New Releases by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

More than two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of the most compelling works of dark fantasy and horror of our age. Historically accurate, often involving key events or figures from throughout world history, these deeply emotional novels have a devoted readership. Each novel is written as a stand-alone and they are not chronologically consecutive, so readers may enter the saga with any book and move backward or forward in time as they choose, from Pharaonic Egypt to Paris in the 1700s, from the fall of the Roman Empire to World War II Europe. In An Embarrassment of Riches, the vampire Count finds himself a virtual prisoner in the Court of Kunigunde in Bohemia in the 1200s. Rakoczy Ferncsi, as Saint-Germain is known, passes his days making jewels to delight Queen Kunigunde and trying not to become involved in the Court''s intrigues. In this, the vampire fails. Handsome, apparently wealthy, and obviously unmarried, he soon finds himself being sexually blackmailed by Rozsa, an ambitious lady-in-waiting. If he does not satisfy her, she will denounce him to the priests and he''ll be burned at the stake, resulting in his True Death. Despite his care, the vampire makes more than one enemy at the Bohemian Court, and by the end of An Embarrassment of Riches, the Count can see only one road to freedom...through death. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The vampire Count Saint-Germain, disguised as a missing Hungarian nobleman, is on a spy mission in the heart of Czarist Russia. Almost by the power of his will alone, it seems, Peter the Great is wrestling the city that will one day be St. Petersburg out of swampland. Representatives of the heads of all European states are living in tiny, frigid, wooden homes as they jockey for power and influence over the Czar. When a man shows up claiming to be the Count Saint-Germain, the vampire must figure out how to protect his title and wealth without revealing either his true identity or his True Nature. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

With "Borne in Blood," award-winning author Yarbros saga of Count Saint-Germain reaches a milestone--the 20th volume of the vampires2adventures--in a compelling work of dark fantasy and horror.2368 pp.

"In Ogilvie, Tallant & Moon, best-selling author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro introduces San Francisco attorney Charlie Moon, who happens to be an Ojibwa shaman. He''s got his lawbooks and a special gift for detection to make his cases for him but when things go wrong, it''s the way of his ancestors that show hime the path. In this first case, the business of big pharmaceuticals is tackled and they know how to use drugs wisely -- and painfully. Charlie is going to need all of the ritualistic mojo he can summon."--Ramble House website.

Features the story of Prince Rolon, who challenges the power of the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, and tells how he triumphs over being both chosen and damned.

Come Twilight begins in eastern Spain in the early 600s, when Saint-Germain makes a vampire of the headstrong Csimenae. In the next 140 years, as Spain is controlled first by the the Visigoths and then by Moors, Csimenae becomes a mother of vampires. Though he will regret it for centuries to come, Saint-Germain must act against her. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A look at the lives of fourteenth-century nuns struggling with the temptations of the flesh.

When his beloved mentor and lover are threatened by unscrupulous forces, the vampire Santo-Germano finds his attempts to save them compromised by the loss of his fortune, a kidnapping accusation, and a spy who has discovered his true nature.

The Fall 2006 issue of H.P. Lovecraft''s Magazine of Horror spotlights Brian Lumley, with an interview by Darrell Schweitzer, a biographical history by Stephen Jones, and two new stories: "The Man Who Killed Kew Gardens" and "The Hymn." Also includes stories by Charles M. Saplak, Earl Godwin, Jonathan L. Howard, Lynne Jamneck, Andrew Wilson, and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, plus features by Marvin Kaye, Craig Shaw Gardner, Peter Cannon, and Ian McDowell.

Following a series of catastrophes--both personal and planetary--the vampire Sangi-Ragozh desperately tries to reach sanctuary in the homeland he left centuries ago--a land now called Transylvania.

For more than 20 years, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and her group of friends have faithfully recorded the messages of the spiritual essence known as "Michael". In this book, Michael offers comforting insights on such issues as reincarnation and how it perpetuates the endless lessons the soul can learn in each new life.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro is best known for her suave, vampire-about-the-world Count Saint-Germain, but she is also an accomplished short fiction writer as well. Five Star Publishing is proud to present the best of her dark fantasy and horror fiction all in one collection. Featuring a brand-new short story, "Fugues," and an introduction by noted editor Patrick LoBrutto, Apprehensions and Other Delusions is a feast of psychological thrills and chills that readers will enjoy for many dark nights to come. Book jacket.

