Sharon Shinn, Author Ace $24.95 (403p) ISBN 978-0-441-01636-5
Following 2007’s Reader and Raelynx
, which wrapped up the original Twelve Houses fantasy quartet, this rousing sword-and-sorcery romance introduces Wen, a former elite warrior Rider haunted by her failure to protect King Baryn during a...
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Sharon Shinn. Ace, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-26169-9
Shinn's realistic third Shifting Circle romantic fantasy (after Still Life with Shapeshifter) is set in the present day but takes place far from the gritty urban settings familiar to paranormal fans. Young Karadel Baylor, a shapeshifter who lives on
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Sharon Shinn. Ace, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-25681-7
Shinn returns to the alternate present-day setting of The Shape of Desire with a triumphant tale of love and loss. Melanie Landon has been protecting her half-sister, Ann, since they were children. When reporter Brody Westerbrook shows up at Melanie’
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Sharon Shinn. Ace, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-937007-17-1
Loving a shape-shifter requires a life full of lies in this touching domestic fantasy by Shinn (Troubled Waters). Maria has known, and kept, her lover’s secret since they were in college together. Dante is only human a few days a month, and he...
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Sharon Shinn, Author Ace Books $14.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-441-00691-5
Though Shinn's earlier Archangel received considerable praise, this flimsy attempt at crossing romance with SF in an imaginary society that reverses customary gender roles results in a hybrid as sterile and ungainly as a mule. Downright mulish (when
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Sharon Shinn, Author Ace Books $13.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-441-00616-8
The author of the Samaria Trilogy (Archangel, etc.) returns with another story of religious faith crossed by mortal will. The Intergalactic Alliance of Federated Planets has been courting the isolated world of Semay, source of rare and expensive...
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Sharon Shinn, Ace, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-441-01923-6
Bestseller Shinn (Quatrain) carries readers away into a vivid new fantasy world where the five elements control everyone’s lives. Alone and in shock after the death of her father, Zoe Ardelay is invited to the capital to become the king’s fifth wife
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Viking $17.99 (280p) ISBN 978-0-670-01178-0
Daiyu was adopted as a baby from China by an American couple, and now as a teenager in St. Louis, a strangely attractive gem sends her into an alternate world where North America was colonized by Chinese settlers rather than Europeans. Daiyu is...
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Ace $24.95 (369p) ISBN 978-0-441-01758-4
The four enchanting novellas within Shinn's shimmering collection make delightful introductions to her romantic science fantasy worlds and thrill fans eager for a return visit. In “Flight” (the Samaria series), Aunt Salome tries to...
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The latest enchantment from Crawford Award winner Shinn (The Shape Changer's Wife
and the Samaria trilogy) combines romantic spice, a dash of faerie and a pinch of intrigue to create a hybrid soufflé that is delicious, if not filling....
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Ace $24.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-441-01469-9
At the start of Shinn's exciting fourth Twelve Houses fantasy (after 2006's Dark Moon Defender
), King Baryn decides it's time to marry off his daughter, Amalie, given the precarious political situation in Gillengaria. Baryn recruits...
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Ace $23.95 (435p) ISBN 978-0-441-01430-9
In Shinn's intrigue-filled third Twelve Houses fantasy (after The Thirteenth House
and Mystic and Rider
), Justin, one of the elite King's Riders who serve King Baryn of Gillengaria, finds plenty to be concerned about after going undercover
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Ace $24.95 (423p) ISBN 978-0-441-01368-5
Restless shape-shifter Kirra, having just fallen for a married man and been disowned by her otherwise loving family, needs a break at the start of bestseller Shinn's outstanding second novel in her Twelve Houses series (after 2004's Mystic...
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Ace $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-441-01246-6
While not as original as Shinn's popular Archangel trilogy, this first of four in the Twelve Houses series, set in the land of Gillengaria, is tailor-made for the growing audience of fantasy fans who like a good juicy romance. Elderly King Baryn
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Ace $23.95 (483p) ISBN 978-0-441-01134-6
The lack of music as well as emotional depth mars Shinn's otherwise engaging, romance-filled tale of strong, capable women, the fifth entry in her popular Samaria series. The action immediately follows that of the first book, Archangel
(1996),...
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Ace $23.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-441-01013-4
Beautifully told, with engaging depth and richness, this stand-alone novel, the latest in Shinn's Samaria series (Archangel, etc.), will win new readers and delight existing fans. In an expansion of a folk tale briefly related in Archangel, the...
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Sharon Shinn, Author . Ace $14.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-441-00900-8
The author of the Samaria trilogy (Archangel, etc.) offers a moving, if somewhat less introspective, retelling of Jane Eyre
that is sure to appeal to SF readers with a taste for romance. The product of the planet Baldus's gen-tanks, Jenna...
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Sharon Shinn, Author, Rebecca York, Author, Carol Berg, Author . Berkley $14 (378p) ISBN 978-0-425-21786-3
Shinn (Reader and Raelynx
), Johnson (The Master
), Berg (Flesh and Spirit
) and York (Moon Swept
) offer stories of air, fire, water and earth in a delicious smorgasbord of styles. Shinn’s “Bargain with the Wind” is a cautionary...
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Sharon Shinn. Fairwood, $19.99 trade paper (358p) ISBN 978-1-958880-00-5
The world is coming apart at the seams in this impressive fantasy from Shinn (Mystic and Rider). Once separate, the lands of the continent were bound together by the god Cordelan, so that the bounties of each would benefit the others. United, they...
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