While escaping a rotting city that betrayed her dreams, an expectant mother and her young child must discover the truth about her husband's murder, utilizing the memories trapped in his augmented reality glasses....
It?s 2052. A new reality is just a download away. Decay is ubiquitious as the world's population shrinks under Sagan's Law. But no one cares as their lives are consumed by the Digital Sea: an immersive augmented reality that?s always on, seen through...
The greatest mystery of the ancient world remains the identity of who set fire to the Great Library in Alexandria. One hundred years later, Heron of Alexandria -- the city's most renown inventor and creator of Temple miracles -- receives coin from a ...
When the beasts die, so too does man. The indomitable Jax fled the militant animists years ago out of safety for his son. Now his grandfather requests his return, promising an answer to his lifelong quest to save the oceans in return for a favor he c...
Visiting the galaxy's only Cageless Zoo should be a special treat for Melandre and her children. Except she's still trying to reckon with her husband's recent death and how she's going to raise two highly independent children on her own. As their vis...
Kindle best selling author Thomas K. Carpenter has written dozens of stories set in the Digital Sea universe. In this collection are four stories. “Animorphosis”“The Unbelievers”“Sagan’s Law”“The Cageless Zoo”The Digital Sea trilo...
EXPLORE the edge of augmented reality in thirteen tales from thirteen fantastic authors. When the digital world collides with our real one, bringing all its problems and benefits, mankind will have to relearn what it means to be human. In this glimps...
When the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District calls Heron of Alexandria -- the greatest inventor the city has ever known -- to help him solve a curious disturbance involving the Temple of Bacchus and an agitated numerologist, he learns the true cost o...
Tibor Case longs to escape high school and move onto his real life, the one he knows will be infinitely better than his current one. His only relief from the drudgery of school comes when he escapes to Old Detroit to play games him and his best frien...
When religions spread like computer viruses, even atheists have to take notice. An old enemy seizes control of the newly expanded Wiki-religion to create a new world order. To stop him, Zel must join forces with a mega-celebrity doing penance and an ...
BEWARE! Between these pages, thirteen tales about augmented reality lie in wait to steal away your senses. Go on the hunt for poachers in a dangerous mist. Use your powers of reality-shaping to steal eternal life. Create a piece of art that embodi...
Breaking into an impenetrable alpine fortress. Double-crossing a dangerous friend. Stealing the world's most illegal substance because you're bored.Just another day in the life of the world's most talented - and dysfunctional - reality thief. But ...
A city-destroying sand storm approaches Beijing. A man-made plague of empty realities consumes rich and poor alike. War clouds gather on the plains of Africa. As the climate spirals towards a tipping point, factions position themselves for a radicall...
Earth lies abandoned.When the Makers left for the stars, civilization descended into ruin. Asp, one of the last remaining sentient cities, fights against the ravages of time, but his resources are dwindling. When at last he swallows his pride and s...
When the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District calls on Heron of Alexandria -- the greatest inventor the city has ever known -- to help him solve the murder of a young noble in love, he learns what dangers lurk in trusting the gods....
For 300 years it was believed Alexander the Great had no heir. The Roman armada descends on Alexandria. Friends flee, allies bicker, and foes multiply in the night. The fragile city-state teeters on the brink of annihilation. As the naval blockade lo...
When the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District calls Heron of Alexandria-the greatest inventor the city has ever known-to help him solve the mystery of a dismembered human forearm, he learns what value there is in the weight of gold....
When the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District calls Heron of Alexandria-the greatest inventor the city has ever known-to help him solve the mystery of a rain of frogs, he learns what value there is in the virtues of madness. This is a "...
The secrets of the pyramids have been lost for two thousand years. While Agog courts the Parthians, Heron plans to build the largest pyramid the world has ever seen to fulfill Alexander the Great's legacy. As Parthia's demands grow increasingly arduo...
When the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District must solve a dubious crime involving a wretched family of Alexandrian nobility without the help of Heron -- the greatest inventor the city has ever known -- he learns the true horror of family curses....
When the Magistrate of the Rhakotis District calls on Heron of Alexandria-the greatest inventor the city has ever known-to help him solve a series of crimes, he learns the unexpected value of the inventor's unique knowledge. While...
