The last competition Belasko won was the catch a slippery pig contest at his village fair.Now he has to beat the best warriors in the kingdom.Belasko, a farm boy who ran away to war, is a decorated soldier and war hero. When Markus, the Royal Champion, stages a competition to choose a successor, a world of possibility opens up to him. Possibility that Belasko cannot resist. Can Belasko fulfil his potential, beat the finest...

A dead prince. A grieving king. A legendary swordsman accused of murder.Loyalty counts for nothing when the king demands blood.Royal champion, and confidant to the king, Belasko thought he was beyond intrigues and machinations. But when the grief-stricken King demands vengeance for his murdered son, Belasko discovers he is expendable. His options are clear: find the killer or die for a crime he didn’t commit.This bre...

Lost in a foreign city. Assassins around every corner. No allies in sight.Survival is key, when enemies are all around.Belasko, the Royal Champion, war hero, legendary swordsman, has distanced himself from the trappings of court life and toils at his academy. Searching for his successor.When a general Belasko defeated long ago stages a coup to place himself upon the Baskan throne, Queen Lilliana’s des...

The Law of Consequences: A Fantastical AnthologyEvery action has a consequence, some good, some less so, others of pure darkness...Step into a fantastical world where every choice reverberates with magic, shaping destinies in wondrous and terrifying ways. Curated by W.A. Leggatt, SC Gowland and G.M. White, this anthology explores the profound impact of the choices we make. Featuring 20 stories by bestselling and award-winning authors:- Alex...

The Law of Mischief is a genre-blending anthology featuring 28 original short stories from an international cohort of authors. Born from the diverse creative community of the Bestseller Experiment Podcast, this collection explores the second law in an ongoing fantastical series.From dragons helping with breakfast to supernatural investigations, second chances, haunting reckonings, and unexpected romances, each story offers a fresh take on how mischief and magic collide.Whet...

This memoir tells the story of a Marine rifle platoon commander’s time in the mountainous jungle of the northernmost province of the then Republic of Vietnam.While tasked with fighting the enemy, G.M. Davis made some great friends but saw too much death. The author tracks his tour of duty in the jungle, leading Marines not against the Viet Cong but against the North Vietnamese Army, a well-trained and well-supplied professional army dedicated to unifying the two Vietnams. The heat,...

Frankie killed her small daughter. "What kind of a monster could do such a thing to an innocent child?" The papers screamed about this crime for weeks. It made headlines from the "New York Times" to the "National Enquirer". Now Frankie's convicted, in the slammer forever. There's nothing more to be said ... but is there? In a macabre descent into insanity made all the more potent and horrifying by the fact that it is unveiled in the pedestrian context of visits to the prison psychologist's...

MICHAEL F.A. WOODRUFF Emeritus Professor of Surgery, University of Edinburgh This book grew out of a very successful conference on Organ Transplantation held in Kuwait in December 1982. The material presented at the conference has been expanded and brought up to date, and the result is a well written and authoritative account of many aspects of organ transplantation by a distinguished team of contributors drawn from many countries. A unique feature of the book is the account it contains of...