Darkslayer
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The story continues in the Bish and Bone series.
Book 1
They want him dead, but he won’t die.
On a volatile, savage world, there is one who is unknowingly charged with maintaining the delicate balance between light and darkness: the warrior Venir, the Darkslayer. Girded with the mantle of power called the Armament, Venir hunts down the insidious race of underlings that will stop at nothing to dominate humanity.
When Venir and his thief companion, Melegal, lock horns with entitled Royals during an innocent night of carousing in the City of Bone they are forced to flee or die in the dungeons. The troublesome pair seek refuge in the harsh Outlands where monsters, dwarfs, gnolls, and ogres dwell. Lying in wait, two powerful underling wizards have set a trap to destroy the scourge of their kind once and for all.
With his enemies closing in from all directions, The Darkslayer and his companions have no choice but to fight, or see their home descend into total chaos and devastation.
Fans of R.A. Salvatore's-Drizzt Do' Urden, Frizt Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, David Gemmell's Druss the Legend, the Witcher, Raymond E. Feist's Pug the Wizard, and Robert E. Howard's Conan, delight in The Darkslayer series ... perhaps you will as well.
Book 2
Only The Darkslayer’s Death Will Do!
After tasting defeat at the hands of the mythic Darkslayer, the underling Lords Catten and Verbard are determined to once and for all eliminate this thorn in their side. But they’ll have to wait their turn.
After a brutal trip through the Outlands, the brash warrior Venir, aka the Darkslayer, returns to the City of Bone. He quickly has his hands full looking out for his young friends Lefty and Georgio, while also trying to score some easy coin with his old ally Melegal the thief. Along the way, Venir faces threats from the Royal houses of Bone, man-urchins, Shadow Sentries, and two dark figures that he’d left for dead once before.
The Mighty Venir Faces The Ultimate Challenge
Venir leaves Bone behind, only to run into Jarla, Queen of the Brigands, an old flame who wants him dead. Soon after that the real horror begins, as Catten and Verbard emerge and unleash their worst in the hopes of finally killing the Darkslayer.
The Darkslayer Sword and Sorcery series is an epic adventure set in an ingeniously imagined world where bored immortals play with the lives and fates of the unsuspecting beings inhabiting it.
Book 3
Bish Happens …
As Venir struggles to survive the wrath of the underlings, Fogle Boon the wizard and Mood the Blood Ranger continue the search for their missing comrade. But how will they find a man that completely disappeared from Bish without a trace?
Back in the City of Bone, Melegal the thief is pushed to the limits under the thumb of the powerful Royal Lord Almen. Tasked with hunting down the Slergs and Almen’ lost son, the half-dead warrior Tonio, Melegal quickly discovers that serving Castle Almen - despite its many pleasures - is more than he can bear, especially when the creepy cleric Sefron is watching his every move. Can the crafty rogue survive much longer without his closest comrade there to back him up?
Kam the mage has her hands full back in the Magi Roost as Lefty Lightfoot and the ever-hungry boy Georgio are growing up too quickly. When a simple skim leads them into a run in with the local thieves guild, all of their lives will never be the same. Will they be able to survive without the man that brought them together?
Book 4
As Venir wanders aimlessly through the Mist trying to find his way home, the Underlings, led by Lord Verbard and Master Sinway's son Kierway, hatch an underling assault on Bish.
Meanwhile, back in the City of Three, Kam has her hands full with her new baby, as well as keeping tabs on Lefty and Georgio, whose friendship is splitting apart. Palos, the Prince of the Thieves Guild, has it in for Kam, and he won’t let anyone stop him from getting what he wants, which is her.
Detective Melegal remains neck deep in Royal Games, trying to hunt down the Slergs, who have Venir’s son Brak in tow, as well as trying to enact his own personal vengeance on the Cleric Sefron.
Mood the Blood Ranger and Fogle Boon have traveled deep into the bitter cold of the Nameless Mountains in hopes of finding a druid that can provide a cure for the dying two-headed dog, Chongo. But the mountains are full of dangers and surprises that even the brilliant mind of the mage Fogle Boon could never have anticipated.
Book 5
Bish and Bone ...
Venir is pushed to his limits in the Outlands: battling underlings and trying to find a way to staunch the underling armies that are quickly spreading from one corner of Bish to the other.
Detective Melegal, struggling to get his life back under control, finds himself with more responsibility that he ever asked for. Not only does his life hang in the balance, but the fate of many others as well. Will his actions save them or spell doom for them all?
Kam, Erin and Lefty remain prisoners under Prince Palos’s watchful eyes. After Lefty Lightfoot’s betrayal, Kam is on her own. She needs an ally, but honest people are hard to come by in The Nest. Is there anyone willing to ally themselves with the woman mage?
Underling Lord Verbard has begun his siege on the City of Bone, but Master Kierway is a thorn in his side. Can the powerful mage Lord pull off the unthinkable?
Fogle Boon, Cass and Mood battle for their very lives as the giants from the Under-Bish continue their invasion.
Book 6
Is this it?
With Venir imprisoned at the Outpost, who will step forward to protect Bish from the rising tide of underlings? Who will save Venir?
What about the City of Bone? Have underling Lords Catten, Verbard and Master Kierway taken it over?
Kam the mage and Lefty Lightfoot struggle to find a way out of The Nest, but will they need the help of a far more dangerous ally?
Detective Melegal survives from one day to the next, only to find himself in one impossible jam after another. Will the keys he acquired spell his freedom or his doom?
What about the giants? Is the disfigured Barton an ally or enemy of Fogle Boon?
With the entire world being overrun by underlings, will Trinos act?
What hand will Scorch, if any, have in all of this?
Will another Darkslayer rise amid the chaos?