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When Eleanor Lythe was invited to attend a charity art ball with the rest of her children’s home, she wasn’t sure what to expect – but being fed on by semi-immortal vampires, bitten and turned into a slave of their evil race, certainly wasn’t it. Luckily, for Eleanor, the Vigil – the covert branch of the U.S. Secret Service formed to fight the forces of the supernatural – is on hand to cure her and protect her. But save her for just what sort of life? As Eleanor struggles to master her new powers, she comes to realise that in humanity’s struggle against the darkness, the wrong...

When Captain Lana Fiveworlds seizes on a lucrative contract to fly a rough-and-ready bunch of grave robbers between the worlds of long-extinct civilisations, she’s expecting a nice easy ride for her misfit crew on board the starship Gravity Rose. After all, those unlucky perished alien species died of climate change, atomic wars, comet strikes, plagues, and mass solar flare ejections thousands, if not millions of years ago. So, what can go wrong? Plunder a few failed planets for priceless abandoned antiques and lost technologies and make out like an interstellar bandit! Sadly, the karma ...

It is the far future. The artificial intelligences created by humanity are now gods, and mankind mere ants who scrabble in their shadows across a million worlds. The Lords of the Great Houses on the ever-night Moon of Hexator are suspected of the murder of one of their own. And merchant William Roxley, once a magistrate-priest, is unwillingly coopted to uncover the truth behind the killings. With only the help of his naive young assistant and a brutish robot bodyguard, the man they call 'Sweet William' digs into the Moon's eerie existence. A collapsing society where many strange, terrible ...

Because sometimes, insanity and genius are indistinguishable... Agatha Witchley used to be a spy in the Cold War, but now she's locked up in the UK's premier maximum-security mental institution. She believes that the ghosts of the celebrity dead visit her padded cell and whisper the world's secrets in her ears. Which is a big problem for the British government, because she's the only one who can help them when an American billionaire is murdered in London in one of the strangest killings yet. The Home Secretary needs the case locked down and solved before the entrepreneur’s death ...

Estamos en los últimos años del siglo XVIII, pero en un mundo que pocos reconocerían. La gente de Europa se refugia en pequeñas islas seguras, refugios de la naturaleza encantada, los extraños bosques sin límites que la gente llama el Tumble. Es a través de este paisaje endemoniado donde el oficial de baja cuna Taliesin debe liderar a sus hombres, atrapado en las más mortíferas intrigas mientras lucha en guerras para una clase noble que le desprecia. Con asesinos despiadados de las peores alcantarillas del Reino marchando tras él, y las fuerzas de las naciones más poderosas del ...

Are things finally looking up for Captain Lana Fiveworlds? She's managed to reach what passes for civilisation in the wild border systems of the Edge - Transference Station - the largest trading hub in the free worlds. With her ramshackle starship, the Gravity Rose, safely docked, she's now desperately searching for a cargo to stave off bankruptcy. Lana's crew needs paying - including the amorous barbarian prince she rescued from a failed colony world. But her crew have other priorities: the ship's android, Zeno, is distracted by terrible secrets from his past, while her alien navigator, ...

It is the final years of the 18th century, but a world which few would recognise. The people of Europe shelter in small islands of safety, havens from the enchanted wilderness - the strange boundless forests people call the Tumble. It is across this demon-haunted landscape that the low-born officer Taliesin must lead his men, caught up in the deadliest of intrigues while fighting wars for a noble class which despises him. With vicious murderers from the worst gutters in the Realm marching behind him, and the forces of the most powerful nations of the mainland arrayed against him, the odds ...

As an ex-spy rumoured to have gone insane after being held captive by the KGB and tortured for a decade, Agatha Witchley has seen her share of strange cases over the years. But none compares to the faked autoerotic asphyxiation of billionaire Simon Werks, and the sudden trail of death tracking after the American industrialist’s family. Now that Agatha and her friends from the security services are being targeted hard to stop the investigation, she’s taking it personally. Unfortunately for the British agents in peril, so are the ghosts Agatha Witchley’s convinced are helping her – ...

Puede que la capitana Lana Fiveworlds vuele con la misma variopinta tripulación de inadaptados, pero sus problemas son totalmente nuevos. Lana cree que un cliente exigente y difícil a bordo de su querida nave estelar -la Gravity Rose- es la suma de sus males. Pero eso fue hasta que tiene que sumergirse de emergencia en un sistema estelar que esconde toda una serie de secretos mortales. Hay que enfrentarse a las intenciones asesinas del gobierno local, con su aristocracia esclavista, por no mencionar a los despiadados rebeldes que intentan derrocar al régimen. Y luego está la nave ...

Seline Templar no ha tenido una vida fácil. Primero, su padre murió por razones que le han sido escandalosamente ocultadas. Después, la madre de Seline, Molly, desapareció en circunstancias sospechosas. Así que ha sido criada como pupila del Rey Vapor... en el Estado Libre de Steamman, lejos de los peligros potenciales de su hogar en el Reino Jackelian. Criada en relativa soledad entre la raza de las máquinas... hasta que un viejo amigo de la familia, el científico Coppertracks, aparece en la capital con noticias del descubrimiento más asombroso. Esto hará que Seline y sus ...

