Michael Staton
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Teenaged Stealth is an artful thief with an attitude. Hired to burgle an exiled mage's villa, she tangles with Derrius, an apprentice mage of revoltingly noble birth. Trapped by political upheaval and their own antipathy, Stealth and Derrius undertake a mission to avert civil war. The two must learn to work together and dovetail her thieving skills and his magic. Long ago, Larenia's Sword protected their nation from evil, but the blade has been lost...
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Set in North Carolina and Virginia in the 1860s, Staton's Civil War novel explores the budding love of Confederate Private Bill Stamford for two women amidst the carnage of war.When the death-predicting halo around Confederate soldier Bill Stamford's buddy, Daniel, turns out to be true, the private turns to a nurse for aid. The nurse, Franny Neale, misses her fiancé fighting out west and seeks companionship in Bill's arms. After a blissful night...
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Confederate officer Bill Stamford and his bride Franny try to make a life for themselves in the turbulent streets and neighborhoods of wartime Richmond. They must contend with unscrupulous profiteers and desperate wives and widows willing to riot to get food for their little ones. For Bill, he must endure separation from Franny as he leaves on a hazardous special mission that could make her a widow.
4) Thief's Coin
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In the river town of Opal, as the traveling players in Balthasar's Dream Palace perform, sorceress Illisandra Zayla's spymaster Jarn Sork captures Prince Derrius Hextor and imprisons him in a tower in the middle of the River Dolor. The prince's lover, the thief Stealth, must employ her cunning to outfox Sork and rescue Derrius, even though she knows her effort might result in his death.As Stealth begins her perilous ascent up the tower, the two warring...
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Peace has returned to the Setor Empire. A new emperor sits on the throne. Setor's nemesis, the sorceress Illisandra Zayla, died in a river tower soon after the thief Stealth rescued Prince Derrius Hextor from kidnappers. But an amnesic woman walks the warrens of the border city of Opal, and when she regains her memory she'll decide the fate of the empire. In the Winter Palace, the emperor's brother Myron has been corrupted by tainted magic and plots...
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Newspaper editor Bill Stamford, a former Confederate officer, and his graphic artist wife, Franny, use the pages of their newspaper to stand up for the newly won rights of North Carolina's freedmen. Their support earns the ire of the Ku Klux Klan, putting themselves and their two children in mortal danger. But Bill and Franny won't yield to Klan pressure, won't abandon their Black friends. Still, they must find a way to keep their kids safe.