This is where it all began. From one generation to the next, what lies in wait for the individual pieces on the chessboard? Prologue to A Ranger's Tale.

When Elena took shelter from a storm in a cave in the middle of nowhere, the last thing she expected to find were faeries.

In the age of colonization, adventurers race each other to claim new lands. Like all others, Lucas Dormer is denied entry to the impregnable Cheshurian empire. Though he is a man not easily ignored.

The continent of Avol is in turmoil over the rule of the Malorian Empire. Plots thicken within the walls of Malorn as events head towards war.

When a lethal spell is stolen from a locked and warded room, Avram must hunt down the thief before the song of power buries a city of innocents beneath a thousand tonnes of ice.

Of course we called them zombies. What else do you call it when a sickness -- the one my dad created -- turns someone's skin gray an' amps-up their aggression?

A princess faces a dragon in hopes of protecting her kingdom from its reign of terror.

A shrill whistle pierced the din of commerce in the market square: one of them had been discovered.

In this tale, an adolescent torturer, a retired bandit and an ambitious yet failing duke, find their fates tied together by vengeance. And everyone knows that with vengeance comes a heavy price.

"They speak of a woman that tore the world asunder..." A foundling raised in silence. A cursed acolyte. A prodigal son. Their fates intertwine in the Graeling city known as Farlan.