Medieval Noir

The Black Death is only the beginning of Aethelburg’s nightmare. When Dr. Alaric Kael investigates the disappearance of a noble girl, he unearths the horrifying agenda of the Brethren of the Second Dawn, a zealous death cult. They preach that the plague is not a curse, but a "Great Transformation" – a holy fire meant to dissolve individual minds into a terrifying hive consciousness via a heretical text called the Codex Anima. Caught between a ruthless lord who wants to weaponize the disease for control and a fanatic who seeks to erase humanity itself, Alaric must confront a madness more...

Since losing his knighthood, Crispin Guest has reinvented himself as an investigator for hire known as the Tracker. But his reputation will once again be put to the test with his latest case. Jacob of Provençal, a Jewish physician at the king's court, is missing a set of documents that he claims contain the power to bring forth a dangerous demon. Meanwhile, it seems a monster has already been unleashed on the city. Vulnerable street children are being abducted and murdered, their mutilated bodies the only clues left behind.

When a corpse turns up at his favorite tavern, Crispin Guest-disgraced knight turned detective - begins an inquiry, but the dead man turns out to be a Templar knight, an order thought to be extinct for 75 years, charged with protecting a certain religious relic which is now missing. Before he can begin to investigate, Crispin is abducted by shadowy men who are said to be minions of the French anti-pope.

From an award-winning translator, a new dual-language translation of poems by Catullus, the Roman poet and punk, the lover and hater, the hedonist and wretch, famous for his contradictions, on friendship, sympathy, love and sex, and notably, diatribes against enemies. In his short life, the...

Conte épique de vengeance. Avec une narration brutale et des scènes grotesques, il nous plonge dans l'agonie de son personnage après une bataille médiévale. Un regard profond sur le désir froid du cœur humain qui saisit la première occasion de prendre sa revanche.

Dans Le Gardien des Highlands, l'historienne Elena MacKenzie se retrouve transportée dans l'Écosse médiévale, où sa connaissance de la magie ancienne pourrait décider du destin d'une forteresse... et de son cœur. Quand l'amour naît avec le prince-guerrier Calain, ils devront affronter la trahison, les prophéties et le prix à payer pour réécrire le destin dans cette romance écossaise épique qui traverse les siècles.

Something deadly is lurking in the swampy marshes of Moody Bog. For Kylie Strange, it just means more deaths she's responsible for since she's the one who accidentally unleashed a Pandora's box of horrors. She opened the Booke of the Hidden, and now she must do everything she can to close it for good, taking on every monster it releases with the help of the local coven. This time, the Booke has unleashed not one but two demons on the village. With her attention divided, Kylie and her coven of Wiccans are open to attack. But those aren't the only demons on Kylie's mind.