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When a high schooler gets a job in the art department of a nearby university, she begins to suspect that the campus is haunted by a ghostand maybe even a serial killerLaDonna Martindale hopes that her new job at the local college will help to inspire her own painting. But every night, in the art school basement, she sorts canvases for the upcoming gallery showing. And every night, she feels the same strange, comforting presence of someone in the basement with hereven if she cant see him. When LaDonna suddenly discovers a beautiful painting on the basement wall that wasnt there before, she realizes that her ghost is an incredible artist. Maybe, just maybe, he can be the muse shes been lacking. But when a string of murders on campus turns her small town upside down, LaDonna isnt sure whom to trusther best friend, Johnny; the art school director; or even her ghost. LaDonna can sense someone stalking her whenever shes on campus, and she starts to wonder if she might be the serial killers next victim. 

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In The Death of Attila, the great Hun leader dominates the late Roman world; in his shadow, a Hun warrior and a German princeling form a fragile comradeship. When Attila dies, the world around them crumbles, and the two men face terrible choices.

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In this masterful sword-and-sorcery epic, Duncan has created strong and moving characters . . . and a world as rich and layered as our own (Iceberg Ink).   For fifteen years, the truce has held. Swordsmen of the Tryst of Casr have kept the peace and extended the rule of law over half the world, but now sorcerers have started killing swordsmen again, and swordsmen traitors are aiding them. Shonsuwho was Wallie Smith before he became a swordsman of the seventh rank and liege lord of the Trystmust once more gird on the seventh sword of Chioxin, and this time he rides out to fight the war that he hoped would never come. As he leads his army forth, its two most junior members are Vixini, son of Shonsu, and Addis, son of Nnanji, who has an oath of vengeance to fulfill. Their failure or success will determine the fate of the world for the next thousand years.

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Tom Brothers, widower, owns a hardscrabble cattle ranch in the foothills of Wyoming. The land controls Toms life, taking all he can give, offering little in return. THE DEER MOUSE follows him for ten culled days through the seasons of the year, as he and his son, TJ, struggle to make ends meet. Old Tom, sulky and brooding, and TJ, insecure, are constantly at each other in a sullen, running battle, neither one conscious of how their lives unfold in remarkably parallel ways, nor able to bring themselves to trust one another. Both want desperately to know that what they have given, and what theyve lost, is worth something in the end. Their ruptured relationship profoundly affects the rest of the extended family in this rural isolation, and these wounds are further aggravated by the intrusion of Frank, a recently-hired man, who comes between TJ and his wife, Karen.

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A late-night joyride takes a sharp turn into nightmare territory when a group of college students tries to cover up a crime of carelessnessA moment of inattention on a winding roadway in the Smoky Mountains leaves a stranger dead and his accidental killers at the mercy of a possible witness. Finney Durant, Nick Laymon, and Reed Tucker are desperate not to be linked to the crime. Finney and Tucker insist on hiding the corpse, and Nick, hard up for money, takes the mans cash. But the hit-and-run is just the beginning of their problems once they use a key found in the victims pocket to open a bus lockerand find a videotape that opens an ever-widening doorway into horror.

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Let me make clear from the outset, I detest adventure. Its tasteless, showy, vulgar, and uncalled for.  So begins this delicious thriller about a gay interior decorator who joins his super-wealthy clients for a Caribbean cruise, only to find himself shanghaied by pirates. Bound hand and foot and tossed unceremoniously into a quaint, Paul Gauguin sort of hut picturesquely thatched with banana leaves, Gregory fears he will be boiled a la langouste and served without so much as a creative sauce. But one night, as he lies in the dark with his face in the dirt, he hears a digging, snooting sound coming from the ground outside . . . Enter the most endearing sidekick in fiction, the brave pig Savarin. High adventure is turned on its head in this affectionate satire of yuppie values. It is as if Oscar Wilde had been parachuted into the jungle, says the New York Times. You will find yourself picking out and stowing away your favorite lines. There are enough twists in the story to make a yogi sore. Under the spell of Gundys droll and accomplished prose you will end up smiling through the whole thing.

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A sword-and-sorcery classic from the Aurora Awardwinning author of the Kings Blades series. Wally Smith, having died on Earth, finds himself reincarnated as a swordsman in another world and entrusted by the presiding goddess with a mission that has no appeal for him at all. Can he bring together all the swordsmen to finally defeat the sorcerors and their terrible technology? Wally is not quite convinced he should, but goddesses can be very persuasive . . . This is the third and final exciting book, after The Reluctant Swordsman and The Coming of Wisdom, in the Seventh Sword Trilogy. 

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Her mouth went dry. From one standpoint, the job wasnt much, but from another, it was like salvation. In her state of confusion and fatigue, the job seemed heavensent, and Lou like an angel. He watched her carefully. Frankly, he went on, if you want to sell your talent and your time, you must be aware Im interested in more than your literary skills. He had paused for a long moment and then added, Perhaps we can continue this interview at my apartment later. Her face flushed. Not only because of the openness of his request, but because she felt a strange tingle of excitement. Who is this man? Is he the face of the devil, or the taunt of temptation?

