Fie's Crow caste of undertakers and mercy-killers takes more abuse than coin; when they're called to collect royal dead, she's hoping they'll find the payout of a lifetime. But Crown Prince Jasimir faked his death, and Fie's ready to cut his throat. He offers a wager that she can't refuse: protect him from a ruthless queen, and he'll protect the Crows when he reigns. Hawk warrior Tavin, Jas's bodyguard, magically assumed the prince's appearance and...

1618, Württemberg, a German duchy. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun. Fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow known for her herbal remedies, is accused of being a witch by Ursula Reinbold, who accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill. Her son Johannes, the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author...

It is the twenty-first century, and England is a republic governed by a ruling élite, one of whom, Adrian, Earl of Windsor, has introduced a Cumbrian boy to the circle. This outsider, Lionel Verney, narrates a tale of complicated, tragic love, and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague.--From publisher's description.

"When authorities in Alaska receive a disturbing call from a teenage girl, their investigation leads them to discover an entire family of researchers dead. Joe Rush is called to help examine the bodies. On the surface, it looks like a brutal murder/suicide. But the situation is nowhere near that simple--nor is it over. Upon closer investigation, Rush discovers the terrifying truth. The research team has fallen victim to something that seems impossible...

Told in two voices, seventeen-year-old alchemy student Nedra turns to dark magic when a deadly plague sweeps through her homeland leaving her new friend, Grey, to pull her from the darkness.

"June and Day have sacrificed so much for the people of the Republic--and each other--and now their country is on the brink of a new existence. Just when a peace treaty is imminent, a plague outbreak causes panic in the Colonies, and war threatens the Republic's border cities"--

When the Black Death enters England in 1348, no one knows how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable. With her brutal husband absent when news of the pestilence reaches her, and being well-versed in the importance of...

While attending to Lady Adelie, wife to the Earl of Pengraic, as a terrible plague sweeps across Europe, young noblewoman Maeb Langtofte discovers that the walls of Pengraic castle are no longer safe after stumbling upon the Earl's dark secret.