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Adaoma is working in her crystal ball and magical orb shop in the mystical hidden city of Kaŝe off the coast from Lagos, Nigeria when she receives a strange phone call from her twin sister Adaora. Her twin tells her that terrorists have escaped from Rura Penthe, the extra-dimensional prison for housing criminal wizards and witches. But to escape the clutches of the law the terrorists need a portal to another world and only one such portal exists: The Dragontree of Kaŝe. Join Adaoma and Adaora on their adventures as they travel from Nigeria and Greenland to London and Lagos and back to the...

Yasmeena is an immigrant who works at her father's boxing gym. When the city of Toronto is targeted by a group of white nationalists who take hostages inside the CN Tower and conduct terrorist attacks across the city she ends up being at the right place at the right time. Becoming a vigilante was never her plan, but as the terrorists continue to conduct attacks and assassinations she ends up in a fight for survival and has only her boxing skills to help her and her family survive. A coming of age story of a would-be superhero. Learn more about Charles Moffat and his writing at amazon.com/...

Tahira, Wulfric's great love, is dead and the barbarian from Korovia decides to strike out on his own. His journey brings him to a Quinian trading post on the coast of Al-Kazar... But what he encounters there however is black magic and 'Black Monoliths of Al-Kazar'. Forced into slavery Wulfric the Wanderer must unlock his own rage within the dark abyss of his soul.

The Atchafalaya Basin is a home to giants. Alligators, boars and other strange things that an unwary traveler may fall prey to when traversing the swamp alone. Such foul creatures stalk the waterways and pockets of dry land, shrouded by ancient trees that survive amongst the muck, that only a fool would travel through such a place on foot. Let alone late at night. The sucking sound of mud on boots added to the deluge of noises in the twilight of the swamp. A narrow path made its way through the swamp, but the man from Salem, Massachusetts, was unbothered by the noises or the fading light of...

1955: The US Embassy in London and the British Embassy in Washington have been attacked using biological warfare. NATO Intelligence suspects that Nazis hiding in Argentina planned the attacks. The newly recruited thief-turned-spy Agent Borealis (Samson) is sent to Buenos Aires in Argentina to investigate who planned the attacks. What he discovers however is that Adolf Hitler is alive and well, and that the burnt bodies found outside Hitler's bunker in Berlin was just a KGB cover up operation to disguise the fact that Hitler managed to escape. But who exactly planned the embassy attacks? Are...

The Bogatyr knight learns of a giant that is blocking a mountain pass, but when he investigates he learns that Ratatuskrs (giant rats the size of wolves with incisors the size of boar tusks) might actually be the bigger threat... "The Adventures of the Bogatyr" is a series of short stories, novelettes and novellas, telling the tales of a wandering Bogatyr knight who encounters strange magical phenomenon, unusual creatures (both living and undead), and the sometimes mean spirited humans, elves and other humanoids who live in the kingdom of Korovia. Learn more about the kingdom of Korovia by ...

While chopping down dead trees in the forest the farmer Grimrose has run afoul of worgs - wolves bred for warfare - in the woods west of Dangarn Vale, but these worgs seem to have a particular interest in the farmer. Who or what has sent the worgs, he doesn't know, but if he and his family are to survive the winter he will have to learn quickly... With only his arming sword and a stout bow in hand he must find a way to defeat the worgs and find out who sent them. A grimdark Adventure and Wilderness Survival Story featuring Grimrose (see "A Hound Named Hunter"). Part of the Chronicles of ...

The Bogatyr knight hears the haunting singing of a Rusalka before arriving in the Habbel city of Shorin, where he later learns that there is a wanted poster for the Rusalka. Short on coin, he hatches a scheme for how to defeat her, but killing her and actually getting paid for his hard often requires a little extra effort. "The Adventures of the Bogatyr" is a series of short stories, novelettes and novellas, telling the tales of a wandering Bogatyr knight who encounters strange magical phenomenon, unusual creatures (both living and undead), and the sometimes mean spirited humans, elves and ...

Young Lilith Bloodstone fancies becoming a necromancer, not for the purpose of creating undead, but to destroy them. But treading the fine line of staying true to her ethics and avoiding the temptations of power - known as the Black Rose - and being able to perform destructive spells is a difficult skill to master. Accompanied by her friend Raelean, an elf boy with impressive magical skills, their skills and their ethics are put to the test. Visit fiction.charlesmoffat.com to learn more about Lilith Bloodstone and the kingdom of Korovia.

A Bogatyr knight who dabbles in magic encounters strange magical phenomenon, unusual creatures (both living and undead), and the sometimes mean spirited humans, elves and other humanoids who live in the kingdom of Korovia. This Anthology Collection of eight pieces of short fiction from "The Adventures of the Bogatyr" series includes the following: The Bogatyr & the Cursed Inn Dark Shadows in the Moonlight The Bogatyr & the Rusalka's Lament The Bogatyr & the Gentle Giant A Bag of Silver, A Bag of Bones The She-Wolf or Eraska The Midnight Dragon The Bogatyr & the Cursed ParcelPlus several ...

