Book: Orb and Arrow, Book III: Duty

The lords of southern Dereff have asked Brillar and Elden to establish a House of the Four Powers near Obreth. They have accepted the challenge and travel north to recruit from both Great Houses. Those who agree will have to say their farewells to friends and relatives, cross the Wild with their families and take up new duties in the south.

But deep in the earth, evil is stirring. The Mother has been roused, the maker of the Savic, enraged by the death of her daughters at the hands of the mages and their supporters. She has summoned a quartet of daughters, vowing vengeance. Brillar must die and her friends with her; then the House of Life must be destroyed and the town of Laurenfell laid waste.  

For the first time in a thousand years, the north will be at war!

     In the Valta, no matter what month you were born, everyone is assigned the same birthday. November 1st. It's the anniversary of the day when the government declared war on the Eastern Order. The day you turn seventeen, the Recruiters come to take you away. And no one ever hears from you again.   

      It’s October 31st. Today, Kress is sixteen years old. Tomorrow, she’ll be taken. The good news? So will her best friend Cardyn and Brohn, the handsome, enigmatic boy she’s avoided all her life.The bad news? Recruitment isn’t what any of them expected.   

      Weeks of training await. Military and psychological tests, escape rooms, hand-to-hand combat. The Recruits are told they're the key to winning the war. But with each day that passes, things begin to make less sense. If only Kress had been able to bring her trained raven, Render, with her.If only none of them had ever had to come to this place.

The Middle Kingdom of Talheim has enjoyed peace for decades. But with the threat of war rising from the ruthless South, the dream of a quiet life is fading. And for the noble but naïve Princess Cistine, that means embarking on a dangerous quest to the Northern Kingdom, where she hopes to forge an alliance against their southern foes and save her people.​     

     But when Cistine is captured by an outlaw and his band of cutthroat warriors, she finds a more deadly adventure than she bargained for - and a greater power within herself than she ever knew.     Swept up in the unpredictable tide of a tenuous and shadowy political climate, a ruthless land governed by the stars, and the unexpected revelations that come from her mysterious new companions, Cistine must learn how to fight, how to lead...and above all, how to trust herself. If the young princess can't be forged into a fighter, her kingdom will fall.

All Tessa LaRoche wants is to be the most ordinary person on Barrow Island. After a stint in a mental asylum, she's had quite enough of being anything else, thank you very much. But when a commission at her new reporting job forces her into the path of a not-quite-human murder suspect, Tessa finds that the unordinary is not through with her yet.
      Spirited away by a devilishly charming Nicolai to the Mirror Lands— a parallel reality manipulated by the immortal Deathless— Tessa loses one of the most precious tethers to her sanity. In order to reclaim it, she must risk entering The Chaos Circus: a citywide fair where mortals trade years for prizes in vicious attractions from which the Deathless draw their power.

     But there's a catch: if Tessa can't defeat the Deathless at their own freakish carnival games, she will lose her mind...and Nicolai will lose his life.
      Forced to rely on one another despite the secrets that come between them, Tessa and Nicolai embark on a dangerous adventure through the deceptively beautiful life of the Circus, where little is as it seems—even the games, their pasts, and the strange whirlwind of memories that Tessa can no longer recall.

     Sometimes, the past comes back to haunt us. Sometimes, it comes back to teach us the lessons we didn’t learn the first time.      Ayana may not have been aware of her mother’s mistakes, but she was determined to create her own path and destiny. She loved being a Caster but pledging her college sorority and becoming a Professor was higher on the list. So was her first love – Pane. Pane and Ayana were high school sweethearts, and nothing could keep them apart… until one very bad accident. Ayana received support from her mother and best friend, Danica, but that was short-lived when someone else close to her vanished.     Now, Ayana is thrust into the world of unexpected guests and they all have one item on the menu—her—until she meets the handsome and daring, Hosea, who will stop at nothing to help. Even if that means risking his life and going against the will of his King. Unfortunately for Ayana, Hosea isn’t who he portrays to be. When cerium features on his body don’t quite match the anatomy of normal humans, Ayana is left puzzled and quite curious. Hosea is hiding a terrible secret and it is one that could make or break his relationship with Ayana.     Will Ayana support his truth once she finds out… even if Hosea isn’t quite as normal as she thought?

With her Warden stolen, her hopes of an easy alliance thwarted, and her trust in herown kingdom shattered, Princess Cistine Novacek faces her greatest challenge yet:using wit and steel to bring down a wicked Chancellor and prove herself to the cabal'stentative allies in the Courts. As friendships are tested, bonds broken, and love put tothe test, the Princess must face the growing threats within the Northern Kingdom – andlearn to rise a queen.​     

     Locked away in a desert prison, Asheila Kovar faces the struggle of her life: survivingthe ruthless Blood Hive, returning to her Princess, and avenging a betrayal against theheart of her kingdom. But there are more secrets and schemes than just hers lurking inthe catacombs…and the struggle between powerful forces above and below the sandswill test Ashe’s loyalty in dangerous ways. Ways that may spell death for people the cabal cannot afford to lose.

