When Laksha wakes up as a middling recruit on an Academy training ship, she knows something has gone critically wrong. A Barbarian spy, for the past five years, she’s been infiltrating the soft-bellied Coalition in the hopes of striking a blow that counts. For too long, the Coalition has lorded over the Milky Way. That’s […]

In 1576, Sir Martin Frobisher made the first of three voyages in search of a Northwest Passage. He got as far as Canada, and brought back to England two “proofs” that he had reached Cathay: some black stones that he claimed contained gold, and an Eskimo. Frobisher’s Eskimo is given the name “Adam Nemo” and […]

1398. After decades of war, Scotland and England have finally found peace. Scotland, ruled for ten years by the Duke of Albany, the king’s brother, is about to have a new ruler: David Stewart, heir to the crown. England, meanwhile, is also about to change rulers with Henry, Duke of Lancaster, overthrowing the weak Richard […]

The meticulous Duke of Ashford is dismayed when his children inform him they’ve asked the young widow next door to find him a new wife. Ash can’t think of a more appalling assistant than Helena Courtland, gossipy busybody he steadfastly avoids. But Helena sweeps into his home and his life before he can stop her, […]