Fantasy

Dead Calm, Bone Dry is a Directors' Choice Finalist

What if you were forced to sail with pirates?
Captured and tried for piracy.
Then sentenced to hang.
Would you trade your body to the crew of the Flying Dutchman to save your soul?
Ricky did.
Some dead men DO tell tales.
And there is stolen treasure in this pirate story.
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Escaping from Cesare Borgia cost Gwyn dearly, but there is still work to be done. Dozens of turning points in Spain need correctly, so while all she wants to do is hide and grieve, the future is not going to save itself. Spain has been unified under Isabella and Ferdinand, but what happens when the Queen dies and the King wants to usurp the throne from his daughter? Will Spain fracture and go t ...

Hundreds of years ago, the Great Death desolated the planet, killing most humans and animals. The world that was reborn is filled with human-animal hybrids. The descendants of humans rule over the others using segregation and subjugation to enslaved and command. Trinity, a sixteen year old Producer, knows she won’t be chosen to stay in the encampment and breed. Instead, she’ll ...

Five hundred years after the death of King Arthur, a sadistic tyrant of Visi-Galia, attacks unprotected and vulnerable townships in Gilleon, igniting a deadly chain of events. Because he was unfairly denied a proper chance to compete for valuable mine rights and outbid by a Councilman from Gilleon, he reasons that he ca ...

A life for a life. That’s the deal I made with my father to save my best friend from the poisonous magic about to kill him.

With Davian Grymes brought to justice, I thought the memory-warping torture caused by Bliss would finally end. Unlucky for me, this disturbing nightmare is only just beginning. I'm tangled up in a whole new mess of problems, and if I don't do somethi ...

No questions asked. Isn't that the policy? Tilman picks up a passenger on a last-minute voyage across the sea before the winter solstice and finds the waters between Eifion and Eadburga to be more dangerous than he ever imagined. Hunted by men and beast alike, he must find out what and who it is he is transporting before it’s too late. Or just dump him overboard, except it's never that simple.

Twenty-six-year-old Pierce King has just been given his dream job at a publishing company, but his luck is twisted when an old, disheveled vagrant clobbers him in the nose with a fat book, and the world is suddenly drowning in magic. In his journey to restore reality, he learns that various supernatural gangs have a stake in the outcome. Among Rex, a dragon he once unknowingly kept as a pet, the o ...

Drink to the dire and dead! Sing the songs of bloody corsairs! Patros Ngala. Tausi of Song City. Queen Zaki of the Silver Coasts. Bound by blood and bloodshed, these three legendary pirate captains will shape the destiny of the Mirror Sea through the steel in their hands and courage in their hearts. Gathered from the dregs of scorned empires built on slavery and vice in Juut’s glittering west, ...

A magical gift of the fae. When a soothsayer faces her end of days, can she find her lone heir before more blood is spilled? Ireland, 1177. Royal seer Orlagh’s prophecies of war fall on deaf ears. So with her sons long dead and only an intractable girl for an apprentice, the aging visionary dreams of her grandson and the need to pass on her legacy. Fearing her mortality, she leaves her short-sight ...

THE DEAD HAVE SECRETS! Jaime Sanders wants a normal life for her three children. But there is one catch. She is a witch. Drawn into a world of ghosts and spirits, she is forced to use her powers and fights to defend her family. As if she doesn’t have enough to deal with, her ex-husband has a vendetta against her. And an enemy aims to destroy Jaime then the rest of her beloved coven. Will Jaime’s m ...

Prequel to the time travel, fantasy romance trilogy, Highland Secrets! He’s a reluctant Laird… Alex MacLeod always knew he’d be leader of his clan, but duty was thrust upon him before he was ready. His father’s devotion to his sick mother is something to admire—or so he keeps telling himself. He regards the man above all others and can’t understand why he would forgo duty for love. He teeters on t ...

Death stalks the abbey at Tranquility Bridge... On their way from their remote district to the Imperial capital, detective-judge Jhee and her spouses are forced to halt for repairs at a secluded abbey. There is more to the abbey than meets the eye. While there, she is called upon to investigate several mysterious deaths. Trapped by circumstances and with no way for help to arrive, can she uncover ...

ONE DAMAGED FAIRY. ONE HALF-HUMAN. ONE DESTINY.

Pennora saved her fairy village from a wildfire, but at a devastating cost–the loss of a wing. Now the role she was born into as a fairy of the vale and harbinger of spring has been irrevocably altered.

Relegated to assisting the Matchmaker in the upcoming May Day Lovers Match, Pennora is sent to a nearby human town to discover ...

