Bøger af Maggie Secara

Offering insight into common and noble lives in England from 1558-1603, this edition offers notes on Elizabethan food, occupations, games, and pastimes as well as religion, manners, attitudes, and education.

What really happened to Rafe September? Everyone in Port Royal claims he was a thief and a pirate, but his daughter Molly knows that isn't so. Newly returned from school abroad, Molly just wants to fall in love, but her family has her future and her marriage already planned. Taking her life and honor in her hands, she runs from an arranged marriage into dangerous waters in the company of Dick Prentiss, one of the men who knew her father best. Together they sail the seas of the Spanish Main in search of the truth and freedom, pursued by Molly's jilted bridegroom, a man with the power to have them both arrested and hanged. The real peril? Prentiss already knows the true story of Rafe's death, and he'll do anything to protect the girl he loves from finding out. Romantic, dramatic, and even funny, Molly September evokes the great pirate movies of the past: The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood, and so many others.

These are stories that stop the heart. Enter the mythic worlds, both charmed and strange, of award-winning author Maggie Secara. This hand-picked collection brings together Secara's lyrical fantasy, twisted science fiction, and tiny, chilling snippets of horror. Some previously published, others entirely new, all are certain to delight. Here are lascivious ghosts and hungry planets. Cockney brats and fairy queens. Marvelous mysteries, tiny terrors, and enchantments to entice the soul. ...Eternally separated, eternally sparring: a pan-dimensional couple just wants a little domestic bliss. ...For some people even a trip to the corner market can be a roller coaster ride through the star-spangled hills of Hollywood in search of ... And what exactly has happened to James? ...Many consequences fell from Jack's youthful adventure with the Giant. Twenty years later and there's still a score to settle. ...Poor Pinch! Every day she goes to the crystal doors of Faery, begging to be admitted. "I can't bear it any longer. Can't I come home?" Thank goodness the King's Raven of Faery is paying attention! ..."I swear I never saw a goddess go," as the poet says. How many days has Deah sauntered through the farmers market scattering fragrant benediction? ...More miserable than any adolescent has ever been, ever, Beatriz didn't want to emigrate to the planet Indigo at all. Now something is changing her mind. A double dozen magical tales of wonder and madness in story and verse, this is a collection to enchant, terrify, and delight.

1856. Miss Susan Pickering, spinster, has lived at Hollytree House all her life, unaware that the land it stands on lies under a terrible curse. Now without warning the spectre of a medieval monk is menacing the halls with deadly intent, slipping into the dreams of her servants and lodgers to seduce and torment-and worse. With her household in a panic and malicious sprites at large, it's clear the true target is strong-minded Susan herself. Hand in hand with her lodger-and ardent admirer-investigative reporter Ned Donovan, Miss Pickering will have to defy propriety and explore the ghosts of her own past to break the ancient curse and send the Prior of St Audrey's back to his fiendish master. Readers of Maggie Secara's intense historical fantasy, King's Raven, will be delighted to reconnect with prickly Miss Pickering and the irrepressible Mr Donovan as they venture into a world of magic and mayhem in Victorian England.

A scrap of parchment with a mysterious sigil... A message in a forgotten language... A mermaid paradise of waterfalls and dreams... And Ben Harper's life is about to get complicated-again. 1593 Scarred by fires inside and out, barred by his heritage from any kind of grace, half-fae Silence Carew longs for the comfort of a human soul. His life is one of unending anger and despair, until the day the voices in his head offer a monstrous solution. If he can find the nerve, and the Mermaid Stair, the reward he seeks can be bought with the blood of his mother's people, the nymphs and mermaids of England. 2013 When the ageless lord of the River Thames is jolted out of retirement by news of horrific death among his nymphs, he calls on the king of Faerie for aid. Already alerted by disturbing visions, Oberon's principal gentlemen, Ben Harper and acerbic, shape-changing Raven, find themselves once again in service-this time on the trail of a monster. With only Ben's gift of finding and faerie music as a guide, vague clues lead them on a terrible chase through London's many-layered history to a mythic confrontation on the banks of a vanished river. Only the gods know what will come of it all!

The Heart of Faerie is the Heart of the World While Oberon, immortal king of Faerie, lies under a terrible curse, the artistic spirit in the world is slipping away. The King's Raven would do anything to lift the spell, if only it hadn't also stripped him of his magic and flung him into an iron-bound past with a damaged memory. The only thing that can save them both is sealed inside a riddle wrapped in a puzzle that spans the centuries. With the help of an Elizabethan magus, a Victorian spinster, and a mad reporter, only mortal musician Ben Harper find Raven in time to solve the riddle, stop a witch, and restore the creative heart of the world? First he has to find the key. In the second book of the Harper Errant series, Ben and Raven embark on a journey from the castles and taverns of Old England to the British Museum on Christmas Eve, from the Crystal Palace of Victorian London to wintry Dartmoor and a stunning magickal conclusion you'll never forget.

Reality TV host Ben Harper has a problem: he owes the king of Faerie a favor. So now he has to track down the three parts of a Viking arm-ring, and return them to their place in time. This takes him through the wolf-haunted forests of Viking Age Wessex, the rowdy back streets of Shakespeare's London, and a derelict Georgian country house. Partnered with caustic, shape-changing Raven and guided by a slightly wacky goblin diary, Ben must rediscover his own gifts while facing his doubts and the queen of Faerie's minions, who will do anything to stop him.

From a quiet English valley where nothing uncanny ever happens, the mysteriously magical Mr Random Corwyn leads a team of paranormal investigators in vanquishing supernatural horrors haunting England's green and pleasant lands. But this time Random's own house is haunted by a sorrowing lady. Violet is still recovering from a terrifying ordeal with a fiery Djinn. And a monstrous black dog is marauding through their corner of Devon, preying on the people Mr Corwyn has sworn to protect Mr Corwyn is Not Amused.