Welcome to our Fantasy & Adventure collection, where you'll find spectacular titles by Australian authors ready to ignite your imagination...
Alex Hicks is a police detective and (closeted) magic user, enjoying a lavish Melbourne lifestyle with his hot, rich, adoring boyfriend. But when he is forced to reveal himself as a magician to his colleagues, he is drawn into a horrific magic case involving the faculty of Melbourne Magic School and a summoned abomination called a revenant.
The cast of suspects have motives aplenty and no decent alibis between them, while Alex encounters a series of sorcerous attacks of ever-escalating menace. Worse, he has to work the case with his magic school ex, Robbie, whom he definitely does not still have any feelings for. Whether in the present or the past, Alex and Robbie will come to discover that, even if you can use magic, life is never easy.
The necromancer explores an otherwise realistic world in which magic is just part of life. It contains a vibrant cast of characters and pairs the everyday (plus a baffling mystery!) with a dazzling fantasy world.
Capitán Cristóbal de Varga’s drive for glory and gold in 1538 Peru leads him and his army of conquistadors into a New World that refuses to be conquered.
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He is a man torn by life-long obsessions and knows this is his last campaign. What he doesn’t know is that his Incan allies led by the princess Sarpay have their own furtive plans to make sure he never finds the golden city of Vilcabamba.
Sage is searching for her lost brother - the only other family member to survive when the dragons attacked their village ten years ago - and will do whatever it takes to see them reunited.
However a chance encounter with an injured dragon changes her destiny. Against her will, Sage is bonded with the dragon Sahva and becomes an outcast from human society.
When she realises that not everything she's been told about the decade-long war is true, she must decide if she trusts Sahva enough to work with him to end the bloodshed.
‘You must kill her, elf. Kings will rise and fall, and they will want a powerful queen. You will spend the next centuries giving your life for hers as they seek her out.’
Ake and her son are destined to defeat the evil goddess Drianna, who has hunted her since childhood. Now a powerful mage, Ake is tortured by her past. Her elven husband has vowed to protect them, but evil has a way of sinking its fangs in and refusing to let go. As Drianna reaches the peak of her power Ake realizes she must fight for those she loves if she is ever to defeat Drianna and find peace.
Trying to save the man you love while he is consumed by an inner darkness always comes at a cost…
Born into a world where humanity has been corrupted by evil, can one tribal girl fulfil a prophecy and defeat a dark goddess?
Ake’s peace is fragile. Trying to carve out an existence in a land torn by strife and famine, her destiny has made her the target of terrible creatures. And as her divine nemesis’s power grows ever stronger, the young mage knows she must awaken her own otherworldly heritage if she wants to survive.
Enduring endless hardships with aid from her soulmate, Ake bravely battles the forces attempting to tear them apart.
But being fated to save the world and actually doing it are two very different things…
War takes our names from us and turns us into numbers. The number displaced. The number imprisoned. The number tortured. The number dead.
The country has been swarmed by the Invader and his army, the Pack. The city is under siege. Many have fled, while others have stayed to defend their country. Many more have died. Teller’s family has been brutally murdered by the Pack. Only she and Daughter remain. They leave their city behind and seek refuge in a resistance cell. Here they gather with other survivors who are determined to overthrow the Invader.
But will they ever be strong enough to claim back their city? Their country? Their lives? A journey through love, grief and, ultimately, hope. Amanda Creely’s profound allegorical tale sheds light on shared human experiences of war and remembers the nameless victims.
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Shortlisted for the 2023 Dorothy Hewett Award, Nameless explores love in all its forms and the importance of storytelling in its capacity to both teach and heal.
Corelle’s fairy tale dream turns into a horrific nightmare in The Vermilion Ribbon, a pulsating mix of fantasy, romance and adventure.
Corelle’s journey from innocence to cold-hearted killer leaves a trail of bodies from one end of Dur to the other. With her enemies in relentless pursuit and another woman’s life in her hands, Corelle cannot relax for a heartbeat.
Despair and vengeance compete for her attention as death dogs her footsteps, leading to a thrilling climax that will leave you breathless.
This sapphic low fantasy debut explores Corelle’s mental well-being as her life spirals into a never-ending cycle of death. Think Jason Bourne meets Robin Hood, but with lesbians.
A twentieth century woman is lost in a fantasy world with nothing but the clothes on her back and her innate humanity.
This is the story of her compelling need to redefine herself.
When Irenya O’Neil suffers a panic attack and falls into the realm of Dar Orien, a world with a failed MageGate system, she finds herself unable to return home to her infant son – she is trapped in a nightmare that tests her sanity.
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Confronted with evidence that she possesses a Gift of power, Irenya attempts to control her fledgling talent through music. This could be her ticket home. But Irenya becomes mired in the civil unrest that has befallen Dar Orien.
Sickened by the bloodshed and fearful for her own safety, Irenya is desperate to find her way home.
The dying seer’s words spell doom for Irenya.
