Terry Maggert

Magic. Steel. Blood. Victory.The Earth's navy is left drifting among the stars as Nyctus ships swarm, their purpose unknown as they continue their advance, burning one system after another.Humanity's extinction seems inevitable.But on one of the forgotten worlds, a boy is left behind, and he holds a talent unlike anything the galaxy has ever known.Thorn Stellers is a mage, trained to lead and fight. With a renegade division of warriors at his side, and with weapons far different from those of old Earth, Thorn has a chance at standing up to humanity's enemies. For these mage-soldiers, armed with power that had once been thought the stuff of legend, the outcome is no longer certain.Each Starcaster has a talent-except for Thorn, who has many. With his childhood companion Kira Wixcombe, he'll confront a threat from beyond the stars, meeting them in the darkness with a light born of magic... and a lust for revenge.Is his power enough? Or is Earth a forgotten memory, lost forever to history?

Dash never asked to be a mech pilot, but fate has other plans.On the run and out of chances, he guides his ship and crew into the heart of a relic older than the galaxy itself-and find himself on the edge of an eternal war he never knew existed.The relic is a mech, lost to history and forgotten by all who remain. Built by an ancient race to be the ultimate weapon, the machine is capable of unspeakable destruction, and its discovery could unhinge the balance of power throughout known space.Worse still, the A.I. inside the machine speaks of an ancient evil that will soon arrive--a race whose power far exceeds anything humanity has ever witnessed.Only the Messenger can stand against them, the A.I. tells its new pilot. Only you can do what must be done.

As Dash and his team begin expanding the Forge, they must focus on Dark Metal as the one thing that can give them an advantage in the coming war.Using drones and a map from an ancient library, Dash and Leira must seek out the source of a transmission coming from far away.That source, however, is something far more valuable than they could have hoped: a fleet of ancient Unseen ships, waiting to be salvaged.With the Golden forces closing in, Dash will need to enlist more help as he prepares to engage the enemy. He must choose his next battleground, all while the Forge works to arm his team with new weapons that could turn the tide once and for all.

The Forge is coming back online, weapons hot and searching known space for signs of the Golden. When Dash and Leira repair a powerful scanner, it finds something unusual in a distant system-the remains of an ancient battlefield. Custodian tells of a fight lost long ago, leaving drifting debris around the faraway star.But the battlefield isn't forgotten. A human colony has taken hold nearby, and on their world, a single, massive ship has crashed.And it is sending out a signal. In a race against the enemy, Dash and his team will try to salvage the secrets of a Golden ship, warn the colony of the oncoming war, and brace for impact as more enemies streak across the stars to hunt down the one person who can stop them.The Messenger.

The Messenger must prepare for war.With the Archetype damaged, Dash and his crew will need more than a quick fix to prepare for what's coming. A secret facility known only as the Forge lies in cold sleep, built by the Unseen for the greatest war in history. Dash has no idea what awaits him there, but he hopes to find some kind of advantage in the war that is to come. Meanwhile, on a distant world, an ancient order of monks protects a long buried secret. They have guarded it for centuries, all in the hope that someday the Messenger might come and relieve them of their task. Dash has answered that call...and he will not be denied.

Dash never asked to be a mech pilot, but fate has other plans. On the run and out of chances, he guides his ship and crew into the heart of a relic older than the galaxy itself-and find himself on the edge of an eternal war he never knew existed.The relic is a mech, lost to history and forgotten by all who remain. Built by an ancient race to be the ultimate weapon, the machine is capable of unspeakable destruction, and its discovery could unhinge the balance of power throughout known space.Worse still, the A.I. inside the machine speaks of an ancient evil that will soon arrive--a race whose power far exceeds anything humanity has ever witnessed.Only the Messenger can stand against them, the A.I. tells its new pilot. Only you can do what must be done.

