Burdens of the Dead

A Venetian siege on alternate-universe Constantinople finds Italian captain Benito Valdosta battling a magical manifestation of Hekate in order to save his daughter and destroy the fleets of the Chernobog, an effort that is complicated by Aidonus's resolve to claim the woman Benito loves. 15,000 first printing.

Mercedes Lackey is the New York Timesbest-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the Serrated Edge series(both Baen), the Heralds of Valdemar series, and many more. Among her popularBaen titles are The Fire Rose, The Lark and the Wren, and TheShadow of the Lion (with Eric Flint and Dave Freer). She lives in Oklahoma.

Eric Flint is a modern master ofalternate history fiction, with over three million books in print. He’sthe author/creator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fireseries. With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “Belisarius”alternate Roman history series, and with David Weber collaborated on 1633and 1634: The Baltic War. Flint was for many years a labor unionactivist. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Dave Freer isan ichthyologist turned author who lives on Flinders Island (between mainlandAustralia and Tasmania) with his wife, four dogs and four cats, and two sons.He has coauthored a range of novels with Eric Flint (Rats, Bats and Vats,The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly, Pyramid Scheme, and PyramidPower), with Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint (The Shadow of the Lion,This Rough Magic, The Wizard of Karres, Much Fall of Blood and Freer’s solo entry in the series, AMankind Witch) as well as writing the Dragon’s Ring novels Dragon’sRing and Dog and Dragon.