Dan Melson

For everything, there is a price. Grace has married into one of the most important families of the Empire. The Scimtars are wealthy and powerful in every sense of the term. Her five children will be among the Empire's elite when they are ready, and Grace herself is not without influence or importance despite her relative youth. But, Imperial politics are deadly, and the more you have, the more your rivals want what you have. There is no shelter...

The die is cast. The Empire has caught the fractal demons marshalling troops for assault, and there is no avoiding the decisive Armageddon between humanity and the fractal demons. Both sides have their strengths and there is no certainty about the outcome. While the Empire is free-falling towards open war, Grace is tasked with nudging the odds a little bit, ferreting out traitors to humanity, bribed with the seeming of the most precious gift possible...

Kusaan del. It means 'divine finger' The Empire of Humanity is locked in a war for survival with the Fractal Demons. Years on, the dice are still tumbling. Billions have died and planets have been destroyed. Meanwhile, an old loose end has resurfaced and forced Grace to confront a mistake from her teenage years - her son by a long-dead lover has lost his adulthood, and only Grace can save him from exile. But the Fractal Demons initiate a new strategy,...

The stons were dead, but that left Grace alone to try to learn to control her new abilities. When a solution presents itself, she begins learning just how far there is to go on the new journey she started. A new family, a new home, and learning to adapt to a completely different environment. But for greater challenges, she also discovers there are greater rewards - and the universe always has a greater challenge in store.

What if the Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court was a real wizard? Alexan is exiled from his home for reasons of politics and health, sent to a primitive locale to guard against the misuse of the massive power coursing through the fabric of reality. He discovers that he is what the locals call a wizard. Unfortunately, for him, there are many other wizards and even gods connected to this power, and they tend to be unfriendly to those they fear...

You'd think there'd be more for a god to do. Alexan and Petra have become Eternals - minor gods, binding themselves together in their divinity. According to most stories, that's where 'happily ever after' would start. However, there's a divine ecosystem, as red in tooth and claw as any other part of nature, competing for power and worshippers and other divine benefits. There's also the diligar deity Klikitit, who's appointed Alexan his personal...

Mark Jackson's problems begin when he wakes up with his ex-wife's mummified corpse. Seven years ago, she walked out on him and vanished. Now she's back desperate for help. She claims a cult cured her cancer. Now they want to kill her. Sceptical, Mark agrees to help. But, when she knocks on his door, she looks like a teenager. They patch things up and one thing leads to another... In the morning, she's a mummified corpse and LAPD thinks Mark did...

Joe and his wife Asina were coming home to Hell.Calmena was a primitive planet where descendants of abductees were enslaved by enemies of humanity, hoping to breed docile servants. It hadn't gone well for anyone.A century ago, the Empire found the planet and began using it to trace the fractal demons back to their home. Joe and Asina's role has been helping the human slaves throw off the demonic yoke, always careful to camouflage their help as native...

Earth needed help, and nobody else was going to step up Graciela Juarez has gone from a late-twenties college student to Second Order Guardian and one of the Empire's better pilots. But, events on Earth are building to a climax, and the Empire is determined to let Earth sort things out for itself, or not. It really doesn't matter to them. But, it matters to Grace. By whatever means necessary, she will save Earth from the demons, and from its own...