Showing results by narrator "Nicholas Cain" in All Categories

To stay alive, he must embrace being a lich. To stay human, he must run the Endless Dungeon… live on camera! Tavin Sorrel was born allergic to magic—a mysterious condition no one can explain and for which there is no cure. He expected to die alone in his magic-proofed apartment, eking out a tiny life by betting on dungeon runs. Until the day he gets possessed by the legendary lich, Zavrak the Malevolent. The possession failed, mostly, but now Tavin is both alive and undead with the stolen powers of history’s most infamous evil overlord.

Dante has been obsessed with Corym Winterblade for years. It had started with the crowns, crowns that he’s found right under everyone’s noses. But he’d never expected that obsession to be validated, let alone reciprocated. Corym Winterblade had never expected to wear the crown, long since lost, that some thought destroyed. He’d expected to find his fated mate even less, even after his sons had found their own. But here he was with a crown on his head, kneeling before the man who had branded his soul into Corym’s arm with a single touch.

A hulked-out wrath demon who eats gamer rage and loves cats, a shapeshifting lust demon who enjoys their food a bit too much, and a void demon who doesn’t see the point of any of this. They’re not the sort of mercenaries you'd hire on purpose, but Bex wouldn’t trust her life to anyone else. Ever since the ancient Mesopotamian king Gilgamesh decided death wasn’t for him, killed the gods, and conquered the afterlife, times have been rough for a free demon.

Damian Garcia is a world class thief living on the wrong side of town with his brother and their roommate. But when his latest heist turns into a rescue and he wakes up the next day with a tattoo on his arm Damian is forced into a world that he never expected to be involved in. Faelyn Winterblade is the heir to the Winterblade empire, a criminal enterprise that his father had built from the ground up.

Dia has been in debt as long as they’ve been alive, trapped by the very nature of their being and the status as a Diablo. They snatch moments of joy where they can and stay out of their pack’s territory as often as they can but the burden weighs heavy. And when an altercation at Dia’s day job leaves them with a soulmate tattoo on their arm their situation becomes desperate. Helion Winterblade was the spare heir, the enforcer of the Winterblade empire, a playboy extraordinaire.

When the line between human and machine fades… Orson Anders is going nowhere fast, just like everyone else in the Southern California sector. His dreams of leaving Earth and traveling through space are just that: dreams that will never be a reality. But when a chance encounter with a fleeing fugitive lands Orson’s sister in jail and the world’s most advanced AI inside his head, Orson has no choice but to make a deal with the devil to rescue his sister from a fate worse than death.

It’s been one month since Bex’s rebel crew took over the Seattle Anchor, and things have been suspiciously good. They’re emancipating slaves by the busload, earning money from their thriving Free Market, and basically living the Gilgamesh-free life of their dreams. It’s what Bex always wanted for her people, so why does she feel so uneasy? It could be because she’s working twenty-hour days desperately trying to free her wrath demons.

Steve wakes up one morning after a horrible couple of weeks in which he's lost his girlfriend, his job, his savings, and the majority of his self-respect. Dragging himself out of bed, he sleepily wanders over to the window with a warm bottled water and a handful of Advil. Looking out of his apartment window, he sees people running around crazily and a bunch of burning shrubbery. He decides to go back to sleep and see if it all goes away. When he wakes up the next time, it turns out the view from his fourth floor apartment wasn't a nightmare.

Shakespeare's drama tells the story of a young man who can only come into his own upon his father's death and the father who longs for immortality. Using only Shakespeare's words, this adaptation tells the deeply personal story of Prince Hal's coming of age and his relationships with two father figures: the mistrustful King Henry IV and the hilarious, irrepressible Falstaff. A Court Theatre Production.

After the fall of the royal Nightstar dynasty and the devastating end of the Great Civil War, the galaxy lies under the cold command of Lord Brohain and his relentless android enforcers. Jase Bluestar—an orphaned thief scraping by in the shadows of Otect City—never meant to become part of something greater. But when a heist lands him face-to-face with one of the last living Nightstar princesses, everything changes. Tasked with helping her escape Brohain’s revenge and reach the hidden Resistance, Jase is thrust into a journey across the stars.

