Oathbound: Book Three of the Chronicles of Aronshae

But she thinks the mysterious life of angels is so noble, a fable that it sounds exciting — until it actually happens. Angeni, Volume 1 explores the early life of a young daydreaming soul who is destined to reveal the forgotten past of her home world and to seek the answer for the eternal question; what the legendary Crystal Shade really is.

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Hi John, thanks so much for this opportunity! In this bleak, medieval world, nothing is black and white, and even a thief must make a stand for what she believes is right. Please check out my website for more info, buy links, and an excerpt: No favorite parts have been omitted. Every scene, character, and song from the original is in this new parody. Military science fiction anthology by all women writers!

David Weber has called me a brazen hussy. Is a violent response ever the right thing? What could be worse than burning in Hell for eternity? For the Nameless Demon, it was his release. Pursued by both his ex-wives one angel, one succubus, both seductively deadly , the Demon is plunged into the teeth of the Second Crusade, a war between Templars and wizards, kings and clergy. Last year, a squirrel fell down a tree and became part of my family.

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And this one has been specifically looking for him. Dragged from his home and all he has ever known, Toshi must now use his acquired skills in foreign maps to help the creatures who have taken him. Yet at every turn there are problems. There are even those seeking to terminate his very life, not wanting his new master to succeed in his assigned task. Can he do what even the undead cannot? Or will he fail and be forced to wander the world as one of them? I have a bunch of backlist and an original nonfiction up at Book View Cafe as ebooks.

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But before he can report his findings, his research is interrupted and his family is torn away from him. I explored a few threads of what the humans might be experiencing before I took a stab at what the AI directing the ship was experiencing. Having spent a good chunk of my professional career eyeballs deep digging through syslogs looking for the signal in the noise, I know that these logs tell stories ranging from the sublime to the hilarious to the downright terrifying. While the plot was clear in my mind, elevating a logfile to a central character and have it tell a hopefully coherent story was a special challenge.

I had to invent my own command set, keep track of process IDs, and ponder what an AI would log. My hope is that attuned readers will find the logs realistic and non-techie people find the syslog portions accessible and understandable. Intrigue, suspicion, and rivalry among princes casts a shadow on the court of Owain, king of north Wales.

Hi, John and thanks, The second compilation of collected stories published in print and online venues over the past five years is out for the holidays: Available in print and ebook formats, at Amazon. Do you like Sherlock Holmes? Do you ever find yourself wishing that not all of the seemingly other-worldly events in the original Holmes stories were rationalised at the end?

Written by Barbara Roden, an investitured member of the Baker Street Irregulars and a World Fantasy Award-winner, the four stories in the collection remain true to the spirit and characters of Conan Doyle. And in the title story, Holmes and Watson try to solve a horrific real-life series of murders which shocked a London already reeling from the Ripper atrocities. Available for Kindle from Amazon. Thanks for the opportunity, John!

Telly is a homeless teenager struggling to survive on the streets of Los Angeles, but he has just met a man that can make all of his dreams come true. His rich new benefactor only asks for one thing in return—something no one else has been able to do for two and a half centuries. The man with the death wish is named Van, and he offers Telly an escape from the constant fear, hunger, and shame that have haunted him during his homelessness. He desires a higher plane of existence, but in order to get there he must train someone to complete the grim ritual that will free him from the confines of his immortal body.

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Even as the heroes and villains fight in the streets and in the skies, the officers and detectives have to deal with the everyday slog of maintaining law and order. The first novel is The Case of the Claw , and it features two detectives trying to find a super-powered spree killer known as the Claw, who has returned again after two years. Purchasing links are at my web site. The third novel in the series, Goblin Precinct , is due out in My first contribution is Guilt in Innocence , which features the Olodumare Hegemony, a solar-system-wide empire made up of people derived from humans from western Africa.

Again, full ordering info on my web site. If you think it was all good deeds and fancy ideals back in the days of Camelot, think again. Young Leonard would have been shocked to learn any of this but right now all that concerned him was where his next meal was coming from. As page to Sir Ronald, a poor but kind knight, events at the castle took a back seat to a rumbling stomach. Oh sure, he held a secret dream that one day Sir Ronald would take a seat at the Round Table, but seriously, that was about as likely as Maid Glennys seeing him as anyone other than the dirty page of a low-ranking nobleman.

If the dragon will allow Sir Ronald to slay him, his misery would be over, Sir Ronald would surely get a Round Table invite for such a brave deed, and Leonard might even climb a notch or two in the eyes of Glennys! Leonard is a marvelous hero-in-the-making and Mantooth is the first dragon in a long time who really deserves a hug. Click here for additional info including buy links. Against the backdrop of epic warfare and the powers of ten mysterious gods, Lucia struggles to understand The Black One.