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When marriage gets in the way of attraction, somethings got to givePerry Langham grew up an outsider looking in. He wanted to join Manhattan high society, be invited to those parties, wear those clothes, and drive those cars. He is a man with only one endowment, and he pledges to use it to achieve his dream by any means necessary. He finally gets the opportunity he has always wanted when he is swept into the world of millionaire Billy Vernona place where anything seems possible. In order to keep the fun going, Perry marries Billys beautiful young daughter Bettina. And thats when the wheels fall off. Billy cant reconcile his attraction to young men with his new marriage, and he goes down a dark path from which there may be no return. Based on the true story of a high-society murder case that drew international attention to its story of shocking crime and outrageous sex, The Good Life is Gordon Merricks posthumous final novel, cowritten with his partner, Charles G. Hulsea fitting cap to an illustrious career. 

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First in the Merquan Chronicles, a science fiction adventure of a revolt against tyranny in a postapocalyptic world from a writer to watch closely (Roger Zelazny).    Earth has been devastated in a long-forgotten conflict. From the ashes of myriad nations and civilizations rose a martial state under the reign of a merciless dictator. Despite ruling most of the planet, the Monitor will not permit any competing population to threaten his realm. To ensure his empire, he plans to unleash a weapon of mass destruction with the potential to destroy the world he so desperately wishes to subjugate under his dominion.   But there are those unwilling to bow before the Monitor: Anton Takk, a labor-camp escapee driven by dark secrets; Rosenthal Webb, an aging revolutionary hiding deep within a mountain, waiting for the right time to return; ThaEnton, a glory seeking warrior and musician; and Pec-Pec, clever magician, Rasta mystic, and master manipulator. In their fight for their individual freedoms, they will inspire a revolution that will save the world.   Author Jeff Bredenberg writes sustained action sequences which twist like mating serpents; his themes are important ones; and his voice is different from anyone elses in the business (Roger Zelazny).

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In the heat of the desert, a scorching love rises between a restless viscount and a beauty in disguise in this novel by a New York Timesbestselling author.   Desperate to find safety in England, Zenia, the descendent of the Queen of the Desert, dresses herself as a Bedouin boy. For protection, she agrees to guide Arden, the Lord of Winter, through the wilds of her dangerous desert homeland as he searches for a legendary Arabian mare. Consigned by her mother to live disguised, Zenia hasnt the courage to admit her sex to Arden. Yet, as they cross a merciless desert, she comes to yearn for this fearless, untamable man to know the feminine heart beating beneath her Bedouin rags.   Lord Winters loneliness and adventurous spirit have always driven him to the empty, brutal places of the Earth. With Zenia at his side, his loneliness recedes. One night of terror will bind their souls together, but when the princess escapes her homeland for the comfort and safety of England, his yearning will lead him to invade her sanctuary . . .  The Dream Hunter is a suspenseful, adventure-filled tale that establishes Laura Kinsale as the gold standard in historical romance (Lisa Kleypas).  

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Postapocalyptic rebels embark on a dangerous sea voyage in the second Merquan Chronicles novel from a writer to watch closely (Roger Zelazny). An enticing new world awaitsbut getting there is half the battle. Destroying a ruthless dictator, it turns out, was easy by comparison. Merquas revolutionaries find themselves landlocked, and the only hope for civilization lies beyond a wild and perilous ocean. Only one shipyard can produce a vessel that is up to the crossing. But how do you negotiate withor trustslavers, powder-snorting pirates, and cannibals? To complicate matters, the Rasta mystic Pec-Pec lurks in the background. The power of a world-changing mission has captured his attention. How will this inscrutable magic man, with allegiance to no one, twist the mission to serve his own dark plans?

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Morgan Roche is a renegade, fleeing the agents she used to work for in the Commonwealth of Empires. Her quest to understand Adoni Cane has led her to a terrible truth. He is one of a breed of genetically enhanced warriors that once terrorized the galaxy. And there might be more of them, waking up to begin fighting anew. AN INTERSTELLAR TRAP: A whole solar system has disappeared, wiped from the universe in an attempt to snare just one super-soldier like Cane. In an attempt to come to grips with her enemy, Morgan Roche and The Box travel willingly into the trap, but find themselves ensnared in ever-thicker tangles of deception and intrigue. Who is The Box, and is what its agenda, really? The answer will rock Roches world right down to the foundations. I'm not sure what an Evergence is, but finding out promises to provide hours of fun. --Locus Genre-savvy and capably written, full of adventure and Asimovian imperial vistas --Asimov's Full of adventure of Asimovian imperial vistas. Delivers tons of action...Offers wide-screen baroque plotting never out-of-control. With echoes of vintage Jack Williamson and Poul Anderson, as well as Niven, Asimov, and Vinge, Williams and Dix proudly continue a vital tradition in SF. --Analog Nominated for the Aurealis Award

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In this ribald, titillating, exciting book, Marco Vassi exposes the human animal in all its absurdity. He spares no one and nothing in his ironic Xray of our exalted obsessions. Capturing the sizzling vitality of our current erotic upheaval while grasping its peculiar pretensions, Vassi creates a gallery of unforgettable characters who are only ourselves in a form larger than life. In these nineteen stories, Vassi turns erotic literature inside out, unraveling the seams of our most secret fantasies. The Erotic Comedies offers a mere taste of what awaits readers in his fulllength novels.