Two hundred years before the Alexandrian revolution, the inventor Archimedes created unimaginable weapons to defend the city-state of Syracuse from Rome. Now, the Alexandrians must contend with an enraged Roman Empire intent on destroying the technol...
One hundred years after the murder of Julius Caesar, the circumstances of his death could change the course of the fledgling Alexandrian Empire. Left in charge of the treacherous Roman Senate while Agog heads north to deal with the traitor Marcus, He...
For thousands of years, myths have told the stories of the beasts at the edge of civilization: krakens, cyclops, even the fearsome dragon. Now, Heron of Alexandria must confront those myths aboard Hoth the Black's iron ship, the Jörmungandr, as they...
The oldest mystery of the ancient world -- one sought by kings and scholars alike -- remains the secret of immortality. When Heron returns to Alexandria, she finds the High Priest of Sobek, Lysimachus, has control of the great city of Alexandria by d...
Katerina Dashkova must die.When Warden Simon Snyder seeks Kat's help to solve a bloodless murder, she becomes entangled with a prophecy that predicts her death on the Winter Solstice. The investigation turns an old friend into a dangerous enemy, comp...
Ignorance is bliss, unless the world is out to kill you... An investigation into a strange cauldron and a dead thief in Ben Franklin's parlor leaves Katerina Dashkova, Russian princess in exile, as the main suspect. With her memory damaged and Ben Fr...
Exile. Princess. Thief. After years of running from the Emperor of Russia's assassins, Ekaterina "Kat" Dashkova has finally found an unlikely home in Philadelphia under the tutelage of Benjamin Franklin. When a mid-level government official is found ...
When Thomas Jefferson's longtime companion is murdered with dark magic, Katerina Dashkova and Ben Franklin must find the killer before the war-hungry Federalists learn the truth and use it to maneuver America into a war with Russia. Unfortunately, th...
Katerina "Kat" Dashkova has become a potent sorceress using her magic to help Ben Franklin and the Transcendent Society in the fight against Russia and the Otherworld forces that threaten the civilized world. But her powers are useless when a plague ...
Things should be getting easier for Katerina "Kat" Dashkova. The former princess of the Russian empire wields considerable sorcerous powers, has learned to control the unruly prophecies in her head, and is a member of the Transcendental Society-a gro...
Stranded in Siberia, Kat and Ben must navigate the snowy wastes to make it to Moscow so they can stop the god Veles from taking over their world. But surprises lurk in the north, one from her past days in Empress Catherine's court, and the other a cr...
When the Three Relinquishes the One the Void will Conquer All The wheels of prophecy grind towards the ending of the multiverse, while the gods continue their dance of power. Ben and Kat know the only way to thwart the prophecies is to take the fight...
There are exactly one hundred halls of magic to choose from. Ever since our parents were killed I knew exactly which hall was for me. Aurelia "Aurie" Silverthorn is one of the best and brightest to ever apply to the Hundred Halls, the only magical un...
Whoever controls the Hundred Halls, controls the world. Aurelia "Aurie" Silverthorne has high hopes for her second year in the Hundred Halls, the world's only magical university, but her expectations are destroyed when she accidentally unleashes a pl...
Danai broke the sky when her birds didn’t return home. Crystalline shards the size of war banners fell from the grayish-black clouds that, until that point, had smelled like rain. What replaced it was the smell of a long-forgotten attic.She huddled...
In the Hundred Halls, students experiment with all manners of magic: catoptromancy, lexology, verumancy, rune spells, demonology, shape changing, and a thousand other arcane techniques. Every magic is encouraged. Every magic, except one -- soul magic...
Every fall the city of Invictus bustles with new students, and the classrooms reek of spent faez. This year it's true of every hall except one -- Arcanium. While Semyon Grey, the Patron of Arcanium, slowly heals from his soul being torn, no one in th...
As the Hundred Halls heads towards civil war, the fate of the city -- and possibly the world -- depends on Aurie and Pi finding the truth about Invictus' disappearance. Following a trail of dangerous clues, the sisters delve deeper into the head patr...
The best assassins learn their magic at the Academy of the Subtle Arts. Everyone joins for their own reasons: to give death her proper due, to acquire outrageous fortunes, or to know that history bends to their blade.Zayn Carter joined the Academy to...
When a rogue assassin starts taking heads in the Hundred Halls, no one is safe, not even the teachers.Zayn leads his team as they investigate the gruesome deaths. The search draws them to dangerous places: the infamous Black Council and the opulent c...
Even a master assassin can be foiled.Divination—the magic of seeing the future—provides peace in the realms, because no one can launch a war or assassination without being discovered. But when a strange building appears in the city of s...
The dragons are coming.Without a head patron to protect the city, the Hundred Halls are vulnerable to the most dangerous supernatural creatures of all—the dragons. But the Circle of the Scale is not the only problem. Deep beneath the city othe...
Even the best plans fail.Zayn has spent his whole life preparing for the final confrontation with the Lady of Varna, but as the day grows closer, complications multiply. When he realizes he can no longer trust his cousin, or his patron—nor doe...
Could you defeat the world's hardest immersive game?Alexandria Duke must learn how to or risk losing everything.When Alex joins Gamemakers Online, she finds there are no newbie areas, no tutorials, and nothing but vicious critters hunting her down. T...
Not all games were meant to be beaten.After the first year in Gamemakers Online, one of near solitude, Alex is looking forward to pitting herself against the gladiators of the Warsong Plains. But she quickly learns why she was warned away from challe...
The Citadel of Broken Dreams was not meant to be explored. It was—as Alex was told numerous times—a trap.But the Citadel was the last place Lily's brother had entered before he disappeared. He'd been in search of an object of power, an ...
After a brutal battle for survival in the Citadel of Broken Dreams, Alex sets off to the daemonpits to discover the fate of her friends. To earn passage into the underbelly of the game, Alex must first conquer the Isles of Dread, where seedy pirates ...
War invades Gamemakers Online.While Alex was trapped in a hospital, Professor Marzio scattered her friends across the zones, making it impossible for them to wage war. When she finally gathers her ragtag army, it pales in comparison to the enemy, but...
In a game with no end, how would you build your kingdom?When Terran and his friends enter Kingmaker Saga, they're expecting a lifetime of adventure together, but a vengeful hag separates them, throwing their plans into disarray. Stuck in the unrelent...
An army gathers determined to destroy the Mother Tree.The Trio are planning a second, larger attack and Terran knows they will have to stop it before it reaches the walls of Gneiss Glenn. But without the help of his friends and only low level elves t...
There are many ways to die at the Hundred Halls.Pax Nygard has spent her childhood at the world's most dangerous zoo, and has a psychic fox named Kali as her companion, so she should be well prepared for the challenges that await her at the Animalian...
Every Hunter has a bane—but not everyone survives the hunt.In the city of sorcery, a dangerous beastie is on the loose, killing the unwary, but Pax and her friends are forbidden to investigate. As she throws herself into becoming a Hunter, whi...
Finally reunited with his friends, Terran faces a blight which threatens the health of Mother Tree.As they hunt down the source of the rot, each of the companions struggle to find their place within the group. Together they learn that their world is ...
The Mother Tree is dying.When Darkness Sighs brings a prophecy from the Shades to Gneiss Glen, Terran wants to ignore the dreadful truth. Not only must he find a way to restore the Mother Tree, but if he can't the settlement—and the entire con...
A new danger looms on the horizon as a murderous horde of warriors plan to invade the continent. With throngs of enemies approaching their shores, Terran must locate a black crystal and become the game's most powerful Crystal Bard if he has any hope ...
War comes to Gneiss Glen.The Howling Wind is crossing the narrow sea, bringing old enemies who have grown formidable with time. To stop them, Terran and his friends must race to collect powerful artifacts and level up the settlement before they run o...
To learn the art of field work, Pax and her friends head to the jungles of Danir where the local fauna presents dangerous challenges to scientists reviving the defunct magesteel trade. But mysterious deaths, conflicts with the Phoenix Corporation age...
Cassia Vici is on a one-way trip to Saturn - to help humanity reach the stars.A towering genius who'd already solved the problem of death by making memory recording possible, Cassia leads a team of scientists and problem solvers to a station floating...
Desperate for answers about herself and Kali, Pax heads to northern Norway to visit her Baba, where she learns things about her companion that changes their relationship. The conflict between them simmers beneath the surface as they investigate stran...
The world's most dangerous zoo provides attendees the experience of a lifetime: witnessing the fearsome manticore feeding, or the speedy mystdrakon race across its dome at blurring speeds, or the pack of brutal fyrehounds hunting across a sandy lands...