All Variants live by one rule - you run, you hide…or you die.     Ever since the disappearance of her father, Paige Adler has been hiding in the system. She spends her days packing ration boxes, and her nights on the hunt, secretly seeking justice against those who prey on her people. Just like her father once did. One night, when tracking a killer, Paige stumbles upon something far bigger than her own personal vendetta…     In the shadows of the city, the Resistance still lingers, all but destroyed fifteen years before. Her father once fought for them, and it cost him his life. Now, they want Paige to join them, too.     Drawn in by a handsome but mysterious Variant, Paige soon discovers that the enemy is building a secret weapon, one that could destroy not only the Resistance, but all Variants, once and for all. In order to survive, they have to fight. And Paige, her powers, and her past, might just be the key to the future…

  Actor Luke Arnold, best known for his role as the pirate ,Long John John Silver, from the former Emmy- winning Starz series, Black Sails, debuts his first novel: The Last Smile in Sunder City (The Fetch Phillips Archives (1) ). The story follows a former soldier, Fetch Phillips, turned private investigator into a world that was once filled with magic but destroyed by greedy humans; which has forced the nonhuman inhabitants underground. Phillips decides to help the creatures who lives he's helped destroy. Phillips is hired as a PI by 300 year old vampire at a cross species school for children to locate a missing professor. As more vampires turn up dead, Phillips realizes that he's got more than he's bargained for. 

 International best selling author of the Broken Empire and the Red Queen's War trilogies begins an epic fantasy series, Red Sister (Book of the Ancestor).  The story follows Nona Gray, a young girl who is falsely accused of murder and rescued from the noose by a secret order of  holy warriors, and is taken to the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where young girls are raised to be killers. Nona struggles with a dark past of violence, and a secret that catches up with her unraveling a string of politics from a fracturing empire. Nona's sudden arrival at the convent ignite old feuds and viscous struggle from the church.  Nona must come to terms with her past and wreck havoc on those who stand in her way.

The lands of Northern Caltus are consumed by war; a war that has raged for three bloody decades. The expansionist aggression of the Empire of Elriol is only countered by the defiance of the young khan of the Korghum Khanate, and the two are locked in a desperate struggle for hegemony.      

     Into this steps the disavowed assassin, Brian O'Connor, once a servant but now his own master. A man with a sordid past, Brian seeks the end of Elriol by any means, even if he must bare blade alongside former enemies to see it done.      

     In his quest for retribution against the Emperor of Elriol, Brian finds a deeper meaning to life that causes him to question all that he knows. Yet the choices that he makes leave him torn between the retribution that he seeks or the redemption that he needs.      

     His story, one of courage and strength, cunning and sacrifice, will shatter the foundations of Northern Caltus. A new era in the world begins to the gunfire of Brian O’Connor.

  Ambriel's lonely life in Heaven collecting and cataloging magical objects never satisfied her, but it certainly suited her. Quiet, quirky, and largely ignored, Ambriel's angelhood is often the only connection she feels to her brother, the archangel Michael, who is running Heaven after the disappearance of God and Lucifer. But after a botched mission leaves an important artifact split between her hands and a demon's, Michael exiles her to Earth. A series of betrayals warp Ambriel into a devious enactor of revenge, determined to claim the vacant throne in Hell, and ensure she can never be cast out – or aside – ever again.

The lands of Northern Caltus are consumed by war; a war that has raged for three bloody decades. The expansionist aggression of the Empire of Elriol is only countered by the defiance of the young khan of the Korghum Khanate, and the two are locked in a desperate struggle for hegemony.      

     Into this steps the disavowed assassin, Brian O'Connor, once a servant but now his own master. A man with a sordid past, Brian seeks the end of Elriol by any means, even if he must bare blade alongside former enemies to see it done.      

     In his quest for retribution against the Emperor of Elriol, Brian finds a deeper meaning to life that causes him to question all that he knows. Yet the choices that he makes leave him torn between the retribution that he seeks or the redemption that he needs.      

     His story, one of courage and strength, cunning and sacrifice, will shatter the foundations of Northern Caltus. A new era in the world begins to the gunfire of Brian O’Connor.

​In this Graphic Novel series, Nafera spirals through the unknown and mystical world of a secret Egyptian Dynasty, The Inuwa Dynasty. Hesitant, Nafera joins with allies in effort to fulfill an ancient prophecy and liberate the Inuwa Dynasty from its immortal threat, Amunetra. But first... Jenja