FEAR THE BROKEN.486 years ago, a Dragon met a Prince.200 years ago, a Prince became a Rebel.80 years ago, a Wolf found a Wytch.2 years ago and their world shattered.Part prequel, part alternative-pov to The Forgotten and The Feared, The Broken and The Brave is a three-part companion novel featuring a collection of never-before-seen stories from the characters you’ve come to know and love in EC Garrett’s Dragon Queen series. Including...

The only way to survive is to win.The only way to win is to slay a dragon.In a realm where power determines life or death, two young women are thrust into a deadly tournament where the only path to survival is to slay a dragon. Forced to participate in the brutal Gauntlet, Amalia and Dyana enter the dangerous world of the Fae. But humans aren't the only ones being forced to fight...Dragons, once revered as Gods, are on the brink of ...

"After Dinner Conversation" Magazine - September 2020Idle Horns: A horned demon of hell born to eternally torture the damned walks off the job.The Mind Reader: An outspoken bar patron runs an experiment to see if the world can be divided into the "weak" and the "strong" in attempt to prove he's not an authoritarian fascist.I, von Economo: A woman goes back to get revenge on the ma...

John Ryker. Gunsmith. And killer. Expert in every angle of slaughter – from the workings of a firing-pin to the effect of a slug on a man's gut.In a small desert town Ryker made an enemy of Quartermain, the English hunter whose fancy accent hid a surging lust for blood. And it was out on the burning sand, in search of human bounty, that the two of them were headed for a death-run. The gunsmith and the dude suddenly ran up against Ciego, brutal, hate-filled chief of the Apaches. Quar...

John Ryker was no ordinary gunfighter. He was the best. Ace gunsmith, deadly bounty hunter and ice-cool killer all in one, his lethal gun-skill made him the most feared death-dealer in the violent West.When a rich Californian businessman offered Ryker big money for a few weeks' work, chances were he was going to have to earn it the hard way. The only way he knew. Which meant that lead was going to fly and corpses pile up. And Ryker's most powerful rifle, the fifty-caliber Sharps—whi...

GUNS ARE RYKER'S BUSINESS. SO IS KILLING...John Ryker was a gunsmith. One of the best at a time when speed and skill with a shooting iron were as vital to survival as food in your belly.Then one day Ryker sold a man a gun—a Deringer—that later killed a President. That incident set Ryker on a vengeance trail of blood and conflict that would test his gun-skill to its farthest limits. And so the gunsmith became a killer – one whose professional mastery of the West's armory of ...

A lyrical picture book about our newest national holiday, Juneteenth follows the annual celebration in Galveston, Texas—birthplace of Juneteenth—through the eyes of a boy coming to understand his place in Black American history in a story from three Texan creators.A young Black child experiences the magic of the Juneteenth parade for the first time with their family as they come to understand the purpose of the party that happens every year—and why they ce...

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“Philip, you--and all the rest of you, too--have been with me for almost three years and yet you still don’t know me.”We were shocked to hear these words. All twelve of us had been his closest associates these past three years. We had traveled throughout our home country with him. We had carefully observed him interact with all types of people in all manner of circumstances. We were puzzled, dismayed, even angry at what we thought was his unjust and untrue characterization of us, h...

John Ryker was just about the best all-round gunfighter in the West. Rattler-fast on the draw, he was also an ace gunsmith. His gun- skill made him the most lethal one-man slaughter force in a violent land.So when Ryker got involved with a Gatling gun - one of the first machine-guns that were going to change the nature of warfare out of all recognition - it was a fair be that a lot of lead was going to fly. And a lot of Ryker's enemies were going to get dosed with death. In fact, it...

Leonard C. Garrett Sr. was born May 17, 1930 to parents sharecropping a 40 acres slave plot given his mothers parents when they were freed from slavery. Forced from the farm by the Ku Klux Klan, his parents fled to Tampa, Florida. An avid reader, He learned that outside the southern states, for those with Hope, America offered Opportunity, and through Shared Sacrifice, a better America for the Generation that follows. He quit high school and joined the air force, moved his parents out of t...