He didn’t mean to use magic. He didn’t even know he had it.Kincaid was just a carpenter—steady hands, quiet dreams, and no place in a city built on secrets and fear. Especially not when magic is outlawed and punished by death.When a debt he didn’t choose comes due, Kincaid makes a desperate move—and the magic buried deep in his blood erupts.Uncontrolled. Untamed. Unforgivable.Dragged into a hidden prison where the city locks...

"A sword may kill a single person. An idea can change the world. Imagine what someone can do with magic."Except using magic in Caesea is punishable by death.Kincaid, a journeyman carpenter with artistic skills not seen in generations, discovers his shop is on the wrong side of underworld loans. In a blast of unknown and untamed power to protect those he loves, Kincaid changed his bright future in the Carpentry Guild to a dank prison beyond ...

A Companion Anthology to the Chronomancer SeriesEvery story has a beginning. Some were never meant to be told—until now.Before Kincaid bent time.Before Sholeh found her fire.Before the final battle that reshaped the world…There were secrets, betrayals, and moments that changed everything.This exclusive anthology brings together the lost tales of the Chronomancer Series—stories once shared only with the most loyal readers. Now, f...

Wars are inevitable. This one is for the fate of the world.Kincaid races against the Drakean Order to thwart their plans to unleash the denizens of the arcane prison. He must take his closest friends, Sholeh, Sigurd, Adelaise, and Nakira, back to where their stories began to uncover the clues to the Drakean plan. When he understands the depths of their plot, he must gather the disciples of every discipline of magic to prepare for the inevitable battle.He mu...

Everyone has secrets. Some will burn the world to keep them buried.After a journey to the myth-ridden north, Kincaid returns to find Caesea changed—and haunted. A string of magical murders stalks the capital, the ruling Houses are splintering, and whispers speak of a mage powerful enough to bend time and death alike.Worse still, the killer knows Kincaid’s name.As the body count rises, Kincaid and his companions are forced to confron...

The odds are stacked against him with new challenges.On the run from the ruling houses in Caesea, Kincaid struggles to honor the wishes of his former teacher. Unstable magical power leads to rejection in the ancient capital of the Empire of a Thousand Spears and leaves the young magi without a purpose. Scrabbling to stay alive, Kincaid finds company in a group of misfit sorcerers bent on uncovering the darkest depths of power. Facing impossible moral challenges, Ki...

Cursed magic. Mercenary blades. The war isn’t over yet.Battle-hardened and weary, Grant Gwydian wants one thing—to end the brutal Mage Wars, even if it means surrendering his own arcane power. But when an uneasy ceasefire shatters with the assassination of a crown prince, peace dies in blood and fire. To stop a full-scale war, Grant and his elite team of rogue mages are thrust into a deadly mission: rescue the kidnapped heir and unravel a conspiracy before the empi...

Magic can’t heal every wound. Some cut deeper than steel.Captain Grant Gwydian is missing in action. His mercenaries are leaderless, their officers quarantined by a mysterious plague tearing through the ranks. And as the war escalates, a new enemy descends upon the crumbling Empire of Alenann, pushing it to the brink of annihilation.But Grant isn’t dead—he’s trapped in the clutches of the ruthless Syndicate, a criminal empire with its own deadly agenda. If ...

Sometimes the story that feels like a detour… is the key to everything.Lin never asked for magic. She never wanted to be special.But when fire leaps from her hands and a deadly hunter arrives at her doorstep, she’s forced to flee the only home she’s ever known.Alone and hunted, Lin journeys north into a land of ancient myths and forgotten magic—where creatures from bedtime stories breathe, and old powers stir beneath the ice. But even in this remote...

He escaped the city that feared his magic. Now he must survive the empire that teaches it.Still reeling from loss and hunted by the ruling Houses of Caesea, Kincaid journeys east in search of the Empire of a Thousand Spears—a land where magic is studied, respected… and feared in entirely new ways.But his power is wild, unpredictable. And when he arrives in the ancient capital, the scholars turn their backs on him. Cast out and directionless, Kincaid is draw...

Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the American writer Mark Twain. He was lauded by the NY Times as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Mark Twain which are Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Born on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, Samuel L. Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain and went on to author several novels, including two major classics of American literature: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer an...