Azria is a mage of Miz, trained to wield the magic her country is famous for. When her estranged mother, alleged pirate Captain Apzana of the Hen & Chick, shows up on her 16th birthday offering her adventure, Azria leaves the life she knows for the promise of riches, renown and danger at her mother's side.But more mysteries than answers surface when Apzana reveals why she's called on Azria after years of absence: the treasure of the Marauders' Island, an island sunk into the Sapphi...

The rise of a dark cult threatens all life in the Valley of Ten Crescents. Alone, betrayed, and on the run from the law, Tavera finds herself leading an unlikely group to rescue a local priestess who has been kidnapped by the deadly cult. Tavera can no longer be a little girl lost, but must become a leader and hero if she is to save the priestess and survive the RED MOON RISING.

Truth may be stranger than fiction but...Reality Makes the Best Fantasy.Ever sit down to brainstorm for your next campaign and come up blank? Find yourself wondering, what WOULD my character do in this situation?Get your creative wheels turning with Reality Makes the Best Fantasy, a system neutral guide meant to help you add flavor to your crunch. From the mind of fantasy author, Tristan J Tarwater come nine articles demonstrating how even ...

Dershik Cartaskin's life is one of power, wealth, privilege... and lies. Son to an ambitious father, husband to a wife he cannot love, and father to a child who is not his own, Dershik has everything, and yet nothing to call his own.When the price of power and the weight of lies grow too great for him to bear, he rejects everything he's ever known, leaving blood and flames behind him.Dershik creates a new identity -- joining a band of thieves known as the Cup of Cream, and ...

A tale of The World of MunThe press of time, the incessant prayers, the bloody magic...can one deity escape it all?

HEROES ARE BORN. THIEVES ARE TRAINED. SHE'S NO HEROAs an orphaned half-elf in a city of humans Tavera lives in a world where she doesn't belong - until a cunning thief named Derk catches her trying to steal from him and takes her on as his apprentice.Thievery comes easy to Tavera but Derk soon becomes more than a mentor - he is the first family she's ever known - and the lessons of a father are much more difficult to learn.When Tavera discovers that...

As a former soldier and police consultant, Luis Quintana has seen the horrors of war and the brutality of crime on the streets. But when a ritualistic mass murder links an old friend to a lurking supernatural terror, Quintana must uncover a truth he'd thought long hidden, and face a horror he thought he'd long escaped.

HEROES ARE BORN. THIEVES ARE TRAINED. SHE'S NO HERO.This omnibus edition includes the first THREE books in the Valley of Ten Crescents series, plus the short story prequel.Tavera doesn't fight dragons. She won't save the world. She'll likely steal your drink. How does an orphaned half-elf grow up to become a master thief and what kind of life is that for a child?Book 0: Little Girl LostTavera is a child passe...

Es ist Sonntag in Berlin. Die Hälfte der Berliner ist faul, fährt ins Grüne oder lässt die Seele baumeln, die andere Hälfte geht zum Marathon. Zugucken oder - wer eine Akkreditierung hat: mitlaufen. Berlin-Marathon. Einmal im Jahr. Ein Großereignis. Hauptkommissarin Kruse und Kommissar Christian Wonder gehören weder zu den einen noch zu den anderen. Doch auch die beiden haben frei. Wonders Telefon ist ausgeschaltet. Ariane Kruse brummt der Kopf. Ein oder zwei Tequilla waren zu viel gestern...

Journeys is a collection of essays, poems, and stories of adventures through time, space, fact, and fiction. The writers are members of the Peninsula Writers Bloc. The Bloc was founded to create a space for writers in the San Francisco Bay Area to share their work and encourage each other. Journeys begin with genetically special teenage Time Travelers watching the creation of human art. Next, is a memoir by an American Air Force Officer's daughter during her family's new life in ...

Nach dem Erfolg der Unendlichen Geschichte folgt nun aus der Redaktion des WDR die Hörspielumsetzung eines der Lieblingsbücher von Michael Ende: Antoine de Saint-Exupérys berührendes und geistreiches Kunstmärchen vom kleinen Prinzen. Eine Geschichte, vertraut und neu zugleich. Alles beginnt mit einer Bruchlandung in der Wüste. Am folgenden Tag steht ein kleiner Prinz vor dem Piloten und berichtet von seiner langen, abenteuerlichen Reise. Er erzählt von fernen Planeten und ihren Bewohnern, ...

**5,000 Word Short Story**Tavera is a child passed from hand to hand as a source of cheap labor in the underworld of the Valley. When she finds herself at the mercy of the vicious sausage maker, the elderly Madame Greswin, she discovers secrets from the woman's past and the consequences leave Tavera fighting for her life."Little Girl Lost" is a short story and prequel to "Thieves at Heart", the first novel in the series "The Valley of Ten Crescents...