"Tell me: What are you guarding, from what, and why?""Sir?""Not the text book answer. Your answer."Jonah wasn't sure what Walkingstick wanted from him. "We're guarding an area of intersecting multiversal space—""I said, 'Not the text book answer.' You sound like a damn orientation video. This is a test. Pass it."Jonah tried hard not to let his frustration show on his face. A soldier never disrespected their superiors. That was something his father ha...

Then the Order doctors were worrying after Rosetta, and Keaton stepped back to let them tend to her wounds.Representatives for the various Parchments and Speakers asked him questions and he answered. Yes, he and Rosetta were in a relationship. Yes, he was very impressed with her performance. Yes, he was very prepared for his fight with Mantis.It worried him that this last felt like a lie."What do you think about the announcement," one of the writers asked, "that Ros...

Her destiny lies within the whispers of a dream...A sprawling epic of war, prophecy, and a princess who must forge a kingdom from the ashes.On her nineteenth birthday, Angelterra, princess of Palzintine, finds her sheltered world collapsed in a single, catastrophic battle against the brutal Venordaladian legions, unleashed by a power-hungry sorcerer. In his pursuit of world domination, Shutharja, a sorcerer and cleric of the dark cult of t...

"Love the writing, characters and story." --Kevin Anderson, author of the Dune novels about the Icefire story on which this novel is based.Deep under the City of Glass in the frozen southern land, an age-old machine called the Heart of the City radiates a power which locals call icefire. Most citizens are immune to it, but a few, always born with physical disabilities, can bend it to their will. For fifty years, the ruling Eagle Knights, who fly on the back of gian...

On the edge of sanity, she'll need to pull herself together to stop a ruthless killer.Alexandra Yorke was a top police clairvoyant until her lies got the best of her. She isn't a clairvoyant; she’s a witch, and years of living inside the heads of serial killers has taken its toll. Unable to control her gifts any longer, she retreats from the world.After a few months of peace at her grandparents' farm, a friend in need asks for help. She reluctantly agrees. ...

Set initially in Kansas, the story follows the adventures of young Dorothy Gale, who is blown in a tornado to the mythical land of Oz. There she must travel the yellow-brick road to the Emerald City, finding companions like the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, and the Cowardly Lion along the way to ask the Wizard of Oz for help in getting back home to Kansas. All the while Dorothy and her friends are dogged by the Wicked Witch of the West, who seeks the return of her Silver Sh...

England, 1813. Lady Theodosia feels she has no choice but to marry a man she doesn't love. That is until she stumbles into a different universe — an astonishing, mystical forest inhabited by the Nextic, a peaceful people who live close to nature.Ahuil is fiercely independent until he meets Theodosia. Cut off from his own people, he nurses a dark secret. But in Theodosia he sees someone he can trust … and love.Theodosia is convinced she's found paradise. But a great change i...

His sword hides a deadly secret.But to tell him, it wants blood in payment.The sword called Silver Crane knows Ken'ishi's hidden past, the heritage he himself does not.When Silver Crane is stolen, he must recover it all cost, or else Kazuko, the woman he loves, will die.Kazuko is in love with this ronin she can never have, trapped in a political marriage with a powerful samurai lord.But her husband's scheming chamber...

#1 IN 18-STRONG-RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN MYSTERY SERIESHis first murder investigation…an****d Joe Rafferty’s already got trouble in spades.His first case in charge looks like being his last.Because his new boss has taken against him; the case is a poisoned chalice from the start, with a ‘faceless lady’ victim; and his main suspect is pals with the Chief Constable.Even his ma adds seems to add to the kick...

What would you do to save the ones you love most?Sold into slavery by men who were supposed to kill her, Angelia Gualtiero must now convince the man who purchased her to help her. Lia would do anything to save her little brother from her murderous aunt, even marry a man she knows wants nothing more than use of her body.Marcus Renfield Halden, Ninth Duke of Caversham, needs an heir to secure his legacy and the futures of his young sisters from a desperate cousin whom he susp...

Warning: This is the book 3.5 in the Element Preservers series and should be read after book 3 since it contains spoilers for the first three books in the series. The novella has approximately 18000 words (74 pages)..Aware that Ria's condition is getting worse, Adrian is determined to do whatever it takes so he can touch her again without weakening her, and the only ones who might be able to help him are his greatest enemies. Haunted by the...

Angel FireMy name is Darcy Anderson, and I am cursed with a dark power: Whenever my life is in danger, something inside me summons elemental fire to protect me. I cannot control this.One night, I was attacked in my home. The fire ... it raged out of control. I survived the inferno, but my house burned to the ground - with my parents inside.I was at a loss to explain to the courts what happened, and so they sent me to prison for ten years for manslau...