Rosalind Hawkins is a medieval scholar from a fine family in Chicago, unfortunately, her professor father has speculated away the family money and died, leaving young Rosalind with no fortune and no future. Desolate with grief, forced to cut her education short, she agrees to go West to take a job as a governess to a wealthy man in San Francisco. Jason Cameron, her new employer, is a man with a problem: An Adept and Alchemist, Master of the Element of Fire, he had attempted the old French werewolf transformation, and got stuck in mid-transformation. Trapped halfway between wolf and man, over the centuries he has been slowly losing his humanity, and with it his ability to discover a cure for his condition. Views: 36
Conqueror (The second book in the Time's Tapestry series)
A novel by Stephen Baxter
As the comet fills the sky over Britain and rumours of war coming from across the channel spread two young men accompany a lecherous bishop north to the ruins of the ancient Hadrian's Wall to search for a man known only as 'the last Roman' and the mysterious prophecy he keeps - the prophecy of Isolde. It is a prophecy that tells of an invasion by a North man and an empire that will last thousands of years, an empire of the Aryans. Stephen Baxter's new series is full of page-turning action, intriguing mystery and awe-inspiring scientific speculation. Full of evocative historical detail and characters who jump of the page this is history lived by people who's future is not yet locked as our past. Views: 35
Humankind takes its first step toward the stars on a living ship that combines artificial intelligence and genetic mastery—with the help of generations of scientists and explorers. Views: 35
Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer's friend is in trouble for being handsome and charming. His feelings for Buffy are genuine but she seems to prefer Angel, the vampire with a human heart. Now, with the high-flying Cordelia Chase as his steady date, Xander wants to sit back and relaxuntil she decides he's seriously harming her social standing. But, his crafty plan to win her back may earn him more love than a guy can handle. Views: 35
Kit is a twenty-five-year-old Yorkshire bus driver who isn't quite like the rest of us, as the old story goes. One day she hears a passenger playing a song-the Electric Hellfire Club's "Kiss the Goat"-a song she never knew existed outside the ghostly manifestations that have been haunting her lonely nights, complete with sounds, smell and sight. Enter, then, the ghost of Rose Selavy . . . a devil-worshipping prostitute with more on her mind than just bodily possession . . . A romp through satanic disco music, ethereal auto-erotica and apparitions with agendas, this modern ghost story is Brain Stableford at his quirky and subversive best. "This unusual ghost story, with its heady mix of historical and pop culture sources, shows how a truly inspired writer can find an original new angle from which to present one of supernatural fiction's most familiar themes." -- Publishers Weekly Views: 35
The sorceress Frostflower could bring a babe from seed to term in the course of a winter's afternoon. The swordswoman Thorn could strew a field with corpses in a moment's battle rage. Outcasts, both of them. Hunted by the farmer-priests who ruled the wasteland that once had been a world. Then Thorn in her folly got pregnant. Flower, in her folly, wanted the child. And together, foolishly, they set out to survive... Views: 35
A young man moves into a new apartment, but finds the other tenants in the building are all frighteningly strange. Views: 35
