Alternate Fiction

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with the thrilling latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River...

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 In a Different 1975… Superpower relations breakdown and a nuclear war all but annihilates the Soviet Union and devastates the United States. 100 million Americans are dead. After Washington is destroyed, a smalltown judge delivers the oath of office to Vice President Rockefeller. Surviving American forces on land, sea and in the air await orders from the new president. Americans across the nation climb out of the rubble looking for a homeland that no longer exists. In surviving capitals across the globe, governments ponder the implications of a world without ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Conclave and Dictator, a gripping tale of ancient Rome’s descent into dictatorship “Thrilling. . . . Agrippa is a swift-paced romp. . . . Politics may be ‘a filthy business,’ as Agrippa...

In 2044, Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Voss's battalion is retreating under artillery fire when it walks into a stand of pine trees. It comes out the other side in October 1918. Three hundred and eighty modern soldiers. Rifles with ammunition that will run out in days. A GPS that insists, calmly and without error, that they are standing on a coordinate system retired before any of them were born. And in Voss's breast pocket, a sealed second set of orders he already suspects he isn't ready to open. They are not lost. They are expected. Within days, Sergeant Noah Bell finds a private in the next ...

2000+ pages of award-winning steampunk science fiction! Sergeant Ripley Coulter heads up E-Squad, the US Army's premiere online unit. Fighting in an advanced simulation, he gets pulled into a parallel universe and sent back to an earlier time. Here, the timeline has changed slightly. London is Ethinium, and all the great European empires are still competing with one another. Technology is steam-based, and the vacuum tube reigns supreme. Magic exists, along with vampires and other creatures, and the Dar control massive underground vaults beneath the major cities. With knowledge of our ...

#1 Amazon Political Fiction Bestseller The Very Last War plunges listeners into a gripping, relentless, and chillingly plausible tale of a near-future World War III. A pivotal election revives freedom and self-governance in America, sending shockwaves across the globe and rattling four rival powers—European socialists, Chinese communists, Islamic radicals, and avaricious Russian leaders. With dreams of world domination fading, they set aside differences and forge an alliance. Not to simply defeat America, but—with the help of a devastating new weapon—to erase it from the earth.

Iron Cross – Never Surrender! The thrilling first entry in Tom Zola’s explosive alternate history series! November 1942: Adolf Hitler dies unexpectedly in a plane crash. With the Nazi Party dismantled, Germany’s military takes full control. But with the war turning against them, the German High Command has only one goal: Victory at all costs through their tactical knowledge! As the Allies prepare their invasion and Soviet forces gain ground, Germany’s panzer divisions launch a desperate, all-or-nothing gamble to crush the Red Army at Kursk… Tom Zola, a former German Army sergeant,...

A modern American expeditionary strike group vanishes from a routine exercise — and reappears in the Mediterranean at the edge of the Second Punic War. No satellites. No resupply. No modern nation behind them. Only finite fuel, limited ammunition, fragile medical stores, and ships powerful enough to terrify the ancient world — but not powerful enough to survive carelessness. Commodore Daniel Mercer commands a fleet that should not exist in 218 BCE. Around him are modern warships, Marines, aircraft, drones, engineers, doctors, and enough firepower to shatter any ancient navy. But every ...

An expeditionary force will discover unfamiliar lands, fight deadly foes, and reveal secrets as they explore the mysterious new earth they now call home in this gripping alternate history adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. Ever since the World War...

The battle between good and evil continues as Virginia and her infant son Joshua flee from Detroit, pursued by the sinister Luther Bell (Giancarlo Esposito) and his Morning Stars cult. With her estranged husband Ryan and Moses (Dulé Hill), a devotee with a mysterious past, Virginia finds unlikely allies in Samson (Rhenzy Feliz) and Delilah (Ebony Obsidian). Together, they uncover the truth about Joshua's place in an ancient prophecy. Each perilous step of their journey is guided by Virginia's haunting visions while Bell's forces close in, threatening to tear their world apart.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao. The acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Marriage Portrait...

An American armored brigade — eighty-seven Abrams tanks, four Bradley companies, forty-five hundred soldiers — drives through a storm during a routine exercise in Germany and comes out the other side in a wheat field in France. The date, when the radios finally work again, is May 13th, 1940. Guderian is already across the Meuse. Dunkirk is eleven days away. France has six weeks left, and Colonel Kane's brigade is the only army in Europe that knows it. That should make the next decision easy. It doesn't. Every sabot round they fire is one no factory will build for another eighty-four ...

Annie has always had high hopes for her future. But the reality of her life just isn’t measuring up. She loves her fiancé, Greg–doesn’t she? She’s going to get her degree and open her own business–won’t she? Then, a strange old woman shows up outside her house, and she seems to know a lot about Annie. An awful lot. Annie could tell the old woman to get lost. Yet there’s something about her Annie just can’t shake. And what she learns could change her life forever–but is it the life she envisioned?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people...

November 1288. Bereft of a king or rightful heir, England hurtles towards civil war for the second time in a generation. When David, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Lili, travel to London to attend the wedding of William de Bohun and Princess Joan, they have no intention of involving themselves in local politics. But as infighting leads to murder, David and Lili find themselves at the center of a far-reaching conspiracy.

Time displacement has always been one of the most satisfying playgrounds for my imagination. There is something irresistible about taking an ordinary person, lifting them out of their familiar world, and dropping them—sometimes gently, sometimes violently—into another time altogether. The shock, the danger, the humour, the disorientation, the unexpected alliances and betrayals… these stories let me explore human nature under pressure, and I never tire of writing them. But although time travel is one of my favourite narrative tools, it is only one corner of the world I write in. My ...

With the break in at the Watergate Hotel never uncovered, President Richard Nixon continues serving his second term. Still in office in 1975, he watches as the North Vietnamese launch a major offensive against South Vietnam. With communist forces driving deep into South Vietnam, President Nixon makes the decision to intervene with an air campaign, setting the stage for a showdown with a hostile Congress intent on reining him in. What consequences will this intervention trigger? Will President Nixon's administration survive? Can South Vietnam’s beleaguered military stave off defeat? How ...

If you liked the Century Trilogy, you’ll love the “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece.”—Booklist, that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career. “Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars...

Ross Poldark is a heartwarming, gripping, and utterly entertaining saga that brings to life an unforgettable cast of characters and one of the greatest love stories of our age. Ross Poldark returns to Cornwall from war, looking forward to a joyful homecoming with his family and his beloved...

“Skillfully researched and powerfully written, The German Wife will capture you from the first page.” —Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz—from the New York Times...