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In this sixth entry in the Time Traders series, time agents Ross Murdock and Eveleen Riorden are recalled from their honeymoon to take part in a dangerous assignment: find a team of Russian scientists who vanished without a trace from a research mission in the past of a far-off planet. Along with a team of Russian time agents with their own mysterious agenda, they leap into the alien world''s distant history. There they encounter alien races whose appearance, language, and customs are incomprehensibly strange. Some mystery changed this world, and music seems the only tool that might prove a key to unlocking the planet''s secrets. But as they try to decipher a digital alien Rosetta stone, time is running out. Ross must figure out how to save his team before they vanish forever. This high-intensity race against time is filled with excitement and wonder in the grand, retro-scifi Time Traders tradition.

The second book of an epic fantasy trilogy set in the beloved world of the Inda novels follows untested young rulers, who must cooperate to protect their world from a mysterious magical threat. Long-dormant magical forces are moving once again in Sartorias-deles. Agents of Norsunder, a mysterious bastion of incredible dark power, have reappeared in the world, amassing resources and sowing instability. Firejive continues the epic saga political and magical threats leading to Norsunder''s return. Our heroes span continents and cultures, ambitions and desires, but share one characteristic: they are young leaders. Many are rulers of unstable nations, growing into their power and their identities, but they seek ways to trust and bind themselves together--and find th strength to defend against a host that has crushed entire worlds. Set in the complex world of Sartorias-deles, Sherwood Smith returns readers to the enthralling saga begun with the military action of the Inda series and continuing in the magic-based cultural drama of Banner of the Damned, bringing together deadly high politics, engaging worldbuilding, and nuanced examinations of power, love, and betrayal.

All hunts converge on Chwahirsland, furnishing new twists in the on-going saga of the alliance of young rulers . . .

Swashbuckling in a magic world-L.A. style! Sasharia en Garde! book 1. Sasha''s mother, Sun, was once swept away from a Ren Faire to another world by a prince-literally-but there was no happy ending. Sun''s prince disappeared, and a wicked king took the Khanerenth throne. In the years since, Sasha and Sun have been back on Earth and on the run. Mom and daughter don''t quite see eye to eye on the situation-Sasha wants to stand and fight. Sun insists her prince will return for them one day; it''s safer to stay hidden. Then Sasha is tricked into crossing the portal to Khanerenth. She''s more than ready to join the resistance, kick some bad-guy butt, and fix the broken kingdom. But...is the stylish pirate Zathdar the bad guy? Or artistic, dreamy Prince Jehan? Back on Earth, Sun is furious Sasha has been kidnapped. Sun might once have been a rotten princess, but nobody messes with Mom! Warning: This title contains a kick-butt mother-daughter team, a wicked king, a witty pirate with an unfortunate taste for neon colors, inept resistance fighters, a dreamy prince who gallops earnestly hither and yon, and a kick-butt princess in waiting.

Lilah is bursting with questions. Why are the local kids outside the palace so ragged? Why do they hate her? Why does her older brother Peitar--heir to their cold, controlling uncle, the king--write so many secret letters, and WHY won''t anyone tell her what the revolutionary slogan ''slam justice'' means? She disguises herself to find out. For the first time she makes friends, and meets the heroic young revolutionary leader, Derek.Then revolution breaks out.Lilah and her new friends become spies in order to help Peitar and Derek, who have been swept into the middle of unrest and danger.While no one on either side could have predicted that Lilah would be key to the new meaning of slam justice.

When Wren''s traveling companion begins to meddle with magic, she must try to keep things in hand, turning her quest far more dangerous than she imagined it would be.

In this sequel to The Spy Princess, Lilah, newly made a princess, teams up with Atan, the hidden princess of the oldest country in the world, Sartor, to free the kingdom from a century of enchantment. Capture, escape, a forest beyond time, ancient beings, civilizations secreted in caves, and a deadly enemy await the girls. Atan knows that if she survives, the challenges facing a fifteen-year-old queen are only beginning.

