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  • The Path of Ascension 3 by C. Mantis

    The Path of Ascension 3 by C. Mantis

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Training. Glory. Practicing for War.Shortly after pressing his Talents in an attempt for treasure netted an entire planet a reckoning against autonomous golems and a flying rift, Matt, Liz and his Bond Aster find themselves being sucked into a war...
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  • Raise the Banner by A.C. Cobble

    Raise the Banner by A.C. Cobble

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A ranger’s duty. The rotten heart of a king. Rebellion spilled from the blood of family.Rew’s sorrow clings to him like a cape. He’s wrought death and destruction in his quest to defeat the princes, but the alternative is worse. The Mordens have ruled Vaeldon for centuries, and every generation collects its tithe in blood. It’s time for it to stop...
  • The Ranger's Sorrow by A.C. Cobble

    The Ranger's Sorrow by A.C. Cobble

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A ranger’s duty. The rotten heart of a king. Rebellion spilled from the blood of family.In Book 4 of the King’s Ranger series, Rew and his companions find themselves transported across the kingdom and flung into the teeth of waiting danger. There’s no time to rest as they go from one deadly circumstance to another...
  • Master by Robert J. Crane

    Master by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life, or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary.A death in their midst has thrown the guild of Sanctuary into chaos...
  • Warlord by Robert J. Crane

    Warlord by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary...
  • Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke

    Mark of the Fool by J.M. Clarke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The gods chose him. He said no.After his parents died, Alex Roth had one desire: become a wizard. Through hard work, he was accepted into the University of Generasi, the world’s greatest academy of wizardry...Fate, however, had another plan.On his eighteenth birthday, he is Marked by prophecy as one of his kingdom’s five Heroes, chosen to fight the Ravener, his land’s great enemy...
  • Dragon Eyre Badblood by Christopher Mitchell

    Dragon Eyre Badblood by Christopher Mitchell

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Onward to Dragon Eyre.Blackrose, mightiest of dragons, has returned to her world, and found it torn apart by civil war and a brutal occupation. For two decades, the elite Banner armies of Implacatus have struggled to subdue the homeland of the dragons – a world of island chains set amid a sparkling ocean, where the navy battle pirates for control of the lawless seas...
  • The Sleeping Mother by Torsten Weitze

    The Sleeping Mother by Torsten Weitze

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The siege of the Brazen City has been lifted and the Paladin Bergen remains free. Following their victory, Ahren and his companions continue on their travels, this time to the Southern Jungles in search of information regarding the whereabouts of the female Paladin, Sunju.The journey is long and dangerous...
  • Dragon Rise by D.K. Holmberg

    Dragon Rise by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Dragons will return, but who will control them? After betraying both the empire and the rebellion, Fes and Jayell travel alone, struggling to remain safe when a daring break-in that might provide the needed leverage goes awry...
  • The Ranger's Path by A.C. Cobble

    The Ranger's Path by A.C. Cobble

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A ranger’s duty. The rotten heart of a king. Rebellion spilled from the blood of family. Rew, the king’s ranger, leads his young companions on a deadly journey to find their father. On a path that twists across the Eastern Territory, they fight toward the prison where Baron Fedgley is held...
  • Avenger by Robert J. Crane

    Avenger by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life, or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary.When a series of attacks on convoys draws suspicion that Sanctuary is involved, Cyrus Davidon must put aside his personal struggles and try to find the raiders...
  • The Lost Kestrel Found by Peter Wacht

    The Lost Kestrel Found by Peter Wacht

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Light dances with dark, green fire burns in the night, hopes and dreams follow the wind, to fall in black or white.The prophecy of Thomas Kestrel: outcast, lord, sorcerer, warrior, and perhaps savior of the Kingdoms — if he survives...
  • Fated in Darkness by Robert J. Crane

    Fated in Darkness by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary. In the underground city of Saekaj Sovar, a tyrant sits up the throne. For too long, he has ruled the fates of the dark elven people without mercy or challenge...
  • Shades Of Glory: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Justin Sloan, Michael Anderle

    Shades Of Glory: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Justin Sloan, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An army of sorcerers has taken over. Rhona and Alastar have formed alliances and been learning how to master their magic. The fight that awaits is bound to be epic. But will they be enough when put up against a goddess? Journey into an undercover mission by two mystics, a journey into the kingdom of the south where new secrets are uncovered, and a land of elemental-based magic and, maybe..
  • Remnants of the Lost by D.K. Holmberg

