Born into hardship, Dar learns to rely on herself alone. When her family betrays her, Dar is conscripted into King Kregant's army and its brutal campaign to conquer a neighboring country. Now she is bound as a slave to a dreaded regiment of orcs, cre...
Conscripted into King Kregant's army, Dar survived by befriending the fierce orcs who were also forced to serve. Now she has escaped -- only to find that the price of freedom may be her destiny. Calling on her untried leadership abilities, Dar gui...
A delicate alliance between human and orc has been achieved. Now Queen of the Orcs, Dar works toward making that peace last. Her position has helped her to finally feel part of a community, to find a life to call her own. But sudden, strange outbr...
Seer, healer, goddess, slave -- she is all these things and more. Yim is a young woman suddenly cast into slavery, a gifted seer with a shocking secret -- and a great destiny. Honus is a Sarf, a warrior dedicated to the service of the compassionat...
The malign shadow of the Devourer has darkened the land, extinguishing life and hope. The followers of the benevolent goddess Karm are hunted mercilessly and cut down by an army of bewitched slayers led by Lord Bahl, the Devourer's flesh-and-blood in...
BLOOD WILL TELL Seventeen years have passed since Yim, an ex-slave blessed by the benevolent goddess Karm, sacrificed her body -- and perhaps her very soul -- to Lord Bahl, avatar of the evil Devourer. In that selfless act, Yim stripped Lord Bahl ...
Misfit. Raised as an orc, Nartha-hak was only a child when told about her mixed blood. That devastating revelation plunged her life into turmoil. Now, at sixteen and facing a bleak future, she resolves to pass for a woman, track down her human father...
It's 1966, and George Parker, a reclusive teenager with a bright mind and a vivid imagination, is facing a boring summer in Eden, South Carolina, an oak-shrouded riverside town with magic seeping from the cracks and fissures of its peaceful antebellu...