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Theus's journey continues in The Memory Stone, Part II. Within the past year of his life, Theus has seen freedom and slavery, affection and spite, wealth and poverty - now, his adventures are about to grow more consequential and intense as the gods of the land begin to rely on him personally and exclusively to travel from conflict to conflict, as they try to use him to tamp down the outbreak of evil and violence that is threatening every human in the lands ruled by Stoke.

Theus is sold into servanthood by his poverty-stricken family and taken by his kindly master on a journey across a continent, following the course of the Landwide River. From there, he begins to learn the secrets of the memory stones, the extraordinary objects that can store information for people.

The first book in the four book Southern Continent Series. Grange was a small time pickpocket – not a bad person by nature, just tossed by circumstances onto a rocky shore, and doing what he needed in order to get by. But just when he saw an opportunity to leave thievery behind, fate cruelly dashed him into worse circumstances. And from there, the mundane and ordinary world he occupied began to be replaced by one that features adventure, magic, monsters, and palaces. Captured and thrown into a hard-scrabble, isolated labor camp, Grange faced exile at best, and death as a more likely ...

Grange begins to understand the use of his powers, under the tutelage of Brieed, the mighty court wizard in Palmland. But his lessons are disrupted when he is asked to leave the kingdom and accompany a diplomatic mission to a distant land, one where he will be able to display his powers as a demonstration of the might of Palmland. The journey to Kilau is more dangerous than expected though, and the disruption of Grange's trip is only the beginning of the perilous travels that impact Grange's life.

When Kestrel is chosen by the gods to carry out dangerous and difficult duties once again, he finds that unexpected happenings will add to the challenges he faces. He knows that he will have to take another long journey to restore the water skin to its place above the lake in the southern mountains. The skin provides the necessary protection that prevents the Viathins from ravaging the lands of the Inner Seas, and Kestrel is the logical choice to restore it. But in addition, he is told to go beyond the boundaries of the world, to find the missing deities who have been lured and kidnapped by...

Grange's life has sunk to a nadir, though he doesn't realize how much he's lost. As the story begins, Grange has lost the elemental jewels, he's lost his memories, and he's lost his way back home. He's wandered through the brutal wilderness of the subarctic south, and been rescued by a cold-hearted adventuress who reluctantly saves his life, then abandons him soon after he returns the favor and saves hers. His lonely journey out of the wilderness is interrupted when he stumbles into the midst of sundered nation that hasn't reconciled after its king was overthrown a generation before, and ...

Kestrel has been drawn deeper and deeper into the battles in the world - first the battles between elves and men, then among men and men, and now he's come to be a participant in a battle among the gods themselves. He's fighting on behalf of the gods of the lands of the Inner Seas, fighting to help them stave off death at the hands of the invading god of the Viathins. In "Journey to Uniontown", the fifth book in the eight volume Inner Seas series, Kestrel is finally going to take the battle into the heart of the lands that the Viathins control. As he finishes the liberation of Seafare from ...

The wilderness threatens to swallow up Grange’s life once again, as he finds that he is being sent by the gods back into the wilderness with the goal of finding the remaining Elemental Jewels, and restoring them to life. His journey through the uncharted, frigid land will be physically challenging, but it will require much more than bodily strength to succeed and survive. He will have to take the men and women who the gods have appointed to be his companions – seemingly at random – and not only keep them all safe, but also work to meld them into a cohesive unit that can overcome their...

In “Road of Shadows”, the third book of the Inner Seas Kingdoms series, Kestrel continues on his quest to find a way to defeat the forces of Uniontown, the aggressive southern nation that is conquering its neighbors among the other kingdoms, using treachery and force to overcome its adversaries. Part-elven Kestrel is on his way from the elven kingdom in the Eastern Forest, returning to the northern marches of Graylee, so that he can rejoin the human girl he adores, Margo, as she tries to maintain and protect the manor house where her parents were slain by Uniontown’s supporters. As he...

Kestrel found the way home, a way that was more convoluted than he expected, and one that split him apart from Lark and Wren and the rest of his companions in the latest battle against the Viathins. But they were all going home victorious, and would be reunited in Uniontown, he suspected, as he planned to pursue the young human duchess. But his trip home turned out to be interrupted by the one thing he never anticipated - a civil war among the elves, a battle against tyranny. Kestrel finds that in the Eastern Forest he has to put aside his plans to go to Uniontown so that he can pursue the ...

In the fifth volume of the Ingenairii Series, Alec lies in a coma for days, recovering from the extraordinary effort he used to save his companions in the lacertii wars. When he awakens, the army is disbanded, Imelda has left, and his powers are gone. For Alec, heartbroken and desolate, only a long pilgrimage to John Mark's cavern offers any hope of recovery. What the Saint offers instead is a series of remarkable adventures that open Alec's eyes to a great new danger to the Dominion and to his own soul. If Alec can survive the overwhelming challenges, he may be able to achieve survival - ...