If she stays in Dar Orien to save their way of life, she might never see her infant son again. Hopelessly lost in the desert of Midrash, Irenya faces the legendary griffin and, without fanfare, a new seer is silently declared.
An act of revenge delivers Irenya the knowledge she needs, but her return to Melbourne is tragically far from anything she had imagined
Irenya O’Neil may be able to summon light from the stars, but is it enough to light the way through her darkest moment yet?
Her son Mikey is the realm’s new MageGate. Once again, the people of Dar Orien rejoice, ignoring the danger in relying on one source of power.
Lose him and they lose everything.
Can Irenya help to save her home, Dar Orien, and all whom she loves once and for all? Find out in this epic conclusion to the GriffinSong Trilogy!
An enemy who’ll destroy every hope she’s ever had…
Expelled from the Imperial Assassins for a murder she didn’t commit, Dhani Karim is granted one shot at redemption: spend two years as a lowly covert operative in the Empire’s Secret Service whilst she tries to clear her name.
Partnered with Parvan Gorshayik, a former spy with a mysterious and brutal past, Dhani is sent to a far-flung mountain town on a routine intelligence gathering mission. But when Parvan’s obsession for revenge leads to an artifact with the power to unleash an ancient evil, Dhani faces a devastating choice.
Captured and savagely tortured, she’ll need to sacrifice her one chance to rejoin the Assassins just to stay alive. And though brutally injured, the take-no-prisoners assassin uses her old skills to escape… only to run headlong into an uneasy alliance with the enemy of her enemy - the Yargans.
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Filled with intricate world-building, snarky banter and epic battles, this second book in the Imperial series is perfect for fans of fast-paced, epic fantasy adventure.
A disgraced assassin. A sinister plot. Will her one shot at redemption send her to the grave?
Dhani Karim is furious. Wrongfully expelled from the Imperial Assassins, the snarky killer is forced into a lowly unranked position in a remote desert colony, working with a guy who’s clearly damaged goods. And when they barely survive an attack on what should have been a routine assignment, she fears clearing her name could cost her life.
Struggling to navigate a land where she’s the only person who can’t wield magic, things get worse when she receives a death threat and her unwanted partner vanishes. But when the clues lead to a violent cult, Dhani finds herself in a race against time to stop a bloodbath that will consume thousands of innocent lives.
Can she expose a deadly conspiracy before it causes a massacre?
City of Whispers is the thrilling first book in the Imperial Assassin fantasy adventure series.
If you like kickass heroines, high-octane action, and off-the-charts snark, then you’ll love Katt Powers’ gritty tale. Buy City of Whispers for a pulse-pounding page-turner today!
The monster Josh Taylor feared is free—and it’s all his fault.
Not only have Josh’s actions put his family and friends in danger, they’ve thrown Blackbirch into elemental chaos, forcing the town to evacuate.
Fleeing with his friends to his former home in the city, they follow clues left by his mom and aunt to uncover long-held secrets, and truths that lead to danger and loss.
This makes Josh question if he can avoid the doomed history of the Gifters before him, and if his magick is enough to defeat a creature willing to violate the laws of nature to claw its way back to life.
It’s Collector versus Collector in this epic conclusion to the Blackbirch series, and there’s only room in this world for one.
After the devastating events at The Playhouse, Josh is once again grieving.
Unwilling to put Sarah and Max in more danger, he vows to deepen his abilities alone and stop the mysterious threat Kallie warned was coming. But his powers aren’t as strong as they once were. Something is siphoning his magick, and he doesn’t know where to turn. Can he have faith in Eve after her sudden reappearance? Or should he side with Sheriff Stevens, whose help comes with secrets the lawman isn’t prepared to reveal?
When Josh is faced with enemies—both old and new—he has a choice to make: fight the one who threatens to take everything from him, or put his trust in an enemy who promises to cast a ritual that will give everything back.
Now that the origins of his power have been revealed, Josh Taylor’s search for answers continues with the arrival of Kallie—a girl running from her own secrets.
She shows Josh how to use his gift in ways he didn’t know were possible, but as they push the limits of their abilities, they discover there are consequences to messing with magic.
It’s a place no one forgets. Except for Josh Taylor.
The fatal car crash took more than 17-year-old Josh’s parents. It stole his memories and returned him to Blackbirch, a tourist town steeped in a history of witchcraft.
To restore his memories and find the true cause of his parents’ death, Josh Taylor must learn what's real, what’s a nightmare, and what secrets his home town of Blackbirch has buried in its woods.‬
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Faced with imprisonment for murder, a young woman named Josie encounters a strange and malignant man known as Calder, who offers her a way out at a high price: she must give him her firstborn baby.
Agreeing under duress, Josie later attempts to renege on the deal, but Calder eventually returns to take what he claims is rightfully his.
Josie moves on, struggling to come to terms with Calder’s machinations. Meanwhile, her child is raised by Calder on the boundary to another realm known as The Other, a beautiful but deadly place for those who are not from there.
A twist of fate has Josie believing she may have bested Calder at last, however he refuses to let her have her way when he returns to present her with a newer, more harrowing choice.
