Simon Drake is an up-and-coming young FBI hotshot, an agent with a personal track record so outstanding that it borders on unbelievable. Not yet thirty, he’s already the leader of his own special ops team; a ragtag bunch of talented but nigh-uncontrollable lunatics, it’s true, but under Simon’s inspired leadership they’re a force to be reckoned with, a team with . . .
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Adam thought he was going to die before he saw the girl striding through the flames towards him. She brought him hope, but the journey he is about to take will take him through peril after peril on a quest to fulfill their goal at any cost. Derrick was a bored graduate student at Merlon University, before his Professor . . .
Van d’Allamitri is destined to become the world’s most famous chef— if only he can survive his childhood first! Son of a Shan-li restaurateur and a merchant from the great city of Varo, young Van is torn between honoring the culinary traditions of his overbearing mother and following in the footsteps of his cosmopolitan but ne’er-do-well father. As he finds . . .
With money to burn and time to spend, Sol Mann embarks on a journey through Costa Rica that would change him in a fundamental way. Where does he get his money? And what is he running from? . . . We don’t really know. But that doesn’t matter when your days are filled with cheap weed, good rum, and great women. . . .
The British Isles, the 16th century. Decades ago, the fae returned to the mortal world. Released by a coven of magicians after centuries of imprisonment, they swept across the British Isles, covering the land with a tangled forest of enchanted trees. Cities fell. Thousands died. Only a handful of cities were saved. Years later, the people of the . . .
Alaisa is an elven huntress, silent and deadly. Her brother Hilner, on the other hand, is an elven magician, loud and annoying but smart in his own way. When a senator asks the two of them to investigate the Verel family, who have been cursed to lose every one of their firstborn in strange accidents, they cannot refuse. The mystery . . .
What makes a psychopath? Magarce is a psychopath—frightening, amoral, deadly, wanton—and a Nerre, a feline creature from a world of rigorous protocol and deeply ingrained civility. Force of Fate explores where she came from, follows with unflinching gaze as she pursues her bad choices into a world of deeper and deeper depravity and savagery—and doesn’t blink, even when . . .
A full understanding of Bent Magnus begins with his mind. Imagine if you poured the intellectual horsepower of Einstein, Edison, and Ben Franklin all into one man. Now imagine that the man wasn’t a total pansy, like those other guys, and you have Bent Magnus. Beginning with his birth at the “Fight of the Century” in 1910, Bent Magnus . . .
A horror-themed webserial that takes place “in real time” over the course of 72 Hours. Focuses on three different protagonists, which alternate from chapter to chapter. . . .
A reader-directed, sci-fi/action web serial about the teleporting subspecies Homo sapiens nictans. . . .
The Travels of Nillian the Writer is a steampunk-inspired web-serial. It is set in an imaginary world where the technological advancement went a bit different and steam power is the main source of technology. In this world we will follow the travels of Nillian, who is trying to find out what happened to Dr. Biene, the world’s foremost steam . . .
When Cassie meets Stan and Hawk, two soldiers in the shadowy Western Forest Authority, she can’t wait to sign up and do her part to save the world. But these soldiers aren’t human, and she just might find herself on the endangered species list . . . . . .
In a time that Might-Have-Been but Never Was, steam power and clockwork mechanisms commanded the might of science and harnessed nature. Fantastic creatures were common, myths were truth and airships crossed the skies. This is the story of one of those airships. . . .
I have Jim Zoetewey’s review to thank for introducing me to this story. I probably would not have discovered it otherwise. From the title I had the idea that it was about the credit crunch or something.
I shot over to the site hot on the heels of Jim’s review and [more . . .]
Eikasia is quite unusual fantasy story. Similar to "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin it is told as seen by some of the protagonists, most of the time that is Elmiryn and Nyx. Later a few others are included. What’s really special is that not only they are quite believable persons with a very different [more . . .]