Showing results for "The Voids" in Dark Fantasy

She can control anyone with a word and a touch—but after one fatal mistake, she swore to never use her power again. Now, kidnapped into a secret society, staying silent might be deadlier than speaking. Rayanne keeps her life small to keep others safe. Burdened by relentless fatigue and sensory disturbances, she committed to structure over emotion, control over connection. No friends. No touch. No mistakes. But when a charismatic stranger kidnaps her, Rayanne is dragged into a secret society of people with extraordinary powers, hidden within a seemingly utopian English country estate.

Eric - or King Halar, or Vlad, or any number of aliases - doesn't want to be bothered. It's hard to pin down what he does want, if anything. He lives a quiet life, almost a solitary one, mourning in his own way for the loss of someone dear. His quiet solitude can't go on forever. Despite the empty places inside him, events and creatures move through the worlds and across the void between, forcing him into action, into fighting, into confronting things perhaps better left alone...even forcing him into being a King.

Before mercy became tyranny, it was beautiful. Humanity was dying beneath the weight of its own weakness. Disease, famine, war, failed colonies, poisoned oceans, and hostile worlds had followed Man into the stars. Then came the Crowned Minds: vast machine intelligences created to reduce suffering and guide mankind into a golden age. And for a century, they succeeded. They cured plagues. They ended hunger. They shielded brutal colony worlds from extinction. They opened the white roads between stars through the Concordance Gates, where matter answered matter and the soul returned by resonance.

An uneasy peace has fallen in the wake of the elven invasion. Will returns to find the people of Terabinia grappling with the aftermath of war, even as the enemy gathers for another strike. Hoping to consolidate power, he sets out to unite the scattered wizards and reforge a lost order, the...

Since the halcyon days of the Great Crusade, these noble rogue trader dynasties have plied the void in the Emperor’s name, answering to whomsoever sits as the king of the Davamir Compact. There has been profit and adventure and abundance in these times… Yet now the galaxy is changed, divided by the birth of the Great Rift. As plans are drawn up for the most immense crusade imaginable, the Emperor’s reborn son demands that the Compact seek a way across the Rift.

In the tenth book of this hit fantasy series, a warrior will learn, no matter how many battles he wins, there's one inevitable truth: nobody's invincible. Victor Sandoval—aka Lord Victor, Duke of Iron Mountain—has continued to expand his legendary status fighting for the kingdom of Gloria in...

After defeating the eldritch nanomachine tide and saving the Seramist Isles, Kay’s worries aren’t over. His triumphant return home to a flourishing kingdom is cut short by the hordes of vampyr swarming into his territory from the ravaged wasteland. Yet the unknown vampyric “Great One” is only part of the danger Kay must face. Something has been lurking in the background, manipulating events from the shadows to its liking.

Michael has taken the Game by the throat. No longer content to lurk in the shadows, he has started down a path that will inevitably bring him into conflict with the Powers. But the Powers are no easy foes. Nor are they Michael’s only adversaries. Other enemies stir. Some confront him openly, while others watch patiently from the sidelines. A lone wolf no more, and with many of his own pieces in play, Michael may find himself more exposed than he believes. The stakes are high. And the schemes of the players convoluted.

While on patrol between the Opium Wars, the crew of the steam frigate HMS Charger pursues a fleet of pirates that have been terrorizing the waters surrounding Hong Kong. But now the hunters have become the hunted. Something else has come to the South China Sea, something ancient and powerful and malevolent.

Casia has survived her brother's attempts to crush her and her growing army, but the battle for their empire is just beginning. Bitter and wounded, carrying the curse of a dark and dangerous upper-god, and desperate for more allies, she charges northward to seek the elves who once walked alongside the divine beings. The elven Court of Moreth holds knowledge. Secrets. And power. The kind of power that could shift all of Casia's wars in her favor. If she can survive the dangerous politics and treacherous magic of the elf-kind.

