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Chaos ensues on the morning of a grizzly bear attack while miles away in the same forest, a behemoth, ancient beast climbs from a cave and begins to declare its territory with ravenous violence. Hunters come in droves but the beast proves itself too big and too cunning, using its fearsome teeth and claws to destroy the intruders. Many die and blood is spilled by the gallon, but has the beast met its match when a park ranger, an average joe, and a trail expert come together to predict where the beast will attack next?

The journey ever closer to the Dark Lord brings greater threats to the beloved three Dennis swore to protect. He's seriously considering tossing the mantle of fate from his shoulders and keeping his women safe in Yedia, where he can stay on top of the situation. Yet, ignoring the prophecy would leave numerous others lost or enslaved, and Galderia would surely fall further into darkness. This puts the wrong kind of kink in his plan. Across the landscape ahead of him, once-vanquished adversaries, merciless forces, and new evils lie in wait to destroy him and all he fights to safeguard.

Betrayed by his own kind, King Belial loses everything: His wife, his newborn, and his kingdom. When offered a chance at revenge by the mischievous twin Goddesses Enmu and Enma, he willingly takes it. The deal is simple, at least for them. Belial gets to be reincarnated into a vessel of their choosing and offered free reign on how to go about getting his revenge, however, there is a catch. The one thing the two want from him is simple: Take humanity down a notch. Or two.

Joining up with the survivors as ice coated the planet, Dante must struggle to survive in a cold new world. But as they explore the tower and scavenge for supplies, they soon discover the weather isn’t the only problem. The expected bodies aren’t there...and something’s moving in the dark.

The Dominion war machine was hurt with the destruction of its shipyard, and Kai Fletcher has given the galaxy a fighting chance. But no good deed goes unpunished. The Dominion attacks the Dor’Anian planet of origin, and the Gensoon home world at great cost. The Regent, Corallus, thinks they have the Dominion on the ropes, and can’t spare anyone from the Armada to help Kai protect the next obvious and least defended target, Earth.

A bounty hunting survivor. A Galactic dark elf. A woman who has given up her humanity to become something more. These stories and more are available in the first short story anthology for the System Apocalypse, covering year one on Earth. When the world ends, humanity steps up, finding new ways to survive in a world with Classes, magic and monsters. The anthology features exciting, new stories by five new writers and a new, never publicly released short story by Tao Wong.

Chance lives a life of both pain and privilege. A capable man yet still only 18, he is old enough to seize the world before him. Yet still too young to know what to make of his future. His mind, bright like the sun; heart, brave like all the legionnaires that preceded him; character, unsullied by the follies of the world. His soul, however, paints a different picture.

A daring dungeon rescue. A witch who won’t stop until she gets what she wants. A quest for revenge. Time has run out. After another successful defense of my city, with the help of my newly acquired army, optimism is growing.

With grit, intelligence, and a stroke of luck, Gunnar passed his guild trials and has been granted the opportunity to be the champion of a goddess. He now has the opportunity to form a faction of his own, join a powerful guild, and make a name for himself in the city of Thailen. But he has also made some bitter enemies, including an old nemesis who is bent on destroying everything he has accomplished. To survive this cutthroat world of thieves and assassins, Gunnar will have to be smarter, and stronger, and more ruthless. Learning some dark magic might not hurt either.

A wild witch hunt. New enemies have arrived. The clock is ticking. I might have successfully repelled the first attack on my sanctuary, but now I’ve got bigger problems.

Gardranian Warships are tough, but they’re outnumbered and it’s getting worse by the day. The Dominion has employed a shipyard to crank out hybrid tech designed to put a stranglehold on everyone. While the rest of the Gardranian Armada continues the search for their missing brethren, Kai hatches a desperate plan to destroy the shipyard and remove the Dominion's numerical advantage. For this to work, he must make allies of the very bad guys that kidnapped him to the stars in the first place, the Laosoran Crime Syndicates.

Joe Kovacs isn’t your average special forces warrior. There’s an alien artifact embedded in his skull that allows him to predict the future. It’s served him well so far, uncovering a conspiracy that would have shifted the balance of power in the Sol system for years to come.

When a training exercise at a classified research facility goes awry, Joe Kovacs loses much more than his eyesight. He loses his career. He can’t lead one of the military’s top spec-ops teams if he can’t see.

Kai Fletcher, small time criminal planner turned reluctant warship captain was drafted into a war older than him by several thousand millennia. While the Kholdrax grow stronger, Kai and his small band of warships must find the remnants of the Gardranian Armada that didn’t awaken with the rest of their fleet. Opposed at every turn by awakening Kholdrax forces, the Vakness Empire, and the space cops of the Dor’Anian Union, Kai is forced to split his small group to better their chances of finding their missing comrades.

Kai Fletcher thought he could go straight, until he couldn’t. And when his last "last" job goes wrong, he finds himself stowed away in a starship belonging to an alien crime syndicate. Forced into servitude to pay the debt for passage off world, Kai bargains with the syndicate. All he has to do is help them rob the Vakness Empire, the most powerful alien empire in known space, and he gets to go home. Easy Peasy. Until it isn’t.

Cut off from Tenth Company, Chance and Rayne are trapped in the snow-bound mountain peaks of the Griffin Mountain Range. Finding salvation in the form of a mysterious cave that holds more questions than answers. Forced to face the feelings he has for his friend while staying true to the one he loves. Onyx and Heli depart with the rest of Chance’s file on a rescue mission to save them, while Savitie and the rest of his company lick their recent wounds and wait for reinforcements from the Legate.

Freshly promoted to Novitiates in the Republic’s Seventh "Fortuna" legion, Chance and his friends embark on far harsher instruction to learn the ways of the heavy infantry. The backbone of every legion for more than a thousand years. At the same time, he struggles to understand and keep secret the strange powers that seem to have been bestowed upon him. Power that he has no idea how to control.

Jonas thought he was done with danger when he returned from Cairo. He had won against an ancient evil possessing his professor, and his eyes had been opened to the world of magic, which was all around him, but hidden from everyday life. College called, and he was ready to be normal again. With Lily by his side, and the prophetic dreams seemingly gone, life was looking good.

Humanity has just dodged an extinction-level event, but at great cost. The battle that defeated the Starkillers took the lives of far too many, and the experimental tech enabling interstellar travel carries a death sentence all its own.