The third and final volume of the epic fantasy saga that began with The Hawk and His Boy, and continued with The Shadow at the Gate, The Wicked Day tells the conclusion of the story of Jute. Tracking the kidnappers of Giverny Farrow, Jute and his friends discover the Dark is on the march. Tormay teeters on the brink of war, and the duchies look to Jute as their last and best hope. But there is an ancient evil wak...

This volume contains an Open Access chapter.Recent decades have seen an unprecedented expansion and diversification of sports gambling markets. Enabled by widespread access to the internet, advances in smartphone technology and the liberalisation of gambling advertising, gambling companies have strategically invested in the alignment of this practise with culturally embedded sporting activities, leading some to characterise these developments as the ‘gamblification...

One night in the city of Hearne, a young thief named Jute is hired to break into a wizard's house and steal an old wooden box. It should've been an easy job. Unbeknownst to the boy, however, the box contains the knife that killed the Wind. Overcome with curiosity, Jute opens the box and sets off a chain of events that soon has him on the run from the wizard, his old masters in the Thieves Guild, and their client, who happens to be the Lord of Darkness himself. On his odyssey of escape, Jut...

A Tale from the Land of TormayJanek, a wandering orphan, arrives in the fishing village of Averlay and is immediately embroiled in the mysterious designs of a traveling peddler. In a land of murderous snowcats, ancient curses, and the walking dead, Janek must defeat the Dark before it finds an artifact of great power.

The real story of Sleeping Beauty has never been told. At least, not until this moment. Rosamonde is the reluctant princess of Bordavia, a tiny, peaceful country in central Europe. Life is perfectly pleasant until an aggressive prince arrives, complete with a hot air balloon and romantic designs on Rosamonde's hand. What's a girl to do? Pigs, trickery and derring-do abound, along with a great deal of napping, of course.

The call came late one night. The broker had a job for Jack Ferris. A special job. But when Ferris heard the details, he said he'd work it for free.Money can buy love. It can occasionally buy death. But sometimes both of them should be free.From the author of the Tormay Trilogy, Christopher Bunn, comes a dark tale of billionaires, bloody justice, and love that should have died a long time ago.

The second volume of the epic fantasy saga that began with The Hawk and His Boy takes us back to the story of the thief Jute. The emissaries of the Darkness have infiltrated the city of Hearne in search of him. Desperate to escape, the boy flees the city and heads into the wilderness of the north. But the ghosts of the past have other plans for him and, soon, Jute and his friends must choose between their own deaths or the destruction of the entire land. All the w...

Egyptian artifacts. Greedy government agents. And the resourceful Polly Inch...When Polly inherits her archaeologist uncle's estate, she also inherits a trio of IRS agents, determined to collect millions of dollars in unpaid taxes. However, as Polly discovers, there are creative ways to deal with the government, particular if you own a warehouse full of strange and mysterious artifacts from around the world.

Flavin's wife was dead. She was gone and she'd taken all his reasons to live. But when his old boss from the security agency comes calling with one last job, Flavin can't turn him down. And in the heart of the city, with the ghosts from his past whispering in his ear, Flavin discovers a secret that just might be worth dying for.

A Tale from the Land of TormayThe horseman was riding north when the storm caught him by surprise, blowing out of the sky in sudden fury. The village of Brean was the nearest refuge. The only problem was that the village had secrets. Dangerous secrets, particularly for a stranger.The Silver Girl takes place in the land of Tormay, not long after the end of the Tormay Trilogy. However, even though the Darkness was defeated at the end of the trilogy, ...

Author J.A. Giunta's epic story of The Ascension concludes after the events of The Last Incarnation and The Mists of Faeron.The shapeling war had ended but left Taellus in ruin, its people broken and struggling to mend the pieces. On the verge of ascension, Barr struggled as well, to make sense of his past lives and understand his true purpose. Fluora by his side, coping with her own new powers as Matron, things began to take a turn for the worse.The children gods, made mor...

At the aurorium of the Firelord, Ignis, Kaijin Sora finally feels a sense of belonging for the first time in many years. But when a conspiracy befalls the clergy, Kaijin is once again tasked with making things right. His journey will take him throughout his homeland of Aransiya, across the sea, and into the harsh desertlands of Ankhram, where he must find and stop the traitor. Faced with choices, darkness, and even death, Kaijin assumes the role of his master’s chosen and realizes that the...