Cornered beasts fight more like demons than men.Tohmas Galanth has arrived in the north, outnumbered on every front. To survive his commitments to his besieged uncle, he must defeat the hordes, but their leader DoomDragon is no easy foe, and the battles are fought in steady retreat. Even after reaching his uncle, city walls and fortifications give only the illusion of safety; DoomDragon and his allies have been biding their time. Now they will take the land as thei...

These are the first steps along the path to conquest. Tread lightly.Born Esparan but raised in isolation, Tohmas Galanth wavers between blood and upbringing. Called north to defend the family he never knew, he must inspire Espar to rally, lest the invading Northlander forces conquer the land between the Ice Oceans and Outland Plains.But Tohmas is not the naive commander his enemies or his allies expect. War is in his blood. He will not be deterred, though r...

These are the first steps along the path to conquest. Tread lightly.Born Esparan but raised in isolation, Tohmas Galanth wavers between blood and upbringing. Called north to defend the family he never knew, he must inspire Espar to rally, lest the invading Northlander forces conquer the land between the Ice Oceans and Outland Plains.But Tohmas is not the naive commander his enemies or his allies expect. War is in his blood. He will not be deterred, though r...

Taken for granted as the natural order of things, peace at sea is in fact an immense and recent achievement—but also an enormous strategic challenge if it is to be maintained in the future. In Maritime Strategy and Global Order, an international roster of top scholars offers historical perspectives and contemporary analysis to explore the role of naval power and maritime trade in creating the international system.The book begins in the early days of the industrial revoluti...

Should the Seers ever leave the lands of Nanterac, all its people will perish.Askaran knows he must walk into the sands before his sanity slips away and his tainted blood destroys the only waters on Nanterac. But his home city is overrun and the only remaining desert seer is a child needing his protection. Insanity must wait.When Funanya stumbles across a lone hunter in the desert, she considers it a great fortune. But in capturing Askaran, she unwittingly ...

She seeks to bring down the Lionian Sovereignty. He is determined to save it.Aurion Illica is proud to be a councilman of the Lionian Sovereignty. But as corruption taints the Council, assassinations shake the Sovereign's power, and the rebellions of the slave races, particularly the Nurmi savages of the Corelands, threaten to extinguish the greatness of Lione, Aurion must choose between Lione and his life.Lania is a Warrior of the Nurmi, one half of the re...

To save his home, he must destroy it.Aurion Illica's life is buried in Lione's politics until an assassination attempt lands him in the hands of enemy Nurmi warriors, whom Lione had enslaved for decades. In exchange for his life, he leaves behind his affluent life and agrees to remain in the north and serve them.Lania, the Warrior of the Nurmi, never expected to save a Lionian councilman, but far from regretting it, she forms a bond with her old master. She...

Beyond the desert dwell monsters far greater than any demon that hunts in the dunes.Dana, last seer of Nanterac, has reclaimed her city and found love. But when her partner Philyre is poisoned by demon's blood, Dana only has sixteen days to save her. A stranger's vision points her south, beyond the demon-infested sands, where hope for a cure still burns.Funanya and Askaran agree to leave their hard-won peace to aid her, but disaster strikes: the Grand Archo...

History is written by the victors.Victory has been bought with a bracelet; Tohmas Galanth is to be married. With Arnika Trulin's hand comes the Princedom of Trulin, freeing Tohmas to continue his conquest of Espar. But even magical love is real, and Tohmas is blind to any betrayal from within his ranks. As he marches, his enemies from this world and beyond plan a unified strike meant to stop him and free the conquered princedoms. Arnika is not the only target....

Beyond the desert dwell monsters far greater than any demon that hunts in the dunes.Dana, last seer of Nanterac, has reclaimed her city and found love. But when her partner Philyre is poisoned by demon's blood, Dana only has sixteen days to save her. A stranger's vision points her south, beyond the demon-infested sands, where hope for a cure still burns.Funanya and Askaran agree to leave their hard-won peace to aid her, but disaster strikes: the Grand Archo...

When the king was killed by his advisors, only the DragonKeeper knew the truth. She was exiled and, without her support, the Kingdom of Espar fell to the Lionian Sovereignty.Fifty years later, Cairon Mirk is the DragonKeeper, and he has little sympathy for the Esparans who abandoned his grandmother. But an oath remains, that he will defend the line of the Kings of Espar. When Danoron Galanth and his sister Gensiana stumble across him, helping them enrages the Sovereignty and brings...

In True Romance: A Noir Anthology, passion isn't red roses and candlelight. Instead, it's obsession, betrayal, revenge, and the kind of desire that leaves bodies in its wake.Collected and Edited by Troy Lambert and Vincent Zandri, this dark and razor-sharp collection gathers some of the most compelling voices in crime fiction, including Reed Farrel Coleman, Charles Salzberg, Paul D. Brazill, Frank Zafiro, Scott Kikkawa, Danica Favorite, Lawrence Kelter, Rebelry Stone, Sama...