The Goddess's Scythe is a trilogy.

Raven’s Wings

Banishment is heart-wrenching… so why choose it?

Cast to the winds, Kala’s to-do list is daunting…

- Survive another day… (so far so good)
- Regain her humanity… (easier said than done)
- Track down the “one that got away”… (he’s out there)
- Find a way home… (can’t give up hope)
- Serve the Goddess of Death… (what the hell?)
- Stop the Apocalypse… (seriously?!?)

How can a girl stop the Apocalypse when she is the Goddess of Death’s chosen weapon?

Kala may have a talent for killing, but it won’t help her escape what she fears most. As the only contact between the isolated communities of her world, mysterious airships demand a youth in exchange for the goods that each community so desperately needs to survive. If you have to send someone away, you choose a misfit, and Kala has always been at the top of the list.

Kala’s trepidation is upended by the arrival of charismatic Skye, who teases a life beyond her village, then is carried away from her on the winds. Kala is thrust into the brutal and unforgiving wider world, where she is enslaved by a lord who desires her talents as his personal assassin. The Church also wants her, believing her to be the prophesied weapon of the Goddess of Death.

Kala just wants to regain her freedom and her humanity, find Skye and a way home, but all of those things seem outside her reach.

Death’s Angel

All that stands against a bloodthirsty army is Kala and her friends...

Skye...… her questionable boyfriend
Lily…..… her best friend whose father she killed
Cera…… her best friend’s girlfriend
Hawke… the guy who tortured her
Amber… a prostitute with a heart of gold
Dhara.… a lioness with a penchant for nudity
Eden..… the girl her boyfriend cheated on her with
Grey..… a monk with no sense of humor

No problem, right?

Kala’s world is set aflame by Soren, a self-declared child of the winds, who was ripped from his family and sent in an airship to the harsh northern steppes. To assuage his anger, Soren has raised an army to destroy the world and every airship in it.

The Church fans the flames, hoping to usher in a cleansing apocalypse and return the world to a garden-like state before humanity can destroy itself and the planet the way the Ancients almost did. The Kala is prophesied to raise an army to oppose Soren, thereby obliterating each other and accomplishing the Church’s dark goals.

As the mismatched confrontation looms, Kala fears the Priestess’s prediction… that her friends love her enough to die for her.

Queen’s Sacrifice

The list of people trying to kill Kala keeps growing…

- an army of barbarians
- a death cult and its Machiavellian leader
- a dark order of assassins
- the shadowy Ancients, who refuse to stay dead
- a host of unkillable monsters
- a horde of metallic devil-spiders

…and that’s just the active list!

Luckily, the Goddess of Death is on Kala’s side. That’s got to count for something, doesn’t it?

The series draws to an explosive conclusion as Kala’s allies clash with Soren’s army, straining bonds and testing friendships.

The real enemy, the shadowy Church, led by the cunning Priestess, continues to orchestrate the Apocalypse, wielding a formidable arsenal of long-forgotten weapons and the support of the Ancients themselves.

Caught between forces bent on total destruction, the situation looks hopeless for Kala and those she loves. A final battle is looming in which Kala will have to choose between her humanity and her destiny – a battle that will scorch the earth and her heart.

Can one person stop the Apocalypse, even if that person is the Goddess’s Scythe?
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Sunset brought a hangover, a beautiful woman, and the thirst for... blood?

Eric didn't ask to be a vampire.
To be fair, there are lots of types of vampires--different species, if you like--and his particular type is called a "Nightlord." But so what? Eric read all about various monsters, but he didn't believe in any of them.
Then he meets a beautiful woman, wakes up with a hangover, and bites his tongue with his own fangs. That was pretty convincing. The bite, that is. She was more convincing, but until he bit his tongue, he wasn't listening.

Eric clearly isn't a typical vampire. He didn't want to be one, and certainly not without reading the terms and conditions! At least his sense of humor seems up to the task of coping with his new circumstances--or he's using it as a coping mechanism. Nobody's sure just how sane an involuntary vampire can be.
So what does one do when shanghaied into being an undead? Is it better to laugh about it and get on with... uh... life? There's a lot to learn, not the least of which is that these brand-new bloodthirsty urges and predatory instincts can be difficult.

