"What Gray has done with this book is nothing short of astounding." -- Colin McComb, author of "Oathbreaker" Death and Friendship. Love and Gaming. Mind and Machine. The Meaning of Life. High School Graduation. The End of the World. That Kind of Stuff. -------------------- If you press them, anyone who games will admit to some variation on the idea of how they'd love to be the hero for real, just once. Just for one day. But right now, I'm on an empty street five hundred kilometers from home, barely able to walk. I'm soaked and shivering, wearing someone else's clothes, and with way too many...

In the great Free City of Yewnyr, the Blackheath Refuge is home to the victims of the most powerful magic in the Elder Kingdoms - those wounded in body and mind by dark mana, ancient curses, and the hunger of the undead. When an invisible killer is unleashed within the refuge, the brash investigator Elathien Solo must contend with indifferent authorities, a spurned lover, and a young convalescent's terrible secret as she searches for the truth. And even as a dark conspiracy of murder and madness unfolds around her, Elathien is forced to cope with the still-raw scars of the time she herself...

THE VOICES OF THE DEAD - Dark Tales & Lost Souls An Anthology of the Endlands These six tales of fantasy are woven from the shadow and mortality of the Endlands - an epic-fantasy realm in which nothing is ever what it seems, and where only the purest hearts survive the touch of all-consuming darkness. A Sister of Sorrow dedicates her life to destroying those who employ pain without paying the price that pain demands - until she is nearly destroyed by a horror that not even her torment-hardened spirit can endure... Across the blackened battlefields of the Great War That Was, a grim air-captain...

When he finally seized the sword, Morghan felt the power again, spiking in a sensation like the emptiness of unspoken words. A bloodless rage twisted through him just as the voice had twisted through him before, and in that instant, in a heartbeat, in the rawness of memory where it clawed at him from the dark dreams that the day tried to push away, he knew that anything was possible. Too many things still to be done. So many debts to repay. "Avenge them..." In a lost tomb, a warrior haunted by the deaths of those who once followed him hears an offer of redemption in the voice of an ancient...