An uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the newly established Kingdom of Many-Arrows can`t last long. The orc tribes united under Obould begin to fight each other, and Bruenor is determined to finish the war that nearly killed him and almost destroyed everything he`s worked to build. But it will take more than swords and axes to bring a lasting peace to the Spine of the World. Powerful individuals on both sides may have to change the way they see each other. They may have to start to talk. But it won`t be easy.

From a multiple Hugo Award winner: Four more novels in a brilliantly imaginative series. In the second half of the World of Tiers series, Kickaha embarks on a journey to the eternally shifting landscape of the Lavalite World of Lord Urthona—and the ultimate clash with his arch nemesis. On Earth, Kickaha and the Lord Anana pursue a rogue Beller called Thabuuz. They thought they had wiped out the last of the biolab-generated artificial intelligences created by the Lords, but it seems one has escaped through a portal to Southern California. Thabuuz must be found before he can spawn more Bellers and revive their war against the Lords. But even though he came from Earth fifty years ago, Kickaha no longer recognizes his former home, now ruled by a hostile Lord known as the Red Orc. Leaving an unwelcoming Earth, Kickaha is trapped on the strange planet he thinks of as Lavalite World, and the only way out is a single gate, located inside Urthona’s palace. But the stronghold moves as readily as the dangerous terrain, making survival an unlikely prospect. After facing harrowing challenges and finally returning home to the World of Tiers, Kickaha is led into one last trap. He’ll have to confront the fearsome enemy who has been hunting him all along—and the fate of the pocket universes lies in the balance. This omnibus contains the author’s preferred text of the novels Behind the Walls of Terra and Lavalite World, reprinted from the limited edition volumes published by Phantasia Press.

Farmer returns to his towering World of Tiers, where immortal Lords fight bloody wars over a host of pocket universes. Jim Grimson is a young man with problems who finally goes over the edge, gets placed in a mental hospital, and ends up in the World of Tiers. But is it therapy or reality? "A wide-screen adventure that never fails to provoke, amuse, and educate".--Time.

Prince Eldric Dalth had a sixth sense; he knew when his daughter was up to something. This was another of those moments. He and his soldiers sat atop a hill that overlooked an orc encampment. Princess Elanya was inside one of the tents. What she was up to only the Great Mother knows.A Tales From Nilrus Short Story.He must find the ghost train, he must discover what happened to his father, and so he returns to the site night after night trying to get a glimpse of the train. One night he finally encounters the train and he finally enters the train. Once inside he finds he will never leave his father again.

Bullied at school. Low income family. What does a kid do? Get an after school job on an orc cleaning crew mopping up after vampires and werewolves. Great money, zero life expectancy if you’re stupid. Our girl’s not stupid.

Falconer folk are a little strange... Harley von Canmore, firebird and Chief of Police of Falconer, a tiny town in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, struggles to reconcile her new life as one of the Old Races. It's Christmas Eve and bitterly cold, yet Harley is setting fire to her bed while she sleeps, paper burns when she touches it, and no one needs a room heater when she's in it. When a body is found at the base of Maze Peak lookout, Harley must put aside her personal issues and investigate. What the RCMP suspect is a simple accident grows complicated when she digs a little deeper... The Orc Who Cried is part of the Harley Firebird urban fantasy series of novelettes, which is set in the same world as Taylen Carver's Magorian & Jones series. 1.0: The Dragon of Falconer 2.0: The Orc Who Cried ...and more to come. Urban Fantasy Novelette ___ Praise for Taylen...

Monstrous alien romance. Romantic suspense. Action and adventure…and a giggle.Wrath! Wrath! Wrath! I could say his name all day long. It just slips so easily off my tongue.I wonder what else of his will slip off my tongue—wink, wink!Okay, I admit it! I joined a space exchange dating app.Please don't judge me. At least not until you see the male dregs left here on Earth.I've read his profile, and he sounds goooorgeous!So I accepted it as soon as it came through, even though the photo still hasn't uploaded properly.Anyway, I just know he's going to be the equivalent of an alien Adonis.Oh...hang on a sec....it's just loading now.....Oh...my...God....Nooooooooo!Can I get out of this?What are the terms and conditions of the app?My heart thunders in my chest as I read them.There is only one way to get out of this permanent union, but it goes against all my morals.Why didn't I read the damn small print?What should I do?