    Remnants of the Lost by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An unexpected threat to the power of the elder stones begins to emerge. With his father likely dead, Haern trains to face the Ai’thol, using every ability he possesses to be strong enough to defeat them. A chance encounter with someone who’s lost more than him changes everything...
  • The Coming Chaos by D.K. Holmberg

    The Coming Chaos by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The leader of the Ai’thol has worked for centuries on his plan to control the power of the stones. The final steps in that plan come into focus. Altered and augmented by his increased connection to the metal lorcith, Haern must use this ability to protect the women he’s brought with him from the dangerous city of Dreshen...
  • Secret Court by Angelina J. Steffort

    Secret Court by Angelina J. Steffort

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She set out to save her friends. What she got was a king.Not one moment of rest for Gandrett. Not as she sets out to rescue the Fae male who was taken from her just as she admitted her own feelings for him. Now, it is up to her—to her fighter’s mind, her determination, and to her growing magic that is expanding far beyond what she thought herself capable of...
  • Curse of the Akkeri by Sara C. Roethle

    Curse of the Akkeri by Sara C. Roethle

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Faerune is running out of time. With the threat of the Dreilore nipping at their heels, our unlikely companions have only one choice: to move forward with Alluin's mad plan to overthrow the Empire. The emperor must be killed, and the Dreilore defeated, but first Isara Saredoth must be located. She's the only rational choice for empress, someone both humans and elves alike can support...
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    epic  magic  myths  retellings  action-adventure  book  death  fiction
  • The First Tail by Taniko K Williams

    The First Tail by Taniko K Williams

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As a child, my dreams of the future were of university, of being a world renowned researcher and pharmacist.Being one of the many unfortunates forced into a virtual reality capsule to live out my days as a popsicle, was not part of that dream.But as I soon learned, not all dreams can be achieved, and sometimes, it’s the dreams we never knew we had that come true...
  • The Council of Elders by D.K. Holmberg

    The Council of Elders by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Shadow Queen begins her attack. Can the Council learn their purpose in time? The four members of the Council begin to work together as they search for the fifth. Finding that person might be the only way to stop the Shadow Queen. They’ll need all the help they can get, but the remaining Elders have disappeared, leaving only those they’ve chosen to replace them...
  • Champion by Robert J. Crane

    Champion by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary. As the war heats up in Arkaria, Vara is forced to flee after an ancient order of skilled assassins infiltrates Sanctuary and targets her...
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    epic  magic  myths  retellings  action-adventure  book  fae  fiction
  • Mana Immortal by Bruce Sentar

    Mana Immortal by Bruce Sentar

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Isaac is back, and the sects are going to war. Leadership puts him in leading from behind a desk and negotiating deals with the Hua Family. That is, till another sect's mountain falls, and Isaac hurries to investigate. He takes Mei to investigate the fallen mountain. But even Mei isn't enough to stop what the fallen mountain brings.The corrupt mages' endgame has come...
  • Sanctuary Tales by Robert J. Crane

    Sanctuary Tales by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary. The guild of Sanctuary is replete with an amazing cast of adventurers, wanderers and rogues...
  • The Lost City by D.K. Holmberg

    The Lost City by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Brohmin heads south to understand how he can stop the Deshmahne before they attempt another attack where he encounters a new ally on a surprising mission. As he tries to learn more, he discovers not all is as it seems, and is forced to work for an enemy to save someone he deeply cares for...
  • The Last Conclave by D.K. Holmberg

    The Last Conclave by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The final battle builds. The groeliin continue to attack. And Raime seems even more unstoppable than he ever has before. Back in the Antrilii lands, Isandra searches for answers from Jostephon. The arrival of the summoned Magi means that much will change for her, and she soon learns her purpose in the north is not yet completed...
  • The Lost Dragon by Dan Michaelson, D.K. Holmberg

    The Lost Dragon by Dan Michaelson, D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The cycle of dragons has changed Ashan. Now he must use it to save the kingdom.After stopping two attacks on the kingdom, Ashan yearns to master his connection to the dragons and finally serve as a dragon mage. He has connected to a cycle of dragons, but he’s still only a student and doesn’t understand what it truly means to be a dragon mage...
  • Mist Dragon by D.K. Holmberg

