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Danse De La Folie
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
A light-hearted Regency folly, starring Miss Clarissa Harlowe who
wants a quiet life-but falls in love with a smuggler, the marquess of St. Tarval. Tarval’s sister, Lady Kitty, is determined to write a dramatic Gothic to save her brother’s mortgaged estate-if she can reach London. Clarissa’s much-pursued cousin, Mr. Philip Devereaux, is inexplicably intrigued by Lady Kitty, who is doing her best to encourage the match between him and Clarissa, except that Clarissa is now betrothed to . . . Lord Wilburfolde.
And so the madness of changing partners begins in the dance of love.
Whispered Magics
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
As a child, Sherwood Smith was always on the watch for magic: no fog bank went unexplored, no wooden closet unchecked for a false back, no possible magical token left on the ground or in the gutter. In these nine stories, the impossible becomes possible, magic is real, aliens come visiting. How would our lives change?
Table of Contents
Mom and Dad at the Home Front
The Glass Slipper
The Princess, the Page, and the Master Cook’s Son | Curing the Bozos
Illumination
Finding the Way
The Love that Dolls Talk
And Now Abideth These Three
Faith
Fleeing Peace
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Siamis said, “Your young friend Liere is not going to enjoy the trap she’s walking into, I fear. But you figured that out, did you not? Why didn’t she listen to you?”
“To snap her fingers under your nose,” Senrid retorted.
“Irresistible.” Siamis smiled gently. “But it’s going to cost.”
Fifteen-year-old Senrid is newly king of the difficult warrior kingdom Marloven Hess . . . just in time to lose it, and find himself running for his life. When Senrid is captured he overhears a secret—one he can use against the enemy, a charismatic, handsome man named Siamis who can read minds, and who enchants people just by talking to them.
Liere has always known she was special, which just increased her loneliness and sense of isolation. She can hear others’ thoughts, and she senses the real emotions below the façade. When a golden-haired man named Siamis comes to her village and enchants the entire town around her, she finds herself on the run.
Liere and Senrid couldn’t be more different, but their goal is the same, to locate the powerful magic that will unravel Siamis’s world enchantment.
Chased by powerful enemies, Liere and Senrid are tested to the max as they form an alliance of kids to aid them, and gain magical support from surprising sources.
Neither ever expected to discover something even more powerful than magic: friendship. First written when Sherwood Smith was fifteen, this is the story of how Senrid and Liere first met.
Written when Sherwood Smith was a teenager herself, Fleeing Peace is the first in the series that ties together all the kids who became the Young Allies against the coming Norsunder War.
Mearsies Heili Bounces Back
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
"I am Princess Cherene Jennet Sherwood of Mearsies Heili, hater of evil, foe to all villains, and wielder of the prune pie of justice!" That's how CJ Sherwood introduces herself when she lands into her craziest adventure yet. In this, the second volume of CJ's records, she and her gang of friends gathered around the thirteen year old queen, Clair Sherwood, find themselves beset by magical spells and various villains. They still manage to have fun in the underground hideout in the middle of Mearsies Heili's woodland.
CJ loves life with 'the M girls' - so she is completely unprepared to be taken away and put in a silken prison in order to forget being a princess. As CJ uses her brains and imagination to get out of trouble, she has to think about what being a princess really means.
She also discovers that there are things even tougher to deal with than terrible enchantments, sinister shadows, and lurking villains: teenage boys.
Charlie St. Cloud
Ben Sherwood
Fiction / Romance / Young Adult
In a snug New England fishing village, Charlie St. Cloud tends the lawns and monuments of an ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. After surviving the car accident that claimed his brother's life, Charlie is graced with an extraordinary gift: He can see, talk to, and even play catch with Sam's spirit. Into this magical world comes Tess Carroll, a captivating woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that propels her into Charlie's life. Their beautiful and uncommon connection leads to a race against time and a choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go — and the discovery that miracles can happen if we simply open our hearts.
Inda
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Indevan Algara-Vayir was born the second son of a powerful prince, destined to stay at home and defend his family's castle. But when war threatens, Inda is sent to the Royal Academy where he learns the art of war and finds that danger and intrigue don't only come from outside the kingdom.
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
Ben Sherwood
Fiction / Romance / Young Adult
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud tells the haunting story of a young man who narrowly survives a terrible car wreck that kills his little brother. Years later, the brothers’ bond remains so strong that it transcends the normal boundaries separating life and death. Charlie St. Cloud lives in a snug New England fishing village. By day he tends the lawns and monuments of the ancient cemetery where his younger brother, Sam, is buried. Graced with an extraordinary gift after surviving the accident, he can still see, talk, and even play catch with Sam’s spirit. But townsfolk whisper that Charlie has never recovered from his loss.
Into his carefully ordered life comes Tess Carroll, a captivating, adventuresome woman training for a solo sailing trip around the globe. Fate steers her boat into a treacherous storm that blows her back to harbor, to a charged encounter with Charlie, and to a surprise more overwhelming than the violent sea itself. Charlie and Tess discover a beautiful and uncommon connection that leads to a race against time and a desperate choice between death and life, between the past and the future, between holding on and letting go.
Luminous, soulful, and filled with unforgettable characters, The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud is one of those rare, wise books that reveal the mysteries of the unseen world around us, gently transforming the worst pain of loss into hope, healing, and even laughter. Suspenseful and deeply moving, its startling climax reminds us that sometimes tragedies can bring about miracles if we simply open our hearts.
From the Hardcover edition.
