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With Venir imprisoned at the Outpost, who will step forward to protect Bish from the rising tide of underlings? Who will save Venir? What about the City of Bone? Have underling Lords Catten, Verbard and Master Kierway taken it over? Kam the mage and Lefty Lightfoot struggle to find a way out of The Nest, but will they need the help of a far more dangerous ally? What hand, if any, will Scorch have in all of this? Will another Darkslayer rise amid the chaos?

Venir is pushed to his limits in the Outlands: battling underlings and trying to find a way to staunch the underling armies that are quickly spreading from one corner of Bish to the other. Detective Melegal, struggling to get his life back under control, finds himself with more responsibility that he ever asked for. Not only does his life hang in the balance, but the fate of many others as well. Will his actions save them or spell doom for them all?

A new future unfolds. After a harrowing escape from Urslay, the city of giants, Nath, Brenwar, and Selene find themselves in the sanctuary of the Elven Field of Dreams. The solitude and peace in the lush land offers refreshing waters but that does not last long. The wilder elves, guardians of the sanctuary, take Nath and company prisoner as he stands accused of murder. Bewildered by the accusation, Nath searches for the truth only to have Fang stolen while he lies abandoned in an inescapable prison.

Together again and fighting their rivals, Grey Cloak and Dyphestive are tasked with stealing a valuable magical artifact from the crypts of the Monarch Castle. They must go undercover and infiltrate the enemy, and such a meticulous heist may be too difficult even for these brave brothers. Taking on unlikely and untrustworthy allies could result in their immediate deaths.

Determined to shirk his training, Grey Cloak will do anything to refuse the Sky Riders' orders. He must fight for himself and for the life of his brother. Doomed if he submits and doomed if he doesn't, Grey Cloak battles his own horrifying fate.

The newly reunited brothers, Grey Cloak and Dyphestive, deserve a break. After all, they spend their days and nights battling enemies who want to destroy them. It's exhausting and overwhelming for two youths who just crave some down time. But when their fiercest enemy launches a surprise attack, it puts all Sky Riders' lives in peril.

The bad news gets worse for the blood brothers, Grey Cloak and Dyphestive, as they find out their old friends are either dead or captured. Survivors of Talon are held captive on Prisoner Island, and a rescue mission is mounted. The problem is, the only way to the dangerous, unexplored island is in the Black Guards' shackles.

At odds with Smoke's diabolical brother, Specks, Sid and company battle to protect the only weapon they have left, a jump drive that will lead them to a source of unknown powers and the secret of the Knights of Nigil.

Abraham Jenkins and the henchmen are pitted against dragon-riding fiends while leading a search party to the cemetery. Trying to recover artifacts that will destroy them before malicious dragons get their hands on them.

Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Grey Cloak is stricken by a mysterious life-threatening illness. With his brother’s life in his hands, Dyphestive crosses a barren wasteland with blood thirsty nomads hunting him down.

Bent on a swift and quick conquest of Monarch City, Black Frost’s dragon forces strike hard and fast, pinning the heroes in an ill-fated circumstance. At the risk of being destroyed, Grey Cloak and Dyphestive choose to stand their ground and unleash forces so lethal, their lives will never be the same.

Sidney Smoke—FBI agent turned bounty hunter, retired monster slayer, wife, and mother of two—has made the most of the simple life, but when her husband returns from a mission with his life hanging by a thread, her old instincts are awakened. Through interdimensional portals, dragon-like invaders and shape-shifting monstrosities wielding otherworldly magical powers threaten the very existence of humanity. And it will take more than flesh and blood to stop them before they seal the world's fate.

Once a respected wizard, Finster is now a drunkard and a con man living anonymously amongst simple, easily manipulated village folk. But his self-serving cunning cannot save him when soldiers of the Magus Supremeus of the High Order burst in to drag the disreputable mage to the dreaded Red Citadel. Finster’s captor, the new Magus, is none other than Ingrid the Insane, his former student, a young woman of cold heart and ruthless ambition who has already murdered numerous magic-doers in her quest for ultimate power.

Nath Dragon journeys with his brother, Lord Darkken and elven love, Maefon, to retrieve the highly coveted dragon ore. Darkken shares his plans for Nalzambor's future, convincing Nath, that the world is not meant for dragons, and that they are the true evolution of the new order. Nath has his doubts, but helps see his brothers plot through. Slivver, Elween, and Brenwar align all of the forces they can muster to track Nath down, before Darkken leads them all to a perilous end. Who can Nath trust? Darkken, his brother, or his friends? Can he make the right decision for himself?

Nath, Darkken, and Maefon's relationships grow stronger and they become quite the formidable band of heroes. Still taken in by the deception, Nath journeys with his new companions across Nalzambor to the town of Old Hen. It is there that they begin a desperate search in a bizarre gargantuan crypt guarded by the undead. Within, they hope to find the secret of Dragon Steel, that can be turned into a weapon, that can kill anything.

Betrayed by the Black Hand yet again, Nath finds himself in a battle for his life with ruthless enemies attacking from all sides. Who can he trust? Meanwhile, as his bonds grow stronger with Calypsa the half-dryad, and Hacksaw the old knight, Lord Darkken begins to take command and leading Nath on a perilous journey with the dubious dark elven brothers of the wind.

Imprisoned in a Slaver Town, Nath is determined to get revenge. After all, his list of rivals is multiplying rapidly. But his darkest, most vile enemy is still a mystery to him - a mystery he's determined to solve. An unidentified enemy will do anything to destroy Nath, wanting nothing more than to torment him, put him in shackles, and work him to death, while breaking Nath's will to survive. But why?

Grey Cloak and Dyphestive find themselves in a race against time. They must save Zora and Tanlin from their captors and find a magic artifact with other-worldly powers. But unbeknownst to them, Black Frost’s minions pick up on their trail, and a new hunt for the Blood Brothers begins while an unknown army that cannot be killed rises against them.

After a harrowing escape from the depths of Thannis, Grey Cloak and Dyphestive find themselves trapped by Drysis the Dreadful and the Doom Riders. With their lives on the line, it’s escape, die, or return to slavery. With Black Frost’s armies and forces of evil dragon riders conquering the land and skies, it will take more than wit and skill to destroy the flying tyrannical terror. The quest will demand guts and sacrifice, or the world called Gapoli will fall into the clutches of a maniacal monster forever.

Black Frost has the entire world crushed beneath his talons, and Grey Cloak and Dyphestive are running out of options to defeat him. They need an army, and will lock horns with their allies on how to get it. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the world, Zora makes new enemies unlike anything she has ever encountered before.