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Madman and visionary, he will be the first to create his own world — one that is both familiar, and yet strange and fantastic. Herod has become the King of Dragons and he, along with his companions and enemies, will form the shape of things yet to come. His friends wish to build a new Utopia. His enemies — kingdoms under their complete control. Both will try to use Herod to their own ends. Herod has other plans, and while it might cost him everything he has sought to build, he will stop at nothing. From askew world to askew world, he seeks to put together the pieces that will lead him to the one thing that matters to him beyond all else… Get it here: Civilization swept away in the historical equivalent of the blink of an eye.

Man reduced to little more than a parasite living off the carcass of the Old World.

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After twenty years, little was left for even the most diligent of scavengers to recover. Animals had vanished, replaced with creatures that had never existed on Earth. Reproduction was difficult, water supplies poisoned and the world just kept on getting warmer.

As the saying went — The world was not what it was. For Nathan Smith, inveterate wanderer, his latest trip was one of desperate need. His community was on the verge of falling apart due to lack of food, water and other vital supplies. But he could not have imagined the extremes that he would find on this journey. The post-Collapse highways offered no free rides and no easy way. It was all or nothing and Nathan was about to learn a very important lesson. On this road, there was no turning back.

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A battle that will determine the fate of Agorai itself. The Triad has other plans. Plans that involve capturing the crystals and using their powers for themselves. Plans that involve murder, madness and pain. They have been waiting a long, long time for the Warrior to awaken. Will she triumph over the forces of evil? Will she obtain the power of the crystals? Will she be able to save her friends? Or will they die at her side? A Canadian thriller set on Vancouver Island. A father takes matters into his own hands after his daughter is abducted. Demonstrates how seemingly innocent displays of jealousy in a relationship can be a sign of something much more sinister.

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The main character, Francis shares his story after dropping to his lowest depths with nowhere to look but towards the light. Available at Amazon with a special for the Kindle of 99 cents! His body is never found — because he was snatched away into the year by scientists experimenting with a new faster-than-light drive.

A shorter version of this work was a finalist for both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards. The moon is in the second house, Jupiter has aligned with Mars, and private investigator Tim Coates is having his own personal summer of love. A gorgeous blonde girl hires him to find her missing mother. But Ellie Quartern and her mom are not your standard damsels in distress. They share an eerie and destructive secret that warps hearts and destroys lives. And he discovers that the Rolling Stones were wrong. Both books from Book View Cafe http: A boy falls through a window in his attic and ends up in orbit around an alien world.

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Hardly off the plane, the Waking Dream that now rides Sabine warns her of a danger on Mt. Rainier when she arrives in Washington State, pushing her even further back into the Game. Sabine finds herself dropped into an even greater mystery that involves her father and her own past as a ward of Special Projects. All while the Lodge of the Midnight Sun and the intelligence fraternity wage their secret war, seeking to find weaknesses in the others armor.

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For all the steampunk enthusiasts out there—In An Iron Cage: In the majickal Land of OCKT, weazels are the only peoples who are clever and fast enough to herd katz. And Peeje, the wily and white, is bound and determined to be the most professional kat herder of his kind—a job complicated by flaming hairballs, feline scheming, and the nature of all katz to blip in and out of invisibility.

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What comes to light is a multi-layered fabric of interwoven interests and conflicts, an absorbing rebirth of ancient myth and legend, as alive and immediate now as in its dim and distant past. What is to be her own fortune, though, and in whose hands will it finally rest?

The story culminates in a fascinating climax and deeply satisfying conclusion that will particularly appeal to those who like a rich and involving read. If you like the experience, I would greatly appreciate your feedback. Sam Altair is a physicist living in Belfast, Ireland. Are they creating alternate time lines? To collect more data, Sam tries a clandestine experiment in a public park, late at night.

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But the experiment goes horribly wrong when Casey Wilson, a student at the university, stumbles into his isolation field. Sam tries to rescue her, but instead, he and Casey are transported back to the year Stuck in the past, cut off from everyone and everything they know, Sam and Casey work together to help each other survive.

Should they warn him, changing the past and creating unknown consequences for the future? Or should they let him die? The fictional love affair grows alongside real lives from history: In the middle of a rare Northwest blizzard, Brick is forced to cut his dinner short in order to protect three key witnesses — a bookkeeper, a stripper, and a deadly assassin — all of whom are set to testify against Seattle crime boss Frank Mason the next morning.

Tony Solomon never wanted to be a time traveler. But when a freak accident gifts him with the ability to travel in time, he becomes an unwilling initiate in the Saturn Society, a secret society of time travelers. But the Society refuses to tell Tony how to time-travel within his own life, so he seeks help from Charlotte, the woman whose life he saved during a prior trip to the past. When Tony arrives in looking for answers, Charlotte is both thrilled and terrified to see her childhood hero. Loyal to the Society, she is honor-bound to bring to justice those who manipulate time for their own gain.