    Mist Dragon by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The dragon misfits are the key to saving the dragons of Lorach but they must act before a stranger destroys them.Jason has secured a tentative peace for Dragon Haven. With his control over illusion, and the Lorach threat thwarted for now, his time is spent preparing for the next attack, knowing the Dragon Souls will not be easily stopped...
  • Vines of Promise and Deceit by Melanie Cellier

    Vines of Promise and Deceit by Melanie Cellier

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    With the nomad delegation in Tartora, a royal tour is underway. But with the threat from both the raiders and the fallen kingdom itself growing, Cadence and Zeke's charade is stretched to the breaking point as they fight to protect their friends. But as Cadence struggles to keep them all alive, she refuses to give up on helping her sister—if only she knew how to do that.But Airlie isn't helpless...
  • The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold

    The Orphans of Raspay by Lois McMaster Bujold

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    When the ship in which they are traveling is captured by Carpagamon island raiders, Temple sorcerer Penric and his resident demon Desdemona find their life complicated by two young orphans, Lencia and Seuka Corva, far from home and searching for their missing father...
  • Tower of the Gods by D.K. Holmberg

    Tower of the Gods by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As the twisted groeliin press their way south, countless lives will be lost unless Roelle can find help, forcing her to go to an enemy for aid. It’s a dangerous gamble, but she can think of no alternative, not if she intends to save as many as possible. Jakob continues having strange visions and struggles with what he’s becoming...
  • Twist of the Fibers by D.K. Holmberg

    Twist of the Fibers by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    With the groeliin attack stopped and the Deshmahne defeated in the north, there is a tentative peace, but war still threatens. The south remains unsettled and, though weakened, Raime has escaped...
  • The World Gate by Jonathan Moeller

    The World Gate by Jonathan Moeller

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The end of the quest is at hand. RIDMARK ARBAN has sought to stop the return of the evil Frostborn. Now the malignant wizard Shadowbearer is ready to summon the Frostborn once more. Unless Ridmark stops him, Shadowbearer shall cover the world in killing ice. SHADOWBEARER has spent a hundred thousand years preparing for the end of the world, and his victory is at hand...
  • The Seven Kingdoms: Books 1-9 Box Set by Cordelia Castel

    The Seven Kingdoms: Books 1-9 Box Set by Cordelia Castel

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    9 books. 2800+ pages of action-packed adventures with twists and turns and magical foes.An enchanted staff. An anti-magic regime. An escape into a world of fairytale villains!Sixteen-year old Cendrilla has two choices—and they could both mean death:Become the seventh dead wife of a murderous ogre or escape into a badlands of cutthroats and bandits and trolls...
  • Truthmarked by David Estes

    Truthmarked by David Estes

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Hundred Years War rages on, with tensions between kingdoms growing ever more strained...To the north and west...While Annise Gäric and her forces march on Castle Hill to retake the northern throne, her cousin, Rhea Loren, wages a naval war against Blackstone...
  • Thy Father's Shadow by Robert J. Crane

    Thy Father's Shadow by Robert J. Crane

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The world of Arkaria is a dangerous place, filled with dragons, titans, goblins and other dangers. Those who live in this world are faced with two choices: live an ordinary life, or become an adventurer and seek the extraordinary. In the depths of the dark elven homeland of Saekaj Sovar, Terian Lepos returns home after a long estrangement from his family...
  • The Binder's Game by D.K. Holmberg

    The Binder's Game by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When the assassin Galen is hired to capture a slaver rather than kill, he learns his target is more than she appears. The job takes him deeper into the Eban underworld as he tries to understand how he’s been used, and why his only friend in the city seems to know more than she should...
  • Shades Of Dark: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Justin Sloan, Michael Anderle

    Shades Of Dark: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series by Justin Sloan, Michael Anderle

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Truth will set you free, but what happens when the Truth is a Lie? Rhona and her paladin brother Alastar have left the protection of the Paladin's, and are now hunted by the same group. Feeling like he can still make a difference for the people, Alastar is looking for his version of the Holy Grail...
  • Summoner's Bond by D.K. Holmberg

    Summoner's Bond by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Those who fight the darkness have scattered as the ancient power grows stronger. When Ciara is abducted by summoners of dark power, they seduce her with lessons on how to summon the elementals, an education she never received in the barracks. Only a distant part of knows that she must find a way to escape before they manage to turn her to their side...
  • Endless Night by D.K. Holmberg

