by Sarah Kennedy
The Tudor court under an aging Henry VIII, he now has a son and heir, but his two daughters remain players in the political intrigues. Catherine is skilled enough to serve a former queen, but this may be the very quality that endangers her future. Catherine, as one of the king’s “reformed sisters,” is singled out, just as she realizes that she is carrying a third child and is thrust into the scheming.

by Bruce Woods
Recently an auxiliary movement has sprung up. Reportedly consisting of young virgin women, from the ages of 12 to 18 and accounted uncommonly beautiful. They carry the name “Red Lanterns,” and claim the powers of flight, fire- starting, and miraculous healing.

by Terry Mort
Hollywood in the Thirties: Nazi saboteurs, gangsters running gambling ships, British spies and diplomats, FBI agents, starlets looking for the big break, cheap hustlers on the fringes of the law, local cops–some are friends and some are adversaries, but all are involved somehow with Riley Fitzhugh, a private eye who’s wondering whether the death of an English aristocrat really was an accident.

by Helen Hollick
Escaping the bullying of his elder half-brother, from the age of fifteen Jesamiah Acorne has been a pirate with only two loves–his ship and his freedom. But, Tethys, the Spirit of the Sea, an elemental who will stop at nothing to claim Acorne’s soul and bones as a trophy for herself.