Ancient Rome never fell and Marcus Novius Faustus Leo is the heir apparent to the Imperial throne, as he flees the same assassins who murdered his parents. Read of his adventures as he meets unexpected people while he searches for the truth.
An anthology of nine short stories with one short story that takes place well before this book’s publication (as #6 in the series) and the other eight taking place between the first and the second in the Roma Sub Rosa ancient Roman mystery series.
On a chill January evening in 56 B.C., an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders, but the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give—help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he will be murdered.
When Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the soldiers sent to help the city recover.
Rome is divided between Cicero and Catilina in the consular elections, and Cicero pulls Gordianus the Finder out of retirement to find the dirt on Catilina. In this cloak-and-dagger political struggle, Gordianus wonders about the truth of Catilina until a headless corpse ominously appears on his farm.
Meant to study agronomy and return to his farming family, William Stoner falls in love with English literature and the scholar’s life. Yet Stoner endures disappointment after disappointment, driving deeper into himself, confronting an essential solitude.
Fiction writer and essayist Charles Baxter’s The Art of Subtext: Beyond Plot discusses and illustrates the hidden subtextual overtones and undertones in fictional works haunted by the unspoken, the suppressed, and the secreted. Baxter explains how fiction writers create those visible and invisible details, how what is displayed evokes what is not displayed.
Entwined by our secrets, Gideon Cross and I tried to defy the odds. We made our own rules and surrendered completely to the exquisite power of possession.
A family is shattered. Three beautiful daughters—Savannah, Samantha, and Sabrina Wilde—go on with their lives, each significantly changed, as they bear the memory of the murder-suicide that killed their parents. For years, they have stayed away from Midnight, Alabama. Until Midnight calls them home.
Finally healthy, Chloe Mason’s searches her long-lost brother, Harry . . . which brings Harry’s friend and business partner, Mike Keillor, crashing into her life and her heart. Former Marine Force Recon sniper and SWAT officer, Mike can deal coolly and efficiently with any threat . . . until he’s blindsided by fierce, fiery passion . . . and love. He will not lose her to the Russian mob.