**NEW** Blood Aurora
Houston police officer Will Clairmont thought he’d escaped his remote Alaska hometown of Tamarack for good. Then he receives the tragic news that his ex-girlfriend, Mia, died suddenly one night while out with friends. When he returns to Tamarack to attend the funeral, he is surprised to learn that the official explanation for Mia’s death leaves more questions than answers. As Will looks into the matter, he discovers that she left a troubling message shortly before she died, one that casts her death in a suspicious light.
As Will tries to unravel the mystery, disturbing events begin taking place around Tamarack that serve to further isolate the town. Are these events somehow connected to Mia’s death? And when he finds that her body is missing, Will begins to question if she really even died in the first place. He soon discovers that an unnatural force has laid siege to Tamarack, and he must team up with a federal agent who is searching for an AWOL military officer, and fight to save the town before it is too late.
Blood Aurora is a sci-fi horror thriller.
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Benedictio Noctis
When his beloved granddaughter is abducted by the local baron’s henchmen, the ailing Walerin of Antselt must resort to desperate measures to save the child. He is willing to pay any price, though he fears his final hope will taint his soul and lead to eternal damnation.
By casting a knucklebone into the fire, Walerin summons the aid of a mysterious woman who owes him a great, decades-old debt. However, Valeria Constancia is no ordinary woman of flesh and blood. She neither ages nor draws breath. And her hunger is an unholy one...
Benedictio Noctis is a 28,000-word medieval dark fantasy novella.
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Ephemeral Creatures
When Kevin gets behind the wheel drunk after a night out with friends, that leads to tragic consequences. The ensuing car crash kills his best friend and seriously maims another. After spending ten years in prison for his crime, he believes he’s finally come to terms with the tragedy and is ready to try to put his life back together.
That all changes when he starts seeing the specter of the young woman he’d killed. And as she begins to reveal her secrets, one shocking revelation rocks Kevin’s world. Hoping to find both answers and some measure of redemption, he embarks on a perilous road, one that puts him on a collision course with a madman who possesses a terrifying supernatural power. Kevin will have to enlist the help of his old friends, even if they want nothing to do with him, in order to try to right the wrongs of the past and survive the danger that awaits.
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Disposable Heroes
Boomer is a pretty simple guy for an alien hybrid. He runs on booze, caffeine, and junk food. He works as a bullet-resistant tank for a crew of street-running mercenaries. If someone needs hurting or something needs blowing up, he’s the guy to do it. It might not be the most glam life in Arutairu Megacity, but it’s his, and he’s rather attached to it.
When Boomer's team takes on a shady job with the promise of a stellar payday, the proverbial excrement quickly meets the fan, and hit squads come after him and his crew. Normally, a few amateur goons with guns would just make for good target practice, but he suddenly finds himself unable to protect his friends. His rapidly expanding list of problems soon includes double-crosses, femme fatales, a hybrid assassin wielding alien weaponry, and an army of mercs gunning for him and his rapidly dwindling crew. As if that mess wasn’t enough to deal with, he fears he might be losing his sanity as he blunders into the middle of a conspiracy so vast it will shake the foundations of the entire city.
What’s a dumb grunt like him to do? Get some bigger guns and fight back, of course. And make some bastards rue the days they were born.
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Payback
When bad intel causes a mercenary operation to end in disaster, Nanami’s entire crew gets burned. She considers herself lucky to end up in a clinic after losing only an eye. Once discharged, she discovers that, in addition to her crew dying, her lover, who escaped the initial slaughter, has ended up equally deceased—murdered in her apartment under mysterious circumstances.
Nanami vows to track down those responsible. Upon learning the deaths were orchestrated by sinister figures from her own past, she is left with only one choice: kill those responsible before they catch up with her and try to return the favor.
Payback is a 25,000-word prequel novella to the xenopunk thriller Disposable Heroes.
