Trained as a knight, condemned as a heretic, exiled as a convict, Prentice's every moment is a struggle just to survive. The Duke is dead and now Duchess Amelia, his young and inexperienced bride, must rule the Western Reach alone. But when an unknown enemy invades her lands, slaughtering all in their path, her knights are too eager for glory to see the danger. She must turn to Prentice, a convict, wise in the art of war and the only one she can trust despite the dishonor it brings. Thrust...

Victory over the painted invaders was but a prelude to a new conflict that threatens the Western Reach.Led by convict-captain Prentice Ash, the Duchess's army has driven off the invaders from the west and Prentice has won his freedom. But the Reach is far from safe. Rats are lurking in the Duchess's capital and they mean to destroy her. Merchants and noblemen plot to rob Amelia of her province's wealth while criminals and mercenaries prowl through the streets. Mean...

The Rats may have won back Dweltford, but now the Reach needs Lions.Duchess Amelia's cutthroat "rats" have saved her hometown. But the new crown prince of the Grand Kingdom, Daven Marcus, now drags her along in a vain winter crusade into the wilderness, seeking the origin of the mysterious invaders from the West. Surrounded by the prince's toadying lackeys and scheming nobility, Amelia has no allies.Her captain, Prentice Ash, is far away in the ruins of Fal...

When pop megastar Zach Crystal dies in a fire at his remote mansion, his mysterious demise rips open the bitter divide between those who adored his music and his endless charity work, and those who viewed him as a despicable predator, who manipulated and abused young and vulnerable girls. Online journalist, Scott King, whose Six Stories podcasts have become an internet sensation, investigates the accusations of sexual abuse and murder that were levelled at Crystal before he died. But as Sc...

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