Physicist Scott Bishop's familiar yet alien world adventure: befriending ranger Shassa, navigating kingdom politics, and deciphering strange visions. Discover intertwined destinies, hidden secrets and an unorthodox enemy.Embark on a thrilling journey with The Light at Star's End, a captivating blend of fantasy and science fiction. Our protagonist, Scott Bishop, is a middle-aged physicist whose routine life takes a dramatic turn when he finds himself in a w...

A visit from Yanko’s older brother is interrupted when an alarm blasts through the mine. Mutilated workers have been found dead in a newly opened tunnel.Yanko has been studying to become a mage, and his brother is a soldier, so they believe they are prepared to deal with this unknown threat, but what awaits them in the subterranean depths is nothing the mine has seen in its hundreds of years of operation.Death from Below is a 13,000-word novella.

A bonus short story featuring Silhara and Martise from Master of Crows.In The Light Within, Silhara of Neith, now known as "the god-smiter," travels as the guest of honor to the winter festival of his father's people.The crow mage who destroyed one god must ignite sacred fires in honor of another. Yet the winter festival only reminds Silhara that the brightest light within him isn't the fire of a deity but the devotion of one woman.A tale of hope and celebration.

When the sun takes 16 years to cross the sky, the night lasts just as long. As twilight approaches, entire kingdoms must scramble to stay ahead of the lasting darkness and the creatures that live there. It's easy for things to go missing in the chaos--and it's Chief Tracker Vickory Carroway's job to find them.But not all things are created equal. The king's daughter Dalia has run away. It's believed she's traveled to the Lightless--and if Vickory can't bring her home, he'll be exec...

Darweena must choose to fight for the Forest Folk in an epic battle against the beasts. Will she choose love over her home? A short story of 3700 words.

Aided only by the powers of the Diadem, Aleytys must battle a powerful corporation to save an endangered planet, in this thrilling science fiction adventure.Author Jo Clayton's sensational space opera saga continues in this fourth magnificent excursion to the universe of the Diadem as her incomparable heroine lands in the center of a devastating conflict between an insidious planet-devouring corporate entity and native forest folk and city dwellers who are facing e...

Rose Boy has trained twenty-four years to be the best assassin this world has ever known.Tonight he will take revenge on the indomitable ruler who killed his love.Even if it costs him his life.

In 2013, a newly launched Grim Oak Press published the Unfettered Phoenix Comicon Exclusive, an early edition of the award-winning anthology that featured only short stories by authors who attended the convention. The result was a book that fans could purchase and have signed by Terry Brooks, Kevin Hearne, Peter Orullian, Brandon Sanderson, and Shawn Speakman. It is now regarded by collectors as one of the most difficult Grim Oak releases to find.With this first volume of ...

"Woodland Tales: Volume 1 - The Gruffalo," follow the adventures of a clever mouse as it navigates the treacherous depths of the deep, dark wood. With wit and bravery, the mouse encounters cunning predators and ultimately befriends the fearsome Gruffalo, bringing safety and harmony to the once-perilous forest. Join this unlikely hero on a journey filled with danger, friendship, and the triumph of intelligence over strength.

An alien race and a passion that burns hotter than a thousand suns.All bets are off the second she lands on the nightmare alien planet. Amara—earthling, captive, and freedom fighter—must do whatever it takes to survive.She wastes no time in coming up with a plan.Liberate fellow captives and jet out of this hellhole.The one thing she didn’t count on was Naxer. The Alpha alien gladiator radiates an intensity that’s off the charts. Claiming Ama...

Welcome to Glendoch!Hidden to most, this glacial world once crackled with alchemy. Now it waits for war—divided and bound by strict rules. So when twelve-year-old Meylyne falls from a tree onto Glendoch’s sickly prince, she must flee or face imprisonment in the Shadow-Cellars. The only way she may return home is with a cure for the prince’s peculiar disease.Convinced she will perish, Meylyne and her companions embark on their journey—and before they know it, they are knee-d...

THE LAST ARROW: A Sorcery Ascendant Short StoryHeikir fights against overwhelming odds, but can one lone man turn the tide and decide the fate of all?A poor farmer conscripted into the army, Heikir finds himself one of hundreds of archers defending the fortress of Kascunir from a savage horde. There's no end in sight to the siege, and morale quickly plummets along with their rations. As starvation and disease throttles the defenders strength and will to sur...