the Count’s castle and how will ...

It was 672 BC, and the Central Kingdom had been divided into more than a hundred of warring fiefdoms. The army of my country, Lirong, perched high on top of the secluded Mount Blackmare had been miserably defeated by the invading army from the State of Jin, one of the biggest states of all, with a duke that was ready to crown himself king. The duke demanded not only compensation in foodstuff and livestock from my father, the Baron of Lirong, he also wanted beauties from Lirong to decorate his court.

Irene Radford offers new and old stories that reach from a weapon of mass destruction that could change the outcome of the U.S. Civil War, the truth behind why the ballet Giselle disappeared for nearly fifty years, pirates in Indonesia questioning whether we should control technology or be controlled by it, to a glimpse of Princess Victoria coming of age as secret operatives try to protect her from madmen acting in the name of long dead Lord Byron.

En 1932, los hermanos Collignon, pertenecientes a una de las familias más influyentes de Jalisco, México, viajan a Alemania para completar su educación. A su llegada a Berlín, notan que el país está inquieto por el inminente ascenso de Adolf Hitler al poder. Los hermanos junto a un grupo de compañeros con quienes conforman un equipo de futbol ingresan en las juventudes hitlerianas, seducidos por los mensajes patrióticos de los nazis, entre ellos se encuentran Ernest y Ritter, dos de sus mejores amigos.

Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon.

By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king’s new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne’s final days.

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-...

Death is burning with deadly heat and fumes towards them. They stand on the edge of a tall skyscraper's roof, a raging fire roaring towards them. There is no escape. They take each other’s hands and kiss for the last time before they choose to leap to their deaths together. Twist! They are rescued. An older dog, blind in one eye, limps across a lonely street, thinking it is safe. Suddenly a roaring engine is heard; a drunken driver crashes around a corner and weaves out of control for the helpless dog. Twist! The dog is saved. Neither the dog nor the young couple knows what just happened....

"Elementary, my dear Rand. It works because it's impossible!" - Quinn Schmul, eccentric inventor. A whirlwind tale of time travel, magic, science, coffee, geeks, logic, fallacy, and spaghetti. Rand likes his coffee, his sleep, and the study of philosophy. Especially philosophy. He craves the beauty and rigor of it. That's why he's studying formal logic at an age when he should be doing something far more sensible with his life. It's a mystery how he ended up getting roped into his girlfriend-inventor's latest experiment. Sure, yeah, Quinn has terrific hair, and as a barista in her day job, ...

Dragons, vampires, and traitors lurk in the shadows. Brianna's next move will determine the fate of her friends and the dragons! When a traitor among the dragons threatens to destroy the fragile peace, Brianna must join forces with the Nightriders, the vampire bikers, to stop the impending doom. A new threat emerges in the form of a powerful dragon shifter, hell-bent on fulfilling an ancient prophecy. With the help of the Nightriders, she must unravel the whereabouts of the traitor dragon and the abducted women and prevent an all-out war. Prepare for a wild, sexy, and suspenseful ride as ...

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 ...

Miriam Beckstein has said good-bye to her comfort zone. The transition from journalist to captive in an alternative time line was challenging, to say the least. As was discovering her long-lost family, the Clan, were world-skipping assassins. Now civil war rages in her adopted home, she's pregnant with the heir to their throne and a splinter group want her on their side of a desperate power struggle. But as a leader or figurehead?

Fans of Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, and Maggie Stiefvater will embrace the richly drawn, Norse-influenced alternate world of the United States of Asgard, where cell phones, rock bands, and evangelical preachers coexist with dragon slaying, rune casting, and sword training in schools. Where the president runs the country alongside a council of Valkyries, gods walk the red carpet with Hollywood starlets, and the US military has a special battalion dedicated to eradicating Rocky Mountain trolls.

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.

Brought to you by Penguin. Every slave plantation is a house of spies and intrigue. No slave walks a straight line or has a single story - deep within their hearts is betrayal and insurrection. But against whom? Hiram Walker is a man with a gift and a curse. He was born between worlds: his father a white plantation master, his mother a black slave. And, unbeknown even to himself, he was born with a special power. When he is sold to a new mistress as punishment for attempting escape, Hiram discovers her home is a secret hub of the underground railroad: a training ground for its agents.