Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Young Adult (YA), Fantasy
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

When Colin Cameron's dying father entrusted him with the protection of his baby sister Effie, neither anticipated that Colin and Effie would one day stumble through a portal into the kingdom of the Green King. There, the king's winsome daughter’s first words to Colin are a proposal of marriage and the entire kingdom mistakes Effie for their long promised savior, the Spotless Maiden. The ancient scrolls say that only the Spotless Maiden can defeat their great enemy, the Withered King. Colin is not about to let his little sister ride to war against a demon king, but not everyone in the Green King's kingdom is willing to take no for an answer. And saying no to the Green King's daughter's proposal is not as easy as it seems.

Genres: Essays, History, Travel Writing
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

A journey that begins in the pursuit of the romance of the road and the cachet of classic destinations quickly becomes a voyage of discovery of the ordinary eccentricity of those who made the road, those who live by it, those who travel over it, and those who made it famous. A journey that begins as a kind of quest becomes a kind of pilgrimage to the heart of the particularity of places and people, of landscapes and churches, of museums and ruins, of the kept, the preserved, the restored, and the simply falling down. On two transcontinental road trips, a year apart, we discovered that the road is not the way to your destination. It is the destination itself. It is not the great monuments or the great attractions that matter, but the ever-unfolding view, a thousand tiny attractions, a miscellany that slowly reveals its unity. And we discover...

Genres: Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

The Camino de Santiago de Compostela, now the most famous pilgrimage route in the world, was founded in the early ninth century, largely due to the efforts of Bishop Theodemir of Iria Flavia. As with most people of this period, nothing seems to be known of his early years. What follows, therefore, is pure invention. Theodemir returns footsore and disillusioned to his uncle’s villa in Iria Flavia, where he meets Agnes, his uncle’s gatekeeper, a woman of extraordinary beauty. He falls immediately in love. But Agnes has a fierce, though absent, husband; a secret past; another name, Elswyth; and a broken heart. Witteric, Theodemir’s cruel and lascivious uncle, has his own plans for Agnes. When the king of Asturias asks Theodemir to undertake an embassy on his behalf to Charles, King of the Franks, the future Charlemagne, Theodemir plans to take Agnes with him to keep her out of Witteric’s...

Genres: Historical Fiction
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Welcome to St. Rose, Cornwall, where the merry villagers make their living by wrecking ships and stealing their cargoes, where weddings are interrupted to loot shipwrecked schooners, where the parson is in the wrecker's pay and preaches a wrecker's gospel and Christmas is celebrated with fist fights and pistol shots. Meet Hannah Pendarves, first daughter of the village, who thinks anyone from as far away as the next town is a foreigner and not to be trusted. But Hannah's small world cracks open when she discovers that her father is part of a vast syndicate of wreckers and smugglers. When the syndicate places Hannah as a spy in the house of Francis Keverne, a kindly and upright Falmouth shipping agent, Hannah begins to question the wrecker's gospel and regret the blood that is on her hands. Now the wrecker's daughter must choose between her father and Francis while with every...

Genres: Historical Fiction
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

In a society held together by blood, oaths, and personal fealty, marriage is anything but a romantic affair. Hilda is the second sister, the plain one, the overlooked, the put upon. Her mother, Edith, has tricked the local ealdorman into betrothing his only son and heir to Hilda, a role that should have fallen to her enchanting older sister Elswyth, who was kidnapped by vikingar three years earlier. On the way to her wedding, Hilda meets a heartbroken king, his petulant child bride, an abbess who wrestles with a great torment, and the shy young man she is supposed to marry. As the days wind down to a wedding wanted by no one but Edith, Hilda discovers that each of these people has, like she, had their lives thrown into turmoil and misery by the actions of the now absent Elswyth. As a knot of secrets and lies begins to...

Genres: Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Anglo-Saxon women of royal blood sometimes became abbesses ruling great religious houses of both men and women. Some, like Hilda of Whitby, became among its greatest saints. But for others, the role, with its responsibilities and its privations, cannot have been easy to bear. Thrust into the leadership of Whitby Abbey by a dynastic bargain, Mother Wynflaed, born a king's daughter and once engaged to a nobleman's son, accepts her responsibilities and attempts to live them with grace. But though many call her mother, in her heart she burns with the desire for a daughter of her own. When a beautiful young woman is found on the abbey doorstep, soaked and silent, Wynflaed feels as if she has birthed her out of the sea. She names her Agnes. But Agnes shuns all affection and pulls down penances on her head for a sin she will not confess. As she slowly...

Genres: Fantasy/SciFi/Speculative, Fantasy, Folk tales
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 16-18, 18+

The princess who rescues herself without the aid of a prince is not a new story. In the old Scottish ballad, Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight, the Elf Knight kidnaps Isabel and carries her off to his glade in the greenwood where he has murdered many maidens before her. But resourceful Isabel lulls him to sleep and kills him with his own sword. The novel begins where the ballad ends, with Isabel alone in the elf glade with nothing but the Elf Knight's horse, horn, and sword. These she takes, and with their aid she conquers the dangers of the wild wood and finds her way home. But something old is waking in Isabel, something that longs for the gallop and the chase, for bright sun and the rush of wind against the cheek, for glimmering steel and bright blood and the dying of light in the eyes of...

Genres: Historical Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 12-15, 16-18, 18+

Before the Vikings set foot on English soil, the Northern kingdom of Northumbria knew a golden age, an age of artists and poets, of scholars and saints. Elswyth of Twyford was the golden child of that golden age, blessed with beauty, charm, and a gift for entertaining and peace-making in the halls of great lords. Though her father’s name has never been heard in the counsel of kings, Elswyth is promised to an Ealdorman's son and will one day host kings at her table. But in the year of grace 793, the peace of Northumbria is shattered by the vicious Viking raid on its greatest jewel, the rich monastery of Lindisfarne. People ask if God himself has abandoned them, and great lords thirst for any chance to spill Norse blood. Elswyth finds herself caught between old friends suddenly cast in the image of devils incarnate, and the lust for vengeance...