Henry will do anything to save his father. Even if it means keeping secrets. Big ones. Thirteen-year-old Henry Miller knows he’s not typical. And it’s not just because he’s the president’s son. When a mysterious assassin attacks him after school, Henry uncovers a strange power: the world slows down while he speeds up—stronger and faster than his short, stout body has ever been. Trouble is, Henry c ...

A sleeping beauty. A kingdom frozen in time. Only one can save them all. Once upon a time… Lord Siward intended to go hunting, but when he stumbles upon a ruined castle and accidentally wakes the mysterious maiden sleeping inside, he knows his holiday is over. With the kingdom in trouble, Siward should be protecting the realm, but every time Rosamond looks at him, he gets lost in the girl ...

"This is a complex plot at its best. The character development is perfect." -Rabia Tanveer, Readers' Favorite It was the 75th year of Alberoth when the AsZar summoned the Guardians. There was an imbalance in the lands of Faélondul. The Zaxson, Draizeyn Vereux, conspired to exterminate the infestation in Nazil. He planned to eradicate the humans. Led by the priestly cast called the Cha, the ...

Warnings echo through the woods…

Born with the mark of the scribe, Raela is bound to the prophetic book that directs her people underground to escape the invasion of their homeland. As the prophecy warns, this event signals a worsening doom on the horizon.

But the book that promises to sustain her life continues to divide her heart. Her fierce lover, Rebial, is ...

Tangie Newsham has trained for years to qualify for the military’s elite Nano-Soldier Unit. But her motivations run deeper than serving her country, because she’s looking for a killer in the ranks. Fifteen years ago, her nanotech-scientist father died in a “lab accident” while working for the military. Tangie knows it was no accident, after her father discovered a secret continent hidden beneath t ...

Devarim’s travels are interrupted when he encounters the victims of roadside assault. He soon realizes that not all the victims are dead, but may be held captive by a band of forest ruffians intend on abuse and enslavement. Severely outnumbered, the ranger will need all his skills to overcome the bandits and their ruthless leader. Edhelwen left her elfin realm to enter the world of humans for the ...

Stabbed. Burned by a dragon. Abandoned for the windrocs to pick over. The traitor Ra’aba tried to silence Hualiama forever. But he reckoned without the strength of a dragonet’s paw, and the courage of a girl who refused to die. Only an extraordinary friendship will save Hualiama’s beloved kingdom of Fra’anior and restore the King to the Onyx Throne. Flicker, the valiant dra ...

What do you get when you mix a novice wizard, a reckless warrior, a sharp-tongued thief, & a saintly cleric? Swords, sorcery, & sarcasm.

Glolindir thought he knew all about magic until he came face to face with his very first monster. He only survived thanks to his new friends: a gallant warrior as talented as he is reckless, a mysterious halfling whose knives are nearl ...

Child of destiny and pawn of the gods When his parents are murdered and his sister taken by raiders, Corin an Fol’s world crashes in on him. Wild and willful, he joins the elite Wolf Regiment but swiftly falls foul of its swordmaster, the brutal Taskala. The regiment becomes embroiled in a vicious civil war between the sultan of Permio and rebel tribesmen. Corin, caught in the treacherous power pl ...

“I would not go into that club with less than a hundred picked soldiers.” More than the Macabre. After a year in the wilderness, Chadwick Yates has only returned to civilization for one reason: to uncover what evil lurks in the Coulsby Theater Club. Back safe in the metropolis of his homeland, Commander Sharp must decide whether or not to leave Yates altogether. But soon the two are dr ...

The voices tell me to wake up, but with two children under three, I’m awake. Believe me. There’s just so much pressing on me. Crystal, the woman who runs Shade, the secret group who imprisoned me, is still out there and I cannot rest until I have ended her. I need supernatural allies to do that, though, and they are hard to come by. Witches, vampires, and weres refuse to unite against their com ...

She's not what she seems. He's determined to uncover the truth. After nearly being assassinated a few weeks ago, King Aerrin has reason to be on edge. The Raven Bringer has returned, and Aerrin knows he’s the fiend’s top target. So he’s naturally suspicious about the new student at the Academy of Arcane Magics. She's too good, too advanced, and too polished to only be a young stu ...

It was settled. Maslyn could finally go to magic school. And not just any magic academy. The prestigious Mulik, where only the best SpelFreys trained. Her strange brand of magic, magic she promises to keep secret, will finally come to good use. Use that would guarantee her top marks and a superior commission after graduation. But starting this adventure is different from what she thought. Her ...

A collection of science fiction short stories from the award-winning author of Pearseus and Runaway Smile. The law of unintended consequences meets Murphy's law during a man's unexpected time travel. A grizzled veteran meets his god. And a loner discovers just how far he'd go to alleviate his loneliness. These stories explore our perception of the world around us. Is there more to the worl ...