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Nexus Tales: Rogues & Vagabonds
Set forth on
all-new adventures featuring characters from the Scions of Nexus and Nexus of
the Planes trilogies in this exciting collection of fantasy short fiction.
Ferret has
vowed to become a bard and faithfully tell tales of the true heroes of the War
of Ketania. She has also sworn off adventuring for good. But when the mentor
Ferret seeks to apprentice with abruptly disappears, she discovers adventure
isn’t done with her after all.
After
Dakarai Creel thwarts an assassination attempt on a noblewoman who has fallen
on hard times, he finds himself drawn into a deadly contest with an immortal
tyrant that will end with only one of them walking away.
When a boy
disappears from a local farm, it’s up to the locals to muster a search party.
Taren and Elyas join Wyat and Arron on the hunt to track down a monster with a
taste for human flesh.
A mysterious
name on a dying man’s lips sets in motion events that send a young acolyte to
the temple of Ellorya in search of help. A contingent of Sol’s faithful must
answer the call and battle an ancient evil lurking in the darkest reaches of a
dying world.
Aninyel, a
newly minted King’s Blade, is called upon to investigate the killing of a
family living deep in the remote forest. She must battle both the weight of
expectations and an annoying stirring in her heart as she sets off with a
conniving rogue to confront an ancient and deadly foe.
Following
the conclusion of the War, Taren sets off with a heavy heart to lay to rest the
remains of the dearly departed, hoping to find some inner peace along the way.
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Remember Tomorrow
Jason Hurd, a man on the verge of giving up on life
altogether, suddenly receives a reprieve when a dead man appears out of thin
air. In the dead man’s possession Jason finds an extraordinary device, one that
grants its user the ability to travel through time. With this tremendous power
in his hands, he discovers a newfound determination to try to rectify the past
failures in his life and avert tragedies in the lives of those he loves.
But meddling with the past always has future consequences,
some of which are the least expected. Jason’s journey will ultimately lead him
to cross paths with an elusive killer who has been plaguing his small town for
decades. Can Jason right the wrongs of the past and uncover a serial killer, or
will he himself become the next victim?
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Scions of Nexus Trilogy
Twenty years have passed since the Battle of Nexus. Although the forces of good prevailed, evil never rests, and bitter hatred spurs an overwhelming desire to destroy the Lady of Twilight and wrest Nexus from her control at all costs.
Taren and Elyas, the sons of legendary heroes, yearn for more than their simple life: for Taren, to follow in the footsteps of the parents he’s never known and discover magic and adventure; for Elyas, to escape the shadow of his father Wyat, the mighty warrior, and find his destiny as a soldier in the king’s army.
When war, driven by the fiend Nesnys’s thirst for revenge, unexpectedly engulfs the kingdom, Taren and Elyas are forced onto the path of adventure under circumstances they never envisioned. Their fates encompass great challenges and hardships as the gods once again seek to manipulate their pawns and influence events that will affect the entire multiverse.
This box set contains Scions of Nexus, The Way of Pain, and Trial of the Thaumaturge.
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Trial of the Thaumaturge (Scions of Nexus book 3)
Time is slipping away for the Kingdom of Ketania, now under siege and teetering on the brink of destruction, following a crushing military defeat at the hands of Nesnys’s invading army. Queen Sianna Atreus has been captured, and the heroic rescue effort mounted by Dakarai Creel has failed.
Taren and his companions, Mira and Ferret, return from Nexus to discover the Balance has shifted dramatically and the fate of the kingdom lies in their hands. Taren’s magical talents have flourished under the Lady of Twilight’s tutelage, and he’s grown in both power and control, yet he faces an impossible test against overwhelming odds.
The heroes and their allies must rally the kingdom before the sinister plans of Shaol, Lord of the Abyss, come to fruition. To stop Shaol’s minions, they must journey to long-forgotten planes, racing against time while battling Nesnys’s forces every step of the way.
Bound together by friendship, loyalty, and duty, the companions soon discover that the price of victory may prove to be the ultimate one.
