Orphaned as an infant, Croft spent his early years in the harsh confines of the Abbey, dreaming of befriending a dragon. When the day finally came, an accident leaves him utterly changed and bonded to a beast named Rueloo. Facing prejudice and fear, Croft builds a quiet life in the nest among his dr ...
The Singletons—Julie, Tyler, and their little sister Elizabeth—are on the run, dragged out of bed by their drug-addicted mom in the middle of the night. While on their way to the family farm, in the middle of Michigan, they see a murder by strange people in black trench coats, with weapons they’ve n ...
Book Two in the time travel, fantasy romance trilogy, Highland Secrets! She's always been a dutiful daughter... Janet MacLeod has spent the last ten years dedicated to her clan, acting as the Lady of the castle--at the cost of her own happiness. She aches every time she looks at her brothers, both h ...
The Ancient World...where the mythology, monsters, and gods are real. Eno the Thracian sets off to find the truth about himself and his possible descent from the gods themselves. Instead he becomes involved with a race of people kidnapped from their homeland, set to toil endlessly by the will of a m ...
When the enemy comes calling, this outlaw spitfire will gamble her freedom to save her friends. Vixen Valerie’s life is a lie. After more than a decade on the run, she fears the charade is over. When an enemy nation threatens the flame-haired outlaw’s chosen homeland, she fears she’s the only on ...
A girl conceals an enchanted ring. A young soldier fights to protect her. Demons hunt them. Growing up in a peaceful village, Ana has kept a secret all her life. She possesses an enchanted ring, the legacy from a mother she never knew. When powerful demons attack the village, attempting to kill h ...
Perronius. He is the greatest knight in Round Table history, a blind hero with preternatural abilities to rival the gods themselves. And now, he faces the greatest threat in his country’s history. A tyrant named Songre-Khan has plans of invading his country. His secret weapon is the monk Gaeden-Kai, ...
Will Jennara and her dragon Kali rise against the odds, or will their flames be extinguished by the chilling touch of betrayal?
Dark Fae soldier Jennara and her fierce Fire-Breather dragon, Kali, have trained for months, their sights se ...
The battle for power is fierce in a world where mortals wield the strength of dead gods in this first book of a high-stakes epic fantasy series from Quinn Thomas. A thousand years ago, the immortals were slain, their power passed down to a chosen few known as aspects. The competition between noble f ...
James Bond meets Game of Thrones!
His name is Wolf Dasher of Her Majesty’s Shadow Service. His friend and colleague was murdered in Alfar, the so-called “magical” land of elves. She left one clue to the identity of her killer – the name of Alfari Ambas ...
Sabine has spent the last decade hiding from the fae and the Wild Hunt. But when a charismatic stranger recruits her to retrieve an invaluable artifact, she’ll have to finally reveal her identity… and her dark secrets.
Can one girl free a kingdom from the king’s curse? Adopted Colleen never fit in to her realm, and an aching in her soul tells her there’s somewhere she truly belongs. But when she uncovers part of her elfin heritage and scrambles through the megalith following the persistent draw, she’s not prepa ...
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Death stalks the abbey at Tranquility Bridge... On their way from their remote district to the Imperial capital, detective-judge Jhee and her spouses are forced to halt for repairs at a secluded abbey. There is more to the abbey than meets the eye. While there, she is called upon to investigate seve ...
A female archangel has a forbidden affair with a human. Mariana, a fierce archangel with a propensity for kicking evil monsters’ butt, stops to stalk a handsome human doctor. She knows that humans and the divine don’t mix. The doctor is amazing at his hospital, but he wonders if the recent death of ...
A female blacksmith...
A handsome elvish lord...
May the two never wed.
Gwynneth is an apprentice blacksmith as well as a lord's daughter. In a land where female Elves are typically housewives, she's planning a glorious ca ...
Tria is stuck between two worlds. One that is dying and one that is trying to kill her. The only one standing between her and death is the dangerous Magician. His mission is to turn her into the most fearsome weapon the world has ever seen.
As an ancient prophecy looms ahead, Tria is for ...
The thrilling adventure continues in Book Three! Shadyia and Deresi are trapped in a deserted city. Separated by powerful forces, they become pawns in the eternal struggle between life and death. While clashing entities tempt one with immortality to champion their crusade, a being once worshiped as ...
