A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series - epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting. In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted. Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

One man cannot take on an empire.Or rather, he can try-but it should come as no surprise when he's crushed by the vast powers arrayed against him. Caius Oppita knows this, but after what he's seen, it suits him better to go down fighting than to crawl on his hands and knees.The empire he's served faithfully since he was a boy now wants him dead, and the lover he thought he could trust has betrayed him in the worst possible way. Maybe Caius can't win the fight he's about to undertake, but he'll damn well drag the imperial family's corruption into the light of day if it kills him.And if the battle takes him to the same underbelly of the capital where his former lover fled after ripping Caius' world apart? Well, it won't be the first time this hardened general has engaged in combat on two fronts.Not all enemies are what they seem.Sometimes the course of a war can turn on the smallest thing.* * *Master of Hounds: Book 2 is the second installment in an M/M epic fantasy trilogy by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan. It is set in the world of The Eburosi Chronicles, but stands alone. The book contains adult content.Other completed series set in this world:The Complete Horse Mistress Collection (2016 Rainbow Award winner)The Complete Lion Mistress Collection (2019 Rainbow Award winner)The Complete Dragon Mistress Collection

Which is more important-loyalty to one's country, or loyalty to one's lover?Despite decades spent in service to the Alyrion Empire, Caius Oppita has betrayed both Decian and the imperial family he purports to serve, all within the space of a few weeks.With his honor already in tatters, he faces a new, unanswerable dilemma. If he allows Decian to become a figurehead for those who would see the current regime fall, the man he loves will be in unutterable danger. If he doesn't, the empire his family has served for generations will fall under the rule of either a sadistic schemer or a drunken madman.Regardless, civil war is coming.All Decian ever wanted was a quiet life of obscurity. All Caius ever wanted was to perform his duty faithfully.But what does his duty entail, when all of the options are equally terrible?* * *Master of Hounds: Book 3 is the final installment in an M/M epic fantasy trilogy by USA Today bestseller R. A. Steffan. It is set in the world of The Eburosi Chronicles, but stands alone. The book contains adult content.Other series set in this world:The Complete Horse Mistress Collection (2016 Rainbow Award winner)The Complete Lion Mistress Collection (2019 Rainbow Award winner)The Complete Dragon Mistress CollectionMistress of War (Coming in late 2022)

Between dog and human there is a special bond. A bond that must never be broken . . .Pup and his boy are inseparable. But both their worlds change forever when Pup is cruelly taken away and abandoned.With nowhere else to turn, Pup becomes a Street Dog - part of a misfit pack fighting for survival on the streets.Pup clings to the hope of one day being reunited with his boy. But as time passes, his hope shrinks. Will he ever know love like his boy's again?

A fiercely independent thinker, colorful storyteller, and spirited teacher, David Grene devoted his life to two things: farming, which he began as a boy in Ireland and continued into old age; and classics, which he taught for several decades that culminated in his translating and editing, with Richmond Lattimore, of The Complete Greek Tragedies. In this charming memoir, which he wrote during the years leading up to his death in 2002 at the age of eighty-nine, Grene weaves together these interests to tell a quirky and absorbing story of the sometimes turbulent and always interesting life he split between the University of Chicago—where he helped found the Committee on Social Thought—and the farm he kept back in Ireland. Charting the path that took him from Europe to Chicago in 1937, and encompassing his sixty-five-year career at the university, Grene’s book draws readers into the heady and invigorating climate of his time there. And it is elegantly balanced with reflections stemming from his work on the farm where he hunted, plowed and regularly traveled on horseback to bring his cows home for milking. Grene’s form and humor are quite his own, and his brilliant storytelling will enthrall anyone interested in the classics, rural Ireland, or twentieth-century intellectual history, especially as it pertains to the University of Chicago.