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Jon Sprunk

This action-heavy EPIC FANTASY SERIES OPENER is like a sword-and-sorcery Spartacus set in a richly-imagined world.
It starts with a shipwreck following a magical storm at sea. Horace, a soldier from the west, had joined the Great Crusade against the heathens of Akeshia after the deaths of his wife and son from plague. When he washes ashore, he finds himself at the mercy of the very people he was sent to kill, who speak a language and have a culture and customs he doesn't even begin to understand. 
Not long after, Horace is pressed into service as a house slave. But this doesn't last. The Akeshians discover that Horace was a latent sorcerer, and he is catapulted from the chains of a slave to the halls of power in the queen's court. Together with Jirom, an ex-mercenary and gladiator, and Alyra, a spy in the court, he will seek a path to free himself and the empire's caste of slaves from a system where every man and woman must pay the price of blood or iron. Before the end, Horace will have paid dearly in both.

James Lewis

Michael John Casey

James Konicek

Terence Aselford

Nanette Savard

Thomas Penny

Colleen Delany

Richard Rohan

Mort Shelby

Dylan Lynch

Ken Jackson

David Coyne

Tim Getman

Andy Clemence

Scott McCormick

Christopher Scheeren

Jeff Allin

Kimberly Gilbert

Drew Kopas

Thomas Keegan

Steve Wannall

David Jourdan

Rose Elizabeth Supan

Nora Achrati

Scott Graham

Bradley Smith

Alyssa Wilmoth

John Dow

Christopher Walker

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The book of the black earth

Blood and Iron [Dramatized Adaptation]

An empire at war. Three fates intertwined.
The Magician. Horace has destroyed the Temple of the Sun, but now he finds his slave chains have been replaced by bonds of honor, duty, and love. Caught between two women and two cultures, he must contend with deadly forces from the unseen world.
The Rebel. Jirom has thrown in his lot with the slave uprising, but his road to freedom becomes ever more dangerous as the rebels expand their campaign against the empire. Even worse, he feels his connection with Emanon slipping away with every blow they strike in the name of freedom.
The Spy. Alyra has severed her ties to the underground network that brought her to Akeshia, but she continues the mission on her own. Yet, with Horace's connection to the queen and the rebellion's escalation of violence, she finds herself treading a knife's edge between love and duty.
Dark conspiracies bubble to the surface as war and zealotry spread across the empire. Old alliances are shattered, new vendettas are born, and all peoples—citizen and slave alike—must endure the ravages of storm and steel.

Eva Wilhelm

Joe Brack

Tony Nam

Elliot Dash

Eric Messner

Elizabeth Jernigan

Andy Brownstein

David Harris

Todd Scofield

Matthew McGee

Dawn Ursula

Jonathan Feuer

Paul Reisman

Chris Genebach

Gary Telles

Storm and Steel (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Christopher Graybill

Nathanial Perry

Patrick Bussink

Evan Casey

Storm and Steel (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

In a world of sorcery and sand, a slave rebellion is out of control and an army of undead is approaching. 
Does Horace have the power and strength to save what he fought so hard to win? In a setting reminiscent of ancient Egypt and Babylon, where God-Kings and God-Queens hold the power of life and death in their hands, Horace, the onetime slave who became a powerful magician, has turned the tables on his former masters. 
Follow Horace, Alyra, and Jirom as they navigate the hurdles of managing the slave rebellion under the Akeshian Empire's nose. But evil is not content to sit back and let them gather their strength. A new threat is coming in the form of an unstoppable army of the walking dead. To face this enemy, our heroes will have to dig deeper and find a strength they didn't know they possessed.

Michael Glenn

Yasmin Tuazon

Joe Mallon

Chris Stinson

Tia Shearer

Catherine Aselford

Lydia Kraniotis

Blade and Bone (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Blade and Bone (2 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

In this brilliant debut fantasy, a story of secrets, rebellion, and murder are shattering the Hollows, where magic costs memory to use, and only the son of the kingdom’s despised traitor holds the truth.
Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king’s nine-year-old son, by his father David Kingman. Ten years later on Michael lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor royals in a weak attempt at striking back at the world that rejects him and his family.
In a world where memory is the coin that pays for magic, Michael knows something is there in the hot white emptiness of his mind. So when the opportunity arrives to get folded back into court, via the most politically dangerous member of the kingdom’s royal council, Michael takes it, desperate to find a way back to his past. He discovers a royal family that is spiraling into a self-serving dictatorship as gun-wielding rebels clash against magically trained militia.
What the truth holds is a set of shocking revelations that will completely change the Hollows, if Michael and his friends and family can survive long enough to see it.
Performed by Terence Aselford, Shanta Parasuraman, Thomas Penny, Lydia Kraniotis, Joe Mallon, Christopher Scheeren, Andy Clemence, Ken Jackson, David Jourdan, Michael John Casey, Bradley Smith, Catherine Aselford, Ren Kasey, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Scott McCormick, Terence Aselford, Richard Rohan, Paul Reisman, Christopher Walker, Lise Bruneau, James Lewis, Tony Nam, Stephon Walker, Nanette Savard, Nora Achrati, Matthew Schleigh and Evan Casey.

Shanta Parasuraman

Sun and Serpent (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

The book of the black earth - The book series

The book of the black earth - The book series

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