To save her family, she must spy on the enemy. To save her heart, she must trust one.Chandi has lost everything to the war against the Solar Empire—her mother, her fiancé, and the future she thought was hers. So when her cousin is married to the Solar god-king to secure an uneasy peace, Chandi follows her into the enemy's domed undersea city with two missions: protect her cousin and uncover the enemy's secrets before the truce inevitably shatters.The last p...

Once opened, the Box can never be shut...In a single moment, Pandora loses the last person she loves. For refusing to serve a tyrannical order, Zeus condemns Prometheus to eternal torment. But before he is taken, Prometheus leaves Pandora one final gift: a puzzle box that, once solved, allows her to step through time. With its impossible power, Pandora begins a quest across the Ages to save the man the gods have doomed.From the dawn of the Titans to the ris...

Professor Rachel Jordan committed the ultimate heresy: she dared to teach that the Angels were never humanity's saviours.For three thousand years, Angelic doctrine has shaped civilisation. The Redeemers—fanatical guardians of that doctrine—will stop at nothing to silence her. Branded a heretic and hunted by zealots determined to erase her beliefs, Rachel flees to the edge of civilised space.But she isn't hiding.The only proof of her theories lies in...

One lifetime is not enough.The mermaid Lí Ban has long studied humans, fascinated by their strange customs and exotic lives. But when she begins dreaming of a life she never lived, she becomes convinced she once walked the surface world as a human.Desperate to reclaim what she has lost, she bargains with a sea spirit, trading her tongue in exchange for legs. But the magic comes with a cruel condition: she must win the heart of the man she once saved from dr...

The necromancer who would become a god of death ...Odin wanted only to protect his people from the soul-stealing Mist and the horrors that emerged from it. But when a vision of Ragnarök reveals the end of the World, he discovers a terrible truth: if Mankind is to survive, he must become willing to do whatever that survival demands.With his blood brother Loki at his side, Odin begins a relentless search for the power to defy Fate. He seeks vengeance against ...

Note: This story is divided among several books of The Ragnarök Prophecy. It is here collected in a single volume.As flame dwindles, night rises.A pyromancer and prince, Audr fought for years against the sorcerer kingdoms. He fought to save his people. He fought to save his precious son. He fought to save the world from the grasp of Hel. He fought ... and he lost.Now, he sees one last desperate gambit before him: to journey...

***SPFBO 6 Award Finalist***Note: This story is divided among several books of The Ragnarök Prophecy. It is here collected in a single volume.Vengeance is Wrought. Darkness is Forged.The greatest crafts on Midgard come from the dvergar realm of Nidavellir. Volund, a gifted smith and once apprentice to the dvergar, escaped their dark realm to find solace in the arms of a valkyrie.Ni...

Some knowledge cannot be unknown.Reeling from the loss of his family, game tester Bobby Walmore takes a job that seems too good to be true: playtesting an augmented reality park inspired by the nightmares of H.P. Lovecraft.At first, Cthulhu World is the perfect escape. Every quest completed, every mystery solved, and every secret uncovered draws Bobby deeper into a world built around forbidden knowledge. The game isn't just entertaining—it is addictive....

The soul-stealing Mist quickens. Within, the children of Hel hunt for the Man who would become a god of death...Odin has awakened as a shaman and necromancer, yet his newfound powers are not enough. To save his family and prevent the Ragnarök he has foreseen, he must venture beyond the bounds of Midgard and seek the Norns, the ancient weavers of Fate who may hold the key to defying the end of the World.But the path to Fate leads through the lands of the Nif...

In a dark forge, a weapon is wrought...Long before Odin would become a god of death, Volund was a master smith whose creations could rival the works of the gods. But such wonders never come without a price, and the path to create the impossible will lead Volund into darkness, betrayal, and a power beyond anything he imagined.Meanwhile, Odin lies in the grip of the Niflungar. Their dread goddess Hel knows the power sleeping within him and will see him broken...

To save the man she loves, she must trust the son of her enemy.In her desperate quest to save Prometheus, Pandora seeks the aid of Perseus—the son of Zeus, the god who condemned her beloved to eternal torment. Born with strength and speed beyond any mortal, Perseus may be the only ally capable of helping Pandora defy Fate. But the son of her greatest enemy will not join her cause without first completing a quest of his own.Forced to accompany Perseus across...

The final runeblade. The greatest horror.To ensure victory at Ragnarök, Odin has manipulated mortals across Midgard. He has schemed, plotted, lied, and killed. For years, he has sent others into darkness to recover the lost runeblades of the Old Kingdoms, weapons powerful enough to challenge even the gods.Now only one blade remains.But the final runeblade is not lost. It is held by the Patriarch of Miklagard, a foreign lord whose power rivals anythi...