A powerful wielder of magic is preparing to conquer a world whose people only remember magic in legends of the past. A king grappling with personal tragedy prepares his army to save his kingdom. A restless princess seeks love and adventure. In the middle of it all is Traven, a poor, ambitious peasant who dreams of being more than a simple woodcutter and unknowingly holds the key to saving the world.

The Kalian Army marches to battle. Kadrak is restless for the power of the throne. The princess is anxious for marriage but fears for the safety of her fiancé. Traven sets sail in search of Faldor's Keep where he hopes to find a weapon to save his country. What he discovers will change the fate of all.

While the Kalians celebrate their recent victory, an innumerable horde of galdaks pours out of the mountains, intent on destroying the human race. The people of Kalia look to Traven, a master wielder, to save them. However, even his immense power may not be enough to stop the imminent threat. His will, courage, and strength are tried as he prepares to give his all, even his life, for the people he loves.

Danny Firoth is an average thirteen-year-old who finds himself at the beginning of his eighth-grade year, struggling with some of the more common concerns that plague a boy of his age: bullies, homework, and his mother. Sabrina Drake is the new girl. She is beautiful and spellbinding but carries a fantastic secret. Accepted into the White Rock Academy of Illumination, a school for young Squires destined to become Knights of the Light and battle the forces of the Dark with magical weapons called Bondeds, Danny joins his five closest friends in the training of their lives. Honed in the techniques of blade work by an Elvin swordmaster and educated by a colorful assortment of knightly instructors, Danny and his friends are placed on the path to becoming knighted members of the Light. However, the Dark may have other plans as they unveil a sinister plot in this fantastic tale of dragon-riding adventure, sword-wielding action, and coming-of-age drama.

The priests of Saasil have taken over. The people are suffering. The resistance is rising. Fire is coming...Ariana is a member of a covert team known as the Nighthawks. They are part of the resistance and fight to free their kingdom from the foreign priests who murdered the monarchy and seized control of the government.Kiin is taught by the priests as a child but soon learns that not everything is what it seems. As he grows he's faced with the dilemma of what is truth, what isn't, and what really matters in life.From the best-selling author of the Wielder Trilogy comes a new novel about rebellion, magic, choice, and truth.

Available for the first time in one volume, Daniel Heath Justice's acclaimed Thorn and Thunder novels take Indigenous fantasy fiction beyond its stereotypes and tell a story set in a world similar to eighteenth-century eastern North America. The original trilogy--an example of green/eco-literature--is collected here in a one-volume novel.

"Excalibur has been pulled from the stone, but what does it mean? Arriane (aka Ryan) DuLac doesn't really care. She's got bigger problems--as student president she's got to put on the Prom. While the Wizard Council debates their next move, she leaves the craziness behind and heads home. But she can't hide forever. Sooner than she'd like, Merlin (aka Matt) has her chasing mermaids on the trail of the Fisher King. The wounded King defeated by Merlin's brother, Vane, in the past holds the key to saving the future"--Page [4] of cover.

Yuzuki Kobayashi was an assassin for a regent empress, along with her entire family. When her father betrays them, though, and puts the entire country at stake for a civil war, Yuzuki sacrifices herself to save them. She had thought that death was the end of her journey. Much to her dismay, there is life after death, however, and as she awakens in this new world she must learn to adapt. She finds that life was never as she knew it, and when an evil from her past threatens to tear her newfound peace apart, she must battle against it with everything she has. She learns about love, friendship, loss, and hope and discovers what it means to have purpose and something to protect.

“This book is an imagining.” So begins this collection examining critical, Indigenous-centered approaches to understanding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, and Two-Spirit (GLBTQ2) lives and communities and the creative implications of queer theory in Native studies. This book is not so much a manifesto as it is a dialogue—a “writing in conversation”—among a luminous group of scholar-activists revisiting the history of gay and lesbian studies in Indigenous communities while forging a path for Indigenouscentered theories and methodologies. The bold opening to Queer Indigenous Studies invites new dialogues in Native American and Indigenous studies about the directions and implications of queer Indigenous studies. The collection notably engages Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements as alliances that also call for allies beyond their bounds, which the co-editors and contributors model by crossing their varied identities, including Native, trans, straight, non-Native, feminist, Two-Spirit, mixed blood, and queer, to name just a few. Rooted in the Indigenous Americas and the Pacific, and drawing on disciplines ranging from literature to anthropology, contributors to Queer Indigenous Studies call Indigenous GLBTQ2 movements and allies to center an analysis that critiques the relationship between colonialism and heteropatriarchy. By answering critical turns in Indigenous scholarship that center Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies, contributors join in reshaping Native studies, queer studies, transgender studies, and Indigenous feminisms. Based on the reality that queer Indigenous people “experience multilayered oppression that profoundly impacts our safety, health, and survival,” this book is at once an imagining and an invitation to the reader to join in the discussion of decolonizing queer Indigenous research and theory and, by doing so, to partake in allied resistance working toward positive change.

Vampires are everywhere! They are your politicians. They are your best friends. They are the most elite and affluent, and they are the homeless. They have infiltrated every aspect of human society, and we don't even know it! For thousands upon thousands of years they have lived amongst us! Lied to and deceived by our governments, generation after generations, civilization after civilizations. Bewildered and befuddled by vampiric and magical charms, humanity remains ignorant. Our hope lies in Draco's awakening! He and his wife, Princess Phoenix, are the only ones who, can and want to save us all! Draco's Awakening is an epic vampire fantasy tale. The first novel of the nine book Draco and Phoenix saga. A story filled with all manner of mystical, magical, and mythical beings, and that isn't even the outlandish part! Vampires are real! They are not the fictional creatures society would have you believe!