Starting a new job can be murder…
Mig Solder’s new place of work is a little… odd. Sure, there’s unlimited free coffee, but there’s also personal messages that seem to have no sender, colleagues that don’t seem quite, well, human, and random emails warning her to run. Now. When she discovers her predecessors didn’t quit, they just disappeared, Mig decides to put her obsessive attention to detail to good use and investigate. With the help of her mysterious new neighbor, her spirit-contacting best friend, and her wild grandmothers, Mig uncovers a plot way above her pay grade.
And once she starts dabbling in the supernatural, the consequences won’t just end in a bad performance review, it may just take her life – and her soul.
Grounded in Greek, Norse and Estonian mythology, this novel is unique.
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As described by international bestselling YA fantasy author, Marianne Curley: "Shadows of Sylvaheim will hold you captive whether you love young adult fantasy or not. This is the first book I have read that teaches you how to cope with both physical and mental health issues. There is no judgement, and the teaching is subliminal, but easily absorbed as the reader takes the heroic fantasy journey along with the characters. I wish this book had been around when I was growing up."
This novel is not only entertaining, but also informative. It is presently used with youth in schools, as well as part of Story Image Therapy (SIT) for individuals of all ages in medical centres and other insitutions in Australia, New Zealand and India.
Adam is dead, but that’s not his only problem. His husband, Wade, is still alive and sleeping with losers. His guardian angel, Guy, has grown fond of the liquor cabinet. And Adam suspects his demise was the result of foul play.
Meanwhile, in the depths of the Afterlife, the devil forces Adam to put on a play for the sinners. If he fails to entertain them, Guy’s parents will spend eternity in the Underworld.
As he gambles with the freedom of the damned angels, Adam comes to terms with infidelity, friendship, and the reason why he was the victim of a double murder.
Adam’s about to discover how much drama a mid-life crisis can be. He’s obsessed with Mannix, the nude model in his art class. But Adam has been married to Wade for nearly two decades, and they don’t have an open relationship.
Little do they know that Fabien, a warlock from the Afterlife, has secretly cast a spell of lust on Adam and his potential toy-boy.
As things begin to heat up, Adam’s guardian angel, Guy, steps in. But what’s the best way to save the relationship? Should Guy subdue Adam’s wandering passions or instigate a steamy threesome?
Close friends Allan and Warwick are dead. They’re not crazy about the idea, so to help them deal with this dilemma are Samantha, a blond bombshell from the 1950s, and Guy, an insecure angel.
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Allan also has a secret. He has a romantic crush on his friend, Warwick, but shortly after confiding in his new angel pal, his love interest falls for the cock-sure playwright, Pedro.
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Not only does Allan have to win the heart of his companion, he also has to grapple with the faded memory of how he actually died.
Brigid Humboldt is a high school teacher who has worked hard to fashion a predictable, ordinary life after an anything but ordinary childhood.
When scientists turn on the Large Hadron Collider, Brigid, inexplicably, becomes the co ruler of, well, everything. She quickly realises that not only must she learn the ropes of a new and not particularly welcomed job, she must also try and work out just which of the apparently multitudinous dark forces that surround her is trying to plunge the planet into an eternal pit of torment.
Is it just her own life that she has never been able to understand? Or is the very nature of existence far more bizarre than she could have ever imagined?
A cosmic rift. A looming cataclysm. Can women bound in prophecy fulfil their destinies and save their worlds?
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Melbourne, Australia 2320. Middle-aged manager Ali toils in obscurity under the Federation’s protective eco-dome. But when her fingers start glowing, memories vanish, and the voice of a snarky dragon echoes in her head, her boring existence turns upside down. Plagued by visions of a strange girl from another realm, Ali’s mind bends and nearly breaks after a shocking attempt on her life.
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The Tiger’s Eye is secure, and Timothy is trapped inside the Serpent’s Kiss.
The shadows of the past finally seem to be behind Tracey Masters. Hot off the heels of victory, Tracey and her friends waste no time in pursuing a lead on the fourth Stone of Power. However, that lead, her uncle’s client, takes them across land and sea, to a mansion from an older age … the very same that the Sect of Six lived in. When they arrive, the client mysteriously cannot be reached. Working under the guise of actors on the newest Prince Henry film, Tracey has a limited amount of time on this so-called getaway to find the fourth stone, find out what happened to Uncle Donny’s client, and to save her crush’s sister, all while avoiding the ire of their at-odds chaperones. No pressure!
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Shadows may be in the past, but there is a devil in their midst.
“DON’T LET THE SHADOW TOUCH YOU.”
Beware! Something is after Tracey Masters, a Mage-kind teen in a mostly non-magical world—a world where people like Tracey are often feared, and oppressed. Add to this stress a crazy family life, the schizo pressures of school, friends, and bullies, and working a boring job as an assistant at her uncle’s detective agency for magical types, and life isn’t just hard, it’s chaos!
