Collection: Fiction

Aftertaste follows Konstantin "Kostya" Duhovny, a man haunted by the death of his father and the ghosts that have lingered ever since. Though he can't see them, he tastes their favourite foods--flavours that reveal their presence. When Kostya learns he can temporarily reunite the living with the ...

Scullery drudge Ann longs to become a lady's maid. Ann can't quite remember how or when she arrived at the grand Ropner Hall, but she loathes spending her days toiling in the dank kitchen. When a chance meeting with Ropner's Lady Charlotte leads to the opportunity to become her personal maid, Ann...

Julie Tudor is 49 and has it all: a fantastic job (well-maintained spreadsheets are the lynchpin of an efficient office), a beautiful house (some may wonder how she got the money for it, but nothing has been proved) and the man of her dreams. Sean is 25 and the love of Julie's life. The only prob...

Local pharmacist and pillar of the community, Idris Khan, spends his days doling out methadone to the hundreds of addicts in his care. They trust Idris with their secrets, and so he knows more than his mild manner suggests. So when his childhood sweetheart, Rebecca, doesn't turn up for her daily ...

It starts with the destruction of a US Coast Guard cutter and the loss of her entire crew. But the USCG Claiborne was on an innocuous mission to open a sea lane between an oil field off the coast of South America and the refineries of southern Louisiana. The destruction of the ship, tragic as it ...

Between chronic health issues and an overprotective mother, twenty-two-year-old Oriah Pera feels like she's stuck waiting for her life to begin. But when her mother's job takes them to Majora, Ry's ready to break free and make this summer hers. In her first small act of rebellion, she escapes to ...

Cleopatra, all-powerful ruler of Egypt, has found her most able and trusted agent in Tetisheri, her Eye of Isis. So, when Tetisheri asks permission to visit the Kingdom of Cyrenaica, she is surprised - and suspicious - when her queen grants her leave from Alexandria. A middleman in Cyrenaica has ...

The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will reinvent the forensic accountant - what a bounty hunter is to people, he will be to tech money - but for now he's an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technolog...

Newly widowed beauty entrepreneur Vivi Savidge's fortieth birthday is fast approaching, and she plans to celebrate it at the Palazzo Stellina, a historic former convent in the foothills of the Italian Alps run by disgraced chef Marco Bianchi and his elderly grandmother. Vivi's younger sister, Ali...

Rome, 410 AD. Half-sister to Emperor Honorius, unmarried and powerless, twenty-year-old Galla Placidia watches from the shadows as imperial policies are made and unmade. Her plans to gain power and influence are halted when the city is besieged and captured by a vast army led by Alaric the Visigo...