Judith Tarr

'Someday,' said the tribute-offering called Nofret, 'I shall be the chief of the queen's servants. Then I can call myself whatever I please. 'Nofret is the daughter of a Hittite nobleman, captured by enemies from Mitanni and sent as tribute to the Pharaoh in Egypt: the strange, otherworldly Akhenaten, who rules from his raw new city of Amarna. As servant to his daughter, she witnesses the rise and fall of Akhenaten and his one god, the lives and deaths...

The stormy life of Melisende, the 12th Century Frankish queen of Jerusalem who became ruler on the death of her husband. For much of her reign Melisende has to battle both Muslims and fellow-Christians in order to retain her crown. Eventually Baldwin, her son, defeats her army and becomes king of Jerusalem. By the author of King and Goddess.

A woman who was a man's servant becomes his master in this novel of love and war in ancient Egypt. The setting is a revolt by the Egyptians against the Hyksos chariot warriors who conquered them. By the author of White Mare's Daughter.

A feminist novel on a clash of two societies, one of warriors, the other ruled by women where war is unknown. Set in 4,500 BC in what is now Ukraine, the story features a heroine from the warrior tribe and a hero from the matriarchal one.

In the grandfathers' time, when few yet living had been born, the People worshipped the horse, and served him, and took the gifts that he gave them: his meat, his hide, the milk of his mares. But he had not yet granted to men the greatest gift of all: the gift of riding on his back, and racing the wind. Sparrow is a shaman's daughter in a tribe that forbids women to be kings, to be shamans, to be anything but silent and tractable servants to the all-powerful...

Worldgates are a great magic and a great convenience: opening the way from one world to the next, and from one side of a world to the other. Now the mages of the Gates are exploring a new continent and forging new alliances, led by the Master of the Mageguild and the heir to the throne of Sun and Lion. Suddenly, the Gates begin to fall–and the Master and the royal heir are trapped in a hidden kingdom on the far side of the world, with no way out...

Three lives. Three worlds. Three times. Three young women, past, present, and future, come together to solve an age-old mystery and save a world. Meredith is just settling in for a long and lazy summer, when her mother announces that she's sending Meredith to Egypt to dig up an ancient temple. That's her mother's dream vacation, not hers. But there are greater forces at work than a sixteenth-birthday present she doesn't want and a summer she didn't...

Prince Daros of Han-Gilen is an infamous rake and wastrel–and a hidden and completely untrained mage of enormous power. Caught breaking the strictest laws of the Mageguild and their magical Worldgates, he is sentenced to serve an aged emperor far away from either taverns or temptations. But a tide of darkness is rising to swallow the worlds of the Gates. Mages are dying and worse; but Daros's very lack of training shows him the way to stand against...

Alfred of St. Ruan's has lived his life in the seclusion of the monastery. But a badly wounded knight on a mission from the Elvenking, a beautiful and mysterious stranger who walks as both woman and beast, and a warrior king call him out of the cloister's walls into the wars and storms of the world. For he is neither mortal nor human, though he has long tried to live as both; and he can deny neither his nature nor his powerful magic. Winner of the...

Dragons sleep in the earth here. Claire is barely scraping a living on her friend's ranch near Tucson, Arizona. She looks after the long-abandoned horse facility, makes occasional attempts to resuscitate her academic career, and pays the bills, more or less, with her skills as an animal communicator. Those skills don't always let her say the tactful thing to the human with the checkbook. Sometimes she has to tell the truth. After a particularly unfortunate...