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The epic Emancipator sci-fi trilogy continues with this tale of galactic action and adventure, as one man fights to bring down the brutal slave trade.  Slavery is the corporate foundation of the powerful Pangalic Worlds where Ruiz Aw leads a dangerous double life, as an enforcer for the Art League that so brutally controls its slaves and as an Emancipator dedicated to eradicating the cruel business. After escaping from a herd of slaves, and voyaging across the perilous and magical world of Sook, he and his band of refugees become trapped a rotting city called SeaStack. The biomechanical city however, has secrets that no one can begin to fathom. Ruiz must use his skills to kill for money, and the battle for safety just might a secret that will challenge the foundations of the universe. 

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In this psychological mind bender, a Kafkaesque crisis of identity transports a famous actor from 1980s Hollywood to Nazi Germany (The Washington Post). At forty-five, Hollywood film star David Caspian should be basking in his success. Instead, his career is souring as he stresses over the next generation of actors eager to replace him. Losing himself in waking fantasies, David slips through a crack in time, awakening in the back alleys of Hitlers Berlin. He is no longer David Caspian. He has become Felix, a ruthless black marketeer.   With the Gestapo closing in on him, David races against timeand spaceas he fights to take control of Felix before Felix takes control of him. Witty, macabre, and utterly thrilling, The Exile is a mesmerizing novel that will leave readers wondering where reality ends and fiction begins.  People wrote that when William Kotzwinkle is the author, readers can be sure only that the book in question will be different from everything else. But even among the award-winning authors work, this bracing satire stands out for the sweep of its vision, full of comedy, despair, horror and technical storytelling delight (The New York Times Book Review).   The book becomes glued to the readers hands as the devastating climactic scenes pile one on another. . . . Powerful writing. The Washington Post Book World  

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From a Nebula Award winner: A phenomenal, action-packed tale of crime, corruption, and cybernetics (Locus). Set in a divided near future, The Exile Kiss is author George Alec Effingers third book about the high-tech Arab ghetto called the Budayeen. It is a world filled with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose; brains enhanced by electronic hardware, with plug-in memory additions and new personalities; and bodies shaped to perfection by surgery. Marid Audran, having risen from the rank of street hustler, is now an enforcer for Friedlander Bey, one of the most feared men in the Budayeen. But betrayal and exile send Marid and Bey out into the lifeless Arabian desert. Can they survive on their own? Will they make it back into hostile territory? Will they find their revenge? With this culmination of the sequence of Marid books, readers will quickly understand why this series is considered one of the great works of modern SF and a defining example of the cyber-punk genre.

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The "Faithful" of Carla Dickens's novel are a vibrant cadre of volunteers devoted to the most charismatic presidential candidate in fifty years. Drawn from today's newspaper headlines and political blogs, The Faithful follows a cast of young, smart, beautiful, and driven men and women shepherding their candidate through the turbulent waters of the 2008 Democratic presidential campaign.

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An Irish mercenary knight joins William of Normandy for the invasion of England, and faces a stark choice at Hastings, in this powerful novel (The New York Times). In The Firedrake, an Irish mercenary knight in the eleventh century, in a constant personal battle with the rest of the world, joins William of Normandy for the invasion of England. There at Hastings he has to choose between power and wealth, and his personal demons of pride and honor. The New York Times called Cecelia Holland a literary phenomenon in its review of this book, recognizing a stellar creative achievement by a young writer in her first published work.

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Cannibalistic cave dwellers. Huge, terrifying clans roaming the moors, seeking out human flesh to rend and consume. It sounds like the horrors of prehistoric savages, but it falls well within recorded history of civilized men. The first half of the fifteenth century saw savagery and fear that erased the line between man and beast.Just eight miles east of the modern city of Edinburgh, Sawney Bean and his murderous family prowled the Scottish coasts, robbing travelers and consuming their victims. Stick... stock... stuck. Youve run out of luck. Kill... kill... kill. We eat our fill, they chant as they descend upon their prey. Theres little the community can do but be hunted.This horrifying tale of nightmare-inducing monsters--inspired by true events--comes into stark reality in THE FLESH EATERS, an imaginative novel by Edgar Award winning author L.A. Morse. Beware, any readers faint of heart. Its those soft hearts that are the tenderest meat. 