Irene Radford
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Steampunk's big, brassy, powerful, and sweaty way of looking at the world sideways inspires six stories of the Victorian age of wonder. Irene Radford offers new and old stories that reach from a weapon of mass destruction that could change the outcome of the U.S. Civil War, the truth behind why the ballet Giselle disappeared for nearly fifty years, pirates in Indonesia questioning whether we should control technology or be controlled by it, to a glimpse...
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Real estate mogul Phelma Jo Nelson and building inspector Ian MacEwen see the world through different colored glasses. A former foster child, she works on the shadowy side of the law to help troubled teens escape a flawed system; he's an Eagle Scout.But the Pixies of Skene Falls know that under their differences, Phelma Jo and Ian can help each other, especially when Eldon Bass, Phelma Jo's brutal foster father, slinks into town. On the run from the...
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The reason there have been no verified demon sightings in the past fifty years is that they are all hanging out at Science Fiction/Fantasy conventions, winning costume awards.Tess Noncroiré, lost her husband of three months in motel fire. In a fever of grief, she drives blindly into the desert and disappears for a year. She emerges fifty pounds lighter and a Sister of the Celestial Blade Warriors, trained to combat demons. An interdimensional imp,...
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Roam with Herakles in search of a safe home for a magical sword, go into exile with a descendant of Merlin, and learn the wisdom of a wolfhound pup to help you wander along newly forged paths into the imagination. Award winning author Irene Radford presents twelve fantasy stories including classics, out of print anthology pieces, and a tantalizing new tale or two.
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The Grand Festival of Highland Arts and Games has descended upon the Whistling River Resort and Golf Course. Glenna McClain, General Manager and part owner of the lodge, has her hands full of bagpipers, dancers, and officious officials. Among them prances the criminal ex-lover of Glenna's security chief Craig Knutsen. He will have to face his carefully guarded secrets once and for all.Glenna bonds with her Scottish ancestral roots and a young girl...
6) Chicory Up
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Being a Pixie King isn't all that it's cracked up to be.Chicory has always been a carefree ditch-weed of a Pixie. But now there's a war brewing between Pixie tribes, and Chicory has to take responsibility for himself and for a growing group of displaced Pixies. Finding shelter for them means he has to play nice with humans and not play tricks on them. Well, some tricks are necessary so big people don't take themselves too seriously.The offer of shelter...
7) Enigma
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Aboard the space station First Contact Café, Station Commander General Jake Devlin and Sissy, inexperienced and undereducated High Priestess of Harmony, confront the mystery of an odd eight-limbed stowaway, a mystical refugee who talks in circles rather than reveal the truth, and clues to the origin and genetic breakdown of enemies and allies alike. Together they fight diplomatic protocols to forge a necessary treaty between CSS and Harmony. Their...
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The need to hoard gold can be a curse. But what if the gold itself is the curse?On a quest to find and return the Coronnan dragons and save the Commune of Magicians, journeymen magicians Marcus and Robb take shelter from a storm in a long abandoned monastery-only to become ghosts, trapped and invisible inside ruins no one visits, with only mounds of gold for company.Healer Vareena has inherited the ability to care for the ghosts only she can see and...
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Living in the shadows, Psychic Vampire Janet Dryer was a killer addicted to Soul Fire-until her lover tried to kill her at Woodstock in 1969. These days, she haunts exotic night clubs and draws energy from throbbing drums.
Her popularity as a sarcastic blogger lands her on Dance from the Heart, a celebrity ballroom competition. To her shock, the head judge is her ex-lover, the Vampire Hunter who tried to kill her.
With the strength and speed to take...
10) Ghostly Whistles
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The Cascadia Paranormal Society invades the Whistling River Lodge, but they are searching for more than ghosts. Albert Allegheny demands that Lodge-owners Glenna McClain and her new husband Craig Knudsen turn over all the evidence they have collected on Bigfoot. She has spotted a few suspicious things in the forest, but evidence? No way. Except the pandemic has cost the local community dearly, and the dollars this obnoxious man represents could help...
