by C. R. Daems
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The Riss Gamble
Science Fiction/Fantasy
A young girl dreams of seeing the stars and meeting Aliens. Her chance comes in the form of a project offering a college education, commissioning in the SAS Fleet, and a partnership with an Alien. She successfully qualifies and wins one of the coveted ten positions. Of course everything comes with a price—the Alien is a parasite that inhabits the body and mind, and is there for life. Is it a dream or nightmare come true—or maybe both?
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The Riss Proposal
Book II in the Riss Series
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Nadya, hosting an intelligent parasite, is now an experienced naval officer with two battles against the Raider's cruiser packs. But she continues to be seen as an Alien, generating disgust, fear, raw hate, and attempts on her life.
To add to her problems, the Raiders have identified her as contributing directly to their bad luck and have designated her a dybbuk—demon—and have set a price on her dead or alive.
With the Raiders a continuing threat to the SAS, life has become a little too interesting.
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The Shadow Ryana
Fantasy/Epic/Romance
Ryana, a worthless girl-child, is sold to a mysterious woman who takes her to the home of the Shadow Sisters who are prized for their abilities as spies and assassins. She survives years of training in spite of being unconventional: adopting poisonous bats as familiars--something no one else would dare to do; choosing the blow dart as her weapon of choice--a weapon the Sisters don't teach; and relying on intuition rather than logic.
As she completes her training, the Shadow Sisters are under attack. The senior Sister selects Ryana to find out who is killing Sisters and why--because her intuitive approach has proved effective, even though her youth and inexperience makes it unlikely she will survive.
As she travels through the kingdom as a member of a gypsy clan, she finds the only way she can protect the Sisters and hope to discover the underlying plot is through ever more violence and killing. As she proceeds through the provinces, her secret enemies come to call her the Sister of Death and become desperate to find and kill her. But in her desperate fight to protect the Sisterhood and the kingdom, Ryana fears that she has destroyed herself and the only life she ever wanted.
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Talon of the Unnamed Goddess
Fantasy/Adventure
Alisha is the newest Talon of the Raptor Clan, mercenaries prized by rulers, nobles, and the wealthy as elite bodyguards. Like all Talons, she survived the five Ordeals and ten years of grueling training.
Alisha is not the strongest mercenary in the Raptor Clan, but she is the craftiest. Only tricking her opponents into underestimating her got her through the long years of Clan training. Those years honed her weapon skills, but not as much as her sharp wits. Even the ability she gets from the rune she was given by the Unknown Goddess depends on her guile.
Her first assignment for the Clan, to guard a young princess, requires all Alisha's skill, wit, and her newly acquired rune to keep the young heir to the kingdom alive.
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Kazak Guardians
Lynn’s Rules
Urban Fantasy/Adventure/Romance
If the Kazak Guardians had a recruiting poster, it would have read: WANTED: A select few insane men to fight professional Assassins with super-human abilities. Good medical plan provided.
Because surviving the training program to graduation was dangerous, even the first challenge to gain entrance could get you killed. But training was the easy part. Staying alive afterward was the hard part. Kazaks guarded individuals whose lives were deemed critical to the security of the United States. These individuals attracted fanatics and the best professional Assassins money could buy—Liars who could tell lies you believed, Ghosts who could become nearly invisible, and Illusionists who could appear to be anyone, among others.
But Lynn wanted no other life--the Kazak Guardians gave her life purpose. She had grown up in the foster care system, neglected and abused, at the mercy of people who didn't care. Even when she finally ran away, her freedom wasn't the renewal she had hoped. So when a friend told her about a unique organization that trained individuals to protect VIPs, she knew it was the life for her.
She survives years of training and five deadly challenges to become a Kazak Guardian, and entered a world of extremists and assassins, where each assignment became a deadly contest between Kazak and assassin, with the prize the life of the VIP.
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Kazak Guardians: The Unthinkable
Book II of the Kazak Series
Urban Fantasy/Adventure/Romance
Lynn the Fox has been a Kazak for several years and thought she had seen it all; after all, she's a Master Kazak having killed more than five Assassins—professional killers with wizard-like talents. But life is unpredictable
There is a new kind of Assassin—a Mind Bender—who has caused two Kazaks kill their clients.
The unthinkable happens—and a client turns on her.
An unknown member of the secret and powerful Committee who funds and directs the Kazaks is a traitor.
And what should have been a simple misunderstanding at a State Department security checkpoint results in a life and death encounter with a SWAT team.
But there are fun moments, if you don't mind people trying to kill you and your client. Lynn gets to play the part of Afghan Warlord's daughter, a college student, and a homeless woman—an eagle covered with dove's feathers.
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Women of Power
Fantasy/Adventure
Nisha has trained all her life to develop Qi--her internal energy--exceeding the raw power of any Qi'advisor in several generations. But before she is ready to take her place, the unthinkable happens. Rhybac's king is dead; the kingdom is in chaos. War breaks out and their enemies out of the Sands are circling for the kill. She chooses to become a Qi'advisor, although still untried.
As Qi'advisor to a duke, she must risk her life to negotiate with the greed, the treachery one of the dukes, and the desperation that fuels the war in order to reveal what others cannot or refuse to see. The fate of Rhybac, its people, and even its enemies are in her young hands.
