Historical Fantasy Mystery Swords

Immortality sounds romantic, right?You’ve probably heard stories about faeries, werewolves, a vampire or two. But I’m sure you haven’t heard stories of someone like me. Born into slavery. Cursed with immortality. Turned into a demon hunter. And that was just the first eighteen years of my life. Demon Hunter Hunting demons is already tough work. Finding a dead body at one of their gatherings does not make that work easier. So now I have to solve a murder and fight whatever has the demon world in an uproar. Nope, nothing romantic here.Get the first book in the Warrior Slave Series today!

The arrival of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in London brings trouble. When the sharpshooter who beats Willie at poker is murdered, Matt and India investigate. Willie is convinced the victim cheated, but no one knows how until India discovers his secret - he was a paper magician. When their list of suspects grows to include a member of the mysterious magic Collector's Club, they uncover a spy. But who is he working for? And what does his employer want?

Loyalty costs money. Betrayal, on the other hand, is free. When the Emperor is taken hostage, the Red Knight and his men find their services in high demand - and themselves surrounded by enemies. The country is in revolt, the capital city is besieged and any victory will be hard won. But The Red...

Yan Zhifeng has spent twenty years on a quiet mountain, trained by a teacher who taught him to read distance, silence, and the space between one breath and the next. He comes down to deliver a single letter. By the next morning, the two people he was sent to find are dead in a locked room, and the entire martial world has already decided he is the killer. With a price on his head and no one who believes him, Zhifeng is pursued across three towns by hired blades, a grieving niece convinced he murdered her family, and an investigator who trusts evidence more than reputation. To clear his name...

Wind never leaves tracks — but Liu Suifeng was never meant to be forgotten. Three years after disappearing from the martial world, a former warrior is pulled back into it, bound to a name he thought he'd left behind: Wù Yǐng Wèi, the Guardians of the Mist Shadow. Chartered in secret to investigate what the great sects overlook, the unit is sent after a trail of quietly vanished children and a village too afraid to speak its grief aloud. What begins as one missing case unravels into a conspiracy stretching from beggars' alleys to the halls of a sect no one dared suspect, and onto the ...

FOR TOO MANY LONG YEARS AKHENATEN HAS REIGNED SUPREME, ENVELOPING EGYPT IN HIS SUFFOCATING SHADOW... Heb aided each of his comrades in overcoming their demons but returns from the Duat with more questions than answers. Now he must face his own dark past and relive his worst nightmare by serving his heinous former master in order to undermine him and discover the truth. But a legend has arisen about Heb, the boy who ran away, and of his cat who holds a great secret. Heb feels the pull of the darkness as he attempts to discover a lost treasure, infiltrate the god-king's council, and take ...

“My husband was so excited about this book that I also read it.” – Linda Olinger, Amazon Reviewer GOLD MEDAL AWARD WINNER! - 2023 Fantasy Magic - Readers' Favorite Deaths plague the ancient city of Valtera. And the city has vanished without a trace. At least that is what outsiders believe. But an unspeakable event and a curse dating back a century still haunts Valtera and its people. A curse such as this has not been encountered before, and the dwindling population of the city has grown desperate. Now the people of Valtera are being killed. Similar victims were mentioned in ...

“This fantasy horror series swept me away from the beginning.” – Scott B., Amazon reviewer A secretive voyage hauling ancient treasure. Pirates. Drowned Ones. Dark magic. The Neseree houses a crew of questionable characters with dark pasts. But their ship has the best track record for smuggling goods while avoiding pirates who plague the waters as well as the legendary Drowned Ones—sailors who have died at sea and returned from the dead. Then the passengers and crew of the Neseree begin to die. One by one. They appear to drown without ever leaving the confines of the ship. Calec and...

A dark presence has settled over the county of Bourdagne, in twelfth century France. Bizarre crop failures, mysterious disappearances, and reports of demons stalking the forest at night plague the land. A statue of Christ has transformed into the image of a demon. A prize mare has given birth to a fully grown mad dog. In the face of mounting evidence, the rulers of Bourdagne are forced to admit that the devil has come to their little county. In desperation, the countess, Emiline, sends a party to Florence to seek out a secretive mage named Demetrius who might be their only hope of ...

