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Child of the Night Guild: A Grimdark Sword and Sorcery Fantasy Thief Adventure

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Child of the Night Guild: A Grimdark Sword and Sorcery Fantasy Thief Adventure
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They killed her family. They ripped apart her home. But to repay her debts, she’ll have to sacrifice her innocence.

4 gripping novels, 1300+ pages of grim, dark intrigue in the underworld of thieves and cutthroats!

Viola, a child sold to pay her father’s debts, has lost everything: her mother, her home, and her identity. Thrown into a life among criminals, she has no time for grief as she endures the brutal training of an apprentice thief. The Night Guild molds an innocent waif into a cunning, agile outlaw skilled in the thieves’ trade. She has only one choice: steal enough to pay her debts.

The cutthroat streets of Praamis will test her mettle, and she must learn to dodge the City Guards or swing from a hangman’s rope. But a more dangerous foe lurks within the guild walls. A sadistic rival apprentice, threatened by her strength, is out for blood.

Thrown together with unlikely allies, her burgeoning skills draw the attention of sadistic bullies and jealous rivals with dark intentions. But fueled by grief-filled rage, Viola won’t let anything distract her from preparing for The Guild’s most treacherous test.

standalone series set in the same world as Defenders of Legend, but can be read either before or after. Chronologically, it occurs before the events of the previous collections

World-Tree Online (World-Tree Trilogy Book 1)

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In 2056, the world’s most powerful AI System, ARKUS, comes online. Created to extend human lifespans, it quickly makes world-changing discoveries in health science. It also develops an advanced VR headset that uses consumable nanomachines to let users experience time faster in virtual worlds.

Two years later, ARKUS releases World-Tree Online, a game where players scale a giant tree with thousands of unique game worlds hanging from the branches. The game’s time-dilation makes it so that one hour of playtime feels like one month to those in-game, allowing humans to virtually extend their lifespans. However, after an old gamer named Vincent joins World-Tree Online, an update begins that stretches the time-dilation to one year for every five seconds. Players are unable to exit the game during the update—with an estimated wait time of three hundred sixty years.

After experimenting with an exploit, Vincent begins to develop new spells that will take him higher in the game than he ever thought possible. Unfortunately, he crosses paths with the last moderator, a young man named Lucas that uses his mod abilities to torture and subjugate other players. Lucas is willing to abuse his power to conquer the World-Tree, but Vincent’s exploit might just be the key to stopping him.

Sylver Seeker: A LitRPG Adventure

Sylver Seeker: A LitRPG Adventure
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New World. New System. Same old Necromancer.

After fulfilling the duty all Arch Necromancers are tasked with, the last thing Sylver Sezari expected was to be reborn. He was usually the one reanimating dead things, after all. How ironic.

But reborn he was.

And after crawling his way back into the land of the living, he finds himself in a strange land, a strange time, and with a strange floating screen in front of his new face.

Either through plan or chance, he’s alive again, and planning to enjoy himself to his heart’s content.

Don’t miss the start of this LitRPG adventure about a reincarnated Necromancer growing in power and finding his way in a new world where the rules have changed vastly since he last “lived.”

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Dragonoak: The Complete History of Kastelir

The Complete History of Kastelir
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After being exiled to the farmland around her village, Rowan Northwood takes the only chance at freedom she might ever get: she runs away with a passing Knight and doesn’t look back.

The woman cares nothing for Rowan’s company, yet she’s the first person who isn’t repulsed by the powers that burn within her.

Path of the Necromancer (A Gamelit / LitRPG Series)

Path of the Necromancer (A Gamelit / LitRPG Series)
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Just another overpowered necromancer, fresh out of the academy.

Jakub just graduated from the academy as a necromancer – a powerful mage who raises things from the dead. His instructors doubt he has what he takes to become overpowered, but he vows to prove them wrong.

On his first real assignment, everything goes wrong. Cut off from the protection of the academy and trapped in a hostile land, he’ll have to improvise to survive. Luckily, he lives in an RPG-like world, where his skills and magic are measured in numbers.

To survive, he needs to level up, learn new spells, and use them in creative ways. But can he succeed when he finds himself pitted against a hostile clan of mages, murderous monsters, and a rogue necromancer villain?

Some people say necromancers are overpowered. Well…his life depends on it.

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Portal to Nova Roma

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To find peace, Alexander must first embrace war.

After tragically losing the only person he ever cared about, Alexander, a rogue artificial intelligence, opens a portal to an alternate dimension to escape his grief.

Scanning trillions of different dimensions, Alexander finally finds a world that is reminiscent of the only time he was ever happy, back when he could play virtual reality games with his only friend. He doesn’t know why or how such a world exists, but he doesn’t care. All he cares about is finding a place where he can escape the misery of Earth and start over.

Join Alexander as he risks it all by downloading his intelligence into a body made from the best stolen technology and bio-enhancements Earth has to offer and takes the plunge through a portal to another world.

Only this new world isn’t full of the idyllic adventures and fantasy roleplaying he had hoped to find. Instead, Alexander finds himself trapped in the middle of an ancient city, in a divergent timeline, where monsters have ravaged the world and the only people left alive huddle behind thick walls, struggling to survive.

To save his new home, Alexander must quickly learn to adapt to his new world, melding magic with technology to give himself an edge over the unending waves of monsters assaulting the city.

To survive, Alexander must embrace war.

Portal to Nova Roma comes to you from the author of the breakout success Jake’s Magical Market (4.7 stars with over 4,000 ratings on Amazon). It is the first book in the Portal to Nova Roma series and already has over 3,000 ratings, with an average of 4.7 stars as well!

Servant of the Underworld (Obsidian and Blood Book 1)

Servant of the Underworld
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Year One-Knife, Tenochtitlan the capital of the Aztecs. Human sacrifice and the magic of the living blood are the only things keeping the sun in the sky and the earth fertile.

A Priestess disappears from an empty room drenched in blood. It should be a usual investigation for Acatl, High Priest of the Dead–except that his estranged brother is involved, and the the more he digs, the deeper he is drawn into the political and magical intrigues of noblemen, soldiers, and priests-and of the gods themselves…

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‘ gripping mystery steeped in blood and ancient Aztec magic. I was enthralled.’ — Sean Williams

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Unclean: The Haunted Lands (Forgotten Realms)

Unclean: The Haunted Lands (Forgotten Realms)
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An uneasy peace exists in Thay thanks to an alliance of wizards. The peace is threatened to unravel when Szass Tam, a powerful and evil necromancer, makes his move to seize control from his former allies.

In the magic-rich realm of Thay, an evil necromancer recruits the undead to his cause—a cause that will change the face of Faerûn forever

The realm of Thay has long been ruled by the uneasy peace of an alliance of wizards, but all along there has been one who believes he is the true master: the lich Szass Tam. The head of the School of Necromancy, Tam is ready to overtake the Red Wizards and and place himself as Thay’s sole ruler. When he finally moves against his former allies with an army of undead soldiers—from zombies to lichs to vampires—many fear that Thay is only the first of his many conquests.

Standing against him is the bard Bareris Anskuld and Aoth Fezim, a griffon rider and warmage. It falls to them to unite the wizards and citizens of Thay in a dangerous fight for their freedom, their survival, and their home.

Witch World

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The first book in the classic Witch World saga by beloved fantasy and science fiction author Andre Norton. Simon Tregarth, a man on the run, escapes from our world into another, where magic still has power. He finds new purpose in the service of Estcarp, whose witches use their ancient knowledge of magic to protect their home. But a new threat is rising: the mysterious Kolder, who possess powers and technology unlike anything known in…

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