Burdens of the Dead is the fourth book in the Heirs of Alexandria series. Civilization at the crossroads. In an alternate Renaissance where magic works, a captain of Italian forces must deal with gods, goddesses and warfare in order to save his daughter at the siege of Constantinople—and prevent a new dark age.In an alternate 15th…
Eric Flint
Much Fall of Blood is the third book in the Heirs of Alexandria series. Prince Manfred, nephew to the Holy Roman Emperor, and his bodyguard Eric Hakkonsen, together with an entourage of the Knights of the Trinity, escort the Emperor’s envoy into the East to meet with the Khan of the Golden Horde, hoping to unite…
This Rough Magic is the second book in the Heirs of Alexandria series. Corfu in the 16th century. Key to Asia. Repository of a magic older than history itself. No wonder the demon Chernobog must possess the island- for with it in his grasp, Chernobog can finally crush Venice and defeat his immortal enemy, the Lion…
By Mercedes Lackey, Dave Freer & Eric FlintThe Shadow of the Lion is the first book in the Heirs of Alexandria series.Lackey, Flint and Freer whip up a luscious bouillabaisse of politics, intrigue, love and black magic set in an “Other-worldly, New-Age Venice.” Like the actual 16th-century city-state, the authors’ Venice of the 1530s is a…
As Captain Pausert had often had occasion to observe, life just wasn’t fair! Hadn’t he (with the help of the notorious witches of Karres, of course) outmaneuvered the deadliest of space pirates and eliminated the threat of the Worm World (as told in The Witches of Karres), after which, at the least, he deserved some…