In an alternate universe, on a distant planet a new history unfolds. Humanity and its new emperor have decided to eliminate all greenskins. Daring to defy the humans an Orc prince and a no good Goblin rogue gamble everything they have on a single plan, assassinate the emperor stopping the invasion and extermination plans. Can the enslaved Orcs be helped? What is this power of the Orc prince?Rai Jones, a 25-year-old virgin, has never really seen the ocean, shot a gun, or made love to three Elven maidens at the same time…but he lives in a world where technology and drugs make all things possible. Powered by computers, his life is one big virtual fantasy in which Rai can do whatever he wants to do and be whoever he wants to be. Yet in reality, heʼs merely average, trapped in a mundane job with no prospects for finding real satisfaction, and caught in the tension between his fantasy life and real life. Enter Winry: practically perfect, stunningly beautiful, intelligent, and witty. It’s love at first sight with the aid of Love™ Pills —drugs that replicate the feeling of being in love—and as Rai begins to capture her imagination, the real Winry remains shrouded in mystery, hidden behind the curtain of cyberspace, and scared to have a real relationship. Swept up in a whirlwind of Love™, fake violence, and virtual fantasies, Rai and Winry set out to find the secret to modern life and romance. I. Virtual boy meets virtual girl. II. Boy and girl fall in Love™. III. Complications, adventure, and existential questions ensue...

A lone human soldier wanders in a vast desert, almost dying of thirst. He meets a severely wounded orc warrior. What will be the outcome of this encounter?How do you handle a Cup Final when the two teams come from planets with different conditions? Taw Braley, a socially challenged robotics expert, finds out the hard way in this short piece of SF comedy when his football-crazy girlfriend drags him along because a team from Earth is involved. As the hapless Taw does his best to get to grips with the complicated nuances of an interplanetary football match, disaster strikes the robot officials and it's up to Taw to save the day.

It was just supposed to be a few quiet days with Khazak's parents...David has been living in the orc city of V'rok'sh Tah'lj for a couple of months now, and things have been going pretty well. But when his owner, Khazak, is called away on official business, he gets stuck with the man's fathers as babysitters. He's expecting a few quiet days of boredom, but he learns shortly after he arrives that these three orcs have plans for him of their own.Will David be able to handle all the challenges they throw at him, or will Khazak return to find that he just couldn't cut it? A fun and steamy side-story in the Steel & Thunder universe! Set in the same time period as Storms & Sacrifice, follow David as he tries to navigate life among the orcs without Khazak by his side, and learns all about some of the city's unspoken traditions firsthand.This story contains explicit depictions gay/male-on-male sex, including elements of BDSM, group sex, and concerns over loyalty,...

Foreign exchange for magical folk!Visit the Land Across the Bridge and reconnect with your mystical roots!~from the Monster Hunters Guild Newsletter for Friendly Magical FolkMillieI had questions of the magical, mystical, sparkles, and moonbeams kind.Dad had no answers, and Mom wasn't talking, so...I was visiting the land of the fairies!Just a long weekend, more an abbreviated study abroad program than a footloose adventure, but it was a dream come true!Theoretically.Mistakes were made. Instead of traveling across a bridge to be greeted by fairy folk, I landed in the middle of an orc raiding party.According to the literature I'd read prepping for the trip, orcs were nasty barbarian baddies who didn't play nice with my intended hosts.And I'd just been kidnapped by the biggest, baddest orc of the ugly orc bunch.Mostly ugly.Except...The leader's green skin was surprisingly attractive.And his face was human except for...

