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The battle to save Queenstown from the orcs of the Great Defile is far from over. Despite the valiant efforts of the tiny flotilla comprised of naval officers from Forestria, privateers from Anundal, and Navarre’s band of heroes from Hidden Harbor, enemy battle barges have reached the shore and disgorged their crews of orcs, ogres, and hobgoblins. As if that weren’t bad enough, sea monsters have risen to the surface to keep the flotilla from crossing the bay to rescue the helpless residents of the town. But despite the daunting odds against them, all is not yet lost. The gods of the ...

The Pembroke Steel and Tales of the Tomahawk series collide in this gripping short novel revealing what really happened when Mitch Pembroke, Kit Moran, and Ansen Grost met in between the Allied and German armies in No Man’s Land. After the war, the three men would encounter many creatures that modern science could not explain, but it was in the ruins of an old church surviving between the two armies that they first learned how dark the world truly is. A peril that dwarfs the threat posed by the Germans is creeping out to feed and demonstrate the true reason why the area is called No Man's...

Legionnaire is a gritty high fantasy series set on the borders of the far-flung Republic of Aquila. While political in-fighting and scheming are the order of the day in the heart of the Republic, the borderlands are awash with dangers, only kept in check by the might of the legions. Fell magics, savage peoples, and scheming empires all threaten the country Patrician Marcus Venandus has sworn to defend using his wits, military strategy, and his small command of highly disciplined legionnaires.

After winning a costly clash with Diamonte’s Thegn Clovis and High Mago Deverel, Marcus must find a way to press the attack even though more than half of his Black Hat legionnaires are unable to take the field. Thegn Clovis cannot afford another costly battle so he must turn to High Mago Deverel to conjure victory from defeat. But a lot of magos have been playing with the weather in the past year and succeed or fail, the consequences of Deverel’s efforts could prove devastating for the Jeweled Hills.

Despite their impressive victories in the north, Prefect Marcus and the Black hat Legion stand alone against the full might of Diamonte and Aquamarina. With their home city under siege and the cowardly Lord Totila refusing to lead his host out from behind the walls of Centinela, it falls once again to Marcus to protect his adopted homeland by himself. His only hope is to thread the needle, maneuvering his legion across enemy-occupied Amatista to the one location that might enable him to recapture the initiative in this war. It’s a risky gamble. With multiple armies afield and none of them...

Earl Marshal Sturm just crushed the invasion of Kriegsturm by Ahl-Alnaar, but unless he can teach the southerners a hard lesson, the Sturm Front knows that his saber-rattling neighbors will return. With this in mind, Sturm has gathered a force roughly half the size of the army he just defeated to venture down the Spice Road toward the legendary city of Madinat Alharir. He knows he’s walking a tightrope. If he can humiliate High Sheik Rami though further losses, he can put an end to the man’s ambitions to conquer Kriegsturm. But if he loses this army, there is nothing left in Al-Andalus ...

Mitch Pembroke, accompanied by his best-friend and bodyguard, Kit Moran, is in Newport News visiting Jenny Lee Danforth and her family, hoping to spend a few pleasant weeks getting to know them in preparation for the coming wedding. But all is not peaceful in Virginia and a storm of vice and corruption threatens the security of the entire Danforth clan. Jenny Lee’s older brother has involved himself with the mobsters who run the local gambling halls and he is in way over his head. Can Mitch find the leverage to protect the Danforths from his soon-to-be brother-in-law’s idiocy? Or will ...

Black Vigil Severus Lupus never wanted to be a high-ranking officer who ordered thousands of men into battle. He enjoyed turning junior officers into men who could be counted upon no matter what the problem. He didn’t ask to be promoted to command one of Prefect Marcus’ new legions in the Jeweled Hills. He doesn’t like rubbing elbows with his social betters and trying to be polite to them. And yet, that is just what his mission to Morganita calls for. The Morganitan Gente are turning on all foreigners in their land even though it is Marcus and his legion that put them in power. Faced ...

The unicorn, one of the greatest of the legendary creatures, is all but extinct in the world with only three surviving in the Black Forest in Germany. At least, there were only three until one impossibly shows up in Hadrian’s Well—the very first to ever be sighted in the Americas. The appearance excites people in a way that rock trolls, brownies, water nymphs, and nosferatu couldn’t—attracting politicians and thousands of tourists to the small town to see the endangered creature. But not everyone has the animal’s best interests at heart and if Undersheriff Donovan and her deputies...

