They've been tied together by fate, but while she will do whatever she can to bring peace to Valoria, his mission is to destroy it.Lady Snowlark is determined to do what she can to avert civil war in Valoria while at the same time, destroying the Ancient that threatens them all. When Prince Valiant suggests that they work together to achieve that goal, Lark agrees. But marrying the prince has set her squarely in the sights of an unstable king, and when new challenges arise, they come from within her own inner circle.Vengeance has given up trying to destroy Lark; they are joined in ways he cannot explain and destroying her would destroy him as well. Acknowledging his feelings for Lark does not negate his allegiance to the Ancient, however. A choice lies before him, but with his humanity all but gone, what chance does a beast possibly have for happiness?The final installment of the Shadowlands trilogy, New Star Rising is a tale of overcoming unbeatable odds...

When the tribal elders make marriage a requirement for claiming her land, Milcah bat Zelophehad must find a betrothed straightaway. The only problem in finding a husband is that all her suitors were slain while conquering the land of Canaan. Men avoid her in order to stay alive. After praying to God to send her a bold suitor, a man from her father's clan plummets from a tree right on top of her. Is this God answering prayer, or a foolish antic by Eli, the war-scarred brother from one of her clan's rival families. Will settling in Canaan sort out Milcah's troubles?

WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE Champion cowboy Ben Smith is on trial for assault and battery, destruction of property, and intent to commit murder. His real troubles are just beginning. One of the last of the great American cowboys, Ben Smith is a three-time rodeo champion with one last chance to take a stand. Injured in a rodeo fall, he heads home at the age of forty to the Little Brawny Ranch, where he befriends the son of the Big Brawny's owner. Ben agrees to show little Jimmy the ropes: the rigors of ranching, the rewards of hard work, and the awe-inspiring beauty of the wild mustang herds running free. But when they learn the horses are being rounded up—for the slaughterhouse—the rawhide cowboy and skinny greenhorn strike back, each in his own way, to save the mustangs. But there is the inevitable, violent, historic showdown. Ablaze with action, humanity, humor, and a noble cause, The...

Don't look back or the devil will get you...Taking up a new job at the Birmingham Central Library, Kath Bright is haunted by sinister occurrences in the brutalist concrete complex.  It's 2008 and Britain slides into its first credit crunch Christmas.  But money troubles are not Kath's only concern as she uncovers a chilling tale of witch hunts and a Victorian murder mystery from the archives.  But this past becomes very real and there's a killer on her trail. The dark anti-heroine of the bestselling time travel saga gets her own personal origin story in this novella that reveals how she first found her touchstone."Brilliant... a great story... back to the best for me.""I read this book in one sitting - I loved it!""Love the atmosphere in this story - 'deep and crisp and evil' - wonderful." "Couldn't put it down! Really loved it and didn't want it to end." 

This beautiful hardback collector's edition includes a new, never-before-published chapter in the romance of Evangeline and Dermot. The life of an impoverished schoolteacher is not one Evangeline Blake would have chosen for herself. Torn from her home and her beloved sister and sent to work in the gritty factory town of Smeatley, Evangeline must prove herself to her grandfather, a man who values self-reliance above all else, before he will grant her access to her inheritance. Raised to be a lady of refinement, she hasn't any of the skills necessary to manage on her own nor does she have the first idea how to be a teacher. Yet, failure means never being with her sister again. Alone and overwhelmed, she turns to the one person in town who seems to know how she feels—Dermot McCormick, an Irish brick mason who is as far from home and as out of place as she is. Despite the difference in their classes and backgrounds, Evangeline and Dermot's tentative friendship...

A new duke and a woman with a secret in her past get a second chance at love in this delightful and charming Regency romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the Windham series.Robert Rothmere is hiding a past no duke should have endured, but he's not hiding it well enough. Sooner or later, his enemies will learn that he spent years locked away at a private asylum. To get their hands on his wealth, they'll try to send him right back to his worst nightmares. If Robert is to foil their schemes, he needs to marry a perfectly proper, blessedly boring, deadly dull duchess, immediately — and he knows exactly which quietly delightful lady he'd love to entrust with that role.Lady Constance Wentworth has cultivated a reputation for utter forgettability. She never speaks out of turn (in public), never has a daring thought (that she admits aloud), and never comes close to courting scandal... as far as anybody knows. Her path crossed Robert's...

Experience the end of the world as we know it in two classic novels from "one of science fiction's most revered writers" (USA Today). Now in one volume: two post-apocalyptic adventures from the visionary mind of Grand Master of Science Fiction and Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Poul Anderson. The Winter of the World A second Ice Age has destroyed civilization. From its ruins arises the powerful Rahidi empire, bent on seeking world domination and leaving devastation in its wake. But its invasion of the primitive Rogaviki may not go as planned, for at the head of their forces is the indomitable Donya of Hervar, a woman of courage and conviction who will not let her people perish without a fight . . . "An intriguing mystery about the Rogaviki people . . . Quite a worthwhile read. Certainly [Anderson] put a lot of thought into this novel and he's achieved something...