Historical

A London rocker is faced with a life-or-death choice when he realizes that a powerful society of magic wielders are the only ones keeping London safe in this deft contemporary fantasy cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson with author and musician Peter Orullian...

Penric takes a chance … Two intractable problems are brought to the door of sorcerer Learned Penric of Vilnoc and his Temple demon Desdemona. Cinar Camurat, a mutilated Cedonian cavalry captain, has traveled two thousand sea miles to Penric for aid. Iva of Bita, a secret hedge sorceress, lies...

Unlike most dreamers, Celeste made it in Hollywood—albeit as a Fée Gardienne in a magical, centuries-old sisterhood. Yet her excitement is tempered by the death of the Gardiennes’ leader, making Celeste and her fellow fairy godmother Anaïs caretakers of the sacred elder staff. Charged with returning the ancient relic to Paris, they set off for New York City to catch a steamship to France. But the 1920s Big Apple roars with danger in ways Celeste and Anaïs never anticipated.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The eighth book in Diana Gabaldon’s acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series! “Features all the passion and swashbuckling that fans of this historical fantasy series have come to expect.”—People 1778: France declares war on Great...

Ein Eid, der nicht vergeht. Ein Feind, der in den Schatten der Geschichte wandelt. Ein Schild, geschmiedet aus Licht, Schuld und Schwur. Gibraltar, 1229. Tief im Herzen des Felsens beginnt für Richard, den einstigen Müllersohn, eine neue Prüfung: die Ausbildung unter den Hütern der Nebula Convicto. Als Katalyst mit ungebrochener Schwurbindung ist er einzigartig.

India und Matt glaubten, sie müssten nur Chronos finden, um all ihre Probleme zu lösen. Doch der Uhrenmagier wirft ebenso viele Fragen auf, wie er beantwortet, und bringt noch dazu Schwierigkeiten mit. Um Matts magische Taschenuhr zu reparieren, brauchen sie das Tagebuch eines vor Jahrzehnten ermordeten Arztmagiers. Die Suche danach führt zu einem schmutzigen Geheimnis, in das zwei von Londons Handwerksgilden verwickelt sind. Als alte und neue Gegner auftauchen und ans Licht kommt, was lange verborgen war, müssen Matt und India besser zusammenarbeiten denn je.

The fourth novel in the epic historical fantasy series of warring empires, ferocious werebeasts, and the powerful warrior known as Gerin the Fox. After the devastating Werenight that brought the Elabonian Empire to a bloody end, Gerin the Fox has come to be known as the King of the North. Aragis...

#1 Sunday Times Bestselling Author Death isn't finished with them yet. Sarai believed the worst was behind her. However, months after exposing the government’s corruption in what has now been deemed “the Great Unravelling,” she faces scorn from citizens who preferred her and Kadra as the...

Cornwall, 1628. A young girl guards a dangerous secret: she can leave her body and fly. Steeped in herbal lore and forbidden spells, the girl becomes a woman, while across the land whispers of witchcraft turn deadly. When witchfinder Matthew Hopkins sets out to hunt her down, their meeting will change the course of history. In a world that fears what it cannot explain, a story shared is the most potent magic of all.

Through time, space, and the transcendence of maternal love, Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is reimagined in the parallel lives of one soul searching for meaning, connection, and a place to belong.

Bloomsbury presents Brigantia by Adrian Goldsworthy, read by Peter Noble From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set in Roman Britain. AD 100: BRITANNIA. THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. Flavius Ferox is the hardbitten centurion charged with...

Their marriage was forged by the end of a war. Now it's all that stands between them and the Empire. On the edge of a dangerous frontier, Remin and Ophele struggle to build a home in the ruins of a century of war. He's a knight and a general, shaped by a lifetime of violence. She's a secret...

Einst war das alte China von Magie durchdrungen. Doch vor 300 Jahren versiegte das spirituelle Qi der Himmel und der Erde. Seitdem konnten Missgunst und Feindseligkeit unter den Menschen ungehindert wachsen. Nun steht die Welt kurz davor, endgültig in Chaos und Zerstörung zu versinken. Von den einst mächtigen Exorzisten ist nur noch einer übrig: der junge Chen Xing. Es ist seine Aufgabe, die Apokalypse zu verhindern. Chen Xings einzige magische Fähigkeit, die Herzlampe, führt ihn zu dem Mann, den das Schicksal zu seinem Beschützer bestimmt hat: dem geheimnisvollen Xiang Shu.

