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      <image:title>About - M. Warren Askins spent his early adult years pursuing an assortment of professions ranging from youth leadership to aerospace welding. It wasn't until his mid-thirties that he decided to try his hand at writing, and went to work publishing his first novel, "Beyond the Spire of Navarene" — a take on both Grimdark Fantasy and Arthurian Romance. Readers were instantly captivated by Askins’ ability to infuse his prose with a witty modern sensibility, all while remaining true to genre. Over the years his works have resonated with readers who enjoy well-paced, violent tales that are keenly edged by a sense of dark humor.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Dead Men are Dying</image:title>
      <image:caption>Curses, Wards, and Endless Hordes prevent the casual adventurer from getting very far. At least, not without employing a Ranger… and their services do not come cheap. A Young Knight undertakes an impossible quest deep into the fabled and perilous Fenrirfang in order to protect his sister from a conspiracy that involves the Church that he has sworn to serve. A seasoned Ranger who believes she has seen everything the wilds have to offer soon discovers that she faces something altogether different with this journey.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>War in Fenrirfang Forest is for fools. If the battle does not claim you, the Forest will. An ancient enemy, long-thought vanquished, has emerged in the Forest, and it falls upon the reluctant heir of Benwick to meet this threat. Vastly outnumbered in an unforgiving terrain and facing a powerful foe with mysterious powers, the heir must find a way to secure the King time to rally his banners. The immortal Arbiter believed he had sampled everything the world could offer, but his beliefs are upended by a simple farmer’s daughter who possesses a most rare quality. Determined to win her hand, the Arbiter will stop at nothing until he succeeds.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Temper all hope, the wise caution those who enter the Forest. But for the Halodwyth Caverns— they shudder and turn away. Only death waits there. The enemy is vast. War is inevitable. The Realm is fracturing. But the Scholars claim an artifact deep within the Halodwyth Caverns holds the key to survival. The Ranger chosen to lead this hopeless expedition knows more than wraiths haunt the Caverns. To keep his companions alive he must rely on cunning alone, for his luck abandoned him long ago. An apprentice mercenary longs for a life free of slaughter and bloodshed. When a contract arrives with a staggering reward beyond his wildest dreams, he must persuade his mentor that the expedition into the Halodwyth Caverns is anything but folly. And his mentor is not one to be easily swayed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>No matter how strong or invulnerable you believe yourself to be, this forest has ways of proving you wrong. The Lord Commander of the Royal Court has grown bored, but her curiosity is piqued when she hears of a savage killer loose in her city. An orphan ripped from her village finds herself suddenly connected to a vicious string of murders, but all she wants to do is return home so she can bury her mother. Oh, and there’s a werewolf knight.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My son eats people. He doesn’t translate languages or shut off trash chutes. He doesn’t transform into a truck or a fighter jet. He doesn’t morph into liquid and seep through sewer grates. He eats people - My son eats people. Well, yeah, that's what he was designed to do. You see, my son is a robot. And me? I'm a sworn pacifist, raising him as best I can. So when a stranger came knocking one day, well, some stuff happened…</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jonas Porter is torn. Transported into a realm fractured by war, where the figures of folklore breathe, he will become the savior... or bring about their doom. In the world he left behind, he is an ordinary teenager, struggling to find his place. As war rages in one realm, his mother's life hands in the balance of the other. Jonas Porter is torn between fates, between realms.</image:caption>
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