Collection: Fantasy

Respect his mind. Protect his body. Cherish his heart. These sacred vows forever bond two men with love and devotion, but in the ancient city of Arachovia, such a union comes with a price.

Matthias, the first-born son of the House of Helianth, has one path to inherit his family's power and wealth: marrying a respectable woman and fathering children to carry the bloodline. Despite his obligations, the young noble jeopardizes his family's honor to devote himself to his lover, Anton. But when Anton refuses to sacrifice his own familial duty and marries a random noblewoman, Matthias finds himself without a lover, title, or future.

Acting with little thought for his safety, Matthias condemns himself to the bloody, demanding, and often brief life of a soldier. His survival will depend on mastery of an arcane weapon, trust in the other soldiers of his unit, and a captain with a mysterious past.

Matthias soon finds a renewed sense of purpose alongside his shield-brothers, a sacred order of magic-wielding priestesses on the battlefield, and another chance to experience true love. But when the machinations of a neighboring city-state and a group of ambitious nobles threaten the peace they have fought so hard to maintain, Matthias and his companions discover their actions will either save their world or destroy it.

A Cure For Hunger: Benjamin Carpenter is a practicing witch from an ancient clan. Thomas Nighthawk is his lover, a 300-year-old vampire who longs to be human. The two of them have been together for eight years and love each other deeply. Unfortunately, their physical love is hampered by the instinctive bloodlust in Thomas's psyche, where the approach of orgasm unleashes the demon within. When Benjamin hears about someone who has developed a cure that carves out the demon while preserving the man, he knows he needs to do whatever it takes to get the magic potion to bring his beloved new life. However, the cure-keeper does not want to be found, and other forces of darkness want to keep the cure from spreading. Will Benjamin's quest to bring Thomas back to life actually get them both killed? A Cure For Hunger II: Howl of the Wendigo Change can be good, except if you're a powerful witch like Benjamin Carpenter. The code of the Itzhak clan, intertwined with the Moonbeam caste of magicians, dictates witches will inherit one, and only one, power from each parent. However, a harrowing night in the woods near Sedona causes Benjamin to manifest another power his mother had, the power of teleportation, creating concern that his destiny might be taking a turn for the worse. However, Benjamin's new power is the least of everyone's problems after one of his closest friends, Ivan Salazar, starts developing a carnivorous, insatiable hunger and turns into a rare creature-the wendigo. As the monster starts to consume his body and attempts to destroy his soul, it will take the unrequited love for another man to keep the wendigo at bay. The second book in the A Cure for Hunger trilogy welcomes back 300-year-old vampire Thomas Nighthawk, the beautiful gypsy shopkeeper Kenda Ravenwood, and werewolf Todd Kesseldorf. With Benjamin, these denizens of the supernatural will have to figure out who is causing Ivan's frightening transformation while trying to avoid the vicious attacks of an extremist bounty hunter. A Cure For Hunger III: Darkling in Abeyance Benjamin Carpenter would do anything for the people he cares about. He risked his life to find a cure for vampirism to make his lover mortal. He penetrated the veil of darkness to rescue his best friend when he transformed into a wendigo. Now Benjamin's the one who needs help. An ancient prophecy claims that he has been ordained to bring about the end times, an act he couldn't begin to imagine himself capable of. However, he is developing new powers at an alarming rate, and the forces of both good and evil are rising up to lay claim to him, not caring about the path of destruction they create in the process. With time literally ticking away until the apocalypse arrives, Benjamin's friends-vampire lover Thomas Nighthawk, gypsy practitioner Kenda Ravenwood and comic book store owner Ivan Salazar-are ready to do whatever it takes to keep the end times at bay, but are they prepared to kill him to prevent him from fulfilling his destiny as the Bringer of Darkness?

Benjamin Carpenter would do anything for the people he cares about. He risked his life to find a cure for vampirism to make his lover mortal. He penetrated the veil of darkness to rescue his best friend when he transformed into a wendigo. Now Benjamin's the one who needs help.

An ancient prophecy claims that he has been ordained to bring about the end times, an act he couldn't begin to imagine himself capable of. However, he is developing new powers at an alarming rate, and the forces of both good and evil are rising up to lay claim to him, not caring about the path of destruction they create in the process.

