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The Rediscovery of Hardlac

An ill-assorted team must find a way to work together if they're to rediscover a vital ancient secret.

When the Elven Empire fell to the humans they'd enslaved, the elves disappeared into the forests, taking with them many secrets. Among these: the formula for hardlac, a versatile, durable substitute for metal, made from the sap of a common tree.

Five hundred years later, the humans are caught in an economic war with the dwarves, who control the production of metal. Knowing how to make hardlac would shift the balance of power in the humans' favor. And its secrets may lie hidden within the libraries of the ancient Isle of Turfrae.

A research team is quietly dispatched to the Isle, but among the criteria for selecting them, the ability to work well together was not included. They must deal with their differences, navigate a 500-year-old, carefully obscured trail of evidence, and brave ancient dangers in the interior of the Isle in order to fulfill their vital mission.

This character-oriented ensemble-cast novel is a standalone within the Gryphon Clerks setting, and can be used as an entry point to the series.

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Golden City

An Ancient Prophecy. Mystical Armour. One Girl.

Poor and blind in one eye, 14-year-old Freya is an unlikely heroine. But she has outwitted the evil Master twice already. Now training to become an Adelphi, she learns that she has been chosen to receive the Armour of Tyrelia. Her courage and resilience are tested to the limit as she navigates the consequences of her choices. CAN SHE SECURE ALL THE PIECES OF THE ARMOUR in time to rescue her family and everyone else trapped in the Golden City?

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Tyrelia

She escaped death. She unlocked the mystery of the Tablet to discover the long-lost bridge across the chasm. She passed through the Wall. But fourteen-year-old Freya's biggest challenge is yet to come: all alone, she must enter Tyrelia, following new clues that lead her on a quest deep into Tyrelia. All communication lost, Freya needs find the Ancient before it’s too late for her family trapped in the Golden City.

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Medar

A mysterious tablet. An ancient prophecy. A quest to find Tyrelia.

 Freya is half blind, poor, and lives in land-locked Medar: an unlikely heroine. Yet she finds herself thrown into an adventure that takes her to the very edge of the only world she has ever known. Will she unlock the clues hidden in the tablet? The key to the long-lost path to Tyrelia—and freedom—is in her hands.

 If only she can survive the journey.

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The Wandering Poisoner

Holt Gnarl is a professional poisoner, wandering from master to master, perfecting his deadly trade. Despite his skill with toxins and antidotes, his heart has been poisoned against love, and for that he has no cure. He wants nothing more than to collect his fee and move on to the next job, with no strings attached.

But when the Duke of Midair’s heir is poisoned, Holt must head north to find a rare flower that is the only antidote. Besides the brutal conditions, highwaymen, and renegade mercenaries, he rides into a plague sweeping over the countryside. Even worse, the duke’s daughter, Riva, has followed him, set on seeing his task completed.

To keep her alive, he must teach Riva what he knows. Showing her the formulas is easy, but ignoring his growing attraction to her is not. As they struggle to create a remedy for the plague, he discovers an ancient sickness that destroyed the old empire and is on the verge of spreading again.

Will Holt save the kingdom and its heir, or will opening his poisoned heart to Riva doom them and leave the kingdom in ruin?

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Catching The Last Tram

Beth’s commute could lead to love – but something dark is on the tracks

After moving house, lonely librarian Beth meets Isaac – a handsome man with timeless manners – on her way to work. Sharing the same antiquated tram day after day, the pair become close and Beth suspects she’s falling in love.

But Isaac has a secret that threatens their budding romance. Something dark and as magical as the tram that picks her up every morning and evening.

Why does Isaac suddenly push Beth away? Does he really not care for her? How could she have got the signals so wrong?

When Isaac and the tram go missing, Beth begins to discover the truth. But it might be too late …

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The Heart Casts No Shadow

Will Rhonwyn free her heart and her people, or become the pawn of the most dangerous man ever seen?

