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  • The Insistent Man
    Robert L. Collins
    Pierre Eggar is an insurance investigator for Alliance Insurance, which operates within Independent Worlds Alliance. He’s looking into a claim over the death of one Rob Sistrom. But something about Sistrom’s death in a hovercar accident doesn’t quite add up.Could it have been a freak accident? Could it have been murder? If it was murder, who killed Sistrom? His wife? His daught...
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    9,58 €

  • The Horseman Hustle
    Robert L. Collins
    Luya is a former robber turned agent of her King. Horsemen from the eastern plains have raided the kingdom. Rumors are that other lands have made bargains with the horsemen to slow the raids. Luya is tasked with making a bargain to spare her homeland. She’s going to need all her criminal cleverness to make this deal a success. ...
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  • Time For Her To Come Home For Solstice
    Robert L. Collins
    Edith is now a proper witch in the kingdom of Medlands. Her older sister Ethil has been her guardian since they both arrived in the seat of the kingdom. With Edith an adult, Ethil needs to find something to do with her life.She decides to return to their home city of Eastbay and start a school. Ethil has to put in the work to make the school a reality. What else will she discov...
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  • Luva the Ruler
    Robert L. Collins
    After her work in Kimethia, Luva is given a new mission. Tarboetia, the former western province of the Nuvum Empire, is now a land overrun by feuding warlords. Some warlords might be engaging in piracy, which is a concern to Luva’s ruler and his allies.How can Luva deal with this chaos without risking too much violence? In what ways will her life change in accepting this missio...
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  • Future Fictions
    Robert L. Collins
    This collection contains 19 short science fiction stories. Some are action stories and some are dramas. Some offer hope while in others the characters struggle with optimism. All the short stories in this collection have been previously published. ...
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    11,06 €

  • Fantasy Stories
    Robert L. Collins
    This collection contains seven short fantasy stories. They range from a second chance at romance to a magic inventor trying to save lives. All of these stories have been previously published in a variety of small-press publications. ...
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    8,28 €

  • Gold & Affection
    Robert L Collins
    Felice is the daughter of a town scribe who works too hard and spends too little. She falls for the son of the local miller. Her father wants her to marry a much older man out of greed. Fortunately the young couple are friends with the son of the local Duke. He resolves to learn the truth of her father’s foul proposal, and also determine what gold might have to do with the situ...
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  • Love & Ladies
    Robert L. Collins
    Isabeau is disguised as a man to practice her trade of being a scribe. She’s been the secret lover of the Queen, but now the King is on his way back from another war. Worse still, the King’s foolish cousin wants to marry the pretty daughter of winemaker, more for his financial gain than anything else. The Queen tasks Isabeau to learn more about the arrangement. What will Isabea...
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  • Bard In Love
    Robert L. Collins
    Daphne survives a storm at sea but is parted from her twin brother. She disguises herself as a man and takes her brother’s name so as to find a place as a bard with the local Duke. She hopes that being in one spot will allow her brother to find her. She gets caught up in the Duke’s efforts to court a local woman, and then her brother arrives in town. Will Daphne be able to stra...
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    10,38 €

  • Clara’s Tale
    Robert L. Collins
    Clara grows up a foundling with an affection for reading. It doesn’t help her much until she meets a charming young man named Thomas. As it happens, he also enjoys reading and books. Clara strikes up a friendship with Thomas. She wonders about this young man who seems to know much about history as well as tales. As for Thomas, he’s intrigued that she’s a foundling. Could they b...
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    9,60 €

  • Black Hans
    Robert L. Collins
    It starts with a toolmaker named Hans, a trading journey, and the taking of a horse. One high-handed act by a nobleman’s servant will lead to crime, corruption, and the direct intervention of the Witch Princess Mileta. The tale of 'Black Hans' will start small but engulf a kingdom. ...
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    10,31 €

  • The Duchess of Culway
    Robert L. Collins
    Long before Maisy became the Witch Queen of Hatham, another young woman came to power, but under very different circumstances.Meredith, a merchant’s daughter, falls in love with Gordon, the Duke of Culway. Gordon is near in age to her father, but Meredith gives him joy and love. Meredith weds, certain that she will have nothing to do as Duchess of Culway but spend time with the...
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    11,69 €

  • Idwan
    Robert L. Collins
    Idwan is the daughter of a nobleman. She marries the second son of the ruler of her land. The young man tells her that his first wife fell into a strange sleep and never woke up.Idwan finds the story curious. She finds it even more curious when she nears the cave where the young woman lies and is told she cannot approach. With the help of the witch serving the ruler, she enters...
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    9,60 €

  • Luva the Rebel
    Robert L. Collins
    Luva’s rest from her last adventure is interrupted. News comes of an important visitor to Meuretha from the ancient land of Kimethia.Kimethia is still under the thumb of the Novium Empire. The visitor states that there are those in Kimethia who want to overthrow their Imperial masters. Furthermore, they wish to do so without violence.Luva journeys south to determine the strengt...
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    10,40 €

  • Luva the Spy
    Robert L. Collins
    Luva is the adopted daughter of Oria and her partner Culca. Luva’s sister is a magus, but Luva is only blessed with intelligence.The ruler of Luthgenicca wants someone to travel across the Great Warm Sea south to the domain of Meuretha. Trade is increasing between the domains, and so is the prospect of a pact between them. Information is required before discussions of a pact ca...
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    9,58 €

  • The Plodding Menace
    Robert L. Collins
    Actress Ming Shi has arrived on the planet Vladikov to shoot a movie. The movie is going to be a throwback to monster movies made on Earth in the early days of space travel. It’s a low-budget project but it’s work.She’s pleased that her co-star is the more well-known actress Arianna Cho. She’s surprised to learn that she and Cho were once clients of Jake Bonner.That comes in ha...
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    10,44 €

