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An accident of birth holds the future of a nation. Meet Kalena. Taken under the Empire’s Second Born rule, she is now a part of the Hatar Kalar, the Emperor’s flying corps. Being paired with a large, feathered carnivore is not all it’s cracked up to be, and Kalena and her new Hatar partner find themselves embroiled in affairs way beyond their pay grade. Ice Tigers, enemy nations, internal strife, and the fate of an Empire are now balanced precariously on Kalena’s shoulders, and she has no idea which way it will fall.

Albion Bell has spent his life haunted by the fire that destroyed his childhood home and stole his father from him. Raised between foster homes and shadows, he believes the past is buried, until a violent rift tears open between worlds and drags him into a shattered Avalon, where myths bleed and history is a living weapon. In Avalon, Albion discovers he is the last scion of the Pendragon line, a bloodline long thought extinguished after centuries of betrayal, war, and sorrow.

In They Can't Find Anything Wrong!, Dr. David Clarke shares a life-changing approach to Stress Illness that is based on detailed interviews with and successful treatment of over 7000 patients. Tens of millions of people with Stress Illness are usually unaware of the nature or degree of the stress responsible for their symptoms. Unfortunately, few physicians are formally trained to detect and manage this problem.

Taken from her home. Owned by the State. Paired with a monster. An accident of birth...Every ten years the Imperium Provosts travel the provinces of the Great Suene Empire and take every second born child as the property of the Emperor. His due for their continued protection. Kalena, taken from her family and friends finds herself alone and scared in the imperial Stronghold of Darkon. And when she cries out to the darkness for help, Kalena is shocked when it answers her back.

Rogues in the House Podcast has gathered the best tales of sword and sorcery from across the community. Here, brave adventurers will find stories lovingly crafted from heroic fantasy greats such as Howard Andrew Jones, John R. Fultz, and John C. Hocking. At their side are up and coming genre authors Chuck Clark, T.A. Markitan, Cora Buhlert, and many more.

The Empire is on the verge of war. The ancient enemy has returned and betrayal is thick in the air. Eight years after Kalena became a Flyer, she is being sent North with her wing to garrison the mountainous Northern Pass. They are the first line of defense against unknown enemy numbers. But what she encounters there, no one could have foreseen and is more dangerous than what the Empire faces to the North.

Get ready for an epic adventure in Brookhaven as the fate of the city rests in the hands of the Blackwatch. Meet Ryn Weaver, a warrior-in-training who has always dreamed of protecting the innocent. But on her journey to join the prestigious Blackwatch Order, she is paired with the enigmatic Dagan Drake, a Tribunal Mage.

Dr. Francesca Johnson-DeWitt is ready for a Bahamian Christmas vacation, but her post-divorce plans take an unexpected turn when fate intervenes. In the charming town of Ohio Falls, her college nemesis, the smug Dr. Sebastian Bing, rekindles an old rivalry, sparking a hilarious and heartwarming Christmas War that turns the quaint town upside down.

In the second book of the Courageous Love Series, Elise McDonald kept one eye out for her next adventure and one on the calendar counting down to her new job as an associate professor.

On the eve of war, the good tremble. Dearen and the Ice Tigers are bringing the fight for hearth and home to the Bareskins. And on the eve of war, something stirring within Dearen draws her north into the mountains, searching for an ethereal promise that might bring peace.

The frontier city of Gravemarch stands at the edge of the kingdom — outside its fog-shrouded walls is the mouth of an ancient dungeon. Secrets and monsters within attract all manner of adventurers. Rowan Ardent, a weary young adventurer armed with a short sword and grim resolve, has made peace with mediocrity. He kills, he survives, and he brings home just enough coins to see another day. A future of comfort and luxury is his dream. But when he finds Ari Sylver, a terrified elven healer and the only survivor of a rookie party slaughtered underground, Rowan’s quiet life begins to see ...

Nach dem Tod seiner Eltern hatte Alex Roth nur einen Wunsch: ein Zauberer zu werden. Durch harte Arbeit wurde er an der Universität von Generasi angenommen, der besten Zauberakademie der Welt. Das Schicksal hatte aber andere Pläne. An seinem 18. Geburtstag wird er durch eine Prophezeiung als einer der fünf Helden des Königreichs gezeichnet, die dazu bestimmt sind, den Ravener zu bekämpfen, den größten Feind des Landes. Sein Zeichen ist aber das des „Narren“. Das schlimmste der Zeichen.

Dearen prepares to join the Dymarki in their fight against the country of Arran, but then mysteriously disappears. Kral Tayme, Hauga and Raga go in search of her while Lt Peana continues his search for his missing Captain.

Stan Armstrong dedicated his entire life to science. Branded as a maverick and a risk-taker by his colleagues, his unorthodox experiments and outlandish theories of time and space resulted in loss of funding and, ultimately, his termination from tenure at the university where he’d spent his entire career. Stan’s insatiable quest to explore extreme hypotheses and to prove the unproven were matched only by his neurotic lust to peel back the mysterious layers of time and space to expose the hidden secrets of the universe.

Still reeling from the death of her father, Alexandria hopes to find both independence and reprieve from her grief by heading off to college. However, life throws her a serious curveball when she discovers that her roommate isn't quite the person she had imagined. Smoking, tattoos, and street racing for fast cash are Elijah's only interests. A harsh life has made him apathetic and indifferent, until Alexandria enters his life. When their paths cross, turmoil abounds.

The smooth faces of boy soldiers stand out in Civil War photography. Yet until now, scholars have largely overlooked the masses of underaged youths who served as musicians, carried wounded from the field, ran messages, took up arms, and died in both the Union and Confederate armies. Of Age is the first comprehensive study of how Americans responded to the unauthorized enlistment of minors in this conflict and the implications that followed.

Kalena awakes with no memory of who - or what - she is. A Dymarki family takes her in as one of their own and she works alongside them to help keep their home safe from the evil lowlanders. As she lives and works, she discovers that she has a power that is quickly growing within her. One that can help to defend her new found people. But what will be the cost of that power be to her "unknown" searching friends?

A flyer has been bought crashing down and Kalena is taken by unknown attackers. A search and rescue is organized with more dependent on its success than finding the missing Wing Commander. The stability of the Empire is in the balance. A tip either way will bring success or ruination.

Dearen and her newfound Suenese allies are on their way to Daegarouf to enlist Pydarki help in their struggle against the Kingdom of Arran. But the journey reveals the tip of a hidden agenda that makes Dearen question who her friends really are.

The enemy of your enemy is your friend. Dearen, Adhamh, and their friends gather the Dymarki forces and go to meet the Arranians on Haten's Field. Meanwhile, Holm and Vosloo go to bring back their missing Wing Commander but find things are not as simple as they seem. Betrayal, conspiracy, and war…where the God Marked will determine the fate of a nation.