Against a Rising Tide
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Ten years after Elizabeth reaches the Empire, court politics and military command aren’t the only things she has to deal with. A marriage proposal, an assassination attempt, and a siege on the Imperial Capital bring new challenges... and new opportunities.
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Elizabeth and Empire
Book 4 of the Colplatschki Chronicles
Twenty years after the events of Elizabeth of Vindobona, an untried emperor sits the throne while courtiers scheme. Elizabeth must navigate politics, religion, her relationship with Lazlo, and the Frankonians’ wrath in this fourth book of the Colplatschki Chronicles.
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Peaks of Grace
Book 5 of the Colplatschki Chronicles
Margurite deSarm knows that she cannot govern the Sarm lands alone. But her husband, Gregory Berlin of Louvat, refuses to fulfill his duties. As Marta attempts to undo her marriage, Odile Rheinhart discovers her own unique calling. In their own complimentary ways, over ten years the two women work to keep the Sarm Valley free from the machinations of Phillip of Frankonia while balancing family, duty, and desires.
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Circuits and Crises
Book 6 of the Colplatschki Chronicles
The Turkowi begin their advance from the south as a fight between brothers threatens the Empire.
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Blackbird
Book 7 of the Colplatschki Chronicles
Charles Malatesta will defend his inheritance or die trying.
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Marie’s Tale
Novella
Another side of the story of Duke Aquila Starland.
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Forcing the Spring
Book 9 of the Colplatschki Chronicles
Too soon grown, too late wise.
Pjtor Adamson Svendborg seethes as his elder half-sister and her favorite play at ruling NovRodi, ignoring corruption and courting danger. Pjtor and his half brother Isaac the Simple must find a way to wrench NovRodi free of her clutches, and of the Harriers who raid, kidnap, and destroy all they touch. Doing so will take Pjtor over the sea to New Dalfa and a new world. Can he learn what he needs, fast enough, to save NovRodi? And to defeat those who prefer the old ways, who would drag his homeland back into the chaos years?
But the damage done to Pjtor the child could bring down Pjtor the man.
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Golden Summer
Book 10 of the Colplatschki Chronicles
Early ripe, early rotten, or so the proverbs claim.
Pjtor Adamson Swendborg defeated the Harriers and opened NovRodi to the lands across the White Sea. But his wife has not born another living child, and there are whispers that Godown has cursed her or him. He chafes at the old men and old ways that surround him. He may be emperor, but even he must bend to the will of the nobles and the church. As Pjtor wrestles with his past, he discovers that defeated enemies do not always stay defeated.
In his haste to save his world, Pjtor’s impatience may undo all that he has won so far.
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Coming in 2018...
Book 8 of the Colplatschki Chronicles, Fountains of Mercy: The Great Fires and the founding of the Babenburg and Peilov lines.
And more...
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A Carpathian Campaign
Book 1 of The Powers.
István Eszterházy, Half-Dragon, heir to House Szarkany-Kárpátok, cavalry officer and gentleman of the world finds that world shaken when an assassin’s shot starts a war. Nothing goes as he had planned and István discovers that the strongest things in the world can also be the most fragile.
Grasping for the Crowns
Book 2 of The Powers.
István Eszterházy tries to maintain control as the British, Americans, Italians, and regional nationalists work the shatter the Empire.
Against a Rising Tide
Book 3 of The Powers.
István Eszterházy struggles to preserve his House as chaos surges inside and outside the Habsburg Confederation.
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In addition to the books listed in Grasping for the Crowns, books include:
Fergusson, Adam. When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany (New York: Public Affairs Books, 2010). This is a reprint of an older book, but still the best one-volume discussion of what happened. Includes material about Hungary and other places as well.
Hanebrink, Paul A. In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890-1944 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009). A look at the interplay of religion, nationalism, and politics in Hungary through 1944.
Gerwarth, Robert. The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End (New York: Farrer, Straus and Giroux, 2017). A very detailed look at the first years of peace—the Russian Civil War, the fighting in Hungary and Austria, and the chaos of the Balkans and former Ottoman Empire. Not a cheerful read.
Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (New York: Basic Books, 2010). A classic, and depressing, account of Ukraine, eastern Poland, and Belarus from 1918 to 1945.
Alma T. C. Boykin was born in the Midwest, moved to the Great Plains, and after a brief period living in places where trees almost outnumber people, returned to the plains. She escaped college with a BA, worked for a living, then returned for an advanced degree some years later. When not writing or rotating the cat, she teaches and does a few other odds and ends. Hobbies include cooking, reading, hiking, geology, astronomy, and music.
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Against a Rising Tide (The Powers, Book 3)
Alma T.C. Boykin
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Copyright 2018 Alma T.C. Boykin, all rights reserved.
This story is a work of fiction. Its contents are the products of the author’s imagination, or are used in a fictitious manner. Nothing in this story is intended to convey factual information.