That is, until a mysterious woman walks through the door with a case about a missing necklace known as the Butterfly Stone.
The magic within the Butterfly Stone is too powerful to be contained, but if Tracey doesn’t learn how to control it, and escape the threat of the shadow that surrounds it, she could lose everything and everyone she cares about … beginning with her younger sister, Sarah.
"REMEMBER THE LOST …"
Tracey Masters is ready to train harder, dig deeper, and get more in touch with the magic that is pulsing inside of her. She has faced the threat of the shadow, and it nearly consumed her.
With the help of her family and close friends, Tracey overcame the darkness and now realizes just how hard being a Mage-kind teenager really is. She won't be caught off-guard again. Clawing at the edges of her mind—of her memories—she senses a new evil encroaching.
As Tracey sets off in search of the other Stones of Power, she continues to wrestle with questions about her past. Racing to discover who she really is, Tracey must decide how far she is willing to go to protect her family and friends.
What cost—what sacrifice—is she willing to pay in order to find herself, locate the other stones, and break an ancient curse that is destroying generations of family history?
In the Australian suburb of South Hertling stands the Handy Pavilion, a seemingly ordinary big-box hardware store with very extraordinary staff members.
One of these is Axel Platzoff, a former supervillain. Tired of losing battles to Captain Stellar, Axel has taken gainful employment at the Pavilion as part of an amnesty offer from the International Criminal Court. And Axel is content, after a fashion.
But the arrival of the rival DIY Barn across the street threatens Axel's job, and the jobs of all his new friends.
Axel gains support and fights back, the only way he knows how -- only to discover that there is far more to the sinister Barn than he had ever dreamed.
‘You and I are not ordinary folk, little mistress. We are wise. We call the river by her goddess name, Sabrina.’
Hester, a farmer’s daughter, yearns for more than feeding lambs by the kitchen fire. She envies the freedom of the river nymphs and listens to Sabrina’s whispers: Be wise, be strong.
When Hester meets Aaron, a man powerful in herbal lore, she decides the healing wisdom of fields and forest is what Sabrina seeks of her. But her mother scorns her ambitions as witchery and decrees her daughter will have a husband to settle her down. Hester flees to Aaron, only to discover he too insists she should marry and be ‘ordinary’ folk. While a desperate Hester battles for her dream, Aaron must reconcile his past to accept the future.
Will the river help, or hinder?
An orphan bent on revenge. A monster searching for freedom. A forbidden pact that binds their fates together...
Lyss has heard her father’s screams; smelled the iron-tang of his blood. She’s witnessed his execution. And plotted her revenge. Then a violent encounter traps Lyss in a blood-pact with a rarkyn from the otherworld and imbues her with the monster’s forbidden magic. A magic that will erode her sanity.
To break the pact, she and the rarkyn must journey to the heart of the Empire. All that stands in their way are the mountains and the Empire’s soldiers—and each other. But horrors await them on the road, horrors even rarkyns fear.
The most terrifying monster isn’t the one Lyss travels with... It’s the one that’s awoken inside her.
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Life is not easy for a feral cat at the best of times, but the difficulties Bushytail faces on his journey to search for a home are far from ordinary.
Bushytail wants to find his own territory, but the journey is dangerous. He has to avoid the humans and their noisy machines as well as being on alert for other toms that may want to challenge him. He is used to relying on his wits to survive: he is a cat and a cat walks alone…
…but this time Bushytail realises he is going to need help.
Bushytail joins up with a band of clowderless young toms, where he meets the enigmatic Bristle whom Bushytail reluctantly allows to guide him. Will Bushytail ever master the three rules and the mysterious powers Bristle is trying to teach him?
He needs to - the future of catkind depends on him.
A young widow with a musical gift that is truly magical. A conflict that will threaten her homeland and her soul...
As a Skalsinger, Cahira Gelt delighted audiences with her multi-voiced performances. But she no longer has any reason to sing. Grieving the violent death of her husband, Bram, she is devastated by the sudden disappearance of his twin brother, Adric. Finding him is the only thing she can do for Bram now. But she little suspects what the cost to herself will be.
Haunted by nightmares, Cahira combs the island of Algarth for any trace of her brother-in-law. Along the way, her love of singing re-emerges, bringing comfort amid pain. Until a new and frightening power is unleashed within her, threatening those she holds dearest. But an even greater danger is brewing, a plot against Algarth itself.
Cahira will face a terrible choice - risk her life, her soul, and her sanity in a battle against a monstrous enemy, or watch everything she loves disappear forever.
Her newly-discovered green magic could save this land from destruction. If only she can evade capture long enough to learn how to wield it.
Sara Martin believes she’s put her troubled past behind her and found contentment tending gardens in a small Australian town. But when she’s inexplicably swept away to a land being ravaged by an ecological disaster, she discovers a power within herself she never suspected.
Unfortunately, the penalty for using Greenhaelan magic in Algarth is death.
With a story that spans more than 120 years, The Exiled Rogue Series is the complete offering of three Amazon #1 bestsellers!
