The mythology of another country also touches Ray Aldridge's «Winedark». The story is set off the coast of Greece, and that country's ancient and sometimes terrible beauty flavors each line. Ray's story «The Gate of Faces», from our April 1991...
Kidnapped by a man who seeks to use magic to control the Turic kingdom, Kelene and Gabria must come up with a way to foil his evil schemes, with the help of the winged horse Demira, a mysterious mountain tribe, and a fierce...
Laurel was mesmerized, staring at the pale things with wide eyes. They were terrifyingly beautiful — too beautiful for words. Laurel turned to the mirror again, her eyes on the hovering petals that floated beside her head. They looked almost like...
Liddy Hall is a determined young woman living in the U.S. during WWII. Like many women during this time, Liddy has to deal with the heaviness of the war while she tries to provide for herself and her family. Unlike many women, she’s applied to...
It’s the mid-1960s, and the Cold War is raging.
In Cumbria, a young aircraft designer has been killed under mysterious circumstances, and his fiancée wants answers.
She travels to London to visit Alex Swan, former intelligence officer...
In a brilliant return after his introduction in A Test of Wills (1996), Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge is dispatched to Cornwall to investigate three deaths - seemingly a double-suicide and an accident that have occurred within weeks in the...
North Africa is in turmoil. The new Libyan president has had the new Egyptian president assassinated, and the latter's widow, Susan Salaam, vows revenge. She enlists the high-tech help of Air Force general Patrick McClanahan and his Night...