The fourth volume in the Lost Histories series introduces readers to one of Krynn's most enduring and formidable races—the minotaurs Of all the peoples of Krynn, one race has remained strong in its pride and beliefs. The powerful minotaurs envision themselves as the children of destiny, the future masters of the world. Despite adversity, defeat, and enslavement, that belief has never wavered. If there is a foe capable of destroying the minotaurs, it is their own arrogance. As clan clashes against clan, the exiled champion Kaz must discover the terrible secret of the empire before he and his entire race suffer the disastrous consequences and implement their own demise.

Lauren was haunted by nightmares of monsters as a child, but learned the hard way that the worst monsters look like everybody else. While visiting her mother and stepfather during the holidays, she's sent to search for her two younger brothers, who have a tendency to wander onto the land of their nearest neighbor-land that has been abandoned for a reason. When she stumbles across something unexpected, it changes her life forever, drawing her into a world beyond the boundaries of the civilization that has always sheltered her.There, her courage will be tested, as the monsters she's always feared when she was a child turn out to be real. When the Minotaur of Greek myth helps her take down a manticore, she wonders if she isn't still trapped in those childhood dreams. Except there's nothing childish in her feelings for her bullheaded rescuer.Asterius has just one chance to prove himself a worthy mate and win the love of the new female that has fallen into the Dead Fall, so she can break the curse upon him. He knows it will be difficult to win her love, because she's as beautiful and fierce as any goddess, and he fears she will never be able to see the man beneath the monster. He will risk everything to protect her from the dangers of the Dead Fall, which seems determined to destroy all life within it.Author's Note: 18+ Explicit Content including steamy scenes and graphic violence. This romance is MF.

From the creator of the popular blog The Monsters Know What They’re Doing comes a compilation of villainous battle plans for Dungeon Masters. In the course of a Dungeons & Dragons game, a Dungeon Master has to make one decision after another in response to player behavior—and the better the players, the more unpredictable their behavior! It’s easy for even an experienced DM to get bogged down in on-the-spot decision-making or to let combat devolve into a boring slugfest, with enemies running directly at the player characters and biting, bashing, and slashing away. In The Monsters Know What They’re Doing, Keith Ammann lightens the DM’s burden by helping you understand your monsters’ abilities and develop battle plans before your fifth edition D&D game session begins. Just as soldiers don’t whip out their field manuals for the first time when they’re already under fire, a DM shouldn’t wait until the PCs have just encountered a dozen bullywugs to figure out how they advance, fight, and retreat. Easy to read and apply, The Monsters Know What They're Doing is essential reading for every DM.

Precocious teenager Lutwee Wiggins has spent his life in an orphanage. His humdrum life is thrown upside down as December 16th (the day that strange magic stirs worldwide) approaches. It is on that very night that Lord Abraham Hedgewick, an eccentric, shape-shifting knight who claims to have known Lutwee's parents, lands on the orphanage roof bearing twofold news: Lutwee is a descendant of a long line of warriors known as the Paladins, and he is the target of impending danger at the hands of the orphanage headmaster. After escaping to Hedgewick's home in the mysterious World Beyond, Lutwee quickly finds that training to become a Paladin is not as easy as he expected, and that the magic of the world beyond is more treacherous than

The exciting conclusion of the Terra Haven Chronicles! Kylie’s everlasting seed is supposed to guide her to the story of a lifetime, but that hardly matters now. Suspended from her position as a journalist for the Terra Haven Chronicle, she can’t publish anything. However, a stymied career is the least of Kylie’s concerns. Someone is targeting her mom. First, they tried to make her look like a criminal. Now they’re trying to kill her. Kylie will stop at nothing to save her mom. Unfortunately, the only people who might have useful information are pyromaniacs and prisoners, and they would rather see Kylie dead than help her. Determined to flush out her enemy, Kylie must follow every lead, no matter how dubious. And this time, not even Kylie’s loyal gargoyle companion, Quinn, can keep her safe… Pick up your copy of this action-packed fantasy today! READING ORDER TERRA HAVEN CHRONICLES Deadlines & Dryads (prequel) Leads & Lynxes Headlines & Hydras Muckrakers & Minotaurs OTHER NOVELS IN THIS WORLD -Gargoyle Guardian Chronicles- Magic of the Gargoyles Curse of the Gargoyles Secret of the Gargoyles Lured (a newsletter-exclusive novella) Flight of the Gargoyles -Terra Haven Holiday Chronicles- Magic by Starlight (Books 1-3)

In a world created and ruled by wizards, the minotaur nation has been cursed for their rebellion. The only way to have the curse removed is to travel to the wizard city, Librum. It is a dangerous journey for anyone, but especially for the minotaurs. A young minotaur named Fortiter has decided to set out on this journey that most minotaurs have deemed futile in search of Factorum, the High Wizard of Librum City. On this journey, he hopes to find out what happened to his older brother Bellator when he took the journey years earlier and never returned. Many challenges lay between Fortiter and his goal, both expected and unexpected. At this point in Fortiter's life, his choices are to wait for the curse to eventually kill him or to take the journey to Librum City and have the curse removed.

This fundamental monster reference for every Dungeon Master provides complete game information for over 600 monsters, presented in an easy-to-use format along with over 300 pieces of fantasy art.