Upside: Eric has the beautiful Sasha to teach him the ropes, including the magic he'll need to survive.
Downside: it turns out being a vampire is the least of his problems.

Not only are people trying to kill him, but he's got a whole world of magic and monsters who either want something from him--immortality, power, a little of his blood, his entire head, or maybe some small piece of his heart.

Eric will find himself dragged into an epic battle at the literal edge of the world, as one dark power set against both Darkness and Light to keep a precarious world in balance.

"When you fall off the Edge of the World into hordes of demonic 'Things from the Outer Darkness,' you really start to wonder about your life choices."
--Eric, part-time undead, expectant father, and involuntary astronaut.

Set forth into an epic journey spanning space, time, and alternate realities today!
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Legends and Liars is the second book in the Duelist's trilogy -- a fast-paced adventure from one of the most exciting new talents in fantasy.

Vocho and Kacha are brother and sister, and between them they've got quite a reputation. They were once know for the finest swordplay in the city of Reyes. The only problem is, ever since they were thrown out of the Duelist's Guild for accidentally killing a man they were sworn to protect, it seems everyone wants them dead. Including a dark magician whose plans they recently thwarted. . .

Now Vocho and Kacha are in the midst of an uneasy truce, not sure whether to trust each other, or anyone else for that matter. What's more, the sinister magician is rumored to have returned. Now he knows who was behind the failure of his last plan, he's determined to put a stop to Vocho and Kacha permanently.

And this time, the flash of steel may not be enough to save them.

A group of top scientists, lead by a legendary Nobel Prize winning physicist, has made a discovery so startling and with such deep religious implications that it sends shockwaves through the corridors of power around the world. As the federal government moves to suppress the research, all of those involved vanish without a trace. A mysterious call from the editor of The Washington Post starts Penelope Drayton Spence off in search of the missing scientists. After she crosses paths with enigmatic industrialist Michael Walker, Penelope becomes a fugitive in a wild, hold on tight to the edge of your seat race to expose the truth about the Hermes Project before the government can cover it up. While a work of fiction, The Fourth Awakening is grounded in cutting edge science and an emerging new spiritual reality. It offers readers a glimpse of their future.~~~~Penelope Drayton Spence made a choice years earlier, and picked marriage and family over a promising career as an investigative reporter. Now, divorced and with her children spread around the country, she is having second thoughts.A mysterious call from the Managing Editor of the Washington Post, offers her a second chance at big time journalism. He has a story so sensitive that the President of the United States personally asked the Post to leave it alone.With rumors of 30 top scientists missing and rich industrialist, Michael Walker, being held incommunicado in a prison typically used for terrorists, the story is too big to ignore. He quietly goes "off the grid" and turns to the only person he knows who is good enough tocrack this story, his old college friend Penelope.The moment she picks up the phone her life is turned upside down and she soon finds herself traveling cross country with the most wanted man in America looking for information about the top secret "Hermes Project."On one level it is a straightforward suspense story with plenty of action, a healthy dose of humor and a pinch of sexual tension. On another it is a spiritual quest by a remarkable woman who meets an enlightened man the likes of which have never been seen in fiction before.Thanks to Michael Walker she gets a "do over" that allows her to go back and select the path not taken. Over the course of the story she gradually grows to understand Walker and the amazing spiritual powers he possesses.Penelope also becomes aware of the looming Fourth Awakening, and makes the chilling discovery that her reporting skills and ability to fight her personal demons may be the only thing that can save humanity.~~~~Rod Pennington also written 10 other full length novels including has dark comedy series about a dysfunctional family of four of the world's best assassins. He has also sold multiple screenplays.Jeffery A. Martin is a scholar specializing in higher states of consciousness. He is the author, co-author or contributor to over twenty books in addition to numerous other scholarly and non-scholarly publications, videos, audio, and other media.Both are frequent and talented public speakers.
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