In his follow-up to Uruk: A Novel of the First City**, James Zwerneman continues his stunning, action-packed historical adventure series set in ancient Mesopotamia.**Jakka has taken his army and Ki, the genius who helped establish Uruk, north to a rich copper mining village to reestablish Magog's empire. He starts building a fort, mining copper, recruiting warriors, growing fields of Ki's wheat, and extracting tribute from vassal villages....

The Empire is unraveling. Enemies inside and out claw for power while the throne sits empty. Greed plays its part—but it isn't the whole story.What happened in the Imperial Palace made one thing clear: this isn't just politics anymore. Something deeper is moving, hidden and coordinated, its roots stretching further back than anyone guessed.This isn't a war for control. It's a purge. If the Palace was only the beginning, whatever comes next won't be clean.

This irreverent guide to chaos magic emphasizes experimentation and finding out what works best for you. Andrieh Vitimus presents a revolutionary hands-on course of study for the average Jane or Joe. Vitimus banishes the severe tone of other esoteric orders, offering an accessible and practical approach that makes it easier to perform successful chaos magic that is uniquely your own.

I was once a mighty Paladin of Darkness, mother of all the Elements. The one and only of my kind.Some called me the chosen one, a savior destined to rescue the world; others insisted I would be its downfall.I never got the chance to discover who was right. Society conspired with the traitors to trap me in the deadly Element of Time.But a year later, I managed to break free . . . wait, how has it been 700 years?

An alchemist and his teenage nephew hunt down a legend in this profound and unsettling speculative Western, for fans of Karen Russell and Victor LaValle.Alone in a frontier town in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest, Gentle Montgomery is grieving his best friend. Liam was an alchemist, killed when he tried to capture a creature that shouldn’t exist: a giant salamander that drives men mad. When Gentle’s nephew, Kitt, arrives at his doorstep, the two set out to...

The coronation's in ruins and von Grave's been cast out, but the cursed cult behind him is still in play. Who would've guessed those lunatics survived, still poisoning the world with their filth?No matter. I nearly wiped them out once—this time I'll finish the job for good. Right, Beeky?

Reborn!With his powers reawakened, Konner begins to plan his return home to free his people until he's surprised with the arrival of his first born, Ryan Lorian. Coming from the future, Ryan helps Konner piece the puzzle together to prevent the destruction of the universe.As we return to Boron, old enemies will become allies. Older friends will turn traitor. And the dark magic pulling all the strings will be revealed. Grab a copy and join Konner and his team in this final a...

War had been averted—but at what cost?The Empire stood fractured, exposed—and the scent of weakness drew predators who had waited years for this moment.One of them had already made his move, sinking his claws into the Empire's wounded body with a death grip—not to destroy, but to dominate. Total control. Absolute submission.What does the House of von Grave truly want? Who's backing them from the shadows?And more importantly—who's pulling the strings behind t...

Not even murder can keep this secret buried.Israel, 1952 – A man lies dead in a city park, his head bashed in. No witnesses. No clues.It seems like an impossible case. The police have given up. But private investigator Adam Lapid is determined to catch the killer.Hired to investigate the murder, Adam begins digging into the victim’s life. He learns the dead man was a Holocaust survivor, and that he may have had knowledge of a terrible crime that hap...

Christmas has served as a fertile background for mystery fiction for a very long time, perhaps because it has the appearance of a time of peace and love while being so deeply at odds with violence, crime, and even murder.Many of the stories in this anthology have been written by some of the greatest Golden Age authors, undoubtedly inspired by the juxtaposition of the disparate elements of love and hate. There is a cliché about anthologies (and clichés become clichés because they ar...

Josh Tanner and Senyak Marztanak take a litrpg/sci-fi/fantasy thrill ride in this first installment of a multibook series.Josh was trying to straighten out his life and get back to his four-year-old daughter, Sophie, when Sen, a young Immortal (with his own family and relationship issues), shanghaied him to stop a genocidal-soul harvester. All because Josh has a briefcase handy!Things accelerate from there, and through a s...

The Boss of the Shadow District has fallen, and the Clans who seized power aren't happy—especially those whose interests I inadvertently disrupted. Now the list of people who want me dead has grown, with a second offended Grand Prince joining the first.But will that be enough to stop the rising Paladin of Darkness?Well, let them try.