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  • Ingrid, the beautiful healer's daughter of the Viking settlement of Wayland is pledged to redeem her village from the ravages of the Grey Folk, the drowned victims of the ancient Norse rituals.  Alone, she sets out across the savage landscape of the far north in search of the elixir of power she believes will restore Wayland to a life without fear.  She finds witchcraft, magic and violence - but also love and passion, as well as the secret strength of womanhood that will help her to confront the ancient power of Odin.
  • Book I of The Book of Isle trilogy. Long ago the little land of Isle seemed to be the whole world.  Vast oceans encircled the Forest.  The Old Ones walked on the Wastes or the Wealds.  Gods, ghosts and delvers in the hollow hills were no strangers to the woven shade at the castle gates.  It was in those times that The Book of Suns was begun, although the Sun Kings knew it but dimly, and a far flung fate got started when a lady as fair as sunlight loved the Moon King at Laureroc.
  • When magician Seymour saves Bard Bryon from the hounds of death, the two are forced to flee to the king's palace, the one place where they hope to find sanctuary from countless enemies. And along the way Seymour learns that Byron is possessed by the white mists of power, perhaps the long-prophesied bringer of doom to the world. Cover art by Tom Canty.
  • Dughan lies dying from a fatal wound only the Irish Queen Mairenn can cure and through her magical powers he lives to return to his homeland, warring Britain. But Ireland lures him back as a champion and envoy of the British King March. In return for the beautiful Princess Esseilte's hand in marriage, March offers the Irish King Diarmitt peace with Britain. Esseilte is horrified to be a political pawn, bound to a man she must both love and hate and who rules her fate. She turns for solace to Branwen, the White Raven, healer and destroyer, Queen of the Otherworld yet servant to Esseilte. She must bear Esseilte's sorrows and joys and live to tell the tale.

  • Dughan lies dying from a fatal wound only the Irish Queen Mairenn can cure and through her magical powers he lives to return to his homeland, warring Britain. But Ireland lures him back as a champion and envoy of the British King March. In return for the beautiful Princess Esseilte's hand in marriage, March offers the Irish King Diarmitt peace with Britain. Esseilte is horrified to be a political pawn, bound to a man she must both love and hate and who rules her fate. She turns for solace to Branwen, the White Raven, healer and destroyer, Queen of the Otherworld yet servant to Esseilte. She must bear Esseilte's sorrows and joys and live to tell the tale. Cover art by Thomas Canty.
  • Book IV of the Arthurian Saga.  This volume tells the story of Mordred, Arthur's bastard son by incest with his half-sister Morgause, reared in secret in the Orkney Islands in the hope he would become, as prophesied by Merlin, the doom of her hated half-brother. Mordred desperately fights to deny his destructive destiny against the wishes of his witch-mother Queen Morgause. Here, Mordred is portrayed not as a hero or a villain, but as a fallible human being, an ambitious and powerful man who eventually rose to a position of trust in his father's kingdom, to become regent and eventually, his father's heir.  
  • Book IV of the Arthurian Saga.  This volume tells the story of Mordred, Arthur's bastard son by incest with his half-sister Morgause, reared in secret in the Orkney Islands in the hope he would become, as prophesied by Merlin, the doom of her hated half-brother. Mordred desperately fights to deny his destructive destiny against the wishes of his witch-mother Queen Morgause. Here, Mordred is portrayed not as a hero or a villain, but as a fallible human being, an ambitious and powerful man who eventually rose to a position of trust in his father's kingdom, to become regent and eventually, his father's heir.
  • Book II of The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles. Paris, 1772. Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined to play an important part in this history behind history.  The masons, the English nobility, the Jacobites, the Rosicrucians, the ruling clique of pre-Revolution France: these are but a few factions involved in the intrigues in which Sigismundo has become enmeshed. Thrown into the Bastille, shot at, attacked by assassins, tortured and brutally interrogated, he knows only what he is, knows the four souls of a human being and what he must do to become the one spoken of in the old texts. But what he does not know could kill him: the secret powers of Maria, the Italian beauty who has become an English Lady; the Irish fisherman Moon, who stumbles across the inner workings of an unsuspected cult; and the question they keep asking him - the identity of the Widow's Son. Cover art by Joe Burleson.

  • Book II of A Requiem for Homo Sapiens. Danlo the Wild, the extraordinary son of Mallory Ringess, pursues the apocalyptic Architects of the Universal Cybernetic Church into the Vild. There, far from Neverness where Danlo trained as a pilot, the sinister Architects kill stars; there, humans are used by Gods to reshape matter and energy. In the Vild, Danlo meets the insane god who desires the destruction of everything. Cover art by Mick Van Houten.