The Shadow's Beginning is the first volume of many to come. The story is based off a comic designed, written, and illustrated by Michael Dunkley.A scientist accidentally creates the first artificial super human. It was an abandoned project code named Silver. The unknown life form ends up evolving into much more. The main character is a new hero with untold possibilities. He is the first of a new race called Shadows.Follow his story filled with love, loss, and determination to survive. Join the hero's quest, and in the end you will understand why it's called the beginning.

"Vivid characters, terrifying monsters, and world building as deep and dark as the ocean." --Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red Queen I am Henrietta Howel. The first female sorcerer in hundreds of years. The prophesied one. Or am I? Henrietta Howel can burst into flames. Forced to reveal her power to save a friend, she's shocked when instead of being executed, she's invited to train as one of Her Majesty's royal sorcerers. Thrust into the glamour of Victorian London, Henrietta is declared the chosen one, the girl who will defeat the Ancients, bloodthirsty demons terrorizing humanity. She also meets her fellow sorcerer trainees, handsome young men eager to test her power and her heart. One will challenge her. One will fight for her. One will betray her. But Henrietta Howel is not the chosen one. As she plays a dangerous game of deception, she discovers that the sorcerers have their own secrets to protect. With battle looming, what does it mean to not be the one? And how much will she risk to save the city—and the one she loves? Exhilarating and gripping, Jessica Cluess's spellbinding fantasy introduces a powerful, unforgettably heroine, and a world filled with magic, romance, and betrayal. Hand to fans of Libba Bray, Sarah J. Maas, and Cassandra Clare. "The magic! The intrigue! The guys! We were sucked into this monster-ridden, alternative England from page one. Henrietta is literally a 'girl on fire' and this team of sorcerers training for battle had a pinch of Potter blended with a drop of [Cassandra Clare's] Infernal Devices." --Justine Magazine "Cluess gamely turns the chosen-one trope upside down in this smashing dark fantasy." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Unputdownable. I loved the monsters, the magic, and the teen warriors who are their world's best hope! Jessica Cluess is an awesome storyteller!" --Tamora Pierce, #1 New York Times bestselling author "A fun, inventive fantasy. I totally have a book crush on Rook." --Sarah Rees Brennan, New York Times bestselling author "Pure enchantment. I love how Cluess turned the 'chosen one' archetype on its head. With the emotional intensity of my favorite fantasy books, this is the kind of story that makes you forget yourself." --Roshani Chokshi, New York Times bestselling author of The Star-Touched Queen "A glorious, fast-paced romp of an adventure. Jessica Cluess has built her story out of my favorite ingredients: sorcery, demons, romance, and danger." --Kelly Link, author of Pretty Monsters

"She stared about in confusion before noticing something. The crystal rose was twinkling in the snow. She huddled down next to it. Her fingers stretched toward it, brushing the snow off from the pile it lay in. Intently, her hazel eyes lingered upon the rose. The red surface of the petals reflected her stare. She closed her eyes and clutching the rose closer to her chest. Her eyes opened. Golden light swam across her face and in an instant, she was gone only leaving a flash of light behind her." -passage from Shadow of Sohvan Shadow of Sohvan is a tale of heroics in an epic fantasy world filled with magic, monsters and the sword. The story follows the quest of a young girl to be reunited with her lost love. Her journey takes her from distant shores of the wizard isles to the Tomb of the Ancient Kings in the tall Iterian Mountains.

Sir Anthony and the Star Stone Crystal is about a young boy warrior and his great adventure through the magical help of his great grandfather and soon learns that dreams can indeed become reality but strength and wisdom can only come from his parents who just happen to be the king and queen of Goodinia, the city in which he lives. This story is one of a boy who learns quickly what it means to honor thy father, mother and learns the lesson that family must stick together through the good times and the bad. A great coming of age story.

Plunge into the action when an ancient mystery returns. People vanish or die in strange circumstances, but some survive and return home. As the survivors attempt to resume a normal life, events force them to accept the undeniable truth. Werewolves, elves, dark elves, and other supernatural creatures exist. They also discover that their contact with these myths and legends has altered them in ways they don't yet understand. How they deal with this knowledge becomes a test of character. For good or evil, their choices serve as a catalyst for change on their home planet and the worlds they re-visit. While some civilisations exploit the situation, others strenuously resist impending revolution, but one question unites them all. Why is this happening? One ancient elven magician on a faraway world seeks answers as magic and science collide. Shadow Step offers adult and older teen readers exciting fantasy worlds, multiple characters and plenty of action.

