Now that he’s of age, Prince Temmin must leave his childhood home behind for a new life with his father in the capital. King Harsin plans to educate his son in the ways of all the kings who have come before. But the family’s immortal advisor, Teacher, has other plans: to bring Temmin closer to his people, to bind him . . .
The war has dragged on for ten years. The Darithian Empire is on the verge of victory, but Tal wants nothing to do with it. Rebecca dreams of a new life, but gets more than she bargained for. Dragons and magic, legends and swords—an old-fashioned fantasy adventure . . . . . .
For the Ai-Naidar, a species of slim, gracile aliens, caste and tradition are not the shackles that imprison the spirit but the silences that make sense of the music of their lives. The Aphorisms of Kherishdar collects 25 short tales about what it is to have an Ai-Naidari soul: to find comfort in tradition, law and structure; to revere interdependence . . .
In Kherishdar, when a person commits a crime, they become their sin. . . . Suicide. Rape. Child Abuse. Addiction. Twenty-five crimes. Twenty-five stories. Twenty-five narrators . . . and one minister over them all, to judge, convict and Correct the faulty: the priest who serves Shame. This companion volume to The Aphorisms of Kherishdar explores the wayward and their journey back to society, offering . . .
Peter is your typical high school student, but when his mother’s marriage falls apart he copes by dreaming up the story of Dorothea, an elf who lives in the magical Bois d’or forest. Releasing his frustrations in his French teacher’s nightly writing assignment, Peter shares Dorothea’s story with his teacher, imagining a world in which witches, a renegade elf lord . . .
Things that crawl in the shadows, spirits of unsettled dead, arcane mysteries in our current age . . . Fiction, Fantasy, Imagination. Each person can be reborn at least once in his own mind. Each one of us can close his eyes and picture himself as something different, finding in the myths the courage to maintain his stability in the pressing life that encircles . . .
Book One begins with Tylor Sabre awakening from an unnaturally deep sleep to find that havoc has rained down on his island village. His father has gone missing and bizarre dreams begin plaguing him. What starts as a search for his father soon cascades into something far more catastrophic. When Tylor learns that something powerful has been passed down in . . .
An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom has everything that every good fantasy story needs: magic, prophecies, mysterious—apparently immortal – mentors and curses just to mention a few. But unlike most fantasy stories, there is no apparent Quest – it is simply the history of the Kingdom. Not the dull sort of history in text books that are nothing [more . . .]
Riders of Darith is, at the point of writing this, 28 chapters long. The main character,Tal, is a mysterious, moody guy with some classic teen attitude thrown in for good measure. He’s on a search for ‘the gods’? His journey – rather purposeless wandering and taking mercenary-warrior-band type jobs, from what I can gather – is interupted by call back [more . . .]