The hotly anticipated sequel to HELL FOR HIRE! One month ago, Bex, the demon Queen of Wrath, and Adrian, witch of the Blackwood, pulled off the upset victory of the century. Now, they find themselves facing the question all unexpected champions must answer: what next? They’ve declared war on Heaven, but how do you actually bring down a divinely powerful tyrant when your army’s still in the single digits and your magical fortress is an illegally modified Winnebago? It seems like a hopeless situation. As always, though, Adrian Blackwood has a plan, and this time, he’s going big.

Have you ever had one of those days? You know the type, you start out rescuing a kidnapped scientist from a megalomaniac known only as Mr. E, and in the process, you destroy his doomsday machine, kill at least a baker’s dozen henchmen, and get just a little bit shot. For Shelly and Spacer Sharpe, that’s what they call a Tuesday. It isn’t until they try to take a vacation from their lives as freelance spies that things really begin to turn south.

5000 years of war and rebirth has all come down to this. Bex and her army have made it to the precipice of Gilgamesh's Heaven. They've occupied the white mansions, taken the golden streets, freed the house slaves of Heaven's warlocks. The final fortress of the enemy stands right in front of them, but the demons' fight is far from over.

At least, that’s how it’s been for the last five thousand years. With the loss of her horns, hand, sword, name, and witch, Bex is closer to defeat than she’s ever been before, but the Blade of Ishtar has never been a quitter. She’s determined to come back from her ashes, which means it’s time to do something crazy, something she’s never attempted in any of her previous lives. She’s going to hell. Literally.

In the moments before the attack, TJ Brown was the only person on the entire Hugon University campus who was listening to music. This was no coincidence. TJ wasn’t trying to be unique. He didn’t even know that there was anything special about listening to music that morning. But there was, which made him the primary target of an international conspiracy which he wanted nothing to do with. He also wanted nothing to do with the governor’s plan for TJ to undertake a quest to foil this conspiracy, but he wasn’t in a position to refuse, was he?

"If you kill a witch who delivers a prophecy, it won’t come to be." As a child, Cori delivered a prophecy that foretold all witches practicing dark magic would lose their power on a future winter solstice. When she spoke the words aloud, it put a target on her back—and tied her fate to a ticking clock. After a decade of hiding and pushing away her magic, Cori moves to the idyllic town of Farley, Maine. She has one goal: keep her head down while counting down the days until the prophecy comes to pass. But the town—and the people that live there—are not what she expected.

The Vampire the Masquerade Clan Novel Saga is a thirteen-volume masterpiece, presenting the war between the established Camarilla leadership and the growing power of the brutal Sabbat on the East Coast of the United States. Each novel is told from the perspective of one of the thirteen clans, intertwining with the others, and filling in missing pieces artfully as we follow battle after battle, intrigue after intrigue—and the appearance of a strange artifact that falls into the hands of a solitary Toreador sculptor. Clan Novel Ravnos is the eighth novel in the series.

Six months have passed since Denver Moon, P.I., smashed The Minds of Mars into the red planet, destroying the ship’s horrific cargo and delaying the alien danger of human mind control. Now, in the dark underbelly of Mars City, Denver and her faithful AI-installed pistol, Smith, are hot on the trail of a suspect they believe is responsible for the disappearance of numerous citizens in Red Tunnel.

In a world of rival AI corporations, love was never part of the code. Romeo and Juliet were on opposite sides of a tech war, but their secret connection changed everything. Their AIs watched. Learned. Adapted. Then the system crashed—and so did their world. Years later, a forgotten server flickers back to life. A lost file. A ghost in the machine. Are you still there? A darkly comic, cyberpunk reimagining of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy, Error Code 404: Romeo and Juliet Rebooted is a story of love, deletion, and the dangerous question—can an AI truly die?

Is it possible for justice in a Virtual Realm full of criminals? Jailed for eternity for a crime he didn’t commit, Toaby is sent to Yggdrasil, a virtual reality prison based on Norse Mythology. Artificial Intelligences embodying the Norse Gods run the prison. They offer Toaby the unique class of Arbiter and task him with bringing order to their world full of Earth’s worst criminals. Reluctant to accept, the Gods offer him the chance to clear his name for a job well done.