A kingdom in danger and an ancient secret that could change everything. The closing lines of a farewell poem, written centuries ago by the last great king of the old world, might prove to be more than it seems: The world and all its light shall fade; I'll stay with her beneath the shade And wait unt ...
As children Mother twisted our magic as part of her games.
My talent for reading other people’s feelings, my sister who could charm men, and my brother who knows with a touch the history of any object
But Troubles and Magic comes in Threes.
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The necromancer who became a god of death …
From out of the Mist he came, his name whispered in awe and dread, for Odin cast himself as a god of Man. But behind the illusion and the lies, Odin too was once a man, in an age o ...
Soldier. Fight slave. Smuggler. Warrior. Brigand lord. If you’ve met Jonmarc Vahanian in the Chronicles of the Necromancer and Fallen Kings Cycle books, you don’t really know him until you take his journey.
She's lucky he's a charmer. He's lucky she doesn't bite. Much...
Seventeen-year-old Emma Harris is drowning on dry land. No one knows what’s happening to her, and she’d like to keep her evolution from human to mermaid a secret, but the truth is getting harder and harder to hide. From her adoptive family, from her friends, and especially from the irresistible Jame ...
Devarim’s travels are interrupted when he encounters the victims of roadside assault. He soon realizes that not all the victims are dead, but may be held captive by a band of forest ruffians intend on abuse and enslavement. Severely outnumbered, the ranger will need all his skills to overcome the ba ...
The only way Manwe the Panther can save his homeland is to rob it blind. Lurking in the shadows of Tolivius’ oppressive metropolis, the savannah’s greatest thief has spent years pilfering one rich Gypian lord after another, fueling a war that will set his native Juutans free. Yet in those same alley ...
Dreden Sharpstand and his father are poor. All the humans and avehos of Kroonsaed are hardly getting by. If not for the bright, enigmatic sea of gas called the Sunitian Sea, life and resources in the town would be prosperous. But the Sea has secrets of its own... One night Dreden and his friends are ...
The Epic Sci-Fi fantasy Sword & Sorcery saga, Tales Of Nevaeh, continues. Across the sea, the sorcerers known as the Dark Masters, launch a fleet of ships with tens of thousands of warriors. In Nevaeh, charged with an epic journey, Areenna and Mikaal, armed only with their psychic abilities, the ...
In the buried archives of the Temple of Dust may lie the secret to defeating the Curse, a creature which seeks to destroy 16-year old Ria for the forbidden gifts she possesses. Begin the epic fantasy adventure described as “fast paced and … a wonderful fantasy trilogy” and “ ...
A jaded mage-hunter. A mystery that's better left unsolved. And a choice that tests morals against codes. For years, Tracker’s life has had two facets: Hunting spellsters and entertaining strangers in his bed. Few doubt he's good at both, although only one is considered acceptable amongst the Kin ...
She was supposed to bring peace to the realms—but one secret could turn love into war.
Queen Aurora is set to marry King Jarvok, uniting the Court of Light and the Court of Dark for the first time in Fae history. But while their love is powerful, Aurora hides a secret that ...
Sea dragons are real, and that’s just the start of Lani’s problems.
Lani’s diplomatic, but is there a polite way to tell her “rescuer” that he’s actuall ...
What are experiences? Can we represent them as a set of measurable parameters that can be replayed? If we researched and succeeded in creating a perfect experience recorder and replay what will happen? "If only pictures and words could capture the beauty of the world around us!!" Vijay could have ea ...
Sisters separated by war...
Brothers divided by hate...
To stop their world being torn apart by darkness, will they find a way to unite?
When Kat's father, the King of Arbinad, tells her and her sister to flee the coming w ...
The streets of Philadelphia have always been filled with bloodshed, but Mob Boss Enzo Salerno thought he had finally made peace with the vampires when he struck a deal with their leader, Magnus. However, three years later, the city is once again a battleground as the vampires jo ...
Five hundred years after the death of King Arthur, a sadistic tyrant of Visi-Galia, attacks unprotected and vulnerable townships in Gilleon, igniting a deadly chain of events. Because he was unfairly denied a proper chanc ...