An Orc on the Wild Side is the latest comic masterpiece from one of the funniest writers in fantasy.For more from Tom Holt, check out:The Management Style of the Supreme BeingsThe Good, The Bad, and the SmugThe Outsorcerer's ApprenticeWhen It's a JarDoughnutLife, Liberty, and the Pursuit of SausagesBlonde Bombshell

The huge alien orc who runs the pub on Elora Station knows what he wants for Christmas: me. MAGGIE Seeing my friend Sophie find happiness on the bustling Elora Station is just the kick in the pants I need to follow my dreams. I'm finally going to open my own bakery. When a coveted rental space opens up on the festive commerce station, I jump at the chance. I have my work cut out for me getting the bakery ready in time for Elora Station's busiest season: Christmas. I don't mind – I'm used to hard work. What I'm not used to? Having a flirtatious, grinning orc all up in my business. Literally. The absurdly-named Archibald runs the pub next to my bakery, and he spends more time in my shop than his own. Sure, he's attractive in a giant, muscly, boisterous sort of way. He's also funny and kind and shockingly generous. But I need to focus. A girl's gotta have priorities. And those priorities...

Faced with the rite of passage that makes him an adult, Gnak seeks out a suitable sacrifice to the gods of his people. Deciding to capture a human, he finds himself injured and at the mercy of the very prisoner he sought to put to death. Through a series of unforeseen events, Gnak finds that his hatred of the other races is little more than his own ignorance and Orcish pride...Faced with the rite of passage that makes him an adult, Gnak seeks out a suitable sacrifice to the gods of his people. Deciding to capture a human, he finds himself injured and at the mercy of the very prisoner he sought to put to death. Through a series of unforeseen events, Gnak finds knowledge into the workings of the world, and the gods, that he has never before fathomed. Above all, he finds that his hatred of the other races is little more than his own ignorance and Orcish pride. Against all he has known, and all he once believed, Gnak is forced to defy those of his kind with hope to change their ways and lead them to a better future. With so many lives on the line, will he succeed in time to save those closest to his heart?

Fall through an ancient Fae portal to a time when Orcs ruled the Irish countryside. Stumble into an arranged marriage with an Orc who wants you less than you want him. And when it’s all said and done? Frantically search for a way to travel through time back to his side. In the shadows of a dense forest in Ireland, near the Cliffs of Moher, a lone figure with dark green-gray skin, more muscles than seem possible, and multiple tusks protruding from his mouth, kneels before an ancient gateway — a portal — once used by the Fae to move between worlds, times, and realms. With a few splashes of blood and an obscure chant passed down through generations of his family, Ozaq, blacksmith to the Orcs of his clan, sends up a request for his anam Cara, his soul mate, to be sent to live and love beside him. It’s been a very long time, centuries even, since the portal was active. And with no answer, comes the resignation that it’s too late to ask his ancestors to intervene. He’s waited too long. Dejected and leaving his dreams to die beside the now useless portal, he doesn’t think to close it as he stumbles back to his solitary existence. He’s not even aware he’s managed to open it. Until… Madelyn has almost completed the excavation of the ancient cemetery, or cromlech, as the Irish call it, when she’s tempted by the colorful little old man who oversees the priory attached to to it. He tells of an unknown people and the ruins they left behind as proof they once existed. The only condition he gives her in exchange for the information of where their history can be found, is that of her silence. She can never share what she sees or learns from her exploration. Unable to walk away from the lure of an unknown people, she takes an afternoon hike by herself to search them out. She discovers what must have been a welcoming gate at the entrance of the village and literally stumbles over the cairns that once supported it. Before she knows it, her world is spinning, and suddenly she’s being yanked up off the ground into the arms of a group of very large, very frightening, very green males. It doesn’t matter that this is completely impossible. It doesn’t matter that this has got to be some kind of dream or hallucination. It doesn't matter that Orcs don’t exist. What matters is that according to their laws, she must choose one of them as her husband. And if she refuses, their Chieftain will choose for her. She will marry an Orc and become his property whether she likes it or not. This book is a work of fiction. All characters and situations are products of the author’s imagination. Warning: This book is intended for mature readers. This book contains situations, sexual and otherwise, as well as violence and/or abuse both real and implied that may be disturbing for some readers. If you are offended by these subjects, please do not buy this book. The Monster Brides series is a brand-new collaboration featuring one of the best romance tropes in existence — arranged marriage. You’ll get to enjoy stories from a clan of imaginative and amazing authors: Sandra R Neeley Rena Marks Zoe Ashwood Tracy Lauren Alan Khan Jessica Grayson Liz Paffel In this collection, you’ll find exciting and different takes on Orc Romance ranging from SciFi Romance to Fantasy Romance. There’s a little bit of everything for all Orc lovers out there!

