Phoenix Phoenix: 1848 books

Critically-acclaimed author Ed Kovacs presents Book Two in his thrilling Cliff Saint James series of murder mystery crime novels set in New Orleans. Publisher’s Weekly gave Good Junk the rare honor of a starred, boxed review, calling it “outstanding,” and saying that “powerful prose elevates...

Once upon a time there lived an old man who had only one son, whom he loved dearly; but they were very poor, and often had scarcely enough to eat...   

A cog stone is a unique archeological artifact from 2,000-9,000 years ago found along the mouth of the Santa Ana River in southern California, and may have been used by long-ago human inhabitants to grind corn or beans. Cog Stone Dreams is a whimsical look at 9,000 years of history of Westbruk Wetlands...

A DADDY IN THE MAKING... A little girl, a wish, and a woman determined to stay out of his reach. How to reconcile the three? Billionaire investor, Drake Duncan, is at the top of his game. He decides to hire a ghostwriter to work on his memoir. Little does he know that the writer who...

HOW DO YOU CATCH A MAN...IN 30 DAYS? Indiana Lane is in a pickle. She must find a man, fall in love and get married...all within the space of thirty days. How in the world can she pull this off? And then she runs into Stone Hudson - or, more accurately, he runs into her - and that's when the...

Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures. While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even,...

-Originally written in Old French, sometime in the early half of the 13th Century A.D., as a continuation of Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished work "Perceval, or the Knight of the Grail": Now beginneth here the second branch of the Holy Graal the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost...

A Druid priestess falls for the wrong man – the warrior who’s taken her prisoner… Hungry for revenge, Druid acolyte Morwyn turns her back on her goddess and vows to fight the Roman invaders. But before she can join up with the rebels, she’s captured by a tough Gaul mercenary. Bren,...

When a Druid priestess falls for her Roman captor she’s torn between her duty to her goddess and her love for the enemy… When Druid priestess Nimue is injured and enslaved by the hated Roman Legion she’s determined to escape and complete her covert mission for her beloved goddess, to...

“A taut near-future thriller”—Publishers Weekly “Should appeal to fans of hard sf and technothrillers.”—Library Journal “An amazingly tense and for-all-the-marbles thriller.”—SF Site A geopolitical miscalculation tainted the world’s major oil fields with radioactivity...

“Gripping. Impossible to put down.”— Jack McDevitt “Leave it to Edward M. Lerner to take a notion, run with it, squeeze every ramification out of it, and put it altogether in an irresistible page-turner. Dark Secret is a crackerjack novel—hard science fiction at its best.”— Robert...

When Brent Cleary, demonstrating a beta-test protective “nanosuit” to potential customers, gets trapped in a massive pipeline explosion, only the nanosuit saves him. Smart nanobots integrated into the suit will do whatever it takes to protect the wearer …The explosion kills hundreds....

“Good science and entertaining writing make this a fast, entertaining read.”—Publishers Weekly Fools’ Experiments is a near-future technothriller—a tale of artificial life, artificial intelligence, and world-threatening hubris. In a nutshell: We are not alone, and it’s our...

Set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse, at the beginning of the 4th century BC, The Arrows of Hercules tells the tale of Zopyros of Tarentum, an engineer who invents an improved type of catapult.He is quickly drafted by Dionysios into Syracuse’s war efforts against Carthage, which sets...