Melisende's Library

Synopsis: London 1696 -  War. Treason. Espionage. Financial chaos. Speculation. Sarah Goodricke writes plays. It pays the rent. It keeps he...

Synopsis: A young chief. An escaped demon. A quest for immortality.  The Eurasian Steppe, 3000 BC. As Perseyus leads his clan across the pl...

Synopsis: Marcus wagers that surviving a deadly spy mission will earn him freedom from slavery, but he hasn't bargained on betrayal by ...

Synopsis: Clara Shortridge Foltz faces a patriarchal nemesis in 1884 San Francisco. When a white prostitute is murdered and flayed down to ...

Britannia (Book I) Maia and her step-brother Cilo were raised in an opulent but isolated villa in the Seine Valley. At fifteen Cilo escaped ...

Synopsis: AUSTRIA. 1686. Two plagues rage in the countryside. One plague is smallpox, a torturous disease that ravages the body, turning ho...

Synopsis: The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspir...

Synopsis:  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is obsessed with a legendary red book. Its peculiar stories have come to life, and rumors claim that it ...

A page-turning whodunit set in the wilds of a remote movie ranch,  Bottom Feeders  describes the hapless Hollywood cast and crew that eke ...