In the eight hundred years since the overthrow of the mighty High Kingdom of Faiden, the Oracle has been quietly arranging the fates of the children who will someday challenge the darkness that is consuming the world of Midia. Ferremor, a half-demon shadow master, is abandoned on the stoop of a ramshackle orphanage as a newborn. Kenneth, an infant fae with strange wings, is left on the doorstep of a human general. Young Vera, the Royal Imperial Princess of Faiden who narrowly survived the ...

An innovative exploration of memory, language, and loss, blending a critical essay with prose poems that enact thinking, rupture, and astonishment.Bewilder Meant is a hybrid work of critical-poetic essay and poetry that explores memory’s instability, language’s limits, and the persistence of desire. In conversation with Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, the book relocates the force of the punctum from the photographic image to poetic language itself,...

What is a lost princess supposed to do after she's attacked on the way to her wedding, discovers that she's the granddaughter of the evil overlord, and finds herself in the company of outlaws... except to fight her way to her prince, even if she has to overthrow the darklord council to get to him?* * *Seeking peace for her kingdom, Princess Vinesta is shipped far from home as a bride for Prince Mikael, who is not only a stranger but apprenticed to a siniste...

Damon, a lowly young novice at the Temple of Time, isn't surprised when Death comes to claim him. It's the god's personal interest in him that is truly amazing, and the life that begins where one ends.Time's Up takes place on the southern continent of Midia more than eighty years after the Rise of Faiden.

Amythist embarks on a dangerous quest through collapsed caves to find the missing Prince Sayron of the High Kingdom of Faiden. She discovers him greatly wounded and buried beneath a cave-in just as another earthshake traps the two of them in the unforgiving darkness. Time becomes their enemy as they desperately seek escape while the prince fights for his life. Filled with suspense, uncommon courage and kindness, this gripping tale will immerse you in a captivating world where hope flickers...

Shackled and tortured by the dark ruler of Faiden to awaken his prophetic power, Kenneth struggles to find a way to turn his gift against his captor and brother, Sayron. As his sanity wanes, Kenneth comes to realize that Sayron is a slave to the Power that controls him. Can the prisoner save his sanity and his brother, or will the darkness he sees in his visions consume both of them?Shattered by grief, lost, and alone, Vera endures the brutal landscape of the Northern Mountains in ...

We are travelling in our campervan, why don't you come along?We will just make room for everyone, what could possibly go wrong?Come and join Ethel and Stan in this feel-good adventure, exploring the east coast of Australia, collecting unlikely friends along the way...Warning: Grown-ups put your teeth in! This rhyming book has been known to trip up even the most experienced storytellers (our Nan's).

Kingdom of Faiden. In all that time, none challenged him who had any hope of defeating his army of corrupted sorcerers or the darkness that possessed them. Now, the Oracle has set in motion events to bring war to Faiden and to rouse the dormant high kingdom. Princess Vera has awakened from her mystical slumber, having narrowly survived Sayron's wrath. Is she the heir Faiden has been waiting to claim, and can this newest generation of leaders rise above the devastating losses in their past ...

The High Kingdom of Faiden awakens after eight hundred years of dormancy, and Princess Vera hears its desperate plea for help. Driven by her mystical birthright, she leaves the safety of her seclusion to answer its call, unaware that the dark lord who now rules her kingdom was once her beloved brother, Sayron... or of the terrible price that must be paid to restore the tools she will need to defeat her enemyKenneth finds himself at the mercy of the ruthless dark lord. High Lord Say...

An enforcer wanted dead for crimes she didn’t commit...An assassin wanted dead for crimes he did commit…Normally, they would be enemies, but they both seek the same thing: exoneration.Unfortunately, a nefarious underground organization is attempting to kill the one man who could grant it to them, the emperor. If they want to win their freedom, they’ll have to battle powerful wizards, outscheme master schemers, and defeat bl...

Combined for the first time in one volume are the first three books of the internationally bestselling FROSTBORN saga - FROSTBORN: THE GRAY KNIGHT, FROSTBORN: THE EIGHTFOLD KNIFE, FROSTBORN: THE UNDYING WIZARD, and the prequel novel FROSTBORN: THE FIRST QUEST.RIDMARK ARBAN was once a Swordbearer, a knight of renown. Now he is a branded outcast, stripped of his sword, and despised as a traitor.But he alone sees the danger to come, and undertakes the dangerous quest to stop t...

When you’re an outlaw hoping for a pardon, and the emperor personally sends a note requesting that your team kidnap him, you make plans to comply…Even if it’ll involve infiltrating a train full of soldiers, bodyguards, and spies loyal to a nefarious business coalition that has numerous reasons to hate you.Even if it means leaving the city right after you’ve uncovered a secret weapons shipment that might be meant to start a war.Even if it's a trap.