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Joan of Arc and an alien sorcerer, time travel and a centuries-old mystery, Gilles de Rais on a modern city street, why?
The much-acclaimed A Circle of Arcs, is a unique blend of time travel, actual historical figures and speculative fiction. The sequel to A Circle of Arcs, A Distant Bell is in the works and is anxiously awaited by Kate's readers.
Plucked from the stake at the moment of his death, a 15th century knight is brought forward in time and awakens in a 20th century American hospital room with a black nurse bending over him and an IV in his arm. Was Gilles de Rais the monster historians have made him out to be, or was he instead a judicially murdered innocent who's been even more demonized than Richard III? The businesswoman who rescues him decides to find out for herself, even if it means going back to the time and place where he was originally condemned.
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The sequel to A Circle of Arcs, this fast-moving historical time travel has been likened to riding a kayak through the rapids.
If you were blind and could only see in your dreams, would you ever want to wake up?
| |  | | Book 1: The Nublis Chronicles: The Wages of Justice
Dream Realm Award Winner 2001
EPPIE finalist 2003
Frankfurt Award Nominee
" "You're now as blind as the justice you serve. Because you cannot see, you can no longer distinguish between rich and poor. And since all will stand equal before your court, you'll be able to judge them with perfect impartiality."
These ritual words evoke the curse and the gift of the mysterious Archon, ultimate legal authority of the planet Nublis, the lively setting of Kate Saundby's The Julian Trilogy, of which WAGES OF JUSTICE is the first book. Part science fiction, part social satire, and all romantic adventure, Saundby entwines many themes with her strong unifying voice--a voice that is always, whatever else, out for fun."
Ellen Larson - Midwest Book Reviews
No one sane wants either of the two most powerful positions on the planet Nublis. Emperor and archon, supreme judge, are slaves to 3,000 years of tradition. The emperor can abdicate. Only death can free the archon. But the planet of Nublis is rich and the ripe plum desired by a pirate who would be king. Can those who have pledged their lives to serve their world save their world?
| |  | | Book 10: The Nublis Chronicles: Aase's Daughter
Book 10 of the Nublis Chronicles and Book 2 of the final trilogy, The Children of Nublis, Aase's Daughter is a sparkling salute to Rubenesque women everywhere, because they finally have an SF Fantasy heroine they can relate to.
Larger than life in every sense of the word, the enchanting heroine of the title wins her man and all the marbles in the end without losing a single mother-loving ounce.
When the Crown Prince of the Nublian Empire's flyer crashes on Linnea Aasedaater's isolated mountain peak, a series of events is triggered that will affect Linnea's people, the mysterious Ursi tribe, and the Nublian Empire for centuries to come.
| |  | | Book 11: The Nublis Chronicles: The Wages of Deception
Cover Art by Deron Douglas.
The sequel to Aase's Daughter and the eleventh and final title in the Nublis Chronicles, The Wages of Deception tells of a light-hearted practical joke gone horribly wrong, and the consequences to two worlds that are a galaxy apart.
The Wages of Deception is a bittersweet sendup of Mark Twain's The Prince and The Pauper. In Saundby's futuristic universe where sorcerors and space ships coexist side by side, anything can happen, and it usually does. A few weeks before his scheduled marriage to a designated bride he's seen but once and scarcely knows, the Emperor Julian the Second of Nublis, otherwise known as Carey, and his illegitimate half-brother temporarily trade places. The imperial bride, Serena, is in love with someone else and no happier with her fate than her future husband. When she unwittingly falls in love wi | |  | | Book 2: The Nublis Chronicles: The Wages of Sin
Who shall sit in judgment of the judges, should they become corrupt? Unholy alliance and weapon without defense, who shall free the worlds from the conscienceless? Who shall choose the one who cannot be corrupted to free all the fearful voiceless suffering injustice? Where lies the duty of an emperor? Only to his people? Or to all?
THE WAGES OF SIN opens with a crash: Emperor Julian's taking his newest flyer on it's first flight, only to have it crash moments after take off, a result of factory defect. His co-pilot killed in the crash, himself severely handicapped, Julian decides to take on the manufacturer. He follows the trail back to the corrupt Synod system and the same people responsible for the attack on Nublis months earlier. Deciding the time is right to fix the InterPlanetary Synod system once and for all, Julian once again calls together his band of defenders to protect and defend the freedom of not only Nub | |  | | Book 3: The Nublis Chronicles: The Wages of Greed
Concubine's son, illegal witch child, consummate trader for a world in bondage. On Nublis he proved his worth. But the prophecy was only that one would be born who might have the strength to endure and end the bondage of a world.
