The enigmatic Peacock King, ruler of half of the known world, seeks to possess the land itself by enslaving the spirits of the wild. Gerald, a newly initiated Poet whose magic is as real as he can write it, is also one of the Armed—enforcers of the Law who wield guns with souls. His mission: infiltrate the Peacock King’s Court . . .
Jack Burroughs used to be one of the most feared names in the business. As an assassin who specialized in killing superheroes, he made a name for himself as the guy to go to when you needed a cape taken out. But after undergoing an experimental treatment, Jack woke up to discover that the cold-blooded bastard he was had died. . . .
The story of Cirno Excalibur, who found a pole in his back yard, got struck by weird lightning, and went with his new talking pole to go fight the demons. . . .
Max and Mick are two brothers who’ve just moved away from home. In the city for the first time, they try to make it big while dealing with rent, local criminals, work, the authorities, their own propensity for getting into trouble, and each other. Also, they’re mages. . . .
If you were the bane of existence cursed with catastrophic power, would you choose to save the lives of those who abused you, or witness and bring upon their demise? The Dark Crystal, and the Light Crystal, contain magnificent power, but together create an unparalleled path of absolute annihilation. But each carrier is destined to defeat the other. So, . . .
Sun-kissed is a story about vampires, those hunted by vampires and those who hunt vampires. . . .
The Philosopher in Arms is the massively-revised version of my two traditionally-published fantasy novels, Lion’s Heart and Lion’s Soul (Baen Books, 1991) set in the “Fifth Millennium” world collaboratively created with S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier. Almost 3,000 years after a human-made cataclysm reduced both human population and technology back to primitive levels, civilization is rising again slowly. Here . . .
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 . . .
They come to the mountain-city of Verss—fugitives, desperate runaways, eager entrepreneurs, spies- the feline Nerre, vulpine Estrai, the shunned reptilian Tompar, the provincial canine Resten—all to Verss, the biggest city on the biggest planet of the wolflike Runge. Will Allie, wolf-girl runaway, find redemption or degradation as she turns in desperation from abuse to whoredom, yet tries to have . . .
Set in a world where high school meets high treason, Mind + Body sees protagonist and narrator Chris Baker under fire from rogue elements inside the Marine Corps, the FBI, and a handful of paid killers as he attempts to uncover a conspiracy that seems to envelop his entire life. Chris leads an entirely normal life until his father, . . .
Mind+Body is a modern thriller very reminiscent of the movie version of The Bourne Identity. At times, it does not suffer from the comparison. At other times, it does.
The story is told first person, past tense by Chris Baker, a typical 17-year-old living with his family in a quiet suburb [more . . .]
When I read the synopsis I thought I wasn’t going to like this story, even though quite a few folks I find myself reading the same stories with or even reading directly recommended it. It took about a week for me to decide I would try it and even then I went in to it with a good bit of [more . . .]