Dark Horse
10 best books like Dark Horse (Mary H. Herbert): Tarnished Are the Stars, Red Winter, Dark Tempest, Archangel's War, The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress, The Shining Girls, Black Maria, Fire Watch, Enchantress from the Stars, A Wind in Cairo
| Author | Rosiee Thor |
| ISBN | 1338312278 |
The Lunar Chronicles meets Rook in this queer #OwnVoices science-fantasy novel, perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer and Sharon Cameron.
A secret beats inside Anna Thatcher's chest: an illegal clockwork heart. Anna works cog by cog -- donning the moniker Technician -- to supply black market...
| Author | Annette Marie |
| ISBN | 1988153085 |
Emi is the kamigakari. In a few short months, her life as a mortal will end and her new existence as the human host of a goddess will begin. Carefully hidden from those who would destroy her, she has prepared her mind, body, and soul to unite with the goddess-and not once has she doubted her chosen fate. Shiro...
Emi has dedicated her life to becoming the perfect vessel for the goddess Amaterasu, but the insidious betrayal of another deity has changed everything. Now Amaterasu has charged Emi with an urgent mission: to find and free the earthly gods before mankind is brought to its knees beneath divine tyranny.
At...
| Author | Nalini Singh |
| ISBN | 0451491661 |
Wings of silver. Wings of blue. Mortal heart. Broken dreams. Shatter. Shatter. Shatter. A sundering. A grave. I see the end. I see. . .
The world is in chaos as the power surge of the Cascade rises to a devastating crescendo. In furiously resisting its attempts to turn Elena into a vessel for Raphael’s...
The Tycoon's Pregnant Mistress
| Author | Maya Banks |
| ISBN | 0373769202 |
Greek hotel magnate Chrysander Anetakis's former mistress was pregnant? And had amnesia? That meant Marley Jameson didn't remember betraying him by selling company secrets. Or that he'd thrown her out of his life. So he told her a little white lie: they were engaged. Then he swept her away to his Greek...
| Author | Lauren Beukes |
| ISBN | 0316216852 |
In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. Curtis stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi,...
| Author | Diana Wynne Jones |
| ISBN | 0006755283 |
A magical classic novel from the Godmother of British fantasy, Diana Wynne Jones.
On the surface, Great Aunt Maria seems like a harmless old lady.
But when Mig and her family go to visit, they soon learn that Aunt Maria rules Cranbury-on-Sea with a rod of sweetness that’s...
| Author | Connie Willis |
| ISBN | 0553260456 |
Winner of six Nebula and five Hugo awards, Connie Willis is one of the most acclaimed and imaginative authors of our time. Her startling and powerful works have redefined the boundaries of contemporary science fiction. Here in one volume are twelve of her greatest stories, including double award-winner...
Enchantress from the Stars
| Author | Sylvia Engdahl |
| ISBN | 0802787649 |
The Federation Anthropological Service would never officially have allowed Elana to be on this mission to the medieval planet Andrecia. If Youngling peoples found out that a supremely advanced and enlightened society like the Federation existed, it would irreparably damage their evolution. Stowing...
| Author | Judith Tarr |
| ISBN | 0553276093 |
This is a very enjoyable book if you can overlook the fact that the protagonist is a rapist.
I trust the 'oh dear' is implied.
This book takes place in medieval Egypt and the middle-east, slightly before the third crusade, if I have my figures right. Salah ad-Din Yusuf (Saladin) appears...
| Author | Elizabeth Knox |
| ISBN | 0864730705 |
Stranded by a South Island storm, six people usurp the stillness of an old house. As they tell the fragments of their story, a seventh voice responds: a young New Zealand serviceman who died in 1920, soon after his return from France. As the storm deepens, the hauntings of the mind and the hauntings of the...
| Author | Stephen Woodworth |
| ISBN | 0553803379 |
In a world where the dead can testify against the living, someone is getting away with murder. Because to every generation are born a select few souls with violet-colored eyes, and the ability to channel the dead. Both rare and precious—and rigidly controlled by a society that craves their services—these...
