Dark Myths

You can't blame me for wanting it all. Godhood. The woman I loved. A family. It all seemed so simple. After all, I am the god of lies, tricks, and mischief. I am a master of illusions and my own fate, or at least I believed myself to be. My rules are simple. Lie to everyone, save yourself. But this time was different. This time I was what some call, in love. I call it madness. This is the start of my undoing. The beginning of the end, and I have no regrets. There is more to my story and I intend to tell it all. An inviting trickster. A powerful witch. A forbidden affair. In every myth there...

He was once an immortal God, now he's an awkward teenager. Things aren't going well for Apollo. There's only one way he can earn back Zeus' favour, and that's to seek and restore the ancient oracles - but that's easier said than done. Apollo must head to the American Midwest where, rumour has it, a haunted cave may hold answers. There are a few things standing in his way though. The cave could kill him, or drive him insane. Oh, and a Roman Emperor, whose love of bloodshed makes Nero look tame.

With the dream of Avalon in ruins, Tamsin and her friends are all that stands in the way of Lord Death's plans to unleash the horrors of Anwnn on the world of the living. As the Wild Hunt carves a bloody path across continents, Tamsin is mustering allies, tracking down powerful artifacts, and traversing into new otherlands in search of a way to stop him. Legend tells of a “Mirror of Beasts,” powerful enough to trap even Lord Death in its accursed glass, but the mirror is not all that it seems.

The War has begun. Old alliances must be strengthened and new ones forged. But who can you trust, when you’re still learning to trust yourself As every magic-user is hunted and The Unforgiven’s return known, Brodanna descends into chaos making Katanya Leshi’s mission behind enemy lines even more dangerous. Not only must she keep one step ahead of the enemy, but she must also fight her growing feelings for Reyn Landress. The one man an assassin should never fall for. She was forged in fire, but she can still burn. Far away from her friend Mara Lars is struggling to deal with being the ...

The assault on the city of Shadowfen has taken its toll. With so many lives lost, the people have begun to rebel while the king desperately searches for answers. How did this happen? Who is to blame for so much bloodshed? Someone must be held accountable. But while the king is doing everything he can to calm his people, barely able to hold his kingdom together by a thread, a deadly force has risen in the north. Unseen, unnoticed, it silently threatens the world of Ayrith from the shadows. Now Viola and her friends must make a choice. Do they defend the humans from this latest threat, or ...

Now a guardian in training, Maya spends her days patching up veils with her father and cleaning up near-disasters like baby wormholes that her erratic powers create. But when Maya and her friends discover that something went terribly wrong during their journey to bring her father back to the human world, they are forced to return to The Dark and restore what they left behind, the one thing keeping the veil from falling: her father’s soul.

Listen and relive exciting tales from Highlights, now on audio! Learn about a boy at a Spanish market who knocks over a stand of avocados down a hill and makes guacamole and about a jungle that is full of terror at the thought that a monster could be lurking in the shadows, along with other stories.

Deep in the wood lives a witch queen and her eight tree siren daughters. For centuries, they have harvested souls to feed the heartless tree, using its power to grow their ever reaching kingdom of ash, birch, and oak. Owen Merrick lives at the edge of the forest, mapping the stars for the king in his father’s observatory. For years, he has resisted venturing over the garden wall, until one day he must enter the woods to find his missing sister. But one of the witch’s tree siren daughters, Seren, decides to save his life instead of end it.

I’ve made it through all the levels of the Underworld, and I’m about to come up against the man who is responsible for all of this… Ares, the God of War. And I don’t know what’s going to happen. Sure, I’m a demi-goddess, but my power is nothing in comparison to Ares’. Not only that, but I’m alone on this mission. After being wounded in the fourth gate, I’ve left Adonis behind. I can only hope I have an ally in Hades, but I have a feeling the God of the Underworld is playing his own game. I can only hope I can defeat Ares, find my sister’s soul, and make it out of the ...

In book seven Xue Wei finds himself on the treacherous seas where danger lurks around every corner. Here he encounters new races, uncovers secrets, and gains a better understanding of the world. He finds new friends, but his life hangs on by a thread. After having experienced grueling dangers and reckless adventures, in book eight Xue Wei finally reaches the Demon Phoenix Continent, where the Sovereign Beasts reign supreme.

