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Provine Sael and her weary band have put the great northern plains behind them, and are heading south into the Empire, winter quarters beckoning to them after a long, hard summer. But crossing the raid-torn northern frontier holds new problems and challenges as the little group re-enters an empire burdened by war and war's demands. The Sagrit have not forgotten the Dellian, and Grog must face new threats to his mistress, along with new issues and ideas which must be pondered. It is not easy being a brute in a improper world, but Grog and Burk struggle onward, fortified by Master Horne's ...

Grog is a brute (half Human, half Ukar) slave raised from birth to fight in the pits for the entertainment of the crowds. He is content with his role in the city, proud of his barracks, and in awe of his owner, the sour Master Horne. Life, by Grog's reckoning, is good. Then an enigmatic churchwoman enters his life, and Grog finds himself swept from the city which has been his entire world, to travel and learn amid as strange a group as he has ever seen. He knows nothing of the group's mission, just that his skills are necessary and the quest is "a good thing."

The Dusmen are invading, and nothing will stop Provine Sael from leading an investigation into the many questions about the northerner’s late start, and so Grog and Burk must march north as well. With the onset of the war, both sides have stripped the border of troops, and it may well be safe for the small band to slip into enemy territory and poke into odd corners in search of the truth. The north is a little-known land, home to rumors about rivers of unmelting ice, dragons, dead cities from the dawn of time, and countless other stories which may be legend, myth, fact, or a combination ...

With most loose ends tidied up, Provine Sael leads her little band into direct service to the Empire. The Third North War is in its second campaign season, and both sides are determined to find victory; Grog and Burk are equally determined to take part in a major battle. Service to the Imperial forces is not as good as a large battle, but it promises more than a little violence and hard living for the small, disparate group. On a side note, the question of Rose possibly being the Seed of Destiny has not been forgotten.. Grog and Burk must face continuing change in their lives as they enter ...

Provine Sael and her battered band have reached winter quarters; part one of recounts the adventures of Grog and his comrades over their long-anticipated rest, while part two sees the group heading east to investigate troubling events of the past summer and fall. Meanwhile, Molleen lurks in the shadows, clearly determined to accomplish the bloody goal that had been denied her in the fall. Grog and Burk must face new developments in their lives as they complete their first year of freedom, and continue to shoulder the responsibility of upholding the good name of their barracks, and meeting ...

A new LitRPG novel from the author of the Dream trilogy, The Scared But Willing tells the tale of gamers drafted into a deadly electronic war. As he slogged through the boredom of a career as a cubical drone Thomas Paine Cooper believed his life sucked, but it was not until the E11 Corporation entered his life that he discovered what life-scale suckage really meant. The E11 Corporation’s meteoric rise to become a multi-billion-dollar technology giant was secretly based upon an alien AI reverse-engineering advanced technology. Until the Human computer and data networks reached a point ...

What if legends aren’t really legends? What happens when pixels, imagination, and dice are replaced with steel, flesh, and arcane power? What happens when a campaign hook isn’t just an opening dialogue, but rather what awaits you in life? Shad, Derek, Fred, and Jeff are just ordinary guys. They did their time in Iraq, hold regular jobs, and spend some of their free time playing RPGs on their game platforms and at the table. Until they were shanghaied into a place where magic and the mystic had been banished from Earth. Eventually, with great difficulty they returned home and got on with...

“The Order stands between the Stone Arts and extinction of Mankind.” It has been a century since the necromantic Stone Arts have surfaced, and service in the Exalted Order of Light and Life is spent preparing for a war that no one believes is coming, least of all Warden Lucas Butron. Lucas’ enjoyment of the lazy days of peace is threatened when the greatest Stonemancer of their age escapes and the specter of Undead armies marching rises from the pages of history. Despite being a man committed to the simple camaraderie of his Order and the pursuit of his own happiness, Lucas finds ...

"A smooth, clean read that takes the reader from normalcy to a full-blown zombie apocalypse with understated drama...fans of The Walking Dead take note: this one's for you." Trapped inside a government cordon with a city's worth of zombies lusting for his flesh, Martin must survive, locate his estranged family, and deal with a stranger who claims to be an academic who knows a secret behind the outbreak. The Zone is the story of Martin D’Erin, a medically retired Texas police officer struggling with loss and isolation who is caught up in a plague that turns a major city into a zombie ...

“A serious novel with a strange series name, Payload is a fast-moving, quick-reading story of a band of unlikely heroes brought together by chance in the face of a terrorist-bred Zombie outbreak. It’s the Walking Dead with satellite phones.” In a United States beset by terrorists and a biowar virus a small group thrown together by chance find themselves in possession of what well may be a key to the zombie plague. Their desperate struggle across the landscape of a nation facing the first savage blows of a terror campaign and a zombie outbreak requires everything they can muster, and ...

