Book 2 in the 'Amra' sword & sorcery fantasy series:Amra is a thief with morals—she won't steal from anyone poorer than she is. Fortunately, anybody that poor generally doesn't have much worth stealing! Holgren is a mage with a distaste for magic and a soul bartered away to dark powers. Together they embark on a quest for the fabled city of Thagoth, where the secret of immortality is rumored to be hidden.But Amra and Holgren aren't the only ones after the secret. M...

WINNER OF THE 2015-2016 SPFBO, HOSTED BY MARK LAWRENCEAmra Thetys lives by two simple rules—take care of business, and never let it get personal. Thieves don't last long in Lucernis otherwise. But when a fellow rogue and good friend is butchered on the street in a deal gone wrong, she turns her back on burglary and goes after something more precious than treasure: Revenge.Revenge, however, might be hard to come by. A nightmare assortment of enemies, includi...

I am a wheel whose edge is death.This is the mantra that Andines are taught from their first day as novices. Their swords are their souls, and their patron saint, Andos, was the living embodiment of their tenets - Protect the helpless. Obey the emperor in Axumwiste. Pray for guidance in times of peace, and pray with steel in times of strife.A time of strife has come once more.Brother Caida is sent on a quest to rescue a princess kidnapped by bandits en rout...

The third installment in the Amra Thetys series:After surviving Thagoth and returning rich to Lucernis, Amra and Holgren have settled down to a very comfortable, if decidedly unexciting life -- until the night Amra receives an old enemy's head in a box. A longstanding debt calls her back home to Bellarius, the scene of many childhood horrors she would much rather forget about.But as bad as memories of the past might be, present-day Bellarius is rapidly becoming worse, for t...

The Thief Who Wasn't There is the fourth volume in Michael McClung's Amra Thetys series.Bellarius, saved from utter destruction, is now plunged into vicious civil war. Amra has vanished, and while Holgren has a plan to find her and bring her back, his plan teeters between impossibility and insanity. Before he can even implement it, Holgren will have to deal with three separate armies vying for control of Bellaria, all of which view him as either a threat, an inconvenience, or a pot...

If evil was easy, everybody would be doing it, and there would be more Dark Lords running around than you could shake a stick at. But the road to Utter Domination isn't easy, smooth or straight, as the boy who will one day become Gar the Pitiless will discover. Gar may eventually rise to rule all he surveys - but first he'll have to survive a world that seems bent on his destruction.From the author of the Amra Thetys series comes a new trilogy full of black humor, lots of swearing,...

Anomus ip Garma, greatest living architect of the Subori Empire, is tasked by his emperor to construct a tomb for the emperor's concubine upon her death. Anomus and ten thousand workers labor in the desert for years while the emperor's dead love waits, ensorceled and undecaying, for her final resting place to be completed.But betrayal awaits Anomus and all who slaved to build the Tomb, and a dark god has taken an interest in the evils man does to man...Tomb: Stone and Blood...

Swords do not pain dead flesh.Lady Anya has unleashed red-fanged war across the land. The dead march beneath her banner, and her sorcery breaks all who stand in her way. Kingdoms crumble, and an empire slides towards ruin.They have begun calling her the queen of mists.The man who made it possible, the once-sword monk Caida, has been excommunicated and found guilty of treason. He toils in chains, under watchful eyes and blood-stained whips.And the skin walker...

Tarot:Since the dawn of history, the four kingdoms of Tarot have lived in peace and prosperity, guarded by the mystical beings known as the Arcana. But something has changed. Fierce raiders known as Sea Wolves stalk the lands of Tarot, burning and killing. Dark sorcery is at work as well, sowing havoc, ruin and terror wherever it touches. And the guardians of Tarot have not stirred themselves from their home on Mount Arcanum to defend the land.In the Kingdom of Swords, a si...

From the author of the Amra Thetys series comes a new novelette set in the same world, featuring the world's grumpiest old man.Sage Lhiewyn, high priest of the god of knowledge, would like nothing better than to spend his remaining days getting his naps in and collecting offerings from what few faithful remain. Unfortunately, he's going on an adventure instead. With his less-than-faithful acolyte at his side, Lhiewyn will have to face down a rampaging sewer demon. ...

Amra Thetys lives by two simple rules - take care of business, and never let it get personal.Thieves don't last long in Lucernis otherwise. But when a fellow rogue and good friend is butchered on the street in a deal gone wrong, she turns her back on burglary and goes after something more precious than treasure: Revenge.Revenge, however, might be hard to come by. A nightmare assortment of enemies believe Amra is in possession of The Blade That Whispers Hate...

The journey of one small, scarred thief and her mage companion continues with Amra Thetys, Part II.Amra and Holgren's comfortable - if decidedly unexciting - life is rudely interrupted when Amra receives an old enemy's head in a box. A longstanding debt calls her back home to Bellarius, the scene of many childhood horrors she would much rather forget about.Bellarius must be saved from utter destruction and civil war. After Amra suddenly vanishes, H...