Jonathan Waters
1) Core Ruleset
Terry Brandt plays role-playing games, passing his time in the pursuit of imaginary contests with monsters and magic. Aging and depressed, he works a dead-end job, lives with his father, and enjoys a romantic life that could best be described as empty.
And for some reason, people are starting to die around Terry, killed in bizarre ways by seemingly otherworldly assailants that cannot be traced by the baffled police department. Whomever
2) Fatalis
Help isn't coming.
When Carise wakes up on an alien planet running is her only chance at escape, even if being caught means death.
She'd rather die than face whatever her captors plan to do to her.
Guerran is no safe place for healing and every moment is fear. Until Jaek, a gentle giant of an alien, makes himself her protector. But when their fragile bond is tested, Carise knows she must find strength within herself to become
...An orphaned pioneer girl, an outlaw with a conscience, and a former Civil War captain influenced by the poetry of Walt Whitman...These three young castaways help each other erase wounds of the past and search for what they desperately need.
This historical novel with romantic elements belongs next to books by Anita Stansfield, Julianne Donaldson, and Susan Wiggs.
Magic, wizards and talking animals. Those would all be totally cool with Thomas except he woke up as a talking cougar! Now he's viewing the magical world from the bottom up, and everyone's telling him he better roll over if he knows what's good for him. Or else!
Thomas runs for "else" as fast as he can on four legs, surprising the entire magical community as they scrambled to keep up. In this three book series, can Thomas keep a collar off
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