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In Speculative Journeys, Irene Radford extends her short story collections into science fiction and contemporary fantasy with fourteen tales both old and new.
Why is time-travel reserved for wealthy tourists and forbidden to historians?
Can a spaceship captain keep secrets from her communication officer who speaks every language in the universe-even ones without words?
Is a maze cut into solid granite a portal to a safer world…or something else?
These...
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Crown Prince of Coronnan, Darville de Draconis, fell ill after being kidnapped by a rogue magician and ensorcelled into the form of a golden wolf. Though he feels fully recovered, the Council of Provinces and his regent-the same rogue magician who kidnapped him-will not allow him to be crowned king until he marries the princess of their choice.Princess Rossemikka of Rossemeyer comes with an impressive dowry and a vital military alliance. The problem...
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What happens when rival pirate queens take tea together? From the fertile imagination of Irene Radford, author of the classic Dragon Nimbus Series, and the epic Merlin's Descendants Series, come sixteen stories of hope, fun, and poignant sorrow. Fire-breathing hummingbirds, a tavern between humanity and hell, crystal stealing pixies in space, and more, gathered together for the first time in Magical Meanderings.
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Merlin's descendants volume 3
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The glory of the Elizabethan Age is tarnished by the continuing religious conflict begun by Henry VIII. Griffin Kirkwood renounces his title, his lands, his love for the mysterious demon-ridden Roanna, and his magical heritage as a descendant of both King Arthur and the Merlin to become a Catholic priest in France. His twin, Donovan (his mirror image in face and form and rarely more than a thought away) shoulders the responsibilities willingly. He...
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Is the Magna Carta better than the US Constitution? Was it a power grab by English noblemen, or is it a rights of man declaration penned by Robin Hood? The answers may surprise you as author and historian Irene Radford picks apart the clauses and explains them in context to the history surrounding this amazing document. Magna Carta, a true turning point in the history of democracy.
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Music defines Margot Tremayne's soul. She thinks best when her hands caress a piano keyboard, but all music eludes her since a demon crushed her hands on the eve of winning a prestigious international piano competition.Fifteen years later, she has built a new career in conducting, composition, and teaching.She still feels empty.The job of driving the increasing murderous demon threat back to the netherworld falls to Abigail Fitzwarrn, Director of...
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Merlin's descendants volume 4
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Deirdre Kirkwood, the bastard child of Griffin, a Catholic priest, and demon-infested Roanna Douglas, has been raised with her cousins Betsy and Hal, the children of Griffin's twin, Donovan. Each of them has inherited a powerful magical talent and a wolfhound familiar. Any of them could become the next Merlin of Britain.
Deirdre's quest to know something, anything, about her father leads to a confrontation with El Lobison the Master of all Werewolves....
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Merlin's descendants volume 1
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Caught between her beloved father, the Merlin of Britain, and Arthur Pendragon, the old ways and the new, Wren must find a way to balance the forces of Chaos with peace. She nurtures the land and the people, creating a haven for anyone displaced by the turbulence. And for the safety of all she must guard her heart against the deep love she shares with Arthur, a married king who holds the future of all the Britains in his hands and his sword.
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The covenant with the dragons is broken. No longer can like-minded magicians gather dragon magic and work communally to impose honor and ethics upon any single mage. Nimbulan, Senior Magician, and councilor to the king has had to exile his beloved wife, Myrilandel, because she is a witchwoman and no female can gather dragon magic. Now she is missing from her protected clearing along with their two adopted children.To bring his wife home again, with...
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The StormMother is unleashed, and she is angry.Tiamat, ancient goddess of chaos and creation has decided to clear the world of human infestation--but she needs help. Only her descendant Celia Fisher, a Siren, has the magical power to aid her.Celia is more interested in becoming a Broadway star than in her archaic Siren heritage. But when two fellow contestants in a reality TV competition drown during a freak thunderstorm and a werewolf threatens her-a...