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Queen of Nowhere is a novel in the LitRPG or GameLit genre, about a future frontier: exploration in a starry high-tech game world that's reaching into the real one. It's part of the Thousand Tales story setting, an upbeat world of people trying to grow, build, and be free; but no knowledge of it is needed. Dive in here!

After surviving the massacre in Sol, Zaros decides it's time to join the rebels. Together with them, he's prepared to take revenge on the royal family and the nobles of the kingdom. However, allies may sometimes be more dangerous than enemies. And enemies may sometimes be the most worthy of allies.

Marcus, the new Huntsman of the Wild Hunt, has just had his first job shoved into his lap by one of the High Table Council. Someone - or some thing - is dropping the mangled bodies of supernatural creatures into the streets of Cairo. The High Table staff in the sandy city have been scrambling to sus out the perpetrator before their cover is blown to the Normies. Now, traveling back to the same continent where he found Galaxy, they also have a chance to figure out what happened to the cat. That’s not a chance to be missed.

I’ve come far in my quest against the Saints and Republic, gathering power allies and the firepower of the greatest starship built by humanity. Only… it might not be enough. The Saints have ripped a hole in reality, one that will allow their eldritch masters to enter our world and consume it whole. Leading humanity’s crusade against the apocalypse, my lovers and I will need to smash through the Saints' defenses and reach the corrupt capital of the Republic. If we can slay our foes before the breach fully opens, we might have a chance of stopping them.

Out of Anatoli and life is nothing like Shaun and Ember could have ever dreamed of. Hunted by the ancestors of humanity across the darkness of space, they can only hope the changes they have undergone and powers they have gained will be enough to keep them alive. Life will never be the same again. Somehow, they need to find a way back to earth.

Freshly promoted to Novitiates in the Republic’s Seventh "Fortuna" legion, Chance and his friends embark on far harsher instruction to learn the ways of the heavy infantry. The backbone of every legion for more than a thousand years. At the same time, he struggles to understand and keep secret the strange powers that seem to have been bestowed upon him. Power that he has no idea how to control.

Chance lives a life of both pain and privilege. A capable man yet still only 18, he is old enough to seize the world before him. Yet still too young to know what to make of his future. His mind, bright like the sun; heart, brave like all the legionnaires that preceded him; character, unsullied by the follies of the world. His soul, however, paints a different picture.

A real hero knows how to rise to the occasion. Dennis is a college student whose only luck with the ladies is ogling them from afar and picking up their misplaced bikini tops the morning after wild pool parties he never attends. After working late nights at Conan's Pizza, his overactive Frazetta-inspired imagination are all that get him through the day. Dreams of slaying beasts to rescue babelicious women will soon be put to the test as his sudden gut-emptying illness turns out to be the side effects of desperate priestess magic.

Marcus Bola and his friends barely made it through their last self-imposed mission. He found and rescued his estranged son from the clutches of a Seelie drug cartel bent on taking over Columbus, but success means that they’ve proven their ability to get the job done. Now tasked with retrieving the Huntsman's Mantle in hopes of giving the Wild Hunt new life, Marcus and his friends leave the High Table for Grestal, the birth place of nightmares.

Daniel “Rayid” Tear, having defeated the necromancer of the Dow’Del ruins, travels south. His goal: to rescue Pina, the Druid of Barisel and the love of his friend Tol’geth. Along the way they will encounter remnants of lost civilizations, monstrous creatures from the depths of the under-dark, and radical human-only sentiment slowly growing in the Kingdom of Tor.

Kyroo is a vast world to which many species call home. A mysterious curse rapidly sprawls forth every night as the twin moons vanish behind a curtain of eternal darkness. The unknown magic is rising demons from the depths of the planet that are preying on the unsuspecting. The Kyroo Kingdom is struggling to understand what has transpired as maps, texts, and many memories are now blank.

Ryan and Dimitri thought the tournament just had to be the easy part, right? But now Ryan and crew are dealing with an internal power struggle. Their inability to mesh as a team is costing them time and threatening to give Omega an even greater advantage. To top it off Dimitri’s horrible jokes, don't seem to have any kind of stoppage in sight. Omega’s reign of terror is virulently spreading, threatening to end everyone's freedom, their expression, and even their lives. Will there be enough time to get their act together with Omega's acolytes terrorizing the lands?

There’s always somewhere to go, someone to defeat! At least that’s what Ryan believed until he ran out of challenges, adventures, and stories. Bored with his life as a casual player, he slipped easily into the lifestyle of a professional gamer. After reaching the pinnacle of success, an email arrived from the mysterious Beta Academy. With his best friend and self-proclaimed bodyguard, Dimitri, he decides to take a chance and accept the strange offer contained within.

Humanity has just dodged an extinction-level event, but at great cost. The battle that defeated the Starkillers took the lives of far too many, and the experimental tech enabling interstellar travel carries a death sentence all its own.

Alex Summers was an army grunt stationed in the boonies of the Alaskan countryside. That was before he and a couple of his buddies got stranded in a forest straight out of his nightmares. Now, trapped on another world, he spends most of his time traveling, seeing new things, and killing them. It's everything the army recruiter promised and more.

Korrash, an adventurer from the kingdom of Eastmere, is bored. In the weeks since the pitched battle with the Ghoul Nurse-matron, he’s cleaned up so many vampire infestations that he’s on auto-pilot. He’d rather be out honing his heroic magic into something truly legendary. Occasionally, he remembers that his name is Arthur Mallory: a real person with a family, and maybe even some friends. Trapped in this virtual world, his attempts to log out have ended only in failure and migraines. He must embrace every source of power he can find if he expects to stop them.

Weapons that manifest with a thought! Hell yes. Convict damsels causing distress. Damn right. Level up alien tech exo-suits. Kicking a-- matters. Among interplanetary colonization, a rouge forms an unlikely alliance with a horde of female convicts demonstrating incredible abilities. In a race against time, they will set out to find themselves amid an impending Galactic Crises and learn advanced alien technology is most certainly indistinguishable from magic. Nehalem, a former Space ExoKnight, whom is now a drifter with a haunted past is at the helm on their epic adventure.

Gardranian Warships are tough, but they’re outnumbered and it’s getting worse by the day. The Dominion has employed a shipyard to crank out hybrid tech designed to put a stranglehold on everyone. While the rest of the Gardranian Armada continues the search for their missing brethren, Kai hatches a desperate plan to destroy the shipyard and remove the Dominion's numerical advantage. For this to work, he must make allies of the very bad guys that kidnapped him to the stars in the first place, the Laosoran Crime Syndicates.

Dennis rides onward toward his destiny, manning up for his quest to rescue all the college babes in peril he can find. With his women by his side, he sets upon a journey to the strange lands of the North, hoping to chase down a rumored lost hottie from back home and gain knowledge and allies he'll need when his time to face the Dark One comes. But the horseback road trip is anything but an easy ride through the countryside. Can he swing his mighty sword enough to thrust his way ever closer to destiny, or will the wilds of Galderia and the forces of darkness prove too much for him?

A year after awakening, things have only become worse. The Vatacan's raids on Zharevo have become more frequent and much bolder. Still struggling to come to terms with what he'd become, Ivan is thrust into a web of despair when given the impossible task of retrieving someone much more important to him than any of his ladies. Along with the good comes a whole lot of bad when he finds out the hard way that he is far from being the apex predator.