    Endless Night by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Ciara has traveled to the barracks but the promised teaching has not come to pass, leaving her worse off than before, and her people without the nya'shin for protection. If she can't master the summoning, she fears the darkness will claim her. But now that the darkness has revealed itself, Jasn must find a way to save Alena from her connection to the draasin before that connection kills her...
  • A Man of His Word by Dave Duncan

    A Man of His Word by Dave Duncan

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A young couple battles forces determined to keep them apart in this high fantasy series by “one of the leading masters of epic fantasy” (Publishers Weekly).   These four fantasy novels of love and adventure follow the exploits of childhood friends Inos and Rap as their feelings are tested by the direst of circumstances...
  • Shadow Lost by D.K. Holmberg

    Shadow Lost by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Carth has forged the accords, but she fears the tenuous peace, and travels throughout the north expecting the Hjan will violate it, all while knowing it is nothing more than an excuse to avoid another task she should complete. When she finds evidence of attacks along coastal villages, Carth wonders if peace has already failed, though not because of the Hjan...
  • Shadow Cross by D.K. Holmberg

    Shadow Cross by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After surviving the blood priests, Carth heads south with a renewed focus, determined to learn more about the Hjan before they gain too much strength and violate the accords. They reach Asador as one of her crew suffers from a mysterious illness. Finding answers leads her deeper into an underworld she knew existed but had not expected to find so easily...
  • Night Dragon by D.K. Holmberg

    Night Dragon by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A true misfit may be the key to finally defeating Lorach, but only if Jason learns its powers in time.Having stopped Lorren and saving the egg, Jason now faces his most dangerous threat as Lorach moves on Dragon Haven.With the city under attack from a strange new power, only with an understanding of the misfit dragons will Jason—and the dragons—finally be free...
  • Storm Dragon by D.K. Holmberg

    Storm Dragon by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Epic Fantasy Adventure A new threat for the misfits emerges, only this time it might be another dragon. Jason spends his time trying to protect Dragon Haven and understand the dragon misfits now that he has prevented Lachen from using them. He searches for more misfits, but quickly learns he won’t be able to save them all...
  • Shadow Found by D.K. Holmberg

    Shadow Found by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Carth has begun to develop her network, and offers her protection to the women of Asador, but not all are pleased with what she has done. When an assassin kills someone close to her, Carth leaves the city in pursuit. What she finds reveals that her plans have been inadequate, and the game she thought she had been playing might have been another entirely...
  • The Warrior Mage by D.K. Holmberg

    The Warrior Mage by D.K. Holmberg

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The world prepares for war. Creatures out of a nightmare press south. And only a few will be able to stop it.   Roelle leads the Magi north to discover the secrets of the northern warriors known as the Antrilii. What she discovers forces her to question the role the Magi play in the world as she begins to realize how far they have drifted from their Founders...
  • The Broken Mage by Jonathan Moeller

    The Broken Mage by Jonathan Moeller

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    RIDMARK ARBAN is the Gray Knight, exiled and outcast, seeking to stop the return of the dreaded Frostborn. At last he has come to the perilous ruins of Khald Azalar, where the answer to his quest awaits. Assuming the master of Khald Azalar does not kill him first. MORIGNA was the Witch of the Hills. Now the dark magic within Morigna threatens to devour her...
  • The False Hero, Volume 4 by Michael Plymel

    The False Hero, Volume 4 by Michael Plymel

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    At long last, Lutz and his party have reached the far eastern edge of the Orakian Kingdom, just a day's walk from the elven border. However, during a quest to save a town, they find themselves close to one of the ancient labyrinths--a dungeon.Monsters, traps, and treasure aren't the only things waiting for Lutz inside, and outside the dungeon, forces are beginning to gather...
  • Madness of the Fallen by Brian D. Anderson, Jonathan Anderson

    Madness of the Fallen by Brian D. Anderson, Jonathan Anderson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Some secrets are best left forgotten. Some names never spoken. In the depths of Shagharath, a creature of great and terrible power awaits. For countless millennia it has languished in its prison. Now the time has come at last for it to unleash vengeance and ruin upon the earth. As Gewey prepares for his final battle, his courage and strength will be tested as never before...
  • The King's Ranger by A.C. Cobble

    The King's Ranger by A.C. Cobble

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Rew, the king’s ranger, accepted a role on the far edge of the realm to avoid the morass of intrigue and betrayal that bleeds from the heart of the kingdom. His only desire is to shoulder the burden he’s taken, to protect the village of Eastwatch, and to monitor the wilderness beyond...
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