The peaceful village of Tleth is set upon by evil, demonic creatures, and no one knows why. Almost the entire town is massacred, but one man survives. Young Layth watches his father die. He watches the evil creatures destroy his home and try to destroy him, too. Near death, he flees, with no idea that the band of demonic brothers was actually sent to find him In his severely injured condition, Layth is visited by the gods, who bestow upon him a divine power. His new abilities make him the ...

A warrior falls as the cult classic sword and sorcery series continues—the inspiration for the film starring Jack Palance.Tarl Cabot finds himself transported back to Counter-Earth from the sedate life he has known as a history professor on Earth. He is glad to be back in his role as a dominant warrior and again in the arms of his true love. Yet Tarl finds that his name on Gor has been tainted, his city defiled, and all those he loves made outcasts. He is no longer ...

Launa O'Brian's first assignment right our of West Point is beyond strangeThey want her to help a peaceful band of farmers win a war lost 6,000 years before she was born!The Army has a time machine. They even tested it once. It didn't work, but trust them, they fixed it.With the entire US Army to choose from, they picked Captain Jack Walking Bear for her partner. A combat vet, he's got a while different idea about this mission.But the Presicent's old college...

A visit from Yanko’s older brother is interrupted when an alarm blasts through the mine. Mutilated workers have been found dead in a newly opened tunnel.Yanko has been studying to become a mage, and his brother is a soldier, so they believe they are prepared to deal with this unknown threat, but what awaits them in the subterranean depths is nothing the mine has seen in its hundreds of years of operation.Death from Below is a 13,000-word novella.

How do you win a battle lost 6,000 years before you were born? How do you make sure that winning that battle doesn't lose you the war? Lieutenant Launa O'brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear have won their first battle and made their first recruits. But the whole steppe is up in arms and the tribes are wandering. How do they create a peace that will last 6,000? Here is the exciting continuation of the saga started in First Dawn.

The latest title from popular Forgotten Realms® author Richard Lee Byers.The dead are restless in the magic-rich realm of Thay, and an evil necromancer begins to gather them to his cause--a cause that will change the face of Faerûn forever.From the Paperback edition.

What you don’t know will kill you...Demascus awakens surrounded by corpses, at a shrine littered with traces of demonic rituals, with no memory of his past. But the Firestorm Cabal remembers him—and the demon who leads them seems to have a personal vendetta against him. Dodging knives, uncovering clues left by his past life, and dueling demons, Demascus must figure out who he is, what battles he is fighting, and who is hunting him before one of them catches up with him....

Join heroes fighting the undead hordes!A powerful undead sorcerer reigns in Thay over a frightened people and hordes of undead. The mageocracy in exile, masters of no more than their beaten army, watch from distant shores as the new King of Thay prepares a great magical ritual--a ritual they cannot allow him to bring to completion.The conclusion of The Haunted Lands series, the events in Unholy will have tremendous impact on the Forgotten Realms(R)...

The Shattered Pillars is the second book of Bear's The Eternal Sky trilogy and the sequel to Range of Ghosts. Set in a world drawn from our own great Asian Steppes, this saga of magic, politics and war sets Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the great Khagan and his friend Sarmarkar, a Wizard of Tsarepheth, against dark forces determined to conquer all the great Empires along the Celedon Road.Elizabeth Bear is an astonishing writer, whose prose draws you into st...

Ever wonder what could bring a demon to the gates of heaven?Aliisza and Kaanyr Vhok have returned from their attempted invasion of Menzoberranzan and turned their sights on Sundabar. But before she can complete a mission in that beseiged city, Aliisza finds herself in the one place a demon would never want to go, no matter how sure she is of her wits and cunning: the very heart of Celestia!Join everyone's favorite succubus and her half-fiend boyfriend, introduced in the War...

Before the War of the Lance, magic faced and fought its own demise.The Journeyman is charged to use the ancient Anvil of Time to travel back along the river of time and find the lost stories that fell between the pages of the history books.He finds Tythonnia, a young red robe learning magic in company with Ladonna of the black robes and Par-Salian of the white. The three are sent on an easy quest to find the leader of the renegade wizards, a man named Berthal, but if it was...

This original fantasy ""splendidly capture[s] the quintessential spirit of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser" (Dennis L. McKiernan, national bestselling author).Swords Against the Shadowland , authorized by series creator, Hugo and Nebula award–winning Grand Master of Science Fiction Fritz Leiber, is a direct sequel to Leiber's famous story, "Ill-Met in Lankhmar!"Named One of the Best Fantasy Novels by the