Download or read book The Vanished Mage written by Penelope Hill and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vanished mage… A missing diamond… The game is afoot. “From Broderick, Prince of Asconar, Earl of Carlshore and Thorn, Duke of Wicksborough, Baron of Highbury and Warden of Dershanmoor, to My Lady Parisan, King’s Investigator, greetings. It has been brought to my attention that a certain Reinwald, Master Historian, noted Archmagus and tutor to our court in this city of Nemithia, has this day failed to report to the duties awaiting him. I do ask you, as my father’s most loyal servant, to seek the cause of this laxity and bring word of the mage to me, so that my concerns as to his safety be allayed.” The herald delivered the message word-perfect to The Lady Parisan, Baroness of Orandy, Knight of the Diamond Circle and Sworn Paladin to Our Lady of the Sighs. Parisan’s companion, Foorourow Miar Raar Ramoura, Prince of Ilsfacar, (Foo to his friends) thought it a rather mundane assignment, but nevertheless together they ventured to the Archmagus’ imposing home to seek him. It turned out to be the start of an adventure to solve a mystery wrapped in an enigma bound by a conundrum and secured by a puzzle. All because of a missing diamond with a solar system at its core. Authors Penelope Hill and J. A. Mortimore have effortlessly melded a Holmesian investigative duo, a richly detailed city where they encounter both nobility and seedier denizens, swashbuckling action, and magic that is palpable and, at times, awesome. Cover art: Penelope Hill

Download or read book Tank Fizz The Case of the Missing Mage written by Liam O'Donnell and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the eve of the great Wizards' Summit approaches, wizards from all over Rockfall Mountain descend on the school at Shadow Tower to refine their craft. When professors start disappearing, it's up to magic-fearing monster sleuths Tank and Fizz to solve this spell-packed mystery and find the missing mages. Aleetha, their detective partner and a wizard-in-training, has dragged Tank and Fizz into the heart of the Shadow Tower, where libraries fly, spells fill the air, and an ancient army of darkness stirs, when she receives a mysterious message from her missing teacher. Using their detective skills, a pinch of magic and a trickle of technology, the friends stumble into a battle that's been brewing for decades. And what starts as a simple missing-persons case turns into a clash of light versus dark magic. Can Tank and Fizz overcome their fears and track down the missing mages before the black magic makes them disappear for good? The Case of the Missing Mage is the third book in the Tank & Fizz series about two crime-solving monsters living under a mountain, following The Case of the Slime Stampede and The Case of the Battling Bots. Stay tuned for book four, coming spring 2018.

Download or read book Tank Fizz The Case of the Missing Mage written by Liam O'Donnell and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this illustrated middle-grade novel and third book in the Tank and Fizz series, a goblin detective and technology-tinkering troll must mix magic and gadgetry to defeat the evil doom mages.

Download or read book Pippa Parvin and the Mystery of the Vanished Matchbox Car written by D.Z. Mah and published by WorkHorse Productions, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandfather never goes out in his fox-form during the day, but here he is, scratching at your window. “I need your help,” he explains, “but you may think it’s silly. I need you to find a gift my grandmother gave me long ago. A toy car.” You and Pippa can never resist a good mystery, and this one proves to be quite difficult. How does a toy vanish from inside a box and into thin air? That’s what appears to have happened, but with you and Pippa on the case, perhaps it won’t stay vanished for long. See if you can find it before Pippa does.

Download or read book The Vanishing Tome written by Stella Fitzsimons and published by Butterfly Electric Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning to fellow portal walkers: Never linger within ten feet of an active portal. They lose patience. They get hungry. And you could end up in a realm where you’re at the bottom of the food chain. #HardLessons I am no one, but I have secrets I have sharpened into blades. Underestimate me, please. Be my fuel. I am more than just Tess, the young woman who lives alone in a cramped studio on the third floor of a creaky house. I’m a paranormal investigator at Shadow Chasers, I have a friend (one’s better than none) and I have a secret from the past that fuels my vengeance. I’ll solve the mystery of the missing pages. I’ll avenge my colleague’s death. So, send all your flying demons, vampire thralls, necromancers, skinless armies, even your dragon. Yeah, I said dragon. A hot dragon. I mean he’s hot in different ways depending on which form he takes. In his human form, Killian Tierney is… pure lava. Bring it on, beasts of the Netherworld. I like my odds. Well, of course I don’t like my odds, but I won’t stop, because the more you take, the more power I summon. Beware, all who take me lightly. I can be what you are, but you can never be me. ***THE VANISHING TOME is a thrilling urban fantasy novel with a kickass heroine set in Madison, Wisconsin, and a parallel dimension or two. It’s filled with sharp wit, action, mystery, magic, unlikely friendships, slow burn romance and heart-stopping suspense.*** new release, strong heroine, female lead, supernatural suspense, fantasy romance, multiverse, portals

Download or read book The Magic Is Always WIth Us written by David M Allan and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tirog, rulers of a domain are its source of magical power Lady Trinafar, seventh child of a seventh child, should be a source and become the next ruler of Eideann after her mother Igrainid. But she is not a source. No-one knows why. When she meets Fergus in Edinburgh and he persuades her to take him to Tirog, she doesn’t realise that she is triggering a series of events that will affect not only her but the future of Eideann itself. Cover art: Alison Buck