The Voodoo Legacy Being possessed has its advantages... Sure, my soul-bound familiar could be a pain in the ass... But she came with some pretty impressive abilities. A nasty Voodoo demigod, a Loa of Destruction, wants to steal her power. Ogoun, the Loa of War, has invited me to join th ...
Rules were made to be broken. From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed colonies have created irresistible opportunities for those brave enough to seize them. New worlds, found family, mystical secrets, and deadly science w ...
From out of the post-apocalyptic ashes of a dead Earth, 200 people placed into hibernation are sent into space to keep the last of humanity alive. Three thousand years later, the sole survivor of that starship awakens into the post-apocalyptic world of the planet of his birth --A New Science Fictio ...
In this novella, Devilly Peen, a writer of detective fiction uses her imaginative skills to solve a series of gruesome murders. She inhabits a mildy dystopian world, a vast agglomeration of plastic waste that circulates gently in the western Pacific Ocean. This is the Great Pacific Gyre. Devilly's a ...
Desperate to escape marrying a brutal king, Eleanor makes a deal with a Fae Prince…
“I can spin gold,” Eleanor lies.
With her life at stake, she has no other choice.
She gets one chance to turn her lie into truth, and she’s shocked when she succeeds.
Bu ...
Two young women from vastly different worlds.
A magical quest that will test all that they believe…
Beneath the shroud of darkness, two Initiates await their future. Both seek the same—to undergo the Rite of the Faithful and become Mages in the Quinar ...
Book 1 of the award-winning Historical Fiction series The Troubadours Quartet Historical Novel Society Editor's Choice Winner of the Global Ebooks Award for Best Historical Fiction Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Awards and the Chaucer Awards 'Believable, page-turning and memorable.' Lela Michael, S.P ...
The Tales of Ryca will introduce you to two brave sisters who are in serious trouble. One must face an enemy out to destroy her entire family. The other will confront a villain who plans to alter her world beyond recognition.
Hidden: When a young girl, injured and alone, faces a f ...
Once upon a time, in a forest called Bright, a four-year-old girl, Marily, lived happily with her parents, a good witch called Goodypie, and her husband, Mr. Goodweather. All the creatures of the forest loved Goodypie because she could always ruin the evil potions of Meanloudmouth, a very bad witch. ...
A collection of stories from voices all over, Kaleidescope, brings you through adventures, romances, nightmares, and more. Pride isn't a deadly sin when it's found in the hearts of those striving to live and prosper in a world that demonizes you, and in the world's of these authors, sometimes that d ...
How do you rejoin the land of the living when you’ve been lifeless for so long? Overcoming the despair and letting go of precious things is a challenge for the Traveler when he wakes up from his latest stasis period. He clings to hope for what’s about to come, but hope may not be enough to survive a ...
A collection of science fiction short stories from the award-winning author of Pearseus and Runaway Smile. The law of unintended consequences meets Murphy's law during a man's unexpected time travel. A grizzled veteran meets his god. And a loner discovers just how far he'd go to alleviate his lo ...
Three angels, one growing rebellion, and a forbidden love that could ignite chaos.
In the beginning, the Creator's angels were tasked with preparing Earth for humankind. Among the Virtues, Serena and Xi were entrusted with shaping oceans and commanding the wind while baskin ...
Aurianna must rewrite the past in order to save the future. A terrible curse changed her life forever, but now she must race against time to uncover the truth about the catastrophe that is destined to leave their world broken and create the only future she has ever known.
A brutal new Ice Age covers the Earth…
When an experiment to reverse climate change goes disastrously wrong, Jarred and his daughter Hope are forced to head south in search of warmth. This man-made eternal winter shows no signs of stopping, and with temperatures continuing to plummet, fea ...
THE DEAD HAVE SECRETS! Jaime Sanders wants a normal life for her three children. But there is one catch. She is a witch. Drawn into a world of ghosts and spirits, she is forced to use her powers and fights to defend her family. As if she doesn’t have enough to deal with, her ex-husband has a vendett ...
A Mysterious book. A Magical world. An urgent request.
When Tahendra discovers a worn journal, it stirs flashbacks of a life shes never known. Determined to help, despite fleeting memories and uncertainty, Tahendra rallies her friends.