When her skill at a complex strategy game gives her a way into the palace, Rhonwyn becomes the eyes and ears of the Resistance.

She wants to bring down the evil King Risick – the man who seized control and forced her people into his mines. The man who killed Rhonwyn’s father before her eyes, breaking her heart and fracturing her sanity.

Everything changes when she meets a vibrant man who’s also trapped in the palace. Rhonwyn’s not so alone now and her soul begins to heal. But his dangerous secret forces Rhonwyn to choose between the freedom of her people and the love she’s finally found.

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Droppers: The Recycled Earth #2

Year 998 P.E. (Post Earth)

The Earth is dead.

Or is it?

Searchers have spent centuries looking in vain for signs of recovery on the Earth below, and for hospitable planets out amongst the stars.

Day in, day out, analysing the endless streams of images that Oversight brings them, looking for the tell-tale green of life.

Until one day, eighteen-year-old Miya sees something else. Something that shouldn’t exist on the dead planet below. Something she isn’t supposed to see.

Running for her life, Miya flees the Ark to the inhospitable planet below. But inhospitable doesn’t necessarily mean dead. There’s life, she had seen the signs. Unless the picture was a fake, then she’ll be dead soon enough.

After arriving on the surface, Miya sets out on a mission to rescue another Searcher, but survival is far from assured. She has hundreds of kilometres to travel on foot, on the edge of deep winter in the middle of an ice age, and there are monsters out there.

Some of them are human.

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Emergency Weather

Everything felt wrong, everywhere. The floor was at a weird angle – he took one step and staggered sideways against the wall. Was that shudder the house moving again?

Zeke has to stay with his aunt and uncle in Lower Hutt after a landslide takes his East Coast home off its foundations. Allie puts her drought-ridden Otago dairy farm out of her mind and catches a plane to the capital city. Stephanie wonders why she’s sitting around a table at the Ministry for Resilience – again.

In Emergency Weather, three people find themselves in Wellington as the climate crisis crashes into their lives. A giant storm is on its way – what will be left of the city when it’s over?

A scarily prescient thriller by award-winning author and climate change activist Tim Jones.

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Letters From Elsewhere

This genre-blending collection is rich in characters who aren’t always what they seem at first glance. Space pirates, Fire Elves and living grotesques take us on journeys across the multiverse and deep into the hidden crevices of the mind. These stories interrogate what it is to be monstrous; and along the way, they confront the patriarchy and explore the spectrum of sexuality. If you like your fantasy and science fiction a bit dark, laced with humour, and sometimes spicy, these stories will entertain, disturb and challenge you.

“Jacqui Greaves titillates with this outstanding collection of speculative encounters, visits and ventures by otherworldly beings, each tale sharpening our understanding of the human condition and the tiny role we play in the universe. Cosmic, cautionary, and compelling, served up with a sprinkle of humour and a good dose of sauce, Letters from Elsewhere is a satisfyingly good read.” —Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of Grotesque: Monster Stories.

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A New Eden

The first book of a thought-provoking sci-fi adventure series about humanity reaching the stars, encountering new life forms, and escaping tyranny.

Earth has fallen under the influence of the Fermion Party, whose members believe humanity’s future lies in the metaverse, a simulated environment to which people can upload their consciousness to become immortal. As a simulant, one cannot get sick, grow old, or die. Human beings have no business risking their lives in the betaverse, where injury and illness can kill them. And those who wish to explore beyond the solar system blaspheme what the Fermions believe is the natural order.

Trillion von Nichol, Atlas Tupu, Icarus Kishida, and Angelique Komene are the Beta Explorers. They have been living on Mars and training as astronauts to eventually locate planets that can sustain the next generation of humans. But when the Fermions invade the red planet to assassinate them, they launch before they are mission ready. Four different ships, with four AIs attuned to each astronaut’s personality, leave for four random destinations to colonize worlds thousands of years in the future.