King's Shield
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Inda, on the verge of adulthood, is at last coming home. At age eleven he'd been exiled from his kingdom, but when he learns that his homeland is about to be invaded, he ends his exile to report the imminent attack. Pressed into service as the king's "royal shield arm," Inda must now defend the kingdom; for his reputation as the captain who defeated the most dangerous pirate fleet in history makes him the only man who stands a chance to defeat his country's ancient enemy.
Barefoot Pirate
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
With two bossy older sisters, Joe doesn’t like girls. Nan doesn’t have any friends.
Joe and Nan would never have spoken if they hadn’t both reached for the same odd little book on a shelf in their favorite part of the library, the adventure stories.
They agree to share it… and discover not just a story, but a promise that magic is real, and that someone from another world is needed to break a spell.
Do they want to join Blackeye’s gang of pirate kids, who are determined to rescue an enchanted prince?
Nan is desperate to escape an unhappy life; Joe loves the idea of adventure. When the magic works, Joe is delighted to find himself in another world, one without school, homework—or sisters.
Nan is even more thrilled, not the least because now she gets a chance at a completely different life from an unwanted foster child. She can’t resist telling a very small lie, just a little one… that she’s a princess.
Pirates—orphan gangs—magic—castles—and spies abound as Nan and Joe discover magic and adventure… and who they really are.
Lhind the Spy
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
In this sequel to Lhind the Thief, Lhind has gone from castoffs to silks, back alleys to palace halls—and is not having an easy time of it. That’s before she’s snatched by an angry prince she’d robbed twice, who is determined to turn her over to the enemy who frightens her most, the sinister Emperor Jardis Dhes-Andis.
When her own dear Hlanan comes to rescue her, it’s Lhind who has to do the rescuing, setting off a wild chase to fend off mercenaries and then to confront an entire army intent on invasion.
Lhind and Hlanan try to negotiate the perilous waters of a relationship while on the run—straight into a trap.
Just when Lhind is beginning to figure out where she might fit into the world, she finds herself alone again, surrounded by enemies, in one of the most dangerous courts in the world.
And she begins to find out who she really is.
Blood Spirits
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Everyone's favorite sword-wielding California girl returns-from the author of Coronets and Steel.
With the man she loves set to marry a look-alike princess, Kim Murray returns to California from the magical country of Dobrenica to heal her broken heart. But family politics soon have her leaving for London, where she is forced into a duel with a Dobrenican nobleman. He reveals that her great sacrifice, leaving Alec, was a disaster. To fix her mistake, Kim returns to Dobrenica, but what she finds there is far more shocking and dangerous than she ever imagined. Not just politics and personalities but ghosts and magic, murder and mystery, await her as she struggles to understand the many faces of love. Once again Kim has to take sword in hand as she tries to make peace and learn the truth. Only, whose truth?
Sasharia en Garde
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
This romantic fantasy is set in the same world as Crown Duel, to which Sasha's mother, Sun, was once swept away by a real prince.
But not to happily ever after.
Her prince vanished, and a wicked king took the throne. Since then, Sasha and Sun have been hiding on Earth, both training in martial arts until Sasha is tricked into going back to Khanerenth.
She's more than ready to kick some bad-guy butt, but is the stylish pirate Zathdar the bad guy? Or artistic, dreamy Prince Jehan, son of the wicked king?
Meanwhile Sun is determined to cross worlds to save her daughter. She might not have been a very good princess, but nobody messes with Mom!
Crown Duel
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Young Countess Meliara swears to her dying father that she and her brother will defend their people from the growing greed of the king. That promise leads them into a war for which they are ill-prepared, which threatens the very people they are trying to protect. But war is simple compared to what follows, in peacetime. Meliara is summoned to live at the royal palace, where friends and enemies look alike, and intrigue fills the dance halls and the drawing rooms. If she is to survive, Meliara must learn a whole new way of fighting-with wits and words and secret alliances.
In war, at least, she knew in whom she could trust. Now she can trust no one.
The Firebird edition of Crown Duel combines the hardcover editions of Crown Duel and Court Duel-and features a never-before-published story by Sherwood Smith!
Commando Bats
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Hera is angry with Zeus and the rest of the male gods. She takes their powers, and comes to Earth, handing them out to random old women, saying that the weakest have the most wisdom, and further warns them to prove her right!
This tongue-in-cheek urban fantasy novelette by Sherwood Smith features old women, including one disabled, whose take on super-powers is different from the usual.
A Stranger to Command
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
This prequel to Crown Duel is about the early life of Vidanric Renselaeus, Marquis of Shevraeth, who as a courtly, well-mannered teen coached in the noble art of dueling, finds himself thrown into the infamous cavalry command academy in Marloven Hess. There, instead of reading theories about statecraft, he is forced to learn about command from the inside--and what it means to be king.
The Spy Princess
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Just right for fans of Tamora Pierce and Patricia C. Wrede!
When twelve-year-old Lady Lilah decides to disguise herself and sneak out of the palace one night, she has more of an adventure than she expected--for she learns very quickly that the country is on the edge of revolution. When she sneaks back in, she learns something even more surprising: her older brother Peitar is one of the forces behind it all. The revolution happens before all of his plans are in place, and brings unexpected chaos and violence. Lilah and her friends, leaving their old lives behind, are determined to help however they can. But what can four kids do? Become spies, of course!
Lhind the Thief
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Lhind has been on the run all her life.
Stealing what she needs, using magic for disguise, she never stays anywhere long. Lhind even has secrets from herself, for she has few memories, and those are troubling.
But life is good until she gets caught by Rajanas the warrior-prince, Thianra the bard, and Hlanan the scribe. And that's when adventure begins, because someone very powerful wants them all dead.
