Below are descriptions of all my awesome fantasy books. All are epic fantasy, but they cross over into other genres some too. If you’d like to see my other books, which include science fiction and mysteries, you can go to my main book page here.

If you’d like to order signed paperbacks of any of these, they’re available through my paperback book shop with free shipping and bulk discounts. The more you order, the more you save!

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The Glorious and Epic Tale of Lady Isovar

Lady Isovar is a mighty and supremely confident knight errant who leaps into adventure with both feet and then tracks it all over the rug. Chevson, her long-suffering squire and companion, is a former student of stone magic who spends most of his time keeping his mistress from causing enthusiasm-related injury to innocent bystanders. A tragic turn of events has sent them far from home, where they roam the countryside righting wrongs, smiting miscreants, deposing despots, and taunting their foes, often with seriously questionable one-liners. This new life is more than enough for Izzy, but Chevson wants nothing more than to set right what he harmed long ago. Following clues to sites of ancient power, they might just achieve his aim. That is, if they aren’t murdered, dismembered, devoured, executed, roasted, or derailed by Izzy’s bravado first.

The Glorious and Epic Tale of Lady Isovar is a humorous epic fantasy story of adventure, friendship, heroic battles, and vile villains. Available at Amazon, and free for Kindle Unlimited members. It was a semifinalist in the tenth annual SPFBO competition, with a judge’s review here.

Content Warning: This book includes a lot of medieval-style violence and some gore (so long as it’s not a Fourthday).

The Inquisitors’ Guild series

These books are all epic fantasy stories about a detective agency in the medieval-ish city of Frosthelm. Each book is an independent self-contained mystery with a different main character, but characters from earlier books often pop up in the later ones, so you can follow their further adventures. They are mysteries, but they are also heroic fantasy with swords, wizards, evil nobles, ancient artifacts, and all of that good stuff. There’s also a lot of humor in them. Think Princess Bride meets CSI and you’re most of the way there.

Flames Over Frosthelm

Sometimes, a mystery has no easy solution. Marten Mingenstern and Boog Eggstrom are provisional inspectors, fresh out of Inquisitor’s Guild training and eager to prove themselves. Assigned a mundane task, tracking down stolen jewels, they instead uncover a mysterious cult set on destroying the city. People start to explode, they earn the enmity of a vicious noble, the Chief Inquisitor gets bought off and goes rogue, barbarians seize them, and they are sentenced to death. Twice. In a final, frantic race against prophecy, they stand alone against the power of an angry god. Available at Amazon, and free for Kindle Unlimited members. An audiobook narrated by the wonderful Simon de Deney is available on Audible.com, Apple Books/iTunes, and on Amazon.

The Outcast Crown

Boog Eggstrom is back, and he’s helping to train a new apprentice inspector, Zekra Kalem. Together, they investigate a mysterious phenomenon afflicting the city – a troubling manifestation, always accompanied by a buzzing sound, sometimes taking almost human form. As they search for clues, they come across a murder of someone who should probably already have been dead and find hints of treachery and intrigue from a far distant land. The city they love may be under a threat as dire as it has ever known, and they are thrust into the twisting machinations of an ancient, deadly mistake and a curse that afflicts an entire nation.

Available on Amazon for Kindle and in paperback. 100% free for Kindle Unlimited members.

The Woeling Lass

An assassin hunts Inspector Gueran Declais through the streets of Frosthelm, and she is not acting alone. Just as he learns that his family may have been attacked and slain, Gueran is struck down as well. Despite the odds, he lives. Barely. Whisked away from the city for his safety, he struggles to recover from his injuries, learn his family’s fate, and uncover the identity of those who want him dead. Far from Frosthelm, he becomes caught up in investigating another bloody attack, one that may or may not have been perpetrated by vengeful spirit of a woman wronged long ago, and one that threatens to expose him to his enemies. The locals are certain, though: the killer had to be the Woeling Lass, her hands cold as the grave and her feet aflame.

Back in Frosthelm, Urret Milton is an apprentice in some difficulty at the Guild. She receives a mysterious note for Gueran, a man everyone thinks is dead. Rapidly embroiled in the effort to unravel the reason for the killings and bring the assassins to justice, Urret struggles to shed her troubles and show that she has what it takes to be an inspector. But all this leads her into far more peril than she bargained for, for which she can’t possibly be ready. Her position at the Guild, the security of the city, and her life itself are all at stake.

Available on Amazon for Kindle and in paperback. 100% free for Kindle Unlimited members. The Woeling Lass was a SPFBO semifinalist, with the judges’ reviews here.

Traitors Unseen

Provisional Inspector Emerra Denault is working on a case with her mentor investigating some stolen money. Everything seems straightforward, but then she is accused of a crime she would never commit. On the run from both her enemies and her friends and not sure of which is which, Emerra must solve the mystery of her betrayal and uncover the plot that led to her misfortune. That plot, still in motion, is deep and deadly. It would give the city she loves over to relentless murderers bent on power. Emerra faces criminals, corruption, magic, villainous nobles, and rot within the Guild she serves. She must overcome them all to save Frosthelm and to stay alive.

This novella is available on Amazon for Kindle and in paperback, and it’s also available at lots of other retailers (e.g. Nook, Kobo, Smashwords).

If you’d like a free copy, you can get one in exchange for signing up for my newsletter. Click here to get your free copy of Traitors Unseen!

IFA Anthology

Talon’s Shadow

I’m really happy to share that I have my first story in an anthology. The book is From The Arcane: Relics of Legend and Lore, with fourteen fantasy stories all related to magical objects and artifacts by authors active in the Indie Fantasy Addicts Facebook group. My story, Talon’s Shadow, is about Penelope, an apprentice in a magic shop. The shop sells gear to those brave enough to challenge the dragon Ankaregis, who lives on a nearby mountaintop. The shop owner, though cruel, is teaching Pen a little about magic. You can get a copy of this book for only $0.99, which is seven cents a story. I hope you’ll consider giving it a read if it sounds like your kind of thing.

The anthology is available on Amazon in ebook and paperback.