Era Fiction

In this “thrilling, heartbreaking” (Annie Lyons, author of The Air Raid Club) debut novel set during the Great Depression in 1930s New York, a daring dancer must take her twin brother’s place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save her family from ruin...

Lisa Berne’s Penhallow Dynasty continues with a pair of star-crossed childhood friends who meet again years later—and find love where they least expect it . . . Katherine Brooke may be a fabulously wealthy heiress, but she’s trapped, a pawn in her parents’ ruthless game to marry her into...

Are you ready for a heart-pounding adventure on Florida’s St. John’s River and in the aftermath of the Civil War? The tranquil waters mask a dangerous secret as a gang of robbers target unsuspecting travelers on steamboats. Amidst this chaos, investigator Sadie Snow is on a mission to bring the culprits to justice. But when her best friend is taken hostage and murder enters the picture, Sadie realizes she’s in a race for time. Will she be able to save her friend and bring the criminals to justice, or will she become their next victim?

Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Vonda N. McIntyre continues the bestselling Star Wars saga as the ultimate space adventure unfolds in The Crystal Star. Princess Leia's children have been kidnapped. Along with Chewbacca and Artoo-Detoo, she follows the kidnappers' trail to a disabled refugee...

Are you ready for a heart-pounding adventure on Florida's St. John's River in the aftermath of the Civil War? The tranquil waters mask a dangerous secret as a gang of robbers target unsuspecting travelers on steamboats. Amidst this chaos, Pinkerton Detective Agency's newest woman investigator Sadie Snow is on a mission to bring the culprits to justice. But when her best friend is taken hostage and murder enters the picture, Sadie realizes she's in a race against time. Will she be able to save her friend and bring the criminals to justice, or will she become their next victim?

Containing over 47 stories and two novels, this book is big baby, bigger and more powerful than a freight train - a bullet couldn't pass through it. Here are the best stories and every major writer who ever appeared in celebrated Pulps like Black Mask, Dime Detective, Detective Fiction Weekly, and more. These are the classic tales that created the genre and gave birth to hard-hitting detectives who smoke criminals like packs of cigarettes.

Baxter Fernley, the earl of Grafton, takes his duty as a member of the ton with the utmost sincerity, even if King George III has lost his mind. Baxter despises almost everything about his traitorous American neighbor, everything except her beauty and strong will. Briar finds Baxter to be an infuriating man without any common sense, even if she does admire his strength of character and loyalty to family and duty. When they agree to be civil, their awkward first meeting is forgotten and these enemies find themselves hoping for love.

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms. Texas, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to...

Odin’s people are the new gods of Midgard. Odin’s son has become a champion of mankind. But fame has a price. Odin lost his beloved Freyja. How far will he go to reclaim his lost love? The latest instrument of his will is Sigmund — a werewolf obsessed with vengeance on a despotic king. Can Odin’s machinations bring him back to Freyja without destroying all around him?

“Powerful….A gripping tale that is a mystery only in the same sense as To Kill a Mockingbird was….Brilliant, insightful, moving.” —Chicago Sun-Times There are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and...

Der Tagelöhner Robert Grainier, 1886 im Norden Amerikas geboren, erlebt hautnah die großen Umwälzungen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem Einzug der Technik in den Alltag der Menschen verändert sich seine Welt unwiderruflich. Als Eisenbahnarbeiter ist Grainier Teil dieser Modernisierung, die jedoch auch ihre Opfer fordert. Eine persönliche Tragödie erschüttert sein Leben in den Grundfesten und stürzt ihn in tiefe Verzweiflung. In poetischer Sprache zeichnet Denis Johnson in seiner Novelle das eindringliche Bild einer Gesellschaft im Wandel.

After centuries bound in Alfheim, Odin escapes, only to find himself trapped in the fathomless darkness of Svartalfheim. What will he do when his only ally is a woman who no longer trusts him? Svartalfheim is home to the strange and corrupt dark elf courts. Eager for Odin’s oracular sight, they pull him into their unending power struggles. And while the king is missing, the world hurtles toward Ragnarok. If Hermod cannot find and retrieve Odin, Midgard faces annihilation on all sides.

Dale's world is growing faster and faster, with new dangers appearing and new opportunities arising. Join him and his people as they conquer these new challenges to develop a brighter future.

Enter the London of hansom cabs and gas lights to combat crime and bring killers to justice. Georgia Fenchurch is a demure Victorian spinster and part of the secretive investigative group the Archivist Society. She is both a quiet antiquarian bookseller and adventurous hunter of killers and thieves.

Join Dale as he continues to grow as a Keeper. With the experiences slowly piling up around him, how will he deal with the changes to come? Is he ready for all that awaits him? Find out....

A deliciously fun romance blossoms between a fiercely independent woman and a reserved Scotsman, in the latest installment of Megan Frampton’s Heirs and Spares series. She’ll never say yes… Lady Drusilla Courtenay has sworn off marriage, though she still dabbles in romance, much to...

The scandalous women of the SOCIETY OF SIRENS are back with an explosive secret…their ranks include a duchess in disguise Once upon a time she married in secret… An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an...

Cuando Carrie se retira del tenis, es la mejor jugadora que el mundo ha visto jamás. Seis años después de retirarse, Carrie se encuentra en las gradas del US Open de 1994, viendo cómo una tenista británica brutal e impresionante llamada Nicki Chan le arrebata el récord. Con treinta y siete años, Carrie toma la decisión de salir de su retiro para entrenar con su padre un último año, con la intención de recuperar su récord.

With mysterious serial murders putting peaceful Lexington, Alabama, on edge, Jessie and Hubert Wiggins’ steadfast calm and devotion to each other reassures everyone that faith will see them through. But Jessie and Hubert have paid a terrible hidden cost to maintain their devout facade and respectable standing. Nothing can allay the guilt they feel—or stop the growing distrust between them.

Ellie has been running the tea room for more than 20 years. Her daughters have both left home - Jessica is married and expecting her first child, and Marie has built a successful career. She is ready for change and to leave the past behind; however, her daughters are not. They still want the security of having their family home as a base to return to and yet seem reluctant to help with the day-to-day tasks of running the business. To complicate matters further, Ellie meets Michael. She was not looking to meet a man, but life occasionally throws in a few surprises.