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Season of Storms
Andrzej Sapkowski
7.8

Geralt of Rivia. A witcher whose mission is to protect ordinary people from the monsters created with magic. A mutant who has the task of killing unnatural beings. He uses a m...

The Unbound Empire
Melissa Caruso
9.2

While winter snows keep the Witch Lord Ruven's invading armies at bay, Lady Amalia Cornaro and the fire warlock Zaira attempt to change the fate of mages in the Raverran E...

Master of Sorrows
Justin Call
9.0

You have heard the story before - of a young boy, orphaned through tragic circumstances, raised by a wise old man, who comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it to ...

Dawn of the Exile
Mitchell Hogan
9.1

For the damned, redemption may be just a mad dream…Years have passed since the demon Tarrik and his master, the sorcerer Ren, destroyed the servants of Samal and suppre...

Candide
Voltaire
9.0

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all ...

Battle Spire
Michael R Miller
8.9

Jack Kross only wanted to play the game. Now he’s fighting for his life. When a mysterious hacker takes control of Hundred Kingdoms, Jack is trapped inside the fant...

Tales From Ashen Falls
Paul S Lavender
6.5

Monsters are on the rise and Gods walk the streets of Ashen Falls in four stories that serve as a prelude to The Eighth God. Melress and The Fading ManA young half-elven ...

Casino Royale
Ian Fleming
8.3

‘Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles’In Casino Royale, the first of Fleming’s 007 adventure...

The Sign of Four
Arthur Conan Doyle
8.0

'You are a wronged woman and shall have justice. Do not bring police. If you do, all will be in vain. Your unknown friend.'When a beautiful young woman is sent a lette...

The Lost World
Arthur Conan Doyle
9.2

It's London, 1907. Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because he is too prosaic, decides to go in search of adventure and fame to prove himself worth...

Kellanved's Reach
Ian C Esslemont
8.5

The incessant war between the bickering city states of Quon Tali rages. So engrossed are the warring lords and princes in their own petty feuds that few notice that an upstart...

Never Die
Rob J Hayes
8.7

Ein is on a mission from God. A God of Death.Time is up for the Emperor of Ten Kings and it falls to a murdered eight year old boy to render the judgement of a God. Ein knows ...

The Tower of the Swallow
Andrzej Sapkowski
8.8

The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the...

The Ruin of Kings
Jenn Lyons
8.6

There are the old stories. And then there’s what actually happens.Kihrin is a bastard orphan who grew upon storybook tales of long-lost princes and grand quests. When he...

The Gutter Prayer
Gareth Hanrahan
8.6

A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy.The city has ...

Baptism of Fire
Andrzej Sapkowski
9.5

The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those...

Bound
Mark Lawrence
8.0

This is a 16,000 word short story, primarily featuring Nona, Ara, Kettle, Regol. It should be read between Grey Sister and Holy Sister....

Time of Contempt
Andrzej Sapkowski
8.0

Geralt the Witcher has fought monsters and demons across the land, but even he may not be prepared for what is happening to his world. The kings and armies are maneuvering for...

Behind the Vale
Brian D Anderson
8.0

Thousands of years after the war of the ancients, a single bastion of human life survives - The Vale. And at its core the magnificent city of Troi. Here the mana flows from th...

The Hod King
Josiah Bancroft
9.6

Thomas Senlin and his crew of outcasts have been separated, and now they must face the dangers of the labyrinthine tower on their own in this third book in the word-of-mouth p...

Many Are The Dead
Anthony Ryan
8.2

For decades the brothers of the Sixth Order have fought a savage war against the Lonak clans amidst the frozen peaks of their Dominion. When word reaches the north of a f...

Sword of Destiny
Andrzej Sapkowski
7.8

Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordi...

Drake
Peter McLean
7.8

Hitman Don Drake owes a gambling debt to a demon. Forced to carry out one more assassination to clear his debt, Don unwittingly kills an innocent child and brings the Furies o...

Rosewater
Tade Thompson
9.0

Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless—...

The Second Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach
Steven Erikson
7.0

The necromancers Bauchelain and Korbal Broach - scourges of civilization, raisers of the dead, reapers of the souls of the living, devourers of hope, betrayers of faith, slaye...

Snapshot
Brandon Sanderson
6.5

Snapshot is a Science Fiction detective story following Anthony Davis, a cop assigned to Snapshot Duty. In this vivid world that author Brandon Sanderson has built, society ca...

One Word Kill
Mark Lawrence
9.2

In January 1986, fifteen-year-old boy-genius Nick Hayes discovers he’s dying. And it isn’t even the strangest thing to happen to him that week.Nick and his Dungeon...

