The immortal knight, Sir Richard of Ashbury, hunts his nemesis through centuries of war... AD 1190, England. A young knight's family is slaughtered. As the lords of Europe seek to retake Jerusalem from the mighty Saladin, Sir Richard swears an oath of vengeance against Earl William de Ferrers, who has returned from the dead with an insatiable thirst for violence. Richard stalks William and his savage knights across Europe to the Holy Land, fights in the crusades' bloodiest battles alongside Richard the Lionheart and unearths a secret of great evil under the hills of Palestine.Vampire Crusader is a thrilling novel for fans of historical fiction and action-adventure -- the kinds of novels by authors such as Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow. This is not an ordinary vampire story. It is a series spanning 800 years from the 12th century to the present day and featuring the most exciting and the darkest periods of English and European history. If you love action-packed historical fiction then get Vampire Crusader now.Wherever there was great death and evil in the world, William was never far. I fought him in the New World, the Far East and in Napoleon's Europe. I tracked him through the horrors of the Black Death and the overwhelming destruction on the Eastern Front.He was crusader, outlaw, khan. He was a count, a cavalier and a cardinal.William was a murderer, a devil.A vampire.Vampire Outlaw, Book 2 in the Immortal Knight Chronicles, is available now on Amazon. Praise for the Immortal Knight Chronicles: "Highlander meets Interview with the Vampire" "These vampires are bloody murderous, cruel, ferocious bastards, lurking in the darkness trying to bite your head of your body (or slice you open... sometimes on a meat hook)""Recommended for history and vampire enthusiasts because it integrates both sublimely." "I recommend this book to everyone with a love for historical fiction and fantasy!""If Bernard Cornwell wrote vampire novels he'd do extremely well to match this.""Historical fiction with a twist!" "I was captured by this awesome story about knights, romance and bloody murders." "A rip-roaring, blood soaked yarn fraught with danger and tension.""Just like that I was hooked. These weren't the glamorous vampires that we are so use to reading about in books now-a-days, these were ruthless, blood-sucking parasites and I loved it.""The author did a wonderful job of masterfully creating characters that were true to the era and the writing was so excellent and the plot was so gripping, I found myself, turning page after page.""I would recommend it to everyone."

It is the year 1189 A.D., and war is raging all around the Mediterranean. Any woman would fear travelling among the pirates, bandits and renegade Christian knights who flock to the call of battle--but Atta Olivia Clemens has a special reason to fear... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

“A DEMON LOVER TO TEMPT ANY WOMAN. [A] BIG, DELICIOUSLY SEXY HERO.”—New York Times Bestselling Author Angela Knight “EXHILARATING…A TERRIFIC PARANORMAL ROMANTIC SUSPENSE THRILLER.”—Midwest Book Review Once a medieval knight, Don Rafael Perez has clung to his honor despite seven tortured centuries of being a vampire. Now he’s found peace—if not love—as Texas leader of the largest vampire territory in America. But a rival is challenging his rule—by first targeting Grania O’Malley, the forbidden beauty to whom Rafael has lost his heart. But when she’s attacked, will he break his oath of body and soul never to create a female vampire—even if it means saving her? And if he does, can Grania help him destroy the night creature Rafael has always feared?

The immortal knight, Richard of Ashbury, tracks a ruthless vampire through the battlefields of the Hundred Years War.AD 1346. King Edward III seeks to take the crown of France by right of conquest. On the battlefield of Crecy, Richard confronts a mysterious knight with inhuman strength fighting beneath a banner as black as death.To find his enemy, Richard assembles a company of veteran men-at-arms and deadly English archers.Together, they must invade France and bring a mighty French army to battle.But Richard's hunt for the murderous black knight is brought to a sudden halt by the worst disaster Europe has ever known.As millions die and his loved ones fall to the pestilence, Richard searches the darkest corners of Christendom for the chance of finding a cure.What he discovers will change him, and all of history, forever. Book 4 of the Immortal Knight Chronicles continues eighty years after the end of Vampire Khan. Featuring epic medieval battles, political intrigue and real historical figures and events, this is exciting, action-packed historical fiction with a twist. The Immortal Knight Chronicles:Vampire Crusader (Book 1): Richard the Lionheart and the Third CrusadeVampire Outlaw (Book 2): King John and the Invasion of England Vampire Khan (Book 3): Hulegu Khan and the Mongol InvasionsVampire Knight (Book 4): King Edward III and the Hundred Years War Vampire Heretic (Book 5): Coming soon!Praise for the Immortal Knight Chronicles:"Highlander meets Interview with the Vampire" "If Bernard Cornwell wrote vampire novels he'd do extremely well to match this.""I recommend this book to everyone with a love for historical fiction and fantasy!""Recommended for history and vampire enthusiasts - it integrates both sublimely." "I was captured by this awesome story about knights, romance and bloody murders." "A rip-roaring, blood-soaked yarn fraught with danger and tension.""These vampires are bloody murderous, cruel, ferocious bastards, lurking in the darkness trying to bite your head of your body (or slice you open... sometimes on a meat hook)""Interview with a Vampire meets Kingdom of Heaven."

The monster hunt is on! A rip-roaring graphic novel adventure about the latest in a famous family of vampire-hunting pigs, inspired by legendary monster slayer Van Helsing! Ham Helsing is the descendant of a long line of adventurers and monster hunters--who don't often live to rest on their laurels. Ham has always been the odd pig out, preferring to paint or write poetry instead of inventing dangerous (dumb) new ways to catch dangerous creatures. His brother Chad was the daredevil carrying on the family legacy of leaping before looking, but after his death, it's down to Ham. Reluctantly, he sets out on his first assignment, to hunt a vampire. But Ham soon learns that people aren't always what they seem and that you need a good team around you to help save your bacon!

