The Quintessence Cycle, an epic fantasy tale that weaves a story of magic, battle, love, betrayal, retribution, and survival.Your soul is magic. It is life. It is death. It is the path to the throne.The human nobility will do anything to steal it.A civilization on the edge of extinction, a renowned assassin in hiding, a young boy hunted for his magic, a count’s son in search of glory, a fallen queen after vengeance, a count who would betray all for the crown. Their paths ar...

A legendary killer without a memory, a gifted student who has lost his way, a vengeful assassin on an impossible mission, an old mentor whose only wish is to save her people. Kingdoms separate them but their fates are intertwined.The opening stanza in a new epic fantasy series that delves into the themes of war, corruptible power, love, betrayal, and absolution in the world of Denestia.Ryne Waldron, a living legend at the edge of madness is haunted by a murd...

In a world where magic corrupts and kingdoms constantly war, the power that drives the world stirs. It whispers promises of greatness in the heads of the men and women that wield it. Now, it has spoken to the mind of a king.Knight Commander Stefan Dorn, leader of the Unvanquished, has known only war, death and, victory. All in the name of his loyalty to King Nerian the Lightbearer, a man he idolized.Until now.Everything he thought he knew about the King, his people, an...

War rages across Denestia and Hydae. A war to end all wars. A war to end both worlds.Haunted by his mother’s death, Ancel Dorn tries to flee from his newfound power for fear he may yet be the demise of all he loves. Irmina Nagel is on the hunt for those who murdered her parents while investigating the spread of corrupted magic. Ryne Waldron seeks redemption for his past atrocities, for bringing the world to the cusp of an apocalypse.Even as these three fight their inner bat...

Here is the fourth volume of Terry C. Simpson's epic series, Aegis of the Gods:In the aftermath of a titanic battle, Ancel and the remnants of his people are fleeing to Benez, a city reviled by the world. Hunted by Tribunal assassins and shadelings, he must fight to see them survive even as corruption creeps across the land, and his father battles for sanity.Ryne continues to hold fast to his secrets, but suspicious of those around him, he makes a shocking d...

Keedar Giorin still remembers the night when soldiers killed his mother. The Night of Blades. He was three, but the memories are written in his mind in blood, flames, scales, and his mother’s mad cackles.Assigned by his father to save two young noblemen or risk a repeat of the massacre on his home in the Smear, Kasandar's most lawless district, Keedar dives headlong into the mission. He uses his most secret skill, a magic that could bring the King's Blades hunting him, a magic that...

If Death had a child, it would be Shadeborn.Mike's a misguided thug haunted by bad luck, tragedy, and a psychopathic brother. Darius sits atop a world he's ready to abandon. Sheila is just looking to make a meal of the magically gifted.What do they have in common?People they know are being killed. And a slew of supernatural creatures, the Arcane Police, and the N.Y.P.D all want them either dead or captured.Oh, there's also Phil. But when Phil's around, peopl...

Deadly rivalries abound on Succession Day. Countess Aidah Rostlin and her daughters, Nerisse and Clara, hide out on a distant estate to avoid the other ruthless noble houses. There, she awaits her victorious husband and son.But betrayal is ever present for the nobility. One such occurrence brings forth a power within little seven year old Clara, a power that if left unchecked, will doom her to madness and death.To reverse the affliction, Aidah must traverse the land, avoid ...

The Winds of War blow across Mareshna. Swords are brought to bear. The end of the world looms.The armies of the western horde stand between King Ainslen Cardiff and his mad dream to conquer the world. But even as he’s massed his forces at the Swords of Humel, another enemy has taken advantage of the opening he leaves behind.Queen Terestere maneuvers her pieces across the board to complete her vengeance, see her people rise, and to face a man she has often dreamed of killing...

The second volume of Terry C. Simpson’s Quintessence Cycle, a sprawling epic of magic, war, adventure, and intrigue in a world full of mysteries.Chaos rules in the wake of Succession Day, even in the heart of the Empire’s capital, Kasandar, where commoners revolt and counts and priests plot. All across the world, armies rise to strike at King Ainslen’s fledgling rule.Queen Terestere is captured and returned to the city where they murdered her husband, intent on saving her p...

Ancel Dorn has gained the first of his power. And now he’s a wanted man.Ryne Waldron wants to teach him. The Nine want him to be taught before they kill him. Galiana Calestis wants him to live, and learn, and hopefully accomplish what she never was able to do: save their people. Irmina Nagel wants to love him again.Stefan Dorn, his father, wants him to lead and pave his own path.The Tribunal and the shade want him dead.All he wishes is to save his mother if s...

Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone, yet sadly some of these things are now beginning to be forgotten. Legends, myths, fairytales: our world is made up of the stories we told ourselves about where we came from and how we got there. It is the same on Discworld, except that beings which on Earth are creatures of the imagination - like vampires, trolls, witches and, possib...