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The Vampire the Masquerade Clan Novel Saga is a thirteen-volume masterpiece, presenting the war between the established Camarilla leadership and the growing power of the brutal Sabbat on the East Coast of the United States. Each novel is told from the perspective of one of the thirteen clans, intertwining with the others, and filling in missing pieces artfully as we follow battle after battle, intrigue after intrigue—and the appearance of a strange artifact that falls into the hands of a solitary Toreador sculptor. Clan Novel Setite is the fourth in the series.

The final battle between John Devonte, the True Dragon, and Vanqueur Hellsbane, the false Emperor, is here. Together with his beautiful Wargear, his women who can transform into formidable weapons, John is going to rid the world of Hellsbane's taint. And he might just become emperor himself in the process.

In the dystopian realm of The Order, society is eternally divided between the privileged Untouchables and the struggling Unfortunates. The Untouchables, draped in opulence and power, govern the city with an iron fist, casting long shadows over the impoverished Unfortunates who toil beneath in the murky depths of the working class. As the ruling elite revel in excess and luxury, the Unfortunates navigate a world stacked against them, grappling with meager resources and restricted opportunities. The social chasm widens daily as the Untouchables tighten their grip on wealth and influence.

Most humans have no idea that a dark and deadly underworld, filled with magic and monsters, exists. They wander through life blissfully ignorant of the supernatural world around them. Nora Jacobs is different. Nora knows exactly what kinds of hellish creatures haunt the streets of Detroit. Thanks to a unique set of psychic abilities, Nora has managed to steer clear of the underworld most of her life. But all that changes the night the most powerful vampire in the city discovers her gifts and decides to use her as a tool to find one of his missing clan members.

It is 1164, and for a hundred years England has been ruled by the Normans. A young Saxon boy named Durwin, crippled by a childhood accident, had caught the eye of a Norman sage teaching at a rural school of magic. Realizing that the boy had promise, Durwin was made stable boy, and eventually allowed to attend classes. Now twenty, Durwin is proficient enough that he is assigned to teach, but the other sages refuse to promote him and he is hassled by the Norman juniors for his disability.

Camille Ellis is the Earthen Conclave's golden girl. Her peculiar talent solves cases with a touch. She isn't afraid of getting her hands dirty, but every bright star casts a shadow, and her deepest scars lurk just beneath the skin. A routine consultation goes sideways when a victim's brother gets involved in the investigation. Riding the edge of grief, the warg will go to any lengths to avenge his sister's death. Even if it means ensuring Cam's cooperation at the jaws of his wolf.

Udo's biggest problem isn't being a digger (that's low class), or staying drunk (that's damn expensive), or avoiding the Dwergaz (they're monsters), or even pissing off the supposed Gods. It's that his reality...well, it isn't what he thought. And now, he can't even afford to drink because his so-called friend Nicz is cutting into his business, digging up tin, iron, and copper. So Udo forms a new plan: clay. After all, clay jars are used to store everything: meat, herbs, and, his personal favorite, ale.

With only one bastion still standing on the once unconquerable fortress world of Aranua, Warboss Gazrot Goresnappa should be basking in the light of impending victory. Instead, he lies ‘proppa dead’ beneath a decapitated Gargant’s head. The biggest and baddest bosses from each of the six (no-longer-united) clans step forward to duke it out to become the next warboss – but the ork gods have other plans. A prophecy foretells of a mysterious gate that lies beneath the human city. The one true warboss will be the first to find it, and will use it to turn the galaxy green.

A time of great darkness is approaching, but will Sandra and her dungeon survive? After being responsible for destroying multiple Dungeon Cores, the consequences of which she has yet to see but knows will be coming, Sandra and her friends must obtain help from the leadership of the nearby lands. The problem will soon become bigger than she can contain, and only by them all working together will everyone survive the dangers represented by the nearby dungeons.

What would you do if the ruler of the frozen north land kingdom tried to make one of your faithful minions marry someone else? Would you that happen? Or would you use your dungeon deity powers to dig under his land, invade his castle with your horde of monsters, and warm your soul with the sounds of his dying screams? Come on. It’s the third book. We all know what you would do.

