Three Mean StreetsWelcome to Rannit, an ancient city awash in magic and mayhem. Wracked by war, but embracing the dubious wonders of steam and iron, Rannit is on the path to renewal – but old magics and older shadows won’t go easily into the light.Markhat earns his living as a finder. On behalf of his clients, Markhat will find anyone, or anything, for a fee. In Three Mean Streets, his clients include a dead man’s ghost, a mighty Troll warrior seeking his c...

Hold The DarkMarkhat the finder knows going missing in Rannit is as easy as stepping outside. But when vanished seamstress Martha Hoobin’s brothers hire Markhat to bring their sister home, he quickly finds himself face to fang with a murderous halfdead blood cult, a coven of treacherous Church leaders, and a vampire gangster with schemes all his own. Markhat’s only chance of survival may lie with a dark magic that brings power, but at an awful price.In a ci...

The Banshee's WalkMarkhat’s new case seemed simple enough. Someone is performing clandestine land surveys about the Werewilk estate, and Lady Werewilk demands to know who, and why. Markhat suspects a simple land grab is in play, a grab probably orchestrated by a greedy nephew or a scheming band of distant cousins. Despite the estate’s remote location, deep in a haunted forest well beyond Rannit’s old walls, Markhat figures on a quick resolution and, best of all, a ...

The Five FacesRannit’s crime bosses are falling, each slain by an unstoppable killer who taunts each victim with a drawing depicting the date, time, and grisly manner of every death. The only clues to the killer’s identity are the five crude faces drawn at the bottom of each death notice. Even warned, no one escapes, no one survives.Hired by House Avalante to find the killer, Markhat suspects sorcery is afoot. When the ranks of the slain come to include judg...

The Broken BellMarkhat takes on the case of Carris Lethway, who vanishes two weeks before his wedding. Markhat initially suspects cold feet and a hasty stagecoach ride to the south, but the deeper he digs, the less likely that appears. Will wedding bells turn to a funeral dirge, before any vows are even exchanged?As the search leads Markhat back to the years of the War, he uncovers a buried crime, and a sinister figure bent on vengeance. When magic enters t...

The Darker CarnivalDespairing parents Berthold and Renilda Ordwald hire Markhat to rescue their daughter Alfreda from the clutches of a sinister traveling circus which just pitched its tents outside Rannit’s walls. The Ordwalds claim Alfreda was snatched from her home three years ago, and forced to perform on the carnival midway as the cadaverous Living Dead Girl.Markhat takes the case. Soon he and Darla discover something sinister hiding beneath the bright...

Mage Meralda’s perilous airship journey across the vast Great Sea made her a hero.Her discovery of the Arc may doom her world.The Arc, a mysterious metal structure hanging ten thousand feet above the stormy Sea, is singing. Tasked by the King to decipher the Arc’s strange song, Meralda discovers plans for an outlandish machine hidden in the song’s mathematical lyrics.With sharp-tongued vegetable familiar Mug at her side, Meralda embarks on an unexpected journey acro...

Brown River QueenMarkhat and Darla board a lavish vampire gambling riverboat, the Brown River Queen, on her maiden voyage down the Brown. Hired by House Avalante to be on the lookout for trouble, Markhat dreams of a fat payday and a week of free beer and lavish meals. That dream is shattered with the first murder on board the Queen. More blood is quickly shed, the slain rise to walk, and as the cruise turns to a nightmare, Markhat and Darla uncove...

Join Mug and Meralda as they take to the skies in the long-awaited sequel to All the Paths of Shadow!  The airship Intrepid, fitted with Mage Meralda's flying coils and bearing a crew of a hundred souls, sets out to cross the treacherous Great Sea. If the Intrepid survives the voyage, she will be the first craft of the Realms to ever reach the mysterious Hang homeland. But as Meralda soon discovers, storms and sea-serpents are not the greatest perils...

All aboard the Western Star. Next stop: Murder.The Markhat Files, Book 8Markhat and Darla journey into the unknown, where Trolls and worse await those who dare the wastelands, and old magics take on new life when fueled by vengeance and the undying power of greed.Three thousand miles of haunted prairie lie between Rannit’s bustling streets and tiny frontier town of Railsend. Finder Markhat’s new case puts him aboard the steam locomotive Western Star, bound for Rails...

Only when fear is at its most intense can true heroism come into the light.In the year A.D. 9, three legions of the Emperor Augustus are massacred in the forests of Germania. It is a defeat that fills the heart of the Roman Empire with terror.Meanwhile, in Rome, Gaius Justus Vitalis and his surviving men are struggling with the trauma of their battle with the Immortui in the Carpathian Mountains, an experience that has changed them forever.When shad...

Trained to fight, lead, and sail the ocean that is space, Nel Vaughn has the makings of a hero. She should have been the best, but Nel forsake a career with the Alliance and now sails the Free Lanes on the Tantamount with its misfit crew, Kitsune cabin girl, and absent-minded captain.During a stopover for repairs, Nel and the Tantamount are coerced into ferrying medical cargo to a planet at war. Complicating the job are the Tantamount's unwanted passengers—a Guildswoman; her golem;...