Melkeen is a prodigy, a young Wizard with incredible magikal abilities. Sarta is a barbarian blade-for-hire of unbelievable skill. Together, they are a formidable team. And the world is against them. Required by his elder (and rival) Wizards to search out rare and dangerous artifacts, a young man hires a woman to guard him on his travels. Their contract is . . .
Clarissa and James meet one winter day, and they quickly fall in love and get married. This novel is about James’s relationship with Clarissa, how Clarissa loses James, and how she recovers. In addition to this main plot, there are several subplots. . . .
James Decker just won’t stay dead. Slain while rescuing a young woman from a would-be rapist, he finds himself in a pseudo-life, caught between two realities, belonging to neither. Haunted by the ghosts of his father and grandfather, he learns that the woman he rescued is in fact an Innocent, the physical embodiment of hope. As it turns out, seeing . . .
Short stories with a variety of themes, including hauntings, madness, lost love. . . .
Jonathan Baron’s music has left him and so has the love of his life, a woman he’s no longer certain even really exists. Convinced that his buried childhood memories are the key to determining whether or not she was merely a figment of his imagination, he seeks out his family’s ancestral home. From the moment he sets foot unto . . .
Marianne Rivers is the only mage she knows—that is, until another mage named Aeryn stumbles into her tranquil life. She soon learns that, outside the safety of her secluded village, the king of Altrud is invading other kingdoms and turning his own into an empire. On top of that, he is convincing everyone that mages’ powers are not natural, but . . .
18 year-old Szandi is part of Budapest’s cosmopolitan art scene, sharing a flat and a bohemian lifestyle with her lover and fellow sculptress, Yang. She has finally found her place in the world. Then a letter arrives that threatens everything, and forces her to choose once and for all: between the past and the present; between East and West; between . . .
First and foremost: Darkside is fun. It’s a rollicking fantasy adventure that starts with a bang and doesn’t slow down. It has humor, likable characters, and an engaging first person narrator.
The summary sums up the story well (I know, who would have thunk it, right?) so there’s really not much [more . . .]
Take a young wizard named Melkeen, add a sword named Sarta and sprinkle with magick. Add a dash of rivalry and religion, balance it with masculine and feminine, divide with youth and experience and you have a good old fashioned piece of pure escapism! Sword and Sigils is an enchanting story and I thoroughly chilled out as I whizzed through [more . . .]