*** Waking The Weaver is the prelude to the upcoming Roshambo Trilogy, also by Aaron Conaway! ***All small towns have secrets. But Timberhaven's secrets may mean the end of us all.Michael Gideon is a bestselling author actively ignoring the problems in his life: his alcoholism, how the recent loss of his sister is affecting him, and a nagging feeling, just at the back of his mind that there's something. . . off. He's come to the small village of Timberhaven in hopes of reco...

The forest was haunted. It was known. Health-conscious hikers and bikers might skirt the forest's edge, but few ventured inside.Because of the hauntings.Like many such sites around the world, just what was in the woods changed from generation to generation. Great-grandparents had feared an alleged farm filled with crazed albinos. Grandparents, however, were terrified of an escaped lunatic who roamed those same woods in a gorilla mask, killing indiscriminately any who crosse...

** Continue reading The Timberhaven Chronicles in this short story collection! **Timberhaven, where magic, music, and make-believe entwine with art and physics.Its citizens are few but varied:Lord Jarboe, caretaker of Tater Town.Mahin Shirazi, storyteller and world traveler.Juniper Soot, eight-year-old wunderkind and fledgling scientist.Calithan, purveyor of dreams and nightm...

It's Halloween night at Wyngarde Manor.The annual party, with all the trappings, is taking place. An old house -- the hands that built it long dead -- Wyngarde Manor knows you're there. It sees you inside, skittering along its rooms and hallways. Normally you'd be safe between its walls. But the house is sick. Someone has poisoned it with murderous intent, and now it must act accordingly.None may see morning.

The ancient entity fed through the ages, an incorporeal hunger that had given structure to a host of myths. Ghosts. Zombies. Vampires. Malevolent sentience that could enter your mind upon a stray thought or dream; making you feel fantastic — stronger than you've ever felt, the full sum of your physical and mental potential — all while it fed of everything that made you You.Until there was no You.Merely a hollowed-out meat puppet. An extension of its will.It's Hallow...

Earth.The end of the 20th Century saw the rise of superheroes, which in turn were the harbingers of a golden age of humanity.At the dawn of the 21st Century, alien races made themselves known on Earth, having secretly had a hand in humanity's technological advances for more than a hundred years. New Orleans rose, a modern-day Atlantis. Scientific achievement exploded, bringing about cures for diseases of the body, mind, and spirit. Earth's people worked as one, hand-in-hand...

It was an age of adventure. An age of sorcery. An age of unrelenting horror. Sword and sorcery and pulp horror go hand-in-hand. Sinister enchanters working foul magic. Hideous beasts lurking in shadowy dungeons. Blasphemous elder gods uncoiling from forgotten and forbidden temples SWORDS IN THE SHADOWS features twenty-one stories with a bloody stake driven into the heart of both the horror and fantasy camps. Herein, you will find fantasy worlds, brave warriors, fabulous creatures, wondrous...

From the international bestselling author of the Broken Empire trilogy comes the second book of the Red Queen’s War...After harrowing adventure and near death, Prince Jalan Kendeth and the Viking Snorri ver Snagason find themselves in possession of Loki’s key, an artefact capable of opening any door and sought by the most dangerous beings in the Broken Empire—including the Dead King.Jal wants only to return home to his wine, women, and song, but Snorri has ...

Can the vow of a warrior king win a heart and save a kingdom?Feared by enemies and allies alike, Naxaris reputed to be utterly merciless, without a human heart or soul. As he captures the throne of Kenta, a letter summons him to Ashwall Castle in the land of his birth, a place he left behind years ago to wage war and take his place in the world. Ashwall is caught in the grip of famine, and Prince Adonias, his childhood friend, desperately needs his help. When Naxar arrives...

Dark magic stirs in an unknown land.The Guardian's duty is to defend mankind from all the powers of dark magic.When she senses an evil power awakening in a strange land, the Guardian must travel there to fight it.But the realm of Norvangenheim is a harsh and dangerous place, and it might kill the Guardian before she can even find the dark power...

The mute elven archer known only as Killer. Azyrin, a half Winter-orc shaman and his human swordswoman bride, Makha. Drake, the charming, swashbuckling rogue. The fireball-slinging pixie-goblin, Rahiel, and her mini-unicorn, Bill. These are the Gryphonpike Companions.Arriving in Ramsport, Killer and her companions find a city under siege by a swarm of dragons. Banding together with other adventurers from their Guild, they set off to find the source of the swarm.But as they ...

The sun has returned to the Land of Night and Liall has claimed a throne he never wanted, but many still oppose the presence of his beloved Scarlet at court. While the powerful barons clamor for a royal heir to secure the succession, rumors fly of Liall's marriage to a baron's daughter, driving a painful wedge between the lovers.But the proposed marriage of Lady Ressilka isn't the only reason Scarlet has grown distant. His magic is changing, mutating into a dangerous power he does ...