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The Way of Pain (Scions of Nexus book 2)
War rages
across Ketania as the demon Nesnys wreaks bloodshed and destruction at the
behest of her master, the evil god Shaol. But the war is only a cover for a
more insidious plan—one that would result in the total destruction of the plane
of Easilon and bring the entire multiverse under Shaol’s dominion.
Taren
struggles to control his magic and avoid capture by enemy agents as he fights
to reach Nexus of the Planes. There, he will seek out his mother, the
mysterious Lady of Twilight, hoping to gain her insight into the daunting
destiny that awaits him, as well as her tutelage for his talents. Elyas fights
in the war but is captured on the battlefield, where he attracts Nesnys’s
sinister attention and is sent to the brutal Pits of Leciras and forced into
the life of a gladiator. When tragedy strikes, Princess Sianna Atreus abruptly
finds herself the last of her line and rightful queen of war-torn Ketania.
Taren’s staunch companions face their own tribulations along the way as Ferret
undergoes a life-changing transformation and the monster hunter Dakarai Creel
must embrace his true destiny.
The heroes’
struggles continue against seemingly insurmountable odds as they desperately
seek to find a way to save the kingdom and prevail over the forces of evil.
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Scions of Nexus
Twenty years
have passed since the Battle of Nexus. Although the forces of good prevailed,
evil never rests, and bitter hatred spurs an overwhelming desire to destroy the
Lady of Twilight and wrest Nexus from her control at all costs.
Taren and
Elyas, the sons of legendary heroes, yearn for more than their simple life: for
Taren, to follow in the footsteps of the parents he’s never known and discover
magic and adventure; for Elyas, to escape the shadow of his father Wyat, the
mighty warrior, and find his destiny as a soldier in the king’s army.
When war,
driven by the fiend Nesnys’s thirst for revenge, unexpectedly engulfs the
kingdom, Taren and Elyas are forced onto the path of adventure under
circumstances they never envisioned. Their fates encompass great challenges and
hardships as the gods once again seek to manipulate their pawns and influence
events that will affect the entire multiverse.
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Nexus Tales
Journey deeper into the planes with this collection of short
fiction featuring earlier adventures of the heroes of the Nexus of the Planes trilogy, along with an introduction to Dakarai
Creel, a major new character from the upcoming successor series to Nexus of the Planes.
Nera and Arron get more than they bargained for when they
journey to a rain-soaked plane and attempt to steal a magical dagger from a
mage. Their mission seems simple enough, but their luck runs out when they are
captured and sent to the gallows.
Waresh Hammerhelm leads an expedition to retake Torval’s
Hold, a fabled stronghold that fell under mysterious circumstances centuries
earlier, in a bid to discover a truth buried in the past and win the respect of
his father, the king.
Nera, Arron, and Wyat’s search for the cause of the
slaughter of a village leads them to an isolated monastery where they learn of
an ancient curse unleashed. Time is running out to prevent the evil from
spreading.
Dakarai Creel is a monster hunter, a fugitive of Nexus, and
a lone traveler who wanders the realms and pits his sword and wits against the
evil creatures the law has no means or interest in dealing with. He takes on a
contract to find some missing villagers who are disappearing one by one, but
how can he fight a malevolent killer who hides in plain sight and leaves no trace?
More of the past and motivations of the two retrieval
officers, Haskell and Vhijera, are revealed in two intertwining tales of high
adventure.
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The Twilight City
“Most on this world know nothing of such a dark place...”
Nera, a plane-cursed thief, lives in Nexus, a city forever
cast in twilight, constructed around a great Machine built by immortals to
align all the planes together. Nera grew up an orphan on the streets, scorned
and mistrusted for her fiendish heritage, and was sentenced to ninety-nine
years of slave labor in the great foundry for a petty crime. She would like
nothing better than find a way to somehow reduce her onerous sentence or remove
altogether the cursed collar clamped around her neck.
