Medieval Fantasy

After years of leading the battle against the vicious Darrow Raiders, Lieutenant-Rider Laren Mapstone has built a fortress around herself to conceal her emotions and the deep scars she carries. When she is made mentor to Tavin Bankside, a Green Rider trainee on his first message errand, her cold and brooding exterior quickly earns her the moniker the “Ice Lady”.

Rowan thought she had escaped her life as a prisoner. But even in Lochlann, she is chained by the memories of everything she left behind in Socair. Of everyone she left behind. With her people clamoring for war, the responsibility falls on Rowan to enter into a marriage alliance to keep her kingdom safe. That should be easy, considering she’s already received proposals from half the clans in Socair. But even with plenty of options, she’s left with no good choices. Will she play it safe? Or will she risk everything for the kind of love she never wanted to begin with?

Is the Voice Lisa’s Protector or a Predator? When her father Alexander is murdered, Lisa’s safe, carefree world unravels. At 16, her only escape is to flee from the mayhem and chaos that promises to come crashing down on her very being. From her wicked mother. From her drunken stepbrother. And from the greedy church. The year was 1,000 AD. Bright and clever, she becomes the eyes and ears of her papa’s many enterprises. Lisa is his confidant and the son he desires as an heir. Afraid for his own daughter’s future, Alexander shares a plan to her to follow upon his death. Within days of...

When the gods play in mortals’ lives, the only certain outcome is uncertainty. Especially when that god is Loki. In the course of a night, I found out my entire life was a lie. Now, Yrsa, Eydis, and I will set off to recover Tyrfing. I must leave Dalr - and the dream I’d shared with Hofund - behind. Eydis is sure the gods have plans for me. I hope she’s right. For on the distant island of Bolmsö, the last of my father’s line is besieged by enemies, and only the blood of a berserker can make things right again.

Princess Guinevere has come to Camelot to wed a stranger: the charismatic King Arthur. With magic clawing at the kingdom's borders, the great wizard Merlin conjured a solution - send in Guinevere to be Arthur's wife...and his protector from those who want to see the young king's idyllic city fail. The catch? Guinevere's real name - and her true identity - is a secret. She is a changeling, a girl who has given up everything to protect Camelot.

Eleven hundred and some years after the death of Christ, in the kingdom that had but recently begun to call itself England, I, Once Was Willem, rose from the dead to defeat a great evil facing the humble village of Cosham. The words enclosed herein are true. I speak of monsters and magic, battle and bloodletting, and the crimes of desperate men. I speak also of secret things, of that which lies beneath us and that which impends above.

Prince Vikramasimha might be considered a rogue by some, but even then, the people of the kingdom of Kaushambi are shocked when the king, his father, banishes the younger prince from the kingdom, after he is declared guilty of committing a heinous crime. Princess Sarvani is heartbroken when her father, the king of Rajagriha, dies suddenly. She runs away from the palace to escape an unwanted marriage with her stepbrother, Charukesi, who wants to ascend the throne as the next king. The prince saves the princess’s life when she is shot by a poisonous arrow, not divulging his identity. The ...

Book 2 ... The Secret Hamlet is for Historical Fiction fans ... WINNER! American Fiction Awards ... Fantasy Historial Fiction Can the Hamlet of Harmonie Remain Hidden? It’s the 11th century and Nichol with an infant daughter must escape Paris with her extended family. In Book 2 of the Harmonie series, The Secret Hamlet, the power of Nichol is turned loose. At her side is Shadow, her wolf-dog. In the bitter winter, she has become the target of the ruthless priest Loupe and her evil brother Fredric, both in pursuit of her and her daughter, Lucette. With her expanding vision and skills ...

Lord Regent Geder Palliako's great war has spilled across the world, nation after nation falling before the ancient priesthood and weapon of dragons. But even as conquest follows conquest, the final victory retreats before him like a mirage. Schism and revolt begin to erode the foundations of the empire, and the great conquest threatens to collapse into a permanent conflict of all against all. In Carse, with armies on all borders, Cithrin bel Sarcour, Marcus Wester, and Clara Kalliam are faced with the impossible task of bringing a lasting peace to the world.

Devyn Rose, The Innkeeper's Daughter is a sweet romantic adventure set in the fantasy world of the medieval-like island continent of Penruddock. It is also included in the collection The Daughters of Penruddock. The first part of the novella tells the story of the founding of a small hamlet called Andro's Nook by servants from the royal palace in Tenby. The second part picks up on the suspenseful drama encountered by one of their descendants as she uncovers criminal activity near the village. The problem is, one of the criminals is a young man to whom she is attracted. Devyn Rose has just ...

