Epic Magic

Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and—thanks to a duel that ended badly—the disgraced heir to an ancient noble house. His days consist of cheap wine, rigged card games, and wondering how he might win back the life he threw away. When Lukan discovers that his estranged father has been murdered in strange circumstances, he finds fresh purpose. Deprived of his chance to make amends for his mistakes, he vows to unravel the mystery behind his father's death. His search for answers leads him to Saphrona, fabled city of merchant princes, where anything can be bought if one has the coin.

Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded female detective is recruited to escort them to safety, all three begin a journey into the nature of difference, and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous. What follows is a story of wonder and betrayal.

Eilean was born a “wretched”—a lowly foundling raised by the Aldermaston of Tintern Abbey. Then she’s chosen to assist in establishing the new abbey of Muirwood, now the site of a castle in the swampy Bearden Muir. Eilean’s role is as night servant to the druid Mordaunt, the king’s exiled advisor—and prisoner. He’s clever, dangerous, and invaluable to the Aldermaston.

After the war that cost him so much, Kylar Stern is broken and alone. He's determined not to kill again, but an impending amnesty will pardon the one murderer he can't let walk free. He promises himself this is the last time. One last hit to tie up the loose ends of his old, lost life. But Kylar's best—and maybe only—friend, the High King Logan Gyre, needs him. To protect a fragile peace, Logan’s new kingdom, and the king’s twin sons, he needs Kylar to secure a powerful magical artifact that was unearthed during the war.

"This has everything a great fantasy story should have." - Susan May, Amazon customer "Don't waste any time—give this novel a try. You won't regret it." - Hernan Salvarezza, Goodreads reviewer Born in ashes. Drenched in blood. Derrik comes of age in a land of savage war and evil magic. As Dragonlords clash for power, hordes of Saitaan’s warriors ravage human cities. Tucked in the corner of the empire, near the snowy slopes that separate humans from elves, his village seems far away from danger. And yet, Derrik carries a sword and dreams of becoming a warrior, the protector of the weak. ...

Working to bring magic to Istlan, Anders Brolly is sent off, alone, to make creations of wonder and utility for his people. So, when he's attacked by supposed friends, things do not go as planned. Now he must continue his plan, while shepherding some rather unwelcome guests across the world. A matter which might well end in his death. Even if everything goes correctly. As Anders knows well, very few things ever manage to go well, much less to plan.

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

We all have inner demons. We fight them all the time. Some of us achieve inner peace by coming to terms with them. But how do you come to terms with inner demons that tear free and become outer demons? Eric has been a vampire for nearly a century, and his demons are more than metaphors. While they controlled him, he was the Demon King. Now he has to avoid the monsters in his own mind, as well as angry nobles, fanatical religions, assassins, magi, other vampires, criminal organizations, and more.

My biggest worry used to be whether my rogue character would finally loot that stupid dagger after six weeks of grinding. Now? It’s surviving daycare pickup runs, cooking toddler-friendly meals without setting the house on fire, and not getting murdered by magical psychos. It all started when my sister dumped her five-year-old son Adam on me because of some "emergency." I figured I’d Netflix, babysit, and maybe teach the kid how to fake sick days like a pro. What I didn’t plan on? Finding out Adam’s got magic. The dangerous, world-shaking kind. The kind that paints a target on his ...

Long ago, humans betrayed dragons, stealing their magic and banishing them to a dying world. Centuries later, their descendants worship dragons as gods—but the gods remember, and they do not forgive. Thief Arcady scrapes a living on the streets of Vatra. Desperate, Arcady steals a powerful artifact from the bones of the Plaguebringer, the most hated person in Lumet history. Only Arcady knows that the artifact's magic holds the key to a new life among the nobles at court and a chance for revenge.

For the first time as an Orbit special edition, Brent Weeks's blockbuster novella Perfect Shadow tells the origin story of the Night Angel trilogy's most enigmatic character: Durzo Blint. Gaelan Starfire is a farmer, happy to be a husband and a father; a careful, quiet, simple man. He's also an immortal, peerless in the arts of war. Over the centuries, he's worn many faces to hide his gift, but he is a man ill-fit for obscurity, and all too often he's become a hero, his very names passing into legend.