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Scales of Justice
Fantasy/Epic
A hundred years ago, a treaty jointed the seven provinces under a king and created a system of equal justice for nobles and commoners. The Sisters of Astraea were proclaimed the judicators of the land because they had gold vipers that could tell truth from lie. A gift bestowed on each judicator by the god Naga.
Now many nobles want to go back to being above the law. Duke Chaney is using this discontent to raise an army against the king and the judicators. Jola, a newly promoted judicator starts out with her mentor, Tenzen, to investigate the growing unrest. They encounter revenge, greed, and the desire for power, and become targets of the growing hostility as they attempt to discover who is behind the rebellion.
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Blood Duty
Fantasy/Epic
Ixich, huge demons summoned through a savage blood ritual, lead an army through a mountain pass, slaughtering all who would stand in their way. Tamra, Captain of the Guard of Wayfare Keep, and an allied army from the city of Madrian mount a desperate defense against the onrushing enemy. When their army is defeated and her lover is lost in the battle, Tamra is devastated but must somehow struggle on.
Even worse lies ahead as the secrets of her past come to light and her loyalty is tested. Yet, she must protect all those who trust her against the ixich horde. In her darkest hour, haunted by loss and with defeat imminent, can Tamra fulfill that trust and do her blood duty?
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Laughing Hounds
Urban Fantasy/Horror
After what were thought to be dogs kill her mother and attack her, Annette discovers she has become the last female descendant of a line of women who, for over a century, fought and died fighting Countess Lenuta, her sons, and their packs of Werehyenas. Annette learns she has inherited her ancestors unique ability to make Tone-wood sing—the only weapon that can kill the Werehyenas. As such, she represents the last threat to their existence.
With only Annette remaining, Countess Lenuta and her sons see an opportunity to kill the last of their century-old adversaries. Their first attempt fails, and Annette must choose to hide for the rest of her life or accept the legacy of her ancestors to stop the Werehyenas. She chooses to fight.
With the help of ex-Green Berets her father hires to protect her, the battle soon escalates into a series of attacks and counter attacks that become fiercer as the tactics of each side evolve. The winner will be the last one standing.
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Freedom's Sword
Scottish Historical Fiction
A Prequel to the Black Douglas Trilogy
Before William Wallace ... before Robert the Bruce ... there was another Scottish hero ...
In 1296, newly knighted by the King of the Scots, Andrew de Moray fights to defend his country against the forces of the ruthless invader, King Edward Longshanks of England. After a bloody defeat in battle, he is dragged in chains to an English dungeon.
Soon the young knight escapes. He returns to find Scotland under the heel of a conqueror and his betrothed sheltering in the hills of the Black Isle. Seizing his own castle, he raises the banner of Scottish freedom. Now he must lead the north of Scotland to rebellion in hope of defeating the English army sent to crush them.
Link:http://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Sword-ebook/dp/B004RUZPPY
A Kingdom's Cost
Book I of the Black Douglas Trilogy
Scottish Historical Fiction
Eighteen-year-old James Douglas can only watch, helpless, as the Scottish freedom fighter, William Wallace, is hanged, drawn, and quartered. Even under the heel of a brutal English conqueror, James's blood-drenched homeland may still have one hope for freedom, the rightful king of the Scots, Robert the Bruce. James swears fealty to the man he believes can lead the fight against English tyranny.
The Bruce is soon a fugitive, king in name and nothing more. Scotland is occupied, the Scottish resistance crushed. The woman James loves is captured and imprisoned. Yet James believes their cause is not lost. With driving determination, he blazes a path in blood and violence, in cunning and ruthlessness as he wages a guerrilla war to restore Scotland's freedom. James knows he risks sharing Wallace's fate, but what he truly fears is that he has become as merciless as the conqueror he fights.
Link:http://www.amazon.com/A-Kingdoms-Cost-ebook/dp/B004YKVXR6
Countenance of War
Book II of The Black Douglas Trilogy
Scottish Historical Fiction
Fourteen-century Scotland is a conquered nation, at the mercy of England’s brutal King Edward. James Douglas continues his guerilla war to reclaim his stolen birthright and drive out the English tyrant. But as Edward’s attentions turn again to subduing the rebellious Scots, James must deal with the tortuous, conflicting demands of duty and love.
The clash of two nations and the destiny of a man coming of age in a violent time springs to life in this novel of passion, loyalty, cunning and ruthlessness.
Fourteenth-century Scotland suffers under the heel of England's King Edward, but James Douglas refuses to submit to the conqueror. Above all else, James fears that his life and his own dream—of a free Scotland—might be lost to Edward's lust for conquest. As James wages a guerilla war to drive out the invader and reclaim his birthright, Edward brings a vast army to crush the Scottish resistance. In the midst of the brutal war, even the woman James loves is threatened by his implacable duty.
In a conflict poised to reach its bloody finale, the Scots and English cross swords in a reckoning that will determine Scotland's survival.
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Not for Glory
Book III of The Black Douglas Trilogy
Scottish Historical Fiction
James, Lord of Douglas, known to his foes as the Black Douglas, leads a flank of the Scottish army in crushing a vast invading English force at the waters of the Bannockburn. Fresh from battle, James revels in honors heaped on him by the Scots and in the hatred of the enemy. When King Robert the Bruce orders him to push their advantage and force the English to the peace table, they both know the only way he can do so is by fire and the sword--the only language King Edward of England understands.
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