Book Recs

Hotshot pilot Nax Hall has a history of making poor life choices. So it's not exactly a surprise when he's kicked out of the elite Ellis Station Academy in less than twenty-four hours. But Nax's one-way trip back to Earth is cut short when a terrorist group attacks the Academy.

Nax and three other washouts escape—barely—but they're also the sole witnesses to the biggest crime in the history of space colonization. And the perfect scapegoats.

On the run, Nax and his fellow failures plan to pull off a dangerous heist to spread the truth. Because they may not be "Academy material"; and they may not even get along, but they're the only ones left to step up and fight.

The hunter, Kerioth, is pursuing a rare beast whose blood will buy his freedom. His hunt is successful, but he loses the creature's corpse under strange circumstances soon after. While tracking the scant trail, Kerioth encounters an injured man on the road who changes his life in unexpected ways.

An Anthology Of Celtic and Germanic Myths

Discover the Féar gortach, the grass that induces starvation...

The devouring alp-luachra, most dreadful of monsters...

The wild kelpie and the shapeshifting selkie...

The Pied Piper, a lone Fae with a strange talent...

The Tuatha dé Danann, gods among the Fae...

The death god Arawn and his origins.

These five tales, inspired by Celtic and Germanic myths and monsters, will make you shiver and smile by turns.

Detective Miles Jensen is called to the lawless town of Santa Mondega to investigate a spate of murders. This would all be quite ordinary in those rough streets, except that Jensen is the Chief Detective of Supernatural Investigations. The breakneck plot centers around a mysterious blue stone – The Eye of the Moon – and the men and women who all want to get their hands on a mass murderer with a drinking problem, a hit man who thinks he's Elvis, and a pair of monks among them. Add in the local crime baron, an amnesiac woman who's just emerged from a five-year coma, a gypsy fortune teller, and a hapless hotel porter, and the plot thickens fast. Most importantly, how do all these people come to be linked to the strange book with no name? This is the anonymous, ancient book that no one seems to have survived reading. Everyone who has ever read it has been murdered. What can this mean?

▪ The Book With No Name (2006)

▪ The Eye Of The Moon (2008)

▪ The Devil's Graveyard (2010)

▪ The Book Of Death (2012)

▪ The Red Mohawk (2013)

▫ A Christmas Carol: A Santa Mondega Short Story (2014)

▪ The Plot To Kill the Pope (2016)

▪ The Day It Rained Blood (2017)

▪ The Greatest Trick The Devil Ever Pulled (2019)

▫ Showdown With The Devil (2021)

▫ Killing The Elite (2023)

▫ The Return Of Hitler (2025)

Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.

Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomises the worst of the decadent court at Vere. But in the lethal web of Veretian politics, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen is caught up in a dangerous play for the throne, he is forced to form an alliance with Laurent to survive and save his country.

For Damen, there is just one rule: he must never reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else…

▪ Captive Prince (2013)

▪ Prince's Gambit (2013)

▪ Kings Rising (2016)

▫ The Summer Palace and Other Stories: A Captive Prince Short Story Collection (2018)

The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember, and they keep their centuries-long vigil, sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns.

Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. When an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, Will is ushered into a world of magic, where he must train to play a vital role in the oncoming battle against the Dark.

As London is threatened by the Dark King's return, the reborn heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war begin to draw battle lines. But as the young descendants of Light and Dark step into their destined roles, old allegiances, old enmities and old flames are awakened. Will must stand with the last heroes of the Light to prevent the fate that destroyed their world from returning to destroy his own.

▫ Dark Rise (2021)

▫ Dark Heir (2023)

▫ Vol. 3 (TBP)

A young pilot risks everything to save his best friend–the man he trusts most and might even love–only to learn that his friend is secretly the heir to a brutal galactic empire.

Ettian's life was shattered when the merciless Umber Empire invaded his world. He's spent seven years putting himself back together under its rule, joining an Umber military academy and becoming the best pilot in his class. Even better, he's met Gal–his exasperating and infuriatingly enticing roommate who's made the academy feel like a new home.

But when dozens of classmates spring an assassination plot on Gal, a devastating secret comes to light: Gal is the heir to the Umber Empire. Ettian barely manages to save his best friend and flee the compromised academy unscathed, rattled that Gal stands to inherit the empire that broke him, and that there are still people willing to fight back against Umber rule.

As they piece together a way to deliver Gal safely to his throne, Ettian finds himself torn in half by an impossible choice. Does he save the man who's won his heart and trust that Gal's goodness could transform the empire? Or does he throw his lot in with the brewing rebellion and fight to take back what's rightfully theirs?

▪ Bonds Of Brass (2020)

▫ Oaths Of Legacy (2021)

▫ Vows Of Empire (2022)

When magic returned to the world, it could have saved humanity, but greed and thirst for power caused mankind's downfall instead. Now once-human monsters called Howls prowl abandoned streets, their hunger guided by corrupt necromancers and the all-powerful Kin. Only Hunters have the power to fight back in the unending war, using the same magic that ended civilization in the first place.

But they are losing.

Tenn is a Hunter, resigned to fight even though hope is nearly lost. When he is singled out by a seductive Kin named Tomás and the enigmatic Hunter Jarrett, Tenn realizes he's become a pawn in a bigger game. One that could turn the tides of war. But if his mutinous magic and wayward heart get in the way, his power might not be used in favor of mankind.

If Tenn fails to play his part, it could cost him his friends, his life…and the entire world.

▪ Runebinder (2017)

▪ Runebreaker (2018)

▫ Tenn (Short story, 2018)

▫ Runemaker (2019)

Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.

With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court.

In looking for Addam, can Rune find the truth behind his family's death and the torments of his past?

▪ The Last Sun (2018)

▪ The Hanged Man (2019)

▪ The Hourglass Throne (2022)

▫ The Misfit Caravan (TBP)