As they evade pursuit and work to uncover their enemies, Lhind struggles with the invisible bonds of friendship and trust, while Hlanan begins uncovering her secrets one by one.
Then she finds that he has secrets, too.
This fantasy with a dash of romance takes place in the same world as A Posse of Princesses and the Wren series.
Paradise Drift
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
R and R Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Dylan Hunt and the Crew of the Andromeda Ascendant have been fighting the good fight to re-establish the Systems Commonwealth. They need some serious rest and relaxation. Fortunately, they arrive at Paradise Drift, an ideal spot for a quick vacation. In the drift, the crew can play at pirates, medieval knights, gladiators--almost anything imaginable--in the virtual gaming scenarios concocted for visitors' pleasure.
Since the drift wishes to join the New Systems Commonwealth, the crew is given carte blanche to enjoy all of the drift's facilities for free. This is a welcome gift for the weary crew, but it doesn't take long for complications to arise. First, Trance Gemini vanishes without a trace. Then their tech-wizard Seamus Harper visits a harem, only to be confronted by a woman from his past who has a knife and a score to settle. Even worse, Pilot Beka Valentine is relentlessly pursued by a bounty hunter who desperately wants to claim the price on her head. And Captain Dylan Hunt hasn't been worrying about his losing streak at a glamorous gambling parlor, until he discovers that gambling debts on the drift are anything but virtual. Little does Dylan know, he could end up paying for his debts with his head!
Meanwhile, back on the ship, warrior Tyr Anasazi and ship's AI Rommie are forced to defend the Andromeda Ascendant against aggression from an unlikely source. What follows is an exciting, suspenseful deep-space adventure that will surely satisfy viewers of the TV series and readers with a taste for space opera.
The Trouble With Kings
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Princess Flian finds herself the unwilling object of desire of three royals. Is the one she wants a villain--or a hero?
Waking up in a strange place, Flian Elandersi at first doesn't know who she is. One wicked prince tells her she is secretly engaged to an even more wicked king who wants to marry her right away. But before that happens, yet another wicked prince crashes through a window on horseback to sweep her off her feet.
Memory returns, and Flian realizes that all any of them seem to want is her considerable wealth, not her pleasant-but-ordinary self. She longs to escape the barracks-like, military atmosphere and return to civilization and her musical studies.
Flian endures another abduction, this time in the middle of a poetry reading. Who is the villain? Prince Garian Herlester--languid, elegant, sarcastic? Prince Jaim--he of the dashing horsemanship? Or King Jason Szinzar, whose ambiguous warning might be a threat?
Flian decides it's time to throw off civilization and take action. The problem with action is that duels of wit turn into duels of steel--and love can't be grabbed and galloped away.
NOTE: this edition has gone out of print, and has been edited and reissued by Book View Cafe.
Treason's Shore
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Fourth in "an intense fascinating epic"* of high action and fantasy adventure.
Inda, fresh from his triumph on the battlefield against the Venn, takes his place beside King Evred as Harskialdna, the King's Shield. But the Venn are far from defeated and only Inda's fame is strong enough to inspire all the squabbling kingdoms to unite and raise a force mighty enough to protect the strait and repel the enemy. Evred has also ordered Inda to take over the strait once the battle is won, but Inda, a former pirate, knows that this is a very bad idea. Now Inda must choose between obeying his liege-or committing treason.
The Sherwood Ring
Elizabeth Marie Pope
Young Adult / History
Newly orphaned Peggy Grahame is caught off-guard when she first arrives at her family's ancestral estate. Her eccentric uncle Enos drives away her only new acquaintance, Pat, a handsome British scholar, then leaves Peggy to fend for herself. But she is not alone. The house is full of mysteries and ghosts. Soon Peggy becomes involved with the spirits of her own Colonial ancestors and witnesses the unfolding of a centuries-old romance against a backdrop of spies and intrigue and of battles plotted and foiled.
A Posse of Princesses
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Rhis, princess of a small kingdom, is invited along with all the other princesses in her part of the world to the coming of age party of the Crown Prince of Vesarja, which is the central and most important kingdom. When Iardith, the prettiest and most perfect of all the princesses, is abducted, Rhis and her friends go to the rescue.
What happens to Rhis and her posse has unexpected results not only for the princesses, but for the princes who chase after them. Everyone learns a lot about friendship and hate, politics and laughter, romantic ballads and sleeping in the dirt with nothing but a sword for company. But most of all they learn about the many meanings of love.
The Adventure of the Murdered Gypsy
Liese Sherwood-Fabre
Before Sherlock Holmes became the world's greatest consulting detective, murder followed the arrival of unexpected guests to the Holmes family estate. What's a holiday without surprises? It's Christmas 1867 at Underbyrne, the Holmes family estate. The house is filled with family, relatives, and three unexpected arrivals—all ready to celebrate the holidays. That is, until another uninvited guest appears: dead in the stables. The discovery marks the beginning of a series of bizarre occurrences: Sherlock's young cousin reports hearing footsteps outside the nursery, Mycroft suddenly falls head-over-heels in love, and the family learns more than one person under their roof harbors secrets. Is someone in the household a murderer? Sherlock must discover the dead man's identity before another unwelcomed body materializes. "A multifaceted and convincing addition to Sherlock-ian lore." -Kirkus Reviews
Sartor
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
In this sequel to The Spy Princess, Lilah, newly made a princess, teams up with Atan, the hidden princess of the oldest country in the world, Sartor, to free the kingdom from a century of enchantment.