Over 400 years before Columbus "discovered" the New World, it is believed that someone else already had - Icelander Bjarni Herjolfsson. Over the years 985-986, Herjolfsson was attempting to reach Eirik the Red's colony on Greenland when he was blown off-course. He sighted a coastline covered with woods, and thus was the first to glimpse a piece of North America.

Love, Ever Strong is the story of a love which begins in childhood but doesn't reach fruition until years later. It's also a story of healing and change. Rose and Conor were orphans who were raised together as friends and playmates since she was 2 and he a boy of 10. When Conor is 16, he leaves their rural home to find his way in the world, not expecting to see Rose ever again. Twenty years later, their paths cross again, but life has treated them each very differently. Battle-weary and motivated by revenge, Conor is nothing like the heroic figure of Rose's romantic girlhood memories. Or is...

📖 Ademar: El heredero oculto 📖 La lucha de un príncipe contra la traición y las sombras para salvar su reino. En un reino al borde del caos, una conspiración acecha en las sombras, esperando el momento para destruir al legítimo heredero al trono. Ademar, un oculto desde su nacimiento, ha vivido lejos de la opulencia y las intrigas del palacio, bajo el cuidado de un fiel siervo en tierras remotas, sin conocer la verdad sobre su linaje real. Los años de paz están a punto de llegar a su fin. El rey, debilitado por la enfermedad y rodeado de cortesanos corruptos, ya no tiene la ...

Hated and feared by many; loved and admired by others, Kyre - The Foundling - struggles to find where his destiny lies in the Lordlands Realm. Leaving behind the bloodshed in the Canyons of Tyre, Lordstown beckons, with its promises of treachery and disappointment. There, his inner compulsions drive the solitary warrior back to the grasp and control of the Sisterhood, and the clutches of the Lord's family. Compelled to carry out the bidding of some, and choosing other ways of his own, Kyre treads his blood-spattered path to the further reaches of the Lazy River. To other realms he ventures,...

As Kyre leaves behind the carnage at Gladeton Falls, what might await him at the border of the Lordlands realm? There lies the Free Port and Town of Buckington, not belonging of any realm, but owing debts to Kyre's senders - The Sisterhood of the Rua. Will he collect the debt in silver or blood? And stay to rule? Or continue on to seek the Realm of Coasts and Isles where his dreams lie? Or yet, again, as the new Lord of Tyre, should he turn aside and make the trek to the plateau and canyonlands that are now expected to see him as Lord? Whichever route he takes, will his strengths grow and ...

Freed by Love is a short romantic suspense novella set in a medieval-like fantasy world. Lady Violet of Ramey is a member of the lesser nobility and has been married three times to successively higher-ranking noblemen. All three marriages ended in her widowhood, but the last may end her freedom. Fleeing her husband's castle the same night someone murders him, Violet is assumed guilty by many based on circumstantial evidence. She must stand trial. If she is returned to Ravensworth Castle, the verdict is decided before she ever sees a judge. Her family is able to arrange her trial in their ...

The North is bleeding. The South is burning. And the boy with the cursed blade stands between salvation and ruin. Exiled and hunted, Erikson Gray carries the weight of two shattered legacies—Thorne and Zulikaarme. With Lightbearer at his side and the realm tearing itself apart, Erik must unite the North before the empire falls. But every alliance costs blood. Every triumph feeds the blade. And with each step, the line between prince and monster thins. In Highwater, Emperor Ivar descends into madness. The Red Clothes whisper treason. Rebellion spreads like fire. And the Circle of Knives ...

When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded. Now, snow blankets Grey in the height of summer. Rats erupt from beneath the earth, fleeing that which comes. Crops fail. Hunger looms. And none stand ready to face the Beast, stirring beneath the poisoned soil. The fate of all who live in the palace hangs on narrow shoulders.

A devastating plague; rampant inflation; propaganda for the masses; breakthroughs in innovative technology; rumors of civil war; racial and ethnic tensions; nefarious conspiracies; class struggles and street preachers yearning to overthrow the nobility. The Sendyne Empire is at the height of its power, but it has never been in a more precarious position…and it is about to reach a boiling point. General Rotilla Voxinus and the teenage Emperor Kwisus continue their relentless campaign to destroy Bovir of the Woodlands, and lock down their colony in the Three Rivers. Amidst the mayhem, bold ...

When fate offers the cruel hand of rejection…all roads lead to the stars. A budding and energetic witch by the name of Renda seeks to make her parents proud by landing the perfect job. There’s only one problem: all of West Albion has rejected her. After encountering two other members of society’s rejects, Tethia and Verla, the trio embark on a journey to East Albion where they hope to find the careers they’ve always dreamed of. An unexpected encounter through darkened streets leads to an opportunity that’s out of their world in more ways than one. With destiny pointing them to new...