Heartbreaking separation. An explosive reunion. Will joining forces triumph against an enemy… or push them to the edge of disaster? Princess Rella is determined to defeat the Dark Emperor. Lonely without her mate, she refuses to drag him into her personal war to restore the queens. But she’s forced to change her plans when she learns her own kind are being captured, turned into dragon-blood addicts, and sold into slavery. Dagstyrr of Halfenhaw’s anger at being left behind simmers under his hurt. Charged with rescuing the dragons, the brave human despairs he doesn’t have near enough ...

At six years old, Clara met fire and shadow... Her parents were murdered, her home burned to the ground, and her past erased. She grew up believing she was a delusional orphan, haunted by fragments of memories that made no sense. The only clue was her mother’s jade necklace—a relic as mysterious as it was beautiful. Now, as a pre-med student, she lives a so-called normal life. But when a stranger attacks and a surge of power explodes from within, everything changes. Her memories are real, the man who hunted her is back, and she is far from safe. As Clara’s abilities grow, so do the ...

Alone in the desert to wait for justice to be done, or at least started, Anders Brolly must begin a journey that will alter who he is, forever. It is not enough to be powerful, one must be wise and good in equal measure. Anders knows that this won't be an easy feat for someone like himself. Monsters are, rarely, truly ever good, after all.

Everything should have been quiet and pleasant for Ben Holiday, the former Chicago lawyer who became sovereign of the Magic Kingdom of Landover. But it wasn’t. Horris Kew, conjurer, confidence-man, and trickster, had returned to Landover from Ben’s own world. Alas, Horris had not returned of his own volition - he had been sent by the Gorse, a sorcerer of great evil, whom Horris had unwittingly freed from the magic Tangle Box, where it had long ago been imprisoned by the fairy folk. Now it had returned to enslave those who had once dared condemn it.

In 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged as a witch. Two hundred years later, her legacy lives on in the scions of two very different lines: one dedicated to using their powers to heal and help women in need; the other, determined to grasp power for themselves by whatever means necessary. This clash will play out in the fate of Annis, a young woman in Gilded Age New York who finds herself a pawn in the family struggle for supremacy. She'll need to claim her own power to save herself - and resist succumbing to the darkness that threatens to overcome them all.

From bestselling author P.S. Power... Sent to find her enemies, in a strange land, Gwen Ferris must learn to use magic and weapons she barely comprehends, in order to save her new family and friends. Nothing will stop her from reaching her goal. Not even a proposal of marriage.

Ben Holiday has grappled with scheming barons, fire-breathing beasts, diabolical conjurers, and extremely wicked witches. None of whom have prepared him for the most daunting of challengers—a teenage daughter. Sent by Ben and his beloved sylph bride, Willow, to an exclusive girls’ prep school, headstrong (and half-magical) Mistaya Holiday has found life in the natural world a less than perfect fit. And when her latest rebellious antics get her indefinitely suspended, she’s determined to resume her real education whether her parents like it or not.

Raised by the Nyx, the Goddess of Darkness, Mariateristeria is all light. Maria is ready to make her trip across the dimensions from Earth to Zandor to meet her Protector, assemble her Staff and bring the Elven people back together, but it won't be without challenges. Stephous was taken captive as a child and forced to work for Chimera Shield as he grew up. He became Captain in the guard, of the Devils army when Malia took over. Sent on a fools errand to the eastern coast, with the newest Demon-spawned troops, he deserted and began the quest to find his Staff Bearer.

Magic is currency in Sabine Fable’s world. After an epidemic of mage fever stole it from her family, Sabine came into the world a baseborn without position or hope. She struggles through life with a frail mother and a drunken, abusive grandfather. Sabine’s stubbornness and her skills in herbalism carve out a tenuous niche for her family in a society where mageborns rule. She cares for her mother, Brona Fable, who still suffers from the aftereffects of the disease as an outcast in a small town. For Sabine’s devotion and ignoble birth, she has been teased, abused, and ridiculed for most...