Now, each Beta Explorer must learn how to function as a simulant to complete their mission. Interfacing with their AIs, they explore potential habitable planets and develop technology to assist in terraforming atmospheres for humans, all the while attempting to reconnect with one another. But the Betas are not the only intelligent species in the universe. And their first contact may be their last when the Fermion’s Starforce Alliance tracks them down to annihilate them once and for all.

The first volume of the hit science-fiction adventure series—originally released on Royal Road—now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!

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Fleetwalker

Irenya O’Neil may be able to summon light from the stars, but is it enough to light the way through her darkest moment yet?

Her son Mikey is the realm’s new MageGate. Once again, the people of Dar Orien rejoice, ignoring the danger in relying on one source of power. Lose him and they lose everything.

Having found a new home and the love of an archprince, Irenya is beginning to accept her powerful gifts. But in the world of Dar Orien, her challenges are far from complete. She has come a long way from the terrified young woman who stumbled into Dar Orien with a shopping trolley. Can she now convince those in control that her way of accessing power is not a danger, but a pathway to new possibilities?

The words of the dying seer Fis burn in her mouth as she risks her life in her adopted world. The traitor Riadan is still plotting, and Irenya fears that he plans to take down Elaaron and claim the realm for himself. Until he’s found and stopped, no one she loves is safe.

As a MageVoice seer, Irenya’s visions will make the people of Dar Orien question all their beliefs. If they refuse to adapt, the realm can never be secure.

And how long can she ignore the ache that Mikey still believes he is her brother?

Can Irenya help to save her home, Dar Orien, and all whom she loves once and for all? Find out in this epic conclusion to the GriffinSong Trilogy!

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Griffinsinger

The dying seer’s words spell doom for Irenya. If she stays in Dar Orien to save their way of life, she might never see her infant son again.

Hopelessly lost in the desert of Midrash, Irenya faces the legendary griffin and, without fanfare, a new seer is silently declared. An act of revenge delivers Irenya the knowledge she needs, but her return to Melbourne is tragically far from anything she had imagined.

An alien in her own world, she must decide her fate and that of her son Mikey. Out of time and place, Irenya braves new challenges and meets a fleetwalker, who teaches her something of his art. But civil unrest turns to outright conflict. Dar Orien is on a knife edge, and Irenya gives herself permission for a dangerous undertaking.

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SongBird

A twentieth century woman is lost in a fantasy world with nothing but the clothes on her back and her innate humanity. This is the story of her compelling need to redefine herself.

When Irenya O’Neil suffers a panic attack and falls into the realm of Dar Orien, a world with a failed MageGate system, she finds herself unable to return home to her infant son – she is trapped in a nightmare that tests her sanity.

Confronted with evidence that she possesses a Gift of power, Irenya attempts to control her fledgling talent through music. This could be her ticket home. But Irenya becomes mired in the civil unrest that has befallen Dar Orien. Sickened by the bloodshed and fearful for her own safety, Irenya is desperate to find her way home.

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Searchers: The Recycled Earth #1

Year 998 P.E. (Post Earth)

A thousand years ago humans destroyed the Earth.

Dead. No life. Gone.

We now live in thirteen Arks orbiting the dead planet, hoping it will someday recover and support life once more. One point three million people are all that is left of the human race, one hundred thousand per Ark. No more, no less, closed loop, until the Searchers find us a new home.

Miya is just like any other teenager on Ark Three – school, weekend job, and spending time with friends until she turns eighteen. Then she, along with thousands of other young women and men of the same age, will face Selection. In the blink of an eye, Oversight will assign her a job for life – and a husband, tasked to produce a child in their first year of marriage, and exactly one more after that.

She knew why she had to do it. Few people liked Selection, but the alternative was far worse.

However, what should have been a standard Selection was anything but, and Miya soon fears for her life when she discovers that people are disappearing...

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