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Publication Order of Aeons' Gate Books

Tome of the Undergates(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Black Halo(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Skybound Sea(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Brave Chef Brianna Books

Brave Chef Brianna #1(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brave Chef Brianna #2(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brave Chef Brianna #3(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Brave Chef Brianna #4(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Bring Down Heaven Books

The City Stained Red(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Mortal Tally(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
God's Last Breath(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Ale & Blood(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of The Grave of Empires Books

Seven Blades in Black(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Gallows Black(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon
Ten Arrows of Iron(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Iron Dirge(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon
Three Axes to Fall(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon
Dream of the Falling Axe(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Publication Order of Forgotten Realms: Pathfinder Tales Books

Hell's Pawns (By: Dave Gross)(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Lost Pathfinder (By: Dave Gross)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Noble Sacrifice (By: Richard S. Ford)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Prince of Wolves (By: Dave Gross)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Certainty (By: Liane Merciel)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Secret of the Rose and Glove (By: Kevin Andrew Murphy)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Winter Witch (By: Dave Gross,Elaine Cunningham)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon
Plague of Shadows (By: Howard Andrew Jones)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Ghosts of Broken Blades (By: Monte Cook)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lord of Penance (By: Richard Lee Byers)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Two Pieces of Tarnished Silver (By: Erik Mona)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Master of Devils (By: Dave Gross)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Illusionist (By: Elaine Cunningham)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Lesson in Taxonomy (By: Dave Gross)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Husks (By: Dave Gross)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Death's Heretic (By: James L. Sutter)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
Faithful Servants (By: James L. Sutter)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Passage to Absalom (By: Dave Gross)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Plow and Sword (By: Robert Vardeman)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Perfumer's Apprentice (By: Kevin Andrew Murphy)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Krunzle the Quick (By: Hugh Matthews)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Song of the Serpent (By: Hugh Matthews)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Mother Bears (By: KarenWhite,Wendy N. Wagner)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
City of the Fallen Sky (By: Tim Pratt)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hell or High Water (By: Ari Marmell)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Nightglass (By: Liane Merciel)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
A Tomb of Winter's Plunder (By: Tim Pratt)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Fingers of Death—No, Doom! (By: Lucien Soulban)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Queen of Thorns (By: Dave Gross)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Called to Darkness (By: Richard Lee Byers)(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon
Liar's Blade (By: Tim Pratt)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Bastard, Sword (By: Tim Pratt)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pirate's Honor (By: Chris A. Jackson)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Stargazer (By: Chris A. Jackson)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Wizard's Mask (By: Ed Greenwood)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Best Served Cold (By: Ari Marmell)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
King of Chaos (By: Dave Gross)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Fencing Master (By: Dave Gross)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Fencing Master (By: Dave Gross)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Stalking the Beast (By: Howard Andrew Jones)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
In Red Rune Canyon (By: Richard Lee Byers)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Killing Time (By: Dave Gross)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Proper Villains (By: Erik Scott de Bie)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
Misery's Mirror (By: Liane Merciel)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Dagger of Trust (By: Chris Willrich)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Skinwalkers (By: Wendy N. Wagner)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Redemption Engine (By: James L. Sutter)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Boar and Rabbit (By: Ray Porter,James L. Sutter)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Tides of Blood! (By: Lucien Soulban)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Crusader Road (By: Michael A. Stackpole)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Reign of Stars (By: Tim Pratt)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Nightblade (By: Liane Merciel)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pirate's Promise (By: Chris A. Jackson)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon
Firesoul (By: Gary Kloster)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Forge of Ashes (By: Josh Vogt)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Lord of Runes (By: Dave Gross)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Liar's Island (By: Tim Pratt)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Beyond the Pool of Stars (By: Howard Andrew Jones)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon
Pirate's Prophecy (By: Chris A. Jackson)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Hellknight (By: Liane Merciel)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Liar's Bargain (By: Tim Pratt)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Starspawn (By: Wendy N. Wagner)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Shy Knives(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Reaper's Eye (By: Richard A. Knaak)(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon
Through The Gate in the Sea (By: Howard Andrew Jones)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
Gears of Faith (By: Gabrielle Harbowy)(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon
The Shroud of Four Silences (By: Liane Merciel)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon
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Author Sam Watkins was born in the year 1984, and publishes under the name Sam Sykes. His mother is Diana Gabaldon, the author of the “Outlander” series. He lives in America with his two hounds, and is probably yelling at some inanimate object or other, at any given time.