Dark Ages: Vampire takes you to the nights before the Camarilla, when kine truly had reason to be afraid of the dark. The vampires of this bygone age ride the dark as lords, play their games with the crowned heads of Europe, and travel to the mysterious lands of the East as they wage their ages-old war.The diablerie of saulot, the waking of Mithras, the destruction of Michael the patriarch, the return of the Dracon -- it all means the time of reflection is over. The Inquisition stirs and the time to act is now. Across Europe, monarchs of the night set princes and barons at each other's undying throats. Young vampires take to the field ready to claim their domain and become powerful lords in their own right. Blood calls to blood.A complete sourcebook on the Fourth Crusade, the latest Christian adventure in the Holy Land.

The immortal knight, Richard of Ashbury, pursues the worst serial killer in history.AD 1440, Brittany. Scores of children have gone missing from the countryside around the city of Nantes.The commoners know who is to blame. But they dare not speak up, for they suspect their very own lord, the Marshal of France and Lieutenant-General of Brittany, the Baron Gilles de Rais.As Richard investigates the monstrous crimes of Gilles de Rais, he is haunted by the recent crushing defeats at the hands of an insane French peasant girl called Joan of Arc.But what is the strange connection between the Maiden of Orléans and the depraved Baron de Rais? Richard hates her for what she has done to the armies of England but was she ultimately just another victim of the evil lord?To discover the truth, Richard must investigate the sinister tales of demon summoning, odious heresies, and sadistic murders while confronting his own catastrophic failures in the wars against the inspired armies of France.Vampire Heretic is a thrilling novel for readers of action-packed historical fiction and military fantasy. Ideal for fans of Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow, Ben Kane, and Giles Kristian as well as of fantasy authors like Joe Abercrombie, Steven Erikson, Peter V. Brett, Anthony Ryan, and Scott Lynch.The Immortal Knight Chronicles is a historical fantasy series spanning 800 years from the 12th century to the present day and featuring the most exciting and the darkest periods of English and European history.The Immortal Knight Chronicles:Vampire Crusader (Book 1): Richard the Lionheart and the Third CrusadeVampire Outlaw (Book 2): King John and the Invasion of England Vampire Khan (Book 3): Hulegu Khan and the Mongol InvasionsVampire Knight (Book 4): King Edward III and the Hundred Years War Vampire Heretic (Book 5): Gilles de Rais and the Siege of OrléansVampire Impaler (Book 6): Coming soon!Praise for the Immortal Knight Chronicles:"Highlander meets Interview with the Vampire" "If Bernard Cornwell wrote vampire novels he'd do extremely well to match this.""I recommend this book to everyone with a love for historical fiction and fantasy!""Recommended for history and vampire enthusiasts - it integrates both sublimely." "I was captured by this awesome story about knights, romance and bloody murders." "A rip-roaring, blood-soaked yarn fraught with danger and tension.""These vampires are bloody murderous, cruel, ferocious bastards, lurking in the darkness trying to bite your head of your body (or slice you open... sometimes on a meat hook)""Interview with the Vampire meets Kingdom of Heaven."Featuring epic medieval battles, political intrigue and real historical figures and events, this is exciting, action-packed historical fiction with a military fantasy twist.

The long and distinguished tradition of the literary vampire began in Germany during the Age of Enlightenment. German literature was the first to adapt the vampire figure from central European folklore and superstition and give it literary form. Despite these German origins, scholarly attention devoted to literary vampires has consistently focused on a select set of sources: British and French literature, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and the phenomenon of the vampire superstition in general. While there have been many illuminating studies of pre-literary vampires and vampires that have already been firmly established as literary figures, the story of the crucial moment of transition from folkloric figure to literary subject has not yet been told. In The Origins of the Literary Vampire Heide Crawford redirects scholarly attention to the body of German poetry and prose where vampire folklore becomes vampire literature. This book focuses on the adaptation of the vampire superstition from central European folklore by German poets in the 18th and early 19th centuries for an audience that had become increasingly interested in superstition and occult phenomena in an Age of Enlightenment. In addition to establishing that the origins of the literary vampire in 18th and 19th century German poetry and prose were informed by the stories and reports of vampires from Central Europe, Crawford argues that the German poets who adapted this figure from superstition for their creative work immediately molded it into a metaphor for contemporary cultural anxieties and fears—a connection that would inspire horror literature in general and the traits of the literary vampire in particular for the 19th century and beyond. Contemporary culture has exhibited a marked fascination with eroticized and politicized applications of the vampire. This volume traces these erotic motifs, common political motifs and others to the first vampire poems that were written by German poets. Consequently, this book answers three central questions: What were the origins of the literary vampire; how was the vampire of folklore and superstition adapted for literature; and how did German poets contribute to the development of the vampire and Gothic horror literature? By answering these and other questions, The Origins of the Literary Vampire explains how the literary vampire became the ubiquitous horror figure it is today.

The follow-up to Mistress of the Art of Death- in the national bestselling series hailed as "the medieval answer to Kay Scarpetta and the CSI detectives." When King Henry II's mistress is found poisoned, suspicion falls on his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. The king orders Adelia Aguilar, expert in the science of death, to investigate-and hopefully stave off civil war. A reluctant Adelia finds herself once again in the company of Rowley Picot, the new Bishop of St. Albans...and her baby's father. Their discoveries into the crime are shocking- and omens of greater danger to come.