“A series that is a single epic tapestry cut into manageable pieces…the threads of events and characters emerge as if they had actually lived, and few events occur without becoming a part of the sprawling whole. This is more than a story of swords and magic, it is the charting of lives. It isn’t Game of Thrones, but it makes a very credible effort.” The Fantasy Group It is the spring following the events in Dark Path, and the Phantom Badgers have a contract for the campaign season and a plan for the future, but all is not as rosy as it might seem. Larger events are unfurling across ...

“A fast read filled with action, detail, intrigue, and zombies. Don’t let the name fool you: the Yard Gnomes are as serious as a zombie attack in the dark.” Five weeks after the end of Payload the newly-formed YGAT Corporation (Slogan: you want it, y’gat it) is in the field salvaging goods, battling the infected, and rescuing the living. The surviving Gnomes and a new crop of recruits find themselves as test subjects for the DSR’s new deployment concept, on the trail of a FASA VIP, and the targets of terrorists and zombies alike. Dyson’s fiancé is stranded halfway across the ...

"A compelling new series...a band of unlikely heroes whose struggles within a fantastic and grim world are both dynamic and engrossing. These are not epic lords on world-saving quests, but rather are 'ordinary' folk trying to stay one step ahead of life's tribulations. A poor man's Game of Thrones." Dark Obligations is a comprehensive tale of deadly intrigue, graphic violence, and fragile courage set in a grim fantasy world that is both familiar and alien. The story takes the reader through the depths of an abandoned Dwarven city whose halls still ring with battle, and on into a sleepy ...

Colors have meaning, many firearms have personalities, and Bear is real: these are the linchpins of Zerk’s world, even if no one else seems to understand. That he is may be crazy and probably is stupid he acknowledges without taking offense. Raised and trained by The Old Man for a war in America which never came, Zerk soldiers on in a nation crippled by a zombie apocalypse, standing firm for Old Glory and putting the mission first. Mindful of the nature of colors and the input of Bear, his only friend (and whom only Zerk can hear), he stands tall for the red, white and blue, just as he ...

“A serious novel with a strange series name, Payload is a fast-moving, quick-reading story of a band of unlikely heroes brought together by chance in the face of a terrorist-bred Zombie outbreak. It’s the Walking Dead with satellite phones.” In a United States beset by terrorists and a biowar virus a small group thrown together by chance find themselves in possession of what well may be a key to the zombie plague. Their desperate struggle across the landscape of a nation facing the first savage blows of a terror campaign and a zombie outbreak requires everything they can muster, and ...

It has been two hundred years since the starships stopped returning, the dead rose, and the Dark emerged to claim men’s souls. Much has been lost, and much hangs in the balance, but there are still men who will rage against the encroachment of evil.In the front lines of this struggle are the indefatigable Benson and the absent-minded genius Inquisitor he serves. The pair, pugnacious ex-Royal Marine and intellectual priest, aided by a BAR-loving Gurkha and a nonconformist porter, must track down a dark cult before the heretics can complete a terrible plan.Set in an Empire struggling with ...

Decades after the modern world came crashing down into ruins a tiny community lives in complete isolation aboard a beached cruise ship they call the Anvil. Governed by the Master, they go about their day to day lives happily enough, content with ignoring the outside world and being ignored in return. Until the Master falls desperately ill. As if emerging from a fog the People begin to question their own lack of history, the strange composition of their community, and to wonder as to the nature of the outside world. Left to their own devices they struggle to make sense of their situation, to...

“The Walking Dead meets the Wild Bunch: fast, smooth, and profound. Sunstone delivers a new twist in the zombie genre." The Apoc Review. It is 1912, and Mexico is a sea of revolutionary chaos. Three Pinkerton agents ride into the hinterlands of revolution-torn Mexico on the trail of a wanted man, but what they find is far worse than war. In the depths of a conflict tearing the fabric of a nation apart the dead walk and men plot to call forth the deadly arts of a nearly-forgotten era. Caught up in the machinations of a madman a small band must risk everything in the face of implacable evil...

Staff Sergeant William Harrison Packer, US Army, is a dead man walking. The alien Celmar have invaded Earth, and things are not going well for Humanity. A peacetime soldier, Sergeant Packer reluctantly volunteered to return to the colors in the face of an alien onslaught. Recovering from wounds in a (relatively) safe billet in Austin, Texas, a chance conversation with a draft-dodger sparks a chain of events that embroils Sergeant Packer in a conspiracy that takes him far beyond his pay grade. Circumstances lift him from the simple role of a Military Police NCO in a military backwater into ...

Grog is a brute (half Human, half Ukar) slave raised from birth to fight in the pits for the entertainment of the crowds. He is content with his role in the city, proud of his barracks, and in awe of his owner, the sour Master Horne. Life, by Grog's reckoning, is good. Then an enigmatic churchwoman enters his life, and Grog finds himself swept from the city which has been his entire world, to travel and learn amid as strange a group as he has ever seen. He knows nothing of the group's mission, just that his skills are necessary and the quest is "a good thing."