Review

'It had me on the edge of my seat from page one.' -- Stephen Leather 'An original and pacy debut' -- Daily Mail 'What many people, including me, are raving about right now is Adam Baker's OUTPOST... a stunning debut novel ... you will want to be one of the first people to experience it.' -- Books Monthly 'While ramping up the tension and confusion, Adam Baker also ramps up the action and despite the limited canvas of the Arctic landscape, manages to devise an impressive variety of situations for the characters' -- The British Fantasy Society 'It's the relentless pace, merging SF and horror elements, that makes Outpost such a compelling end-of-the-world story' -- Sunday Canberra Times 'Outpost manages to satisfy with its mix of well drawn characters and action to deliver an interesting take on an overused genre' -- British Fantasy Society Journal

About the Author

Before writing Outpost, Adam Baker was a gravedigger, a film projectionist and worked on a cancer ward.

Grassina, Emma's wonderful, magical aunt, is herself a teen in this prequel to the Frog Princess books. She and her sister, Chartreuse (Emma's irritating mother from the other books) are vying to see who will get the family's inherited magical skills as they navigate the intricacies of being a princess in a magical kingdom-a bevy of mostly terrible would-be suitors, a father who becomes a ghost, a mother who changes from a stressed, but semi-normal human to a selfish witch, and the arrival of some terrible werewolves. When Grassina finds and falls in love with a wizard-in-training, Haywood, and invokes the wrath of her sister, it is the werewolves, who despite their evil ways, bring about Grassina's change from mortal princess to Green Witch powers. Every bit as funny and satisfying as the other stories!

Review

...Unique...Compelling...Megan Sybil Baker has created a mystical world that rises above many others of the genre. -- Bree, Simply EBooks

Mystery, magic, love and death...this is a well-written story of sword and sorcery...not to be missed! -- Susan Mobley, Romantic Times Magazine

This story captivated me from the very first word. The author has a wonderful gift...5 Stars. -- Goldie Thomas, Sime~Gen Reviews

Bis zum Beginn der Tragödie war Lady Beatrice eine Tochter aus gutem, britischem Hause und eines guten, britischen Soldaten. Danach kehrte sie heim in die Straßen des frühviktorianischen London. Buchstäblich. Doch Lady Beatrice ist kein gewöhnliches leichtes Mädchen, und so wird sie sehr bald für das diskrete Etablissement Nell Gwynne’s rekrutiert. Nell Gwynne’s ist weit mehr als nur das beste und exklusivste Bordell in Whitehall – in Wirklichkeit ist es die Schwesterorganisation zur Spekulativen Gesellschaft der Gentlemen, dem Vorläufer einer gewissen Firma im 19. Jahrhundert.
Als ein Mitglied dieser Gesellschaft auf einem Sondereinsatz vermisst wird, nehmen Lady Beatrice und ihre Schwestern die Ermittlungen auf …
(source: Bol.de)

La Compañía ha conquistado el Tiempo y la Inmortalidad. Reclutados en todos los siglos de la Historia, armados con todo su conocimiento, mucho más que simples seres humanos, sus agentes saquean en secreto el pasado, reuniendo para ella los frutos del talento del hombre y los recursos de todo el planeta mientras examinan a una humanidad a la que desprecian y preparan un futuro que no están llamados a disfrutar.

La botánica Mendoza, rescatada de niña de las garras de la Inquisición española, es uno de ellos. Un cyborg entrenado por el Dr. Zeus para reconocer y salvar plantas en peligro de extinción que en el futuro puedan ser usadas para fabricar medicinas. Su primera misión es recoger muestras en el jardín de Sir Walter Iden, en la Inglaterra isabelina. Como todos sus camaradas, Mendoza cree estar por encima de los seres humanos entre los que ha sido enviada. Pero por desgracia para ella, se encontrará con el secretario de Sir Walter, Nicholas Harpole, un hombre apasionado cuyas creencias religiosas al borde de la herejía los pondrán a ambos en un terrible peligro.

They took the job to ESCAPE THE WORLD.

They didn’t expect the WORLD TO END.

Kasker Rampart: a derelict refinery platform moored in the Arctic Ocean. A skeleton crew of fifteen fight boredom and despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home.

But the world beyond their frozen wasteland has gone to hell. Cities lie ravaged by a global pandemic. One by one TV channels die, replaced by silent wavebands.

The Rampart crew are marooned. They must survive the long Arctic winter, then make their way home alone. They battle starvation and hypothermia, unaware that the deadly contagion that has devastated the world is heading their way…