A weapon forged for an emperor. A paladin’s soul. A girl trying to save her mother, by any means possible.These things have nothing in common except in the city of Tsing, where life and death are as simple as the edge of a knife, or as complex as imperial politics.To maintain his tenuous hold on the hearts of the people, Emperor Tynean Tsing III needed a symbol of his just reign, his impartial judgment, and his swift hand against opposition. What better symbol than a weapon forged by a great blademage and imbued with the soul of a paladin, a weapon made for his hand alone?The perfect weapon…But is any weapon perfect? Is any man’s soul flawless? What happens when the tiniest defect goes unnoticed? What happens when an emperor’s life—and an empire’s fate—are held hostage by a Weapon of Power gone mad?One girl holds the fate of the empire in her unknowing hands. Katie—a fugitive hardened by a life of cruel lessons—doesn’t want to be found. But someone must find her and tell her the truth, and somehow convince her that it is in her best interest to save the world she has grown to despise.

Life after death can be hell…For over a year, Jundag has lived—and died—and lived again at the whim of Calmarel Darkmist. Soul-sick and weary, he longs for the eternal peace of death. But Calmarel covets Jundag’s strength and fortitude, and devises a devious scheme to usurp those traits for her own profane ambitions.Unbeknownst to Jundag, his spiritual anguish is perceived by his long-lost friend and companion, Avari. Convinced that Jundag is alive—or that she is going crazy—she seeks out the friends who shared in the liberation of Zellohar Keep. Using the two cornerstones they recovered from the Nekdukarr Iveron Darkmist, they locate their friend, and discover a fiendish plot. The children of the Dark Gods are again planning to subjugate the surface world. But simple conquest is no longer their goal…only complete annihilation will satisfy their blood lust.Dragons and demons, Dark Gods and Darkmists all stand against the small troop of brave yet conflicted companions determined to save their friend from an eternity of torture, and their world from complete and utter destruction.But first, they have to go to hell…

Assassins at war…A bloody guild war was the last thing Mya wanted.She nearly had it all: Lady T’s endorsement as Grandmaster of the Assassins Guild, the emperor’s gratitude, and finally someone who made her feel human...Now Lady T is dead, the emperor asks a favor that Mya dare not refuse, and Dee expects more from her than just friendship. It doesn’t help that a cabal of assassins prefers an Imperial Grandmaster over an upstart from Twailin.What she doesn’t know is that the rebel factions want more from her than just the Grandmaster’s ring.Everyone wants something from Mya, but how much can she give before it kills her?

Exciting finale of the award-winning Weapon of Flesh series.Mercy or vengeance?There are limits to human endurance, and Mya’s been pushed beyond them. Survival comes at a dreadful cost, shattering her confidence as well as her body. Consumed by revenge, she transforms her guild war into a personal vendetta.But she’s not alone.Lad arrives from Twailin to help, but finds Mya’s thirst for vengeance disturbing. He knows that poison, how it destroys the soul. He reaches out, but nothing can pierce the armor of her hatred.With the city in chaos and war looming, they set out together to take back the Assassins Guild. But each also has their own agenda. Will Mya give up her pursuit of vengeance, or will Lad be forced to destroy her?

The pursuit of the Cornerstones has begun…The companions have stolen two of the four precious Cornerstones, artifacts of unbelievable power, from the Nekdukarr Iveron Darkmist. Furious at this interruption of his plans to use the Cornerstones to wage war, the Nekdukarr will stop at nothing to get them back. So while the companions pursue the last two stones, Darkmist and his assassins pursue them.But Iveron is not the only ambitious member of Clan Darkmist. Lysethra and Calmarel, matriarchs of the clan and Iveron’s sisters, have discovered that he will soon possess a source of incalculable power. With this might behind him, they have no illusions that their brother will confine his conquest to the surface world. Their hearts are as dark and twisted as his own, and they have a secret: Jundag, who fell under the Nekdukarr’s blade in Zellohar. But death is no refuge from the servants of the Dark Gods, and the Sisters Darkmist weave Jundag’s tortured mind and soul into their web of intrigue.As the armies of light and darkness gather for the impending battle, one thing is clear—whomever possesses the Cornerstones will decide the fate of the world.