The Underworld continues to spring new surprises… after narrowly escaping Gate One of the Underworld, I find new threats and horrors facing me in Gate Two. Led by the infamous Fallen God, Ruric, Gate Two is a land of black, onyx mountain and hordes of flying demons. And Ruric is furious that Azhrea is dead, even though she was planning on wiping him out. Men, right? While I hope to defeat Ruric and move to Gate Three of the Underworld like yesterday (I am on a time crunch), I know I’m in for even more horrors. Because Gate Three of the Underworld is lorded by the fierce Kanto, the King ...

Cash Cassidy goes against her husband’s wishes and departs Wales for South America to seek El Dorado, the famed lost city of gold. When she’s pursued by authorities, robbed of a critical item, and abandoned by the smugglers who were her guides, it’s up to Cash to find her way to safety to El Dorado. Meanwhile, Cash’s husband is desperate to find her—he’ll do anything to save her from a terrible fate. Cash travels undercover on the odyssey of a lifetime through jungles, across mountains, and even across borders. After she meets a man who reveals more clues about the whereabouts ...

The Chaos lords and their servants, the necromancers, have finally moved to destroy the remnants of mankind. With the wizard, Simon O'Toole, missing and their numbers dwindling, the survivors have accepted aid from the secretive dwarves. They have retreated underground, hoping to find sanctuary from their enemies. But not all is as it appears and they may not be as welcome among the dwarven people as they were led to believe. Can the last members of the human race actually endure? Can they take on yet another enemy, this one born of treachery? Or have they finally reached the end of their ...

They carry with them the bizarre fairy tales their father gifted them, stories where celebrities are demigods, and historical figures are ice giants. Violin, desperately searching for her younger sister, goes to the only place that has ever made sense to her: home. What she discovers is long-held family secrets, and a mysterious man with a changing face who wants the truth to come out, no matter the cost.

Markas hears news about dead people with weird symbols on their bodies. He decides to investigate symbols at the library to see if he can find anything. Shortly after he starts having dreams about the people and the rituals done on them. In one of such dreams, Markas sees visions of his own dad… Markas learns more data about the killer from his visions. A police investigation is also underway. As soon as possible, Marcus wants to bring his father the artifact that he found. As the sword gets closer, he suspects the visions will last longer.This is the second book of "The Demon King’s ...

A woman forged by fire. A girl the curse has chosen. A Soldier with a secret. An ancient enemy. A world on the brink of mayhem. Welcome to Brodanna. Only magic or your skill with a blade might save you. Katanya Leshi is one of the most powerful Wielders left in the Kingdom of Brodanna. She spent her life becoming a weapon, as deadly with her magic as she is with a blade. After vowing never to return to Kara's Guild, only a debt to an old friend can bring her back and into the path of Mara Lars. Mara only ever wanted to be a story teller, she never thought she’d wind up the centre in a ...

Enter the Veil. The infamous Fae are most known for their sly ways. While tricking humans may be their specialty, they don't always show kindness toward their own kin either. The grander the scheme, the larger their boasting rights. From Sidhe, gnomes, brownies, and more, you'll always need to be on guard and vigilant. Featuring stories by Christopher Pate, Kevin A. Davis, Ben Howels, Toni Mobley, Ally Kelly, Michael A. Epanchin, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Robert Allen Lupton, Jasiah Witkofsky, J. Woolston Carr, Aaron Van Treeck, Gray Stanback, and Charles Wiegand.

Is the Gate Keeper some sort of demon? The people of this new land seem to think so. For years they have been tormented by a being with abilities eerily similar to Eric's. So how is this foreigner who washed up on their shores any different? Why should they trust him or his companions? The Gate Keeper must prove himself once again. Left with no choice, he must transform before their very eyes to show them the truth. In the eyes of the Gods and in those of the people he serves, he must be...reborn. This book is intended for mature audiences. The Legend of the Gate Keeper Series Reading Order...

David Bowles stitches together the fragmented mythology of pre–Colombian Mexico into an exciting, unified narrative in the tradition of William Buck’s Ramayana, and Robert Fagles’ Iliad.

In the moss-draped bayous of Caterwaul County, where secrets fester thicker than Spanish moss, a literary legend long presumed dead is resurrected with terrifying consequences. When a cache of Nullis Nemo Nusquama's lost manuscripts unleashes a feverish obsession in his devoted fans, fiction begins to bleed into reality. Jael Jewel, a woman wielding the South's charm like a weapon, knows the swamp's underbelly better than most. She enlists the help of N. N. Nusquama, pen name for her cousin, the volatile writer Cale, to weaponize the myth and cleanse their community of its violent ...