“Original and vivid. I was captivated.”—Nancy Kress, author of Beggars in Spain Born into hardship, Dar learns to rely on herself alone. When her family betrays her, Dar is conscripted into King Kregant’s army and its brutal campaign to conquer a neighboring country. Now she is bound as a slave to a dreaded regiment of orcs, creatures legendary for their savagery and battle prowess. Rather than cower, Dar rises to the challenge. She learns the unique culture and language of the orcs, survives treachery from both allies and enemies, and struggles to understand a mystical gift that brings her dark, prophetic visions. As the war escalates—amid nightmarish combat and shattering loss—Dar must seize a single chance at freedom.

Enslaved by King Kregant’s army, Dar survived by befriending the fierce orcs who were also forced to serve. Now she has escaped—only to find that the price of freedom may be her destiny. Calling on her untried leadership abilities, Dar guides the surviving orc soldiers to the safety of their homeland—but the clan leaders refuse to accept her unless she can release their queen from Kregant’s fortress. Shaken by her growing gift for dark prophecy and a fate she feels unprepared to accept, Dar must infiltrate the very heart of the despot’s empire. There she will discover unexpected treachery and an ancient power that threatens the future of all.

“Dar never loses our admiration and compassion—qualities at the heart of any struggling hero.”—Karin Lowachee, author of Warchild A delicate alliance between human and orc has been achieved. Now Queen of the Orcs, Dar works toward making that peace last. Her position has helped her to finally feel part of a community, to find a life to call her own. But sudden, strange outbreaks of unrest and ominous signs throw both realms into turmoil. Dar must draw on her knowledge and skills to confront a merciless long-time enemy—and an evil she once only barely survived. To keep human and orc from destroying one another, Dar risks everything on a desperate gamble—and her own future on a heartbreaking sacrifice.

ORCS! GREYSHALKS! AND GIANTS!Prepare yourselves, intrepid reader, for three complete novelettes set in the Abyss Walker world of author Shane Moore. In this anthology you shall read "No Tusks" by Paul Genesse, the disgustingly graphic orc story-not for children-(You have been warned!); then a tale about a young Bigfoot, or more accurately, a greyshalk trying to find his place in the world in: "A Kudekah to Remember" by Paul Genesse and Shane Moore; and finally, a truly hilarious story about a bumbling giant in: "Mungo the Undying" by Patrick M. Tracy. You'll also be treated to a short story from a very unique point of view-an arrow in flight: "Unerring" by Patrick S. Tomlinson; and as a bonus, an excerpt from the novella, "The Wererat's Tale: Book III: The Collar of Perdition" by Patrick S. Tomlinson, which was written from an outline penned by the creator of the Abyss Walker World, Shane Moore himself.Orcs, greyshalks, and giants (and wererats) will never be the same! You will love this book especially if you enjoyed the Orcs novel series by the awesome Stan Nicholls: Orcs: Army of Shadows; Orcs: Bad Blood, or The Thousand Orcs (Forgotten Realms: The Hunter's Blades Trilogy, Book 1) by New York Times' bestselling author R.A. Salvatore; or Queen of the Orcs: Kings Property by Morgan Howell.If you're a game player or game master and enjoyed The Slayer's Guide To Orcs by Matt Forbeck and Ralph Horsley you will love this!

“Dar never loses our admiration and compassion—qualities at the heart of any struggling hero.”—Karin Lowachee, author of Warchild A delicate alliance between human and orc has been achieved. Now Queen of the Orcs, Dar works toward making that peace last. Her position has helped her to finally feel part of a community, to find a life to call her own. But sudden, strange outbreaks of unrest and ominous signs throw both realms into turmoil. Dar must draw on her knowledge and skills to confront a merciless long-time enemy—and an evil she once only barely survived. To keep human and orc from destroying one another, Dar risks everything on a desperate gamble—and her own future on a heartbreaking sacrifice.

When her son Froan, armed with a dark magic he does not understand, sets out to claim his destiny, Yim, an ex-slave blessed by the goddess Karm, turns to Honus, the love she abandoned, for help in saving Froan from the evil that is in his blood. Original.

Harper Daniels knows there's got to be more to life than working a dead-end job-even if it is at a Comic-Con, where guests dress up and live out their wildest fantasies while getting to meet their heroes. Kiljak the sexy alien impersonator is taking it a bit too far when he starts claiming she's the woman he's meant to spend the rest of his days with. It's not like she's considering his crazy offer, right? Well, maybe a little. Kiljak and his crew have been sucked into a wormhole and dropped into Earth's galaxy. The upside? Their ship has detected genetic matches for their mates. They can save their race if they can find their Earth women matches. His feisty human isn't giving in easy, and he's not giving up the chase. When Harper is taken, Kiljak will destroy anyone who threatens her. Can this alien convince the only human he wants that he's worthy of her commitment? Or will waging a war cause him to lose her forever?