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The rainy season has come early to Madinat Alharir and Marshal Sturm’s problems seem to be as manifold as the drops of water falling from the sky. His army is divided by intense factionalism—northerners versus southerners, and locals versus everyone else. His enemies are laying plans to destroy him when the rainy season ends. The never-ending rains are washing away the defenses he just spent the last several moons developing. And worst of all, his injured eye has become a festering sore in his head, keeping him weak at the precise moment his soldiers and his god need him to be strong. ...

Police Patrol Live, the hottest reality law-enforcement show in the country, wants to come to Hadrian’s Well and embed camera crews in Undersheriff Joanna Donovan’s department. Her deputies are all excited about the opportunity—proud of their work and dreaming of becoming instant celebrities. But Joanna can’t agree with them. Hadrian’s Well is not like anywhere else in the world. Its deputies deal with dangerous preternatural creatures with disturbing regularity. She knows more civilians will only increase the danger to her deputies and the town. But keeping the television show ...

It’s Christmas time in Hadrian’s Well. In most of the country, it’s a period of peace, relaxation, and the renewal of bonds between friends and family, juxtaposed with an equal measure of stress, anxiety and arguments over who is cooking the turkey and who will bring the cranberry sauce. For Undersheriff Joanna Donovan’s chronically understaffed sheriff’s department, it’s all of that plus a dash of new preternatural hazards. But this year is going to be even tougher than usual. In addition to the typical holiday bustle, Amara, the ex-girlfriend of Joanna’s brother, shows up ...

After almost being assassinated, Marshal Sturm lies blinded, bed-ridden and near death while his senior officers struggle to find a path forward for holding Madinat Alharir, a city of five hundred thousand Naar worshipers who have no love for Wotan. The hot, waterless, three-moon-long Dry Season provides the Northerners a quarter of a year to prepare for an invasion of nomads attacking from the north and an equally large army of professional, Ahl-Alnaar soldiers attacking from the south. With the heat preventing reinforcements, can a leaderless group of officers find a way to save their ...

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.

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...

Surrounded by enemies, Prefect Marcus Venandus launches a bold stroke to eliminate one opponent in the coming war. The key to his plan is the fortified border town of Centinela - the Sentinel of Southern Morganita. Its fortified walls are strong enough to delay conventional forces for weeks, giving the other enemy city-states plenty of time to invade Amatista from the east. Can he take advantage and neutralize Centinela? Or will his risky gambit cost Marcus and his allies the war?

The long-feared war has erupted and Prefect Marcus Venandus and his newly raised legion are on the front lines of the fighting. After the successful conquest of a fortified border town, Marcus leads his men deep into Morganitan territory, part of a daring plan to secure Amatista’s rear by eliminating its major northern opponent before its other foes can join in the fighting.

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.

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 ...

Hadrian’s Well has survived the zombie apocalypse but that doesn’t mean life is getting easier there. Record rainfalls have resulted in widespread flooding and something in the water is killing people. Or is it in the water? Part of the problem in Hadrian’s Well is that the preternatural isn’t always what it seems. Many wear masks that let them move about in human society like they’re normal people. Human threats also abound as politics within and without the town handicap Undersheriff Donovan as she struggles to track the monsters down. As the body count rises, will Donovan and ...

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...

Long before Prefect Marcus Venandus directed the defense of the Jeweled Hills, Green Vigil Marcus led his first command into the treacherous jungles of Ekángá. As if the jungle itself wasn’t deadly enough, native warriors and shamans strike from its shadows with magic, spears, and darts, while the forcibly transplanted Graeci population seethes with unrest in the supposedly civilized regions of the province.

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.

Deep in the Iron Kingdom, the Great Defile seeks to conquer the dwarfs by flooding them out. It is a particularly nasty attack upon a race whose bones are so dense that they can’t float or swim. Armed with his magic sword, Quicksilver, and his fashionable hat, the halfling champion, Navarre, and his companions delve deep into the mines to foil a plot to drown the Iron Kingdom and with its destruction break the Accord of Fellowship. Was there ever a better time for a Dwarf Friend to arise?

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 ...

Lesser Tribune Marcus Venandus, Legion officer exemplar, was exiled to the disease-ridden hell hole known as the Fire Islands as punishment for the failed political machinations of his father. While the days of the powerful witchdoctor kings throwing skeletal armies against the shields of the legion have faded into history, all is not right at the edge of the world. Unrest is boiling once again as long dead darkness seeps back into the islands.

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...

Navarre thought he had seen the worst this world could throw against him when the orcs arrived at Hidden Harbor in their battle barge. But now the halfling sheriff must face a different kind of foe. The Royal Navy of Forestria is the most powerful military force in the Western Sea and it is determined to solidify its control of the region by eradicating all of the pirates and privateers operating there—and they view Navarre’s town as the key to their mission. Marines backed by powerful wizards and priests are planning to raze the Hidden Harbor, thinking nothing can stand against them. ...

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.