Capture, escape, a forest beyond time, ancient beings, civilizations secreted in caves, and a deadly enemy await the girls. Atan knows that if she survives, the challenges facing a fifteen-year-old queen are only beginning.
Captive of Outlaws (Shifters of Sherwood Book 1)
Jade R. Evans
Blurb: I'd never wanted a life on the run. But maybe some laws are made to be broken. All I wanted was to keep my head down, play nice, and coast. Fixing cars for minimum wage wasn't glamorous, but it was enough to keep my greedy foster father John out of my hair. I just had to make it to my 21st birthday and age into the college fund my parents left for me. Then I could leave Sherwood County and its corrupt, sleazy good ol' boys behind. Or so I thought. Because John was conspiring with the sheriff to trap me here forever, and I had no choice but to run. In the span of a single night, I went from an ordinary orphan girl to a fugitive from the law, with nothing to her name but the clothes on her back and nowhere to go but the forest. Until they found me. The wealthy city boy with the acid wit. The absentminded scholar with a heart of gold. The brooding fighter with the overprotective side. And their fearless leader too charming for his own good. These guys are closer than brothers, thicker than thieves, and for some reason, they want me to stick around. Won't take no for an answer, in fact, and all but hold me captive in their massive compound deep in the forest of Sherwood County. Living outside the law shouldn't feel so easy, so right. And living with these guys shouldn't feel so electric, so intoxicating. I shouldn't let myself get tempted by one of them, let alone all four. But when I've already broken more rules than I can count…well, what's one more? Except nothing about these guys is safe. They're outlaws just like me, and whatever they get up to in the middle of the night is skirting on real danger. They may claim they're just fighting for justice, but I won't let them keep me in the dark. Because I'm no damsel in distress. And if they're going to take down whatever sinister force is holding Sherwood in its grips, then I want in too. Almost as much as I want all of them.
Jane Austen After
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Jane Austen herself, according to her family, used to speculate on the future of her characters.
In “The Poignant Sting,” a line from Emma inspired a novelette. Mansfield Park inspired two alternate sequels, both involving characters from other books, and finally, a fantasia about Miss Austen herself, supposing she had been able to travel to Eastern Europe, where she met a mysterious and sinister count. Whose wit prevailed?
Poor World
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
If you have a hankering to experience the prune pie of justice, ask CJ or her gang of girls if they want to Save the World.
The Mearsiean girls around thirteen-year-old Queen Clair prefer their villains silly, their throwing pies gloppy, and their adventures fun. But what happens when you’ve gained a reputation for successfully outwitting villains twice your age and experience?
Recruitment whether you like it or not, is what. By a villain who thinks he is doing the world a favor by taking it over and reorganizing it. He’s got your friends depending on you, he’s got your queen slated for assassination.
And he wants to make you his heir.
CJ faces her toughest challenge yet. Her heroic thought? If all there is to save the world is me...
POOR WORLD!
A Twist in the Tale
Pamela Sherwood
TWO ENCHANTING NOVELLAS, INSPIRED BY CLASSIC FAIRY TALES To Hear the Sea-Maid's Music: Linnea is used to being overlooked—and resigned to taking religious vows instead of making a brilliant marriage like her beautiful older sister. But everything changes when she discovers a half-drowned prince on the shore outside the convent. A tentative attraction blooms into something deeper, freeing Linnea to seek a new life...and her heart's desire. But when tragedy strikes, she must battle the most powerful magic of the sea to save the man she loves from certain death. In My Lady's Chamber: Alyne has served the royal family all her life, especially young Princess Helen. So what could be more natural than accompanying her now-betrothed mistress to her new home? But a funny thing happens on the way to the wedding... A Twist in the Tale brings new insights and fresh perspectives to beloved fairy tales like...
Revenant Eve
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Kim Murray is happily planning her wedding when she finds herself pulled two centuries back in time. It's 1795, the rise of Napoleon, and Kim is now a guardian spirit for a twelve-year-old kid who will either become Kim's ancestor . . . or the timeline will alter and Kim will vanish, along with the small, magical European country of Dobrenica. What? Yes, the child called Aurelie de Mascarenhas must get to Dobrenica, or more than just one family will vanish.
Kim hates time travel conundrums, and knows nothing about kids. How is she going to guide a kid born on Saint-Domingue, with whom she has nothing in common?
From Jamaica to England to the Paris of the early 1800s, Kim and Aurelie travel, sharing adventures and learning more about Vrajhus, the Blessing, and the Nasdrafus than is known in Dobrenica's modern times. Along the way to wedding bells or annihilation, Kim makes a shocking discovery . .
The Fall
Kate Sherwood
Romance / Gay & Lesbian / Contemporary
Scott and Joe have been fighting their growing attraction. Challenges to Scott's business threaten their budding relationship.
The Shift
Kate Sherwood
Romance / Gay & Lesbian / Contemporary
Two men, too many monsters.Raised off the grid, Cash has trained all his life to protect humanity from The Shift—a mysterious force that creates monsters capable of unspeakable destruction. For Cash and his warrior family, risks are just part of the job and death is an ever-present possibility.When his daredevil tendencies defeat a monster but leave him over his head in a puddle of green goo, Cash figures his number is up...until he's plucked to safety by a devastatingly handsome stranger.Toby needs no weapons to fight The Shift, that's why he's perfected the art of laying low. Sudden moves draw unwanted attention, but he can't stand by and watch Cash drown. Big mistake—it isn't long before Cash is returning the favor, rescuing him from kidnappers intent on harnessing his genetic enhancements.On the run with danger nipping at their heels, romantic sparks fly between them. But there's no trust without truth, and things get complicated when Toby...
