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War is set to ravage Illian. The elves sail from the east. The savage Darkakin rise from the south. Valanis, the dark elf, is finally free of his prison and eager to see his work finished. Only then will he be free of the gods who still haunt him. A new hope rises in The Red Mountains. There, the last remaining dragons have been discovered. Gideon and Galanör, human and elf, will have to work together if they are to convince Adriel, the last of the Dragorn order, to intervene in the coming war.

Mama say: "Your schooling is your voice, child. It will be speaking for you even if you didn't open your mouth to talk. It will be speaking till the day God is calling you come." That day, I tell myself that even if I am not getting anything in this life, I will go to school and become Teacher...

The Layer beneath the Ash is the second Six Feet of Dirt chronicle, set about twenty years after The Black Ledger, and it shifts the series from Elias Crowe’s lone Deadlands resistance into a harsher world where thin order has been rebuilt by force and maintained by people willing to break themselves to keep it standing.

Samantha, a young, bright analyst at the CIA, finds herself in a dire situation when her lifelong research reveals alarming information linked to atomic bomb testing. A monster created from the fallout poses risks to both the environment and the general population. True events weave with political conspiracy as covert government forces close in, determined to silence Samantha forever. With her life hanging by a thread, can she outsmart her ruthless pursuers and expose the truth before it's too late?

Decades after her “departure” from this world, Althea Noble Bouleau has returned to reclaim the throne of Blackthorn Grove. But she’s not the same witch who left years ago, and her obsession with Emmaline could mean the end of Savannah’s most powerful coven. As Althea’s motives start to unfold, she vanishes with Emmaline, leaving Katie and Gabriel with a cold trail to find them. But Katie also has problems closer to home to deal with, like the expansion of MagicInk and an employee suddenly showing signs that his recent bout with a vampire was more than just a bad memory.

In the brutal southern reaches of the Duskland Republic, Georgian Province survives by grit, gunfire, and men willing to ride where law breaks down. In 3987 AC, the Georgian Rangers —an elite five-man frontier hunter team —are sent to investigate what should have been a simple high-threat beast contract after a ranch family is besieged by something unnatural in the dark. Led by the calm and deadly Captain Jorale Kane, the Rangers discover the truth is far worse than a rogue predator.

The Black Ledger is a grim western-horror chronicle set in the War for the Adamite Throne universe, following Elias Crowe, a hard, solitary hunter moving through the Western Deadlands where survival, memory, and violence are all tangled up with something older and more systemic than ordinary monsters.

The new commander of the 1392nd Allied Protective Expeditionary Services is Hamisha Ann McPherson and this is her first command of anything larger than a squad. She is a larger-than-life combat veteran and a bonafide war hero. She knows combat. She also knows that combat is one thing, and that command is a warthog of a different and dubious color. Misha wonders if she has the necessary skills to turn this group of slackers, petty criminals, and losers into an effective fighting unit in the short time she has left.

A billionaire fugitive and a disavowed spy fight to stay ahead of a corporate hit squad, while mysterious pursuers continually thwart their efforts to prevent a complete takeover of the world’s food supply. In less than 24 hours, it will be too late. Time to get dirty!

The generation ship New Mayflower nears the end of her voyage and the end of her tether. Disaster looms ahead as surely as the ship's destination. The murder of Isham Ellis's charismatic grandfather holds the key to the fate of the nearly two million souls aboard. But why murder an old man? A farmworker who taught people about topsoil? Out of revenge? Out of fear? Or did the murderer have a larger target in mind? Important questions. But before Isham can answer them, he must decide whether or not to allow an enigmatic waitress to attend his grandfather's funeral.

A broken kingdom with a past of nightmares and deceit. The creatures of the past, said to be only tales to scare children, are lurking. The once-powerful Slyvaxian family has been all but eradicated from Nivainia. Now, they reside in Vulture Perch with a King who is plotting one of the most evil games ever to be played on the unknowing -- even his 2 daughters.