**Strength from WeaknessDisability becomes Power**Six stories, one impactful message:- A voiceless child painting visions of death.- A killer with a deadly message plagued by a burden of guilt.- A priestess divinely empowered to absorb others' pain.- A soldier fighting for courage in the face of fear.- A broken warrior-priest on a mission of vengeance.- A thief desperate to escape the burden of his memories.Betrayed by mind o...

A kingdom of death. A war for power and profit. Young heroes caught in the crossfire.Kodyn expected hardships along his journey to return a kidnapped girl to her father. Yet harsh deserts and cutthroat bandits prove far less lethal than the foes that await him in Shalandra, the City of the Dead.In the shadows of golden spires carved from mountain stone, currents of corruption and vice run deep. Priests of the god of death rule with an iron fist, imposing a ...

A Collection of Epic Fantasy Tales from Five Wizards of FantasyThe Silent Blade - by Jacob PeppersThe Downs, the poor district of the city of Avarest, is home to cutthroats and thieves, pickpockets and prostitutes, all of whom pay tribute to one of two powerful crime bosses. It is also home to Aaron Envelar, a disillusioned sellsword known as the Silent Blade, who cares nothing for the criminal overlords or their schemes, who only wants to survive ...

All in Voramis know the legend of the Hunter.Relentless. Immortal. Death walking. The greatest assassin who ever lived.Pay the master killer his due and the Hunter will execute any target, carry out any contract, no matter how impossible.But when the Bloody Hand crime syndicate harms the innocents under his protection, they foolishly make an enemy of the one man they can't afford to anger. The price of the Hunter's vengeance is high...

The Hunter has slain demons and defeated powers beyond comprehension.But his fiercest battle has yet to come . . .Shipwrecked and cast adrift, the Hunter must brave the open ocean to save his injured daughter. With the aid of an enigmatic sailor and mysterious, guiding tides, they reach the shores of a jungle island found on no map, home to a people hidden for centuries from the world beyond.The Hunter must face deadly trials not me...

The Hunter has worn countless faces, played countless roles. Conqueror. Savior. Assassin. Protector. He is all of them and more . . .But one performance for which he is truly ill-suited is that of father.Particularly to a daughter who seeks to use him only to her own ends, willing to manipulate, deceive, and murder to gain access to the arcane power hidden around Einan by the ancient Serenii.The Hunter is left no choice in the matter, for h...

“What do you think a hero is? It’s just the right person in the right place making the right choice at the right time. Heroes aren’t born. They’re made.”A demonic assassin. A half-orc boxer. A ratman necromancer. Though they take many different shapes and forms, there are heroes all around us.Bravery can be found in the most unexpected places: a subterranean dwarven city; the sands of a temple courtyard in Ancient Egypt; a besieged castle, a Victorian brothel, a go...

The Hunter rides for vengeance . . . and embarks on a voyage of bloodshed and death.His pursuit of the escaped Groebus Dayblood and his assassin accomplices leads to the shores of Einan and beyond, across the Frozen Sea.But danger follows wherever the Hunter goes. Sailing with him are parties unknown plotting bloody murder. Their deadly blades are aimed at him, and trapped aboard a ship in the middle of the ocean, there is nowhere to run or hide.

Burdened with legend. Hardened by battle scars. Hellbent on bloody revenge.Shields in Shadow, book one:As the son of a famous general, Aravon is proud to captain his own company against his people's enemy. But the experienced veteran's march toward glory dissolves into pain as ruthless barbarians massacre every last one of his soldiers. Burning for vengeance, he leaps at the chance to spearhead a specially trained company and pay back his tragic de...

The Hunter pits his blades and wits against an army of professional killers-for-hire.The bastards never stood a chance.Groebus Dayblood has sought refuge in the Princelands with the Scarlet Ghosts, an organization of assassins that offers no mercy and accepts no failure. Both the traitorous priest and his cutthroat protectors are about to find out the hard, painful way that no one is safe from the Hunter's wrath.But when the Hunter'...

The Hunter's legend conceals cold, dark truths.Half-demon bastard. A butcher with the blade, assassin, monster.For millennia he has stalked the world, conquering all in his path and wading through rivers of his enemies' blood.But he remembers none of it.Now, an oath made in bitterness and regret thrusts him into a new role to which he is entirely unsuited: guardian of a young boy touched by gods and hunted by demons...

The Hunter is running out of time.And so is all of humanity . . .The demonic Sage finally has the missing piece in his wicked plan—and with it, the power to free mad god Kharna from his prison.To make matters worse, Hailen's mysterious and dangerous abilities are dragging him ever deeper into madness. The only way to pull the boy back from the brink of insanity is to unlock the dark, deadly secrets of a city long ago lost to time.