The Chemical Mage Chapter 3

  • The Chemical Mage Chapter 3

    Meg cleared the outbuildings one by one. She wasn’t a farm girl. Grew up in Tokyo, thinking that produce grew on supermarket shelves. She didn’t know what all these sheds and barns were for. What they had become was abattoirs. Ghosts lay everywhere, cut down by rifle or machine-gun fire. It didn’t help that they…

  • The Chemical Mage Chapter 2

    The medevac request had come from a settlement called Drumlin Farm. Colm called the local artillery command post, located in a former mountaineering base camp on the island’s central peak, and asked them to lay off shelling the area until he got in and out. Just a professional courtesy. They said sure, we’re out of…

  • The Chemical Mage Chapter 1

    Beep. Beep. Beeeeep. The duty officer on the flight deck of the Unsinkable, an FTL-capable supercarrier, took the call. “Sorry, Sarge, we cannot launch a routine medevac after dark. Call back at first light.” Colm Mackenzie, having opened one eye without being fully aware of it, went back to sleep. Curled on a storage chest…

  • A Rosary for Our Lady of the Magma

      Modester used to be a monk of Our Lady of the Magma monastery. Now he’s a prisoner of war. When his captors order him to use his gift of dowsing to find new islands during a sea voyage, Modester must decide how much he’s willing to pay for revenge. A ROSARY FOR OUR LADY…

  • The Knight of Craps

      A less-than-honorable knight, Aenghel fights in tournaments by day and runs a floating craps game by night.Danger strikes when the gunfathers of his violent homeland demand protection money—and he can’t pay. With his neck on the line, Aenghel rolls the dice in the biggest gamble of his life. Set in Nairn, the gritty universe…

  • The Battle for Tongg Place

      When you’re losing, you have to fight dirty. In a world of sorcery, serfdom, and puissant saints, university student Miek van den Tongg faces long odds in his struggle to restore his family’s fortunes. More than the future of House van den Tongg hangs in the balance when Miek devises a radical plan that…

  • Mercy

      Rab lives to loot, steal, and spend his ill-gotten gains. With Emylon under siege by rebels and plagued by chimeras, life is good… until a chimera slays Rab’s beloved younger brother. Now Rab and his friends ache for revenge. But first they must unravel the mystery of the strange gem found in Rab’s brother’s…

  • Vanishing Point

      Art Rateniver, struggling solicitor, needs work. When a wruin hires him to track down a runaway slave, Art must choose between his principles and his pocket. No contest. But the case takes a dangerous twist when Art’s employer saddles him with a new partner who holds a skewed view of the law. A Wruinworld…

  • The Unburied

      The harder you work, the sooner you die. As children, the three slaves Tirois, Han, and Sient made a secret pact to defy their bloodthirsty wruin masters. When Sient perishes, Tirois and Han have just one dream left: to bury him, according to their people’s tradition… even if it means rebelling against the wruin.…