Download or read book The Harlequin written by J.A. Mortimore and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2024-07-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Question my honesty if you must, but nobody, and I mean nobody, questions my skill. I’ve never paid much attention to the gods, which may be why I foolishly agreed to steal Pardeem’s reel. It seemed a straightforward enough challenge for a master trickster like me, but with things like this you never know. Leaving my cosy retirement isn’t difficult. Wearing the Harlequin’s hat again feels right. However returning to Emor holds challenges. Old friends and enemies wait in the shadows; maybe I can turn that to my advantage. But now my own god seems to be paying me far too much attention. This isn’t going to be straightforward. But that’s the thrill, isn’t it? To dance with peril, to spin with the twists, to confound expectations and to embrace the trick for its own sake. The Harlequin doesn’t give up at the first hurdle. If I can carry this off, it will be the heist of a lifetime. Failure might cost me everything. Cover art: Penelope Hill

Download or read book Galata written by Ben Gribbin and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2023-07-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Seven days. Seven deaths. Seven brides for seven rivers…’ It is New Year’s Day. The city of Galata, with its ancient river-streets, is slowly sinking into the sea. But for one week its citizens want to forget this, and celebrate the city’s thousand-year anniversary. For Joseph, a jaded ex-detective, the day brings a glimmer of hope. Last night he met and kissed Celice, a free-spirited artist. Tonight he is meeting her again. But Celice never turns up. Then her body is pulled out of the canal. There are papers on her; charred at the edges, with mysterious writing on them. As Joseph teams up with his former police colleague J. D, they discover this may be just the first in a series of eerily similar crimes that took place on exactly the same week, 100 years ago. Is history about to repeat itself? And can they stop it happening again? Cover: Photos by Andrea Piacquadio; Background by Lise-Noor Lemmens

Download or read book Stormfront written by F. Wallace and published by Fiona Wallace. This book was released on 2011-09-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not all battles are fought with swords. After the victory at Southstades, life in the north returns to normal. Tiel is immersed in healer training, and Caedun, when not writing songs and performing on taverns, is trying to persuade Merrell to marry him. But Herard still covets the north, and even without his father's army, there are many ways to dethrone a king...

Download or read book The Adventures of Billy the Chimera Hunter written by D.Z. Mah and published by WorkHorse Productions, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains the previously published stories: Billy Chan and the Case of the Pengurtles Billy Chan and the Little Lost Orcoose Billy Chan and the Fronine Invasion Billy Chan and the Walrar Bear Abduction Billy Chan Goes Where the Sheelephants Roam Billy Chan Chases a Burkey through Albuquerque Billy Chan Rescues a Moark Named Mark Billy Chan and the Stinky Goatopus Billy Chan Goes to the World of the Felidavians Billy Chan and the Clash of the Bungolins Billy Chan and Operation Bager Billy Chan and the Giraffigator Showdown Penguins with turtle shells kidnapped my parents on our family vacation, and that’s how I learned I’m a chimera hunter. Chimeras are mythical creatures who look like mixed up versions of regular animals, and they visit from other worlds sometimes. Only chimera hunters can follow them back into their worlds. When you’re a kid, that gets complicated. Hi, my name is Billy Chan, and I’m the main character in this book. Sounds weird for a book character to say that, huh? Most of us have no idea that we aren’t real, living, breathing people. So why do I know this, and why do I tell you that I know this?Because in this book you’re going to help me make some big decisions. You can make safe or risky decisions and change the end of the story. In life, you want to learn to make safe decisions, but in books, you should feel free to take risks. That’s part of the fun.No matter what crazy decisions you ask me to make, I’ll be just fine. Come join me on my first ever adventure!

Download or read book Pippa Parvin and the Mystery of the Stuffed Dinosaur written by D.Z. Mah and published by WorkHorse Productions, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know when Nils comes to you and Pippa for help, the situation must be dire, and it is. His little sister’s stuffed dinosaur has gone missing, and she is inconsolable. Pippa’s not keen to go to Nils’s house, but she never could resist a good mystery. As she always tells you, though, mysteries are about secrets and the more mysteries you solve for Nils, the more secrets you learn. Perhaps this time you can discover a secret that can heal the rift between you, or perhaps you’ll discover one that makes it worse than ever. See if you can solve the mystery before Pippa does!

