Something haunts the desert, something that was once an opinicus. Cherine—scholar, adventurer, metal-beak, and popular kidnapping victim. While his old mate and friends fight for his amnesty, he lives out his exile in the aneda forest. When Zeph and Kia approach him about hunting down the infamous Nighthaunt, he’s all too happy to leave his hovel behind. Little do they know that the key to finding the most dangerous criminal the world has ever known lies in the abandoned eyrie of Crestfall. Long silent, something lurks in the shadows of the city, and its homes may not be as abandoned as once believed. Will Cherine and his friends unravel the mystery of the desert eyrie in time, or will they become the hunted? The Ruins of Crestfall is a full-length creature fantasy novel full of fan-favorite characters, desert monsters, fancy opinicus armor, and charming sand gryphons.

They stole her mate, so she stole the night. Ninox. Pride leader. Murderer. Vanguard. Mother. When the Ashen Weald captured Cherine, they made a grave mistake. In the months since the bog expedition, bodies have begun appearing in the night. Is this the owl gryphon’s vengeance? Or is something more sinister haunting the night? As Cherine’s trial approaches, Ninox’s allies and enemies alike attempt to hunt her down before she goes too far. An epic creature fantasy full of vengeful owl gryphons, deadly assassins, sinister scholars, and Zeph Reevesbane. Pick it up today to protect yourself from owl gryphons! Includes new interior art pieces and three complete gryphon novels: Reevesbane (#4), The Ruins of Crestfall (#5), and The Crackling Sea (#6).

LARGE PRINT. Cherine-scholar, adventurer, metal-beak, and popular kidnapping victim. When Zeph and Kia approach him about hunting down the infamous Nighthaunt, he's all too happy to leave his hovel behind. Little do they know that the key to finding the most dangerous criminal the world has ever known lies in the abandoned eyrie of Crestfall.

It's a rare day when Terrans meet eye-to-eyestalk with the slimy little sticky-fingers - er, that is to say, the noble alien Groaci. This time the races clash on the planet Popu-Ri, once the home of a mighty interstellar power. Popu-Ri has sunk into decline...but its ancient treasures remain. Though not for long, if the Groaci have their way. Groaci also finds Popu-Ri just the place to build a galactic warfleet. Still, for the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne to respond would threaten the delicate balance of human/Groaci forces on the cocktail circuit. Therefore the ambassador must keep the lid on by doing nothing. But how to do nothing without seeming an inneffectual pantywaist? Send an observer! Yep, the Ambassador has it all figured out. But he made one little mistake; he sent Retief...

There emerged, during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a reflexive relationship between shifting codes of legal evidence in British courtrooms and the growing fascination throughout Europe with the "primitive" Scottish Highlands. New methods for determining evidential truth, linked with the growing prominence of lawyers and a formalized division of labor between witnesses and jurors, combined to devalue the authority of witness testimony, magnifying the rupture between experience and knowledge. Juries now pronounced verdicts based not upon the certainty of direct experience but rather upon abstractions of probability or reasonable likelihood. Yet even as these changes were occurring, the Scottish Highlands and Hebridean Islands were attracting increased attention as a region where witness experience in sublime and communal forms had managed to trump enlightened progress and the probabilistic, abstract, and mediated mentality on which the Enlightenment was predicated. There, in a remote corner of Britain, natives and tourists beheld things that surpassed enlightened understanding; experience was becoming all the more alluring to the extent that it signified something other than knowledge. Matthew Wickman examines this uncanny return of experiential authority at the very moment of its supposed decline and traces the alluring improbability of experience into our own time. Thematic in its focus and cross-disciplinary in its approach, The Ruins of Experience situates the literary next to the nonliterary, the old beside the new. Wickman looks to poems, novels, philosophical texts, travel narratives, contemporary theory, and evidential treatises and trial narratives to suggest an alternative historical view of the paradoxical tensions of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.

Mortal against immortal. Philosopher against emperor. Man against god. Valenthia, queen of the city-state of Rauheim, is readying her forces. Vaersius, emperor of the vast Halaeric Empire, is hellbent on conquest, and he sees her city as ripe for the taking. His father, the great god Halaeron, seeks to see the whole world worshipping him. His mentor, the old philosopher Rahdain, seeks to see all people live in peace. Only one vision may prevail. None of them are about to back down. In his third novel, J. W. Barlament explores problems of politics, philosophy, and religion through three grandiose stories about one fantastical world tearing itself to shreds.

In the centuries old struggle for territory between selkies and finfolk, Lorelei is something new. Can she survive the novelty? Secrets, once uncovered, can change everything. With her finfolk powers blooming and her sealskin lost, Lorelei must find a different way of living. One that challenges all she knew about herself, humanity…and fear. But trouble is coming. Selkies and finfolk are enemies for a reason, and Lorelei’s very existence is forcing change. Fighting through the storm may be the only way to forget the “normal” girl she left behind and face the woman she’s become. The Complete Water Rites Series Is Available Now Water Rites ~ Book 1 Crestfallen ~ Book 2 Castle and Crown ~ Book 3 Search terms: contemporary fantasy, coming of age, selkie, mermaid, paranormal, supernatural, myth, magic, mind control, powers, shapeshifter, shifter, romantic fantasy, fantasy trilogy, fantasy series