Fantasy

Ivan-and-Marya  is a dark fantasy with elements of romance, based on Russian folklore.

Marya, a shapeshifter and a powerful sorceress, helps her father rule the kingdom by sacrificing young virgins whose life force feeds her father’s soul.  She wards off the enemies of her cult by luring them into a trap of her beauty, and destroying them.  Marya never questions her duties, not knowing that the man she calls her father holds the dark secrets about her birth and the true source of her magic powers.

Ivan, a young man on a quest to put an end to the virgin sacrifice, walks straight into Marya’s trap and falls in love with her at first sight.  At first his gentleness makes Marya believe he would be easy to defeat, but as she confronts him she finds him a tougher enemy than she imagined.  Ivan’s hidden strength – and the forces that aid him – for the first time challenge not only her powers, but the very foundation of her beliefs.  To face Ivan and achieve her 'happily ever after', Marya must first face her darkest fears -- and survive it.

Global warming threatens to destroy the world. Ecologist Meredith Markey sets out on a vision quest through five mythical worlds seeking wisdom of the ancient Anasazi to heal Mother Earth's painful wounds and shield her from Father Sun's burning rays. Illustrated eBook.

Emma Minton, just fifteen, is confused and frightened when war destroys her peaceful life and drags the country of Mykolia into violent conflict with Quinier. Now, Emma must rise above the sheltered life she has always known and discover the vital role she has to play in her country's struggle for freedom. A Little Star of Gold is the captivating beginning to the Houses of the Star series and the unforgettable tale of one girl's battle for her country, her family and her own life.

Twenty-year-olds Liseli Luenford and Russell Markson are living mundane, disappointing, lonely lives in a small midwestern town; working jobs better suited for high school students.  Both want something more from life, though what exactly they cannot name, or even begin to achieve

Liseli finds solace in the Mill, a building on the edge of town, long abandoned and all but forgotten. Russ comforts himself with thoughts of Liseli.

One day both of their dreams seem to come true, when together they stumble into a strange otherworld hidden in the doorway of the old Mill.  But dark secrets and mysteries from the past haunt the land of Alisiya, and dreams turn to nightmares as the two become entangled in a feud that has spanned decades.  In order to survive they must change who they are—to each other, to themselves, and to the worlds.

An urban fantasy about the wildlife of New York City, starring a squirrel protagonist who has to find his way from exile in Staten Island back to his home in Central Park.

Eleven short stories of what I call feminist fantasy fiction. Includes titles such as BONES OF THE SEA, GYPSY WINE, EYES LIKE TWINS, and MORE THAN MORTAL.

A prequel to New Bridge to Lyndesfarne, Bridge at War is set in 1946, immediately after the end of the Second World War. The story follows three young men - Tom, Alistair and Bram - who were comrades in the Army during the war. Bram gently introduces the world of Lyndesfarne to the others, and engineers their recruitment into the Guardians, one of the secretive organisations whose purpose is to protect the crossing to Lyndesfarne.

Greg Sky, an acclaimed master of contemporary fantasy fiction, presents one of his most ambitious and imaginative works to date - Tales of the Butterfly Dawn. Six vibrant and self-contained short stories comprise the tales which are then woven into the overarching Butterfly Dawn plot. 'Our lives are like that of the butterfly - short but glorious!' Such are the words of D'rfinna, an integral member of the ancient 'gurr People, a community that inhabits the fertile lands of the Jut River, far back in the mists of time.

The world of Terrace Libre, where threats to mankind lie behind every corner, has been thrown into war and it will never be the same. A mysterious woman, ordained by god and demon alike has raised an army to spread her darkness across all borders. The only hope for the free people comes in the form of two murderers who have already washed themselves clean of society's problems. Against their will they will be thrown back into the world that has abandoned them and will fight to find their own souls and hearts, defying enormous odds.

In this first volume of the All Things Impossible series, an ancient evil has returned. An ancient war has resumed. And for the first time in elven history, the Crown of the Realm has been stolen. But young Derora Saxon knows nothing of such things. When she sets out from her village with her best friend Kelin, she knows only that she wants to be a warrior. She does not know the immortal chemmen have escaped the realm of darkness to which they had been banished for millennia. She does not know chemmen armies are already exacting revenge on their hated enemies, the elves, or that chemmen assassins have already killed the elven king and queen. And she does not know that by helping a young stranger, she will be drawn into a struggle that began long before she was born, and take the first steps on her path to destiny. In the fires of an ancient war, a new hero will be forged… To read, click on the Crown of the Realm link under "Read now!"

