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My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I am the half-breed bastard child of a king. I was not meant to survive the trials cast my way. Yet, here I stand. The world has deteriorated in the years I was banished. The Elemental families are rife with deception, violence, and madness more than ever before.

After a near death encounter, a young deserter named Ciran is left with a choice to once again redirect the events of his life. Haunted by the choices of his past he makes the decision to try and run from them, in hopes to find true freedom and liberation on the other side of a mountain. He never believed the stories of dragons he was told as a child, that was until he found himself standing face to face with one. This chance encounter once again changes the course of his journey, and Crian finds that there is no escape from the past.

The US secretary of defense is dead, assassinated by Raymond Napier, a megalomaniac genius. Napier has stated that if his demands are not met, 10,000 more Americans will die. With orders from the White House to stop Napier at any cost, the FBI's Agent Carver considers deploying Scott Lomax, a man the government locked away after he was deemed too dangerous and uncontrollable. Lomax is a man with a singular purpose and a penchant for extreme violence. But on the rare occasion he's unleashed, he's extremely capable and has proven exceptionally useful to the government.

This is a collation of the first two books in the Fires of an Empire Saga. It tells the chronological story of "Fire from Ashes," and "Waves of a Tempest" as the events of the parallel tales unfold. In an empire where dissent means death, ancient faiths are crushed and young boys are torn from their families to feed a hungry military, two paths, forged in desperation, are about to collide. Ciran bears the scars of a soldier's life, but his greatest wounds are the ones that drove him to desert.

Ciran did it. He survived his torture, and stood up against the empire's cruelty. He is now again free to resume the search for his family. He has returned to his old stomping ground, the walled stone city of Dunmaer.

The Emperor of Perinthia rules with an iron fist. Young boys are torn from their families at just ten years old, forced into military conscription. Soldiers are forbidden from marrying, while only the Emperor's loyal officers and nobility are permitted wives. Beliefs outside the greatness of the throne have been brutally crushed - temples burned, devotees killed or enslaved. Yet a glimmer of hope persists in secret.

Twelve-year-old Charlie is down on his luck: His dad just died, the share crops are dry, and Cap'n Buck - the most fearsome man in Possum Moan, South Carolina - has come to collect a debt. Fearing for his life, Charlie strikes a deal with Cap'n Buck and agrees to track down some thieves. It's not too bad of a bargain for Charlie...until he comes face to face with the fugitives and discovers that they escaped slavery years ago and have been living free in Detroit. Torn between his guilty conscience and his survival instinct, Charlie needs to figure out his next move - and soon.

In the 1970s, two college seniors, June and Ruth, are moving into a house together for their final year. They unknowingly stumble upon a property for rent. The owner is Archibald Hall. The demon of shadows wreaks havoc on them, killing one. The survivor teams up with experts to fight the demon of shadows, only to find that an even stronger shadow has set its sights on them. Surrounded by evil, an unlikely weapon shows up to help. Who will live this time?

In the year 2062, the United States Space Corps has one primary mission: oversee the mining operations of the invaluable Helium-3 isotope, which powers most of the world's energy needs. But when the base is suddenly attacked by an unknown, invisible force, the military leaders find themselves cut off from communication with Earth and left to fend for themselves.

A worldwide plague kills almost a billion people across the globe in an instant. This sets off a chain of events that was foretold thousands of years ago, but there are very few who draw the connection between the prophecies of the past and the events of the modern day. The ones who do realize know that the next seven years are going to be the hardest of their lives. This is their story.