After the harshest winter in living history, four legion commanders and their men emerge from the snow to continue the war against Diamonte. Capitán Severus must find a way to guide the prickly and impulsive Regente Fermín in a campaign to drive the enemy out of southern Morganita. Lord Gundado must construct a plan through which his weakened cavalry can stop Diamonte from reinforcing their forces in Ópalo. Lord Evorik must deal with the treachery of former ally, Maga Yessenia of Hessonita. And Capitán Calidus must hold the remaining legion officers together in the face of the knowledge...

The Duchy of Winterhaven lies at the edge of human civilization. There, Great Lords scheme to expand their borders and take control of the dukedom. Meanwhile the young knight Dhrugal of Edgefield investigates a most unusual murder, little suspecting how this gruesome crime links to a much greater threat. A decade of relative peace is about to collapse, and only Dhrugal and his brothers and sister stand between Winterhaven and dark-spun chaos.

The war seems to be going well for Marcus, but he has forgotten the most important rule of the Jeweled Cities—alliances are made to be broken. In a world where even the ethnic peoples of the north—Gota, Gente and Qing—cannot remain united against the other peoples, how can Marcus convince them to remain true to their commitments to an outsider like him? And yet his honor is not so malleable as that of many of his new neighbors. He will stay the course and defend his dead brother’s home—even if the only things he can depend on are the swords and spears of his legionnaires.

With Prefect Marcus and the Black Hat Legion still trapped in Morganita fighting against the treacherous Thegn Hathus of Granate, it falls to Calidus Vulpes, Red Vigil of the Aquilan legions, to take a thousand quiet Qing infantry men and fifteen hundred unruly Gente archers to hold off the full might of Diamonte at Angosto Pass. The odds are thirty-to-one against them. Can the Aquilan junior officer hold back the enemy until Marcus and the veterans return, or will this prove to be Calidus’ final stand?

Joanna Donovan has had a rough time since becoming the undersheriff of Hadrian’s Well, Colorado. In the past three months, she and her deputies have defended their town from multiple preternatural threats including rock trolls, zombies, and red caps. So, she is outraged when A-list Hollywood actress, Ani Breeze, tries to strong arm her into traveling all the way to Desolation, Montana to aid in the search for her missing son. The young man disappeared with his girlfriend while climbing the infamous Widow’s Peak and Breeze is convinced that a preternatural monster is responsible. Joanna ...

ABBA, Air Supply, Charlie’s Angels, Ronald Reagan—it’s 1981 and real estate attorney, Lynne Winters’, is struggling to manage a constantly complaining mother and a law practice tanking in the worst real estate market in a decade. Then her life really goes insane when a long brown envelope lands on her desk. The heir to the Mackland furniture empire has been kidnapped and the kidnapper has forced Lynne smack in the middle of the ransom negotiations. It’s the most important case of her career, but in a time when professional women too often aren’t taken seriously, it will take all...

By the author of Legionnaire, the epic new military fantasy continues: Duke Maldon may have suffered the shame of seeing his family's heresy exposed, but that doesn’t mean that the duke and his kin are out of the fight. Launching their most insidious scheme yet, they succeed in transforming a victory celebration uniting the duchy’s leading families into a bloody battlefield that ignites a civil war. And with the great families of Winterhaven doing their best to kill each other, no one seems to notice the far greater dangers arising on the border, threatening to overrun them all. No one,...

To honor his dead brother’s obligations, Marcus has agreed to help the city of Amatista defend itself in the coming war with mighty Diamonte and its allies, but the arrogant Gota who rule the Jeweled Cities refuse to believe an infantry composed of the despised Qing and Gente peoples can prove to be any kind of threat in the coming war.

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine: When bare knuckle boxer Corey Callaghan’s trainer is locked in prison on a charge of murder, the sheriff doesn’t much care if he’s innocent or guilty. That’s because he doesn’t expect the case to go before a judge and jury. You see, the dead man’s son is leading a posse to town looking for vengeance and Corey’s fists aren’t likely to be enough to save the old man. It looks like Patrick’s only chance to avoid a lynching is lady luck, a named gambler, Pandora Parson, and the strength of her defense.

Only one tiny halfling stands in the way of an power seeking to wipe out a grand alliance that has lasted for millennia. None of the inhabitants of the scum ridden town of Hidden Harbor seem to be able to take him seriously, but they are about to learn how wrong they are. For the gods were tricked into putting aside their differences to create one final champion. Armed only with a hatchet and a highly fashionable hat, the halfling champion is doing his best to save the world by chopping down one evil villain at a time.

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: All is not right at Fort Bridger. Miss Pandora Parson and Corey Callaghan arrive to give testimony in Lieutenant Ridgewood’s dereliction of duty trial. With the court inclined against him, it looks like the good lieutenant is going to be found guilty. The only thing standing between an honest soldier and an unjust conviction is a certain lady gambler and her bare-knuckle boxer friend.