Once a Princess
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Sasha’s mother, Sun, was once swept away from a Ren Faire to another world by a prince—literally—but there was no happy ending. Sun’s prince disappeared, and a wicked king took the Khanerenth throne. In the years since, Sasha and Sun have been back on Earth and on the run. Mom and daughter don’t quite see eye to eye on the situation—Sasha wants to stand and fight. Sun insists her prince will return for them one day; it’s safer to stay hidden.
Then Sasha is tricked into crossing the portal to Khanerenth. She’s more than ready to join the resistance, kick some bad-guy butt, and fix the broken kingdom. But…is the stylish pirate Zathdar the bad guy? Or artistic, dreamy Prince Jehan?
Back on Earth, Sun is furious Sasha has been kidnapped. Sun might once have been a rotten princess, but nobody messes with Mom!
Product Warnings
This title contains a kick-butt mother-daughter team, a wicked king, a witty pirate with an unfortunate taste for neon colors, inept resistance fighters, a dreamy prince who gallops earnestly hither and yon, and a kick-butt princess in waiting.
Swashbuckling in a magic world—L.A. style!
Time of Daughters I
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
In a time of change and danger, peace sparks to war, and sons become daughters...It's nearly a century after the death of Inda, the unbeatable Marlovan commander. Danet and Arrow, content in their arranged marriage, just want to live in peaceful obscurity and raise their family. But when a treaty sends them to the royal city to meet the heir to the throne, they discover that peace is fragile, old enemies have long memories, and what you want isn't always what you get. By the time they learn that you can't go back again, events ignite a conflagration that no one could have foreseen—except for the ghosts who walk the walls in the royal city.This is the first part of the Time of Daughters dulogy, an epic story of politics, war, family and magic in the beloved world of Sartorias-deles.
Rondo Allegro
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
At the end of the eighteenth century, all of Europe is at war.
In Palermo, sixteen-year-old singer-in-training Anna Maria Ludovisi is married by her dying father to Captain Henry Duncannon, the Perennial Bachelor. Mere minutes after the wedding he sets sail.
The threat of French invasion causes Anna to flee to Paris. At the end of the Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte is transforming France; Anna must transform herself into a professional singer in order to survive.
in 1805, Anna's opera company is traveling through Spain when events bring the long-missing Captain Duncannon and his forgotten wife back together again, as the English, Spanish, and French fleets converge for battle off the Cape of Trafalgar.
For Henry Duncannon as well as Anna, everything changes: the demands of war, the obligation of family, the meaning of love, and the concept of home. Can they find a new life together?
Ship Without Sails
Part #1 of "The Norsunder War" series by Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Nobody sane wants war. But what happens when war comes to you?In this first volume of The Norsunder War, the allies introduced in The Rise of the Alliance find their world invaded. For Atan, Queen of Sartor, preserving lives and knowledge come before fleeing to safety. Jilo of Chwahirsland risks his life to resist the return of an evil king. And for Senrid of Marloven Hess, it means facing a combined army whose might hasn't been seen for eight hundred years, and losing everything he holds dear.Heroism. Betrayal. Endurance. Resistance. Both sides encounter unexpected twists as some discover that even when existence is most dire, it can still surprise you...
Banner of the Damned
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Princess Lasva is about to be named heir to her childless sister, the queen. But, when the queen finally bears an heir, Lasva's future is shattered. Grief-stricken, she leaves her country of Colend and falls into the arms of Prince Ivandred of Marloven Hesea. His people are utterly different-with their expertise in riding, weaponry, and magic- and the two soon marry.
When the sensational news makes its way to Lasva's sister, the queen worries for Lasva at the hands of the Marlovens, whose king's mage is in league with the magical land of Norsunder-considered by Colendi to be their enemy. The queen orders Emras, a scribe, to guard Lasva.
But it may be too late-Lasva is already deeply involved with the Marlovens and their magic. War wages on, and all are forced to redefine love, loyalty, and power...
The Ghosts of Sherwood
Carrie Vaughn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Everything about Father is stories.Robin of Locksley and his one true love, Marian, are married. It has been close on two decades since they beat the Sheriff of Nottingham with the help of a diverse band of talented friends. King John is now on the throne, and Robin has sworn fealty in order to further protect not just his family, but those of the lords and barons who look up to him – and, by extension, the villagers they protect. There is a truce. An uneasy one, to be sure, but a truce, nonetheless.But when the Locksley children are stolen away by persons unknown, Robin and Marian are going to need the help of everyone they've ever known, perhaps even the ghosts that are said to reside deep within Sherwood.And the Locksley children, despite appearances to the contrary, are not without tricks of their own...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Queen of Sherwood (Robin Hood and Her Merciless Men Book 3)
KC Kingmaker
I've been accepted as the leader of the Merry Men. Now I have to take down all our enemies without losing myself to the darkness.I fear I may be turning evil. I'm having dangerous thoughts. Too much time spent with the Merry Men, perhaps. Luckily, my mates are reunited, and they vow to help me.With new money and new allies, the Merry Men are ready to evoke change across the land. But our adversaries are legion, and the fight will be brutal.Templar Knights have arrived from the Crusade and feel entitled to own any land they wish. We won't make it easy for them. The mastermind behind the slaving operation is a stunning revelation that's hard to stomach. Closer to home, Maid Marian has reemerged. Her new position boils my blood.Sheriff George is quiet, but I know he's plotting the demise of our rebellion. He's already wounded one of our own, and I won't let him get away with it. Then there's Sir Guy of Gisborne. I don't know what that cunning man is scheming, only that I don't trust him. Our enemies are at the gates, and they're all somehow connected. To bring peace to Nottinghamshire and the Merry Men, we have to stop all of them.So where do we start?Author's Note: Queen of Sherwood is the final book in this fantasy romance retelling of Robin Hood and the Merry Men. Robin has come into her own as a fiery queen, surrounded by supportive, violent, merciless kings. Please heed the trigger warnings, as this series gets dark.
