Dark Ages Fiction

The dead whisper. The trees remember. And the boy with the cursed blade walks deeper into darkness. Wielding Lightbearer was meant to give Erikson Gray strength. Instead, it shackled him to blood and memory. The blade’s voice grows louder, feeding on doubt, pulling him toward the Sacred Grove—a forgotten land where the veil between life and death wears thin, and the roots run red with secrets. But what waits beneath the boughs is not salvation. As the past claws its way to the surface, Erik finds only betrayal, buried truths, and the shadow of what he is becoming. Friends blur into foes...

Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was 10, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is 17, he meets a dog named Radar and his aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it.

Alex Sonnum is the son of Death. On Alex's 18th birthday, he will take over the role from his father. With this destiny comes world-altering responsibility, as well as lifelong loneliness. This is a price Alex is willing to pay—until he meets Nia Solomon. Alex has spent his life avoiding connection. But from the moment he meets Nia, a talented, troubled young woman, Alex's heart opens up in ways that are terrifying and exhilarating. As Alex allows himself to feel for the first time, he also helps Nia see a light amid her own darkness.

Maksim Smolov wasn't the monster I was running from. He's the devil I found. Those deep brown eyes didn't even blink. One minute, I'm being chased down a dark alleyway by the nastiest demons from my past; the next, they're begging for mercy from a man in an expensive suit. If I had known my savior was the most feared mafia boss in New York, I might not have repaid his kindness with a kiss—a kiss that led to the hottest night of my life—but I did, and that was that.

To survive, Connor Magnuson must become a man with no equal. The path ahead is a deadly one. His end of the bargains he made to get this far have come due, and his debts take him back to a homeland he's been trying to forget. Kirkwall is an island of ancient secrets, and the magic in its soil will topple empires if he doesn't get to it first. His legend has begun to spread through the pubs, and others begin taking credit. Imposters pop up along the coast, and they threaten to undermine everything he has worked for.

Kieran's love life didn't get off to a good start. He threw up after his first kiss; he was beaten up by the first girl to have a crush on him; and after a mix-up with his first love letter, he could only sit back and watch as the entire school mistook him for a brutal murderer. By the time the hormones kicked in, Kieran had all but given up on love, but the worst was yet to come.

To wield a perfect blade… …one must become the weapon. Soren survived initiation, but apprenticeship demands more. Much more. With each vial of blood and tears, the sculptor's apprentice is carved away. The Guild's shadow stretches across cities, across his past. Somewhere in that darkness lie answers. About his father. About the path that led him here. But seeking truth means risking everything. Blade of Sorrows is a dark fantasy of transformation, loyalty, and the price of vengeance. The line between hunter and hunted blurs here. Get your copy.

It was decreed from the moment she was born. Twenty-three-year-old Reality Kahn would embark on a quest so great, so bold. She would become the greatest girlfriend of all time. She would be a zine maker, an aspiring notary, the greatest waterslide commercial actress on the Eastern Seaboard. She would receive messages from the beyond in the form of advice from the esteemed and ancient ladies magazine, Girlfriend Weekly. When she attends a party in Gowanus at a punk venue known as “Paradise,” Reality meets Ariel, who will become her boyfriend.

The Veil descends with monsters in its wake, swallowing the world in wolves and white. Starvation and the promise of monsters threaten humanity as the Veil grows, heralding eternal winter, and if Faron does nothing everyone will die. Armed with secrets to forever change the world, Faron must choose between abandoning humanity to certain extinction, or slaughtering thousands of innocents and subjugating all who remain to save them. Harrowed by the truth of his family and the weight of nations, Faron must become the thing he hates most if there’s any chance of saving humanity from the ...

A malevolent threat looms over the once great city of Excelsis. For as long as the treacherous Ortam Vermyre lives, civilisation is no longer safe within the Realm of Beasts. Witch Hunter Hanniver Toll must brave the deadly seas and jungles of the Taloncoast to stop Vermyre before he can reach the legendary lost city of Xoantica. For within this forgotten ruin lies an artefact of darkest sorcery that possesses the power to reshape reality itself: the Silver Shard.

