A vast Greek fleet has gathered at Aulis, ready for the assault on Troy. But a prophecy says the first man ashore will die, and unease spreads among the soldiers.Across the sea Troy prepares to defend herself. Palisades have been built overlooking the beach, and neighbouring cities have promised help. Better still, Mursili the Hittite is making dozens of iron blades, each one stronger than any weapon in all Greece. They are being given to the Apollonian regiment, most feared of Tro...

Troy still stands, and the Greek army threatens to revolt. But Odysseus has a plan, dreamed up with the storyteller Thersites. The scheme centres on the south gate of Troy – the Horse Gate.In Greece itself revolt has already torn the nations apart. The kings will return to more war, with armies shrunk by the losses of Troy – if they return at all. For the gods are fickle, and the Greensea and its islands are full of perils even Odysseus has not guessed.PRAISE FOR BEN BLAKE

The Ashir thought they were alone in the world - until the strangers came. The invading Thrain have weapons of strange metal and ride beasts never seen before, and it is soon clear they have come to conquer. Anyone who opposes them is killed. The Ashir realise that their only hope lies with one man. Kai, the kamachi, living servant of the Teacher God.Kai has never heard the voice of his god, as kamachi are supposed to do. He wonders if the god chose the right man to be his servant....

The brethren were the finest warriors of their time, and they never died. When fortune turned against them they were laid into an enchanted sleep in a hidden cave, to wake again when the land was in peril. then they would go back to war, led by their captain Alar Redhand, his sword Hard Lightning in his hand.But when they wake it is six hundred years later, and the war they fought in has long been lost. If they are to have any place in this new world, where even the name of the lan...

The war for Sarténe has begun. In the city of Mayence the people prepare defences and wait for the All-Church army to come. Everything depends on Calesh Saissan and his friends, but the invading army is moving quickly, cutting the city off. In the confusion, an assassin has slipped into the city and is waiting for his chance, even as the enemy approaches. Luthien struggles with his conscience, determined to keep his vow of non-violence but torn as he watches his friends face dangers.

The fractious, bickering Greeks have a High King now. There are fewer wars. Men say the Age of Heroes ended when Theseus leapt into the sea.But far afield there are heroes still, not all of them Greek. Eastern islands have been conquered and settled, towns founded on strange shores in the west. Crete itself has fallen, mighty Minos thrown down. Greek eyes begin to range wider, to powerful Egypt in the south and the rich trade routes of the east, watched over by the Topless Towers o...

Calesh Saissan is a captain of the Hand of the Lord, a military Order fighting in Tura d'Madai. But he has no faith in the God he seems to serve. The purpose of the Hand is to distract attention, so the All-Church will not notice the heresy growing in its homeland of Sarténe.Now word has reached Calesh that the charade has failed. The heresy has been revealed, and the All-Church will turn its next Crusade west, into Sarténe. So Calesh comes home, back to the land he left eleven yea...

What would you do if you discovered you were a key to human salvation? Living his very ordinary life, Jacob soon discovers he is one of the gatekeepers. What is a gatekeeper? If you die near a gatekeeper you automatically go to heaven...or hell, depending on which gatekeeper you are lucky or unlucky enough to die close to. Will their power remain a secret or is the only way to help, a full reveal?

A young girl finds out that a glow in her eye is much more than she expects. Now she is being groomed to become a member of a specialized fraternity where only the best and brightest minds can belong. Her experience through her teenage years are recounted in Gryphon.

Los Angeles and Washington DC receive unexpected visitors and everyone is scrambling to find out what they are. Julie Rumley, a scientist from Chicago, will find out wether she wants to or not. Soaring is a short story meant to activate your imagination.

Serena Doyle is an eighth-grader with several problems: she hates school, her father is shipping out to the Middle East, and a strange man in black is trying to kill her. Adding to that is the mysterious Door in her dreams that keeps calling to her.When she finds the Door in her grandfather's attic, Serena adds yet another problem: to solve the mystery of the Door would mean directly disobeying her grandfather. But her grandfather won't be around forever, and the Door keeps calling...

An underground war is taking place, kept hidden from the public eye by those called the Altors and Regius. Although unaware at first of what their involvement brings to the people of Zinc, Calycanthus' close proximity to the Altors allows him to uncover parts of the truth, creating an important turning point that may just be the kick the Altors need to beat the Regius. But it is Solenum who will find the possible key that can lead to a peaceful future.Is Galax an exception to the r...