Sam Ellis is a middle-aged stock broker in Seattle, successful, married to a woman he loves dearly, with everything he could want. But below the surface, there are scars. Then his world changes. For reasons he doesn't understand, Sam is thrust back in time to 1968, the summer he turned thirteen. He meets his parents and his own childhood self. That summer changed Sam's world. Monsters walked the streets of his hometown, and now Sam will come face to face with those monsters again, this time as an adult. Nothing will ever be the same.

When a senior Venetian nobleman dies suddenly, people whisper that his death was predicted by Maestro Nostradamus, and the famous clairvoyant must have poisoned him to fulfil his own prophecy. The doge himself warns the Maestro to flee the city, but the old man determines instead to solve the murder--by magic and the efforts of his apprentice, Alfeo Zeno. Young Alfeo is accustomed to doing the legwork and he can call on the help of Violetta Vitale, the most sought-after courtesan in Venice, but can even Alfeo take on demons, assassins, and even the dreaded Council of Ten, all at the same time?

Mother of Lies completes the Dodec story. The children taken hostage so long ago are grown up and reunited. Armed with the power of their chosen gods, they are free to head homeward in search of their destiny. But only one of them can succeed their dying father as ruler of Celebre, and they have had no practice in sibling cooperation--how long will their unity last? Furthermore, the Florengian freedom fighters are driving Bloodlord Stralg and his evil horde back towards the city. If he makes his last stand at Celebre, there may be no city left to inherit by the time the children arrive. And if Stralg's fiendish sister Saltaja has any say, they will not even get close.

Valen, struggling with the addiction known as doulon sickness, has been hiding from his sorcerous family for a dozen years. He possesses his grandfather's book, Maps of the Known World. The monks of Gillarine Abbey, hoping he can gain access to its magic, give him sanctuary. Valen must somehow solve its mysteries - his whole world is at stake.

Wyatt Earp. Doc Holliday. Ike Clanton.

You think you know the story. You don't.

Tombstone, Arizona in 1881 is the site of one of the richest mineral strikes in American history, where veins of silver run like ley lines under the earth, a network of power that belongs to anyone who knows how to claim and defend it.

Above the ground, power is also about allegiances. A magician can drain his friends' strength to strengthen himself, and can place them between him and danger. The one with the most friends stands to win the territory.

Jesse Fox left his Eastern college education to travel West, where he's made some decidedly odd friends, like the physician Chow Lung, who insists that Jesse has a talent for magic. In Tombstone, Jesse meets the tubercular Doc Holliday, whose inner magic is as suppressed as his own, but whose power is enough to attract the sorcerous attention of Wyatt Earp.

Mildred Benjamin is a young widow making her living as a newspaper typesetter, and--unbeknownst to the other ladies of Tombstone--selling tales of Western derring-do to the magazines back East. Like Jesse, Mildred has episodes of seeing things that can't possibly be there.

When a failed stage holdup results in two dead, Tombstone explodes with speculation about who attempted the robbery. The truth could destroy Earp's plans for wealth and glory, and he'll do anything to bury it. Meanwhile, outlaw leader John Ringo wants the same turf as Earp. Each courts Jesse as an ally, and tries to isolate him by endangering his friends, as they struggle for magical dominance of the territory. Events are building toward theshootout of which you may have heard. But you haven't heard the whole, secret story until you've read Emma Bull's unique take on an American legend, in which absolutely nothing is as it seems...

Christopher Nix is 14 years old, and it's 1969. His life is a turbulent echo of the times as he discovers sex, drugs and rock 'n roll in the heart of Florida. But into this struggle between the young long-haired hippie and the rednecks who'd just as soon kill him comes a strange offer that will completely change his life. The Nix family is contacted by a mysterious benefactor who wants to send Chris to an exclusive private school, no expense spared. Mr. Jay Dumont claims that Chris's grandfather saved his life during WWI, and though Grandpa Uvdall is dead, the debt remains to be paid. But as Chris will discover, there is a great deal more to it than that. He will have to accept and understand the Powers that have surrounded his family all his life, and learn to use his own magical gifts, if he is to survive Dumont's plan. As he did with "Dogland," Will Shetterly has used a deceptively simple tale to explore some very deep issues. "The Gospel of the Knife" explores questions of faith and responsibility, and the always complex relationship between man and God and the world.

In a bold and devastating move against the United States, terrorists have hijacked Project Darpa Alpha, classified advanced technology that can transform rifle rounds into tank crushers. The White House is stunned at the magnitude of the assault. General Douglas Freeman has already tried and failed to stop the enemy from transporting Darpa Alpha off U.S. soil. Now he's about to get his second - and last - chance.

U.S. intelligence has traced the theft to a terrifying military state-within-a-state on the Sino-Russian border. Moscow is willing to turn a blind eye to a retaliatory U.S. assault, and the president has the perfect hero - or the perfect scapegoat - in Freeman. With 1,400 marines on the edge of an eerie, forbidding landscape, Freeman has a career to redeem and an enemy to defeat. But the bad guys have the means and motivation to turn Freeman's lightning strike into an icy swamp of death - with a terrible new world order waiting on the other side of war.