Mutt Town.Where life is hard, and sometimes cheaper than the swill passed off as whiskey in most clubs.Just not at the Kit Kat Klub. A haven from the outside world, it is kept as a safe place to have a good time, all under the watchful eye of Miss Pussy Katnip.She can't be everywhere, though. And not everyone can make it into the club.These are some of those stories.featuring original stories by: Allyson Brooks, author of Gigglesnort, The Pink DragonJeremy Hicks, author of The Cycle of Ages Saga: Finders KeepersRob Howell, author of The World of ShijurenTerry Maggert, author of the Halfway Witchy seriesJ. Fitzpatrick Mauldin, author of The Final SolutionJoshua Robertson, author of the Thrice Nine Legends Sagaand Brett A. Brooks, author of Red is the Darkest Color and The Devil Was Green

Gideon Frost is the last survivor of Ravenwood, an orphanage scheduled for destruction at the hands of a vicious politician. Over the past century, hundreds of children have vanished, lost forever to witches who use their souls as fuel for life everlasting.On the run and alone, he'll find help in an unlikely place, when the missing children reach out to him from the land of the dead, asking him for the one thing he can deliver.Justice. But Gideon won't fight alone. Samira Alexander is a sorceress who can bridge the worlds between life and death, and she'll stand beside him as they fight against the killers who want far more than just Gideon's silence.They want his power. They want his soul. But Gideon won't give up either without a fight, and the witches of Ravenwood are about to learn a painful lesson.

Something is wrong with Carlie.A magical storm. An ancient shipwreck. A hidden evil.All three are tied together as Carlie must defend Wulfric against his past, which emerges after a raging storm tears across Halfway Lake.When government agents descend on Halfway to investigate the mysterious shipwreck, Carlie discovers that all is not as it seems.A thousand years old, the Viking ship holds bones. And secrets.Not everyone went down with the ship. There were survivors, but they might be less than human. They cross paths with Carlie in a showdown that will bring her own secrets to light, for saving Wulfric came with a cost. Now, it's time for her to pay.Dive in with Carlie as she fights to save the one person she can't lose.Herself.

Her guardian angel was pushed.Keiron was never meant to be anything other than a hero. Born high above in a place of war and deception, he is Heartborn, a being of purity and goodness in a place where violence and deceit are just around every corner.His disappearance will spark a war he cannot see, for Keiron has pierced the light of days to save a girl he has never met, for reasons he cannot understand. Livvy Foster is seventeen, brave, and broken. With half a heart, she bears the scars of a lifetime of pain and little hope of survival.Until Keiron arrives.In the middle of a brewing war and Livvy's failing heart, Keiron will risk everything for Livvy, because a Heartborn's life can only end in one way: Sacrifice.Fall with Livvy and Keiron as they seek the truth about her heart, and his power, and what it means to love someone who will give their very life to save you.

Carlie McEwan loves many things.She loves being a witch. She loves her town of Halfway, NY-a tourist destination nestled on the shores of an Adirondack lake. Carlie loves her enormous familiar, Gus, who is twenty-five pounds of judgmental Maine Coon cat, and she positively worships her Grandmother, a witch of incredible power and wisdom. Carlie spends her days cooking at the finest-and only-real diner in town, and her life is a balance between magic and the mundane, just as she likes it.When a blonde stranger sits at the diner counter and calls her by name, that balance is gone. Major Pickford asks Carlie to lead him into the deepest shadows of the forest to find a mythical circle of chestnut trees, thought lost to forever to mankind. There are ghosts in the forest, and one of them cries out to Carlie across the years. Come find me.Danger, like the shadowed pools of the forest, can run deep. The danger is real, but Carlie's magic is born of a pure spirit. With the help of Gus, and Gran, and a rugged cop who really does want to save the world, she'll fight to bring a ghost home, and deliver justice to a murderer who hides in the cool, mysterious green of a forest gone mad with magic.

Cities Fall. Dragons Rise. War Begins.The war for earth began in Hell. First came the earthquakes. Then came the floods. Finally, from the darkened mines, caves and pits, the creatures of our nightmares boiled forth to sweep across the planet in a wave of death.Mankind, on the run and unprepared, is not alone. We have dragons.Emerging from their slumber, giant dragons select riders to go to war. Their forces strike back at the legions of demons that attack on the night of every new moon. The Killing Moon, as it becomes known, is the proving ground for warriors of skill and heart. Among the riders is Saavin, a brave young woman from the shattered remains of Texas. Her dragon, Banshee, is swift and fearless, but they will need help to fight a trio of monstrous creatures that Hell is using to take cities one by one.With the help of French Heavener, a warrior of noble intent, Banshee and Saavin will launch a desperate defense of New Madrid, the last city standing. But first, they'll have to go into the very cave where demons bide their time until the sun fades and the moon is black.The hope of mankind rests on dragon's wings and the bravery of Saavin and French. They have the guts. They have the guns. They have dragons.