"My life was nothing more than cold greys, villainous blacks and muted hues. But then I met Jade and everything changed. And it all began with a storm." After years of bitter civil war, the King and his men, the Colourless Soldiers, took over. Poetry, stories, paintings and songs became prohibited for the King knew the power of creativity and the human mind. Jack Nero has trained his entire life to enforce the King's laws as one of the Colourless Soldiers. There is no doubt in his mind that imagination is dangerous and that he is fighting for the right side. Until that is, he meets a girl. Jade introduces him to her world of paints and colour and he doesn't look back. With the help of the artists he meets, he sets about bringing creativity back to the people. Inspired by him; they grant him the nickname "the Coloured Bandit" and he becomes a figure of myth and legend. But can he turn against the King he once followed without a shadow of a doubt?

The young emperor Vengelis Epsilon narrowly escapes the reckoning of his empire at the hands of strange machines known as Felixes. The Felixes are identical in every respect to the godlike men of Vengelis's world save for their mechanical blue eyes. Feared to be indestructible, the wanton holocaust of the Felix appears inescapable. His family murdered and his empire maimed under a shadow of destruction, Vengelis pursues the pained final words of his dying mentor, and sets course for a remote and unchartered world-our world. You can read Anthem's Fall in full at http://amzn.com/B00M7NPD28 for only .99 cents for a limited time.

Deep in the Lurr Forest, there is a valley called Saint Elm's Deep. This secret valley remains in a perpetual state of spring and hosts the thousands of fae who live there. The Heart Tree's magic sustains the boundaries that protect them all and their lush forest, but the Hoar Witch has poisoned its roots. Queen Corydalis needs a certain shard to cast a beckoning so that the Emerald-eyed Champion of lore might come and save them all, for he is the only one who can end the Hoar Witch. If they hope to save the Heart Tree, that deed must be done. Join Thorn, Bristle and Barb, the Pixie Queen's fiercest, smartest and most loyal elves as they take a thrilling journey out of their protected world into true Overland, where danger hides around every corner and everything they have ever loved is at stake.