Malek is a young apprentice mage with a bizarre and dangerous
power that he struggles to control. After his teacher is kidnapped by a strange
group of soldiers, he tracks the group to Nexus, seeking to rescue his master.
Their fates will be forever intertwined as they are swept up
in events beyond their control. A fragile truce holds in Nexus, maintaining a
balance where neither good nor evil can gain the upper hand. Yet all is not
well in Nexus, for in the darkness festers the wicked ambitions of those who
seek to swing the balance of power forever in their favor.
The Twilight City is
the first volume in Nexus of the Planes.
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Doors of the Dark
Nera is now a wanted fugitive who has lost much in the events leading up to the chaos. She must find a way to escape Nexus and find Malek, if he yet lives. Her search will take her to the sinister Gray Lands, a world dead of all magic and life and sealed off from the rest of the planes, centuries before.
Friends are in short supply as she has already been betrayed once before and no longer knows who can be trusted. To make matters worse, a priestess and paladin of Sol approach Nera, trying to convince her she may hold the key to Nexus’s salvation.
Doors of the Dark is the second volume in Nexus of the Planes.
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Dawnbringer
Nera and Malek are reunited and have escaped from the Gray Lands after defeating the evil that destroyed that world. Fresh off their victory, the pair now turns their attention to saving Nexus. Nera’s path has become clear—she has been chosen by the goddess Sabyl to find a way to restore the Machine of Nexus to working order and end the violence in the city. Unfortunately, the path she and Malek are destined to walk is a dark one, and should they survive, they will be changed forever.For they must gather together a stalwart party to venture into the depths of the Abyss and locate the mysterious Engineer of legend—who claims to be Nera’s father and is the only one capable of repairing the Machine. The powers of the Abyss will stand in their way while demon hordes mobilize to attack Nexus and spread slaughter and destruction across the entire multiverse.
Dawnbringer is the thrilling conclusion of Nexus of the Planes.
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Nexus of the Planes Trilogy
“Most on this world know nothing of such a dark place...”
Nera, a plane-cursed thief, lives in Nexus, a city forever
cast in twilight, constructed around a great Machine built by immortals to
align all the planes together. Nera grew up an orphan on the streets, scorned
and mistrusted for her fiendish heritage, and was sentenced to ninety-nine
years of slave labor in the great foundry for a petty crime. She would like
nothing better than find a way to somehow reduce her onerous sentence or remove
altogether the cursed collar clamped around her neck.
Malek is a young apprentice mage with a bizarre and dangerous
power that he struggles to control. After his teacher is kidnapped by a strange
group of soldiers, he tracks the group to Nexus, seeking to rescue his master.
Their fates will be forever intertwined as they are swept up
in events beyond their control. A fragile truce holds in Nexus, maintaining a
balance where neither good nor evil can gain the upper hand. Yet all is not
well in Nexus, for in the darkness festers the wicked ambitions of those who
seek to swing the balance of power forever in their favor.
This box set includes The Twilight City, Doors of the Dark, and Dawnbringer.
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Extensis Vitae
Michael Reznik is a soldier who wakes up in a mysterious underground
bunker, with a technologically advanced body he doesn't recognize. The
people around him have cast aside fighting and warfare. They haven't
needed them--until now.
Reznik is charged with tracking down a band of ruthless killers and finding a kidnapped doctor. He finds himself honor-bound to do what is right for the people who brought him back from the dead. A peaceful people are depending on him to do what is right. Can he live up to their expectations, even when he finds out that his new body has an expiration date?
Extensis Vitae is a gritty, post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure.
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Extensis Vitae: The Shattered Land
Time is running out for Michael Reznik as he searches for a way to deactivate his body's kill switch before his time literally expires. Reznik makes his way to the surface with the mysterious Rin as his guide and discovers a post-apocalyptic wasteland that is brutal and unforgiving, a land totally foreign to the country he knew.Gangs of vicious marauders and slavers, nefarious corporations, and mysterious creatures preying on people in the night will challenge Reznik every step of his journey. His potential allies are far outnumbered by the growing number of enemies standing in his way. As Reznik struggles to survive in this new world, Rin searches for her own redemption, to make up for past failures. Will Reznik be able to find his solution with the clock ticking down?