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It starts as an existential crisis, develops into a clandestine meeting to discuss life and its purpose, then quickly escalates into something deeper and more profound. The characters journey through life and beyond, uncovering truths that the human mind has grappled with since the dawn of time.
Written by award-winning author Sandeep Adnani, this trilogy will help you appreciate the joy and wonder of being alive and look forward to the dimensions that await us upon our departure from this world.
Eight months ago, Yaetherim was sliced up and left for dead.
Fed up with excuses, he heads to the town of Alkentoft to seek those responsible. Meanwhile, Arch-Mechanic Tenora Perskel has her own cause for concern. Several dangerous malfunctions have left her and other mechanics at a loss.
Together, they must find the truth.
Three years ago, rogue council member Celeana Maar massacred all the students at the Witches Academy and left Ellemar Vancel for dead.
Now, still haunted by that day, Ellemar seeks to track Celeana down and settle the score. But her mission is nearly halted before it even begins because the Council of Witches prohibits members from killing, even if justified.
Given the gravity of Celeana's crime, the Council bends this rule and approves Ellemar's mission. Searching for Celeana takes Ellemar to a royal ship, a Forgotten Forest, and a secret island. Along the journey, she begins hearing stories that suggest Celeana’s horrendous act may actually have been justified. Is Ellemar chasing the wrong enemy? Has the Council been harboring secrets from its members?
Getting the answers right is critical. The peace of the entire kingdom is at stake.
A shadow is spreading across the land. Fear will be your downfall.
When the Prefects of Redmondis discover that their quick minds and quicker fingers hide secret potential, young thieves Wilt and Higgs find themselves unwilling recruits. Wilt’s ability to sink into others’ thoughts, knowing what action they will take before they do, is both a prized and dangerous gift.
The Nine Sisters of Redmondis have sensed a growing threat, and search for the one who can control the power of the blood within the stone. But even their sinister plots are nothing compared to the force that controls them.
As Wilt and Higgs rally their newfound weapons, they discover that the threat to their lives, and their reality, is much greater than they realise.
Two teenage brothers, one human and one dragon, are separated by war.
A veteran minotaur, who has seen far too much of war. An army of condemned prison soldiers, human, ogre, minotaur and dragon their fates doomed.
Sometimes true humanity comes from a dragon, compassion is found in the hooves of a minotaur, kindness from the big green hands of an ogre and true courage from the heart of a boy.
Part One of the Condemned War.
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Bookish, nonbinary Ruarnon thought their biggest challenge was proving a worthy heir to Tarlah's perfect King.
But when assassins strike, and their parents are abducted, Ruarnon must shoulder the burden of the throne in the face of unreliable allies and a brutal, expansionist neighbour. To end a war that's overshadowed their kingdom's entire history, Ruarnon will need more than a sharp mind and superior tactics; they'll need a bargaining chip.
Trapped in Ruarnon's world, Linh is desperate to return to loved ones in Australia and isn't above using the locals' belief she's a figure from their myths to do so. But her best shot at getting home involves sailing to Ruarnon with reinforcements while dodging a growing plague of monsters. If Linh succeeds, she'll gain knowledge that could help Ruarnon secure lasting peace. But a secure peace demands co-operation with Tarlah's long-term enemies.
So to pursue their heart's greatest desire, Ruarnon risks betrayal, all Tarlah and their own murder.
Loren struggled to convince academics of her research to improve creativity through guided intuition.
When she pushed that frustration into darkness, it took form. One frightful night, she was overwhelmed by a dark presence and called for help. After banishing that entity, the guide arranged a learning, intuitive path suited to her restless energy. She learnt much along the way, although her hasty actions sometimes came with a price. When it was time, ill-formed soul experiments resurfaced from an age long gone, created by her kind in a past life. Had she learnt enough to help them? Was she worthy?
Readers have described this book as realistic, relatable and insightful. It is a rare, enjoyable gem filled with surprises, support and understanding.
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Restoring Destiny is a fantasy/coming-of-age story of teen romance, magic, evil and a fight to save a life and right the wrongs of yesteryear.
Torn from their cloistered world, pursued by troops, Rais and Kanda battle the elements of an unknown world and struggle to develop their emerging magic powers. Their mother is to be executed at the next full moon by the evil ruler who invaded their world.
Only they can save her, take back the land, and free the imprisoned King and their father.
Future and past entwined. Despite the victory over Cantor Cortis, the dark power still spreads.
Nightmare creatures are wiping out villages all along the southern edge of the wild Tangle forest, causing a stream of refugees to flow into the capital of Sontair in the hope of finding protection. All who helped overthrow the Nine Sisters of Redmondis have been touched by what they experienced and those they lost.
Dark visions sap Petron and Daemi’s strength even as they try to heal the rifts within Redmondis and forge a new path for the wielders, crafters, and guards who make up its three main schools.
Wilt must enter the Tangle to seek out the source of the power that calls to him. Visions of the past seen through other eyes haunt his days, and he finds it harder and harder to resist the pull of his wraith form.