The Sisters of the Winter Wood
Rena Rossner
8.0

Captivating and boldly imaginative, with a tale of sisterhood at its heart, Rena Rossner's debut fantasy invites you to enter a world filled with magic, folklore, and the ...

Shadow of the Exile
Mitchell Hogan
8.5

Outcast and exiled, the demon Tarrik Nal-Valim has long been forgotten by the world of humans. At least, so he thinks.But when he is summoned as a last resort by a desperate s...

Empire of Sand
Tasha Suri
8.2

The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daug...

Bloody Rose
Nicholas Eames
9.3

Live fast, die young.Tam Hashford is tired of working at her local pub, slinging drinks for world-famous mercenaries and listening to the bards sing of adventure and glory in ...

The Boy Who Said Nothing
Mirsad Solakovic
8.0

The Bosnian War raged from 1992 to 1995.During the conflict, over 300,000 Bosniak civilians were executed during a mass ethnic cleansing that was described as the worst war at...

King of Assassins
RJ Barker
9.7

THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING . . .Many years of peace have passed in Maniyadoc, years of relative calm for the assassin Girton Club-Foot. Even the Forgetting Plague, w...

City of Kings
Rob J Hayes
8.7

War makes monsters and corpses of us all. For generations the blooded have ruled the Wilds, cultivating a lawless frontier and bleeding the good folk dry. The Black Thorn...

The Deathless
Peter Newman
8.8

From one of fantasy’s biggest recent breakthrough authors comes an exciting, brand new series.The demonsIn the endless forests of the Wild, humanity scratches a living b...

Death March
Phil Tucker
8.4

I sacrificed everything for my family. It wasn't enough. I lost my mother, and now I'm about to lose my brother.I've got only one thing left to gamble: my life. Wh...

The Poppy War
R F Kuang
9.4

When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn...

FALL
JP Ashman
8.0

She survived the mission, the drop; the fall.But what now? What can she do when the very thing that produced her new name left her scarred in far more ways than one?Fight on, ...

The Defiant Heir
Melissa Caruso
8.8

Across the border, the Witch Lords of Vaskandar are preparing for war. But before an invasion can begin, they must call a rare gathering of all seventeen lords to decide a cou...

The Way Into Chaos
Harry Connolly
7.5

The Great Way is an epic fantasy trilogy about a supernatural invasion that destroys an empire.The city of Peradain is the heart of an empire built with steel, spears, and a m...

Grey Sister
Mark Lawrence
9.5

In Mystic Class Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder. Before she leaves the Convent of Swee...

The Grey Bastards
Jonathan French
9.0

LIVE IN THE SADDLE. DIE ON THE HOG. Such is the creed of the half-orcs dwelling in the Lot Lands. Sworn to hardened brotherhoods known as hoofs, these former slaves patro...

Priest of Bones
Peter McLean
8.7

'Sixty-five thousand battle-shocked, trained killers came home to no jobs, no food and the plague. What did Her Majesty think was going to happen?'Tomas Piety takes hi...

King of Ashes
Raymond E Feist
6.1

The world of Garn once boasted five great kingdoms, until the King of Ithrace was defeated and every member of his family executed by Lodavico, the ruthless King of Sandura, a...

Jack Bloodfist: Fixer
James Jakins
6.5

Jack Bloodfist fixes things. That's what his card says, anyway. When the orcs and goblins of Summervale, Virginia need something done they call Jack. He's the one who ...

Arm of the Sphinx
Josiah Bancroft
9.0

Forced by necessity into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew struggle to survive aboard their stolen airship as the hunt for his lost wife continues. But the Tower ...

Art of War: Anthology for Charity
Petros Triantafyllou
8.5

"War, my friend, is a thing of beauty." How do you get forty fantasy authors to contribute short stories for a war-themed anthology without paying them? It soun...

An Echo of Things to Come
James Islington
8.0

In the wake of the devastating attack on Ilin Illan, an amnesty has been declared for all Augurs - finally allowing them to emerge from hiding and openly oppose the dark force...

The Shadow of What Was Lost
James Islington
8.5

It has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. Now, those who once served them - the Gifted - are spared only because they have accepted the re...

Blood of Assassins
RJ Barker
8.5

THE KING IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE KING... The assassin Girton Club-foot and his master have returned to Maniyadoc in hope of finding sanctuary, but death, as always, dogs Girton...

Sufficiently Advanced Magic
Andrew Rowe
8.0

Five years ago, Corin Cadence’s brother entered the Serpent Spire — a colossal tower with ever-shifting rooms, traps, and monsters. Those who survive the spire&rsq...

