C. E Murphy

Assassin. Seductress. Bastard.Witch.Belinda Primrose has lied, murdered, and seduced her way through the deadly courts of Echon, all in the name of solidifying her queen mother's power. Now war follows in her wake, and with it, the underpinnings that have held her in place for all of her life. She has trusted her father, been loyal to her mother, and waited patiently for answers that, once revealed, prove that those who should love her best see her...

Rasim al Ilalio doesn't mean to cause trouble wherever he goes, but a year of disasters lies in his wake. A war is brewing, but returning home to his beloved city of Ilyara isn't an option--not until he's brought a friend home again, and has warned their people of the conspiracy he believes affects them all. But in the distant Shenryalan steppelands, a new threat emerges: not just human scheming, but magical beasts that have slumbered for centuries...

The waters have risen, leaving cities drowned and a future changed beyond recognition. And into that future, something new has been born or perhaps something impossibly old has been released.She does not know how she came to be, only that the oceans are her favored home...until a man from the world above nearly dies in her domain, and she is drawn toward the soft and easy life he seems to possess. But there is a price to pay for love, and in the end......you...

It's good luck to earn the king's regard...isn't it? Seamaster journeyman Rasim's quick wits have helped to save his beloved home city and earned him the dubious honor of studying with the diplomatic Sunmasters. But not everyone is happy that magical knowledge is being shared, and when the king orders the guilds back to the Northlands on a sensitive political mission, it may well cost Rasim his life. Seamaster-born, Sunmaster-trained, Rasim now...

Benedict Fairburn does not quite need his ailing great-aunt's fortune, especially since he'll have to marry to get it. His family, however, thinks otherwise as do many of the eligible ladies in London and the pressure is mounting. An embarrassment of attentions fill Benny's time, but the young lady he prefers roundly dislikes him.Claire Dalton, cousin to one of Benedict's oldest friends, is too busy debuting in Society to pay much attention to the...

Rasim is no stranger to bad luck. Orphaned at birth, he holds his place in the Seamasters' Guild by dint of quick thinking and sheer stubbornness. Possessed of little magic but a sharp mind, his greatest talent seems to be finding trouble or perhaps escaping it just in time.No one is more surprised than Rasim when he earns a place on the fleet's flagship, sent North for a daring mission. Storm, treachery, piracy, and outright war sail with them. One...

A country ravaged by the hunger.A woman dying for a chance to live.A man who cannot quite leave well enough alone.Saoirse O'Cathain should have died on the coffin ship that took her from famine-torn Ireland to the dubious safety of the Canadian coast, but an ancient immortal a man who claims he doesn't care saved her by Awakening the Timeless immortality she harbored within. Perhaps it was a gift: Saoirse might have all of eternity to watch the world...

July, 1945. Soldiers are coming home from the war...and monsters come with them. THE REDEEMER Rosie wants to keep her job as a riveter, even with her boyfriend returning from World War II. But there's defying convention, and then there's executing a demon on the factory floor. Rosie is ready to roll with the demon-slaying power awakened inside her if she can figure out how to make it work on command. THE HUNTER Crippled by monsters in wartime Europe,...

Agent Alisha MacAleer has put the past behind her as best she can, but her trust in the CIA is no longer what it was...and the Agency's faith in Alisha is fractured, too.When a mission goes sideways-again-thanks to her ex-lover Frank Reichart, Alisha's loyalties are called into question. Furious to learn that brilliant but treacherous Brandon Parker is back developing the next generation of his sophisticated artificial intelligences, assigned to desk...

The safe, predictable life Rasim al Ilialio once knew is in shambles. It isn't exactly his fault-he didn't mastermind the fires that have struck his beloved home city of Ilyara, or the poisoning of Northland lakes, or the kidnapping of a nomadic prince-but his quick thinking did see the patterns that linked all of those terrible events together. Small conspiracies to hold power all over the continent are leading to a terrible uprising against his...