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When fire and ice collide in the frozen wilderness, Ash must master her power and decide how far she will go to protect the only family she has left.
Can a human magic user re-ignite the flames of resistance against the Fae who have conquered our world? A desperate fight that leads from hidden mountain camps to the occupied streets of Seattle and deep beneath the volcanic slopes of Mount Rainier.
When legends walk among men, the first casualty is the world you thought you knew.
Ten years after civilization fell, Lexington, South Carolina is the closest thing to hope left in the American South. When three strangers arive looking for safety, the bring with them a war that has been going on for generations. The Stand meets American Gods in the heat and ruin of the post-apocalyptic South!
As dragons stalk the mountains of Wales and rebel cells wage a desperate war against elven mages, an ancient prophecy is awakening. The final battle for Britain is about to begin.
Red Dragon Rising is the explosive first novel in a thrilling new series set in the bestselling Fae Wars universe—where myth and modern warfare collide, and the return of a legend may be humanity’s last hope.
It’s going to be a long and ugly journey into The Dark Heart of Dixie.
Bodies are piling up from Atlanta to Dallas, and up into the Kentucky Bluegrass. Mexican cartels are expanding into the old Cornbread Mafia territories, making a night out in Nashville nearly fatal. Making it worse, a dead foe’s bloodline comes out of the shadows, wanting the scales balanced for their own loss.
Peredur of Gwenned has survived that most dangerous of times, a soldier’s first encounter with combat, and now rides with ease and respect among his companions. Arthur, impressed by Peredure’s courage and composure, sends him beyond the old Roman borders. His mission to accompany Arthur’s counselor, Myrddin, and his protégé, Morgana, into the lands of Dal Riata on a diplomatic journey.
The situation in the Old North presents hazards at every turn, however. Surrounded by rival kingdoms, shifting loyalties, and enemies who are not always what they seem, Peredur discovers that words can be as lethal as open battle. Far from the safety of his unit and stripped of certainty, he is forced to confront the realities of leadership and the cost of responsibility in a land where Roman law no longer holds sway.
Six years after the apocalypse, the survivors are making progress rebuilding civilization. The problem is, criminal gangs are making progress, too. While Eric Marten, the Marine veteran-turned-rancher and empire builder, fights them at home, his adopted daughter Taylor decides on a different course. She wants to cut the head off the snake, to take out the crime boss of New Orleans.It sounds like a good idea, until she’s trying to fight her way alone out of the French Quarter, with half the population gunning for her. Maybe Eric could have told her that no plan survives contact with the enemy, but he and her friends were hundreds of miles way across a wasteland. Her luck, though, in New Orleans style, might turn with unexpected help and just a chance.
Decker had a problem. Well, multiple problems. Some good, some bad. Some pretty bad. The good problem is that she was up a whole bunch of credits and the title to an Azelia class yacht called Vagabond King. That was the good problem.The bad problem was that she was in debt to Daresh An-Jaska, Former Princeps in the Golden Legion, Grausian exile, and the biggest gangster in the sector. Not a money debt but a favor debt, one that she paid principle on doing favors in return. Dirty deeds that never seemed to pay enough, of course. That was until yesterday, when she found a line she couldn’t cross.
Today, faced with a brutal and violent death at the hands of Jaska, Sandy did what any good spook would do. She told a story and sold a secret. Operation Marconi and the missing U.S.S. Resolute. Now it's good news, bad news.
The good news: Jaska bought the story.
The bad news: Jaska didn’t trust Sandy as far as she can throw a grat.
So, Jaska put Sandy on The Leash—a small half-alive, remotely controlled explosive charge cozied up to Sandy’s brainstem—and handed the controller to her most trusted lieutenant, Martin Grogan. Where Sandy goes, he goes. And, as insurance, the leash is on a timer. Keep Grogan happy, or he blows it. Kill Grogan and it blows itself. And her head with it.
The Cannon High Caliber Awards are an annual contest for new writers. In it we ask them to submit a novella length story of Science Fiction, Military or Fantasy genre to challenge their skills. Out of twenty two entries we picked eight top ones, and here they are!
1st Vexation - Greg Fennewald
2nd Elko – Jon Holt
3rd Wings of Gold – N.J. Todd
4th The Jaguar God & Golden Idol - Zachary Weeks
Honorable Mentions (in no specific order)
• Knight Beats Grave Digger – Ryan Overton
• Miss Imperium – L.J. Hilse
• Reaper – Michael Woodworth
• Stardrakes and Scrutiny - Ruth Thompson
Our Series
Fae Wars
What would you do if America and the world were invaded tomorrow by a relentless and brutal enemy?
In an alternate 2015, a US Army Special Forces Team, part of the legendary black ops unit "Delta", is in midtown Manhattan to take out a Chinese spy and his handlers, sending a message short of outright conflict. All goes smoothly until they find themselves in a full blown shooting war through the canyons of the City. Portals from another world have opened in Central Park, making a way for figures out of historical nightmare to invade. The Fae, creatures banished from Earth thousands of years ago and now only part of our legends, have returned with Dragon fire, spell and sword to conquer and take revenge.
Irregular Scout Team One
In July of 2016 a plague swept the world, and the civilization collapsed and fell. For a lone National Guard sergeant, a veteran of the wars overseas who had settled down to a new life, the nightmare began on a hot summer evening at the barricades. Orders and chaos, gunfire and being overrun, his unit dwindles away in the face of the infected.