The Guardian is old and weak, and the Tangle is no longer secure…
The Dark Lord Iminus Kaw’s war against the Bond of Seven Kings has been burning for decades.
His champion, Lord Cryacur, known throughout the galaxy as the Black Ash Prince, has led an offensive designed to surround the Bond and destroy it. The planet Ophistar lies in his path. Prince Metora, hero of the Bond, has organised a defence of Ophistar. There, he encounters Lorian Shane, a member of the exiled Merenmere warrior class and together they travel with his droid Nepta and his brother Dez, to the city of Myr Edele.
They defend the city against Axis attacks and install a shield to protect it against any further attack.
Will is sixteen year old Lucy’s best friend. Their lives intersect in dreams, where destiny pulls them together through different times in history.
Even though their meetings are more real to Lucy than the present, Lucy is uncertain if Will exists outside her mind. Lucy’s mum thinks there is something wrong when Lucy sleeps for days at a time. She is so caught up with finding a cure she doesn’t see the real problem.
Lucy is bullied at school and is thinking of ending her life. When the bullying goes too far and Lucy ends up in a coma, only Will can reach her.
But how do you live when the only person who can save you doesn’t exist?
17-year-old, Cassie never wanted to participate in the reality tele-program.
She’d rather be making animal documentaries than be courted by three princes from rival planets all with their own agendas. But when Cassie’s crush, zoological researcher, Dennian tricks his way into the competition, she may not need her back-up escape plan.
Dennian is used to keeping quiet, but as the competition takes a dangerous turn and contestants are forced to face their greatest fears, the secrets that have kept him alive are revealed, but why is Dennian afraid of the Keeper?
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Troll eradication may not be on Gretchen’s resume, but strapped for cash, she’s prepared to try her hand at bounty hunting. And maybe a stray love potion while she’s at it.
Without a decent payday in months, she's close to calling it quits, and if she doesn’t come through, her reputation — and the prospect of more customers — will be ruined. Between an insolent spell book, an old friend too sick to run her favorite tavern and a new guy in town who is the object of every maiden’s desire, Gretchen scrambles to keep everyone happy. A potion cocktail has unintended side effects with massive ramifications and Gretchen has no idea how she did it.
If she doesn’t fix it, she’ll be forced to hang up her witches hat and serve drinks for the rest of her days.
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When the elemental powers of the seven nations come under threat Mai and Long are selected for an adventure.
They soon discover Akra, the Starchild, and alongside him, they battle the elements of nature, deadly creatures and the risk of starvation. The journey takes them far away from their appointed task.
A meeting with an earthfollower sets them on a new path where they must all find the strength to face a terrifying foe: a dementra from the underworld.
With a new addition to their journey, a young sealer boy, Mai, Long and Akra return to their chosen adventure.
The children quickly find themselves in a fight for their freedom. Their escape takes them to the land of Naroan. Now, the children are challenged with unravelling the mystery of the Silvershade.
This sets Long on a path to face the deadly power of the dark pebble from the underworld.
After escaping the attacking forces, Mai, Akra, Kalin must find a way to purge the evil that has consumed Long.
News of the underworld king is spreading, gloom and fear begins to sweep over the lands. The children’s future is once again full of danger as they travel over the harsh and unforgiving land of ice to healing stone.
But will they make it in time to save Long?
With a treacherous ice journey behind them and Long's health restored, Mai, Akra and Kalin must now find the falcon guard called Tupuck.
He is the only one who has the answers Akra now seeks.
Without knowing, the children enter the firerulers’ city right on the brink of a terrible civil war, spurred by slavery and fuelled by sorcery.
Stanley is almost fifty. He hates his job, has an overbearing mother, and is in a failed relationship.
Then he meets Asher, the man of his dreams, literally in his dreams.
Asher is young, captivating, and confident about his future – everything Stanley is not. So, Asher gives Stan a gift. The chance to be an extra five years younger each time they meet.
Some of their adventures are whimsical. A few are challenging. Others are totally surreal. All are designed to bring Stan closer to the moment his joyful childhood turned to tears.
But when they fall in love, Stan knows he can’t live in Asher’s dreamworld. Yet Stan is haunted by Asher’s invitation to “Slip into eternal sleep.”
Ferris wakes on the Sea Queen, an enchanted cruise ship sailing on a chocolate sea.
He has no idea how he got here, but he desperately wants to go home to his boyfriend. The alchemist is the only person who can help Ferris, but he’s been kidnapped.
The ransom is high tea with scones and jam. Meanwhile, the passengers are gearing up for the Winter Masquerade, a ball where love and magic reign.
With a murderous musician, an absent boyfriend, and a mystical party, Ferris soon learns that Wednesday is not the day to fall in love.
Lithia is a witch and possesses the natural inhuman strength, healing ability, and long lifespan that all witches have.