Decades after the modern world came crashing down into ruins a tiny community lives in complete isolation aboard a beached cruise ship they call the Anvil. Governed by the Master, they go about their day to day lives happily enough, content with ignoring the outside world and being ignored in return. Until the Master falls desperately ill. As if emerging from a fog the People begin to question their own lack of history, the strange composition of their community, and to wonder as to the nature of the outside world. Left to their own devices they struggle to make sense of their situation, to...

“A series that is a single epic tapestry cut into manageable pieces…the threads of events and characters emerge as if they had actually lived, and few events occur without becoming a part of the sprawling whole. This is more than a story of swords and magic, it is the charting of lives. It isn’t Game of Thrones, but it makes a very credible effort.” The Fantasy Group It is the spring following the events in Dark Path, and the Phantom Badgers have a contract for the campaign season and a plan for the future, but all is not as rosy as it might seem. Larger events are unfurling across ...

What if legends aren’t really legends? What if fantasy isn’t just fiction? What happens when pixels, imagination, and dice are replaced with steel, flesh, and arcane power? What happens when a campaign hook isn’t just an opening dialogue for a game, but rather what awaits you in life? Shad, Derek, Fred, and Jeff are just ordinary guys. They did their time in Iraq, hold regular jobs, and spend some of their free time playing RPGs on their game platforms and at the table. Until the day they wake up in a different world, caught up in a half-understood web of events and personalities, ...

“A fast read filled with action, detail, intrigue, and zombies. Don’t let the name fool you: the Yard Gnomes are as serious as a zombie attack in the dark.” Five weeks after the end of Payload the newly-formed YGAT Corporation (Slogan: you want it, y’gat it) is in the field salvaging goods, battling the infected, and rescuing the living. The surviving Gnomes and a new crop of recruits find themselves as test subjects for the DSR’s new deployment concept, on the trail of a FASA VIP, and the targets of terrorists and zombies alike. Dyson’s fiancé is stranded halfway across the ...

The YGAT Corporation is back, up to strength (finally) and hustling to make an honest, if blood-soaked, dollar in the wake of a zombie outbreak. Facing the threat of zombie-like infected, terrorists, criminals, and ambitious Navy officers, the Gnomes scrounge for anything useful and try to stay one step ahead of the game. Taking place two months after Rolling Hunger, Floating Hunger takes the reader from the steaming rain forests of Belize, to the freezing backwoods of Missouri, and on to the cold swamps of the Texas Gulf Coast. Marv, JD, Brick, Chip, and the rest of the crew struggle with ...

A man wakes up from a disturbing dream to find that he has no memory of who he is, or why he is where he is. His problems expand exponentially when he exists the room… Memory Road is the story of a man who wakes up in a world gone mad, with nothing but his military skills and a desire for answers and payback. His search, his travels down the memory road, result in an ever-escalating series of violent events and confrontations, and an ever-growing list of questions. Written by the author of The Zone, Zerk, and the YGAT series (and 23 other novels), Memory Road takes the read on a stark, ...

In 1879 the Outbreak brought the Forsaken onto the high plains of the Old West, twisted creatures of bone and leather mounted on demonic semblances of bison. By 1882 the great central grasslands of North America from the heart of Canada to central Mexico is the domain of the horrific buffalo riders; only outlaws, renegades, madmen, and a few fortified outposts of civilization remain. Six unsavory bounty hunters ride onto the edge of the grassland on the trail of wanted men, only to encounter an enigmatic scholar who claims to have a plan to uncover the truth about the Outbreak. Buffalo ...

"A fast, gritty story of war, deception, and intrigue, Chains of Honor takes the reader from the Undead-haunted mountains to the steaming jungles of the Akur in a fantasy world at once similar and unlike our own." "An avalanche of a tale starting with the simple duties of an outlander inspector to the Sultan and rolling steadily into a maelstrom of civil war, deadly intrigue, murderous deception, and dark betrayals. Fans of Game of Thrones will enjoy the twists." Chains of Honor is the story of Pieter Mironov and Uleg Savchenko, blood-brothers and sell-swords trapped on a distant continent ...

It has been two hundred years since the starships stopped returning, the dead rose, and the Dark emerged to claim men’s souls. Much has been lost, and much hangs in the balance, but there are still men who will rage against the encroachment of evil.In the front lines of this struggle are the indefatigable Benson and the absent-minded genius Inquisitor he serves. The pair, pugnacious ex-Royal Marine and intellectual priest, aided by a BAR-loving Gurkha and a nonconformist porter, must track down a dark cult before the heretics can complete a terrible plan.Set in an Empire struggling with ...

What if legends aren’t really legends? What happens when pixels, imagination, and dice are replaced with steel, flesh, and arcane power? Shad, Derek, Fred, and Jeff are just ordinary guys. They did their time in Iraq, hold regular jobs, and spend some of their free time playing RPGs on their game platforms and at the table. Until they were shanghaied into a place where magic and the mystic had been banished from Earth. Eventually, with great difficulty they returned home and got on with their lives, only to be blackmailed into returning yet again. They chose to pursue their blackmailer ...