To save the life of his student, he must face the god of revenge… When the student of a protective duelist foils a revenge plot and incurs the wrath of a deranged god of justice, can the duelist shield her from the god’s harsh judgment? Explore the dark realm of one of Cirena's not-so-pleasant gods... Read The Cursed Halls of Kalecen today! ~ Each of these Legends of Cirena stories can be read stand-alone: ~ * The Wind Mage of Maijev (Livena) * The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear (Nuaka) * The Restless Sands of Neel (Ro'nor) * The Cursed Halls of Kalecen (Hahven) * The Scars of Her Past (Alia) * The Dragons of the Mist (Zynia) ~ Crossovers (It will help to have read the previous stories involving the featured characters): ~ * The Wind Mage and the Wolf - Features Livena (The Wind Mage of Maijev) and Nuaka (The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear) * The Trial of Bells and Blood - Features Hahven (The Cursed Halls of Kalecen) and Alia (The Scars of Her Past) KEYWORDS: fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy novella, mystical creatures, mythical creatures, unicorn, mages, magical quest, magical journey, fantasy mage adventure, fantasy vigilante, fantasy monsters, gods and goddesses, monsters, pantheon, fantasy deities, fantasy duelist, mission, journey, sword and sorcery

A deranged god of justice, a duelist who reluctantly serves him, and an ex-soldier turned merchant who dares fight back. To protect an innocent student from a vengeful god, Hahven took their place in being judged. He expected to die in the resulting duel, not be chosen as the god's newest champion. Now he's forced to serve the god's crooked sense of justice or risk negating the deal to protect his student. He dreads what his god might eventually ask of him. The god cursed him with a chesnathé horn that intrudes on his thoughts with the desire to kill those he deems guilty, or grant immortality to those he finds worthy. Elsewhere in Cirena, Alia is burdened by a mistake she hasn't forgiven herself for, despite her determination to forget her past as a soldier and make the most of her new life as a merchant. She's about to set out on her own when an old enemy makes a plea to the god of justice to destroy her for her past crimes. Intrigued, the god sends Hahven to convince Alia to serve him instead. If Hahven succeeds, he'll be permitted to live a human lifetime before being called again to his god's service. But then Alia would be trapped for eternity with the god, the same as him. Luckily for Hahven, the decision isn't his. Alia must willingly make the pledge. And the choice she makes will test Hahven's increasingly irritable horn, and force Alia to reconsider whether or not she's really done protecting the innocent from those who mean harm. Preorder The Trial of Bells and Blood today! ~ Each of these Legends of Cirena stories can be read stand-alone: ~ * The Wind Mage of Maijev (Livena) * The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear (Nuaka) * The Restless Sands of Neel (Ro'nor) * The Cursed Halls of Kalecen (Hahven) * The Scars of Her Past (Alia) * The Dragons of the Mist (Zynia) ~ Crossovers (It will help to have read the previous stories involving the featured characters): ~ * The Wind Mage and the Wolf - Features Livena (The Wind Mage of Maijev) and Nuaka (The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear) * The Trial of Bells and Blood - Features Hahven (The Cursed Halls of Kalecen) and Alia (The Scars of Her Past) KEYWORDS: fantasy, epic fantasy, fantasy novella, mages, magical quest, magical journey, fantasy mage adventure, fantasy vigilante, gods and goddesses, pantheon, fantasy deities, mission, journey, sword and sorcery, magic hunted, mage hunted, fantasy deities, fantasy merchant, mage hunter assassin, unknown magic, mystical creatures, mythical creatures, unicorn, fantasy monsters,monsters, fantasy duelist

We return to the story or Pern, the Arch-Mage, and Jack as they try to find their way back home. But the journey is fraught with peril and they soon discover that it is a long way home. Sinister agents still hunt for them and the people who survived the war have rebelled against all things magic. Albert and Derek also try to find their way home, and their adventures are nearly as difficult as Pern's. But they finally meet up with the young mages at the giant evil forest that seems to be taking over the Southland. It is the final barrier between them and their beloved homes.

James Lyles has written an absorbing memoir of his life, beginning as an impoverished child in Depression-era Arkansas and eventually becoming a highly educated and well-traveled religious leader of a major Protestant denomination. His story spans the most important era of African American advancement in the post-slavery period. He was an eyewitness as well as a participant in that half-century of the black liberation struggle... Growing up in rural Arkansas in the midst of the Great Depression, he describes an early life reminiscent of Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road of the 1930s and '40s. The account could serve as a documented history of African American life during that time. His narrative is written also against the backdrop of some of the most memorable civil rights incidents, such as the Little Rock High School integration riots and the killing of Emmett Till. Also, he relates in telling detail the little-reported story of the racial integration of Perkins School of Theology on the campus of Southern Methodist University--an event in which he was a participant. As an ordained clergyman, his adventures and misadventures, took him to small towns, large cities, college campuses, the armed forces, a foreign mission bureaucracy, and the continent of Africa, all of which he relates with remarkable candor. Jim Lyles's exciting memoir illustrates how many splendored a life of faith can be.