Ronan, her lover, is a human royal guard and a former witch hunter. Together they travel the kingdom, hired by cities and villages to eliminate the creatures that prey on their citizens. While defending a town against an attack, the humans inexplicably turn on them. When the battle is over, no human is left alive. Word of the bloodbath spreads, and enraged humans blame the witches for the deaths. On the run and desperate for answers, every place they stop has new tales of similar massacres across the land. They discover a group of Naguals, hideous shape-shifting brutes, are behind the humans’ attacks on witches.
A race against time begins as Lithia and Ronan hunt the Naguals while being chased by the very humans they are trying to save. If they don’t stop the Naguals, both humans and witches will be at their mercy and the world as they know it will be over.
Corruption is a disease with no cure that ends with a rapid descent into madness and violence.
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And until now it only targeted mages. When an infected warden shows up challenging everything Margot thought she knew she is thrown into the chase to find the impossible cure.
But to understand this new revelation she needs someone who knows possession ... She needs Nea and lucky for Margot, her warden friend Garret has been tasked with tracking the rogue necromancer down.
Garret is used to dealing with dangerous mages so this should be like any other job: find the mage and deliver her to the king. But from the moment he finds Nea he is dragged into a deadly game of dark secrets and brutal machinations.
Now he must make a choice - deliver Nea as promised and place a weapon in the hands of a mad man or deny his king and change the lives of wardens and mages forever.
Rawk is one of the great Heroes. He has travelled the world for forty years, hunting exotic creatures, battling magic and fighting evil wherever he found it.
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But he has been fighting mostly mundane battles since Prince Weaver outlawed magic. And with no great deeds left to be done, Rawk is afraid he’ll soon be the old man in the corner of the tavern, dreaming of the good old days and telling tales for anyone who will buy him a drink. But when a huge wolden wolf is spied from the walls of Katamood for the first time in a decade, Rawk is the man the city looks to once more. He’ll save them. He always has.
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Rawk will fight to ensure the Age of Heroes doesn’t slip away into history, but what if the good old days aren’t quite as good as he remembers?
Hey guys, I’m Kat Crowe, and I wanna tell you about the time I spent in California which ended abruptly when someone was murdered in my store.
Maybe moving out west from Arkansas wasn’t the best move. But before everything went south, I had a lot of fun tending my magical plants and catching some waves in my spare time. I never imagined things could go so wrong.
Or that I’d find myself caught up in a mystery where everyone was a suspect...
In the steppes of High Asia, the year 1166…
‘What is a Mongol? – As free as the geese in the air, as in unison. The flights of the geese promise us we don’t give up independence, to unite.’
The hundred tribes of the Mongols have come together with one aim, to push back against the walls that have crept onto the steppe – farther than China has ever extended its walls before. Walls are repugnant to a nomad. But can people on horses push them down, even with a united effort?
This story begins when nobody has heard of Mongols – not even most Chinese, who think the vast Northern Waste at its weakest and are right. A spectacular history starts obscurely… Against Walls is the first in a trilogy that gives voice to the Mongols in their explosive encounter with the great world under Tchingis Khan.
Both epic and intimate, Amgalant sees the world through Mongol eyes. It’s different from the world you know.
In the steppes of High Asia, the year 1188…
Jamuqa rode his trophy mare, off-white, black-pointed, on a Tartar seat, high arches of ornamental silver fore and aft. He wore a winterfur of snow leopard, near white with black whorls. The effect was kingly and fantastic: he might be Irle Khan himself, the king of ghosts, in his eerie splendour.
The steppe has been without a great khan for three hundred years – fragmented in the face of giant China. Are dreams and omens enough to unify its peoples? What makes a true king?
Lithia is hunted by evil King Noran, a madman obsessed with acquiring the longevity, healing powers, and inhuman strength of witches.
Royal guard and former witch hunter Ronan, framed for killing Noran's predecessor, escapes the palace before Noran can silence him. A chance meeting with Lithia sees him join forces with the witch and devise a plan to assassinate the malevolent King.
Traveling across the kingdom, recruiting others to their cause, the secrets Ronan and Lithia hide threaten to destroy not only themselves, but to bring Terom to its knees at the feet of King Noran and his diabolical desire to rule over the witches.
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Myna’s a selkie, though she doesn’t know it.
With her firstborn pronounced dead and taken before Myna can see her, it takes the birth of a second daughter, years later, to begin to mend Myna’s broken heart.
But then her firstborn returns, and shares the truth about Myna’s past.
Myna has a choice - retrieve her skin and return to the ocean to the family she never knew and the daughter she's long grieved for, or remain on land with the husband she loves, and the daughter who can never enter the sea.
Four-and-twenty extraordinary women - one chance to save a kingdom. What would you sacrifice to save your family, your loved ones, yourself?
In September 1486, the reign of King Henry VII of England is again threatened by York loyalists. The only thing standing in the way is a four-hundred-year-old sidhe who just wants to be left alone, and a group of London women with a lot to lose if England is plunged back into war.
But, in 1486, women have no power. Only the ability to make difficult choices and sometimes-heartbreaking sacrifices.