  • Eufemia’s Justice
    Robert L. Collins
    Baron Rudel of Bahmren has received word from Centerlands of the crimes of a nobleman. The land the Baron rules was the scene of one of those wicked crimes. His son Ebel doesn’t think the matter is worthy of note.His daughter Eufemia thinks that justice should be done, even if it’s not likely the nobleman will ever return to Bahmren before he dies in jail somewhere else. But Eb...
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    9,66 €

  • Oria and the Pirates
    Robert L. Collins
    Oria and her partner Culca are recalled to Luthgenicca on news that a pirate ship has been captured. Everyone presumes that the Novium Empire is supporting pirates attacking ships from Luthgenicca and their allies.The two young women question a pirate and the leader of the pirate ship. They hope their questions will guide them to a plan to reduce, if not end, the pirate menace....
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    10,38 €

  • Oria and the Robberies
    Robert L. Collins
    Oria and her partner Culca are given an important assignment. Ships from one of Luthgenicca’s allies in Nuvia are being robbed when they sail into the port of another ally.The Novium Empire is supporting pirates attacking ships from Luthgenicca and their allies. Oria and Culca need to find out if the robberies are being committed by those pirates or other criminals before the s...
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  • Oria and the Scrolls
    Robert L. Collins
    Oria is the youngest daughter of the famed magus Hilia of Bacaria. A rough end to a relationship and a message from one of her mother’s friends sends Oria to the great city of Nuvus.Someone is selling scrolls with false tales written on them, including ones about Hilia. Is this a scheme to get coins? An effort to undermine Luthgenicca? Oria is tasked to investigate. Will trying...
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    10,41 €

  • 'Vote We Must!'
    Robert L. Collins
    History has often portrayed the process of Kansas becoming a free state with the phrase 'Bleeding Kansas.' The focus of these stories is on murder and mayhem. But is that truly how Kansas entered the union as a state without slavery?This book puts forward the proposition that it was politics rather than violence that achieved this accomplishment. Antislavery settlers moved into...
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    11,75 €

  • Clever Cintha
    Robert L. Collins
    Though she’s the daughter of a blacksmith, Cintha grows up learning to read and think. It’s those skills that allow her to trick a wizard into hiring her as a boy servant. It’s those skills that help her learn magic.She also learns that her master is a wicked man. In dealing with him as a young woman she reveals her talents. That brings her to the attention of the King. As she’...
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  • Pirsa
    Robert L. Collins
    Pirsa is the daughter of an Eorl of Enlia. When chaos grips her land and a rival threatens her father, Pirsa and her mother are forced to flee their home. Pirsa spends the years that follow learning to hunt, forage, and fight.After Pirsa comes into womanhood her mother sends her to the seat of the land to find her place. After proving her identity Pirsa learns about proper comb...
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    10,35 €

  • Basia and the Bots
    Robert L. Collins
    All her young life, Basia Zahn has been told to beware of the bots living past the human settlements on McKinley. One day a bot approaches her father on his way home. The bot asks if he’d allow Basia to visit and work on them.While Basia is a bright teenager, she has no direction in her life. There’s no profession she’s eager to pursue. She sees the request to her father as a c...
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    10,32 €

  • Hilia’s Ties
    Robert L. Collins
    Hilia finds herself at a few points of decision in her life. The call of motherhood strikes her as she brings a baby girl and the infant’s young uncle into her and Brinwa’s life. Her work as a teacher and a magus will keep her from aiding in efforts beyond Bacaria.Then there is Matra, and their involvement in the resistance to the domination of southern Nuvia by a greedy empire...
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    10,97 €

  • Hilia’s Talks
    Robert L. Collins
    At last Hilia’s friend, Regia Tatria of Cosria, has formal word from the land of Luthgenicca. That land was once part of the heart of the Nuvum Empire. Hilia wants to know what knowledge of the Empire and of magic that they have.Instead she’s told that Luthgenicca doesn’t control Nuvus, the seat of the old Empire, nor does it have all that much magic. Luthgenicca has a powerful...
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    11,78 €

  • Hilia’s Deed
    Robert L. Collins
    Five years have passed since Hilia began her work as a magus. She’s called back to Lergonia as word has arrived that there are indeed domains across the narrow sea in the former Imperial province of Isocaria.All is not well in Isocaria. Two domains have had a long rivalry. Then there’s Cundra, a domain where Imperial is still spoken and where a magus is at work. What discoverie...
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  • Hilia’s Help
    Robert L. Collins
    For a time all is quiet for Hilia of Bacaria. She’s teaching magic and trying to be a friend. Then word comes from Regia Evodi that there’s trouble from south of Lergonia.The old Regius of Largenna has died. His son has taken over, and is suspected of murder, even within his own household. His sister Theodi has fled to Lergonia to ask for help. Regia Evodi has called on Hilia t...
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  • Hilia’s Allies
    Robert L. Collins
    The ruler of Bacaria informs Hilia that the ruler of Lergonia wants to marry the sister of the ruler of Bacaria’s northern neighbor, Vesonia. The only problem is that the ruler of Lergonia is supposed to be already married.Hilia travels to Lergonia with the young woman in question to find out the truth of this proposal. Will Hilia’s magic and cleverness solve this mystery? And ...
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    11,10 €

  • Hilia’s Words
    Robert L. Collins
    Hilia is a village girl of Bacaria, daughter of a blacksmith. Her interest in reading brings her to the local ruler. He teaches her to read.One day she discovers a book on magic, a book no one else can read. This marks her as a magus, someone who can wield magic, a skill not seen in the generations since the fall of the Nuvum Empire.After she passes into womanhood she’s called ...
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    10,99 €


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