Zellohar Keep is lost…Once the ancestral home of a glorious dwarven kingdom—a masterpiece of architecture, secure, secretive, impregnable—Zellohar is now prison to a dark evil. The dwarves used the might of the Cornerstones, conduits to the power of the elemental spheres, to forever seal the keep.But the minions of the Dark Gods are not so easily imprisoned.The squires of the Nekdukarr Lord Iveron Darkmist, a paladin of the death god, Mortas, have recovered the Cornerstones. The enchantment has been broken. The doors that sealed the chaos of the Nine Hells within the mountain under Zellohar have been opened. The powers of the Nine Hells have, quite literally, broken loose.Iveron Darkmist has resumed the campaign he began nearly one hundred year ago—to devastate the surface world in a storm of destruction and death. And with Zellohar as his fortress, the Cornerstones to fuel his magic, and the Dark Gods’ favor, he will be invincible.All that stands in his way are a horse farmer’s daughter, a superstitious tribesman, a defrocked priest, a demented dwarf and an elf cursed with lycanthropy. The unwitting companions stumble into the Nekdukarr’s plot, and are thrown into a conflict that threatens to obliterate all they know and love.Pursued to the corners of the realms, the companions flee the wrath of Iveron Darkmist. But even death is no refuge from the power of the Dark Gods.

The Shattered Isles are at peace. Or so it seems. The vile pirate lord, Bloodwind, has been vanquished, and Cynthia Flaxal has everything she always dreamed of: the mystical powers of a seamage, a successful shipyard, the love of a great man, and a child on the way. But trouble roils both above and below the waves. A school of vengeful merfolk harbors a secret and terrible agenda. An empire perceives Cynthia's growing fleet as a threat. A small band of surviving pirates hatches a devious plot to regain supremacy in the Shattered Isles. A favor to an old friend leaves Cynthia with a powerful but undisciplined young pyromage on her hands. And as all these forces converge, the Seamage of the Shattered Isles finds herself and her unborn child caught right in the middle.

Continuing the award-winning Weapon of Flesh series, this is Book 1 of the second trilogy. This is Mya’s story. One thrust of a dagger changed an empire. Mya discovers that donning the Grandmaster’s ring does not make her master of the Assassins Guild, and won’t keep her safe from the machinations of those whose power she has curtailed. The Tsing guildmaster refuses to pledge allegiance. The power-crazed priest, Hoseph, vows to see the Grandmaster’s ring on the finger of a new emperor of his own choosing. Meanwhile, the true heir to the throne ignites class warfare with his new policies, earning the enmity of his own nobility. Alone in Tsing, a city simmering in intrigue and injustice, Mya struggles to overcome her ingrained fear and shattered heart to wrest control of the guild from those who view her as a usurper. But what chance does one woman have against an entire guild of assassins, much less a madman who can dissolve into shadow and kill with a touch? The Hunter has become the hunted…**

The pirates of the Shattered Isles live and die by on simple oath: By blood, by wind, by water and wave, loyal as one, or a watery grave… With that oath, their lord, Captain Bloodwind, would build a nation of pirates. He doesn't want much, after all… just everything. And what he cannot have, he will destroy. The only man to ever stand against him, the legendary seamage Orin Flaxal, paid that price. But his orphaned daughter, Cynthia, has plans of her own, and revenge is top on her list. She is no warrior, and thanks to Bloodwind's murder of her parents, she will never be a seamage. But she has one family trait that nobody can destroy: she can build ships, like her grandfather did. She will build ships that no corsair can match, and use them to starve the pirate nation to death. And with the help of a bedraggled seasprite, a crippled old sailor and a retired ship's cook, who could stand against her? But Bloodwind has spies and assassins in every port, and Cynthia's new ships would make fine additions to his pirate fleet. Meanwhile, Odea, goddess of the sea, has her own plans for Cynthia Flaxal. So when Cynthia's ships finally set sail, both Captain Bloodwind and Odea are ready.

The final Scimitar Seas novel in the award-winning series! Between the devil and the deep blue sea... The expedition to Akrotia has succeeded; Cynthia's baby is safe. But she and Feldrin both know that their trials are not over. The emperor demands answers for the destruction of his ships and deaths of his soldiers. Plume Isle has been ransacked by pirates, Dura has been captured by cannibals, and Camilla is acting like a woman possessed. Edan, whose desire for revenge fuels the awakened city of Akrotia, is coming to burn them all. Cynthia's bargain with the emperor is simple: she will stop Edan and Akrotia if he will give back all that she holds dear. But even with the aid of the entire imperial navy and a nation of merfolk, she does not know if she can destroy Akrotia. For to destroy Akrotia is to murder Edan, the poor scared boy who saved her son.