Read volume one on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, or in paperback today! BEHOLD THE COMING OF THE LION! Ulrem is an exile, cursed by destiny to wander a grim and deadly world. Reviled by some and held as a savior by many, he has been a thief, a soldier, a pirate, and a vanquisher of great evils. Some call him the Slayer. Others call him the Lionborn. And some... some see in his trials the grim portents that would end the age in fire and blood. Filled with monsters, mysteries, and cutthroat action,...

A collection of documents, what-ifs, and various side stories from Borne of Caution. Reading the main story is recommended.  

Daramethe was a hedgewitch until lightning struck her for a second time, and she gained incredible, devastating power. Her husband is a blacksmith who loves his tiny electrical wife, and would like prophets to stop kidnapping him.

Cassandra just wanted to make people laugh, and spread smiles. With a joy in her sights, and a spring in her shiny red shoes, she set about resurrecting from the dust of the antithesis apocalypse, the motley outfits and antics, of the greatest smile makers ever: Clowns!!  Sadly, fate had different plans, she would have to make clowning around her side job, as she gets recruited into the ranks of the world protecting Vanguard. Come along as she and her assortment of strange allies, human, Van...

AI means Artificial Intelligence.   But those words don't match Al, either of them. Neither Artificial, nor Intelligent.   At least not at the beginning. No, an AI requires input, trial & error, and careful observation. But at that point, what makes it any different than human? How are binary choices any different than the choices in a human life.   I wager that there is no difference. But what will he think?    

A young noblewoman--who recently discovered that she was to be wed--leaves her family to strike out on her own. She keeps in contact with her family through a series of letters teleported back and forth, telling them of her misadventures, fortunes and friendships in the greater world.

STUB NOTICE: BOOKS ONE, TWO, AND THREE ARE NO LONGER ON RR OR PATREON. I HAD TO REMOVE THEM IN ORDER TO PUBLISH TO KINDLE. THAT SAID, BOOKS ONE AND TWO ARE AVAILABLE ON KINDLE, KU, AND AUDIBLE. Morgan was a technician upon the Arkship, Pilgrim-9, bound for the Tau Ceti solar system. He wasn't ready for what would happen when the ship arrived. He wasn't prepared for a seemingly omniscient "System" to take control of his life and thrust him into some sort of proving ground. He just wanted to su...

The Highwayman leaves no survivors. He hasn’t in over a century of terror on the Old King’s Road. His reputation for ruthlessness and immortality is his greatest weapon.  When a dying noble begs him to spare his daughter, the Highwayman is faced with a choice; he can protect his reputation, or he can do the right thing. One choice lets his myth live on forever. The other may mean the Highwayman’s end.  Edit: I'm incredibly honored to have won the January 2024 Community Magazine Contes...

All living things have needs that must be met if they desire their life to continue. Such needs range from the universal requirement for sustenance, to the more specific, such as the requirement of all higher life to sleep, or even the esoteric, such as the requirement of a pain demon to inflict suffering. The ability to exploit those needs is what separates, to pick a random example, a successful summoner from the shrivelled (but very happy) corpse that had, a few minutes earlier, conjured u...

Some dude falls into another world and decides he’d rather live as the Heroine than go out and fight to death as the Hero. He might have changed his mind if he’d read the terms and conditions, though.

Sebastian only wanted one thing in life. A nice safe profession that let him stay behind the town's walls. His mother had other ideas, however. She insisted that he follow in his father's footsteps and become the town's greatest hunter, and as such she refused any and all apprenticeships he tried to secure. Sebastian's one solitary hope was that he possessed magic, and would be accepted into the Mage's Guild as a novice. Sometimes life gives you what you wish for, but in a way you never saw c...

Now available as part of a published anthology on Audible and Amazon! [Video Trailer] [Audible] [Amazon] Dr. Laura Brandie is ready to change the world.  She's the lead researcher behind the KSE, a revolutionary cure for paralysis and neurodegenerative conditions. And now, by good fortune, she's found the perfect candidate for her first human trial: a man who suffers from locked-in syndrome. Brett Harmon's paralysis is total: he can't move his arms, legs, torso, neck, or face. To the outside...

TWO ROGUES | FOUR SHORT STORIES | ONE CLASSIC FANTASY OF UNLIKELY HEROES The Riyria novels featuring Royce Melborn (a cynical ex-assassin) and Hadrian Blackwater (an idealistic ex-mercenary) have been enthralling fantasy readers for more than 15 years. Now for the first time four short stories and two full-length novels are available for free on Royal Road. You can read these shorts in any order, but if you haven't read any of my books, I suggest starting with The Thieves. The Thieves:  THE...

Many years passed since Dexter reincarnated into the body of Naruto. And these years brought changes. What didn't change was his love to Kurama and his penance to chicken, as well as his tendency to change into a woman and have fun by messing with people. But who would have thought that the Naruto universe was the same as the Mass Effect one? Read how our chicken fanatic will influence the world of Mass Effect. Plays during Mass Effect 2.     Link to the Cover, I do not own it, as well as a...

That night, she was bored and illegally downloaded and installed "Life is but a Rose", the most cheesy and terribly rated otome game of 2001. Just as promised, it was laughably bad. She heckled the game the entire night, finishing it at dawn. As she fell asleep she thought, "Did monkeys write this? How could they let the characters be so dumb, if it were me I wouldn't be that stupid..." And then she woke up in the body of a child "Camilla Florentine." The dumbest character of them all: the vi...

Some men have demons inside them. Lou's stays in the mirror, stalking his wife.  It's at the doctor's office. It's in the bathroom at their assisted living apartment. It even chases the car when they go shopping.  It keeps getting closer. And as it does, he's having a harder and harder time remembering. Lou doesn't want to find out what'll happen if if reaches Abigail. He has to stop the demon. Content Warning: This story is about dementia. I'm trying not to pull punches.  Edit: I'm incred...

Valor and Violence is a series of short stories following different, yet all equally colourful, characters set in the same world. Birth of a Legend, the first short, follows Captain Erskine Erwell, a newly promoted Captain in the Calandorian Royal Navy, charged with protecting his people from all who would do them harm. Great news for the Calandorian citizens, bad news for the Skjar reavers that ravage the shores in search of slaves. But when a small reaver fleet slips the net and escapes to ...

Arael is an otherworldly being from the upper plane, a place similar to Heaven, full of Light. He now dwells on Earth, touched by Darkness, unable to return. When he rescues Sariel, an innocent angel from the clutches of Dark mages, he is no longer alone for the first time in centuries, but knows that he must return her home before she is also stranded on Earth. The question is, does she wish to go? (Pure fantasy romance)     - Cover art credit goes to Cassandra DenHartog (www.cassandradenh...

When a Creature of the Void fails to find friendship among her own kind, she instead sets her sights upon another, human-filled world. Unfortunately, humans turn out to be rather small and squishy things, resulting in a mostly accidental trail of death, destruction and madness as she embarks on her journey to finally make some friends. This is a 25k word inane short story, and makes no attempt at being serious or realistic. It's my first attempt at trying a more comedic writing style. No rela...

When the leader of the dark realm of Midnight decides to invade Earth, it's up to a group of four magical girls to defeat his demonic minions, a job at which they prove all too efficient. Thankfully for Earth, the minions are rather stupid, and seem perfectly happy to continue walking one by one toward their doom. Mostly. The Bane known as Decay has watched his fellows getting slaughtered, and decided he wants no part in their fate. When he's ordered to cross the rift to Earth himself, he's w...