GREG CMIEL
May the dead wander no more. Follow the path to the forever light.
There is no sunrise. There is no sunset. There is only the bottomless mine of Darkhán, a pitch black pit that has not seen a ray of sunlight in a million years.
Laz is jolted from bed every morning and spends his days toiling in the deep — hard labor that defines the lives of the Tána.
The Tána slave for the Solaré elite that reside in Citadel Sol, a golden metropolis overflowing with treasure beyond imagination and bathed in permanent sunshine.
Laz, and his best friend Dru, scavenge through the mounds left by the crusher machines, searching for a legendary grade eleven crystalline starlight oval.
A precious jewel to buy passage to Citadel Sol.
As Laz schemes a way forward, old legends are upended, alliances tested, and a new reality comes crashing down.
Twelve year old Nikola stood in front of an open grave. His grandma was dead and gone.
With her death a door was kicked open, and an ancestral curse — a mark on Nikola’s bloodline and rooted in the very bones of the earth — lay revealed. Change is hard. Being the new kid at school is harder, especially with a sinister Vice Principal like William Weaver.
Nikola met a girl named Lizzy. The shocking things happening to him were happening to her as well. She lived on a nearby lake, in a cabin her grandpa had built long ago. Spook Central, she called it.
They meet Dmitry — ancient and mysterious—with secrets of his own. Nikola is forced to choose — unravel the mystery of his dark lineage and bring the fight to the enemy, or face a lifetime of running.
Cassius ‘Cash’ Hickman had just turned thirteen when his dad left.
Dad was a washed-up boxer with faded dreams and a chip on his shoulder.
One of the things he learned from Dad was how to defend himself. “Bring the Thunder” was Dad's motto, and Cash tried to live by that motto every day. But viewing life at the end of a jab is bad advice. It can never fix a broken heart.
When some bullies steal his lucky coin—a birthday present from Dad, and a coin he believed carried good luck magic—Cash is determined to get it back.
With some new friends by his side and a plan to recover the coin, Cash is forced to face his inner demons when that scheme goes wrong.
