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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 25

Port Vikhavn

Liu Yi looked over his fleet and was finally satisfied as the dying light of the sun cast everything in a soft orange glow. It had been a hard several weeks to g...

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False Start Character Images

Blake Sims (1), Thomas Sims (2), Heather Sims (3), Joshua Sims (4), Wheaton High (5), Wheaton High Football Field (6)

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Second Down - Chapter 1

1994

I opened my eyes, trying to adjust for a moment. I finally realized the sound I was hearing was my alarm clock. I reached over and slapped around for it a few times unti...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 24

Sardinia

The sprawling villa was, at first glance, opulent and over the top in the classic Italian style, which had become something of a melding of older pre-diaspora Roman ...

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Out of Control - Chapter 5

Note, this book will have adult themes and situations in it, and should be skipped if you do not want to read that.

The walk back to my dorm was the longest of my life...

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An Ending of Oaths - Chapter 6

Starhaven, Sidor

Serwyn sat with his back to his office, ignoring the trophies and ornate tapestries as he stared out the window. His uncle had stacks and stacks of correspon...

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Desperate Rendition - Chapter 11

Taylor closed his eyes almost as soon as they were on the plane and it was in the air. He’d learned in the service that you never knew where your next bit of shuteye was going to come from, so ge...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 23

Carthage

“And then,” Marcellinus chuckled, “the fool actually believed me when I told him the crate was full of salted fish! Can you imagine?”

Medb gave a throa...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 22

Temporary Legion Hospital, Eastern Germania

Ky stepped off the small military train and was immediately stopped by multiple soldiers who wanted to reach out and touch him or ...

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Desperate Rendition - Chapter 10

Thankfully, the rest of their trip to the airport was uneventful. Taylor was pretty sure they had seen the last of the mercs. If there were any more of them out there, they would be rudderless with...

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An Ending of Oaths - Chapter 5

Starhaven, Sidor

Edmund sat at his ornate desk, quill scratching furiously across parchment as he put every bit of anger and fury into the scathing letter the scribes would s...

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Second Down (False Start #1) - Prologue

Dallas, 2024

I opened my eyes to the sterile white ceiling of the hospital room, the same view I’d been staring at for weeks now. I almost cursed being awake, since awake m...

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Desperate Rendition - Chapter 9

For the next hour, the drive was more or less uneventful. Taylor knew the mercs were out there and just hoped they ran into them before they got to Valencia. Even if the locals weren’t bought off...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 21

Pella, Macedonia

Ramirus stood by the window of his temporary quarters in Pella, his eyes fixed on the bustling streets below. It had been a less than productive several week...

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Cover Reveal - The Wings of Mercury

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 20

Sardinia

Medb was back in a dark room, the windows shuttered against the outside world, partially for secrecy but also to keep the noxious spell of fish and salt out of her n...

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An Ending of Oaths - Chapter 4

Starhaven, Sidor

“… purpose of which is to bolster our own tax levies for support of our ongoing and successful war against the Lynesians, while punishing the increasing ...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 19

Devnum

Hortensius made his way down the docks again. The non-stop travel was a reminder of how time was catching up to him. It felt like only a few years ago that he was just...

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Desperate Rendition - Chapter 8

Taylor steered the stolen car westward. Bonnie kept insisting she had a place to go, but as they started to get to the outskirts of Caracas, and then out of the city, Taylor became less sure. With ...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 18

Camp Banwīhraz, Central Germania

Ky walked past the two guards on duty outside of the large tent with the prison camp commander, Sellic, glued to his s...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 17

Carthage

Summer in Carthage was dreadful, especially for someone like Cormac, who had grown up in the cooler and much wetter climates of Ériu. Cormac had thought it got warm...

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Desperate Rendition - Chapter 6

Somehow, I just realized chapter 6 never posted.

Taylor could hear the gunfire before he rounded the corner, in spite of the midday sounds of the city. The SUV had bee...

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Desperate Rendition - Chapter 7

They both remained nervous, constantly glancing over their shoulders, on the lookout for anyone following them, but no one else appeared. Taylor had continued taking a winding path to the airport, ...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 16

Eastern Germania

"It's good ground for a fight," Ky subvocalized, watching his men set up their positions in the undergrowth just where it began to thicken after thinning out...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 15

Devnum

“Do you have a minute?” Lucilla asked, standing in the doorway of Ramirus’s small, cluttered office.

“Empress!” Ramirus said, standing up quickly, knoc...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 14

Carthage

It was startling to Medb every time she had been in this audience chamber just how ornate it was. She had always loved finery and the symbols that befitted her statu...

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Out of Control - Chapter 4

I opened my eyes, blinking against the harsh fluorescent lights. My head throbbed, and for a second, I couldn’t remember where I was or how I’d gotten there. It wasn’t until I tried to turn m...

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An Ending of Oaths - Chapter 3

Talabot, Lynesse

William crouched in the dark, his eyes fixed on the walls of the city in the distance, trying not to let the cold that was seeping deep into his bones from g...

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The Wings of Mercury - Chapter 13

Devnum

Hywel was leaning over a patient, looking at the bandage. It hadn’t been an overly serious wound, but one he’d offered treatment to in order to test out some treat...

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Out of Control - Chapter 3

After a few more beers, Jake said, “Okay pledges, time for your final task. Alpha Sig is known for our... out of the box thinking, and we want to make sure every brother lives up to those ideals....

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