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Provenance is a world built on dreams. Sleeper’s Sand, the energy of a cultivator, saturates the known world. It lives in the ground and the air, animals can feel it and seek it, and Dreamers bend it to their will. Galien Minefrost has always been a gifted Dreamer - one who cultivates Sleeper’s Sand - but now that he has reached the Aware Rank at the young age of thirteen, he dreams of distant lands where his abilities can be truly developed.

When Michael unexpectedly receives a recent picture of a long-lost love, a woman he thought was dead, he gives up everything to search for her and to find answers to questions that have plagued him through the years. Michael’s search takes him from St. Petersburg, Russia to an archeological dig site in Ukraine’s Carpathian mountains - a desolate area where medieval knights once roamed and horrifying secrets are buried - and at the same time, it creates a mystical connection to the riches and debauchery of the court of Nicholas and Alexandra and the “mad monk” Rasputin.

There's a reason monster hunters are rarely human. Immune to the mists that flood the woods every night, Keenyn is a dark elf prince with exactly one fear - that he'll stray too far from his demi-god partner, Bren, and lose him to the curse. After all, Keenyn's seen what's beneath that suit of armor. In detail. And if he ignores his best friend's perfect body, god-like strength, and endless stamina, it's obvious that Bren is just a man, as likely to die in the mists as any other.

The Ground upon Which I Stand is a collection of three light Lovecraftian horror stories.

Kelley was a Fleet career soldier who never thought about the future and didn’t care to remember his past. It was that simple and he liked it that way. Nothing got in the way of living life to its fullest. One explosion changed everything. Through a series of events, Kelley is forced to leave Fleet’s service. Directionless, antsy, he is certain he still has all the answers.

Having discovered the location of Brian Teplow, Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov, doctor Harry Lamb, and Father Sean O’Malley travel to a secluded asylum to collect him. But things are not so simple, and Anna must travel to the land of Teplow’s imagination to rescue him, where she finds a different world from the one suggested in the Missing Medium's journals.

While Father Sean O'Malley is summoned to Rome to discuss the "Longborough Affair" with his superiors, Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov and Doctor Harold Lamb travel to New York City where they encounter merchants, mobsters, and madmen in pursuit of the spirit medium who advised their mentor shortly before the start of the whole adventure. The Missing Medium is a pulp adventure set in the 1920s, and the second book in the Utgarda series.

50 years ago, a group of college friends dabbled in the occult and released a malign presence on the world. Now, on his deathbed, the last of the students, now a trustee of Reister University, enlists the aid of three newcomers to banish the thing they summoned. Russian anthropologist Anna Rykov, doctor Harry Lamb, and Father Sean O’Malley are all indebted to the ailing trustee for their positions. Together, they pursue the knowledge and resources needed to perform the ritual.

Daniel and Sophia are on the brink. Family bonds begin to crack as the circumstances of life drive them closer toward the edge. Grappling to meet their own personal needs, they each pour fuel on the fire.

This is the story of the day my wife died. A memoir of sorts, this book unfurls as a totem of transcendent love that usurps performative grief with an unfussy exploration of memory, agency, and the provocations of death when it stands on your doorstep.

Living in this world is hard, no matter the point in history or the dominant culture which governs how society conducts itself. Wars, famine, political corruption, economic depression, social injustice, civil unrest, all of which leads to the spiritual, personal unrest of the human soul.

After the tragedy at Tamburlaine, and its long-time role of burying the queer community’s dead, it’s time for the bar to receive its own obsequies—funeral rites. Without knowing why, the cast, crew, staff, and friends find themselves drawn to the burned-out husk of the ancient bar, consumed by their memories and sadness.