

REALM
A near-fatal mission to Jupiter changed the world forever.
For former astronaut Greydon Carver, it came at the cost of the suffocating anxiety of unwanted fame and adulation. With nothing to lose, his escape comes in the form of a top-secret contract that promises to pull him from the limelight with the world's most influential tech company, Traverse.
Upon arrival, Greydon discovers that he's about to become the first human trial for teleportation–an experiment that instead hurls him into another world altogether amidst an unending war between the races of Earth's myths and legends.
Lost and confused in this strange new world, an Elven warrior and her gryphon-riding guardians rescue Greydon from a feral dragon and offer him sanctuary in their home of Vy'landrah.
But when a dimensional rift created by Greydon's arrival falls into enemy hands, the tide of the war shifts as they draw from Earth's life-force to fuel their dark magic. To aid his new allies, he must rely upon the advanced technology that came with him—and a magical suit of Elven armor—to survive the trials ahead.




After years spent searching the stars, Greydon will have to choose between the life he left behind or risk certain death in the only world that's ever felt like home.
The Shadow of Rome
Salvatore Veramontes has been called many things, but only two of those labels are accurate.
Abandoned by his parents for his strange appearance and tormented by the children of the orphanage where he was raised, his only choice was to fend for himself on the streets of Rome.


Outcast. Killer. Vampire.


Salvatore's particular talents attract the attention of a man named Anton Sechler, who draws him into the depths of a criminal underworld of death and betrayal as a professional assassin.
Working with Sechler is a brilliant scientist named Marcel Lemaire, who provides Salvatore with the means to not only become a more efficient killer but also the ability to embrace the monster within that society has labeled him.
But on the morning after his 16th birthday in 1737, Salvatore is brutally assaulted and left for dead by those who hate and fear him. His survival awakens abilities he never knew he possessed–and a burning desire for vengeance.
Taking the lives of the ones who tried to end his own sparks a bloodlust against the society that spurned him as he turns to a life as a serial killer before the term existed.


The Shadow of Rome is the story of one man's struggle between power and morality and the fight to discover his own humanity before he loses everything.
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