It's 1134. In a bleak monastery somewhere in Germany, Paul of Ardiun begins the chronicle he has been ordered by his religious superiors to write: the story of the knight Karelian Brandeis, for whom Paul once served as squire, who fell prey to the evil wiles of a seductive sorceress, thereby prec...
—Captain Raphael Semmes, Confederate Navy SYLVIE WOKE to storm the next morning, to bits of pale dawn light and the realization that the cabin was tipped like a hillside and she had just been tumbled against the wall. Grey water came at her in waves, smashing into the tiny window. She ducked her ...