Norsemen sail across the Channel into the realm of the great Frankish emperor and confront a massive Crusader force. Aboard a dragon ship an English monk guards a book wrapped in cloth whose true worth is known only to him. At their leader's side is Raven, with a blood spot in his eye and magic in his soul, and he and Cynethryth, the runaway daughter of an English king, plunge into an epic clash of men and faiths.

A young hobbit inherits a powerful, corrupting ring and leaves his peaceful homeland on a desperate quest to destroy it before a rising dark power can reclaim it; a diverse fellowship of hobbits, a ranger, an elf, a dwarf, a nobleman, and a wizard is formed to guide and guard him, and together they face ancient evils, treacherous landscapes, and bitter internal strains that culminate in a catastrophic loss and the breaking of their company, forcing friends onto separate paths while the hobbit and his loyal companion press on toward Mordor.

Princess Natasia is the eldest child of Emperor Andreth of the Four Realms, but as a girl she is expected to marry so her father can shape a male successor. An unknown would-be assassin nearly takes her life, revealing that someone seeks to destabilize the Empire, with suspects including Western lords, eastern barbarians, or the mysterious Cult of Culo. With palace intrigue growing dangerous, the Emperor considers Natasia as a possible heir and the reckless, rebellious princess must learn to lead before the Empire falls.

A new war brews between the Shadowlands and the mortal world, a conflict the Brotherhood of Culo has warned about for generations. An Empress in exile struggles to regain her crown while the warrior sworn to protect her fights to return, confronting an enemy even the Empire's greatest living sword master may not defeat: time itself. Time is running out for the soldiers of the House of Dorsa. This is book two of a three book series.

Four and a half years after the Battle of the Empress's Last Stand ended Empress Natasia's reign and the War in the East, the peace does not match what the Empire expected. Linna refuses to accept that the Empress and Joslyn of Terinto are gone and travels alone into the East to uncover what really happened in that battle. She plans to continue past former borders toward the mysterious Kingdom of Persopos in hopes of finding the truth and her leaders alive.

In a bleak, tightly controlled society an unremarkable Party member who works rewriting history at the Ministry of Truth grows privately rebellious, beginning a forbidden relationship and daring to hope for resistance against the omnipresent surveillance, propaganda, and Thought Police; he is eventually betrayed, arrested, and subjected to brutal physical and psychological torture designed to erase independent thought and force absolute conformity, culminating in his surrender to the Party’s reality and the destruction of his inner resistance.

A lonely eighth-grade half-vampire struggles to keep his true nature secret while navigating bullies, a loyal friend, and the humiliations of middle school; as mysterious threats and his own violent urges intrude on everyday life, he must confront painful secrets from his past and make difficult moral choices about who he will become.