Download or read book The Revolutionary War written by Christopher G. Nuttall and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is rotten in the state of France … After years of inconclusive war, the Franco-Spanish Empire is on the verge of collapse. The military is coming apart, the people are starving, the economy is on the brink … and yet, as long as the crown keeps tight control of its magicians, all hope of revolution and victory remains faint. The secret police are in control, rebel magicians are hunted down and eliminated before they can pose a threat and, worst of all, the government has found a new way to enhance magical power. The situation seems dire. But with a little help, there may be a chance. Returning from America with Bruce, her fiancé, Gwen is not best pleased to be sent to Paris to train the rebels in magic, to give them a fighting chance against the government before the stresses of war threaten to destroy the British Empire as surely as their French enemies. But with shadowy figures lurking in the background, and an entire country on the brink of chaos, Gwen must face her gravest challenge yet … … In an environment where her enemies hold all the cards. Book V of the Royal Sorceress series Cover artwork by Alison Buck

Download or read book War Mage Rising written by Alina Jacobs and published by Alina Jacobs. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zsanette, formerly of the Wulfila and now a newly minted mage of the Black Tower, is in the midst of the Emperor's campaign against the neighboring kingdoms. If that weren't enough for one young mage, she also has to contend with traitorous soldiers and her nemesis and fellow mage Bronwyn, who is trying to turn the mages against Zsanette. Beyond her personal troubles, there’s a new group of blood mages who are seeking to undermine the Empire. All this while Zsanette has to navigate a dangerous new magyk and her feelings for a certain handsome cavalry officer. It's almost too much for a young mage to handle! Along with her friends, a not-so-inconspicuous dragon, and the ever recalcitrant Garret Walton, they have to keep the Empire from collapsing and hopefully save the day once again. This is the spell-binding sequel to Mage Rising by Alina Jacobs!

Download or read book The Sleeping Life written by Andrea K Höst and published by Andrea K Hösth. This book was released on 2016-02-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fallon DeVries has a sister who lives only in his mind. Paying the price of magic gone wrong, Aurienne is trapped watching a world she cannot touch, only able to communicate with her brother while he sleeps. And it's slowly killing him. Fallon and Auri's best chance of untangling their lives is to win the help of a mage of unparalleled ability. But how can they ask for help when the warped spell prevents him from speaking? Besides, Rennyn Claire - once the most powerful mage in the world - is a shadow of her former self: ill, injured and unlikely to recover unless she can hunt down the monster who once tried to make her his slave. But that Wicked Uncle is nowhere to be found, and other dangers, once slumbering dormant, are stirring...

Download or read book The Missing Mage written by Robyn Wideman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Nathan and Verin save Rose and Sharon they travel to Balta, the home of Nathan's mother's family. Where they find a new home. One filled with magic and Intrigue.

Download or read book The Enchanting Tricks written by Mark Montanaro and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Known World is still not fixed… and things have got ugly In the Goblin realm, Queen Afflech was doing remarkably well considering the circumstances. She had seen her husband die, and both her sons killed within the space of a couple of weeks. That kind of thing does tend to bring you down a bit. Losing three kings in a few days looked rather careless. But of more concern to the Goblin warlords was whether it looked weak to their enemies. They suspected the Humans were behind one death and the Ogres behind another. The Pixies were no threat, the Trolls would probably soon be killing one another again, and the Elves were irrelevant (or, to be precise, just annoying). Meanwhile, King Wyndham wanted to show the Goblins that Humans were not to blame (apart from the two that might be to blame). Petra, the most famous Pixie in the Known World, knew exactly who was to blame and wanted to rescue them. Lord Protector Higarth was determined to help the Goblins with their predicament, whether they wanted Ogre-help or not. But on the plus side, the dragon’s gone; and there are still plenty of unicorns… maybe they can somehow solve everything? Cover design: S & A Buck

Download or read book The City Revealed written by Juliet Kemp and published by Elsewhen Press. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independence brings self-determination, but also threats from without and within The city of Marek rests on newly-independent laurels. Their ties to Teren, the land-locked nation for which they served as sole trade link to the world, are cut; Teren’s Lieutenant, Selene, has been expelled, and her seat rests empty in the Marekhill Council chambers. But Selene, fresh from her political defeat, threatened to return – next time, not with honeyed words or veiled threats, but with armed soldiers and war sorcerers. Last year, the sorcerers of Marek narrowly defeated a single Teren-summoned demon; how might they fare against a dozen or more? Twisting the already fraying cord of a city under siege, the common people of Marek grow increasingly fervent in their own demands for representation – for a say in how the city is run, and for whom it is run. Marcia, Fereno-Heir, agrees with the Lower City; they deserve a better say. But much of the Council won’t hear of it – and, of course, there’s Selene’s threat of an army of sorcerers at the city’s magical border. Sorcerers that half the Marekhill Council wouldn’t even accept as real. She must work with the sorcerer Reb, her lover, to force the Council to recognise the truth of magic, whilst her sorcerer brother, Cato, rushes to build some sort of defence. Because if Teren’s demons can pass the Cityangel’s wards, it’ll be the end of them all. Book 4 of the Marek series “The City Revealed is an absorbing fantasy set in a richly imagined world. A lovingly drawn and diverse set of characters struggle both personally and politically with the consequences of their own and others’ actions, and strive for cooperation without sacrificing principles. A thoroughly satisfying read.” – Una McCormack , New York Times bestselling science fiction author. “Eminently satisfying epic fantasy where the personal, the political and the magical are multilayered and interlocked.” – Juliet E. McKenna, Author of the Green Man series and the Tales of Einarinn series. Cover artwork by Tony Allcock