In this sequel to Lovers and Beloveds, MeiLin Miranda continues the saga of the Antremont family, kings of one continent, would-be emperors of another, and subjects to the whims of gods.For a thousand years, the trapped, immortal Teacher has carefully planned escape. Now it all depends on one young man whose heart is tested like never before.Estranged from his father, Prince Temmin of Antremont struggles within the Lovers' Temple for peace of mind. A murder rips away his greatest support. His forbidden love of Allis Obby, the human host of a goddess, may get them both killed. And all the while, enemies inside and outside the kingdom are plotting against the monarchy, and the gods prove once again they are no one's friends.Set in a Victorianesque world of magic, sexuality, political intrigue and military conquest, Son in Sorrow is the second book in the epic fantasy series An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom.

A trapped immortal, the ruler of an empire, and eight Gods not all of one accord are fighting each another for the future of the Greater Kingdom of Tremont and Litta...a future hinging on one naïve young man...Heir to the kingdom Temmin Antremont has been shielded since birth from his father's politically and sexually charged court, and raised more commoner than nobleman. Now eighteen, he must leave his beloved home behind for a less egalitarian life at Tremont Keep.Once there, Temmin finds himself at the center of a power struggle between the King and the twin gods of love and sex. If he answers the holy call, Temmin may fulfill a prophecy. Some believe if the Heir joins the Lovers' Temple, he will bring great fortune to the people. But others believe it will spell the downfall of the nobility.With the help of the King's immortal, uncanny advisor Teacher, Temmin must decide whether to follow his father and begin training for his future as King, or...

Folklore Professor Oladel Adewole has lost tenure, and the beloved, much-younger sister he's raised has died; with no reason to stay, he leaves his homeland for the University of Eisenstadt. One thing makes his new life bearable: the mysterious island floating a mile above the city, his all-consuming interest for years. When a brilliant engineer makes it to the island in her new invention, the government sends Adewole up with its first survey team. The expedition finds civilization, and Adewole finds a powerful, forbidden fusion of magic and metal: the Machine God. The government wants it. So does a sociopath bent on ruling Eisenstadt. But when Adewole discovers who the mechanical creature is--and what it can do--he risks his heart and his life to protect the Machine God from the world, and the world from the Machine God.

1875: The dawn of a magical new age of technology.The hard-scrabble mining town of Scryer's Gulch supplies the world with hermetauxite, the ore that runs everything from clocks to trains to the new ethergraph system. But an unscrupulous spellcoder is poisoning it—twisting it for an unknown but undoubtedly evil purpose.Beautiful magic wielder and secret Treasury Agent Annabelle Duniway and her captive demon servant Misi have come to the Gulch undercover—she as the new schoolteacher, he as her mean black cat. Their assignment: Find out who's corrupting the ore that increasingly runs the world, and why.This is the first fifty-three episodes of the fantasy western serial that's one part "Deadwood," one part "Wild, Wild West," and one part "Dark Shadows."