Extensis Vitae: The Shattered Land is the second volume in the gritty, action-packed Extensis Vitae series.
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Extensis Vitae: City of Sarx
Skin City: a festering blight of depravity and crime where
those who hit rock bottom end up—yet at the same time a high-tech jewel, the
last refuge of high society in the desolate wasteland. It is a discordant place,
beckoning all with the promise of satisfying any desire. The path to Skin City
can lead to ruin or redemption; the outcome depends on what one seeks.
Michael Reznik is about to find out which as his quest takes
him to Skin City in a long-shot attempt to fulfill a promise and rescue a group
of colonists abducted into slavery. Rin Takahashi seeks her own path, one that
will lead to either vengeance or destruction. Skin City is an opportunity for
both of them to set things right, but it could also prove to be their undoing,
especially when they realize there is a price on their heads. For they are
walking into a trap, and life expectancy can be very short
for those that upset the delicate balance of power between the ruthless
factions controlling the city.
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Extensis Vitae: Empire of Dust
Skin City has been liberated, offering a flicker of hope to all who live in the wasteland—hope that times are changing. But it has been a Pyrrhic victory, coming at great cost to the few who remain and seek to carry on the fight. War looms on the horizon as the survivors now seek to take the fight against the overwhelming might of Thorne Industries.
Rin Takahashi finds herself thrust into the spotlight at the forefront of the struggle, one she never wanted, yet she feels honor-bound to carry on in memory of a fallen friend. Meanwhile, Marcus strives to save the woman he loves from the soulless corporation threatening to consume them both. And James Mason nears the end of a long road, attempting to make things right after a lifetime in which so much went wrong. These three find themselves in a desperate battle as they seek to topple Thorne Industries in a war that will shake the foundations of the continent.
Extensis Vitae: Empire of Dust is the thrilling conclusion of the gritty, action-packed Extensis Vitae series.
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Extensis Vitae: The Complete Series
This is the complete Extensis Vitae series, books 1-4.
Michael Reznik is a soldier who wakes up in a mysterious underground bunker, with a technologically advanced body he doesn't recognize. The people around him have cast aside fighting and warfare. They haven't needed them--until now.
Reznik is charged with tracking down a band of ruthless killers and finding a kidnapped doctor. He finds himself honor-bound to do what is right for the people who brought him back from the dead. A peaceful people are depending on him to do what is right. Can he live up to their expectations, even when he finds out that his new body has an expiration date?
Extensis Vitae is a gritty, post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure.
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Obsolescence
Surrounded by genetically enhanced clones and augmented grunts, he wonders if he still has what it takes to keep up in a unit full of men and women who are stronger, faster, and more obedient. When his former colleagues suddenly start to get transferred, replaced, and even turn up dead under suspicious circumstances, he wonders if he will be next. With the impending doom of the approaching Cataclysm, will he be able to protect his family and stay alive?
Obsolescence is a 13,000 word short story set in the world of Extensis Vitae.
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Seren1ty
Nick Novak enjoys his life in the dusty Old West town of
Agua Verde, Mexico. He can't remember much before the time he woke up in a
seedy motel room with a syringe in his arm and a loaded gun on the nightstand.
Freedom from any past obligations may have a certain appeal, but he often
wonders what happened in his old life that led him to his current situation.
When a glowing blue door that isn't really there appears in
front of him, Nick starts to seriously wonder if his brain is fried. Soon
after, a slickster claiming to be his friend shows up and tells him his family
has been trying to locate him for the past two years. Nick realizes he must
unravel the mysteries of his past even though he fears he
won't like what he finds. Will he be able to cope with what lies beyond the blue door?
Seren1ty is a
30,000 word novella.
