The Civil War was over, but for Bill Douglas the fight was only just beginning. America was in turmoil following the controversial election of President Rutherford B. Hayes and the withdrawal of federal troops from the southern states. But all Bill wanted was revenge and justice. When shot and left for dead by his accomplice after a bank robbery in Santa Fe, Bill refused to co-operate with the authorities. But after staging a daring escape from jail, he found himself pursued by a relentless marshal while trying to hunt down the man who betrayed him.It didn't seem that things could get any worse for him. But then he found himself embroiled in a plot to restore the Confederacy which involves a political assassination that will shatter the fragile peace and plunge the entire country in to chaos once more.Meanwhile, Governor Lew Wallace tries to come to terms with his own past while writing his world-famous novel, Ben Hur. Both men must follow the trail of blood wherever it...

Symington Smythe and Will Shakespeare meet at a tavern on the road to London and become travel companions and fast friends. They wheedle their way into a compnay of players and wind up in the middle of romance, mystery and intrigue.

Forbidden love. In ancient Persia, in the town of Adwan, Jinn is ripped from his beloved Shuri's side. Jinn is cursed into a ring as punishment for daring to love the wrong woman. Empires crumble, centuries pass and Jinn is still captive. That is until present day antiques dealer, Mia Templeton accidentally releases him.

Crystal is unusual; she has silvery blonde hair and blue eyes. There isn't anyone like her in the Town except for her mum and everyone says her mum is either crazy - or a witch. Crystal knows that the Town leader has something to do with her mother's madness but how can she prove it? And how can she stop him when the Town Guard tramps the streets day and night, there's a curfew, and a strange creature in their house spies on them and records their every move?When Crystal thinks she glimpses someone looking up at her from the depths of Lop Lake, she is amazed but strangely hopeful. Could this be the help she's been waiting for?

Highly erotic sequel to Keeping Kaitlyn. When Paige is pulled through a veil between worlds she finds herself in the arms of two male dire wolf shifters who thaw Paige's libido merely with a look. Kaiden and Jarek profess to be Paige’s perfect mates and she can't deny an instant attraction to them that isn’t just skin deep, but a war is heating up and it will test every fiber of their bond.

This collection includes all of the writer's earliest short and medium-length fiction (including some previously unpublished stories) covering the late 1950's. These fascinating stories include The Little Black Box, The Electric Ant, and many others.  Stories In This VolumeThe Eye of the SibylThe Little Black BoxThe War with the FnoolsPrecious ArtifactRetreat SyndromeA Tehran OdysseyYour Appointment Will Be YesterdayHoly QuarrelA Game of UnchanceNot by its CoverReturn MatchFaith of Our FathersThe Story to End All Stories for Harlan Ellison's Anthology Dangerous VisionsThe Electric AntCadbury, the Beaver Who LackedA Little Something for Us TempunautsThe Pre-PersonsThe Eye of the SibylThe Day Mr. Computer Fell out of its TreeThe Exit Door Leads InChains of Air, Web of AetherStrange Memories of DeathI Hope I Shall Arrive SoonRautavaara's CaseThe Alien Mind

When a crows began to gather outside the jail in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the evening of May 31, 1921., the fate of one of its prisoners, a young black male, seemed assured. Accused of attempting to rape a white woman, Dick Rowland was with little doubt about to be lynched. But in another part of town, a small group of black men, many of them World War I veterans, decided to risk lives for a different vision of justice. Before it was all over, Tulsa had erupted into one of America's worst racial nightmares, leaving scores dead and hundreds of homes and businesses destroyed. Exhaustively researched, 'Death in a Promised Land' is compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, and yellow journalism, and of an embattled black community's struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation's most devastating race riots, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness, and of courage, hedonism, and human perserverance.

2XS, THE HALLUCINOGENIC CHIP OF CHOICE. To Excess--that's how they say it on the streets, before it destroyed their minds. Dirk Montgomery thinks he knows those streets. He's watched the change with the world,as the powers of magic grow and alter the balances of power. He thinks he understands even the deepest shadows and the darkest of hearts. He is wrong. Now there's something out there beyond his understanding. Something foul and alien. Something that will consume even the most wary soul. Even Dirks.

Just when it looks like Deputy Marshal Mason Raines might finally settle into a life free from violence, he receives an emergency distress call from the New Colony. Not only has his handler been brutally attacked, but the life of a treacherous woman he once loved is also in danger. Forced to choose between contentment and duty, he must once again forsake his own happiness for the welfare of others. This time, however, he would be well served to remember that the motives of those being rescued are anything but pure.Faced with an equally daunting challenge, Tanner and Samantha travel west to Fort Knox, Kentucky. Their goal is as simple as it is impossible: to rob the nation's Gold Vault of all its remaining treasure. The trip takes an unexpected turn, and they find themselves recruited by and old woman eager to lay her husband to rest. But even that task is not without moral choices that have them questioning what it means to be one of the nation's last remaining survivors.

In the bestselling tradition of Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta, M. R. Hall's heroine Jenny Cooper makes her debut as a coroner with a detective's eye and a woman with a home life as complicated as her cases. In this brilliant debut, Jenny investigates the disappearance of two young Muslim students, who vanished without a trace seven years ago. The police had concluded that the boys, under surveillance for some time for suspicion of terrorism, had fled to Pakistan to traffic in the atrocities of Islamic fanaticism. Now, sufficient time has passed for the law to declare the boys legally dead. A final declaration is left up to a coroner, Jenny Cooper. As Jenny's official inquest progresses, the stench of corruption is unmistakable. Not only does it appear that British Security Services played a role, but the involvement of an American intelligence agent soon makes it clear that a vast conspiracy is in play. As Jenny builds an ever-strengthening case implicating a shocking collection of power and influence, she meets with a determined and increasingly menacing resistance. When she links the students' "vanishing" to the unidentified corpse of a beautiful young woman and the fate of a missing nuclear scientist, Jenny is forced into an arena in which she is pushed to the breaking point and beyond. She must struggle with her own inner demons while fighting a lone and desperate battle to bring an unspeakable crime to justice.