A train journey gives way to memories about an ailing woman's early adolescence on the war-torn Italian isle of Elba sixty years earlier, a time also marked by a refuge-seeking soldier and the woman's earliest experiences of innocent young love.

About to become Queen Regnant in the wake of her father's death, Raesinia Orboan must beware of the ambitious men who will wish to control her, and the throne. When the ailing King of the Vordan dies, his daughter, Raesinia Orboan, will become the first Queen Regnant in centuries-- and a target for the ambitious men who seek to control her. The most dangerous is Duke Orlanko, Minister of Information and master of the secret police. Raesinia is determined...

For Cally O'Neal and the O'Neal Bane Sidhe, underground fighters against the tyranny of Earth's Darhel allies, duty lies in the overthrow of the established order. For Major General Michael O'Neal, Cally's father, duty lies in maintaining that order to prevent a reinvasion by the dreaded Posleen.

In 1917, Thomas, a thirteen-year-old coal miner seeking his missing brother, James, joins the Claykickers, who tunnel beneath the battlefields of the Western Front as they learn to be men.

A romance between a barbarian woman-warrior and a Roman army officer. She is Auriane, chief of a Germanic tribe fighting Rome, he is Marcus Julianus, a philosophical type who is in opposition to Emperor Domitian. The two meet when Auriane is captured and is made to be a gladiator for the pleasure of spectators in the newly built Roman Colosseum. Together they plan a coup d'etat.

After waking up in a German field at the end of World War II, a man with only flashes of his memory intact searches for his identity while getting caught up in a flood of displaced people, including a teenager with whom he forms an unlikely alliance.

In a future beset with rising seas, corporate government, and constant civil war, a bioengineered half-man/half-beast super-soldier who calls himself Tool breaks his conditioning to overcome his genetically enhanced sense of loyalty to the corporation that created him and seeks revenge against his old masters.

After Thrawn is rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, his ingenuity and tactical abilities capture the attention of Emperor Palpatine. Thrawn proves to be as indispensable as he is ambitious. On missions to rout smugglers, snare spies, and defeat pirates, he triumphs time and again even as his methods infuriate superiors while inspiring admiration from the Empire. As one promotion follows another in his ascension to power, he schools his aide,...

Reveals the world of Peter Pan through the eyes of Nick, a fatherless teen whose dreams of wonderland are replaced by the gritty reality of life and death, as Peter's recruits are forced into a lethal battle where the line between good and evil is blurred.

When a ghost from the Civil War--a teenage Union soldier--appears to Anderson and his friends, demanding to know what happened to his brother, it's up to Anderson, Greg, and Julie to solve the mystery.