Ruth Nestvold: 26 books

Seventeen-year-old Chiara Dragoni is a master glassmaker of Venice, a position that is both a privilege — and a trap. For the glassmakers of Murano are forbidden to ever leave the islands of the Venetian lagoon. When Chiara's uncle is caught on the mainland and thrown into the dungeon of...

Uthyr destroyed her life. Now she wants revenge. When young Ygerna first meets Uthyr, Pendragon of Britain, she is dazzled by the handsome and famous warrior. But when Uthyr interprets admiration as consent and takes her by force, Ygerna's hero worship turns to hatred. And she will do anything to get revenge on the man who got her with child and ruined her life.

Jordyn has brought the birds of sorrow with her to Rolynka, Alaska, where she hopes to start over after a tragic accident. But in Rolynka, nothing is quite the way it seems, and the help of neighbors takes very strange forms. "In the Middle of Nowhere with Company" is a short...

Die Starkbogen-Saga ist eine epische Erzählung von der beharrlichen Suche eines Mannes nach Gerechtigkeit und Vergeltung, die ihn durch die Welt der Wikinger im 9. Jahrhundert führt. Im zweiten Buch der Saga, Drachen aus dem Meer, ist Halfdan Hroriksson seinen Feinden vorerst entkommen – ­den...

The Allied Interstellar Community first contact team on the planet Kailazh is faced with even more challenges than most. But dealing with an alien culture is not only difficult for those who arrive on a foreign world. What of the inhabitants of the planet, who now have to deal with realities so strange...

So you think magic isn't necessary in order to leave? Think again ... Victoria Askew doesn't want to leave remote Rolynka, Alaska when she finishes high school; it's all she's ever known. At least, not until her mother knits her the most beautiful sweater she's ever seen, a sweater imbued with...

"Science fiction at its best!" "Compelling and thought provoking!" - Reader reviews Looking Through Lace As the only woman on the first contact team, xenolinguist Toni Donato expected her assignment on Christmas / Kailazh would be to analyze the secret women's language -- but then the chief...

As the only woman on the first contact team, xenolinguist Toni Donato expected her assignment on Christmas would be to analyze the secret women's language -- but then the chief linguist begins to sabotage her work. What is behind it? Why do the men and women have separate languages in the first place?...

Oregon is a strange an wonderful place. These short stories explore that strangeness through the genres of fantasy and science fiction. Here a sampling: "The Old Man and the Sneakers": It began the summer the Nikes washed up on the beach by the dozen — but never by the pair. The...

Meeting Aphra Behn is Billie's wish come true -- and now she's trapped in the 17th century! Take: - one graduate student who wants to change history; - one dead -- and now forgotten -- playwright who did change history; - the colorful and turbulent times of the English Restoration; - one magic...

845 n. Chr. — der Krieg im Frankenreich geht weiter. Obwohl die angreifende dänische Armee zahlenmäßig unterlegen und in Gefahr ist, eingeschlossen und abgeschnitten zu werden, dringt sie tiefer ins feindliche Gebiet vor. Doch während die Anführer der Dänen streiten, versammelt sich langsam...

Gawain was not only Arthur's champion, he was the champion of the ladies as well. He loved many women, but none too much -- until one of his lovers told him she intended to marry another man. Now, a year later, he is running away from his disappointment, traveling north to fight against a...