The Ingenairii Series concludes in "Preserving the Ingenairii" when Alec floats down the Giffey River, returning to the Dominion after his battle with Michian's demon at Ravinia Bridge and John Mark's Cave. He arrives in Goldenfields, ready to embrace his destiny as the next ruler of the Dominion, only to discover that all members of the ingenairii race, including his fiancee Bethany, have been struck down with an unidentifiable illness, leaving them all unconscious and wasting away in a coma-like state. Thus begins Alec's great adventure, a desperate journey that will take him from Oyster ...

Kestrel had saved the world. His story began in “The Healing Spring” and continued through its most recent chapter, “Journey to Uniontown.” A young elf, he had been plucked from obscurity, and send on a mission. At first, he had ostensibly been an elven spy, watching the intrigues of the humans, but his greater role had been to grow into the role of acting as the agent of the gods. Kestrel went through a grueling series of adventures in his battles, and his travels took him across more nations than any other elf of the Eastern Forest had ever traveled. He was able to make the ...

The fourth volume of the Inner Seas Kingdom Series, A Foreign Heart follows Kestrel through a fast-paced series of adventures. With his goal now defined as defeat of the Viathin race that has invaded and begun to conquer the world of the Inner Seas, Kestrel works closely with his imp allies to race around the lands he knows -- the Eastern Forest, Hydrotaz, and Graylee. But the threats and challenges the Viathin evil poses are not limited to the places he is familiar with. Kestrel will journey through the Water Mountains and try to reach the nations north of the mountains. He will find that ...

The opening book in the Ingenairii Series introduces Alec the Healer, in the days when he worked as a menial helper in a traveling carnival that toured the great cities of the magic land of the Dominion. Alec's carnival makes a fateful decision to visit lands in the wilderness, where he is exposed to violence and fear, and where he is forced to scramble for survival. When Alec and Natalie plunge into the ruins of Riverside, the adventures begin to come fast and furious, and before he knows it, Alec will acquire new abilities to heal the injuries of other in miraculous ways, and then be ...

It amounts to exile. Alec has left Goldenfields after false rumors destroy the life he has found there. Now he will reside in Oyster Bay, home of the king’s court and Ingenairii Hill, where Alec will be trained to master the ingenairii energies he has the potential to exercise. His clean start in Oyster Bay will be challenged by politics and jealousies and jockeying for power as the old order of the Dominion starts to crumble under an elderly king without an heir. Even when he tries to keep to himself, Alec will stumble into trouble among his fellow engenairii, and the nobility at the ...

A deadly set of expectations await Alec the Healer, the former carnival hand who is now the Protector of the Crown. He is under a compulsion to travel to the City of Stronghold, a powerful trading base for the Locksfort clan. He must attempt to use his ingenaire healing powers there to resurrect his former companion, Noranda, who is a pawn in the deadly games of politics and finances. Traveling to Stronghold, finding Noranda's crypt, and discovering her cure won't be easy to carry out under the Locksforts' noses. And if he survives his journey to Stronghold, Alec will need to raise the ...

Following his adventures and changes in "Visions of Power" and "The Seat of Power", Alec believes he can settle into life in Goldenfields as a healer and a member of the Guard, dedicated to protecting his Duke and his city. But the coup in Oyster Bay has unleashed unexpected challenges to Goldenfields, and Alec leads a mission that is a gamble to save Bondell, the poor and isolated ally of Goldenfields, now under attack by Oyster Bay forces. For Alec, the chance to try new tactics in fighting the war, and the chance to be with Bethany on the journey make the Bondell expedition a great ...

Kestrel is a resident and guard in the Elven nation of the Eastern Forest, typical in every way except that his partial human heritage makes him the victim of discrimination by those of pure Elven ancestry. And when the elves face war with the humans of the neighboring nations, Kestrel is distrusted and removed from combat duty. But the gods of both races see a roll for Kestrel to play in a greater, and more sinister battle that will consume humans and elves alike, and they shower him with favors that press him into a new service as an elven spy. Only his superiors never expected Kestrel to...

Kestrel's adventures continue in "The Yellow Palace", the sequel to "The Healing Spring". His departure from Estone encounters trouble just days after his ship leaves the harbor, and Kestrel finds himself stranded on a desolate shore, hundreds of miles from safety as the novel begins. His goal has been to reach the human kingdoms of Graylee and Hydrotaz, to learn what plots the humans have to next attack the elves of the Eastern Forest, and his intention is to also track down the agents of Uniontown, the evil force that the goddesses have warned him is an even greater threat than the ...