Mitchell Hogan, an imaginative new talent, makes his debut with the acclaimed first installment in the epic Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, A Crucible of Souls, a mesmerizing tale of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery**.**When young Caldan’s parents are brutally slain, the boy is raised by monks who initiate him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery.Growing up plagued by questions about his past, Caldan vows to discover who his p...

**The first three books in the epic fantasy The Necromancer's Key series.A corrupted power stirs from beyond the grave.The Necromancer Queen will rise again.**Seventeen years have passed since the Necromancer Queen was overthrown and slain by a holy order of knights. Raised in the sacred disciplines of the knights Order, Anskar prepares for the brutal initiation trials to become a consecrated knight-sorcerer.But as troubling powers awaken within him, a schism...

A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world—or be the instrument of its destruction—by the Aurealis Award-winning author of A Crucible of Souls.Blood of Innocents is the second book in The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, a mesmerizing saga of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery.Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen.As orphaned, monk-raised Caldan and his companions flee the city, leaving behind...

A young sorcerer must learn to wield his extraordinary powers to defeat two warring empires in the stunning conclusion to the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence.In a battle of armies and sorcerers, empires will fall.After young Caldan's parents were slain, a group of monks raised the boy and initiated him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery. But when the Mahruse Empire was attacked, and the lives of his friends hung in the balance, he was forced to make a d...

This book is a practical guide for preventing occupational exposures to bloodborne and infectious disease in health care. It is a timely and essential resource given that people working in healthcare settings sustain a higher incidence of occupational illness than any other industry sector, and at the time of publication of this book we are in the midst of a global pandemic of COVID-19. While the guide is focused on health care primarily, it would be useful for preventing exposures to esse...

THE LAST ARROW: A Sorcery Ascendant Short StoryHeikir fights against overwhelming odds, but can one lone man turn the tide and decide the fate of all?A poor farmer conscripted into the army, Heikir finds himself one of hundreds of archers defending the fortress of Kascunir from a savage horde. There's no end in sight to the siege, and morale quickly plummets along with their rations. As starvation and disease throttles the defenders strength and will to sur...

This is a standalone novella of 16,500 words set before the events of Revenant Winds.From Mitchell Hogan — Aurealis Award winner and author of the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence.Niklaus, master swordsman, has not aged a day since being chosen by his mercurial goddess. A slave to her will, he moves from one cryptic mission to the next in the hope of ascending to become her equal.But even a man who has lived for centuries can sometimes find himself out of ...

A novel of romance, suspense, and supernatural terror in a small Texas town by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Stillhouse Lake series.Abby Rhodes is a music teacher in small-town Texas, but she's about to journey to places she never imagined before. When a gorgeous man appears at her door and touches her hand, Abby's world is changed forever. Her heart is overwhelmed by him, but her mind is being taken over by a dark supernatural force she can...

How can she stop evil if she can't even control her own dark magic?Skylar has a few problems:Getting out from under her famous mother’s shadow.Making it through the Academy of Magic without getting herself killed.And trying not to murder the devilishly handsome, so-infuriating-she-wants-to-strangle-him Asher once they’re partnered with each other.So when she discovers a new baddie gathering power in her city, someone with insane magi...

USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Megan Linski introduces a captivating three-book box set where fae find their shifter mates and royals battle for the right to rule.Emma is a sorceress— but she doesn’t know it. A rare breed of fae, Emma is whisked away to a regal realm where dragons breathe fire, griffins fly, alicorns battle and wolves hunt monsters. In this land of pagan ritual and dark deception, a cult of shadow seeks her blood to raise a dark god, and the...

All three books in 'The Dark Amulet', a series of epic fantasy novels by Jennifer Ealey, now in one volume!The Pale-Eyed Mage: Sheldrake is a mage. Maud is a shapeshifter. When their son is born, he is completely pale with nearly white eyes: the legacy of a fearsome great-grandmother. Jayhan grows into a cheery, accident-prone eight-year-old, unhappily aware of his heritage. Soon, a dark-eyed orphan enters his life; rescued from a brutal master to become their stab...

Meet Mirella, an orphan who discovers that she isn't crazy. Strange things happen around her because she's actually a witch who is being recruited to Magical Hunters Academy. How can she turn that down? But her life is about to become much more dangerous as a result...