Wrathgar has decided to wait out the harsh Korovian winter in an inn south of Oraknev, home to legendary hot springs said to have healing properties. But not everything at the hot springs are as they seem. First one of the guests is mysteriously murdered and the bite marks suggest they were mauled by some kind of large wolf. Dark forces are at work at the hot springs and the other people staying at the inn to wait out the winter are in for more danger than they bargained for at a place that is supposed to increase your longevity. With bow and arrow, Wrathgar and others set out to kill the ...

The sleepy farming village of Millkrest has been attacked and their virgin priestess has been abducted, presumably to be sacrificed to the foul god Masexus at a shrine deep in the woods east of the village. The barbarian Wrathgar teams up with the wizard Soljargon, the half-elf priestess Helene, the skilled elf archer Gyburn, and the halfling sneak-thief Kaeto in order to rescue her. If sacrificed her life-force will be used to summon a demon prince... But they are heavily outnumbered and teamwork is not their strong suit, and Wrathgar has been forced into a leadership role when he has no ...

The stranger arrived in the village leading a dying injured horse. The village was nameless, a collection of huts and stone buildings surrounded by the dense trees of an endless forest. The bedraggled people stared out of their hovels at the strange man with his injured horse, many a greedy eye on both of them. The look of desperation in their eyes was also one of hopelessness. These people had seen dark times and had taken to living in the woods to avoid the darkness enveloping much of the world. The stallion was a dark grey roan and its flanks were speckled with injuries from arrows, ...

Wulfric the Wanderer has traveled back in time to Korovia's Stone Age, when it is on the cusp of the Bronze Age. He has earned the trust and respect of the chieftain Ko Margus, and Wulfric has accepted that he is somehow destined to be trapped in this time period for the time being. But trouble is afoot. The priest of the tribe doesn't trust him and is growing suspicious. Worse, the tribe is being splintered between those who worship the tribe's horse god and a cult within their ranks of those who worship a she-bear goddess. When the tribe finds megalithic carvings of bears in the side of a...

Wrathgar and Soljargon are venturing south towards the capital city of Oraknev and are hired by a group of four gnomes to help them navigate through a flooded swamp in order to create a new trade route. The gnomes suspect the region is now populated with snake worshipers who follow the snake god Set, but much worse than snakes now populates this forbidding trek of swampy land. When they arrive at a castle sunken into the swamp they decide to make camp for night... And then things go from bad to worse. Part of The Adventures of Wrathgar series of novels and short stories. Visit ...

BOOK THREE OF THE LILITH BLOODSTONE SERIES. Anthology of 3 short stories from the Lilith Bloodstone Series by Charles Moffat: "The Emissary of Darkness" + "The Astral Plane" + "Out for Blood". In the Holy City of Kost at the south-east corner of the Korovian Sea is the Academy of Arcane where many young pupils in the disciplines of magic choose to train. Lilith Bloodstone is a young necromancer who seeks to use necromantic magic to help people, but necromancy has a foul reputation and while her motives are pure she faces many challenges and adventures. In Book III the young Lilith has ...

Following a hunch, Wulfric the Wanderer has arrived in the port city of Koastmark which is currently plagued by the Xarsian Pox. After determining his hunch was false, he is determined to leave but his plans go awry when a fire scarred wizard, an undead highwayman, and a cursed cutlass decide to get in his way... A Sword & Sorcery short story. Learn more about the author by visiting fiction.charlesmoffat.com.

An omnibus anthology collection of 9 short stories of dark fantasy featuring Lilith Bloodstone, an intrepid young wizard who works to rid the world of undead and demons by hunting them down one by one. Included in this volume are: The Black Rose, Rise of the Red Moon, The Baby & the Village, One to be Reckoned With, The Night of the Dead, On Death's Door, The Emissary of Darkness, The Astral Plane, & Out for Blood. Learn more about the Lilith Bloodstone series by visiting fiction.charlesmoffat.com.

Someone is playing games with the Bogatyr Knight. They sent him a parcel containing a cursed book, forcing him to hunt down the hag that lives in Silkrest Swamp, a task far more dangerous than it first appears. But who sent him the cursed parcel and why? "The Adventures of the Bogatyr" is a series of short stories, novelettes and novellas, telling the tales of a wandering Bogatyr knight who encounters strange magical phenomenon, unusual creatures (both living and undead), and the sometimes mean spirited humans, elves and other humanoids who live in the kingdom of Korovia. Learn more about ...

Elderly thief Piotr wants to be able to retire, but the Thieves' Guild of Oraknev has fallen on hard times and are having difficulty making ends meet. When he finds a storm sewer grate that has been mysteriously opened he decides to investigate whether there is anything in the sewers worth stealing. But when Piotr bites off more than he can chew then it is up to the Thieves' Guild to rescue him... Part of the Chronicles of Korovia series. Set in the kingdom of Korovia. Learn more by visiting fiction.charlesmoffat.com.