With time literally ticking away until the apocalypse arrives, Benjamin's friends-vampire lover Thomas Nighthawk, gypsy practitioner Kenda Ravenwood and comic book store owner Ivan Salazar-are ready to do whatever it takes to keep the end times at bay, but are they prepared to kill him to prevent him from fulfilling his destiny as the Bringer of Darkness?

Noridem is a land of magic and mysticism, where anything and everything can happen. The people live under the rule of a benevolent emperor and explore the boundaries of existence. They get their amazing powers and abilities from the dragon fruit, which grows in abundance throughout the land. However, the evil sorceress Nephra has cast a hex on almost all of the dragon fruit, making it toxic to Noridemians and robbing them of their strength, and the king of his health.Existing parallel to Noridem is our world, and in the city of Baltimore, Austin roams the streets, searching for a place to call home. While fleeing a street gang intending to harm him, he falls through a mystic portal leading him to Noridem. It is no accident that Austin is here, however, as he is destined to bring Noridem out of darkness and restore balance to the land-one of the legendary warrior lovers.To do that, Austin must find a way to control his newfound magic while helping Noridem's bravest warrior, Blue, find the Genesis Stone, which will break the hex when combined with the Exodus Stone possessed by Nephra. To succeed, they must endure many trials and explore the most treacherous corners of Noridem. In the middle of their quest, new and powerful feelings emerge, and Blue and Austin soon must face two obstacles-true darkness and true love.

Kaden had little time to live his own life as a high school English teacher in Wausau. His obsession with giving his students a better opportunity to succeed in life had brought him to the brink of a physical and emotional breakdown. So when an old college friend invited him to spend the summer in the countryside near Wittenberg, Kaden couldn't say yes fast enough.

Not long after arriving, he meets a mysterious stranger in a bar. The chiseled and masculine Avery exudes country. He gushes beauty. It's an attraction Kaden cannot deny, but he quickly trades one obsession for another when he can't find Avery the next day. What's worse, everyone acts like they don't know who he is.

Kaden knows the village harbors a terrible secret, and his quiet summer turns into a blazing adventure as he tries to find the man who only appears under the cover of darkness. The world he knew to be true will be turned upside down as his search takes him to places both fantastic and cursed. The endgame will be beyond Kaden's imagining, but are he and his mystery man in the cowboy hat are meant to live happily ever after?

Hunting Death follows avid reader Charlotte Coleman as she arrives in Ireland for a much-needed investigative vacation. With no family to speak of, she has lived a life of relative solitude and has always loved the escape books provided, particularly vampire romance novels. There was just something alluring to her about stories where a woman's pure virtue and beauty can compel a beast to reconnect with his humanity and change for the better. Of course, Charlotte understands that these stories are fictional, but the myths of vampires had to come from somewhere and she had never quite abandoned the idea that vampires may have once existed. When she learns of a castle in Ireland that is shrouded in vampire myths, she decides to cash in all that vacation time she hasn't been using to travel to Ireland and investigate the castle.
Ireland is a beautiful and welcoming place, but as Charlotte soon discovers, there are more secrets here than she realized. Despite ominous warnings from the Innkeeper, she decides to find her way across the foggy moor to the castle. Charlotte just wants to get on with her adventure, but she gets more than she bargained for when she starts to poke around.

Shadow Play is the spellbinding continuation of the story started in Shadow Dance. This second book of the Shadow Saga carries the adventure to a whole new level of danger and intrigue! The next steps of the prophecy are moving toward fruition and the world hangs in the balance.Dark forces reveal their plots as the forces of good struggle to uncover them. At each turn, those aligned with light are cut off from their own and lost in the chaos that surrounds them. With Aras's death, only his wife and the future heir to the throne are left to combat the growing darkness.Within all of this, Namir and his friends find themselves consumed by enemies, burdened by woes and thrust into the fray against their will. Namir must find the courage to face those who would stop him from fulfilling his fate. All the while, his best friend, Nurn, searches valiantly to find his missing brother.

The darkness makes itself known to Namir and his friends in harsh ways. Things are never what they seem and those struggling to survive find it even harder. Threats, like death, come unannounced. Although the search for Halin nears its end, Nurn and Jerine still have hardships to face. Meanwhile, Hessa and Aves face a different kind of threat. All the while Namir finds new challenges in his quest to obtain his birthright.

