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Have you ever questioned the mystery surrounding the Holy Grail and if there is any truth to these legends, or of Legendary Beings of great power and magic? You are holding some of the answers in your hands. The Holy Grail is not only a physical Sacred Cup with magical powers, but is the very life that beats your heart...it is also known as the 'I AM Presence'. Embark on a Sacred Journey inside these pages for they offer a whole new meaning to the...
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Many of us are familiar with the popular legend of Camelot, King Arthur, Merlin, and the Sword Excalibur. What if it wasn't just a legend? What if Excalibur wasn't known as simply a powerful sword that heralded a King? The book you are holding contains Messages from Mystical Beings known as the Ascended Masters, who instruct us in the Lost Knowledge and Secrets of the Sacred Fire, and how to use the Sacred Fire along with the Power of the Spoken Word,...
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Ascendance volume 1
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In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
4) Ice Forged
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Condemned as a murderer for killing the man who dishonored his sister, Blaine "Mick" McFadden has spent the last six years in Velant, a penal colony in the frigid northern wastelands. Harsh military discipline and the oppressive magic keep a fragile peace as colonists struggle against a hostile environment. But the supply ships from Dondareth have stopped coming, boding ill for the kingdom that banished the colonists.
Now, as the world's magic...
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Ascendance volume 2
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Young King Jaron has taken the throne of Carthya, but after enemies attempt to assassinate him, and a neighboring kingdom threatens invasion, he finds that he has no friends in the palace, not even his bride-to-be, princess Amarinda--and his regents think it would be better for Carthya if he just disappeared again.
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Volume Three of the Ascended Masters' Journals offers us the means and ways we can embrace the Seventh Golden Age that is here now, and become free of all that has limited us. This book continues the Teachings of the Ascended Host who offer us the Knowledge of the 'Tree of Life', the 'Purpose of Life' and the 'Truth of Life'. The Masters teach us we have lived only a fraction of our True Self, and therefore have experienced lives of limitation. Now...
7) Reign of Ash
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Survival is just the beginning.
Blaine McFadden endured six long years in the brutal Velant prison colony, exiled for murder. War devastated his homeland of Donderath and destroyed the magic on which the Ascendant Kingdoms relied. Now Blaine and a small group of fellow exiles have returned to a lawless wasteland, where unrestrained magic storms wreak havoc and monsters roam free.
Yet, amidst the chaos, rumors persist of a new magic that could restore...
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Ascendance volume 3
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Young King Jaron has had nothing but trouble with his advisors and regents since he ascended the throne of Carthya, and now King Vargan of Avenia has invaded the land and captured Imogen--and Jaron must find some way to rescue her and save his kingdom.
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Winner of the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy! Mitchell Hogan, an imaginative new talent, makes his debut with the acclaimed first installment in the epic Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, A Crucible of Souls, a mesmerizing tale of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery. The author's definitive edition… When young Caldan's parents are brutally slain, the boy is raised by monks who initiate him into the arcane mysteries of sorcery....
10) No Reprieve
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Explore the origin of Blaine McFadden and his allies in this short story prequel to the epic Ascendant Kingdoms Saga from Gail Z. Martin.
Condemned to exile in an arctic prison colony for murdering his sister's attacker, Blaine McFadden has lost everything -- his title, his family and his fiancé. Velant Prison holds the worst of the kingdom's convicts, overseen by brutal guards who are exiles themselves. When a sadistic guard takes things too far,...
11) War of Shadows
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Blaine "Mick" McFadden managed to restore Donderath's magic partially, but not without a cost. He and the magic are now bound together, and the power remains dangerous and erratic - draining the life from him with every use. New threats are rising from the wreckage of the battered kingdoms, and warlords both mortal and undead vie for control. Now, Blaine and his unlikely band of convict heroes must find allies amid a sea of enemies and discover a...
12) The Ares Weapon
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Armageddon Is Up For Auction...
Dr. Melanie Destin's life is a mess.
After losing her job as a medic aboard an old freighter, she is desperate to find something. In an attempt to start over, she accepts an interplanetary salvage job that will pay her enough to rebuild a new life for herself on Mars. When she learns the real purpose of the mission is to recover an apocalyptic virus, everything begins to unravel...
Governments compete with corporations...
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A novice sorcerer may hold the key to saving his world-or be the instrument of its destruction-in Mitchell Hogan's Blood of Innocents, the second book in The Sorcery Ascendant Sequence, a mesmerizing saga of high fantasy that combines magic, malevolence, and mystery.
Anasoma, jewel of the Mahruse Empire, has fallen.
As orphaned, monk-raised Caldan and his companions flee the city, leaving behind their hopes for a new beginning, horrors from the...
14) Shadow and Flame
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From Gail Z. Martin, one of the most exciting writers of fantasy adventure, comes the fourth and final novel in the epic Ascendant Kingdoms Saga. Blaine McFadden and his allies have brought magic back under mortal command and begun to restore order to the beleaguered kingdom of Donderath. Now, new perils and old enemies gather for a final reckoning. Foreign invaders, a legendary dark mage and vengeful immortals fight Blaine's battered forces for control...
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In Mitchell Hogan's gritty and breathtaking conclusion to the Sorcery Ascendant Sequence-the award-winning fantasy series that started with A Crucible of Souls and Blood of Innocents-a young sorcerer must learn to wield his extraordinary powers to defeat two warring empires.
In a battle of armies and sorcerers, empires will fall.
After young Caldan's parents were slain, a group of monks raised the boy and initiated him into the arcane mysteries...
16) Ascendant
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The Wizard's Council of Tarador was supposed to tell young Koren Bladewell that he is a wizard.
They were supposed to tell everyone that he is not a jinx, that all the bad things that happen around him are because he can't control the power inside him, power he doesn't know about. The people of his village, even his parents, are afraid of him, afraid he is cursed. That he is a dangerous, evil jinx. The Wizard's Council didn't tell young Koren, because...
17) Child of Mars
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An oppressive dictator...
A mysterious orphan...
A reluctant heroine...
It is the twenty-third century and Mars is being terraformed into a new garden of Eden. But, all is not well in this soon-to-be paradise. A ruthless despot has, seized control of the government and rules the planet with an iron fist. A rebel force struggles to oppose his regime, but are near defeat.
A fugitive, and living under an alias, Melanie Destin is a travelling doctor,...
18) Eternal Twins
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The first in a series for those who wish Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings had never ended! James Montgomery has existed almost as long as the country he lives in. Born at the dawn of the 17th century, he has seen cultures rise and fall, and progress made in every facet of life. After four centuries, James begins a journey that will lead him to his fraternal twin, and together they may hold the key to saving the world and continuing the existence...
19) Mother of Mars
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An ageless menace lurks on the surface of Mars...
An unscrupulous industrialist seeks to control it...
One woman was bred to destroy it...
In the twenty-third century the descendants of the original Mars colonies struggle to retain their independence from the Terran government. The generations-old terraforming project is faltering and on the verge of failure. If that happens, the millions already adapted to the harsh Martian environment will be doomed,...
20) Deceptions
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Koren Bladewell now knows he is a wizard, but he is lost in the wilderness, cut off from help, and unable to use his powers.
The enemy is poised at the border with an overwhelming invasion force, and it will take wizards, soldiers and a young, untested princess to hold off defeat long enough for Koren to be trained and grow into his power. But he might not wish to help those who deceived him and destroyed his life.
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