The Air can be gentle or sharp as an assegai. “We’ve heard your family can walk the skies without contraptions. They can reach places in silence that many of us would like to visit. Fetch them now so we can talk to them.” The punk grinned, exposing his sharpened teeth and diamond encrusted incisors. Among the African people, they have a secret power. And in […]
Ender Wiggin won the Third Formic war, ending the alien threat to Earth. Afterwards, all the terraformed Formic worlds were open to settlement by humans, and the International Fleet became the arm of the Ministry of Colonization, run by Hirum Graff. MinCol now runs Fleet School on the old Battle School station, and still recruits very smart kids to train as leaders of colony ships, […]
Exes Lacey and Victor go to Las Vegas to investigate the death of a magicians’ assistant. It’s not all smoke and mirrors, when rumors of black magic swirl around the case. As an angel, Victor has an advantage over the supernatural side, especially now that he’s getting special training in dealing with demons. As an investigative reporter with KZTB News Seattle, Lacey is excited to […]
Three years ago, Lift asked a goddess to stop her from growing older—a wish she believed was granted. Now, in Edgedancer, the barely teenage nascent Knight Radiant finds that time stands still for no one. Although the young Azish emperor granted her safe haven from an executioner she knows only as Darkness, court life is suffocating the free-spirited Lift, who can’t help heading to Yeddaw […]
Daughter4254 used to think life in a community where art, music and names are outlawed would suffocate her creative spirit until she is left to rot in prison and realizes there is far worse. Then she meets Thomas, a fellow inmate, who tells stories of the mythical mountain colonies where people have names and the arts thrive, and she finds a shred of hope. Together […]
Calcutta, 1813. Lady Daphne St. Clair, who as an Extraordinary Bounder is capable of transporting herself anywhere in the world with a thought, has longed to serve in the Army for years. But an unexpected weakness at the sight of blood makes her responsible for a good man’s death in battle. Unable to serve on the battlefield, Daphne is sent to India to be transportation […]
The year is 1017 A.D. A mysterious giant terrorizes small villages near the city of Sredets, the last remaining stronghold of the First Bulgarian Empire. Disgraced solider Simeon Exarch is reluctantly drawn into the fight and manages to slay the giant. But his victory comes at a price—the deaths of his wife, Irina, and son, Cyril. A thousand years later, Simeon lives on, having harnessed […]
Willow North is a thief, and despite her secret magical talent for sensing worked metal, she has never wanted to be anything else. But when her former fiancé appears on her doorstep with the eight-year-old King of Tremontane in tow, she is drawn into the political conflict surrounding the boy King’s ascension. His uncle, a powerful Ascendant with the magic of manipulating the elements, murdered […]
Being the very best can get you in a lot of trouble with the very worst. Kenaz, an information broker, can step outside his own body and into the ghost-like realm of spirit. He does this to gather secrets and knowledge, and of course business in Tolburn, the decadent City of a Million Gods, has been very good. But when Kenaz suddenly finds himself blackmailed […]
Trapped in the heart of the enemy stronghold… Captured by their enemies when they venture to the Ja’sid lands to investigate how the Ja’sid’s dangerous power works, Senea, Vayhawk, and Treyna are thrown into the battle of their lives. Senea is claimed by a Ja’sid Bleeder, who forcefully trains her to compete in the arena against other captives. Ensnared in the drug and blood culture, […]