· Eons ago magic users were unguided and undisciplined. There were those that applied magic intelligently, those that were unscrupulous, and worst of all, the amateurs. Magic ran rampant in the land. Those pure of heart came together to form a standard of discipline, they formed The Crystal into which the hearts, minds, and souls of hundreds, eventually thousands, gave their special talents.Those powerful from the beginning, corrupted by the black arts, coveted the power of The Crys...

· Eons ago a great power arose to corrupt the world. It could not be destroyed by armies and so was split into pieces and scattered by a powerful sect of monks. Now it has arisen again, as foretold in a prophecy, and corrupted a powerful northern family. The monks cannot interfere so they've trained from childhood and tasked Tara, a vibrant young woman with special abilities to take special knowledge across hostile land to a wizard in the west.· Now flowering into womanhood she is s...

· Not your ordinary western.· In the late 1800s old American west an orphaned Indian boy is raised and educated by a powerful federal judge. With a law degree from Harvard, a U.S. Marshal's badge, a clever mind (and a few of the Judge's cigars from a locked humidor) he is tasked to slip covertly into the lawless west to uncover illegal cattle drug doings. On the way he picks up a former Calvary lieutenant sharpshooter running from the law for something he didn't do.· Even tho...

· In Earth's far distant past an epic battle took place in space thousands of light years away. Facing only annihilation Captain Kendrick turned his interstellar fighter craft to the farthest reaches of the galaxy until he reached a blue marble of a planet and landed on a large island in its northern hemisphere. Earth. 1600s feudal Japan. A 6'5" warrior from an advanced culture in a land populated by 5'8" war-like people.· Imagine the possibilities!· He befriends the local Sh...

· In the late 1800s American west U.S Marshal Tyrone Narrowhawk and his big partner Merle Johnson bust a cattle rustling ring in pursuit of a killer named Pearson. But capturing this slippery devil turns out to be no easy task.· They are joined by Hawk's old mentor, a way-past-retirement crusty old ( but very capable) lawman named Pike, who still has a trick or two up his sleeve.· In their pursuit they encounter renegade Kiowa on the warpath and must extricate themselves from...

The deep desert, a vast wasteland, holds the secret of the forgotten Goddess Narine, discovered by young Crystal Warrior Darian. But before he can locate a third hidden obelisk, which will allow them entry into the chamber of the Twelve Tablets, he is recalled to defend the center of civilization, the Crystal, under magical attack from unknown forces. He vows to return but for now he and others must overcome time and distance to battle a force four times their number where they will be for...

A thousand mile journey lies before Darian and his father. The young man makes good on his promise to return and discover the third obelisk buried in the deep desert and return to the temple of the Goddess Narine, as foretold by the prophecy.Mahmud and he decipher the binary code from the obelisks' ancient writings. The reading of the Twelve Tablets brings forth the beautiful and shining Lady Mist. Under her guidance the 'Keeper of the Word' Darian unwittingly frees an ancient evil....

From USA Today bestselling author David Dalglish.One has conquered a city. The other covets an entire nation.In book #3 of the Shadowdance series, Haern is the King's Watcher, protector against thieves and nobles who would fill the night with blood. Yet hundreds of miles away, an assassin known as the Wraith has begun slaughtering those in power, leaving the symbol of the Watcher in mockery. When Haern travels south to confront this copycat, he find...

A dark lord will rise. Such is the prophecy that dogs Ringil Eskiath—Gil, for short—a washed-up mercenary and onetime war hero whose cynicism is surpassed only by the speed of his sword. Gil is estranged from his aristocratic family, but when his mother enlists his help in freeing a cousin sold into slavery, Gil sets out to track her down. But it soon becomes apparent that more is at stake than the fate of one young woman. Grim sorceries are awakening in the land. Some speak in whispers of...

Survival is the only currency...For centuries, the vast Ironship Trading Syndicate relied on drake blood—and the extraordinary powers it confers to those known as the Blood-blessed—to fuel and protect its empire. But when the drake blood lines began to fail, a perilous expedition was mounted to secure them.Claydon Torcreek survived the fraught mission through uncharted lands in pursuit of a myth that might have secured his people’s future. Instead he found ...

In the White Drake's war, the price of freedom is paid in blood and fire....For hundreds of years, the Ironship Trading Syndicate was fueled by drake blood—and protected by the Blood-blessed, those few who could drink it and wield fearsome powers. But now the very thing that sustained the corporate world threatens to destroy it.A drake of unimaginable power has risen, and it commands an army of both beasts and men. Rogue Blood-blessed Claydon Torcreek, Synd...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYKirkus Reviews • Fantasy Book Critic“Pulpy and hard-core, but with a heart of gold.”—io9The otherworldly Kiriath once used their advanced technology to save the world from the dark magic of the Aldrain, only to depart as mysteriously as they arrived. Now one of the Kiriath’s uncanny machines has fallen from orbit, with a message that humanity once more faces a grave danger: the Ilwra...