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Cowboy Up gathers stories that celebrate the timeless tradition of rodeo. The dust, the grit, the glory—it’s all here. From the echoes of the past to the rodeo arenas of today, these stories will take you on a wild ride through the highs and lows of rodeo life. You’ll share in their triumphs and their heartbreaks. From the unbreakable bond between rider and horse to the courage it takes to get back in the saddle after a fall, this anthology is a tribute to the spirit that keeps rodeo alive.

Hendandra is a thief living in the town of Raspa. When she picks the pocket of a mage she ends up getting more than she bargained for when he convinces her to help him recover some religious relics taken from a temple of Rhyra by the followers of Ballan—the Goddess of Dark magic.

The Sword of Power - Excalibur - was given to Uther Pendragon to heal the land not divide it. Now with Uther's death and no apparent heir to claim the throne and both the Christian Abbott of Glastonbury and the High Priestess of Avalon claiming the sword as theirs how will it serve to heal when it appears to dividing those who should seek to heal the land and their people.

A retelling of the Pandora legend from the POV of Pandora. A woman who may have only been a pawn in the games played by the gods -- the true cause of what happened to mankind.

Trapped in a place where they are constantly faced with new opponents and challenges, Kyrianna and her friends will also have to face the Goddess Thynitic and her chosen Torliana.

When she decides to try and discover her past, against the advice of Frayrith, she ends up as a slave in the temple of Thynitic, the Lady of Chaos. She will eventually come to serve Thynitic as her Daughter of Chaos.

Torliana is an elf who seeks the ways of order. She enters the temple of Hellavar - Lord of Order and Fire to train as a monk in his service. Despite four years of training, she still finds herself desperate for acceptance in the temple and when she fails in her testing to become a Flame Dancer she is seduced by Thynitic, The Lady of Chaos.

Dywnia, speaker for Thynitic, seeks allies to fight the humans who are threatening to destroy the forest of Kilenter and the elves who live there.

Delavan is a young man who only wants a chance to join the town guard and defend his home against the evil elves who regularly attack it. For ten years he has tried to hide the fact he was born with mage powers, but an accident in the training arena results in his arcane powers killing a fellow recruit. His only hope is the Arms Master of the guard who stands by him and the now broken blade that once belonged to his grandfather—a knight of Oliaric the Lord of Order and

Leathan has been forced to live for centuries as he sings of a deep, painful loss. One night he is visited by a priest and a ghost who change that existence forever.

Genetic Engineering and cloning leads to the development of a popular exotic pet business. However, some exotics are very limited and tightly controlled due to their dangerous nature. This just leads those who want one to take the risk and look outside official channels and go into the Long Grass to find the animal they want. But is it really worth the risk to own a velociraptor as a pet?

The exiled daughter of a minor noble, Kyrianna Dalynne, finds herself trapped in a temple dedicated to Thynitic, the Lady of Chaos. She and her companions are charged with finding an ancient artifact before the ones guarding the portals out will allow them to leave. As their search continues, Kyrianna begins to question if there was a specific reason she and the others were brought to this place.

Eternal Escapes Cemetery - a place of eternal rest for some and escape for others. After all once you're dead what can come after you?

It is said that Alexander the Great took the time to honor the customs and cultures of the peoples he sought to rule. But did he truly show respect and honor, or was it just a political game to the great conqueror? When he comes face-to-face with the Egyptian goddess Sehkmet, will it be he or his men who will pay for the offense she has taken at his actions?

Two archaeologists have a chilling encounter with the past when they visit a former tourist attraction in Colorado.

The Garden of Eden, the Cradle of Life—the place where life is believed to have started on Earth. But, what if life started somewhere else and what if there was a way to return to the beginning? Man had moved out away from their first mother, Gaia or Earth as most called her, and was now spreading across a new home—Mars. The planet was named for the Roman God of War, and the red soil was a reminder of the acres and acres of blood-soaked ground that covered the Earth.

Myrith had never know any life but that of a bar wench. One day, she is taken forcefully from the bar by the troop commander of Lord Lavial, the elf tyrant who rules her land. While being interrogated by her captor, he decides he must bring her to the attention of the elf lord personally.

Being the most powerful country in the world will not necessarily protect you from a goddess who has decided its time for you to be treated as prey just as you have treated others. Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The President's Meow, and experience the compelling world of fantasy fiction.

A former mental health worker returns to the abandoned asylum she once worked at to lay to rest the ghosts of her past and finds an unexpected welcome from one of those ghosts.

A Roman soldier steals the Cup of Life from a small church in Britannia, seeking to carry the Cup to Rome as a prize. Instead, he finds himself tempted by the legend that those who drink from the cup will have eternal life. What the legends don't talk about is the price of that eternal life.