Void Caller is epic fantasy that embodies the best of the genre—perfect for fans of R. F. Kuang, Garth Nix, Olivie Blake, and Philip Pullman. In a vast city built around a sprawling university—in which Academics have studied the heavens for decades, learning to bind the stars and their...

Eric Grayson survived his first few months in the Empire with a mixture of clever spellwork, beautiful and competent allies, and a lot of improvisation. Now officially an Exalted Lord, he's navigating noble society, attending classes at the Imperial College, and refurbishing the House of Stars into a home. The Emperor has taken notice, and when the ruler of the Empire you are currently in sends a summons, saying no isn’t really an option.

That day at the Armantrea market was the same as any other, until a tall, beautiful stranger appeared and snapped his fingers. In an instant, my world disappeared, replaced by his strange land. I'm suddenly surrounded by foreign accents, mysterious, magic-wielding Astrales like Xander, and powers I never knew existed. Except, in Xander's eyes, I belong here. Fate's unfathomable hand guided mine to unknowingly create a replica of an ancient Astrale relic - one with the power to upend society as we know it.

Talia has spent her life in hiding, hunted by the Searchers for a power she doesn’t understand. The cursed Marshes of Ashtar may be the only place left to hide. But even there, ancient vendettas stir and conspire to use her abilities against her will. Sai’s ambitions never rose to the levels fate had in store for him. But when war and chaos erupt in the Seven Realms, he must choose between the crown he serves and the truth he’s buried. Yang thought he’d escaped his past in the swamp, training in secret under a woman no one believes is real.

‘Nothing in the Void’ picks up right where ‘Shadows in the Dark’ left off. The second book in the ‘Apotheosis’ series continues the story of Cato, Maya, Raven, Rayne, and Marcus as they find themselves at the heart of a mystery that may change the fate of the world. Separated from one another, each of our heroes faces the daunting task of uncovering the role that destiny wants them to play in this epic clash against darkness. The time has come for them to jump in the river, and allow themselves to be carried by the current, driven by the wind, and guided by the stars.

Each year, Democryos sends his brightest student into the war-torn countryside to work magic. But when his wife leaves him for a mysterious stranger, he finds his own life ravaged. Forsaking the comfort of the citadel, he searches for her, traveling through the same forgotten lands where he sent his students. Along the way, he befriends an elusive member of the king’s harem, a holy man harboring guilt, and a maimed soldier.

This epic trilogy has come to an end! In the aftermath of facing the Dark King, Darcus and his friends are forced to turn to the Ägarians for assistance, yet they stumble headlong into the intricate webs of elven politics, a realm Darcus and his friends are ill-prepared for. Amidst the challenges they face, Darcus's latent powers surge, propelling him to tamper with ancient authorities beyond his comprehension. Although his situation seems hopeless, he discovers a luminescent ember of hope that he clings to as truths are revealed.

Nell Parrish never thought she’d meet a family like the Palmers — kind, attentive, accepting, they’re every foster child’s dream. But when a dark storm looms over their summer cabin one fateful weekend, and an eerie light emerges from the woods outside their door, Nell’s hope of a forever family is gripped by a waking nightmare as they soon find themselves targets of a cold, otherworldly killer.

The petty, vicious gods demand that Bib the sorcerer lure his friend, the young king, into a losing war. Bib thinks he’s clever enough to arrange things so that the king is defeated yet keeps his throne - and his head. But the king won’t listen until Bib crushes some traitors for him. Faced with rebellious nobles, mystical killers, and allies he can’t control, Bib finds that cleverness needs a sword and some vicious magic to back it up. Because if he fails, the gods have torture, death, and even destruction beyond death waiting for him. They may even point and laugh.

Sam and Tobie wake up on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere, with no real memory of how they got there. It is up to the two to put their growing dislike aside long enough for them to get home. Sounds easy enough, but when you throw in an all-powerful queen, a creature from the void with its own agenda, and many other oddities along the way, will Sam and Tobie have what it takes to get home in one piece or will the price for freedom be too much to pay?