The world of her birth is ...
Truth Unveiled, the second title of the Daughter of Ravenswood series, is set one generation after a manmade plague wiped out over half the Earth’s population. The survivors are accustomed to magic and witchcraft and accept and fear the many forms of life after death. New necromancer Meagan Greyston ...
She is a winged warrior of the heavens. He is a doomed Elven King. Khyrial the Zyrane Stormrider, disgraced Ayraelar warrior, has one mission – to keep King Vaylar alive. Her honour and return to her home above the Boreal Tempest depend upon success, for her dead father swore an oath she must keep a ...
Two years have passed since Abigail Blanque’s life was changed forever. After suffering a great loss, she fed into her darkness and pain, killing every rogue vampire within her reach. Abby finds herself marked by an evil ancestor hell-bent on returning from her talisman-encased prison. She needs Abb ...
Book One in the time travel, fantasy romance series, Highland Secrets! She never believed in magic… Claire McGowan, Scotophile and historical romance novel addict, finally saves up enough for her dream vacation to Scotland. She never imagines she’ll get sucked back to the seventeenth century while r ...
Nearly two thousand years before Pergi’s quest starts in Adamant in Dust, the Four Eisei reign in Miran with the power of the Far Stones given to them by Lord Elrad of Aldwyseld. While King Jasper of Pennith prepares to celebrate his twentieth wedding anniversary, Duke Kaaeven of Berginthol ...
A goddess is missing. Humanity shivers beneath an endless winter.
Maryn Ferguson spends her days buried in the past, content with dusty books and the safe certainty of academia, but her carefully ordered life unravels when a discovery a ...
It takes a gang of thieves to catch a gang of thieves Toric's Dagger is just another religious relic, until it's stolen. Belwynn and her twin brother, Soren, volunteer to lead a team tasked with its retrieval. Drawn into a world of danger and treachery, they must rely on Soren's magical abilities, a ...
Evolution threatens magic. Ebony is the key to reversing the flaw that weakens all ofhumankind. It's her life or war. -- \"A studiously chilling post-apocalyptic tale.\" --Kirkus Review (for Fortitude Rising) -- Ebony has spent her entire life isolated on an island institution run by her father, Dr. ...
When Lance and his faithful sidekick Megan travel to England on a school trip, Lance discovers history’s most famous sword in a museum toilet bowl.
Lance has always wanted to be a knight so despite the unusual circumstances he doesn’t hesitate. He takes up the sword and when three ...
She needed a kiss to break the curse. Her prince never came.
Aurora woke up after sleeping for a hundred years. Left alone and forgotten in her tower; she is desperate to find out why. What happened in the past? Why didn’t the prince keep his promise?
While Aurora slept under the cursed ...
2021 Firebird Book Award winner. Start the series that brings a complex web of real-world mythology into modern times! 1000 years ago the Elves nearly destroyed their species through war. As punishment, their ancestors cursed them and trapped them on the Earthly plane. Priscilla Forester is a 500-ye ...
Winner of the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Bronze Award for Fantasy!!!
The empire has endured many centuries but is now threatened by multiple wars and a major rebellion in the South.
A nobleman from an infamous family, imperial legionary officer, and a born fighter… ...
A beastly prince. An enchanting beauty. Only love can break the spell. Once upon a time… The wicked King Thorn forced the enchantress Zuleika to cast a terrible curse. She fled his court to travel the world, helping those who need her magic most. Until a search for her merchant father’s lost s ...
A little mermaid. A prince to save. Only silence can break the spell. Once upon a time… The mermaid Margareta saved Prince Erik from a shipwreck. Wanting to see the prince again, Margareta strikes a bargain with the Master of Beacon Isle. If she saves his sons from a terrible curse, he will re ...
Drink to the dire and dead! Sing the songs of bloody corsairs! Patros Ngala. Tausi of Song City. Queen Zaki of the Silver Coasts. Bound by blood and bloodshed, these three legendary pirate captains will shape the destiny of the Mirror Sea through the steel in their hands and courage in their hear ...