Embers
Part #4 of "Scales 'n' Spells" series by A. J. Sherwood
Small town—big problems. Jericho Crewe is back in Mosely, Montana, trying to deal with police corruption, interfering feds, his newly discovered family members, and, of course, Wade Granger.
He doesn’t really need a biker war on top of it all, but as the bodies start to pile up, it becomes pretty clear that’s what he’s got. Not only that, but Wade’s involved somehow, and as soon as Wade is a part of something, things that seemed clear become cloudy.
With the feds breathing down his neck, Jericho has to find his way through Wade’s maze of half truths and manipulations. It would all be so much easier if Jericho could think straight in the other man’s presence. So much easier if their passionate past could be forgotten, and if he could be sure he’s strong enough to resist the temptation of a passionate present.
Huntress of Sherwood (Robin Hood and Her Merciless Men Book 2)
KC Kingmaker
Sherwood Forest is more ruthless than ever, and I have to fight to stay ahead of the hunt. Little John is missing. With the leader of the Merry Men gone, morale is dying. Someone has to fill his huge shoes.I've been elected as boss, but leading is not as easy as I hoped it would be. Many of the men won't follow a woman. At least Will, Alan, and Tuck always have my back. But we need Little John back. Our group has a gaping hole in it without him.Which means finding him. I'll do whatever I need to get him back: scheming, extorting, and yes, killing.While hunting for clues of Little John's whereabouts, something else is going on in the forest around us. Younglings are being shipped around. Rebellion is afoot, and it's not us.I want to turn our gang of bandits into a community of revolutionaries. But we not only need more people to join us, we need the right people to join us. Because like it or not, a fight with Sir Guy of Gisborne, Sheriff George of Nottingham, and even Prince John himself is coming.If we aren't ready for it, we're dead. Author's Note: Huntress of Sherwood is book two in my dark romantasy, genderbent retelling of Robin Hood, where Robin is a fiery heroine, and the Merry Men are her obsessed, ruthless champions. With graphic scenes of violence and sex, I urge you to read the trigger warnings.
Over the Sea
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
When Sherwood Smith was eight years old, a girl named Clair walked into her dreams, bringing hints of a world where girls could adventure, live on their own, and best of all, didn't have to grow up.
Clair traveled about looking for girls who needed a home. She even came to Earth, where she found CJ, who did not fit. CJ found herself not only taken to another world to live, but she became the princess - Clair's "left hand splat." One of her jobs as princess was to write down their records. Another was to serve as leader for the girls when Clair was busy learning to become queen.
The girls had jobs, too, using their imaginations and their wits to foil villains who tried to take a kingdom away from a mere girl. From the shadowy Kwenz, a powerful mage with a very wicked past, to the usurper Glotulae and her son Prince Jonnicake, who in their ridiculous way were just as determined to boot Clair out, there were plenty of chances for adventure. And mystery, like why did kids from...
Wren Journeymage
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
After journeymage Wren and Queen Teressa argue over wicked Hawk Rhiscarlan,Wren leaves the magic school seeking Prince Connor.Wren is aboard a smuggler,fighting pirates with magic when Teressa flirts with Hawk, who upsets her court as Tyron-the next Queen’s Mage-watches helplessly.Evil ex-king Andreus adds to the danger that the four friends must resolve—along with their personal conflicts.
Guy of Gisburne- The Omnibus
Part #1 of "Hunter of Sherwood" series by Toby Venables
England, 1191. Richard Lionheart has left the realm bankrupt and leaderless in his quest for glory. Only Prince John seems willing to fight back the tide of chaos threatening England – embodied by the traitorous ‘Hood.’ But John has a secret weapon: Guy of Gisburne, outcast, mercenary, and now knight. From intercepting the jewel-encrusted skull of John the Baptist to investigating a string of grisly deaths linked to the Prince's own past, Guy is John’s hound, combating chaos and fighting the enemies of England wherever they may be found. From Ireland to Marseilles and as far as the Levant, aided by his faithful squire Galfrid and the beautiful and secretive Mélisande, Gisburne battles his way with sword, lance and bow in England’s name, drawing ever nearer the day he will have to confront his oldest and greatest foe... Collects the novels Knight of Shadows and The Red Hand.
‘Ample action, a romance, good pace and plenty of gore. Well-written and exciting.’
The Historical Novel Society on Knight of Shadows
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The Man Who Ate the 747
Ben Sherwood
Fiction / Romance / Young Adult
This is the story of the greatest love, ever....
J. J. Smith, Keeper of the Records for The Book of Records, is an ordinary man searching for the extraordinary. J.J. has clocked the world’s longest continuous kiss. He has verified the lengthiest single unbroken apple peel. He has tasted the world’s largest menu item. But J.J. has never witnessed great love.
That is, until he comes to a tiny town in the American heartland. Here J.J. discovers a world record attempt like no other. Piece by piece, a farmer is eating a Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman. But when J.J. unexpectedly falls in love with the same woman, a woman as outwardly cynical as he is, J.J. learns why records are made to be broken...and why the greatest wonders in life can never be measured.
From the Paperback edition.
