Romans War Fantasy

In a medieval fantasy world in which the realm of man is dominated by a rich and powerful Church, the Most Sanctified Charity IV decides the time is ripe to make a conclusive inquiry into the matter. If, in his infallible wisdom, he determines that elves do have immortal souls, then the Church will be obliged to bring the Holy Word of the Immaculate to them. But if he decides they do not, there will be holy war. Powerful factions line up on both sides of the debate. War-hungry magnates cast greedy eyes at the ancient wealth of the elven kingdoms and pray for a declaration that elves are ...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Shattering and Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects delivers a sensational tie-in to the newest World of Warcraft game expansion. The ashes of the Cataclysm have settled across Azeroth’s disparate kingdoms. As the broken world recovers from the disaster...

Now available for the first time in audiobook format, Necroscope III: The Source is the third installment in the Necroscope series by horror master Brian Lumley. This story traces the battle between Harry Keogh and the horrifying Vamphyri on their home ground, an alien landscape of looming...

At last, the Dwarf-King will learn why he was saved from certain death. But for some, death is truly a new beginning. The Rusis are a mysterious race capable of innate elemental magic. Trusting few and caring about even fewer, when Turgon realizes that one of his kind has been raiding Rusis graves in a land to the Far North he doesn't see how it concerns him. But the Rusis tells him of many more things: Necromancy, the joining of the shadow beings of the deserts with undead orc, and a long thought clan of dead elves gathering as a unified threat. This could not be ignored. Embarking on a ...

War has always had two fronts. One is fought with steel and fire, on roads soaked in rain and walls slick with blood. The other is fought inside the mind, where a single whispered name can turn a soldier into a weapon, or a door latch into a betrayal. Sergeant Cavan is ordered to escort a sealed relic across a collapsing frontier to the fortress of Stonegate. With him ride a wounded priest, a penitent knight, a monk who records every mile, and a quiet traveler named Aldren who watches the road with unsettling calm. They expect raiders. They expect ambushes. They do not expect villages that ...

WARRIOR QUEENS AND ROMAN INVADERS DO BATTLE IN THE FINAL VOLUME OF THIS THRILLING EPIC FANTASY TRILOGY. Caesar's soldiers have murdered, massacred and pillaged their way through Gaul and loom on the far side of the sea, ready to descend upon Britain -- with them are an unstoppable legion of men...

The second book in Angus Watson's epic Iron Age fantasy trilogy. Leaders are forged in the fires of war.br> Iron Age warriors Dug and Lowa captured Maidun castle and freed its slaves. But now they must defend it. A Roman invasion is coming from Gaul, but rather than uniting to defend their home...

Humorvoll, düster und spicy! Der Auftakt der »Guides to Villainy and Love«-Reihe von Selfpublishing-Sensation Tiffany Hunt! Um ultimative Macht zu erlangen, braucht der Dunkle Lord Kazimir Blackrose eine Braut mit heldenhafter Abstammung und entführt Lady Arabella Evenfall. Diese ist...

Heroism was bad enough. Now they expect him to attend banquets. Lucius Caelus has survived mud, barbarians, collapsing dams, exploding bakeries, and the unbearable burden of being mistaken for a legendary war hero. All he wants is wine, sleep, and enough peace to mourn the men he left behind. Instead, he is dragged into Aurum, the richest city in the Republic. The City of Gold welcomes him with screaming crowds, blinding marble roads, off-key trumpets, and merchants who smile like tax collectors at a funeral. To the people, Lucius is the Scourge of the North, the Fire-Bringer, the Water-...

Publius Corvus, struggling with the worthiness of his cause, trains with the Imperial legion in the foothills. But as he questions the Empire and its goals, he finds himself sent on a secret mission in the mountains, a mission he increasingly does not understand. Far away, in the streets of Imperial City, with the skies full of portent, word spreads that the emperor’s daughter has been kidnapped, and rumors circulate of something else, a new era, a new world, a new “Red Dawn.”

Some games are played for money. This one is played for reality. Shanghai, 1926. Meilin wants music. Jue wants the rush of the next perfect hand. What they get is taken. When a high-stakes Mahjong game draws the attention of Xenon—an ancient predator shaped by Greek philosophy and immortal hunger—the twins become collateral in a silent war that stretches from the International Settlement to Prohibition-era New York. Across the ocean waits Livia: Roman, ruthless, and building a modern empire out of jazz clubs, blood routes, and broken loyalties. But vampires are only the surface. Above ...

