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Although he didn’t create absolutism in France, King Louis XIV seemed to embody the divine right of kings better than anyone had before him. Louis XIV directly correlated his own private good with that of the public good, but not everyone in France had the same sentiment. The resistance from the French nobles and aristocrats that Louis depended on to raise armies gave these nobles increasing autonomy and independence from the king, which would one day come to a head.

Lanista Laeca is the master of a gladiator school in Rome that has fallen on hard times. His business of providing skilled fighters for the Coliseum has begun to fail, and he is desperate to find a new spectacle of glory and battle to please the bloodthirsty crowds. He finds his answer in the cannibal corpse creatures brought to him from a distant land by a retired soldier, and soon the gladiators of House Laeca are being pitted against ravenous beasts that once were men. Will sword and shield win victory over tooth and claw?

Cursed to see death and unable to get anyone to believe him, Ladon searched desperately for a cure that would make him a normal human being. On his way home from a monastery, he is kidnapped by a beautiful creature. He believes that she is nothing more than a demon that has been sent to torment him further. He couldn't be further from the truth. She is Fae, a being older and more powerful than anything he can imagine. He is suddenly thrust into a world he never knew existed.

A shipload of humanoid aliens crash land on Earth and are assimilated into society, evoking a violent reaction among the earthlings.

The future is grim. Wars are fought between grunts and drones in the hearts of cities where people walk by and don't give a second glance. Those who die are eaten by zombies or drained by vampires. When one vampire finds a woman that reminds him of his long-dead wife, can he turn her to end his loneliness?