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Slayter has been given a terrible choice....The dragon who destroyed the city of the dark elves has alighted in Usara. His plan? To incinerate the crown city. He finds and forces Slayter into a game—an insidious choice that will glut the dragon’s hunger for suffering. It is a game only the...

Glimpse the gritty, behind-the-scenes struggles of author Todd Fahnestock as he reveals his dreams, trials, and adventures through the creative swamps of writing and the hard-edged world of publishing. Fahnestock dodges junior high bullies armed with needles taped to Bic pens, cracks into traditional publishing by hitchhiking to the middle of nowhere to meet writing legend Gary Paulsen, and nearly falls to his death hanging cables inside an oil tanker. All to follow the authors dream.

Mershayn has a host of problems. The woman he loved was brutally slain. His kingdom was stolen by a usurper. The dragon god has sworn to annihilate humankind. And Wildmane, the only one capable of stopping the god, has vanished. Now, Mershayn must take his kingdom back, find Wildmane, and preserve the sanity of the woman he loves—a threadweaver so powerful that she has brought her own corpse back to life. But first, he’s going to have to get out of his prison cell....

On July 13, 2020, in the year of COVID-19, Todd and his son embark on an unforgettable trek through the heart of the Rocky Mountains. They encounter breathtaking vistas, new friends, hardships, hunger, wild animals, and a death-defying flight from lightning. Hearts open and minds change, and their 450-mile journey becomes more than either of them could ever have imagined. 

An amnesiac time traveler. A vengeful ghost. A race to save humanity. Daniel has jumped back in time to save the world. Seven years from now, his best friend Vincent will slaughter 99.9 percent of the world’s population in the Husk Wars. But Vincent wasn’t always a killer. His hunger for power began at a pivotal moment in his youth when he and Daniel killed a young woman named Charlie Fiction.

Mirolah achieved the impossible: She returned the magical GodSpill to Amarion. But an unpaid debt has come due. The GodSpill wants to pull her soul from her body and absorb it. As she fights the insidious call, she and Wildmane plunge into a quest to save her lost mentor. Back in Teni’sia, the philandering swordsman Mershayn works to keep the new king alive in an unstable court. Tripping over his own character flaws, he struggles to match wits with power-hungry lords. If he cannot stop them, the new king’s reign - and his life - will be cut short.

A brooding demigod. A young magician. A race to restore magic to the lands. Mirolah wants a quiet life, but the villagers in her town will kill her if they discover the truth. She is a magical threadweaver, the first to surface in 300 years. Long bereft of magic, the human lands are dying. Humans are devolving, and their culture is crumbling. Their legendary protector, the demigod Wildmane, has given up on them.

The debt of the blessed: Within the Thiaran Empire, citizens put on jeweled masks and turn away from those who are taken. As long as one child is sacrificed each month to the Slinks and nobody interferes, their society will thrive. But 17-year-old Grei’s mind is alive with treason, and he plunges into the heart of a prophecy that will drive the Slinks back to their fiery dimension. All he must do is travel to the capitol city and sacrifice one last innocent.

I'm Todd Fahnestock, an award-winning author of epic fantasy and I'm doing something a little different. I'm offering you a chance to listen to the audiobook for Khyven the Unkillable FOR FREE. Each episode of Fantasy in the Margins will give you 3 new chapters of Khyven the Unkillable. After the chapters, I'll offer you an EXCLUSIVE, behind-the-scenes director's commentary on the scenes, characters, and iconic moments. If you get hooked on the story, you can buy the whole audiobook on my website (https://toddfahnestock.com/bookstore/) or other fine retailers.

After forty-nine victories in the bloody Night Ring, Khyven the Unkillable is a celebrity gladiator. If he can survive one more battle, King Vamreth will free him and declare him a knight. But the king doesn’t play fair. Instead, for Khyven’s fiftieth “battle,” the king orders him to travel through the magical noktum and infiltrate the secret lair of a rebel leader known only as “The Queen in Exile.” All Khyven must do to earn his knighthood is gain the queen’s trust…and betray her.

Rhenn has been abducted to the continent of Daemanon by the mysterious Nhevalos. He reveals a glimpse of the doom that is coming. The Giants have returned, and they want their world back. He says he is orchestrating a fight against these Giants, putting pieces together on a life-and-death game board. He says they are allies. But what kind of man traps a woman in a cage with no doors, then claims to be her friend?

She gave half her soul to save Khyven the Unkillable, and its loss is burning her up from the inside. She only has a matter of days to find Usara’s abducted queen before the flames consume her. But as she searches for the mystic key to bring Rhenn back, she finds only failure……until a dark elf arrives in Usara, claiming he possesses what she seeks. All she need do is follow him into the forbidding Great Noktum……and bind herself to the Dark.