His work is from the fantasy genre and his debut novel, “The Tome of the Undergates”, was released in the year 2010.

“Tome of the Undergates” is the first novel in the “Aeon’s Gate” series, which was released in the year 2010. Lenk has a tough time of keeping control of his mismatched band of adventurers during the best of times. Kataria the Shict despises the majority of humans, Gariath the dragon man views humans to be not much more than prey, and the humans with the band are not much better. When they are not busy insulting the other’s religions, they argue about conditions and pay.

Things go much worse when an invincible demon joins up in the fray. The demon steals the Tome of the Undergates, which is a manuscript that has everything you need to open up the undergates. Whichever one of the gods, you believe in, you do not want the undergates open. The other side of the gate has many more invincible demons, which are the manifestation of all of the evil of the gods. And they are all looking to get out.

Sam Sykes writes in a unique voice, and there are not many authors who write in any way similar to him. Throughout the book, he seems to be able to do whatever he wants to and does so with flying colors.

“Black Halo” is the second novel in the “Aeon’s Gate” series, which was released in the year 2011. Lenk and his band of grouchy and mismatched adventurers got shipwrecked on an island. One that is a graveyard for dragonmen and demons alike. One that is inhabited by lizard men, and one that is filled with secrets and is about to be a battleground.

Back in the civilized Bralston, who is a very different Librarian, has been sent to learn what exactly happened to the Tome of the Undergates. He has to punish those that misused their magic. Bralston will uphold the law. The Tome is going to be read and it calls out to those that would read it and open up the gates to hell.

These books have a vivid and inventive energy that livens up some tried and true elements of other fantasy reads. For some, this was an improvement over the first novel, as the characters are in closer proximity to one another.

“The Skybound Sea” is the third novel in the “Aeon’s Gate” series, which was released in the year 2012. Lenk and his motley crew have to finally stop fighting each other and for their own survival to save the whole human race. A terrible demon has risen from under the sea and the place it came from thousands more might follow. The whole time there is an alien race plotting the extinction of mankind.

This author is able to write top notch non-stop action and develop characters who are both interesting and believable. Sykes’s writing is gross, funny, exciting, beautiful, violent, moving, and disgusting.

“The City Stained Red” is the first novel in the “Bring Down Heaven” series, which was released in the year 2015. The Aeon known as Khoth-Kapira was the closest the world had to a living god, and this was long before he got sent to hell. He possessed a vast intellect, and pioneered many of the wonders that have stuck around in the world long after he got banished.

Just about every fragment of economic, medical, and technological progress that mortal races enjoy can be traced right back to him. With all of his wonders, however, came cruelty beyond measure: horrifying experimentations, industrialized slavery, and a kind of rage that eventually made the world bow down to him.

Now, while Khoth-Kapira starts to stir, the world is shuddering at the thought of the coming disasters. The epicenter is a city called Cier’Djaal. There is a religious war between a pair of unstoppable military juggernauts brewing. Racial fury among the many peoples of the world is close to exploding. Demons are pouring in from the shadows at the front of a vicious cult that worships some dark powers.

Lenk finds that he is once again right in the middle. His fate, as well as the fate of Khoth-Kapira are intertwined while the demon tries to convince him of his honesty. He Who Makes tells him about how Lenk’s world breaks around him, and that the guy can fix it. Lenk just has to let him out so that he can help.

The book is a subversive and entertaining story and was written by an excellent author. He weaves into the story a fascinating sensitivity and heart into the tale. Sykes also examines closely the different tropes of fantasy in a way that makes the book well worth reading.

“The Mortal Tally” is the second novel in the “Bring Down Heaven” series, which was released in the year 2016. The civilization’s heart bleeds. Cier’Djaal, which was once the crowning glory of the civilized world, has been reduced to both a graveyard and battlefield. Foreign armies fight relentlessly on streets filled with bodies of the innocents that got caught up in the crossfire. Thieves and cultists fight shadow wars, aristocrats sit around just watching the world burn down from up high, and tribal armies foment just outside the walls of the city.

Lenk’s mates fight to keep the city from destroying itself, and he goes to the Forbidden East to find the demon that caused all of this. Even while he hunts for Khoth-Kapira, dark whispers are plaguing each of his thoughts. Khoth promises a world that is free of war to him, a place where he will be able to lay down his sword once and for all. Lenk continues to find it tough not to listen to it. When the gods become deaf, demons speak.

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