If the enemies of your enemies are still your enemies, how do you know who your friends are?
Smart-mouthed Keane and feared-warrior Sarah escape the mercenaries of Wallace's Company to start somewhere fresh, where no one is trying to kill them. Keane steals the company's wages in return for his attempted murder, and Sarah agrees to the plan.
Unfortunately, Keane doesn't have one.
On the run from the vengeful lord marshal and his wicked mercenary cutthroats, Sarah and Keane hop from danger to disaster. One con too many lands the friends between the King's Swords, who are notoriously hostile toward mercenaries, and Wallace's Company, who are notoriously hostile toward thieves who steal their pay.
What began as a good running away becomes a trap between a rock and a hard place. Keane must plot a way out of this mess and keep them both alive, even if that means impersonating a dead royal embroiled in an arranged marriage.
Now entangled in intrigue far beyond their paygrade, Keane and Sarah must choose a side or risk the collapse of an entire kingdom.

A Good Running Away (Misplaced Mercenaries)

Literature & Fiction

Pettway, Kevin

Humor & Satire

Cursed Dragon Ship Publishing, LLC

A newly minted king and an untrained sorceress seek allies in a world full of backstabbers. Luckily, these ex-mercenaries know a bit about backstabbing."This is my kind of fantasy. Irreverent, let's call it." Eric FlintEx-mercenaries Keane and Sarah struggle to keep their heads above water in the roles of snarky pretender-king and sorceress-in-training for the kingdom of Greenshade—which alone would make it a good day.But good days are clearly for better people. As the nations of the Thirteen Kingdoms line up against them, assassins stalk the castle halls with hidden daggers and deadly salted fish. The only weapons Sarah and Keane can count on are each other and the few friends they’ve made, none of whom are safe.While Keane must triumph over the literal enemies at the gate, Sarah must win the support of foreign leaders to their cause. If either fails, Greenshade collapses to the evil empire of Tyrrane. And everyone and everything they care about, including their own skins, will be utterly destroyed.Will our heroes’ efforts to foil enemy plots and pry allies out of the countryside succeed, or stretch them past the breaking point?Find out now.

Blow Out the Candle When You Leave (Misplaced Mercenaries)

The follow up to the award winning Laundered - An Anthology of Monster Messes.When hitting the grocery store is as adventuresome as your life gets, we've got some truly epic journeys for your action-craved reading pleasure Epic usually means long. Not for these journeys. The Legion of Dorks has managed to cram an enormous amount of travel into bite-sized stories.Sail with a queen as she travels across the sea in a desperate attempt to save her kingdom and her newborn babe.Go on a spiritual quest with a young tribe member who believes in mermaids.Fly with a princess across the skies in her inexplicably floating castle.Explore Death from the dead's point of view.Re-visit the Old West as two old cowboys travel east one last time.Find these and more in this collection of stories from ten authors who dared accept the challenge to head to the Horizon and see what awaits.Half of all net profit goes to the Legion of Dorks Gaming and Giving Charity held each December.

Horizons: An Anthology of Epic Journeys (Legion of Dorks presents)

Healy, Chisto

Collins, Ben

Adams, Stephen

Payne, John D.

Colby, Kelly Lynn

Hartsell, A.F.

Ossio, Citlalin

Adel, Taylor

Adams, L.T.

Bair, Jen

Short Stories & Anthologies

If you see petals gray as thunder, leaves red as the setting sun, you run. Always run.\nThese words are both a warning and a truth. Stop the Curse of the Bloodbud from coming to fruition, lest the Forsaken bring the downfall of all the Coven.\nFor Ellie Hallivard, these are but ancient stories within her world of poultice brewing and apple tree tending. As the eldest daughter of the Matron of the Orchard Clan, Ellie must prepare herself for leadership, all while trying to protect her younger sisters, cultivate her love of a town boy, and undermine the spirit intent on devouring her mother’s soul.\nDespite Ellie’s best efforts, her sister defies Clan law and touches a Bloodbud; the Forsaken is brought into existence in the body of a Hallivard.\nAbandoned by her family and her Clan, the Forsaken struggles to understand why she’s been cast aside. Something is happening. She feels . . . different. Her tooths are sharp and smooth. Everywhere she goes, she can smell iron and daisies. And there’s a spark of something like lightning in her gaze of willow moss and kindling.\nThe Ancestors warn Ellie of the Forsaken, instill in her the knowledge of what must be done to keep the Orchard safe. If she fails to act, her surviving family, the Orchard Clan, and the entirety of the Coven will succumb to the devastation of the Infected. Ellie can save them all with a single act.\nBut can she kill her sister?