Year 536. The sun falters. Breath becomes a ration. Inspired by the real “dark year” of 536—when a veil of ash dimmed the skies across Europe and the Mediterranean. On a drowned stretch of late-Roman coast, a town learns to survive without miracles. Livia is no saint, no soldier—she’s a keeper of rooms, a woman who can persuade wood, stone, and air to behave. Every working costs her something small and exact. Every choice keeps breath moving from door to door. When a powerful consortium called Candle arrives with salvation for sale—collars to “measure mercy,” boxes to ...

The heart and life of a battle is the center of the combat line. A dark, throbbing, and terrifying place. A place where death prowls between enemy shields, waiting for sharp blades to carve out an advantage. Welcome to 262 B.C. A single Legion is rushed into combat to stop a fortified army. The clash between Empire and Republic thrusts thousands of Legionaries into a nasty epicenter of conflict.

Nachdem ihr Angriff auf die Erde in letzter Sekunde verhindert werden konnte, haben sich die Lankies auf den Mars zurückgezogen. In Sicherheit sind die Menschen deshalb aber noch lange nicht, denn es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis die Aliens den blauen Planeten erneut attackieren. Sergeant Andrew Grayson wird beauftragt, die irdischen Verteidigungsanlagen zu verstärken und neue Weltraumsoldaten auszubilden.

History and mystery, rulers, the people, and their gods. Ancient science more advanced than historians ever knew. Two civil wars at once? Whatever were the odds? And a young queen gathering a trusted, loyal crew. It was in the 22nd year of the rule of her father, Ptolemy XII Auletes, when Cleopatra began her journey of defiance. The family had just been blessed with yet another Ptolemaic heir, this one, a boy. Nor was he to be the last. Young Cleopatra sensed that something was terribly wrong. Something was putting the ‘nasty’ in their dynasty and had been since ancient times. She ...

Der interstellare Konflikt zwischen Menschen und Lankies, hoch entwickelten und brandgefährlichen Aliens, spitzt sich weiter zu: Die Lankies haben den Mars erobert und so die Menschenkolonie auf dem unwirtlichen Planeten New Svalbard von der Versorgungsroute abgeschnitten. Können die nordamerikanischen Weltraumstreitkräfte, kurz NAC, die Blockade nicht brechen, ist die Bevölkerung eines ganzen Planeten dem Hungertod ausgeliefert.

Anfang des 22. Jahrhunderts ist die Welt restlos überfüllt: Die Menschen leben auf allerengstem Raum zusammen, die Lebensmittel sind knapp - die Tagesration eines Erwachsenen besteht aus 2000 Kalorien Sojamehl -, und jeder, der es sich leisten kann, lebt längst auf einem anderen Planeten. Davon träumt auch der junge Andy Grayson. Um endlich von der Erde wegzukommen, tritt er der Army bei, die sich gerade auf einen interstellaren Krieg mit einer feindlich gesinnten Alien-Spezies vorbereitet. Und ehe er sichs versieht, landet Andy auf einem weit abgelegenen Kolonialplaneten der Erde - im härtesten Bootcamp des Universums.

They called him the God of War. Now, Rome calls him fuel. Ares, once the embodiment of brutal conflict, lies broken and chained in the Tullianum Infinitum, Rome's lightless divine prison. Stripped of his power, his very essence siphoned to fuel the legions that conquered Olympus, he is reduced to a mere asset – a battery awaiting depletion. The cold iron bites deep, the silence broken only by the mocking visits of Mars, his Roman counterpart and jailer. But beneath the crushing weight of despair and the constant drain, the fire of the War God is not extinguished. Forced into agonizing ...

David’s trial by fire awaits. The unwitting hero and captain of the mystical sailing ship, Moon Singer, has yet to learn that his deafness is his greatest gift. This "disability", along with his possession of three sacred artifacts: The Singer Crystal, The Rose Crystal, and The Wind Rose Compass, bestow David the power to save the lives of everyone he loves. Yet he feels that all the miracles he brought home on the Moon Singer have dissipated. He's just as deaf as before, his sister's paralysis has returned, and his anguish over his mother's death is stronger than ever.

Anfang des 22. Jahrhunderts. Die Menschheit kämpft gegen Aliens, in den letzten bewohnbaren Zonen der Galaxis tobt ein blutiger Bürgerkrieg, und politische Unruhen, militärische Polizeigewalt und Not bedrohen das gesamte Sonnensystem. Der junge Army-Offizier Andrew Grayson hat zwar das Militärbootcamp und den verheerenden Überfall im All überlebt, doch als er mit einer Truppe Querulanten und Unruhestiftern in eine ferne Kolonie geschickt wird, weiß er, dass seine gefährlichste Mission gerade erst begonnen hat... Der Krieg hat gerade erst begonnen.