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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 10 - Errands and Updates

Elijah lay beside Sadie, his fingers tracing the line of her latest scar.  Before she’d decided to delve into the Primal Realm known as the Eternal War, her skin had been smooth and unblemis...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 9 - Conquering Hero

When Sadie had entered the Primal Realm known as the Eternal War, she’d had ten thousand people behind her.  Now, nearly half of those people were dead.  At last count, they’d lost th...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 8 - Delivery

Carmen bent down, her face only an inch from the surface of the metal, as she inspected the engraving.  Courtesy of Precise Eye, she saw every imperfection as if she was looking at it under a ...

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Chapter 705 - The First of Seven Temples

Talia stood at the head of the boat, her stomach twisting in knots as she saw Zeke disappear into the void.  She knew he would come out just fine, but still, she worried for his fate.  Af...

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A Plea for Support (not a chapter)

I've mentioned this before (regrettably), but there's a certain type of person that will read the first few chapters of this series and become enraged at the inclusion of a lesbian couple. Or maybe...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 7 - Catching Up

“He really is damaged, isn’t he?” Carmen said, mopping sweat from her forehead.  “Like a lost puppy.”

“A lost puppy that could probably level this entire city if he wanted to...

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Chapter 704 - Incursion

“How much longer?”

“A few hours,” was Iris’ response to Zeke’s question.  Her attention never wavered from whatever she saw through the grey mist.  Zeke had learned that...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 6 - A Dose of Civilization

“And that’s the frozen glade,” Elijah said, grinning as he watched the dogs chasing foxes in circles around the Frozen Oak.  All except Sophie, who looked on impassively, almost as if sh...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 5 - Paradise

Oscar was drowning – not in water, but rather, in the dense sea of ethera that hung so thick in the air that it felt almost solid.  It was invigorating and suffocating, both in equal measure...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 4 - Return

“What are you doing?” came Oscar’s voice from the other side of the room.

Elijah looked up to see that the other man had cleaned himself up – at least a little.  His hair was sti...

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Chapter 703 - Between Universes

Layers.

That was the word that kept popping into Zeke’s mind, though he couldn’t really understand why.  Certainly, the notion that reality was comprised of one tier after another wa...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 3 - Built For It

Gun’s name was well-earned.

Technically, he was Gunnar Lindstrom, but even going back to his middle school days when he’d preferred to spend his days out in the woods and hunting whatever...

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Chapter 702 - The Void

“You might not want to stand so close to the edge,” came a voice from nearby.  Zeke turned to see Tucker leaning against the deck’s inner railing.  Improbably, he still chose to dre...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 2 - Structure

Elijah nearly stumbled as he stepped through the portal and back into the real world, largely due to the incredibly sparse ethera in the area.  The sharp decrease in ethereal density stole his...

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Path of Dragons 10 - Chapter 1 - An End to Apathy

Nara Eski tel’Amoris sat on the beach, staring out across the waves at the world she had adopted as her own.  She could feel everything around her – at least within a few feet – courtesy...

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 93 - Emissary

Miguel leaped backward, using Protection of the Forest.  A giant hand of twisted roots and mud erupted from the ground, wrapping its six-fingered grip around the troll.  It squeezed – n...

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Chapter 701 - Trauma Dump

Zeke sat across from Talia, his elbows on his knees as he stared intently at her.  Only a few feet separated them, but to him, it felt like an eternal gulf stood between them.  For her pa...

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 92 - The More Things Change

The rest of the trip back to Stillstone was representative of what they’d come to expect from the desolate landscape.  Elijah wasn’t certain if they’d killed all the native beasts in the...

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Chapter 700 - A Plan of Attack

Zeke clenched his fists as he stared out at the battlefield.  Initially, he’d thought that the fight had been fairly one-sided, with his people coming out on top.  However, when Simeon ...

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 91 - Scourgedrake

The first thing Elijah felt upon the completion of the spell-driven transformation was that the new form was roughly bipedal.  Not like his human or cindrandir forms.  It took a moment fo...

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 90 - A Changing World

A quick announcement first...

We didn't quite reach the ranking goals in the first day, but I think that can be explained by two factors. First, I honest...

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 89 - Elemental Eruption

Elijah’s ears rang, the high-pitched sound drowning everything else out.  He shook his head, the motion emitting a cloud of dust before he planted his palms on the uneven ground and heaved h...

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 88 - Eye-Opening

The world shuddered, and Chelsea Callahan struggled to keep her feet as everything was thrown into upheaval.  In the distance, thousands of dead giants carpeted the ground, but as disturbing a...

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 87 - Across the Crystal Fields

When Elijah wanted to move, he could really move.  He’d known that for a long time.  What he truly found interesting was that the dogs could keep up.  Maybe that shouldn’t have b...

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Book One Release Day!

The day is finally here! Protector of the Grove (Book One of Path of Dragons) is now available on Kindle, Audible, and Paperback! I'm very much hoping for a big release (presale numbers look stro...

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Chapter 699 - The Defense

The world erupted into an explosion of water and force, sweeping through the army with far more kinetic energy than the tidal wave that they’d barely managed to endure.  The shields shattere...

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Book Release Eve!

I just wanted to remind you all that Protector of the Grove (Path of Dragons 1) is releasing tomorrow on Kindle, Audible, and Paperback!

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 86 - The Last Battle

“What do you want to do?” asked Jari, his hands on his hips as he scanned the battlefield before them.  There were thousands of combatants down there – mostly hobgoblins, but enough ogre...

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Chapter 698 - Shattered Pieces of Peace

Over the next few weeks, Zeke tried his best to be there for his friends and family, and to some degree, he was successful.  He knew he didn’t fit.  He could feel that with every fiber ...

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Path of Dragons 9 - Chapter 85 - Free For All

Elijah fell.

Instinctively, he shifted into the Shape of the Sky, but it wasn’t long before a rock smashed into his back.  It sent him cartwheeling into a glassy hunk of pyramid, which...

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