Under the rule of a usurper king, the realm of Skala has suffered famine, plague, and invasion. But now the time for the rightful heir has come, a return to the tradition of warrior queens. And the Lightbearer's prophecy is to be upheld at last: so long as a daughter of the royal line defends and rules, Skala will never be subjugated. Now a mystical fire has burned away the male body known as Prince Tobin, revealing Princess Tamír, a girl on the verge of womanhood - and a queen ready to claim her birthright.

Ethan shouldn’t exist. Not in Agartha, or anywhere. In Agartha, people belong to six nations according to the color of their aura, each with their own abilities derived from their souls. Fourteen-year-old Ethan has a green aura. There is a significant problem with that. The Dragon Lady wiped the Green aura nation twenty years ago. Only one person knows the answer to Ethan’s mystery, The Chronicler of Agartha, but to reach him, Ethan has to travel thousands of miles in dangerous lands, infested with mythical and magical predators. Can he persevere or will he die alone? And if he ...

Remy and Alicia, a couple of insecure service workers, are not particularly happy together. But they are bound by a shared obsession with Jen, a beautiful former coworker of Remy’s who now seems to be following her bliss as a globe-trotting jewelry designer. In and outside the bedroom, Remy and Alicia's entire relationship revolves around fantasies of Jen, whose every Instagram caption, outfit, and new age mantra they know by heart. Imagine their confused excitement when they run into Jen, in the flesh, and she invites them on a surfing trip to the Hamptons.

Natalia Mazzone has grown up knowing she is promised to a made man. As the only daughter of one of New York’s most powerful mafia dons, she knows she can’t refuse. It’s her duty, and she would never dishonor her beloved father. But the man she’s promised to is a monster. And there is nothing but torture, pain, and heartache lying in wait. So, she grabs happiness when she finds it - in the somewhat reluctant arms of Leonardo Messina. Leo is her brother’s best friend. A soldato for the Mazzone famiglia.

Some men kill for coin, others for glory, but Faron is worse. Pressured by the ever-present threat of his criminal lord, Faron kills for a few weeks more to live--a blood price to keep him alive a little longer--but the longer he lives… the less he wants to. In the depths of his struggle against his death wish, Faron finds the one thing more dangerous than the darkness of his guilt: hope. Whispers of his sister and the truth surrounding her death threaten to topple Faron's balance of survival because after everything that's happened--the fire, the white-haired man, and the wolves--there's...

Late one evening, en route to visit a relative, an accident leaves Tory - the attractive, twenty-something daughter of a prominent history professor – stranded near a ring of stones in Britain. Tory resolves to spend the night at the stone circle and seek help in the morning... But across the vortex of time and space, she is taken back to the Dark Age.

Paragons of the Stormcast Eternals, the Hammers of Sigmar take stern pride in their motto: first to be forged, never to fail. But when rumours reach Hammerhal of an old foe rising in the wastelands of the Great Parch, three of these warriors will be tested to their limits – and grapple with their roles as members of this warrior elite. Ferant Tidebreaker, a recently forged Liberator, struggles with his sense of unworthiness as he is assigned to the Hammerhands.

Niger, West Africa, 2074. When fifteen-year old Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, her world shatters. In a time of mind-blowing technology and seductive mysticism, Ejii embarks on a journey to track down her father's killer. With a newfound friend by her side, Ejii comes face to face with an earth turned inside out—and with her own mystical ability. And then she discovers that her travels across the sands of the Sahara have a deeper purpose.

I was meant for more than teaching psychology at Blackmore University. I am the second son of the family's consigliere. They married me to a widow who quickly passed. My inheritance—her daughter. I admit that I have looked favorably upon her over the years. I admit that intentions have been less than noble. Now, she's at Blackmore. Away from the family's watchful eyes. Away from her uncles who see right through me. Away from everything that keeps us apart

One man. Two names. Two personalities. One captivates, the other terrifies. Under the pretense of love, he used me, searching for secrets I didn't know I had. Cuddles, kisses, and whispered sweet nothings lulled me into a false sense of security that shattered with a single flashback. Running from the threat I now know he is, I fall straight into a nightmare… and the darkness reveals the truths. I’m not the center of Nash’s world. I’m a piece in Carter’s game.