Joshua Manning

"In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"--

"When a mysterious Scotsman suddenly appears in the middle of the road, Klara thinks the biggest problem is whether she hit him with her car. But, as impossible as it sounds, Callum has stepped out of another time...Klara will soon learn that she is the last Pillar of Time...Callum believes he's fated to protect her at all costs...A dark force is hunting the Pillars to claim the power of the goddess--and Klara and Callum are the only two people standing...

"In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the remote Scottish island of Harris. He hopes to uncover the truth behind the legend of the selkies--mermaids or seal people who have been sighted off the north of Scotland for centuries. He has a more personal motive, too; family legend states that Alexander is descended from seal men. As he struggles to be...

In the vein of C. S. Harris and Anne Perry, Karen Odden's mystery introduces Inspector Michael Corravan as he investigates a string of vicious murders that has rocked Victorian London's upper crust. London, 1878. One April morning, a small boat bearing a young woman's corpse floats down the murky waters of the Thames. When the victim is identified as Rose Albert, daughter of a prominent judge, the Scotland Yard director gives the case to Michael Corravan,...

"While consumed in a devastating battle with the demigod Llaw, Klara is mysteriously catapulted five hundred years into the past, suddenly alone and distraught that she and her fated love Callum killed the demigod at the expense of Callum's own life. As the last Pillar of Time, an anchor point in the timeline of the world, Klara must navigate dangerous magic, confusing visions, and powerful adversaries to determine the fate of the world and avenge...

Easy thought the battle for Judith's future was won, but he's only scratched the surface of the demonic fate that's coming for his town.If you're going to war, you build an army and an arsenal.Easy and Jess call in reinforcements and grow their mystic resources as infected creatures turn on humanity. They discover a pestilence is headed toward Judith, and it's doubtful they can deliver the cure.With the battle for the future of Judith descending upon...

Mr. Williams, the curator of a university art museum, purchases a mezzotint from an art dealer. The painting changes each time Mr. Williams his colleagues look at it. In the end, it is suggested that the painting depicts a poacher named Gawdy (who had been hanged) kidnapping the heir of a Mr. Arthur Francis, who hanged Gawdy for poaching on his land.

Three men are kidnapped on the eve of their high school reunion and wake up trapped inside a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands. What comes next is the discovery that one of them is a killer. But which one? Will anyone confess? As a fierce snowstorm blows outside the cabin, the three men — Jay, Davie and Iain — work to uncover the connection between the kidnapping and their own troubled past. It's a past that goes back twenty-five years. Back...

Hawk has successfully avenged the murder of his family, but his quest is far from over. Now stalked by an evil sorceress, Lady NicNeev, after thwarting her plans of conquest, he and his partner, Mórag, must set out to slay the lady's dragon to protect the ones they love. Out of options, the pair journeys through the Highlands and isles of twelfth century Scotland seeking to unlock a power strong enough to defeat Lady NicNeev's beast. But her dangerous...

A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the American author, David Guss. Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941, which began a long odyssey through twelve different POW camps, three Gestapo prisons and one asylum. He became a serial escapee - fleeing his captors no fewer than twenty-one times, including his final,...