Deepgate Codex Series
Book 1: Scar Night
For a hundred generations, the city of Deepgate has hung suspended by
giant chains over a seemingly bottomless abyss. In the unfathomable
darkness below is said to reside the dread god Ulcis, 'hoarder of souls',
with his army of ghosts. Outside the city extend the barren wastes of
Deadsands, inhabited by the enemy Heshette, so that safe access is
guaranteed only by a fleet of airships. At the hub of the city itself
rises the Temple, in one of whose many crumbling spires resides
a youthful angel, Dill, the last of his line. Descendant of heroic
battle-archons, yet barely able to wield the great sword he has inherited
from his forebears, he lives a sheltered existence under the watchful eye
of Presbyter Sypes, who rules the Temple. For despite his sense of
purposelessness, Dill has a destiny about to unfold - one that will take
him down into terrifying depths of the pit in a desperate quest to save
the teeming but precarious city from total annihilation at the hands of
a cunning and resourceful traitor.
Book 2: Iron Angel
After a destructive battle, the ancient swaying city of Deepgate has been
overtaken. Most of the chains that suspend it have given way, toxic fumes
are emanating from blazing structures, and the temple once inhabited by
the ruling Presbyter now dangles upside down above the once-uncharted
abyss. The victorious Spine have initiated martial law and are ruthlessly
pursuing all who attempt to leave. Amid the turmoil, two captives are
returned.Arriving by ship are the young angel Dill, now toughened by war,
and traitor assassin Rachel Hael. Incarcerated in the slowly crumbling
temple, the two await their fate, while from the abyss beneath them ghosts
rise--for the death of the god Ulcis has left open the gates to Hell.
But on orders from his divine brethren, Cospinol, the god of brine and
fog, is traveling the world to Deepgate to seal this breach. His great
skyship is being dragged through the air by the giant John Anchor,
a monster of a man enslaved to pull the god's vessel, moving slowly,
inevitably, toward the city. As the city waits, teetering on the brink,
myriad plans for vengeance are set in motion, from the continent of
Pandemeria to Heaven itself. Among them is a ghostly archon sent to
deliver a message to the gods on earth--using Dill as his vessel. Thrust
from his body, Dill's own soul returns to Hell. When Dill and Rachel are
attacked by Spine assassins, Rachel has no choice but to try to escape
with the creature that calls itself Dill...and to somehow find a way to
restore her friend's soul before it's too late. For powerful forces are
stirring, and in the coming battle between gods, it is the world of men
that is at stake.
Book 3: God of Clocks
War, rebellion, betrayal--but the worst is still to come. For in the
cataclysm of the battle of the gods, a portal to Hell has been opened,
releasing unnatural creatures that were never meant to be and threatening
to turn the world into a killing field. And in the middle, caught between
warring gods and fallen angels, humanity finds itself pushed to the brink
of extinction. Its only hope is the most unlikely of heroes.
Former assassin Rachel Hael has rejoined the blood-magician Mina Greene
and her devious little dog, Basilis, on one last desperate mission to save
the world from the grip of Hell. Carried in the jaws of a debased angel,
they rush to the final defensive stronghold of the god of time--pursued
all the while by the twelve arconites, the great iron-and-bone automatons
controlled by King Menoa, the Lord of the Maze. Meanwhile, in the other
direction, the giant John Anchor, still harnessed to his master's skyship,
descends into Hell itself to meet Menoa on his own ground.
But neither Heaven nor Hell is anything they could ever expect. Now old
enemies and new allies join a battle whose outcome could be the end of
them all. Rachel's ally, the god Hasp, finds himself in the grip of
a parasite and struggles against conflicting orders to destroy his own
friends; and a dangerous infant deity comprised of countless broken souls
threatens to overcome them all. As Rachel travels to thefinal confrontation
she has both sought and feared, she begins to realize that time itself is
unraveling. And so she must prepare herself for a sacrifice that may claim
her heart, her life, her soul--and even then it may not be enough.
Gravedigger Series
Book 1: Sea of Ghosts
When the last of the Gravediggers, an elite imperial infiltration unit,
are disbanded and hunted down by the emperor they once served, munitions
expert Colonel Thomas Granger takes refuge in the unlikeliest of places.
He becomes a jailer in Ethugra - a prison city of poison-flooded streets
and gaols in which a million enemies of the empire are held captive. But
when Granger takes possession of two new prisoners, he realises that he
can't escape his past so readily. Ianthe is a young girl with an
extraordinary psychic talent. A gift that makes her unique in a world
held to ransom by the powerful Haurstaf - the sisterhood of telepaths
who are all that stand between the Empire and the threat of the Unmer,
the powerful civilization of entropic sorcerers and dragon-mounted
warriors. In this war-torn land, she promises to make Granger an
extremely wealthy man, if he can only keep her safe from harm. This is
what Granger is best at. But when other factions learn about Ianthe's
unique ability, even Granger's skills of warfare are tested to their
limits. While, Ianthe struggles to control the powers that are growing
in ways no-one thought were possible. Another threat is surfacing: out
there, beyond the bitter seas, an old and familiar enemy is rising -
one who, if not stopped, will drown the world and all of humanity with
it...
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