Chris A Jackson

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.

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, and 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 Zellohar have been opened.The chaos of the Nine Hells has broken loose.Iveron Darkmist has resumed his campaign to devastate the surface world in a storm of destruction and death. With Zellohar as his fortress and the cornerstones to fuel his magic, he is 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 curse 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 most terrible Necromancer the world has ever known, has finally succumbed to the call of his own trade. Or has he?For he left behind a work of art, a beautiful mask, that lies waiting for the touch of a living hand. The Reaper of Souls has been cheated, for Azrael has hidden his soul where it cannot be found, where his one hope of immortality lies, where the touch of a living hand can bring him new life. The soul of Azrael resides within an enchanted mask, imbued with the power to contain the necromancer's soul forever and allow him to corrupt any who are seduced into donning the Deathmask. And when they do, he will live again, and the world will suffer anew.But the necromancer has slept in his senseless tomb for more than a thousand years, and the world has changed; countries war over the land and vie for any advantage to overthrow the other, even an ancient relic that contains the soul of a necromancer. But when the seduction of power unleashes Azrael upon the living world, his conquest will not go unopposed. A tenuous union between the two warring nations may be the only hope for the living, for all who draw breath are the necromancer's enemies. But how can an army win against the Necromancer, when every soldier that falls?Love is the only weapon.

A weapon of power...A paladin's soul...And a girl trying to save her mother... at any cost.In the city of Tsing, life and death balance between the edge of a knife and a courtier's traitorous tongue. A paladin's soul lied bound to an emperor's flawed weapon, tormented to madness and murder.Blood has stained the Imperial palace, and the Emperor lies in the grip of a magical weapon gone mad. His life, sanity, and the empire itself can only by saved if someone can reason with the mad paladin's soul.Only one person has a chance, but Katie has been hardened by a life of cruel lessons. Having lost everything, she faces the guillotine for her crimes. But she is the key to the Emperor's life, and and empire's salvation.If only she would believe it.