In a time of rising danger, women go to war, and ghosts walk the walls...A few years have passed since Danet and Arrow found themselves rulers of a disintegrating kingdom. They managed to establish peace as their children reach adulthood, but threats from the border become raids, aided by vicious brigands. The two princes, Noddy and Connar, newly emerged from the military academy, are dispatched to patrol the troubled area until they find themselves under attack.Their loyalty to one another is strong, but what happens when one brother discovers a taste for war and the other a loathing for it? Matters of marriage and love tangle up with the menace of war. But the greatest threat of all comes when the world''s strongest army faces enemies from within. This is the concluding half of an epic story of politics, war, family and magic in the beloved world of Sartorias-deles.

First written when Sherwood Smith was a teen, the series called CJ''s Notebooks feature a gang of girls around thirteen-year-old Queen Clair of Mearsies Heili. The M girls, as they come to be known, prefer their villains silly, their throwing pies gloppy, and their adventures fun. But villains don''t ask first if the girls want to be dragged into dangerous escapades, so they''ve had more than their share. Sometimes they are not the center of the dangerous escapades. Hunt Across Worlds, a prelude to Fleeing Peace, is about two kids from Earth who discover a boy from another world being kept prisoner. When they rescue him, they end up having to cross the USA before being blasted by magic to Mearsies Heili, where they meet a sailor girl who''s been stuck in charge of a Mysterious Magical Object. CJ and the gang try to come to the rescue, discovering that being on the edge of someone else''s story can sometimes lead to bigger adventures.

Twenty-five years ago a pair of lovers ran from an angry prince and washed up on an island where they took on new identities.Their eldest child, a natural martial artist like his father, seems destined for great things. The second son is an artist and a dreamer, and Mouse, the youngest-used to wearing her brothers'' clothes while trotting at their heels-is regarded by everyone as a third brother.All three were raised to keep their parents'' secret, but in this first volume they discover that children have their own paths, and parents cannot hold them back, especially when an omen drops out of the sky . . .

The world is fighting back. Duels of wit and danger. Hints of what really happened years ago emerge, making this fight personal. Revelation. Betrayal. Sacrifice.The beginning of the end.

The dramatic conclusion to the Lhind young adult fantasy series!When Lhind''s beloved Hlanan is taken by Shinjan slavers, she leaves her self-imposed exile to rush to the rescue. But first she must face a dragon, and learn world-changing truths about herself.Meanwhile, halfway across the world, imprisoned Hlanan labors to liberate fellow slaves of the evil Shinjan empire.Before they meet again, both must explore the difficult dimensions of honor, trust, and love.Failure means death. Success, bringing down two murderous tyrants-and forever changing the world.

A light-hearted romantic comedy of manners set in Jane Austen''s Regency period as our two heroines step in time to the dance of love.

The war is over, all but the cleanup. And the emotional recovery, with its scars both visible and invisible. Liere Fer Eider learns on the run how to become a queen, while Andri adjusts to life this side of the law. Senrid, in devastated Marloven Hess, has to straight-arm a rage-filled populace into peace. While on a faraway mountain Detlev at last oversees the rebuilding of his school for training re-emerging psychic powers after four millennia. . A few years pass, and everything seems to be settling into the new norm--until Liere wakes from a drugged sleep to an enemy who offers an impossible choice.

It''s fifteen years after the Norsunder War. David, one of Detlev''s boys, is no longer a boy. He''s a man in his early thirties, having served since the war as a teacher and guide at the tiny dyranarya school, revived after a four thousand year hiatus-without having achieved a dyr himself. Much as he loves his work, he is aware that this is not his life path. So, what is? At loose ends presently, his last student having gone off to a new life, he agrees to check out some rumors in the long troubled, bandit-infested valley of the southern branch of the Fal river. He''s always rather liked the rowdy, swashbuckling Kergans with their elaborate dueling rules; there is no central government, the various guilds having sufficed to keep trade flowing between the cities and the rest of the world. But now, it seems, the enigmatic king of Enaeran-Adrani is taking an interest in the area . . . and David intends to find out if it''s true. Then-maybe-do something about it. He certainly knows how. But then he meets a knife-bearing, swashbuckling caravan escort, and everything changes.

When wicked King Andreus declares war on the royal families of Meldrith, Wren and her friends, Princess Teressa, Prince Connor, and chief magic maker Tyron, determine to defeat him.