Playing to Win
Olivia Sherwood
Spunky, quick-witted twenty-one-year-old Callie Thompson is a University of Oklahoma journalism student by day and NBA Oklahoma City Thunder dancer by night. Callie hopes her connections with the franchise might get her foot in the door for a sports broadcasting job when she graduates. She just has one rule...never date the players... Kyle Kelly is the deadly handsome and charmingly Southern Thunder man of the hour. All the twenty-six-year-old is looking for is an NBA championship to call his own. However, an unexpected meeting with an opinionated, feisty Callie, who is very unimpressed with his celebrity status, throws a wrench in his plans. Now he has two things on his mind...winning her heart AND the championship.
The Knight
Kate Sherwood
Romance / Gay & Lesbian / Contemporary
Before the revolution, Adam was a rich idealist and Remy a jaded prostitute. After, they're still fighting for their lives—and each other.
The Pawn
Kate Sherwood
Romance / Gay & Lesbian / Contemporary
Adam Challoner was born a member of the wealthy elite, but he can't forget that his power and comfort come from the suffering of the vast underclass—people oppressed by the very regime that keeps him safe. Living with that knowledge is uncomfortable to say the least. When Adam meets Remy Stone, his discomfort becomes intolerable.
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Sherwood, Special Preview: The First 7 Chapters (A Robin Hood Time-Travel Romance)
Mimi Riser
Romance / Gay and Lesbian / Fantasy
An exciting preview of “Sherwood” – the first seven chapters – a generous slice of a big fat juicy novel…An exciting preview of “Sherwood” – the first seven chapters – a generous slice of a big fat juicy novel…SHERWOOD: Emotionally scarred, and haunted by dreams of the mythical Robin Hood, Marian is just limping through life till a mysterious quirk of fate tosses her centuries into the past. Now she’s running through ancient Sherwood, beset by scoundrels, and discovering there may be a man behind the myth, after all… Before the secrets crack open and the dust clears, an unlikely heroine will rise from her own ashes, a legend will be rewritten, and a love will be forged strong enough to conquer time!
Breath
Part #2 of "Scales 'n' Spells" series by A. J. Sherwood
A Mage’s List for Freedom:
1. Escape his evil, controlling clan.2. Get a job. 3. Work magic on HIS terms.4. Avoid all dragons.
Tori was doing great until sexy dragon Baldewin interfered.
Between the little gifts, constant protection, and the steadfast confidence from the overgrown lizard, Tori wonders if maybe that last step needs revising. He has no chance to consider it.
Not before trouble called Jaeggi REALLY hits. Now he’s on the road trip from hell to the one place he’d never thought would be a safe haven. A clan of dragons. Assuming they make it, that is.
Tags: Dragon shifters, mages, fated mates, hurt/comfort, enemies to lovers, not mpreg, interracial couple, road trip, No Flying, nope not even with a dragon, dwarf hunting in Poland, Tori needs allll the hugs, Baldewin is happy to supply them, dragons are ninjas, attempted kidnapping, mages being BAMF, insecurity, trust issues, Tori is an arse, Baldewin is adorable, Cassie is over it, virgin character, but not for long fufufufu, dysfunctional family, family of choice, magical realism, cuuuuudles, the authors regret nothing
Playing for Love
Olivia Sherwood
Cassie Randall has a secret that haunts her every day. A secret that makes trusting a man an impossibility. She wants nothing more than to live a quiet, simple life as a teacher with those she calls family. Jamal Jenkins, the starting point guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder, just wants to live his life out of the limelight with the people he loves most. Even though he's portrayed as a stereotypical professional athlete and ladies' man... Cassie and Jamal are paired to walk together at their best friends' wedding. Jamal is shocked the bookworm Cassie doesn't recognize his celebrity status. Cassie is surprised someone as famous as Jamal is capable of such depth. Can Jamal help Cassie believe that he can be trusted, or will she continue to believe that all men are like the one she fears most?
Coronets and Steel
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
In this new fantasy series, a young woman takes her own destiny by the hand-and the hilt.
California girl Kim Murray is unsatisfied with grad school and restless in life. Modern men disappoint her, and she studies ballet and fencing because they remind her of older, more romantic times.
She lives with her parents and her beloved but secretive aristocratic grandmother, who speaks only French and refuses to share stories about the mysterious family she left behind in Europe, inspiring Kim to travel there and find her roots.
Kim soon finds herself swept up in an adventure of fantastic deceptions and passionate intrigue-and a shocking realization about her own bloodline that leaves her reeling.
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Too much imagination was tantamount to lying--that's what my grandmother taught me. So when I first got the sense that someone was following me, of course I ignored it. It was only my imagination. Who'd waste time following me?
Me, of course, being Aurelia Kim Murray, a grad student from California with a passion for ballet and fencing, and a hopelessly romantic vision of the world. I had come to Europe for genealogical research. But so far, I'd had no luck.
"I am trying to track down my grandparents' families," I had told the Viennese genealogist. "The name is Atelier. My mother was only two when she and my grandmother left Paris, but Mom thinks she might have been born here in Austria."
The problem was that I couldn't explain the sense of urgency that drove me, even to myself. It had begun that day four months ago when my grandmother lay restlessly in her bed, her eyes glittering with fever as she gripped my hand. "Your mother is too gentle," she'd whispered in the aristocratic Parisian French she always spoke. "I cannot send her to seal the breach."
Breach? What breach? With her family? With my grandfather's family? Neither Mom nor I knew anything about the handsome man in the silver-framed photo that Gran always kept on her bedside table. But we didn't know anything about my grandmother's own family, either.
"She wouldn't talk about her life before California," my mom had said as we waited in yet another specialist's office, hoping to find out why, though Gran had recovered from her fever, she had not spoken since.
