1720: Jack Hunter is about to be hanged for the murder of his neighbor. Jack knows he’s innocent, and the unscrupulous constables will seize his land when he’s dead. He asks Lucy Hamblin, the only girl he ever loved, to marry him in the jail. Her father broke them up four years ago, but now […]

How does one conquer a kingdom without spilling blood? You offer your hand in marriage to the king who killed your husband. Almira’s father raised her in political cunning. Since childhood, she’s prepared for this moment. She lays out the players one by one like pieces on a board. One. King Alton, the brother-killer. The […]

He can hear them a full twenty miles behind the line. Two tons of leather and bone, hordes of them battering the Walls day and night. It really feels like the big bastards know the secret even before the colonists do. The Imperial garrison has abandoned the remote colony of Vanguard, leaving a skeleton crew […]

It started innocently enough. Beautiful Harper gave Sean those eyes… those eyes that meant, yes, take me. But Harper didn’t know Sean’s secrets… She didn’t know that he liked it rough. More than rough. He liked to dominate. To punish. To degrade. It was the only way that the black hole in his soul wouldn’t […]