“I read all ten books in this series in one go.” – Matt S., Amazon reader Gruesome murders are occurring in a fantastical city by the sea. Dark magic is returning to Calec’s world. For over a year killings have plagued Red Pike’s Landing. No one has been able to find the murderer who takes all the fingernails of their victims and tucks them into bed. Witnesses are unreliable… and for good reason. Perhaps dark magic lies at the heart of these deeds and covers the Necromancer’s tracks. Calec of the Woods is called upon for aid. And Serileen, Calec’s witch lover, must accompany...

The ink she draws becomes the ground he walks on. And she just drew a trap. Isla is a master cartographer with a dangerous secret: her maps don’t just record geography—they command it. But her magical borders are put to the ultimate test when her estate is breached by the ruthless enemy Commander Vane. With only twenty-four hours to act, Isla relies on her forbidden craft to rewrite reality, turning the hallways of her home into perilous mountain gorges and twisting the staircases into shifting labyrinths to trap him. But Commander Vane is not easily contained. Armed with shadow doors ...

“Eeek! I loved this book so much!” – Amanda Felton, Book Blogger The children of Hillsvale are disappearing. A feeling of dark magic lingers. Over three decades ago the first child was lost and could not be found. Now, in the past year, twenty children have gone missing. There are no traces left behind by these children and no clues. The locals claim the old wood spirit is stealing their children, but no one has ever seen this ghost or been able to track it. Most believe it is legend. Calec of the Woods is summoned to assist the people of Hillsvale. Along with Serileen, Calec must ...

The latest in the “terrifically imaginative” (The Wall Street Journal) Akitada mystery series brings eleventh-century Japan to life I. J. Parker’s phenomenal Akitada mystery series has been gaining fans with each new novel. The latest, The Convict’s Sword, is the most fully realized...

Mariko Oshiro is not your average Tokyo cop. As the only female detective in the city’s most elite police unit, she has to fight for every ounce of respect, especially from her new boss. While she wants to track down a rumored cocaine shipment, he gives her the least promising case possible. But the case - the attempted theft of an old samurai sword - proves more dangerous than anyone on the force could have imagined.

By day, Brian is a talented, yet low-tier IT consultant... ...by night? Well, he's generally even less than that! Living in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Brian's job sucks, his boss is overbearing, and he doesn't see much future in it. That is, until he walks into the halls of MCC, Magical Community College. Things seemed pretty simple, until he found out that he was some sort of Chosen One! That would be stressful enough without having to juggle his time between two gorgeous young ladies, not to mention the hot and insatiable Pandora. While he did ask for the opportunity to...

Jobe wants to be a bard like his father Jaquan. But his father abandoned him after a fight. Now Jobe’s living with his mother Jona, and working as a clown at a seaside amusement park. A singer quits, and Jobe wants to audition. But his boss Dashiel hires the infamous bard Paracleus instead, which infuriates Jobe. Jobe tries to dissuade Paracleus from performing. But Jobe finds himself seduced by Paracleus. Paracleus normally would travel to hide the fact he’s a kitsune Vulpine, a shape-shifting fox with nine tails who can take on human form. He’s afraid what’ll happen to him if ...

Enter a world haunted by demons, black magic, and werewolves. Demetrius the mage resides in the heart of the remnants of the Roman Empire, in a world slowly being engulfed by barbarians. One day, he is approached by men from the borders of the empire, who tell of a werewolf stalking their realm. “Across the Danube, in Severin, they speak of the Black Wolf, a creature that comes from the forest at night, breaks into homes, and devours families in their beds. They say it’s been killing for decades.” Recently deprived of his bodyguard, who quit after a particularly harrowing exorcism, ...

Something’s stalking the halls of Santa Gracia. Nightly intruders attack the nuns in their beds. Some have died violently. Others seem to have accepted it. Still others remain in denial. Nearby, infants are vanishing from their cribs without a trace, and a powerful lord is receiving visits from a being claiming to be his murdered wife. Who is she really, and what does she want? When the case reaches Demetrius’s ears, he journeys to the South of France to uncover the dark mysteries that haunt the region. His archer, Sirion, accompanies him, excited for the adventure. But the mystery is ...

Dark forces are at work in the proud, ancient city of Constantinople. After a man makes a pact with demons to amass great wealth, his son Raffi is faced with an impossible decision: join an assassination plot or forfeit his vast inheritance. Soon, Raffi finds himself a pawn in a deadly contest between sorcerers. Will he survive, and can he unravel the secret that destroyed his family? Though set long ago, this tale of sword and dagger, magic and demons, asks a timeless question: How far would you go to be rich?