The fight against the root of all evil requires a master! Despite being a time traveler and literal Renaissance man, Dr. John Dee has adjusted admirably to life on Earth in 2100. But his mercantile genius is once again put to the test when he and his twenty-second-century comrades, Morgan d''Winter and Kelly Edwards, are called upon to protect their world from the machinations of an alien renegade posing as a messiah. When the chips are down, only John Dee can save the past, present, and future from this pretender and his expanding army of human zombies!

Count Saint-Germain, the 17th century vampire, travels to Rome to help a vampire friend win a court case over an inheritance. The Inquisition is on, and if the count is discovered he could finish on the rack.

Now in trade paperback, Blood Roses finds Saint-Germain living in relative peace and prosperity in the village of Orgon in fourteenth-century France. He has won a grudging acceptance from the local populace. But a new threat has upset the precarious balance: Plague has come to France, and the peoples fear turns to xenophobia. To avoid the scrutiny that could reveal his true nature, Saint-Germain must flee. However, his travels drive him deeper into the heart of the Black Death, and danger.

A dangerous quest has created an impossible alliance: a vampire and a paladin, beings as opposite as night and day, must together find one of the land''s lost shards--an artifact dating back to the remaking of Delos, and the one thing that might stop the Laria once and for all. Based on the exciting new Massive Multi-Player online game from Catware, at www.5212.com and the companion boxed game from Simon and Schuster Interactive.

Yearning for freedom from her pampered life in Venice, wealthy Fenice Zucchar stows away on her brother''s ship. When she is discovered, her angry brother abandons her in the panic-stricken port city of Varna, where she becomes an easy target for the Dark Lord terrorizing the region. When he offers her more freedom than she had ever imagined at the price of complete subjugation, Fenice follows the vampire to his mountain home, where she encounters the once-mortal Kelene. Based on the three "weird sisters" in Bram Stoker''s Dracula.

With Europe on the verge of World War I, the vampire Saint-Germain accepts a top-secret assignment from Czar Nicholas of Russia to deliver one last proposal for peace to the crowned heads of Europe. But powerful men plot against him.

In this follow-up to Chelsea Quinn Yarbro''s Messages from Michael, the spiritual essence known as "Michael" returns with startling revelations about our world and what the next millennium holds for the people of the Earth.

Three thousand years ago, amidst the tombs and temples of ancient Egypt, they called him Demon. Today he is known as the Count Saint-Germain--a man of great power and greater mystery. For over 15 years, readers and critics have praised Yarbro''s novels of Saint-Germain. Now, the secrets of his mysterious past--and distant nights along the shores of the Nile--are revealed.

Olivia Atta Clemens, immortal vampire, Roman noblewoman, beloved of the Count Saint-Germain-has come to Paris seeking only peace. But the year is 1637, and there is no peace to be found in the Court of Louis XIII, where Cardinal Richelieu maneuvers to control the throne. Caught up in the intrigue against her will, Olivia seeks and wins the protection of a young guardsman named d''Artagnan-a man destined to become one of the greatest heroes of all time. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

AN EMPIRE OF FOUR THOUSAND WORLDS The Pact of Mankind is a dinosaur lumbering toward oblivion; hedged about by alien enemies, rotten with decadence and corruption, run by competing oligarchies of criminal corporations, but ruled by a single man _ the High Secretary of the Pact. If the High Secretary should die, the contest to succeed him would draw in: The head of the armed services, using the Fleet as a tool of his political will;Powerful corporations, acting with calculated ruthlessness to loose alien enemies into the heart of the empire;The High Secretary''s children and his faithless widow, pawns in a struggle which only one need survive;A secret cabal among the non-human races enslaved to do Mankind''s labor, now ready to supplant their masters; andRebellious troops from the empire''s borders, determined to place one of their own sort in the High Secretary''s chair. If the High Secretary should die, it would be feeding time in the piranha tank. And the High Secretary is dead! At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The human race had settled more than a hundred worlds before it met the Emerging Planets Fairness Court¾six alien species who sit in judgment on all galactic newcomers. Humanity must now pass the EPFC test. Soon the human fleets find themselves under the eyes of stern overseers known as the Mromrosii. It seems the Mromrosii do not like humanityu0090s freewheeling ways. Most of all, they have severe problems with that group of fleet troubleshooters, the Harriers, for whom breaking the rules is sometimes the only way to get the job done. Features novellas by David Drake, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Christopher Stasheff. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).