One world born from another shall share an equal fate. On Dane’s thirty-first birthday, a long-forgotten past is revealed. A prophecy, written before the time of man, foretells of the rise of an archaic evil and only those born from the blood of the ancient races and marked by fate can stop its ascent. As fate draws near, Dane must journey into a foreign land to accept her birthright and harness t ...

“A dying confession? Hmm, I have heard of the human habit. How amusing you should share it with your bane.” Everyone dies. Hereb had always accepted that. Risk was part of the deal when it came to adventuring. After all, wasn’t that one of the main reasons you went on adventures? Still, lying broken before a gloating enemy was not how he had dreamed his life would end. He had overcome many challe ...

Lightbringers is a Grimdark Fantasy set on a dying earth, twenty thousand years from now. The stars are right and the Great Old One asleep at the bottom of the world finally stirs in his terrible slumber. One reluctant hero, a half-breed child of the Elder gods, and his companions set out on a globe-spanning quest, populated by creatures of myth and beings of legend, to save the Earth from the evi ...

Believe in witches, for sometimes you need magic to ward off the evil in darkness. It was my junior year at Hawthorne University when Mira dealt me a reversed Lovers card. That meant trouble in paradise. I thought nothing of it until Alondra introduced me to a new witch from outside our coven—Enora. Enora’s precisely the sort of witch you’d call wicked. Even worse, she used to be in love with my b ...

There are some places in Teynia none were meant to go, hiding secrets none were meant to find. But on one unfortunate spring morning, sisters Kali and Ryn Middlethird stumbled upon such a place and uncovered such a secret. They stood before the Gate, an enchanted barrier left behind by the Álfaerëns long ago to imprison the Spirit, an evil capable of destroying the world. If only someone had told ...

A castle of dreams. A love that defies reason. And magic that can change the course of Fate.... Reconstruction engineer, Garen McTaggart, has always longed to own a castle. Now his wish is about to be granted -- if he can renovate the castle on time and marry Leeza Cantrell, heir to the desired estate. Just as his future looks bright, Garen stumbles into an enchanted garden and falls asleep. ...

Starting school at Hawthorne University was not going well, until I met my classmate Alondra. Allie was different. She was goth. But she was also mysterious, confident and fun. I was into that. My name’s Liam. My friends call me Lee. Things got weird after I accompanied her to her haunts. Poltergeists and demons attacked little girls. I watched Alondra help exorcise these ghosts, but some of their ...

For God School's latest graduate, the adventure continues...

Bernie is a young god who fixes broken universes for a living.  Unfortunately, the universe he's working on is in the middle of a civil war caused by Ashok, a murderous wizard determined to control the lucrative pepper trade. 

Bernie's boss urges him to ...

A hidden world waits, a dark society schemes, and a ship sails to protect that which cannot be lost. Salem Swan knows none of this as he arrives in Easterly. He knows only that he misses his recently deceased mother, that his new guardian, his uncle Ulysses is unique, and that the boat which will now be his home in unlike anything he has ever seen. Fearful of this new reality, Salem starts to ...

Axel is just an ordinary peasant boy living in his brother Jarron's shadow... Until one day he receives a mysterious summons from The Wizard himself, setting into motion a chain of events that will change his world forever.

For god-like creatures named Mejuarian living on planet Ercutis, their world was near perfect. Mejuarian, a cross between an animal and godly beings, have a splendorous village where everyone gets along. They live in a hierarchical society, and everyone loves their king and queen. A near utopian life that allows all Mejuarian to rise to their most extraordinary levels of consciousness. That is un ...

None can resist the ravages of time. Knowledge is lost. Memories fade. But some things must never be forgotten. Over 400 years ago, twelve great warriors united the beleaguered armies of men and scoured the war-torn lands of evil, pushing the enemy back into the underground pits and caverns from whence they came. To ensure their legacy, each of the Twelve founded fortress monasteries to impa ...

Something is out there. And the people live in constant fear. But their biggest threat lies within their own village. Everyone and everything is dying, slowly and without hope of salvation. In a world where almost nothing is truth and isolation is the purest form of self-deception, the possibility of hope exists only in the heart and mind of a young woman who chooses to follow an unknown path in o ...

There are those who are born into loving families and then there are the less fortunate who must forge their own families through strong friendships. At a local small library in New York City, one such family was born. And just like so many capricious happenstances in life, this family unit embraced newcomers and grew exponentially. But this clan was also charged with far more than spreading love ...