Blackfish City
Sam J Miller
7.5

After the climate wars, a floating city was constructed in the Arctic Circle. Once a remarkable feat of mechanical and social engineering, it has started to crumble under the ...

Jade City
Fonda Lee
8.0

Jade is the lifeblood of the city of Janloon - a stone that enhances a warrior's natural strength and speed. Jade is mined, traded, stolen and killed for, controlled by th...

Mage Slave
RK Thorne
7.0

A warrior prince, a talented spy. A quest to free an enslaved people begins.Crown Prince Aven Lanuken wants something more than a trophy for a future wife. He wants a woman wh...

Paternus: Rise of Gods
Dyrk Ashton
8.0

Even myths have legends. And not all legends are myth. When a local hospital is attacked by strange and frightening men, Fiona Patterson and Zeke Prisco save a catatonic old m...

The Fifth Empire of Man
Rob J Hayes
9.2

The Pirate Isles are united under Drake Morrass’ flag, but the war has only just begun. There’s still a long way to go before he’s able to call himself King,...

Deadhouse Landing
Ian C Esslemont
8.6

After the disappointments of Li Heng, Dancer and Kellanved wash up on a small insignificant island named Malaz. Immediately, of course, Kellanved plans to take it over. To do ...

Cage of Deceit
Jennifer Anne Davis
7.5

Sixteen-year-old Allyssa appears to be the ideal princess of Emperion—she’s beautiful, elegant, and refined. She spends her days locked in a suffocating cage, othe...

Faithless
Graham Austin King
8.7

The temples of the Forgefather have fallen. The clerics and defenders that could once be found across the nine lands are no more. Priests huddle in the great temple, clinging ...

Those Brave, Foolish Souls from the City of Swords
Benedict Patrick
8.0

Don't draw your blade in the City of Swords, unless you're willing to kill... or ready to die. Young and filled with idealistic fervor, Arturo packs his blade and trav...

Weaver's Lament
Emma Newman
6.5

Charlotte is learning to control her emerging magical powers under the secret tutelage of Magus Hopkins. Her first covert mission takes her to a textile mill where the disgrun...

The Tethered Mage
Melissa Caruso
8.3

In the Raverran Empire, magic is scarce and those born with power are strictly controlled - taken as children and conscripted into the Falcon Army. Zaira has lived her life on...

A Time of Dread
John Gwynne
9.0

The Ben-Elim, a race of warrior angels, once vanquished a mighty demon horde. Now they rule the Banished lands. But their dominion is brutally enforced and their ancient enemy...

Where Loyalties Lie
Rob J Hayes
8.5

Everybody knows Captain Drake Morass is only out for himself. As the fires of a dying city burn on a distant shore, Drake sees an opportunity to unite the other pirate Captain...

The Story of Tomkin and the Dragon
JA Andrews
7.5

Tomkin Thornhewn, youngest son of the Duke of Marshwell, has a problem: he’s not heroic. Regardless of his aspirations, the bookish, untrained young man is better suited...

The Shadow Crucible
TM Lakomy
8.5

Taking humanity back to their primordial beliefs and fears, Estella confronts Mikhail’s faith by revealing the true horror of the lucrative trade in human souls. All org...

Winter's Reach
Craig Schaefer
8.0

Pope Benignus is dying, and the man who takes his throne will hold the reins of an empire. Conspiracies swirl like shadows around Livia, the pope's daughter, who refuses t...

Senlin Ascends
Josiah Bancroft
9.0

While honeymooning in the Tower of Babel, Thomas Senlin loses his wife, Marya. The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel of the Silk Age. Immense as a mountain, the ancient To...

The Court of Broken Knives
Anna Smith Spark
8.9

They’ve finally looked at the graveyard of our Empire with open eyes. They’re fools and madmen and like the art of war. And their children go hungry while we piss ...

Darien
CF Iggulden
8.0

Twelve Families. One Throne. Welcome to the Empire of Salt. The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts,...

River of Teeth
Sarah Gailey
6.0

In the early 20th Century, the United States government concocted a plan to import hippopotamuses into the marshlands of Louisiana to be bred and slaughtered as an alternative...

Age of Assassins
RJ Barker
8.5

Girton Club-Foot, apprentice to the land's best assassin, still has much to learn about the art of taking lives. But their latest mission tasks him and his master with a f...

Ghosts of Tomorrow
Michael R Fletcher
8.4

The children are the future. And someone is turning them into highly trained killing machines. Straight out of school, Griffin, a junior Investigations agent for the North Ame...

Godblind
Anna Stephens
8.8

There was a time when the Red Gods ruled the land. The Dark Lady and her horde dealt in death and blood and fire. That time has long since passed and the neighbouring kingdoms...

