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'The year is 2037AD.

'Red: Mars is being colonized by the communist Chinese.

'White: The Moon is Russian, but now, just like great swathes of the Siberian steppe, no longer loyal to the Putinists in Moscow.

'And Blue: The US is leading a new western renaissance, free finally from the draining trials of the Third Gulf War and decades of economic malaise. The nation, optimistic and resurgent, plans to return to space.

'But it seems that space is not as empty as we have been led to believe.

'When the sky begins to burn, and not just on one world, we have to face the truth that our only possible allies are our all too human enemies.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Following on from the third Ossard book, Ossard's Shadow:

'Juvela and the Prince have reached Ba Er Kaan, an ogre city of the dead, so her truth can be revealed.

'But they are not alone.

'Meanwhile, far to the west, Sef and Anton have reached the borders of the Dagruan heartland.

'Yet they are still pursued.

'And back in the Northcountry, the cultist controlled city of Ossard stirs to rise anew.' (Publication summary)

'Ossard remains fallen and under Death's sway. The Inquisition and their holy knights, leading the largest force the Church of Baimiopia has assembled in centuries, now lays defeated and in bloody ruins. Meanwhile, the great hope of Life, Juvela, has faltered and succumbed to the divine addiction of soul feeding. In Ossard's Northcountry Death's forces are free to rampage. Far to the west, Sef and Anton continue in their quest to reach the one ally that might be able to help rally the scattered forces of Life, the divine mother of the angelic Dagruan, Dorloth. Yet she has her own enemies, as she is encircled and besieged by Kalraith's monstrous gargoyle swarms. There, they will soon discover Death has a very long reach. Ossard's Shadow follows on from the second Ossard book, Ossard's Hope. The Ossard series, begun in The Fall of Ossard, will be concluded with Ossard Rising and finally Lae Ossard.' (Publication summary)

'One Thousand years ago Norse explorers reached North America during the Viking Age.

'What if they had stayed?

'Join us in this unique alternate history as we begin rewriting one thousand years of history with the Markland Settlement Trilogy!' (Publication summary)

'Over a thousand years ago the Norse reached the Americas, but never stayed.

'What if they had?

'Following on from The United States Of Vinland: The Landing comes Red Winter.

'Eskil's dream of settling the newly discovered lands of the west to honour the Gods is under way. Godsland and Lakeland are no longer alone, as new villages grow and prosper in a world of fjords, valleys, forests and mountains, all of it claimed in the name of Odin.

'For over twenty years factional rivalries have remained, but the Hall of Wolves and the Hall of Ravens must face a challenge that comes heralded by crying war horns and a horizon stained with smoke.

'Can the young settlements survive the challenge?

'But this is not the only trial the Norse of Markland will face. Back across the sea in their peoples ancient homelands there are those who are jealous of the prosperity they see in the west.

'War is coming to Markland.' (Publication summary)

'What if?

'What if the descendants of the Vikings who settled Greenland and went on to reach North America around the end of the first millennium had stayed?

'Five hundred years later, would Christopher Columbus have arrived to the south of an eastern seaboard dotted with centuries old settlements and towns hosting devotees to Thor and Odin?

'Might the Norse have gone on to build a nation as dominant as the United States of our own world?

'A thousand years after reaching Greenland, Vinland and Markland, would we still have had two world wars? What might the world look like? Where might the political and religious divides be drawn?

'This is the New World.' (Publication summary)

'The wealthy city of Ossard has fallen amidst blood, rioting and flames. Through the chaos, Juvela leads the hopeful to safety within a set of mysterious ruins, but are they already claimed?' (Publication summary)

'Ossard is falling... Growing up in a city of Merchant Princes, Juvela discovers she can see what others can't. The very currents of the celestial are open to her, and that includes the truths they hide: An escalating series of unsolved kidnappings have been haunting the city-state, leaving its shadows pooled deep with innocent blood. Has Juvela been cursed with the Witches' Kiss - or perhaps something worse? Yet, more is to come, for not only has she witnessed an abduction, but she will have to endure a role in the victim's ritual death. For Juvela is about to become forsaken, and that's before she learns the real truth of not just the crimes plaguing Ossard's bloody streets, but the wider world: A world at war, and governed by gods whose highest pleasure is to sup on the taste of death. ' (Publication summary)