Detan Honding, a wanted conman of noble birth and ignoble tongue, has found himself in the oasis city of Aransa. But the doppel isn’t working for Thratia and has her own intentions. “Blend two lovable rogues, a magical doppelganger, and a nasty empire, and you have O’Keefe’s Steal the Sky.

Now Detan has to break them all out of prison, and he's going to need the help of a half-mad doppel to do it. But Nouli is imprisoned on the Remnant Isles, an impervious island prison run by the empire, and it's Detan's fault..

Detan Honding is determined to survive this war, even when caught between not one but two besieging armies! After rescuing the renowned engineer Nouli from the clutches of the empire, the valiant rogue has returned to his aunt’s city – to find it under siege by Thratia’s army. While Thratia and his aunt bring their forces to bear against the new threat, Detan puts his own plans into motion – to ensure that when the final blow is dealt, Thratia and her army will find themselves on the other side of the city’s walls. Worse yet, the imperial advance is aided by an elite force of dark magicians.His aunt is forced to forge an uneasy alliance with Thratia to keep the city from falling back under imperial control – but Detan’s wary.

Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it.

.. Colonel Alan Bookbinder is an army bureaucrat whose worst war wound is a paper-cut.

In order to redeem himself with the military, Harlequin will be forced to face off with this havoc-wreaking woman from his past, warped by her power into something evil…. Across the country and in every nation, people began “coming up Latent,” developing terrifying powers—summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. In the fight for Latent equality, Oscar Britton is positioned to lead a rebellion in exile, but a powerful rival beats him to the punch: Scylla, a walking weapon who will stop at nothing to end the human-sanctioned apartheid against her kind.

In a town of amazing magicks, where the real and the imagined live side by side and the Faerie of legend know the automatons of the future, Time sees all - but even he cannot escape the prophecy of James Hart's return, which can only mean the death of Shadows Fall.Considered by the author to be his finest work yet, this is a story of realistic detail, heartfelt emotion, and dazzling imagination that builds a world listeners won't want to leave and spins a tale they won't want to end.

The militant Warriors of the Cross, have come to Shadows Fall to capture and wrest control of the legendary Forever Door from Old Father Time and a town they see as being filled by sinners, witches and demons.What will happen when the Faerie go to war, with their strange combination of magic and scientific weaponry? Will anyone survive their horrible taste for blood and carnage?And will Sheriff Richard Erikson, be able to find the mysterious and deadly Wild Childe killer, before it's too late?.War has come to Shadows Fall.

From the greatest western storytellers of our time comes a new twist on the legend of notorious outlaw Jesse James—who just might not have died on that fateful April 3, 1882. Using another man’s corpse to collect the reward, Ford allowed James to slip away and start a new life.1942—Granbury, Texas. He claims to be the one and only Jesse James, the infamous bank robber allegedly shot by Robert Ford sixty years earlier.

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But the lone Were he’s tracking doesn’t smell or act like anyone he’s ever encountered.. She says her name is Silver, and that she’s lost her wild self and can’t shift any more. She’s beautiful, she’s crazy, and someone has tortured her by injecting silver into her veins.

And then there’s Silver—the werewolf who has lost her wild self to a monster’s assault, and who can no longer shift forms..The second book in Rhiannon Held's wonderful urban fantasy series, Tarnished plunges readers into the world of the shape-shifter packs who live hidden among us.Andrew Dare has found his mate in Silver, but they haven’t found the pack they can call home.

As Andrew Dare is called away to resolve a pack problem in Alaska, Silver is met with big challenges as co-alpha of the Roanoke pack, both from Andrew's daughter, Felicia; and from squabbling over the right of a pregnant sub-alpha to continue her role as leader.

Tatiana claims she has been sent to locate an heirloom, lost by immigrants centuries ago, but she and the alphas both suspect that Russia fears the strength of the newly-united, continent-spanning Roanoke pack. The alphas must fight to wake and Tatiana must fight to help them—because with the furious Roanoke pack howling for her blood, her life could depend on it.. The drugged wine they’ve given her is too strong, and instead of rendering Silver and Andrew biddable, it nearly kills her and traps the alphas in dreams that could destroy them.

. Staying behind while Silver risks herself alone is more than Andrew can bear, but he must tread carefully to avoid triggering a pack war. Playing the Lady goes against all of Silver's beliefs, but she yields to Mikhail’s invitation for her to join him in Russia.

Apropos is a rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat. Lame of leg but fast of wit, the only reason Apropos doesn't consider chivalry dead is because he's not yet through with it. Yet when Apropos finds himself assigned as squire to the most senile knight in the court-Sir Umbrage of the Flaming Nether Regions, whose squires tend to have a rather short life span-Apropos is forced to rise to the occasion lest he be dragged under-permanently. An orphan with a chip on his shoulder, Apropos, travels to the court of the good King Runcible, with three goals in mind: to find his father, seek retribution for the death of his mother, and to line his own pockets.

In the conclusion to his first adventure Apropos' difficulties are compounded when a routine mission to escort the King's daughter home after a long absence goes horribly awry..

They want something they're convinced she has stolen..

.a deadly and despised peace lord (the politically correct term for warlord) with tens of thousands of troops at his command, cities filled with helpless people trembling before him, and an adoring and sexy consort. Apropos is the unlikely noble whose life began in the lowest of ways: as the result of a gang assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench.

But events conspire to pull Apropos in unexpected and dangerous directions, for his presence in Chinpan does not go unnoticed.

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He fought in the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles, his father's regiment during the Civil War.He was born in the Going Snake District of the Cherokee Nation--and forged a destiny as bold as his name.

that is, until Sixkiller comes to town. Billy Ray Gilmore and his band of kill-crazy outlaws have a plan to do it too .

. Their goal: to make the entire territory hostage and sell it lock, stock and barrel to Mexico - gleefully slaughtering anyone who gets in the way.

.So Sixkiller takes a job as a hired gun, and sets out to destroy the mayor's gang from inside out. Johnstone with J.A.

And he will do it the hard way: getting himself arrested, busting out of jail, and worming his way into an outlaw haven run by a beautiful, amoral woman.

There, a mining town is surrounded by armed men, people inside are dying of disease, and, as outlaws converge, the line between right and wrong disappears… Until Sixkiller takes out a gun and lays down the law—one bullet at a time.Instead of O’Reilly, Sixkiller finds a beautiful woman and a meddling Federal agent from the Secret Service.

But they made one mistake. His enemies destroyed everything he'd ever loved.From his Missouri farm, the boy traveled west.

.to die! It had been years since hired gunhands had murdered Smoke's wife and son, but the pain was as fresh as yesterday.

It's up to mountain Man Smoke Jensen and his over-the-hill companions to save the town's bacon, and do their best not to get killed in the process.