Books with author Susan Price

The follow-up to the award-winning The Sterkarm Handshake: A woman’s return to Scotland’s barbaric past ensnares her in a web of intrigue, danger, and love. Andrea Mitchell once found acceptance and love among the Sterkarm clan in lawless 1500s Scotland when she gained access to Great Britain’s past via the FUP Corporation’s “Time Tube.” Since her return to the present, she has been unable to readjust to twenty-first century life. So when the company’s CEO, James Windsor, offers to send her back to the violent, colorful era—and her beloved Per Sterkarm—Andrea eagerly agrees. The past she reenters, however, is not the one she remembers. To avoid potential catastrophic effects on the future, FUP has sent her to a different dimension and an alternate sixteenth century. Here, she is a stranger to her former friends, including her onetime lover Per, who is preparing to marry a daughter of the hated Grannams, the Sterkarms’ sworn enemies. But the union is part of FUP’s insidious plan to plunder the past of its natural wealth. When the wedding goes brutally, tragically awry, Andrea finds herself caught in the middle, a pawn in a violent endgame devised by Windsor and his greedy cronies. And this time there may not be sanctuary for her among the proud, primitive folk she once admired—or even an escape forward to the future where she truly belongs. Susan Price’s The Sterkarm Handshake was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize. In A Sterkarm Kiss, the Carnegie Medal–winning author once again ingeniously blends historical and science fiction in a masterful time-travel adventure as thrilling and unforgettable as its acclaimed predecessor.

ELFGIFT, the elf's get and the Goddess' darling, fights to keep his throne.If he loses, he loses everything: crown, love and life.Elfgift's Christian half-brother, Unwin, will never be satisfied untilElfgift is dead. He vows that, on capturing Elfgift, he will hand him to his Danish allies to be sacrificed to Odin. The sacrifice of the blood-eagle.It's a gruelling war, but Elfgift is sustained by the love of the Goddess he fights for...until he asks that the life of his brother, Wulfweard, be spared.Wulfweard's life is owed to Odin and the Goddess tells him he must choose: will he have Her at his side, or his brother?A brief truce, to celebrate Jul and Christ's Mass, ends in brutal treachery. Elfgift falls into Unwin's power. Will the Goddess now come to his aid or has She deserted him?A Dark-Age, Gothic fantasy.First published by Scholastic.

This first adventure follows the story of a bonder, Kylie, and a pampered teen, Affroditey - both thrown together as their prescribed roles in society change. Kylie becomes the mouthpiece of the god, Odin, and gains political advantage and freedom as a result. Affroditey finds herself reduced to penury after her father's suicide, and sold off as a bonder by her uncaring stepmother. Brought together by Kylie's young son, who has been 'adopted' by Affroditey's employers, the two girls decide to escape as pioneers to Mars, where they will help to set up a new society.

All roads lead to Thailand—where the lovers of ancient treasure tangle with international black markets. In this complex landscape of protectors and predators, we meet Martin Moon and Delia Rivera. Both have been defeated by the dark powers of the art-trade netherworld. Together, they seek to rise again—to escape the sudden silence of lives extinguished and loves lost. But the savage forces that nearly destroyed them before are still at large. In Thailand, they set out to uncover a secret new archaeological site, which is being stripped of its ancient Buddhist statuary by merciless smugglers. Their quest turns deadly. Is there any such thing as a fresh start in this wicked world? Or is there only the wisdom of failure?