When weeks turned into months, and the doctors did their medicalese versions of throwing up their hands, I had made the decision to find her family myself.
Nothing had come of my search in Paris, and here I was leaving the Viennese genealogist's archives with nothing to show for it again. No matter how fast I walked along the grand boulevards of Vienna, I knew I couldn't outpace my sense of failure.
And that's when I met my first ghost.
But seeing ghosts was nowhere near my biggest problem. I was being followed, and it wasn't by the ghost. Drugged, abducted, and taken to an obscure kingdom in eastern Europe, I was about to find out more about my lineage than I had ever imagined possible in my wildest, most fanciful dreams . . . or nightmares.
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The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait
Liese Sherwood-Fabre
"[T]he overall premise of a youthful Sherlock [was] very fresh." - Janson Letts, Imbue Editing A long-buried past. A stolen portrait. The artist's murder. Can Sherlock discover the connection between the three before he's stopped permanently? Sherlock can't shake his apprehension about a family trip to Paris. His mother's unflappable confidence vanished months ago, and her anxiety has set the whole family on edge. His greatest fears are realized when they witness the death of one of Mrs. Holmes' former suitors. As Sherlock seeks to unravel the reason behind the artist's murder, he unearths a long-buried secret about his mother and survives several attempts to keep him from getting to the truth. Can he bring a murderer to justice before he's buried with these hidden secrets forever? The Adventure of the Purloined Portrait is the gripping fourth case in The Early Case Files of Sherlock Holmes. If you enjoy traditional...
Daughter of Sherwood (Robin Hood and Her Merciless Men Book 1)
KC Kingmaker
Darkness lies in Sherwood Forest, and it's calling to me…It's not a good time to be a woman in Nottingham. Besides oppressive taxes, I have to contend with a sick mother, a cruel father, and pushy suitors nipping at my heels. Even as an heiress, I'm imprisoned by my lot in life.I'd rather be a man—gambling with guttersnipe boys, free from the shackles of my aristocratic duties. Dreaming of living in Sherwood Forest, on the edge of our estate.With my hood pulled low, I pretend to be just that: a man.I should have been more careful what I wished for.When my family is attacked by a violent gang of bandits, my dream of a free life in the woods becomes my nightmare. I'm thrust from an imaginative prison to a real one.There's nothing merry about these so-called "Merry Men." They're savage. Feral. They see me as nothing more than a prize—leverage to use against men who are even worse than they are.How long can I go before they discover the secret under my hood? What will happen when they find out I'm not the young lordling they think I am?I must escape their clutches. And yet . . . can I really give up this exciting glimpse of twisted freedom to return to a mundane life of fealty and duty in my ivory tower? Author's Note: Daughter of Sherwood is a dark fantasy romance retelling of the legends of Robin Hood. Here, Robin is a woman. The Merry Men are merciless, morally gray, vicious, and they're obsessed with their fiery heiress. Graphic scenes of violence and sex abound, and I urge you to read the trigger warnings!
BattleTech
Adam Sherwood
REDEMPTION. RESISTANCE. RESOLVE.A young Davion MechWarrior seeks to repay a debt incurred by the misfortunes of the Fourth Succession War. A tightly-knit farming community bands together to repel vicious pirates or risk losing their livelihoods...and their lives. A Kurita MechWarrior given a final chance to serve the Dragon stands alone against renegade mercenaries. And the survivors of a crash-landed Steiner command must hold the line against ravenous Word of Blake forces to protect the Allied Coalition's quest to wrest Terra from the Blakists' unyielding grip.Kill Zone: BattleCorps Anthology, Volume 7 collects the very best of the short stories published on the BattleCorps website from 2010. Charge into the war-torn future to experience nine stories filled with BattleMech combat, heroism, betrayal, honor, and duty.Veteran BattleTech authors Kevin Killiany, Blaine Lee Pardoe, and Jason Schmetzer, alongside fan favorites Craig A. Reed, Jr....
Senrid
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
The kids on the good side are united in one thing: regarding Senrid as a villain. So what do you do when you’re fifteen, supposedly king of one of the most powerful kingdoms in the world, but all you have on your side are wit, will, and maybe a few skills? And what if the people you like best are your enemies, and your powerful uncle, the regent, want to see you dead?
This is actually three novelettes and a novella, forming an arc with Senrid at the center, first written after Sherwood Smith turned fifteen, the age of the kids in the stories.
Poor White: A Novel
Sherwood Anderson
Fiction
It is the story of an inventor, Hugh McVey, who rises from poverty on the bank of the Mississippi River. The novel shows the influence of industrialism on the rural heartland of America.
The Fairchild Family
Mrs. Sherwood
The Fairchild Family is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Mrs. (Mary Martha) Sherwood is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Mrs. (Mary Martha) Sherwood then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
Twice a Prince
Sherwood Smith
Fantasy / Literature & Fiction / Biographies & Memoirs
Sasha s prince is wicked, Sun s is missing they take up the sword, L.A. style!
Sasharia En Garde Book 2
In the magical world of Khanerenth, there s a long way to go before Sasha and her dream prince, Jehan, can get to perfect. Jehan s deception has left her unable to trust him, and grimly determined to search for her missing father. Jehan only wants to protect Sasha from the dangerous undercover mission he s undertaken to heal the broken kingdom, but he knows she can t afford to listen to him not when he s the one living a lie.
Enemies, allies and temptation make the ballroom floor as dangerous as pirate raids. In a world where love is danger and honor is difficult to define, the crown is not the only thing on the line for a wicked prince and a princess with a core of steel.
There s a royal price for love."