La capitana Lana Fiveworlds tiene un montón de problemas. Se desliza por el vacío en una vieja nave espacial de setecientos años de antigüedad, recorriendo los límites del espacio civilizado intentando encontrar un cargamento lo bastante lucrativo como para pagar sus facturas sin que resulte tan arriesgado como para matarla. Tiene como navegante a un alienígena religioso, como primer oficial a un androide poco de fiar, como negociador comercial a un lagarto caído en desgracia y como ingeniero jefe a un desertor de la flota. Y eso antes de que apareciera un ex tripulante que quería ...

Estamos en un futuro lejano.Las inteligencias artificiales creadas por la humanidad son ahora dioses, y la humanidad meras hormigas que se escabullen en sus sombras a través de un millón de mundos. Los Señores de las Grandes Casas de la siempre nocturna Luna de Hexator son sospechosos del asesinato de uno de los suyos. Y el mercader William Roxley, antaño magistrado-sacerdote, se ve involuntariamente cooptado para descubrir la verdad que se esconde tras los asesinatos. Con la única ayuda de su joven e ingenua ayudante y de un brutal guardaespaldas robot, el hombre al que llaman "Dulce ...

Seline Templar hasn't experienced an easy life. First, her father died for reasons that have been shockingly concealed from her. Then Seline's mother, Molly, went missing in suspicious circumstances. So she's been raised as a ward of King Steam in the Steamman Free State, far away from the potential perils of her home in the Jackelian Kingdom. Raised in relative solitude among the machine race . . . until an old friend of the family, the steamman scientist Coppertracks, turns up in the capital with news of the most amazing discovery. It will set Seline and her companions off on a dangerous ...

Captain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer. And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world. ...

THE DARKNESS OF THE VIGIL (Book 1 of The Vigil series) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DESCRIPTION When Eleanor Lythe was invited to attend a charity art ball with the rest of her children’s home, she wasn’t sure what to expect – but being fed on by semi-immortal vampires, bitten and turned into a slave of their evil race, certainly wasn’t it. Luckily, for Eleanor, the Vigil – the covert branch of the U.S. Secret Service formed to fight the forces of the supernatural – is on hand to cure her and protect her. But save her for just what sort of life? As Eleanor struggles to master her new ...

Porque a veces, la locura y el genio son indistinguibles... Agatha Witchley fue espía en la Guerra Fría, pero ahora está encerrada en la principal institución mental de máxima seguridad del Reino Unido. Cree que los fantasmas de las celebridades muertas visitan su celda acolchada y le susurran al oído los secretos del mundo. Esto supone un gran problema para el gobierno británico, porque ella es la única que puede ayudarles cuando un multimillonario americano es asesinado en Londres en uno de los asesinatos más extraños hasta la fecha. El Ministro del Interior necesita que el caso...

It should have all been so easy for Captain Lana Fiveworlds, owner of Fiveworlds Shipping and master of the free trader starship ‘Gravity Rose’. A simple supply run to a mining operation in deep space on a world called Abracadabra. Alright, so the mining operation was illegal and the world unclaimed… that’s why the job paid so damn well. But now she’s stuck on a hothouse jungle planet, sweltering under the light of a dying red sun with not only oddly missing miners, but vanished crewmen too. The exiled barbarian prince Calder Durk had disappeared, presumed dragged over the mining ...

Querido lector, ¿pensabas que Spiderman y Iron Man eran la pareja definitiva? ¿O el Capitán América y Hulk? Pues no. Esas míseras alianzas fueron mucho antes de que los autores Charles Dickens y Stephen Hunt se unieran para traer al mundo la adaptación steampunk de Cuento de Navidad. Este tomo imaginativamente titulado Un Cuento de Navidad STEAMPUNK... la adaptación fantástica que nadie pidió, pero que todo el mundo necesitaba desesperadamente". Sí, este cuento clásico -spoilers- sobre la redención navideña de un avaro gruñón ha sido refundido en el Reino Jackeliano, una ...

Retired spy Agatha Witchley and her fellow agents from the Office are drawing very close to solving the mystery of the faked autoerotic asphyxiation of billionaire Simon Werks. But, the nearer the group get to the secret reasons behind the murder, the more bizarre, shocking and deadly is the conspiracy they stumble across. Soon, Agatha and her companions may regret coming so close to the truth . . . as the final truth could demand a lot more than assistance from the ghosts of Churchill, Elvis and Groucho Marx to survive. Because when the world needs saving, you don't send for Bourne, Bond...

As the self-proclaimed biggest coward in the galaxy, Horatio has it easy on what passes for 40th century America. A much-favoured sycophant in the court of the King of Earth, Horatio lives in a genetically engineered paradise where there's a vat-grown slave waiting around every marble column with a bunch of grapes to drop into his oh-so-perfectly designed mouth. Unfortunately for Horatio, the artificial intelligence that rules the great mass of humanity spread across the stars has other plans for this feckless seducer. So, if you ever wonder how the galaxy's biggest coward finds himself ...