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Eighteenth-century Britain and the Seven Years' War form the backdrop for Lord John Grey's quest to uncover the truth about his father's death, a search that leads to deadly peril and an encounter with a Jacobite prisoner, Jamie Fraser, who may hold the key to his quest.

"Desperate to find water and shelter on the barren plains of former Oklahoma, Ryan and his team come upon a community that appears, at first, to be peaceful. Then the ville is attacked by a group of its own inhabitants- people infected with a parasite that has turned them into slave warriors for an unknown overlord. The companions try to fend off the enemy and protect the remaining population, but when Ryan is captured during a second ambush, all...

"Some things are worth fighting for. Of all his friends, Ivan is the only one looking forward to war. That's because Ivan has never backed down from a fight--especially when it comes to fighting for what's right. He has protected his friends from bullies for years. And now, as war erupts in Vietnam, Ivan wants nothing more than to fight for his country, just as his father did in World War II. Enlisting in the United States Army, Ivan is trained...

"Sage Fowler, the apprentice to a matchmaker, becomes a spy for the army to uncover a treasonous plot and finds herself entangled in a romance with a soldier"-- Deemed unfit for a suitable marriage, Sage is apprenticed to a matchmaker and tasked with wrangling other young ladies to be married off for political alliances. She spies on the girls, and on the soldiers escorting them. Recruited by a handsome soldier to infiltrate the enemy ranks, Sage...

"The time is 1863. The setting, the Civil War, America's bloodiest conflict. Henry Fleming, a country boy on the Union side, is full of emotion as he and his fellow soldiers wait for their first battle to begin. Will Henry become the hero he dreams of being? Will he and his friends even survive the deadly fire of the enemy? And who is the enemy, but other American boys like himself? Fear and courage exist at the same time, as each man undergoes his...

Dedicated to the protection of humanity in the twenty-third century, the Cerberus warriors have repelled numerous alien parasites that would prey on mankind. But the Cerberus team clashes with otherworldly scavengers wielding technology far in advance of their own when they investigate a spaceship crash site. The spaceship belongs to citizens of a magnificent airborne city located in a quantum rift. They have been hording alien technology and using...

George R.R. Martin, from his introduction to Warriors:"People have been telling stories about warriors for as long as they have been telling stories. Since Homer first sang the wrath of Achilles and the ancient Sumerians set down their tales of Gilgamesh, warriors, soldiers, and fighters have fascinated us; they are a part of every culture, every literary tradition, every genre ...