Kings of the Wyld
Nicholas Eames
8.7

GLORY NEVER GETS OLD. Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best, the most feared and renowned crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. Their glory days lo...

Danse Macabre
Laura M Hughes
7.0

The dead beckon and the little girl obeys. Night after night she answers the graveyard’s call, though she dreads her encounters with the creature that dwells there. But ...

Blackwing
Ed McDonald
9.1

The republic faces annihilation, despite the vigilance of Galharrow's Blackwings. When a raven tattoo rips itself from his arm to deliver a desperate message, Galharrow an...

Cold Counsel
Chris Sharp
7.0

Slud of the Blood Claw Clan, Bringer of Troubles, was born at the heart of the worst storm the mountain had ever seen. Slud's father, chief of the clan, was changed by his...

Brother's Ruin
Emma Newman
7.0

The year is 1850 and Great Britain is flourishing, thanks to the Royal Society of the Esoteric Arts. When a new mage is discovered, Royal Society elites descend like buzzards ...

Inheritance
Adrian G Hilder
7.0

A king obsessed with conquest, armies, magic, and monsters powered by the souls of the dead – the legendary General of Valendo defended his kingdom from them all and tau...

Red Sister
Mark Lawrence
9.5

At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sw...

Strungballs
Mike Russell
6.0

What are Strungballs? Ten-year-old Sydney is about to find out... but first he must have a cube of his flesh removed. Sydney will transgress everything he was taught to believ...

Skullsworn
Brian Staveley
8.4

Pyrre Lakatur doesn’t like the word skullsworn. It fails to capture the faith and grace, the peace and beauty of her devotion to the God of Death. She is not, to her min...

Wrath
John Gwynne
9.8

Events are coming to a climax in the Banished Lands, as the war reaches new heights. King Nathair has taken control of the fortress at Drassil and three of the Seven Treasures...

Ruin
John Gwynne
9.6

The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered the west and High King Nathair has the cauldron, most powerful of the seven treasures. A...

The Eyes of the Dragon
Stephen King
8.1

While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is im...

The Red Heir
Holden R Johnson
6.7

Long ago, when the Essence of magic gave Elemor its power, the world saw prosperity, ingenuity, and wonder. Peace can only last so long, however. The darkness always seems to ...

Valour
John Gwynne
9.0

The Banished Lands are torn by war as the army of High King Nathair sweeps the realm challenging all who oppose his holy crusade. Allied with the manipulative Queen Rhin of Ca...

Gilded Cage
Vic James
9.2

A modern Britain. An age-old cruelty. Britain's magically skilled aristocracy compels all commoners to serve them for ten years - and now it's the Hadleys' turn. A...

Stranger of Tempest
Tom Lloyd
8.0

Lynx is a mercenary with a sense of honour; a dying breed in the Riven Kingdom. Failed by the nation he served and weary of the skirmishes that plague the continent's prin...

The Wheel of Osheim
Mark Lawrence
9.9

All the horrors of Hell stand between Snorri Ver Snagason and the rescue of his family, if indeed the dead can be rescued. For Jalan Kendeth getting back out alive and with Lo...

The Liar's Key
Mark Lawrence
9.5

The Red Queen has set her players on the board… Winter is keeping Prince Jalan Kendeth far from the luxuries of his southern palace. And although the North may be home ...

Half a War
Joe Abercrombie
8.2

WORDS ARE WEAPONS. Princess Skara has seen all she loved made blood and ashes. She is left with only words. But the right words can be as deadly as any blade. She must conquer...

Prince of Fools
Mark Lawrence
9.4

The Red Queen is old but the kings of the Broken Empire fear her as they fear no other. Her grandson Jalan Kendeth is a coward, a cheat and a womaniser; and tenth in line to t...

Malice
John Gwynne
7.6

Young Corban watches enviously as boys become warriors, learning the art of war. He yearns to wield his sword and spear to protect his king’s realm. But that day will co...

Blood Of Elves
Andrzej Sapkowski
8.3

For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changes, and now the races once again fight each other - and t...

Lord of the Silver Bow
David Gemmell
8.5

Three lives will change the destiny of nations. Helikaon, the young prince of Dardania, haunted by a scarred and traumatic childhood. The priestess Andromache, whose fiery spi...

Before They Are Hanged
Joe Abercrombie
8.9

Bitter and merciless war is coming to the frozen north. It's bloody and dangerous and the Union army, split by politics and hamstrung by incompetence, is utterly unprepare...

The Blade Itself
Joe Abercrombie
8.5

Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - ...