Michael J Allen
1) Discarded
No one can be trusted, not even himself...
Winter stalks the city.
It isn't alone.
A killer hunts Seufert Fells's homeless, Eli dead in his sights.
Alone in the barren cold and barely scraping by, the world's first dumpstermancer struggles to survive. Demands from the city's criminal elite drive things from bad to disaster.
Friends become enemies.
...The angels cand no longer be trusted, but neither can he...
A hidden enemy has stolen the phoenixes' immortality.
Quayla lingers at death's door, her sacrifice failing to avert the theft or purchase forgiveness.
The Fey press their advantage, and the Shield's new enemy baits a deadly trap.
While the others search, Atlanta's Shieldheart, Vitae, chases nightmares. Mare cries out to him in tortured whispers. She's alive,
Heaven created them to stop the Fey, not to rule them....
The mastermind enslaving the phoenixes is revealed.
Her dark druid pawn invokes forbidden magic, forcing Atlanta's Shield to lay waste to the city.
Quayla's escape leaves her barely better off. Vitae's ensorcelled enforcers hunt her. Her brethren attack her on sight. Fairy armies rampage through Atlanta, and the once Queen of the Wyldfae demands Quayla replace the
When the angels could no longer be trusted, Heaven created her.
The Fey invade the modern world, offering wishes to anyone willing to pay.
In their latest alluring and innocuous guise, hell's spawn seduces mankind one soul at a time. With Heaven's angels no longer trusted to police their brothers, the Phoenix Shields are created.
Quayla, one of Heaven's new elemental shapeshifters, protects
...When the red star glares, danger stalks the land...
In the dark ages, women were property and nobles took whatever they wanted.
When a peasant girl is forced to travel through a dark and foggy night filled with ill omens, fortune and misfortune ambush her on the road home.
Beneath the glare of the red star, she discovers a rare treasure. Pursued by a mad Lord and stalked by a mysterious stranger, her whole world
...10) Hijacked
Manc Shepherd's alive and mad as hedrin.
His plan to trap Alaric backfired, nearly costing his life. His backup ambush failed. The kid's in the wind and Corollas want Manc for the death of Birak and Strepe—the Bishop's enforcers. Everything he's done to attain a position within the Corollas upper echelon has been blasted to ashes, but Manc's not willing to give up his vendetta against the Bishop.
Manc puts in motion a plan to
...Alaric's made a new life in the Protectorate despite his missing memories. His ship's AI, Cassii, and a successful trading venture help fill his accounts with enough credits to finish repairing his ship for a rescue mission to Earth. Or would have, had his heroics not smashed Cassiopeia once more.
His interference with the Corollas crime syndicate fills his thruster wash with more than just an angry ex-mentor. Pirates thrive on the star
...An alien force has descended upon Earth. Fighters bombard the ruins. Monsters hunt the wastes – some humans serving the Welorin in order to indulge their petty cruelties. The last free survivors struggle against starvation and capture. It's a world where friendship costs too dearly and heroics verge on suicide.
One young man simply can't resist either. Welorin torture machines ravage his world, filling it with literal nightmares. Cannibalistic
...A bottle swallowing mysterious treasures adrift in the sea.
Golden doubloons and a map pointing to a deserted island.
A pirate crew seeks out a hidden lair filled with riches while the mapmaker's hand rots away.
What will they find?
Easy plunder? A marooned sailor desperate for escape?
Dreams of treasure lure the pirates closer to the ultimate prize, but will greed turn a mother's wish for her child into a living nightmare?
...