When the Interplanetary corporate raider Lord Ephraim of Seira stops on the planet Nublis, it is only to pick up his new ship and go on to the opening of the Interplanetary Synod Assembly. The death of his mysterious partner, and the young heir to whom he's left his considerable fortune complicate things. When his new ship is bombed his path crosses those of Nublis's Emperor Julian and his brother Prince Cassius, and none of their lives will ever be the same again.
| |  | | Book 4: The Nublis Chronicles: Golden Silence
Shattered words, trust abused, maimed and slowly dying, who will hear the soliloquy of the silenced?
After the deaf-mute Duke Adrian of Ceila is injured in the same shuttle crash that kills his parents, he finds himself in an involuntary conservatorship and under the control of his vicious cousins Philip and Abigail. Their only interest in Adrian involves getting their hands on his considerable fortune. However, if Adrian dies, the money will stop because Philip cannot legally inherit his estate. Since Adrian's only means of communication is by signing, the first time Philip gets him alone, he smashes every bone in his hands with a hammer. Then he persuades the doctors on Adrian's tropical | |  | | Book 5: The Nublis Chronicles: Dark Angel
Sanctuary of peace in the grasp of demon spawn, love is forbidden to the one leashed between the realms. What price will he pay for tasting the forbidden?
Peopled with an entertaining assortment of characters ranging from sorcerers to unicorns, Dark Angel is Book 1 of the second trilogy of the Nublis saga which began with The Wages of Justice. Also available from Double Dragon the second trilogy´s Book 2,The Artemesian Mandate, and Book 3, The Orion Property.
| |  | | Book 6: The Nublis Chronicles: The Artemesian Mandate
Vice of men consuming greed, the defense awakens near too late.
Hell hound and full moon, what price a demon to defend the light? Book VI in the Chronicles of Nublis and Book 2 in the Felix Trilogy
When Felix de Morel awakens from a fifteen-year coma to a wife he no longer knows and a son he´s never seen, he finds that his legendary thousand-year-old estate, La Chasse, has been targeted for destruction by a pair of ambitious commercial land developers. The power-hungry Lucas Smith and his corrupt partner Monty will stop at nothing to get their hands on La Chasse´s thousands of acres. Beset by enemies on every side and with nary a friend in sight, Felix reluctantly summons a magical force from his past. Even though he knows this action may cost him his life and everything h | |  | | Book 7: The Nublis Chronicles: The Orion Property
Cover Art by Deron Douglas.
Beyond priceless is friendship
to the one whose price
has been established,
to the one too useful
to be allowed the title person.
Book Three of the second Nublis trilogy. Completed three weeks prior to the announcement of the cloning of Dolly the sheep, this story could have come from today's headlines. The author raises disturbing questions about genetic engineering and cloning for body parts told from the point of view of such a clone, but in the end, the reader is left to make up their own mind about who is wrong and who is right.
| |  | | Book 8: The Nublis Chronicles: Fortune's Hostage
Book 8 of the Nublis Chronicles and the sequel to The Orion Property, Fortune's Hostage, tells the story of two hereditary enemies who are forcibly married to one another as part of a peace initiative to bring the centuries-old war between their two countries to a close.
Fortune's Hostage is a bittersweet story featuring a strongminded heroine with no looks whatsover. Princess Sybilla of Lodebar is forcibly married to her mortal enemy, Prince Darius of Illyria, and falls deeply in love with him. When she discovers that her reluctant bridegroom is carrying a torch for another woman who is as beautiful as she is not. Sybilla decides that all is fair in love and war and sets out to win him for herself.
| |  | | Book 9: The Nublis Chronicles: The Spirit Dogs of Sirius
2003 EPPIE Finalist!
Book 9 of the Nublis Chronicles, The Spirit Dogs of Sirius is a complex story, tying in fantastic elements such as spirit dogs and wizards, leaving the reader breathless with the telling. Indeed, Kate Saunaby's sophisticated prose sweeps the reader away into a world of the fantastic filled with pepperpot stew, intrigue, and spirit dogs with telepathic abilities.
Cindy Penn Word Weaving
When Alar Zarkadon rescues the only daughter of the wealthiest man in the InterPlanetary Synod, he becomes a media hero. Trouble is, Alar is an interplanetary jewel thief. Since he is also anyone but whom he seems, his life from then on becomes a nightmare, and not even his Spirit Dog Min-Ha can save him now.
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