“Someday,” said the tribute-offering called Nofret, “I shall be the chief of the queen’s servants. Then I can call myself whatever I please.”Nofret is the daughter of a Hittite nobleman, captured by enemies...

Dragons sleep in the earth here.Claire is barely scraping a living on her friend’s ranch near Tucson, Arizona. She looks after the long-abandoned horse facility, makes occasional attempts to resuscitate...

I am no one. I pass from dark into dark. I hunt a track gone cold as stone.For five thousand Earthyears, the planet called Nevermore has been empty. Its cities are deserted, with every trace of their...

Long years after the White Mare came to the people of the Mothers, bringing the wild horsemen from the sea of grass and changing the world forever, the world is changing again. The Mother of Lir is dead,...

Nine stories of horses and their people. Nine tales of magic and enchantment.Horses of the ancient world, horses of the Middle Ages and the Arabian Nights, horses of the present and the future, even horses...

For a long, brutal century, the Kingdom of Lower Egypt has been occupied by the “Vile Asiatics,” the conquerors called the Shepherd Kings. With their horses and chariots they overwhelmed the armies of...

Alfred of St. Ruan's has lived his life in the seclusion of the monastery. But a badly wounded knight on a mission from the Elvenking, a beautiful and mysterious stranger who walks as both woman and beast,...

Constantinople, A.D. 1203: a great army camps outside the City of Cities, and threatens it with conquest. Within the City, a Greek witch and a renegade monk who is also a white enchanter do their utmost...

In the magical kingdom of Rhiyana, peace reigns under the Elvenking. But terrible forces are stirring in the world beyond. The Hounds of God, the heretic-hunters and inquisitors of the Church of Rome,...

Three lives. Three worlds. Three times.Three young women, past, present, and future, come together to solve an age-old mystery and save a world.Meredith is just settling in for a long and lazy summer,...

A prince, a stallion, a young Turk who tames them bothTHE PRINCE: Spoiled, reckless, heedless of any wants or needs but his own, sentenced to a terrible fate for his sins against man, woman, and God.THE...

How to write about horses–and get it right.How far can a horse travel in a day? What does a horse eat? When is a brown horse really a sorrel (or a bay, or a dun)? What do tack and withers and canter mean? In...

In the grandfathers’ time, when few yet living had been born, the People worshipped the horse, and served him, and took the gifts that he gave them: his meat, his hide, the milk of his mares. But he had...

Prince Daros of Han-Gilen is an infamous rake and wastrel–and a hidden and completely untrained mage of enormous power. Caught breaking the strictest laws of the Mageguild and their magical Worldgates,...

In ancient Egypt, a woman might be king—but the price she paid would bind her soul for eternity.Hatshepsut, the Great Royal Wife, is bound in marriage to her brother, Thutmose, whom she despises. Unable...

The king’s heir of Ianon is long lost, vanished into the south. Her father refuses to name his son heir in her place, though that son is a mighty warrior.Then one day a young wanderer arrives with news...

Kidnapped, tortured, betrayed by his brothers whom he loved, the heir of the Golden Empire has lost everything but his life. His only hope is a chance encounter, a wandering priest from the Empire of...

Worldgates are a great magic and a great convenience: opening the way from one world to the next, and from one side of a world to the other. Now the mages of the Gates are exploring a new continent and...

The war between the Golden Empire and the Empire of the Sun is over, the empires merged into one, and one emperor over them all: Estarion, heir to both royal houses.But Estarion will not accept half of...

A story set in the world of The Hound and the Falcon:In the midst of the Black Death, in a nation constantly at war, the women of Sency have found ways to survive and even to thrive. They live well enough...

Elian of Han-Gilen is the pride and scandal of her father’s princedom.She has out-ridden, out-hunted, and out-shot every suitor. Now comes one whom she could bring herself to love: no lesser man than...

Immortal lovers, battling faiths, a kingdom torn asunder: love and war in the time of the Crusades.In the time of the Crusades, in a world at war, a prince of immortal lineage and a spirit of fire who...

A knight from across the sea, a beleaguered kingdom, a spirit of fire.For close to a hundred years the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem has stood with its thin line of fortresses against the combined power...

In a time before history, in a land of legend, where wild horsemen wage endless war across a sea of grass, the last descendant of the White Mare’s servants follows a sacred vision beyond the edge of the...

Nicole Gunther-Perrin is a modern young professional, proud of her legal skills but weary of childcare, of senior law partners who put the moves on her, and of her deadbeat ex-husband. Following a ghastly...

Vonda N. McIntyre preferred to keep her author's biography short and sweet: "Vonda N. McIntyre writes science fiction." While true, this modest claim conceals accomplishments that earned her multiple...