Ten years after the events recounted in Heartstone, enemies threaten Elinala ́s peace by threatening its chief architect--Derrick of Loneoak Island. Not only does this conspiracy have roots in the mysterious Shadow Empire, but the conspiracy also has a far more terrifying goal--to force Derrick into reawakening heartstone. The method used by this conspiracy? Destroy everything Derrick loves. Once again, ancient evils threaten to destroy Elinala, but this time the greatest evil may be caused by Derrick himself. Exactly what the Shadow Empire wants.

This epic adventure highlights the eternal truth that the kingdom of light can only prevail when it engages in a violent encounter with the kingdom of darkness.

Bruce was the happiest pegasus in the seven worlds. As Master Wizard and Prince of New Avon, he ruled scores of outlying herds and commanded North America's most powerful source of magic: Mornwing Upwelling. He was young and handsome and newly life-mated to Alcyon Skydance Galeryon of the Far Isles, the most beautiful Pegasian princess he had ever seen. As we humans say, Bruce had it made. Then, suddenly: Transfer orders! His ancestral dimension was slated to be downsized to dandle fluff by the Great Herdmaster and the Council of Greater Sentient Species. As if that weren't enough, his gorgeous little princess became a headstrong, power-hungry nag, and then Bruce blundered into the arms of a very powerful, very inept witch. The woman most foully Enchanted him, and her polluting touch forced Alcy, her annoying firedrake Maitland, and Bruce into exile in the mundane. Imagine! Pegasian Royalty in a stall! That's where the trio had to take refuge, though, thanks to Laura Hennessey LaCroix whose commands required Bruce to use every last ounce of magic and all his Powers—invisibility, mimicry, flight, telepathy, and Inspiration—to obey her or die. Thrown into the world of men, Bruce became an outlaw, lost his principality, and open a gifted man to dark and dangerous Powers. And, while Alcy and Bruce struggled just to stay alive, an evil, shape-changing monster declared war on them, their humans, and all of mankind!

The Wildside book of Fantasy presents 20 great fantasy tales by modern masters. Included are stories by Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Gene Wolfe, Fritz Leiber, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Robert E. Howard, and many more. A choice selection of tales! THE DEAD MAN, by Gene Wolfe BRIGHT STREETS OF AIR, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman THE DOLPHIN AND THE DEEP, by Thomas Burnett Swann THE SWORDSMEN OF VARNIS, by Clive Jackson THE EMPEROR OF GONDWANALAND, by Paul Di Filippo SPACE-TIME FOR SPRINGERS, by Fritz Leiber RED NAILS, by Robert E. Howard ARMS AND THE WOMAN, by Lawrence Watt-Evans THE BRIDE OF THE MAN-HORSE, by Lord Dunsany THE WOMAN, by Tanith Lee DREAMTIME IN ADJAPHON, by John Gregory Betancourt THE BLACK ABBOT OF PUTHUUM, by Clark Ashton Smith BLACK HAWK OF VALKARTH, by Lin Carter THE DEVIL’S CRYPT, by E. Hoffmann Price VANDIBAR NASHA IN THE COLLEGE OF SHADOWS, by Darrell Schwetizer THE POWER OF PRAYER, by Brian Stableford THE SECRET OF KRALITZ, by Henry Kuttner LIGHT, by Achmed Abdullah THE LOST RACE, by Robert E. Howard RINGARD AND DENDRA, by Brian McNaughton

10,000 years have passed since the Second Great War destroyed the Earth. A new world has risen from the ashes. A young assassin finds himself trapped in the middle of a war that will change his destiny forever. An ancient evil has risen and the minions of the Dark Lord move to destroy the balance of the world further. One such minion known as Moraseth has declared war on Olroo and will strive at nothing to satisfy his Dark Master. The demons of the Abyss known as The Riv'Noss rise from the shadows to wage the war their Dark Masters have started. Can a rag tag band of heros restore the balance to the world and revive The Old Religion and defeat the evil that now festers like a plague on the world, or will Moraseth and his minions destroy everything that the people of the world have worked so hard to forge?