In time, we all become men of sorrow, women of sorrow, people of sorrow. John Claypool echoed this truth in the preface to his book Tracks of a Fellow Struggler, and it is a bitter truth indeed.In the...

When a king begs a boon, dare she refuse him?Remeya—fosterling and maid-in-waiting to the king's sister—worships the old and forbidden horned god alongside the princess.Despite the centuries-old taboo,...

If only Mama were well. If only Papa were . . . not like this. Clary needs a miracle, but wonders rarely step forth to solve life's problems.While her mama lies wearily abed and her papa spends the day...

Once upon a time...A troll-mage rains death upon the land from his citadel in the sky. Who—if anyone—can defeat him? Despite the oracle's prophecy, few believe the beggar's son might be the people's champion.A...

When you dwell in the citadel of your enemies, do you join them? Depart towards exile and death? Or raze their dark tower to the ground?   Gael tries to ignore the significance of his actions. Managing...

Tricks and cheats lurk at the heart of faie cruelty...Tahearn—a faie knight—hates the love of torment relished by the lords and ladies of the faie court, and refuses to give rein to it in himself. But...

If she trusts her prince to the eldest Fate—the one who snips a mortal's thread short—will her beloved live or die?Nerine, a sea nymph of the ancient world, holds secrets close.Each morning in the chill...

The mountain people of the North-lands wield a tribal magic born of dance, song, and the flow of sacred waters. Despite the beauty of the rites, their traditions underpin too many thou-shalt-nots.In each...

When Sarvet's world hems her in, she pushes back. Her daughter, Livli, does likewise. The Kaunis-clan Onmibus, Sarvet & Livli, presents both their transcendent stories.SARVET'S WANDERYAR Running away...

What if Beauty faces not only her angry Beast and his curse, but a curse threatening every mage alive? As a bespelled north-bear, Prince Kellor fights confused rage and wracking pain. Any curse possesses...

With centuries-old tradition and an impassioned traditionalist against her, can a champion of family ties save her menfolk from exile?Livli dreads losing her father, brothers—and her unborn son. The men...

The goddess of the hunt burns for justice...When Artemis discovers her handmaiden dead in the forest—slain by Dìs, lord of the underworld—she demands that Zeus punish the murder. But Zeus upholds Dìs,...

She buried herself to escape her past, but now it's followed her down to hell...The dark queen anchors her soul in power—power as her husband's beloved, power as the guide for shades seeking absolution....

Pierced by the hero's song, she prays hell's queen will weep...A nameless shade, newly arrived in Hades' darkness, struggles to remember her past. As ghosts press around her, she suspects she descended...

He chose hell to preserve his brothers. Will his choice prove his destruction?Lord Dìs hungers. After millennia expending his immense strength to sustain hell and its shades, the dark god of the dead...

Young deceit sprouts timeless trouble.Motherless Brys Arnsson digs himself into trouble. Bad trouble. Tricked by a troll in J.M. Ney-Grimm's richly imagined North-lands, Brys must dig himself and his...

In the legendary duat—the mystical passage where the sun god Ra travels from west to east in the night, so that he rises again in the dawning—a lioness of ancient Egypt lies caged.Once she stalked the...

Ancient, cold, and perilous.Its truth forgotten in the mists of time, the old bridge harbors a lethal secret. Neither marble statues awakened for battle nor an ancient roadbed grown hungry, something...

The warriors of Torbellai brought back a prize in the night, and young Paitra wants to see it. Even hidden away in the armory, the artifact changed the whole mood of their mountain citadel from dread...

Gefnen—troll-herald and hound for Koschey the Deathless—hunts life across the moors of the far north.Not deer, not pheasant, not meat for the table. His master eats choicer fruits. When the piercing scent...

On a whim, the rainbow's child falls to earth, where a cruel adversary takes advantage of her innocence. Bereft of her thunder-swept heavens, she dwindles. The sky calls to her, but she cannot answer....

Running away leads right back home—or does it?Sarvet walks with a grinding limp, and her mountain hamlet keeps girls close to home. Even worse, her mother emphasizes all the things Sarvet can't do. When...

When girl confronts demonic citadel, who wins? Fae awakens without memories, locked in a deserted castle. Who she is and where she comes from—all gone. By day, beauty from the ages graces the castle—medieval...

He would be king one day, and called as king to be wise for his people. But wisdom—and kindness—no longer come to him.Brychan, princess in a corner of a Wales that never was, requires a unicorn's horn...

A dark secret lurks in a hidden labyrinth. Can a pair of renegades unearth the truth before more innocents disappear forever?Gael, an illicit mage, hunts redemption with Keir, a healer who helps all who...

Fantasy mixed with history—bright, ancient, and vivid. Three novels. Caught in Amber When young Fae awakens in a locked and deserted castle, she remembers nothing. Who she is, where she comes from, none...

Mischievous Mercurio guards the planet Mercury—his sacred charge—with quirky devotion. He loves the oddball chunk of rock, with its illusion of retrograde motion and its out-of-sync orbit and spin.Almost...

Two friends. Two opinions. One dilemma.On fabled Navarys–the Atlantis of the North-lands–Liliyah studies energea as all thirteen-year-olds do, devoting her mornings to mastering the music that controls...

Strange magic births a monster of transcendent strength. Can a wily old hunter bring the beast to bay before it slays the woman he once cherished?Ivvar still loves his estranged wife—heartbreakingly....

North-lands spellcasters who reach too boldly for power transform into trolls—grotesque villains wielding a potent magic and destined for madness.Spanning the North-lands history, from ancient times to...