J.W. Elliot

The magic knows. It feels. And it is searching for him. For 2,000 years, the Order of the Varaná has nurtured and protected the Anarwyn, a sentient magic that has developed a symbiotic relationship with humans. The Order has kept the land free of the ageless evil called the Bragamahr that...

Beware the sandstorm that conceals the scorpion… A year has passed since Mara helped destroy the Order of the Rook. And yet, rumors persist of those who would reestablish the Order. Mara, once an assassin, has now become an assassin hunter. When news of a mysterious and zealous sect arising in...

Hunted by the Bragamahr and distrusted by the Anarwyn, Cam must find his way through a land haunted by a tragic past. The memory of the dead pursues him as he finds himself drawn ever more powerfully to the Bragamahr....

Do you fear the shadows? Brune, a 17-year-old fisherman living in an ethnic labor camp called a pod, receives memories from inanimate objects. When he is touched by the Light and his dangerous power is revealed, he is forced to flee for his life, pursued by the Pod Authorities and the Shaetán...

Kell Crawford lives alone with his mother, who has a bizarre fascination with light. When she is murdered by a mysterious stranger, Kell goes on the run to escape the murderer and find the father who abandoned him as a baby....

The magic is broken. Cam is trapped between the need to secure his throne, his commitment to support King Gareth as he resists a massive invasion, and the renewed threat from the magic he fought to protect. Nature itself is being torn apart as two rival magics wrestle for control.

Something was waking. Something terrible. Something that knew she had come. Born of a magical bloodline, Kiera is summoned to perform an impossible task. Her people have been exiled from the lands of Anwyn and have become wanderers on the sea, living in ships with no land to call their own.

Great kings aren’t born. They’re made. Forged in the fires of adversity. The Anarwyn is frightened. The Bragamahr is ascendant. When Cam, now king of the West Mark, marches out to face Bardon’s armies, he knows that no victory on the battlefield can defeat the power rising in Anwyn.

Brion never meant to start a war. But when they murdered his parents and enslaved his sister and his sweetheart, they left him no choice. Brion of Wexford is the son of a crippled trapper living a quiet life on the edge of the vast and unruly heathland. But when Salassani raiders destroy...

Kell Crawford is faced with the murder of his friend and the return of the evil that once stalked him. When Brune and Rhianna discover ancient blood sacrifices are being performed and the King succumbs to the evil, Kell must act. Win or lose, the final battle can only have one outcome....

To defy the Order of the Rook is to dance upon the edge of a knife. The secretive Order of the Rook bursts from the shadows, sweeping over the land, assassinating royal families, and seizing control of armies and cities. Those who dare resist are hunted to extinction. Now Brion races to save...

The heathland is in turmoil. In these four original stories from the heathland, you’ll meet new characters in the ongoing chronicles of the heathland and discover their personal sagas of loss and failure, of loyalty and triumph, born in the struggle for the heart and soul of the heathland. In...

Everyone has a score to settle as the battle for the heathland begins. While Brion has discovered his true identity and survived the plots to kill him, his Carpentini mother he thought long dead has been driven into hiding and Brion and Finola venture into the heathland to find her. When they...

The knowledge of the ancients is burning. The Chosen are dying, and Jerome is the only one who can stop the destruction. He must harness a terrible new power and survive the wrath of the Keepers, who are murdering the people they have sworn to protect.

One crack and the walls will shatter. When you’re the new white kid in an Oklahoma town hemorrhaging with racial and class divisions, accidentally taking the wallet from a dead black man isn’t a simple matter for the police. James embarks on a tortuous journey to navigate tensions in the...

Redmond knows three things about the woman who has imprisoned his archers: She is beautiful. She is cunning. And she cares nothing for their lives....

A rogue Duke, a beautiful woman, and a deadly mission. Weyland, the best archer in the king’s army, wants revenge for the slaughter of his family....

When you’re a renegade in a foreign land, every stranger could be an enemy, every breath could be your last. Brion is trapped in a hopeless search for his mentor and friend Redmond, who has disappeared in a kingdom on the brink of civil war. When he falls afoul of the regent Lady Adelaide...

Is a kingdom worth the lives of those you love? Brion of Wexford is drawn into the war he helped to create, but never wanted to fight. When he seeks to unravel Weyland’s secrets and the truth about his own identity, Brion finds himself betrayed at every turn. Now the only way to survive and...

Bernie is already a scrawny thirteen-year-old magnet for misfortune. But when his father pawns him off on relatives after his mother dies and he accidentally takes a picture of a man carrying a dead body through the woods, Bernie’s life becomes truly miserable.