"Harry Potter meets Die Hard" - M. Bybee, WereBook.org "Madmax meets Lord of the Rings" - Goodreads.com A world once at the height of magical technology and social order has collapsed. How and why are the least of the wizard killer’s worries. Leaning my bloody head against the back of the crashed levitating carriage, I flex my cramped fingers. With a renewed grip on the mana-pistol, I steal ...

Mmm. Shoot an apple off his friend’s head or lose his food, horse and clothes? Some decisions require little thought.
Archer is the sort of boy things happen to. Orphaned as a baby, his gifts make him different to other kids. He doesn't understand why he's so much stronger and faster than other boys; why a sword feels so right in his hand; or how every arrow he looses at a target wi ...

Haunted by his past. Hunted in the present. Buffeted like an arrow in the wind.

The hunt for the Bow of Hart continues for Athson and his companions. They have escaped the clutches of Magdronu and Corgren, but they are still pursued. In need of answers to deep mysteries revealed in Chokkra, Athson must gain possession of the mythic bow to face both his enemies and his tragic past. ...

Eleven-year-old Elise converses with animals. Her twin brother, Frankie, unwittingly opens portals to other worlds. As if fitting in with their strange abilities at St. Dominic’s Children’s Home wasn’t hard enough, sinister men appear one day in search of the twins. Aided by their formidable librarian, Frankie and Elise evade capture and flee across the country. They find themselves in hiding on a ...

In Seattle, an unremarkable earthquake ripples through the city on a sunny April day, barely registering for most residents. Yet, for five individuals, it becomes a seismic turning point, forever altering their lives. Among them is a cheerful and charismatic physics teacher, a brilliant neurodivergent six-year-old, a struggling artist, a deeply religious retired nurse, and a nervous real estate ag ...

Universes don't build themselves, you know. We have staff for that. We call them gods...

When a young god named Bernie finally gets a job building universes, it starts a series of mishaps that spark numerous revelations. Challenged by his supervisor to prove his worth, Bernie sets out to build a fully stable world but hits roadblocks every step of the way. ...

The best assassins learn their magic at the Academy of the Subtle Arts. Everyone joins for their own reasons: to give death her proper due, to acquire outrageous fortunes, or to know that history bends to their blade. Zayn Carter joined the Academy to save his family. In the sleepy town of Varna, an ancient evil lurks, preying on the townsfolk and keeping them enslaved by her poison. This arrangem ...

After losing a hard fought battle, Suleima finds a new home in the wilderness outside a small town to heal her wounds and recover her Elemental magic. A small town which houses a werewolf pack. When that past begins to encroach on her new territory, she and her friends, new and old, must figure out a way to win this time. Will her dragon shifter best friend and the Alpha of the pack be ...

As the sun hits the glossy surface of the crystal ball, the tree inside glows. After traveling through one world after the other, time is running out. The choice must be made; the crystal ball shattered to set free its valuable contents before it’s too late. How It All Began is a short story of a thousand words and invites you into The Magical Universe showing you the beginning by telling the stor ...

In a dystopian future where humans have foolishly squandered Earth’s natural resources, the few remaining people are becoming desperate. Crowded in huge underground cities, they’ve finally come to the end of the line and they must decide whether or not they will trade the only valuable resource Earth has left... Women. Being the daughter of a wealthy diplomat, Rose is blissfully ignora ...

It takes a gang of thieves to catch a gang of thieves Toric's Dagger is just another religious relic, until it's stolen. Belwynn and her twin brother, Soren, volunteer to lead a team tasked with its retrieval. Drawn into a world of danger and treachery, they must rely on Soren's magical abilities, and on the telepathic bond they share. Now, as kingdoms and empires start to fall, the twins confront ...

Europe is on fire. Fuelled by religion, politics and power, war rages across the continent, pitting father against son, and brother against brother. In the wake of such conflict come horrific famine and deadly plagues. Rumours begin to surface of the End of Days, of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the violent Renaissance of Mankind. As Europe burns, betrayal and feuding rages in the Braban ...

As the elven city burns, Princess Kallan is taken to Alfheim while a great power begins to awaken within her. Desperate to keep the child hidden, her abilities are suppressed and her memory erased. But the gods have powers as well, and it is only a matter of time before they find the child again.

When Kallan, the elven witch, Queen of Lorlenalin, fails to save her dying father, s ...

In this comedic fantasy gamebook for adults, YOU play Mr Artanon, the conniving butler to the dark lord, and the choices you make shape the story. Navigate a cast of treacherous nobility and unwelcome relatives. Help the household werewolves make it through ‘that time of the month’. Manage a kitchen staff of stupid goblins. Teach the castle harpies the merits of personal hygiene. Accidentally slee ...