Dark Moon Seasons is the second installment in the Dark Horseman series. Nikki, the Horseman Death, is lost in the Chaos storm that is sweeping through the world. No one knows where the other three Horsemen are. The Council of 9 is in tatters. And the StarChild has sealed herself off in a corner of Vermont for unknown reasons. She has to find the other three, or the World Walls will completely disintegrate. Alex Masterson, the renegade billionaire geneticist who created her, has the key to find them. She’s just got to find him first.

James Decker just won’t stay dead. Slain while rescuing a young woman from a would-be rapist, he finds himself in a pseudo-life, caught between two realities, belonging to neither. Haunted by the ghosts of his father and grandfather, he learns that the woman he rescued is in fact an Innocent, the physical embodiment of hope. As it turns out, seeing dead people is the least of James' worries. It's the trolls, goblins, vampires, and other assorted creepy-crawlies that make being dead a living nightmare.

As memories of her mother's horrible death manifest themselves into reality, Elena, a candle-maker cursed with outlawed magic, is forced down a path that pits her against the most deadly men and magic in the land. Johan, her drunken, ex-hero of a husband chases after her but soon realizes that she will have to face this destiny alone, as he is thrust into leadership of a failed rebellion that must stop the Overlord and Duke from destroying the one thing that holds the fabric of their broken lands together.

Two worlds collide, bringing an outsider home, and the rest of existence to its knees, in a manner of speaking. A teen -aged girl who has been called Shadow from modern human Earth gets pulled into another world, and hurled into a quest she has no idea how to pursue. She meets up with a brother and sister from the other world, a horse who understands every word they say, and a very disturbed boy that may or may not really be helping them to achieve their goal. Their destinies are intertwined.

“Double Jeopardy” begins with the discovery of an alien ship buried deep beneath the earth for thousands of years. Some unknown, catastrophic disaster led to it’s crash landing sometime during the last ice age. But when Lynnette and her friends accidentally activate the ship and send it spinning out of control through time and space, the details of the vessel’s history become the least of their worries. For the ship is a trans-dimensional time and space machine, capable of not only travelling through space and time, but also crossing the boundaries between alternate realities.

To sleep, perchance to dream . . . or wake again in a different world.

This is the dual life of Muse, Love, and other Immortals like them.  Split between two lives in two worlds, they never sleep, never dream, and never die.  In one life they walk among us, unknown, in the other, they are worshiped as gods.

But they are not immune to the troubles of life — love, loneliness, loss, and the eternal question of where they came from and what their purpose is.

This is their story.

A fantasy about loves and conflicts among human beings struggling against interplanetary hegemony. A scientist on the empire's capital planet stumbles on a drug conspiracy. A revolutionary hero on an outlying planet disappears. A priest on an oppressed planet is exiled after an illicit romance. The results include treacheries, victories, defeats and, of course, children.

Ever since he was young Rai can remember training with the man he called Dai. The man raised him as well as trained him in the arts of bright chi but inside Rai was yearning, yearning for a different life. His wish is granted as he turns to a new master and learns to practiced of dark chi. Kenji is a young boy living on Hayatoro Island. Suddenly a scream rings out and his world is turned upside down when his villiage is attacked by Rai, the dark master. Soon Kenji will learn what it means to have nothing but fight for everything.

Someone is blowing up the headquarters of factions in Sigil. As part of a multi-faction team, Britlin Cavendish (artist, swordsman, and Sensate) gets drafted to stake out the Mortuary and keep an eye out for trouble. One fire bomb later, Britlin and his companions are fighting wights that don't obey the Death Pact, on a trail that leads from the Plane of Dust to Carceri, Plague-Mort, and many strange places in between.

Fulcrum Shift is a fantasy novel filled with dark terror, mythical creatures, and pulse-pounding, sword-wielding action. The Fulcrum is a magical stone with tremendous power that was created by a race of people now long gone from the earth. They created it and the nine nexus stones to control the earth, but the Fulcrum's power destroyed them and nearly destroyed the earth. The Fulcrum and the nexus stones were buried and nearly forgotten for many generations.