Battle Mage: A Tale of Alus

Mar was a thief. Not a cutpurse – or, at least, not often – but a true outlaw denizen of the rooftops. He stole from the rich, and sometimes from the not so rich, and, if truth were to be told, even from the poor if he was hungry enough.

He had grown up on the streets of Khalar, the last city of the Glorious Empire of the North, and thievery was simply the life that he had been dealt.

He took considerable pride in the fact that he was a good thief -- he still had his head.

But when an ill-advised theft went horribly wrong and the whole city rose up to crucify him, he had no choice but to flee into the Great Waste with an insane scrapper. There he spent his days, baking in the merciless sun as he dug for bits of metal in an ancient sundered city.

And then he found a door.

And, being a thief, he unlocked it.


Orphan is an epic fantasy novel of 99,180 words.

The epic fantasy series, The Key to Magic:
Volume One:
I. Orphan
II. Magician
Volume Two:
III. King
IV. Emperor
Volume Three:
V. Wizard (Forthcoming)
VI. Thief (Forthcoming)

Mar grew up an orphan on the streets of Khalar, doing whatever necessary to survive-- working, begging, stealing. When an insane scrapper led him to an ancient sundered city, he discovered a book of lost knowledge. This book and the scrapper’s eon’s long quest have led him to begin a great journey to rediscover the technology of the ancient world -- magic.

When his companions, the young witch Telriy and the enigmatic Waleck, were stolen away by the despised Brotherhood of Phaelle, Mar had to depend on weak and half-understood spells in order fight this new enemy. He has learned to perceive the magical fields that permeate all things. He has learned to manipulate magic to change the physical restrictions of his world. He has crossed a wilderness on a skyraft of his own creation. Now, seeking the lost Telriy and Waleck, he has come to Mhajhkaei, The Greatest City in All the World.

But Mhajhkaei is at war.

And it is losing.


The epic fantasy series, The Key to Magic:
Volume One:
I. Orphan
II. Magician
Volume Two:
III. King
IV. Emperor
Volume Three:
V. Wizard (Forthcoming)
VI. Thief (forthcoming)

The ancient magic of the Blood Oath has trapped Mar and made him King of the Mhajhkaeirii.

In spite of all of his efforts to change it, the fate revealed to him by the Moon Pool seems unavoidable.

Unless he can discover a stronger magic!

King is an epic fantasy novel of 97,937 words.

Novels in The Key to Magic series:
Volume One:
I. Orphan
II. Magician
Volume Two:
III. King
IV. Emperor
Volume Three:
V. Wizard (Forthcoming)
VI.Thief (Forthcoming)

Can the kingdom of Mhajhkaei survive?

Emperor is an epic fantasy novel of 90,561 words.

Novels in The Key to Magic series:
Volume One:
I. Orphan
II. Magician
Volume Two:
III. King
IV. Emperor
Volume Three:
V. Wizard (Forthcoming)
VI. Thief (Forthcoming)

The Kingdom of the Sarianne teeters on the brink. While its tyrant king plays out his petty vendettas, rebellion foments on the edges of his domain. Politics and power struggles gamble civilization on the tides of war.

Yet war is not the greatest threat to civilization. A far older enemy rises. The dragons are waking and these fiends of Chaos will swarm across the world of men, razing it to bedrock just as they have done in ages past.

But this time the world of men has a champion in Daven Carrickson. Once a beggar and still a fugitive from the king's justice, Daven is also a hero with unrivaled powers. A brush with one of the deadly dragons left him forever bonded to the beast and able to tap into the ever-shifting maelstrom of Chaos that roils beneath man's fragile reality.

It is a dangerous connection, one that threatens to consume him. Can he pay even that ultimate price if it means the salvation of humanity?

The Dragonswarm is the second book in the bestselling Dragonprince Trilogy. Approximately 110,000 words.