Become immersed in the fascinating, perilous lives of these women, as told through the medium of 25 interwoven short stories. much.
In early 2020 much of the world went into Lockdown as a means of dealing with Covid-19. This created a new situation for many people - separated by distance; connected by ideas and relationships, new and old.
Written during the first wave of the virus, this eclectic anthology documents the early days of Corona, and how we began to negotiate the strange new force that took over our lives.
With a broad range of characters, experiences and reactions, everyone will find something to relate to in "Life in the Time of Corona."
Monsters and Creatures delves into the legends of some of the worlds best known and most bizarre beasts and ghastly creations, revealing the facts and the fictions.
Explore the real-life origins of some of the strangest creatures ever encountered in the murky depths, in enchanted forests and even one or two who could be lurking under your bed. Discover the real werewolves of medieval Europe, glimpse the magical history of the famed unicorn and encounter the terrifying bloodsucking dogs of Mexico.
All these and more are found within the pages of Monsters and Creatures. More than a bestiary, this carefully researched book documents the mythologies, sightings and origins of over 100 weird and wonderful beasties from every continent and every time period, including modern monsters stalking us today.
All of these creatures have inspired films, books, scientific research, poems and music, as well as our collective dreams and nightmares.
Its time to come meet them and find out the amazing true stories behind these legendary mythical beasts.
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The odds are stacked against Emma.
Fatherless and poor in a remote village where men, money and faith determine everything, her only hope for a decent life is to marry before her eighteenth birthday. Though her prospects aren’t good and her options aren’t appealing, to live as an unmarried woman is a life sentence of silence and solitude.
Emma has to make a match. But when a beautiful, antlered boy appears in her dreams and tempts her to join him in the forbidden woods, another path opens to her.
Finally, after a life devoid of possibilities, Emma has a choice to make - to run from her future, or fight for it.
SOME PEOPLE AREN'T DESTINED TO BE ORDINARY.
With a special gift held close to her heart, it was always going to be hard for Sophia Woodville to live an ordinary life. As a 20 year old nursing grad, she thought she had her future all sorted.
However, destiny was about to intervene. Her secret was not so secret. The gift she possessed was just a hint of something far beyond her wildest imagination.
Sophia will be pulled, kicking and screaming, into an unseen, ancient world that challenges all that she thought to be true of herself, her family and the origins of humanity. Original sin, forbidden love and her life in constant danger.
Will Sophia survive this dark twist of fate? Will the devil be her saviour? Will an Angel be her downfall?
In a land on the edge of all that is known dwells Princess Winterhued, erudite, beautiful, broken-hearted.
The heir to her father's kingdom and raised to be queen, she is troubled by terrifying dreams and now finds the half-demented king turning against her. Slimy sycophants whisper in his ear, persuading him that a 'mere woman' is incapable of ruling, and now he ogles the princess's ladies-in-waiting and boasts of begetting a male heir.
But Winterhued's fears become as naught when a vast and ancient being comes flying on dread wings to lay siege to Castle Lawhill. Trailing fear and slaughter, it traps Winterhued and her people within the broken walls.
The princess strives to save her subjects, but it seems the only one courageous enough to help her is the lowliest servant-boy in the castle. Yet from the east, riding across wraith-haunted Iron Crag, comes a nameless knight, exiled and condemned, and a horned creature follows him, silent as moonlight.
An evocative high fantasy set in a medieval world that feels real, tangible, yet woven in myth.
How far would you go to change your past?
The Guardians are the protectors of Aloseria. They are the keepers of the peace and they have a unique ability-they can turn into dragons. Derek Draco is one of them.
Haunted by the memories of his past, Derek comes across a piece of a mythical amulet, said to hold the power to grant wishes once all three pieces are brought together. Seeing an opportunity to right the wrongs of his past, Derek sets out on a journey to find the rest of the amulet, along with his friends, Jared and Arabelle.
However, they are not the only ones in search of the amulet and this quest will bring Derek and his friends face-to-face with one of the most dangerous men in all of Aloseria. And that is not all they have to worry about.
Unaware of the true power of the amulet, Derek does not realise that using it to fulfil his seemingly innocent wish could have disastrous consequences.
Amulet of Wishes is a Young Adult fantasy novel and the first installment in the Chronicles of the Guardians series. It is set to be released on the 28th of April 2021 and is available now for pre-order.
Rome 100AD, Lucius Barca a 13yo boy and his three best friends are inseparable and live within a stones throw of greatest city in empire - Rome.
One fateful night, Lucius’ and his friends world is turned upside down when he stumbles upon the empires most famous gladiator - wounded and near death. Lucius saves the gladiator and takes him home knowing it could mean certain death to him and his family.
Lucius and his friends make a pact to protect the gladiator and keep him hidden from the authorities. Lucius and friends, with help of the gladiator, unravel a sinister plot within the royal palace to overthrow the emperor and change the course of history.
Can Lucius and his friends discover who is responsible for the sinister plot? Lucius and friends risk their lives to break into the emperor’s palace and save the emperor and his daughter.
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