Most fairytales end with a wedding and a happily-ever-after—but this is no fairytale. The updated and official translation of Under the Oak Tree, the #1 webnovel on MANTA, continues in this third volume. The day that Lady Maximilian has been dreading is here: After an arduous journey to...

A kingdom starved. A prince's war. And a young knight standing between ruin and redemption. When the Wildermen dam the River Walis, the crown rides to break their hold. Lucan marches beneath banners he does not trust, his father beside him, into a campaign that will test all measures of loyalty...

Two young women. Heirs to altogether different hereditary burdens. Yet bound by a monstrous threat to their village. Gabrielle is the first woman in Alveus to carry the mantle of Hunter, which comes with an obligation to kill the faery beasts murdering travelers in Brimmond Wood. Wary of the power she wields as guardian of her people, Gabrielle is summoned by her first love, a seductress who shattered her heart into pieces a decade ago.

Ryo was a chef, an extremely good one at that. That was until the entire universe as he knew it changed. After his spaceship is attacked and destroyed by an enemy armada, he finds himself in a situation he never could have imagined. Sent back in time and to an alternate reality, he has quite a...

Jeder im Land kennt die Legende der Schattenarmee − eine gewaltige Streitmacht aus dunklen Geschöpfen, die gegen die Völker Arrandurs zog und die Menschheit an den Rand der Vernichtung brachte. Nur einer Allianz aus Magiern und Menschen war es zu verdanken, dass sie unter schweren Verlusten bezwungen werden konnte. Niemand glaubte, dass sie eines Tages wiederkehren würde, um ihr Werk zu vollenden.

The Sixth Book in the Historical Collection A cursed desert, a stolen dowry, and a love that refuses to break. For five years, Tuffer and Sariyah have exchanged letters across the desert—bound by an arranged betrothal neither of them expected to welcome. But when Tuffer finally arrives with a...

A mage and a lost prince journey together in this magical and romantic sequel to Asperfell. Finally free of the prison Asperfell, Briony and Prince Elyan venture northward in search of a rumored cave wherein lies their only hope of returning home to the kingdom of Tiralaen. What they discover...

He had been the governor for nine hours, and two of those hours had been a nap. Edmund Hale was a mid-tier game designer in Toronto. He died on a Tuesday. He woke up on a Wednesday in someone else's body, in someone else's coat, in someone else's office, holding someone else's seal of authority over a sun-blasted British outpost called Saint Caro. The fort is undermanned. The garrison is half drunk. The treasury is a polite fiction. Three pirate captains want the harbor. A French squadron wants the island. A tax commissioner from London wants Edmund's head on a writ.

Einem nichtsahnenden Betrachter könnte sich ohne weiteres der Eindruck aufdrängen, dass ein gewisser junger Graf mit viel zu vielen Feinden zu kämpfen hat. Vor allem, wenn man bedenkt, dass seine Gabe mit Kampffähigkeiten nicht das Geringste zu tun hat. Das Gebiet im Norden, in dem seine Grafschaft liegt, scheint fremdweltlerische Invasoren magnetisch anzuziehen. Aber unter seinen Feinden sind auch Konkurrenten und natürlich benachbarte Aristokraten, die sich die Ländereien und Güter dieses unverschämten jungen Emporkömmlings, dieses Grafen Bulatow, unter den Nagel reißen wollen.

LA FAMILIA ES DEBER. LA MAGIA ES PODER. EL HONOR LO ES TODO. El jade es lo que da vida a la isla de Kekon. Se ha extraído de las minas, se ha intercambiado, se ha robado y se ha matado por él. Y, durante siglos, los honorables guerreros de los Huesos Verdes, guerreros como la familia Kaul, lo...

Robbie Finch and her found family of fellow lady criminals are weathering tyranny from a theocratic patriarchal rule. Their resistance movement is interrupted when they get word that her niece is in trouble. Disguising themselves as penitents on a religious pilgrimage to a powerful enemy city...

Queenswood is a lush, lyrical historical fantasy debut that transports readers to twelfth-century Ireland. In twelfth-century Ireland, girls go missing—fleeing arranged marriages, carried off by outlaws, abducted by faeries. Rhiannon, treasured daughter of nobility, believes herself secure...