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  • Book I of The Ley Lines trilogy. Marie de France, the young wife of an elderly Breton lord, founds her life changed forever after a mysterious encounter with a knight in a deep and dangerous forest filled with magic.  A year later, newly widowed and on her way to her ancestral home, she encounters Richard the Lionheart who is betrothed to the daughter of the King of France.  But there is something more dangerous than political machinations stalking Marie. Cover art by Evert Ploeg.
  • Book III of the Mordred Cycle. The Great Remaking is complete.  King Arthur has led his people from ruined Albion into the promised land of Logres.  But soon he is leading his armies back to war.  After a decade, Arthur returns to a people who seem oblivious to Camelot's ruling elite.  Their allegiance has turned to a strange cult that is both newer and far more ancient than  any conventional monarchy.  Clouds gather on the northern horizon as at the island kingdom's edge, a woman nurtures a boy to adulthood.  Now, inexorably, he heads toward Arthur's court. Cover art by Stephen Player.
  • Book I of Sun Wolf and Starhawk. When the evil Wizard King Altiokus sacked the city of Mandrigyn and sent its menfolk to labour in his foul mines, he had reckoned without the ladies of Mandrigyn.  Determined to win back their men and destroy the wizard, they set out to hire the services of the mercenary leader Sun Wolf.  They offered him a fortune in gold.  But Sun Wolf was not fool enough to match his sword against sorcery... Sun Wolf awoke, some hours later, on a ship bound for Mandrigyn, lethal anzid coursing through his veins.  The ladies held the only antidote and Sun Wolf found himself an unwilling participant in a very dangerous game. Cover art by Darrell K. Sweet.

  • Book II of The Lay Lines trilogy. Marie de France, poet and lover of the famed Richard the Lionheart is determined to free her faithful knight Llew from the spell that has transformed him into a swan. But to do so she must travel from France to St. Non's Well in the magical land of Wales. Frustration mounts as the very heavens themselves seem to conspire against Marie's departure from the court of Richard's father, Henry II, at Anjou. And when she at last embarks for Britain she must interrupt her journey to pay homage to Richard's brilliant, exiled mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, at Salisbury. On reaching Eleanor's court, Marie's strange and vivid dreams of an ethereal lady of the flowers are the first hint of the machinations of the magical Otherworld in Llew's fate. So begins an extraordinary adventure will change Marie's life for ever. Cover art by Evert Ploeg.

  • Book II of The Lay Lines trilogy. Marie de France, poet and lover of the famed Richard the Lionheart is determined to free her faithful knight Llew from the spell that has transformed him into a swan. But to do so she must travel from France to St. Non's Well in the magical land of Wales. Frustration mounts as the very heavens themselves seem to conspire against Marie's departure from the court of Richard's father, Henry II, at Anjou. And when she at last embarks for Britain she must interrupt her journey to pay homage to Richard's brilliant, exiled mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, at Salisbury. On reaching Eleanor's court, Marie's strange and vivid dreams of an ethereal lady of the flowers are the first hint of the machinations of the magical Otherworld in Llew's fate. So begins an extraordinary adventure will will change Marie's life for ever. Cover art by Evert Ploeg.
  • Book II of The Bitterbynde. Although Imrhien's memory is clouded by sorcery, she must take vital news to the King-Emperor of Caermelor. She hopes that there she may also find Thorn, the fearless ranger who has won her heart. Since no commoner may approach the royal court, Imrhien assumes a new identity as Rohain, a noble visitor from the distant Sorrow Isles. She soon discovers that the King and his rangers have departed to battle the Unseelie hordes which have suddenly declared war against mortals. Attacks by nightmare monsters of the Wild Hunt, led by the unseelie Lord Huon, grow ever more frequent and brutal. And when evil forces lay siege to the royal sanctuary on a hidden mystic island, Rohain is confronted with a horrifying discovery. To protect those she loves, the Lady of the Sorrows must undertake a desperate quest to discover who she is and why an unhuman evil would wreak such destruction. But the truth of Rohain's past will prove more incredible - and far more tragic - than any she could possibly have imagined. Cover art by Paul Gregory. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/the-battle-of-evernight-cecilia-dart-thornton-2/
  • Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, the unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants in life or in love. He likes to collect unusual masks from around the world and he loves the books of Marshall France. While browsing in a bookshop he chances on a France 1st edition and is devastated to learn it is already sold. Then he meets the buyer, Saxony - and they seem to have a lot in common. They decide it's time someone wrote a biography of Marshall France and travel to Galen, Missouri - where France died suddenly at the age of 44.  And after that, things get very weird indeed... Cover art by David B. Mattingly.
  • Book I of The Language Of Stones. The Realm is poised for war. Its weak king - Hal, grandson of a usurper - is dominated by his beautiful wife and her lover. Against them stands Duke Richard and his allies. The two sides are set on a bloody collision course. Watching over the Realm is Gwydion, who has walked the land since before the time of the druids. He was here when Arthur rode to war, and then they called him 'Merlyn'. He knows the land is protected by lines of power channelled through a grid of standing stones. But the strength of the array was broken when invaders laid straight roads across the land and built walled cities of shattered stone. A thousand years have passed since then and those roads and walls have fallen into ruin. The battlestones are awakening. Unless Gwydion and his young apprentice Will can thwart them, the Realm will be plunged into a disastrous civil war. But there are many enemies ranged against them including a socerer as powerful as Gwydion himself.
  • The last battle is the greatest battle of all. Narnia... where lies breed fear... where loyalty is tested... where all hope seems lost. During the last days of Narnia, the land faces its fiercest challenge - not an invader from without but an enemy from within. Lies and treachery have taken root, and only the king and a small band of loyal followers can prevent the destruction of all they hold dear in this, the magnificent ending to the Chronicles of Narnia. Cover art and illustrations by Pauline Baynes.