A prophecy cast from the dawn of time is coming to be fulfilled in a time when almost all hope of salvation is lost.

The lands are in chaos and everyone is trying to survive. The last queen was slain through treachery and decades have passed since there has been any form of solid rule in Cennicus. In the interim, the races have split from one another and are amassing for a war that threatens to consume them all. This is a time of legends and need.

Somehow wrapped up in it all is one boy searching for the keys to his past and his future. Namir and his friends valiantly search out vestiges of his father's past... a trek that may lead them into the very heart of darkness itself.

Will they lead us to salvation? Or deeper into the very darkness we seek to escape?

The ladies take a culinary road trip, but it's the chef who's sliced and diced.

When Aunt Hilda turns up for Thanksgiving dinner, the Luckland Ladies set out on a culinary road trip to find a recipe thieving chef. Dragged along for the ride, Pippa suspects murder when the chef turns up dead. And Hilda is the prime suspect. Proving Hilda's innocence isn't so easy when the chef's wife has photos that prove Hilda's guilt.

A bevy of spirits and messages from the past offer clues that might clear Hilda's name. In Pippa and Devon's search for the real killer, four of the six missing shoeboxes turn up, but the ladies remain steadfast in their refusal to reveal their secrets, which Pippa is beginning to suspect may be linked to Luckland's legendary gold.

12-year-old Ursel Goodall loves every minute spent at Mortar Veil-the top all-girls pagan academy she attends. She's obsessed with potion-making class, the popular witch sport SPAR, and the school's empathic guard cat, Lix. But when Ursel's the last witchling to get her moon cycle, she's deemed weak, and there's no place for weak witchlings at Mortar Veil.

No one understands the school's elitism better than Ursel's best friend, Tsiya Moon. Tsiya was born outside her gender, and even though she's the most powerful witchling at school, she's excluded from Mortar Veil's coming-of-age ceremony. All Tsiya wants is to be accepted and celebrated like everyone else.

To prove they belong, Ursel and Tsiya team up to enter the end-of-the-year SPAR tournament. If they win, Tsiya could finally get the coming-of-age ceremony she deserves and Ursel could prove her magical prowess once and for all. However, if they're defeated, they'll be worse than losers. In the eyes of the other witchlings, they may as well be nothing.

Failure is not an option.

In a realm where magic entwines with the unexpected, a curse shrouds Prince Patrick Valdez in a cloak of isolation. No soul dare gaze into his eyes, for within them lies an insidious enchantment-a bewitching power that ignites an irresistible craving for the prince. Daunted by the curse of unbridled lust, Patrick Valdez forsakes the comforts of his loving castle, embarking on a journey into the world of the unusual and unknown, to find the one responsible for the curse and break it. Accompanied by a remarkably handsome elf, a trouble in disguise, Patrick navigates a labyrinthine world teeming with wonders and dangers. But little did he know this journey would lead him to companionship he never fathomed, a new family he never imagined, and, most unexpectedly, the burgeoning love that his heart craved - Adam! Set against a backdrop of magic, in a world reminiscent of Dungeons & Dragons, their journey unfolds, promising discovery, danger, love, and the promise of severing the shackles of the binding curse. Will it be a journey to break the curse, or will it unfurl a cascade of unforeseen miseries? Follow the Prince on his journey where the pursuit of breaking the curse converges with an unexpected destiny, beckoning him toward an uncertain yet enthralling future.

City of Roses is a serialized epic very firmly set in Portland, Oregon--an urban fantasy mixing magical realism with gonzo noirish prose, where sinister high-rise riverfront condos are fought by a sprawling tea-house constructed from scrap lumber and old windows, and ancient sea-gods retire to close-in Southeast apartments with lovely views. It's the story of Jo Maguire, a highly strung, underemployed telemarketer, and what happens when she meets Ysabel, a princess of unspecified pedigree. Jo rather unexpectedly becomes Ysabel's guardian and caretaker, and now must make a place for herself among Ysabel's decidedly unusual family and friends--which involves rather more sword-play than most of us are used to.

Collecting chapters 1 - 11 of the critically acclaimed fantasy serial, Vol. 1, "Wake up..." does end on one heck of a cliffhanger--but don't worry. There's more, much more to come.