Sinhar was a boy when the people of Sebel rose up in revolt against their former overlords. Through much bloodshed and strife, their lands truly became their own after a century of occupation. However, in this new era of peace and long sought freedom, tribulation rears its ugly head. Sinhar is final ...
Change one note and the universe changes with the Symphony. Rilan’s fledgling skills are pushed to their limits as she investigates a secret that could bring down all six houses of the maji. One apprentice will become a full majus, while the other will wait months for another suitable challenger ...
In a world ruled by shadows, truth is the most dangerous magic of all.
A new Queen rises. The balance between Court of Light and Dark falls. With a grieving King, a dangerous prophecy, and secrets buried deep, the fate of the Fae hinges on a cryptic prediction, a child on ...
Through fire and blood rises the legend of Ylmi One-Eye... Raised in the storm-swept mountains in the north of Vrania, Ylmi and her parents are forced to live beyond the protection of their village.. She longs to escape the constant fear of starvation that hounds her family, so with the friendship o ...
A princess who refuses to be a prize. A prince’s promise. Perhaps dragons aren’t so bad after all. Once upon a time… Promised as a prize to any hero who can slay the dragon, Princess Sativa flees the palace in search of the prince she was betrothed to as a child. But there are many miles betwe ...
The crystal wall of the Nether could never be climbed, until now! Natina grew up studying the artifacts found by her mother, a famous explorer. She'd be comfortable helping her parents research at home, if only her mother were home more often. Now her mother wants Natina to join the expedition to c ...
Neferre is a coarse, disgusting, slightly-alcoholic elf who is discovered while in a drunken stupor by a strange child in the dark depths of a swamp. Neferre offers to escort the child to safety, only to find the little girl is a legendary dragon slayer torn from the ancient past. Together with her ...
The announcement of Queen Nimue’s pregnancy brings much joy to the citizens of Camelot, but evil never rests. The old gods of Britain are planning their vengeance upon the High King in their lair in Bala. Meanwhile, Crom Cruach, the wolf-god sates his hunger on the people of Hibernia. Word reaches C ...
Starting school at Hawthorne University was not going well, until I met my classmate Alondra. Allie was different. She was goth. But she was also mysterious, confident and fun. I was into that. My name’s Liam. My friends call me Lee. Things got weird after I accompanied her to her haunts. Poltergeis ...
When darkness seems to have snuffed your life out, what would it take to reignite your inner fire?
Aria, the crown princess of Torrannon, has the world at her feet and a bright future. Then she develops anxiety and depression and finds herself trapped in a losing battle t ...
Protests in front of an embassy aren't what they seem... In the dark primal jungles of the Congo River basin, something is ravaging the local population. When protests turn violent in front of the US Embassy Kinshasa, only the foreign policy experts paid attention. Civil war erupts and people rip ...
Pero Moshe’s mom vanished from their Oregon home, and the prophecy says it will happen to Pero, too. But when it does—and Pero is transported to an older universe, life gets more than a little nuts. Throw in a bodyguard who is almost criminally cute, a corrupt and brilliant doctor who wants to st ...
First in the new Assassins of Landria series from the award-winning, bestselling author of Scourge: A Novel of Darkhurst, and the Chronicles Of The Necromancer books! Friends since their orphanage childhood, Joel “Ridge” Breckinridge and Garrett “Rett” Kennard rose through the ranks of the Landri ...
When Kadaris's garden is mysteriously vandalized and the castle’s crops are sabotaged, she embarks on a quest to uncover the truth. What she discovers is far from ordinary—something ancient and not of this world has targeted her home.
Solving this problem leads her to uncover long-buried ...
Falling in love was not part of the plan. After thirty years of seeking my enemy, I find him... In the memories of beautiful widow. I know she's the bait, but is she innocent or in on the scheme? She resists me, but I can't stay away. I hunger for her. Trap be damned, I can't rest until she's in my ...
The night the Christians sack Jerusalem during the First Crusade, mercenary captain Robert Cutnose and his men are slaughtered. Saved by a power he does not understand, he is thrust into an immortal war between the Order and the Hunted. He must track down the knight who massacred his m ...
The legend begins. When sea raiders threaten the villages along the Margolan coast, young Jonmarc Vahanian risks everything to save his family.