In giving him sanctuary, she faces a terrible choice-condemn the man she loves and to whom she owes her life, or deny her deepest convictions by helping him escape and risk sharing his sentence. You have in your power the one person with information who could prevent that. What could you do? How far would you go to get the information? And what would be the long term consequences of your actions? Someone is killing immigrant families, forcing the fathers to hang their wives and children before taking their own lives. How does the killer do it? And what is the meaning of the small iron horse the killer leaves at every murder scene?

Bishop and the survivors of his command think they know. Only the Horsemen can stop one of their own. But the team is disbanded, the survivors scattered. Bishop himself is tormented by guilt for the things he had to do to keep one of his men from suffering an agonizing death. Their adversary is not only a skilled assassin, but a master at creating fear. Behind the scenes, shadowy and powerful figures pursue their own plans for Bishop and the Hangman.

Mark Bishop, Melissa Saxon, and the last of the Iron Horsemen will have to use all their courage and every resource, including an array of high-tech weapons, to stop the Hangman. What they have to do will put everything they ever believed in to the ultimate test and push Bishop to the edge of sanity. My backlist is available at Book View Cafe: Le Guin, courtesy of Cascadia Subduction Zone: But I know all of the stock reasons why editors rejected these stories. Want to tell me the brutal truth? The Silencer is a pulp writer turned masked vigilante in s New York.

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Coffee shop barista Kit Melbourne inherited a magic jewel to let her tell the humans from the glamour-disguised faeries, the Goth poseurs from the real vampires. Her bindi lets her know which witch casts real spells and which one just went through the motions. The only trouble is, plenty of people want a jewel like hers. And someone is willing to kill for it. Seeing Things, the first novel in the urban fantasy Seabingen series, is available as an ebook only, through Smashwords and its subsidiary retailers, including nook and Sony and ipod and kindle. Carol Hancock, wife, mother, pillar of the community and faithful member of Jefferson City Baptist Church, never expected to contract Transform Sickness.

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Her mind changed underneath her, with new tempers, more aggression, violent mood swings and new hungers. And she was dying, like all the other previous female predators in America except one, and that one had become a psychotic serial killer. She must figure out a way to survive her transformation and her enemies, preferably without becoming a psychotic serial killer herself. My day job is being a radiology professor at the University of Washington. Crossing the Cascades , a collection of tunes and contradances I have written in my non-radiology career as a fiddle player and dance caller.

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Feel free to check out my work at my Amazon site:. Straight forward adventure in the vein of Clive Cussler yarns and compared to him by thriller author Jeremy Robinson. Print version before the end of the month. In the s, a madman proclaims himself the Son of God and raises an army, taking over half of China. A century and a half later, his descendent and legions of devoted followers plan to take over more than just China.

When alpine engineer and mountaineer Jason Quinn, a man with a past mired in tragedy and violence, meets archeologist Dr. Eva Rayjek after a plane crash in the high Himalaya, neither of them are expecting wave after wave of Chinese assassins. Pursued to America, the frozen ice of the Gulf of Finland, and the heights of Hong Kong, Quinn and Eva connect her investigations with the machinations of charismatic shipping magnate and cathedral-builder, David Hong. I have a fantasy novel available: Twin brothers Emyr and Idrys are cursed to live as hounds; Emyr by night, and Idrys by day.

To free her lovers from the curse, she embarks on a journey to the realm of the fey where she confronts her own unique gifts and heritage. It is available as both an ebook and in trade paperback. My other books, including reprints of previously published stories, are here: Home Contact Us Help Free delivery worldwide. Book Three of the Chronicles of Aronshae. Description Routed from her glacial palace in the Frozen March, Salamasca has fled to the Eastern Kingdom to lick her wounds and gather her strength once more.

The Kingdom of Illyander had earned a temporary peace with its victory over her ice orc armies, but while the Ice Queen still lives, she remains a threat to all who walk Aronshae. No one knows this better than the Ironwright twins, Sasha and Katya, blessed and cursed by the Great Mother with the power of her avatar, Akor'shi-kai. With this costly gift, the Snowhaven sisters have the mystical strength to oppose Salamasca, who has upset the scales of Aronshae's balance. Jared, Talas, and the Ironwright twins journey to the mysterious East, a land filled with strange peoples and even stranger customs, to end Salamasca's threat once and for all.

In the meantime, the Ice Queen has reunited with her old mentor, Luzige, and her reanimated servant, Roane, to raise an army of Easterners to crush Illyander and bring all of Aronshae under her heel. Gathering allies and enemies along their way, the Illyanders hope to finally destroy the Empress of Ice, knowing all the while that victory or defeat will mean death for the twins as they are consumed by the power of Akor'shi-kai. Will the Illyanders be in time to stop the Ice Queen's rise to power or are they only rushing to their deaths at the hands of an even more powerful adversary?

As if matters hadn't become complicated enough, the dragons have returned. Paperback - Trade Pages: Review This Product No reviews yet - be the first to create one! Subscribe to our newsletter Some error text Name. Email address subscribed successfully. A activation email has been sent to you.