Song of Siren and Blood, the newest book from Thomas K. Carpenter, is a tale of power, privilege, dark magic, and betrayal set among the Hundred Halls elite.Family is everything. Even if it's dysfunctional.Thrust into a family of grotesque wealth and...
At the heart of the Hundred Halls, four secret societies have manipulated events for their own dark purposes. They tamper with forbidden magics. They blackmail kings. No corner of the world escapes their reach.Moriganne must acquire an invite one of ...
Every family has its secrets. Six years previous, the death of the eldest daughter, Solstice, was a tragedy that tore apart the Charmer family. Now, uncomfortable truths are surfacing that brings her death into a new light. As Moriganne chases dow...
Dispatched to the realm of Montanhas to save the family business from bankruptcy while each of them vie for the approval of their father and leadership of the company, Moriganne and her siblings find they've been sent into a disaster of occult origin...
Moriganne Charmer returns in this final tale of betrayal and dark magic set amongst the Hundred Halls elite.Without the protection once afforded by her last name, Moriganne and her siblings must contend against their father whose fury was unleashed b...
Destiny calls when you least expect.After five harrowing years in the Hundred Halls surviving dangerous supernatural threats, our group of young mages have each taken their own paths away from the university. But the recently returned Head Patron, I...
Allies can be found in unlikely places.The threat against the Hundred Halls grows clearer by the day—the barrier between Invictus and the demonic realm is breaking down. In hopes of stopping the invasion before it begins, the Order of Merlin ...
The battle for the Hundred Halls begins now.Trapped in the city as a horde of demons invade, our team of mages have one last chance to save the world. With the city in chaos, and friends and family in peril, difficult choices multiply at every turn. ...
THEY WAITED THEIR WHOLE LIVES TO JOIN THE WORLD'S ONLY MAGICAL UNIVERSITYIn the city of sorcery, the Hundred Halls teaches every kind of magic imaginable. The only problem is the Head Patron is missing and the school is falling into chaos.Discover t...
The two major clans of the Undercity, Razor and Drops, are at a fragile peace after decades of conflict. When Pandora is sent to the Undercity to infiltrate the clans and uncover the source of the faez crystals—unusual gemstones that give Und...
The clans are on the verge of war.Pandora and her Drops clanmates discover the existence of an elixir that allows for perfect faez crystal attunement—which will give imbibers a way to match the best stones with the best warriors—signali...
After Razor clan's destruction, the remaining members join the Drops clan, keeping alive the hope that they might survive the ascendant Alliance. The newest clan in the Undercity has all the advantages—warriors, weapons, and a cunning maetrie...
A Tournament of Champions has brought the realms' greatest warriors to the city of sorcery. The prizes include ultra-rare faez crystals which could turn an average combatant into an exemplar of physical prowess.For Pandora, the tournament is a chance...
Kuma and Pandora are on the run in the Eternal City—the deadly realm of the city fae. With her grandfather in complete control of the Undercity, Pandora knows their chances of defeating him are slim, but she's not willing to give up while she...
A deadly ghost is attacking patients and threatening to bring the overworked hospital to its knees. The protective enchantments in the old Curse Ward are breaking down, leading to unusual events and supernatural sightings across the hospital. Lilith ...
A demon dragon known as the Caoránarch is on the loose in the City of Sorcery, killing indiscriminately and then disappearing without a trace. Remi and her friends are certain the appearance of the Caoránarch has something to do with the co...
A killer is on the loose in the City of Sorcery, and Damon Wolfhard, second year resident at Golden Willow hospital, fears it might be him. Damon keeps having dreams about murders that happen in the city and waking up covered in someone else's blood....
Second generation con woman and all-around thief Remi Wilde joined the Hundred Halls-the world's only magical university-in hopes of learning the right spells to pull off a dangerous heist. But rather than one of the less scrupulous Halls, she ends u...
Remi finds the Hospice Ward more dangerous than she expected when an enigmatic figure known only as the Stranger appears to her in the Veil. The Stranger is known for being a harbinger of terrible events like wars or plagues, which makes his arrival ...
Claire knows the path to mastery in Metallum Nocturne Hall is paved with fire, steel, and unrelenting pressure, but nothing could prepare her for the one thing standing between her and graduation—accusations of murder. With her senior project ...