Months later, living in the ruins, the thud of helicopter rotors followed by a crash and the rescue of a downed pilot leads Sergeant First Class Nick Agostine back into the arms of the US military. From his experience comes the idea of teams, military and civilians experienced in dealing with the undead and barbarism of the wilds. The first Irregular Scout Team leads the way for Task Force Liberty to advance down the Mohawk Valley in Upstate NY, making contact with survivors and clearing out the infected with stealth and firepower.
The Line
On a hot July day on the plains of Kansas a US Army armored brigade of the storied 1st Infantry Division gets alert orders and its young troopers saddle up on their armored beasts to control civil unrest in the streets of Kansas City. Police receive calls to deal with an unprecedented number of domestic violence incidents and end up arresting citizens who appear to have gone violently insane. A prisoner at Fort Leavenworth out on a work-release program witnesses a strange murder and is forced to make a run for it. As the situation descends into chaos, conflicting orders are given as confusion reigns supreme. The active Army and National Guard fight a desperate battle in the heartland to keep the outbreak from entering a death-spiral before it crosses the point of no return, consuming the entire world. It’s a battle they cannot afford to lose
The Apocalypse written as only a veteran infantryman can, The Thin Dead Line is set as a companion series to the best selling Irregular Scout Team One by J.F. Holmes.
Fallen Empire
What’s a soldier to do when the war is over? When he’s only known conflict his whole life? Since time immemorial the solution has been to find another war, this time for pay. Whoever has the credits and wins the high bid gets the experienced fighter. Sometimes, though, the credits aren’t enough to cover the price.
Empires rise, but Empires also fall. The Terran Union has spent five centuries under the control of the alien Grausians, like a barbarian tribe under the thumb of Rome. Now, after almost two decades of civil war and succession struggles, the formerly subject races have settled back in their ancient territories to lick their wounds and re-arm, leaving hundreds of settled planets to exist in a political vacuum.
Into that space steps the free companies, mercenary units that fight for gold, honor, power and glory. Veterans who can’t get the wars out of their souls, new recruits looking for adventure, corporations with their own agenda.
Athenaeum, Inc
The Professor has problems, and not just what decades of soldiering did to his back and his knees. His boss just died, leaving him as CEO of the extremely discreet intelligence contractor Athenaeum, Incorporated. His old buddy the Operations Director is a highly skilled Army Ranger veteran but his finance chief is slightly unhinged and spends her money on highly inappropriate work outfits. The surviving old men on the Board of Directors are stuck in the 1970s. Running Athenaeum out of an old Cold War bunker and keeping their roster of experts together is expensive, but the government contracts are drying up or going to bigger, flashier corporate players.
So how does the Company survive in a changing future? By digging deeper into the world of intelligence and Black Operations.
When nine out of ten people in the world have died in a brutal plague, what do those who remain do to pick up the pieces? Does the creed, "Duty, Honor, Country" have a place any more if there's no country left?
On his way across the devastated remains of Texas, Marine Corps veteran and survivor Eric Marten rescues a young woman from a vicious attack by men who have turned into savages. As Dani slowly learns to trust him, they try to stay alive in the deathlands that America has become, using all their wits to survive a post-apocalyptic nightmare.
SEMPER DIE
The dead rose expecting a feast. What they got was a firefight.
Sergeant Alex Slaughter and the Marines of Alpha Squad were on a routine training exercise near Quantico when everything went silent. No comms. No command. No clue.
What they find when they return to base is worse than anything they trained for: a bioweapon has unleashed a zombie virus that has shattered civilization, and now they must survive the Collapse.
But as the squad pushes deeper into hostile territory—through the death-choked streets of Arlington and into the rot-stained corridors beneath D.C.—they discover that the undead aren’t the only threat. Desperate survivors, rogue military units, and darker truths buried beneath the weight of secrecy will test their loyalty, their mission, and their very humanity.
Written by USMC veteran Jonathan Shuerger and set in J.F. Holmes’s brutal and unrelenting Irregular Scout Team One universe, Semper Die delivers pulse-pounding action, authentic military detail, and a terrifying vision of what happens when duty and apocalypse collide.
If you crave hard-hitting military thrillers, brotherhood forged in battle, and Marines who refuse to die quietly—this is your next mission.
Lock. Load. Semper Fi. Semper Die.
THE WISHKILLER SAGA
HELL TRAIN
The modern world is gone, replaced by tides of possessed undead and demonic monsters.
Through this hellscape, a train full of survivors makes their way from the death-zones of the East Coast towards a hope of safety in the West. They have crossed the mighty Mississippi, led by former Army Captain Jack Zamora, and defeated a messianic cult leader who worshiped a demon on earth.
Now, though, they face a new threat... something alien, something ancient. Horrific mutated plants, demonic trees, and hordes of spore-possessed corpses that will bury the living in a tide of dead flesh. Worse, internal struggles on the train put everything at risk, with the most recent rescues presenting as much of a threat as anything else.
The only way forward is down a line of tracks leading right through the green center of a cursed place. Jack will have to lead his people to safety before their dwindling supplies of food and fuel run out. Will he succeed, or will the horrors of this hellish world consume them all?
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