C. E Murphy

Belinda Primrose deals in secrets. Since childhood, Belinda has known she was the unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the unwed queen of Aulun, an island nation on the edge of the vast Echonian continent. Belinda is a spy, an assassin...and a danger to her mother, should she ever be discovered. She can be anyone, and will do anything, to cement Lorraine's position of power within the treacherous Echonian courts. But as she infiltrates the glamorous...

It's good luck to earn the king's regard...isn't it? Seamaster journeyman Rasim's quick wits have helped to save his beloved home city and earned him the dubious honor of studying with the diplomatic Sunmasters. But not everyone is happy that magical knowledge is being shared, and when the king orders the guilds back to the Northlands on a sensitive political mission, it may well cost Rasim his life. Seamaster-born, Sunmaster-trained, Rasim now...

Benedict Fairburn does not quite need his ailing great-aunt's fortune, especially since he'll have to marry to get it. His family, however, thinks otherwise as do many of the eligible ladies in London and the pressure is mounting. An embarrassment of attentions fill Benny's time, but the young lady he prefers roundly dislikes him.Claire Dalton, cousin to one of Benedict's oldest friends, is too busy debuting in Society to pay much attention to the...

A country ravaged by the hunger.A woman dying for a chance to live.A man who cannot quite leave well enough alone.Saoirse O'Cathain should have died on the coffin ship that took her from famine-torn Ireland to the dubious safety of the Canadian coast, but an ancient immortal a man who claims he doesn't care saved her by Awakening the Timeless immortality she harbored within. Perhaps it was a gift: Saoirse might have all of eternity to watch the world...

Never mate with humans. Never tell them of our existence.And never kill one of our own. For time immemorial, the Old Races adhered to these laws......except, of course, when they did not.Tales of hidden yeti, mad harpies, and selkies who dared to risk all reveal the path that led to the Negotiator Trilogy......and most of all, of Sarah Hopkins, a beauty born to London's slaughterfields centuries ago, whose love for thedragonlord Janx and master vampire...

Agent Alisha MacAleer has put the past behind her as best she can, but her trust in the CIA is no longer what it was...and the Agency's faith in Alisha is fractured, too.When a mission goes sideways-again-thanks to her ex-lover Frank Reichart, Alisha's loyalties are called into question. Furious to learn that brilliant but treacherous Brandon Parker is back developing the next generation of his sophisticated artificial intelligences, assigned to desk...

Rasim al Ilalio doesn't mean to cause trouble wherever he goes, but a year of disasters lies in his wake. A war is brewing, but returning home to his beloved city of Ilyara isn't an option--not until he's brought a friend home again, and has warned their people of the conspiracy he believes affects them all. But in the distant Shenryalan steppelands, a new threat emerges: not just human scheming, but magical beasts that have slumbered for centuries...

The waters have risen, leaving cities drowned and a future changed beyond recognition. And into that future, something new has been born or perhaps something impossibly old has been released.She does not know how she came to be, only that the oceans are her favored home...until a man from the world above nearly dies in her domain, and she is drawn toward the soft and easy life he seems to possess. But there is a price to pay for love, and in the end......you...

July, 1945. Soldiers are coming home from the war...and monsters come with them. THE REDEEMER Rosie wants to keep her job as a riveter, even with her boyfriend returning from World War II. But there's defying convention, and then there's executing a demon on the factory floor. Rosie is ready to roll with the demon-slaying power awakened inside her if she can figure out how to make it work on command. THE HUNTER Crippled by monsters in wartime Europe,...

No one has traveled to or from faerieland since the end of the Border Wars, save through the Wintergate, whose power can only be activated on the shortest day of the year. When gatekeeper Emilia loses everything to the Border Kingdom, ice touches her heart and grows within her, until the day comes that she must finally choose between her duty and someone else's loss....