Rushlight is a look into the future ... a frightening place where man struggles to survive a ruined world. A privileged few live in a secure biosphere in the heart of the old city, a wasteland that decays around them; they’re safe from the elements, but trapped in their carefully appointed fortress. The rest of the survivors of the Great Decline have been driven underground to eke out an existence in the subway tunnels, where tribes have formed around the labors that barely keep them alive...

Struggling to keep your story straight? Discover an all-in-one workbook to put your plot on the right path.Are you bogged down by planning your novel? Is keeping track of your story details a major pain? Wish you could boost both your organization and your word count? New York Times Best-selling author L.R. Ryan has perfected the art of storytelling. And now she's here to share her time-saving approach to help you make sure your first spark of inspiration becomes a...

A visit from Yanko’s older brother is interrupted when an alarm blasts through the mine. Mutilated workers have been found dead in a newly opened tunnel.Yanko has been studying to become a mage, and his brother is a soldier, so they believe they are prepared to deal with this unknown threat, but what awaits them in the subterranean depths is nothing the mine has seen in its hundreds of years of operation.Death from Below is a 13,000-word novella.

With less than six months until his entrance exams for the famed Nurian warrior-mage academy, Yanko is sent to his uncle’s salt mine for “hardening,” as his father calls it. He expects endless days of physical labor; what he doesn’t expect is to have to choose one of the mine’s prisoners as a sparring partner.Not wanting his uncle to think him a coward, Yanko picks a big scarred man from Turgonia, a land known for its ruthless warriors. Only after his selection does he learn that h...

How do you win a battle lost 6,000 years before you were born? How do you make sure that winning that battle doesn't lose you the war? Lieutenant Launa O'brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear have won their first battle and made their first recruits. But the whole steppe is up in arms and the tribes are wandering. How do they create a peace that will last 6,000? Here is the exciting continuation of the saga started in First Dawn.

A tale of magic, revenge, and bitter death—on the rain-spattered streets of the great city. This is epic fantasy not "in the tradition of Tolkien," but, instead, sensual, ominous, shot through with the sweat of fear and the intoxication of power.One of the most prolific new writers of the decade, Lake won 2004's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His novels include Mainspring, Escapement, Pinion, and Green. The world of Green is also the setting ...

'Earth is real,' Dumarest insisted. 'A world old and scarred by ancient wars. The stars are few and there is a great single moon which hangs like a pale sun in the night sky.'In the quest for his legendary birthplace, Earl Dumarest has traversed galaxies. Now, at least, he reaches Ourelle, a planet close to Earth - out along a far arm of the Milky Way. There he finds Jondelle, a boy who may hold the key to Earl's search.But then Jondelle is kidnapped. And Dumarest's pursuit...

Duncan MacElroy went out for a six-pack of beer one night and never came back. Instead, he found himself embroiled in a war for the dominance of Paratime, as well as defending our own particular version of Earth from predators on both sides. For he quickly discovered that "parallel universes" aren't, and that a single individual can make all of the difference in the worlds!

Centuries ago, they fled the doomed Earth.The twelve remaining ships of their damaged flotilla stumbled into the star system HD 70642 and colonized the worlds they found there. Humanity’s last vestiges fought the elements and each other to survive. Out of terror and darkness, the Nar Exus Triumvirate was created, enforcing a fragile peace between the three largest planets, Lunen, Cixca, and Werjegna.On the remote dwarf planet called Shastre, the people’s si...

Two powerful alien forces, the sadistic half-human Brotherhood and the savage Hivers, are determined to destroy all human life on Earth. All that stands between them and the achievement of their goal are the old Earth team and their Raider allies.Enemy actions force the Earth team to deploy on an emergency reconnaissance mission. The search for information quickly expands into a desperate battle against growing horror, terror, and despair. They discover far more than anyone could i...

From the void, you awaken. Not to life, but to the Factory.Here, darkness breathes. Iron chains bite cold. The air is thick with the ghosts of industry—oil, sweat, and the metallic tang of despair. Towering over all, a gleaming monument to suffering scrapes against a sky that has never known light. You are a number, a shadow, fuel for the machine. Memory is a luxury; survival, a curse.But even in the deepest hell, a spark can catch.A soldier's glanc...

Find your purpose. Take your chances. Save your kingdom. In BOOK 1: REINTRODUCTION, the Elementals proved themselves by claiming the Stone Key. In BOOK 2: RELEASE, along with Royal Protector Aelek, the Elementals assisted in the rescue of Princess Yiseem, who had been kidnapped for mysterious reasons by the evil General Ruin. In BOOK 3: REFORM, we follow the knife-wielding Aelek as he reveals that Yiseem’s father, the king of Corvelt, has been protecting another Stone Key. Meanwhil...