My parents made a deal with the devil, and now I’m a Hell Fae captive. Enslaved. Owned. Thrown to the Hellhounds and expected to survive. Because only survivors earn their mates. It doesn’t matter that I don’t want to be a bride. I’m a Halfling. Part Hell Fae and part girl-who-doesn’t-give-a-shit. But because of a bargain, he owns me. Lucifer. The Hell Fae King who created this godforsaken realm. Also known as the orchestrator of these deadly bride-trial games.

A man who commands dragons rises. The people call him a prophet, a savior...the one who will free them from the tyranny of the wizard class. They do not comprehend the threat he presents. The dragon priest rages across the land. Cities and rulers are helpless against his might. A pair of heroes embark on a dangerous quest, seeking a lost object of power. Without it, the dragon priest and his army will destroy the world. An army of metal golems invades another wizardom. These magic-powered automatons are the weapon of the last wizard lord—a madman who desires to rule the world.

Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance - comrades for the coming travails.

The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet, the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm's Host and the Bridgeburners, each now outlawed by the Empress­ alongside their enemies of old, including the grim forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, and his Tiste Andii, and the Rhivi people of the Plains.

PUBLISHER WARNING This work contains high levels of violence, graphic descriptions of death, male nudity and adult themes that may offend some readers. The author recommends readers must be 18+ years of age. FROM THE AUTHOR Welcome to the world of Jack Steel, a journey through worlds both real and imagined, full of heroism, adventure and raw masculinity on an epic scale. These are tales filled with brawn and brutality, where our heroes willingly fight to the death or die trying. As the publisher warning states, these stories are not for everyone. They contain high levels of violence, ...

Wes Rhodes wasn’t prepared to wake up in a medieval-style equipment room. He wasn’t expecting to fight his way through a deadly dungeon today, either. But when he makes it through before the timer runs out, his entire perspective shifts. Now, he’s the guy with a whole other dimension waiting inside the magic crystal in his pocket, and nothing will ever be the same. All he’s gotta do is make it out alive and get back to Earth each and every time. And the payoff is worth it. There’s monsters to slay, loot to gain, and even some sexy women to save from certain doom.

Here are eight of World Fantasy Award winner S.P. Somtow’s most controversial stories, including three previously uncollected ones. Each deals with a “sacred cow” of the Judaeo-Christian tradition and subjects it to the pitiless scrutiny of historian, mythographer, and fantasist. Violent, sometimes kinky, these stories nevertheless reach surprising epiphanies about faith and redemption. A curiously sympathetic Antichrist hunts down the next messiah with the aid of a unicorn. St Paul ponders about whether, in order to make his miraculous new religion work, he needs to get rid of an ...

PUBLISHER WARNING This work contains high levels of violence, graphic descriptions of death, male nudity and adult themes that may offend some readers. The author recommends readers must be 18+ years of age. FROM THE AUTHOR Welcome to the world of Jack Steel, a journey through worlds both real and imagined, full of heroism, adventure and raw masculinity on an epic scale. These are tales filled with brawn and brutality, where our heroes willingly fight to the death or die trying. As the publisher warning states, these stories are not for everyone. They contain high levels of violence, ...

A meeting in a cemetery somewhere in Las Vegas between a pale-faced witch and a servant to the albino demon named Synner. She gives him an ancient sword that holds the powers that will kill Cadence Mage. A year before, there was a battle at The Saint Joan of Arc Church, an event Cadence wanted to forget. The battle left him holding his dead love, Meadow, in his arms. Unaware his mother placed Meadow’s soul inside the three-headed dagger and in time, with Tidus Brack’s help, they enter the dream world to bring her back from the dead, but bringing her back will come with a price. The pale...

Welcome to the Sorrows—where nightmares bleed into reality, and nothing is what it seems. Maddie Monroe is twenty-two, stuck slinging coffee in a graveyard-shift diner and clinging to dreams of escape. But when she defends a scarred, cryptic stranger from a brutal attack, her life is ripped apart—and hurled into another world. The Sorrows is not a place for the weak. It's a realm of twisted magic, broken souls, and creeping madness. Maddie has no map, no allies—except for a band of misfits who are each more dangerous than they appear: – a disgraced royal advisor haunted by his past ...