Sunny has spent years of her life hiding from her own desires and hiding them from those she loves. Forced to face the idea of denying that part of herself forever, Sunny takes a nose dive out of her routine and into her fantasies. All she needs is the help of Monster Smash Agency and one exceptionally talented Orc.Khell'ar has mastered his work with Monster Smash Agency, satisfying his clients with perfect expertise. Guiding inexperienced Sunny into a new realm of extreme pleasures should be easy, simple. All he has to do is follow her requests, play his part, and not form a mating bond.But Sunny is orc bait, and Khell'ar is more than even her wildest dreams could concoct.

When Georgia Fenclan hits thirty, the Type-A barista-slash-businesswoman hopes she's done being the bridesmaid and never the bride. The Half-Orc blonde bombshell is ready to meet someone who will woo her, win her, bed her, and wed her—but the right man doesn't seem to exist in cozy paranormal Pine Ridge. At least, that's what she thinks until a tall green hunk of gentlemanly goodness strolls into her coffee shop and quite literally takes her breath away.  Widower Douglas Wickstaff flies in from Scotland to attend a wedding in Pine Ridge out of familial duty. The last thing he wants to do is watch a happy couple tie the knot after he had to watch his own married life unravel. When he meets Georgia Fenclan, his dormant instincts awaken, and his cold heart starts to thaw under her sunny smile and no-nonsense humor. But Douglas knows he can't be her Mr. Right. Life has taught him that where love is concerned, he'll always be Mr. Wrong. To guard both of their hearts, Douglas is determined to hightail it back to the Highlands. But Douglas should know his life never goes according to plan. He's barely had time to unpack before his job unexpectedly transfers him to New York. What once seemed like a welcome escape from his painful past is suddenly a trap. How can he resist falling in love with the one woman who makes him forget his loneliness? On the other hand, how can he be selfish enough to indulge his desires when he believes Georgia can do so much better than a quiet, taciturn man like him?  As Douglas tries to put distance between them, will Georgia be able to help this wounded widower see that he deserves a second shot at love?  The Orc's Second Shot at Love is a steamy monster romance standalone in the Pine Ridge Universe. 

I've been promised to an Orc Guardian.He's coming for me soon and I will have no choice—I'll have to leave the realm of humans and marry the huge, fearsome beast known as Gregor the Slayer.Orc Guardians are said to be cruel and unfeeling. I struggle to accept my lot in life, and I won't lie—I'm tempted to run and hide. But deep down, I know I wouldn't get far, and the last thing I wish to do is bring down an orc's vengeance upon my village... or upon myself.I soon learn that while Gregor has a fierce, vengeful side, when it comes to me, he can be gentle and... sweet. He's also intensely protective and possessive of me.But we come from different realms, and his world is so very different from my own.Will I survive marriage to a big, growly orc?

Beware: Orc King's Captive contains detailed adult content and language. It's rated Mature 18+. Only her maidenhead stands between her people and death. A brave heroine in peril. A race against war skewed by sorcery and unthinkable weapons. A half-orc king determined to own her--and to train her for the ultimate battle.  Imagine it: Untried warrior Princess Talana journeys to her wedding, and huge orcs attack her caravan in the high pass. Gaining the huge orc king's trust could preserve the safety of her companions. But aiding the orcs will make her a traitor. Sorceress Neesa and her dragon familiar force goblins, orcs, and humans into a massive army, ending decades of peace. If her captor is telling the truth, Talana must prepare to fight the sorceress.  You get a hot adult Fantasy adventure in the first three episodes of the Abducted Warrior Princess series.Captive of the OrcAttack of the OrcsGift of the OrcPrincess Talana's huge challenges continue in Abducted Warrior Princess 4, available for preorder. Get your copy of the Orc King's Captive now to experience the adventure.