The Shattered Orb

For a thousand years, the carcaern orbs have held the wraiths at bay. But someone is shattering orbs and murdering gods. Faced with the impossible task of protecting Indham against the monstrous wraiths, Edoma must break a twenty-year-old oath and practice blood magic again. But there's a reason why she abandoned the practice decades ago, and the costs are greater than ever. The Shattered Orb is the first novel in the Vagrant Souls series, an epic fantasy with constant twists and turns in a dark world of sinister intrigue.

Before the Break of Dawn is a collection of stories which take place in the mystical world of Eternal Dawn, the setting of the highly anticipated fantasy novel Dawnbreaker. The Orb Mongers is the story of a pair of thieves who find themselves at a crossroads. Muse Orbs, the objects of their illicit dealings, are becoming increasingly scarce with the passing of each new night. A game of pure luck unveils the location of what could be the only remaining horde in Eternal Dawn. Will Chauncey and Trig's next big score be their last? The Flood tells the tale concerning the final hours of the Last War. The Vagabond Master and his apprentice find themselves in a race against time. They must outrun an ancient evil as they try desperately to complete their final mission and bring light back to Eternal Dawn.

How far would you pursue a dream if it meant requisite isolation? If every artless response began to fester a mutiny amongst your closest of friends, would you stay true? On who would you depend for encouragement if everyone you knew arched their chest against you, or turned and sank away? What would you do to protect an idea, to keep safe your future? What did God do? Elohiym’s decision to give his creation the ability to “choose” creates quite the commotion in the heavens, but none are ready to accept the danger that has suddenly appeared, a secret that Elohiym has kept to himself. His friend, Beo’la Hone, tries desperately to turn Elohiym from his intentions, and to save him from a broken heart. For his personal story, that of Biyith Min, did not fair well when Beo’la Hone placed upon his Ambassador King the ability to choose.

Aleric finds a world full of supernatural powers and possibilities. Decisions lay scattered across his path, and he can’t trust anyone. These tricky situations make him doubt his lineage. Will Aleric be able to discover the truth? Was there nothing his parents were hiding from him all these years? Aleric watches on as everything turns into a live vortex – destroying his friends and relationships. Or is this a mere delusion? Will Aleric ever just let things be? Or will the dark secrets hunt him down? Life is a bubble, held hostage at the gunpoint of doubt.

Brucius is dead, his legions destroyed. The Gai-Dubous are believed extinct and the Death Waker has not been seen in almost four years. And Andross the Invincible, the one who used the Orb of Torjen and took its curse upon himself, is presumed dead, though his body has never been found. Now a new threat has begun to form, climbing up from volcanic lands to replace the old dangers with even darker, more ancient ones. The kings of Upperworld, Bracchus and Korsoko among them, must stop rebuilding in order to defend their lands once again. Amidst the turmoil, the old group begins to form as rumors escalate that Andross is, indeed, still alive somewhere, but slowly dying. Ever-loyal to their old friend, the knights set forth to rescue the accursed Tribal, battling ogres, braving monsters and venturing into the foreboding city of the Death Waker, and finally down into the enigmatic depths of Lowerworld itself, where a dark shadow threatens all that lay within its reach. And in that journey, they will face not only the pain of their own individual pasts, but they will also learn the past of their own world, and struggle to maintain hope in a future that will change everything.

The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world, without humans and maybe not even intelligence. The history of life is littered with accidents: any twist or turn may lead to a completely different world. Now this view is being challenged. Simon Conway Morris explores the evidence demonstrating life's almost eerie ability to navigate to a single solution, repeatedly. Eyes, brains, tools, even culture: all are very much on the cards. So if these are all evolutionary inevitabilities, where are our counterparts across the galaxy? The tape of life can only run on a suitable planet, and it seems that such Earth-like planets may be much rarer than hoped. Inevitable humans, yes, but in a lonely Universe.

Return to the mystical world of Krynn, where the heroic Companions continue their fantastical adventures—and face their greatest challenge yet With the return of the dragon minions of Takhisis, the Queen of Dragons, the land of Krynn has become more dangerous than ever. But as the nations of Krynn prepare to fight for their homes, their lives, and their freedom, longstanding hatreds and prejudices interfere. When fighting breaks out among the races, it seems the battle is lost before it even begins. Meanwhile, the heroic Companions have been torn apart by war. A full season will pass before they meet again—if they meet again. Raistlin has made an ominous prediction, one that implies not all of the Companions will survive the fight. His warning, along with sinister dreams, haunt the friends as they search for the weapons that will stop the Dark Queen in her tracks: the mysterious Dragon Orbs and legendary Dragonlance. Another riveting tale in the Dragonlance Chronicles, Dragons of Winter Night is an action-packed adventure in which the true value of love and friendship is measured against the backdrop of a catastrophic war between good and evil. Dragons of Winter Night is the second book in the Dragonlance Chronicles.

The truth will destroy it all Pinned in HillTop, winter eats away at Tohmas Galanth's forces. Tohmas' wizard is outmatched and in hiding. His warriors are tired and losing faith. The longer they wait, the closer the truth comes to unseating Tohmas' position as Prince of Galanth. His chances at victory are dwindling and the more Tohmas learns about his powerful enemy DoomDragon, the more his confidence wanes. As Tohmas battles on, his family’s crimes come to light. The Galanth have guarded their secrets for a generation, but now the blood of the fallen washes away their deceptions. Lies have always come easier for Tohmas, yet to protect the obscurity of his past, he must set right the blood feud he inherited. In a war where no one can be trusted, can anyone emerge victorious? Dragons, wizards, and magical forces collide in this complex world of swords, sorcery, and ancient revenge.