Soldier. Fight slave. Smuggler. Warrior. Brigand lord. If you’ve met Jonmarc Vahanian in the Chronicles of the Necromancer and Fallen Kings Cycle ...
It's New Year's Eve, the year of 2099, but the distinguished guests aboard the Pearseus won't get to countdown seconds; soon they'll be counting bodies and survivors after the spaceship's crash landing on another planet. The good news? The planet is seemingly hospitable both in resources and in t ...
TRAPPED IN THE PAST, TANIS MUST FIGHT FOR HIS FUTURE… AND HIS LIFE. Time travel is dangerous. Especially if you’re attacked by the group known as the Selgaire, as you’re about to skip. Tanis’ life changes forever when he enlists with a group of time travelling soldiers – the Trodai. Tanis Bertram, ...
Welcome to the Holy City at Summer’s End. The border with the Otherworld is razor thin. Shadowfest is coming. Malevolent spirits and monsters roam. Dark forces are plotting to seize power. The past has come back to haunt Brona the Apothecary and Aurelian the Investigator. Revenge can be a double-edg ...
It’s been fourteen years since Gaeren saw Aeliana disappear, but he still searches every port for his childhood friend. When the latest clue points to lands across the barrier, where people are no longer supposed to exist, Gaeren is forced to relive the painful memories of losing Aeliana in order to ...
A fourteen-year-old bar owner, a cagey fugitive, and a badass monkey. When magical mayhem meets bloody brawls, can they survive the violent darkness?
Jack wouldn’t trade his brutal life for anything. Hardened by the merciless nature of war, he’s carved a dangerous niche running a post-a ...
He's a reincarnated warrior for the Divine feminine. She walks in dreams. Will the dark win the tie-breaker battle?
Kai Matthieus receives a bloody message from a past-life foe. After visiting a psychic friend, he arms himself with three magical tools ...
Reflections of a wicked witch. Bryce and I are trying to revive Alondra’s old metaphysical history class. We’re in college again, this time teaching. But it’s stressful under our former teacher’s shadow. Not only that, there’s a new demon-witch messing with my love life. So I’m going through that ...
A Science Fiction & Fantasy Anthology_Vol.1
Blaze through exhilarating worlds in this groundbreaking collection of sci-fi and fantasy tales. Discover answers to strange–and bewildering–scenarios like: How do a scientist and a band of corporate superheroes escape an et ...
A new dark fantasy series from Eric Shane Love. An epic quest, strange creatures, and an ancient wood full of sinister mysteries. Join Eliot on his mission to find and destroy the scarecrow. In the valley of Gal-Braith, a tradition has existed for as long as anyone can remember. It is the tradition ...
Kid Sensation is back! Having saved the planet & earned a place with the world’s premier superhero team, the intrepid teen super is hounded by a shadowy government agency just as a deadly virus strikes, causing supers to lose control of their powers - with lethal consequences. Now he must eva ...
A brutal murder. A missing heart. A race against time and death.
The Baron of Ravenford was found dead in his chambers, his heart removed. A slim chance exists to revive him with magic if it’s found in time. Now a determined Lady Andrella joins Glolindir and friends in the frantic ...
Born cursed with a second, shadow soul, Quen is a misfit among her people. Animals sense her curse and avoid her, an untenable trait in her nomadic herding culture. Unfit for binding with a clan, Quen's only hope for an honorable life is to study at a magic school.
As Quen awaits an envoy ...
These are the first and second stories of Robin Archer, the half-Fae charged by the Fairy Queen to protect human children from human predators. With some snark, a gun, and a touch of magic, Robin works at the edge of human law to save kids.
AND ONLY THE EYES OF CHILDREN: When a child is a ...
You only think you know why Henry VIII shuttered the monasteries. The real reason will leave you haunted . . .
In 16th-century England, Newt, a reluctant monk, discovers that a demonic book with a chilling history—Azazel’s Scriptures—has been hidden in his monastery for centuries. Intrigu ...
Do you like Epic Fantasy? "Poker Kingdom" will take you through a magical journey where nothing is what it seems Forget about games. There was a time when Poker was a kingdom, chosen by the Gods to shelter the four elements. The protection of each Element was assigned to a Guardian from each of the ...
