Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day. As Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it's something awful.
This time, it's worse than that. Mab's involved Harry in a smash-and-grab heist run by one of his most despised enemies, to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure horde in the world - which belongs to the one and only Hades, Lord of the Underworld.
Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess - assuming his own allies don't end up killing him before his enemies get the chance . . .
Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors... Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity. Within their halls, the ruling aristocratic houses develop scientific marvels, foster trade alliances, and maintain fleets of airships to keep the peace. Captain Grimm commands the merchant ship Predator . Loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemys shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. But when the Predator is damaged in combat, Grimm joins a team of Albion agents on a vital mission in exchange for fully restoring his ship. And as Grimm undertakes this task, he learns that the conflict between the Spires is merely a premonition of things to come. Humanitys ancient enemy, silent for more than ten thousand years, has begun to stir once more. And death will follow in its wake...
Brought back to the mortal world as the Winter Knight to Mab, Harry Dresden is at the command of the Queen of Air and Darkness and is expected to kill an immortal, as he begins to realize there is a serious threat to endanger countless innocent victims unless he finds his way out of eternal subservience.
The national bestselling Black Jewels trilogy established award-winning Anne Bishop as an author whose "sublime skill...blends the darkly macabre with spine-tingling emotional intensity, mesmerizing magic, lush sensuality, and exciting action."* Now the saga continues-with four all-new adventures of Jaenelle and her kindred.
The year's best SF and Fantasy, selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
A story based on the saga by Marion Zimmer Bradley follows the Avalon characters' predecessors, the exiled high priestess Tiriki and royal acolyte Damisa, who escape from Atlantis to the mist-shrouded isle of Britain, where their duties conflict with their hearts. Reprint.
Assigned to investigate the deaths of several magic practitioners, all of whom lacked the ability to become full-fledged wizards, professional Chicago wizard Harry Dresden is shocked when the evidence points to his half-brother Thomas as the killer.
The annual collection of the best stories from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
With the corrupt Queens wiped out and only a few leaderless Warlord Princes remaining, Theran Grayhaven knows that he is the only one who has the power to restore Dena Nehele to the land it once was, if he can only find a Queen.
After spending a year riding with the Amazon tribes, Kassandra, royal princess of Troy, returns to her city to dedicate herself to being a priestess of Apollo, in this retelling of the story of the Trojan War. Reprint.
Collects the shorter works featuring Chicago's own professional wizard, Harry Dresden, including an all-new never-before-published novella. By the #1 best-selling author of Changes . Reprint.
A prequel to Marion Zimmer Bradley's
When her new baby brother is stolen from his nursery and replaced by something unnatural, Clodagh, daughter of Lady Aisling of Sevenwaters, ventures into the shadowy Otherworld to confront its ruler and reclaim her brother.
Lady Cassidy, the Rose-Jeweled Queen of Shalador, comes out of hiding to restore her throne and prove her ability to rule, but is wary of the visions of the Black Widows, who see danger on the horizon.
Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the vampiric Red Court, discovers the secret being kept by Harry Dresden's ex-lover, Susan Rodriguez, leaving Harry with no choice but to tap into his own dark power and fight to save the world.
Wizard detective Harry Dresden, murdered by an unknown assassin, must save his friends and his soul without any magic to help him in this novel from the New York Times best-selling author of Side Jobs . Reprint.
Winter Ihernglass poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she is promoted to a command post.