Leather and Sage (Willow Moss and Kindling)

Shepeard, Taylor

Genre Fiction

Fauna Young owns a small computer repair shop. She lives in a townhouse downtown. She loves to dance with her two best friends in city clubs. From the outside, Fauna's life looks like any other young professional's in bustling Houston.On the inside, Fauna hides a secret. She can read people's emotions as well as intense memories impressed on everyday objects. She calls it her curse, and she's never found anyone else like her.Until Fauna uncovers a statue pieced together with multiple impressions. Hopeful that she's finally found someone like her, Fauna tracks down the artist only to find his mutilated corpse.With a serial killer on the loose targeting people like her, Fauna might have ended her solidarity only to cut her life short. Now she must work with a skeptical homicide detective to catch the mad man before she becomes the next victim.

The Collector (Emergence)

Heavy lies the head that wears the crown. Heavier still if you add the weight of the basket it's in.Somehow, Keane, the ex-mercenary king of Greenshade, must outwit a wicked usurper from within and an overwhelming army from without. And if that weren't enough on his royal plate, when Keane flees with his pregnant queen and brainwashed mother-in-law, his own nefarious past rears up to smack him in the face.A thousand miles away, Keane's best friend Sarah, a swordswoman and sorceress-in-training, treks toward the only possible ally strong enough to help them: the goddess of either beauty, seduction, obsessiveness, or insanity.Depending on who you ask.Meanwhile, the child of a god commands all the powers of hell in order to grow an empire large enough to swallow the mortal world.Can Keane and Sarah pull enough allies from an adversarial countryside to take back a kingdom, defend it from an empire, and defeat the greatest threat the world has ever known? Keane is an accomplished smartass, and Sarah can blow out a candle from across the room.It should be fine.

Big Damn Magic (Misplaced Mercenaries)

In a Cosmos as large as Taeron, with all the power they possessed, the prophecies prevailed and the Darkness came.The Realm of Reason is but one of many within the Taeron Cosmos where Ancients rule over classes of immortal Creators and Sylphs. All within the Realm carry the same mission-to educate and prepare premortal offspring for a journey to mortal worlds. One premortal needs more preparation than most. Huldah might be the daughter of the High King but that didn't protect her from the Darkness who invades her mind, terrorizes her sleep, and vies for control. A fledgling Sylph, Flora, volunteers to undergo the dangerous assignment of guiding Huldah. The strength of their bond is strained by Huldah's attempts to protect her twin brother and Flora's inability to recover from her mortal journey. With the Darkness fighting them each step of the way, Huldah and Flora can't fail. If they do, their Realm will collapse, precipitating the fall of the entire Taeron Cosmos.

Daughter of a King

Jordan, JM

Some mistakes haunt the guilty, while others seek revenge.\nRoger leaves the house filled with the memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him. Kara finds a psychiatrist to help with that, a kind man named Mark Stephenson. Then Roger finds an affordable place in apartment 34 at Sunnycrest Apartments and a girlfriend, Lisa. Life is finally looking up.\nThat is until Roger realizes the girl across the hall, Alice, has a father very similar to his own. Brian's screams mixed with Alice's are too much for Roger to handle. He feels like he has to save the girl from her father's violence, but his own fear and trauma interfere, and Alice dies.\nAs he tries to move on, to get past the biggest mistake of his life, Alice has other ideas.\nNow Roger must do for himself what he couldn't for Alice. Make it out of Sunnycrest alive.

Accidental Murderer in Apt 34

Misspelled: Magic Gone Awry (Legion of Dorks presents)

Collins, Christopher

Aman, Rebekah

Little, Gregory D.

Guernsey, Jessica

Dare Adams, Stephanie

McKay, Sean

After serving with Keane to save Greenshade, the cowardly, illusion-making runecrafter Morholt leads a group of mercenaries on a mission to save the women from his past. His one rule: no killing.\nBut after a terrible accident leaves one of Sarah’s oldest friends dead in the Sedrian jungle, the unstoppable Hill Fury pursues Morholt relentlessly across the Thirteen Kingdoms.\nBecause the renewed Temple of the Sky is trying to murder all those with the sacrilegious runecrafting ability, Sarah requests their help. But soon Sarah must decide who her true enemies are: Morholt and his runecrafters—or the Temple of the Sky itself.\nMeanwhile, Tyrrane and its evil god want to kill everyone. But a royal plot is underway to overthrow their god, with true villains pitted against cosmically scaled assholes, and world-shaking consequences no matter what happens.\nWill the forces of good and sorta-good come together before the forces of definitely not-good crush them, ruin their lands, and take all of their ex-girlfriends?\nNot if history is any indication.

Illusions of Decency (Misplaced Mercenaries)

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