The saga of a new mercenary company as they strive to find a beacon of light in a dark and hopeless world. Set in a quasi-historical world, clearly fantastical but with allegories to real world cultures, languages, and religions. Character-focused, with a gradually expanding cast and scope. Eventually spans multiple continents and features a cast of every race, . . .
Nine detectives and nine serial killers find themselves playing a dangerous survival game of deductions, pretending, and—murder. With your life and alias on the line, what would you give up for a shot at redemption? The main premise and kick of KtJ is that it is a guessing game of sorts. 18 high school students of various ages and . . .
”It is not the wolves that should be feared but the sly foxes that lurk in their shadows.” A rogue Masked Master, the Fox, has returned to the kingdom of Shanhe. The assassin’s arrival triggers chaos, entangling the lives of a maid, bodyguard and nobleman. For Bai Mingzhu, it could jeopardise her secret mission. For Liu Disung, . . .
Deicidium is the story of a world different from our own, on the cusp of the modern era and intertwined in its first Great War. However, for the people of this world, Gods exist and they aren’t benevolent. Blood Knights are humanity’s only defense and have operated outside the public eye for hundreds of years. The truth behind . . .
For Ember Rehksskari, a hated dragon and last princess of a fallen kingdom, there are two kinds of place in the world: those where the people will try to kill her, and those where they’ll try harder. Yet, fleeing from the second to the first, she may just find a third. The kingdom of Salshira has no interest in . . .
Portillo, TX is a city of industry, fuelled by chemicals and ambition. It smells like money. Its citizens seek fortune, love, and truth. Rex is a freelance cameraman who discovers a secret. Heather is high school teacher who doubts the intentions of her holistic psychiatrist, but desperately needs to overcome a childhood trauma. Portillo is a city with two sides. . . .
Tom MacKenna and Lucien Baptiste have little in common—one a thief, the other a magician—besides both being gifted with supernatural powers which they use strictly for their own monetary gain, and being equally ignorant and uninterested as to the origins of these abilities. However, when a strange twist of circumstances forces them to assume responsibility for Helene Prideux, a mysterious . . .
Little is known of the old world. Gyon is the last place on earth to have preserved the ancient traditions of Shai-Ryam, once known as Akata. High in the northern mountains, the Renno warriors practice the arts of the blade and spirit. Daolin, a young Renno disciple, is coming upon his seventeenth year, and his last as a junior . . .
When the angel Asrial discovers that the halos of the Fallen have been maintained in Heaven against their eventual return, she speaks out against Archangel Michael’s plan to make war on them on Earth. For her insolence, she is driven from grace and ends up in the parking lot of a Jesuit high school. But can she, a priest, a . . .
The dead are waking. They are taking to clouded flight, westward as the wind carries. They cannot stay, they cannot relent. The sky is an ocean, the mountains a pit, the dark is a light. The waters provide and the king is dead, the sun so long hidden by the moon. Hear the music of the spheres and fly. Now, . . .
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Apr 1, 2018: The first chapter is really good. The setting is crisply detailed and the characters compelling. Sometimes a scene will start off a little abstract, but it’s more an artistic choice than accident, because if you read another couple sentences, everything clears up. Great stuff.