Bøger af Guy Antibes

Justin's role as the leader of an emerging secret society begins to crumble. It doesn't take long to figure out that forces are acting to choke the group he has just started before it has really begun. Justin has to balance this impending debacle with the rest of his life as he gets an unexpected messages from beyond the grave (figuratively and literally.) As Justin makes an amazing discovery, people start going missing, and a powerful nemesis appears who theatens to break apart all his friendships and destroy his life.

Sam Smith, formerly an Apprentice Investigator of the Bentwick Royal Constabulary, boards his ship of exile. Not having a home, he doesn't have much choice other than to sail to the far off land of Vaarek. His voyage becomes filled with death, insurrection, pirates on the land and the sea, amid exposure to unfamiliar cultures. Sam must tread carefully, as his nose for snooping is called upon in his ports of call, and he wants to make sure his sea journey takes him all the way to his destination.

Angel in Bronzeand Other StoriesA statue is magically transformed into a woman and sets out to avenge her creator's death. A wizard attempts to destroy a seven-hundred-year-old curse. A boy is appalled by the truth of his parents' midnight disappearances. A Captain's coat is much more than it seems. A healer must decide if the maxim that he has held to his entire life is still valid. A fisherman realizes that there is more to victory than defeating one's enemy.An anthology of fantasy.

Jack Winder joins up with Tanner and Helen, again. With Penny and Jorey in tow they are about to head to Tesoria to see about a renewed attempt by the Black Finger Society to take over that country when they are stopped before they begin. Someone has abruptly changed the behavior of the king of Corand. They must travel in the opposite direction from their errand to find out what is happening to King Jordan before they can travel to Tesoria to do the same thing. Tesoria is also on the brink of a Black Finger takeover when Jack and his group arrive. As they attack the problem, Jack finds that he has to use his unique powers to stop the Black Fingers and fight Borigore. It isn't easy fighting a god.

The Purple Flames and Other StoriesA Guy Antibes AnthologyA reject from a Magic Academy finds purpose. A detective works on a reservation in New Mexico, except the reservation is for ghouls, demons, ghosts, zombies, and the paranormal. A steampunk story about a woman whose mission in life is to destroy vampires that have infested the earth. The grisly story about Tommy Tonsil. In a post-apocalyptic world, two mutants find out about themselves when placed under duress. A magician-impresario seeks who sabotaged his latest production.Steampunk & Paranormal settings with a few tinges of Horror

The Alien Handand Other StoriesAn ancient artifact changes a young woman's life forever. A glutton gladiator is marooned in a hostile desert. An investigator searches for magic on a ravaged world and finds something quite unexpected. A member of a survey team must work with his ex-girlfriend in extremely dangerous circumstances. A boy yearns for a special toy. A recent graduate has invented a unique tool for espionage. A doctor is exiled among the worst creatures he can imagine.

Pol Cissert Pastelle returns home after four years abroad to find The Baccusol Empire breaking apart with civil war erupting on multiple fronts. He reunites with Shira, the Shinkyan Princess and gets to work trying to save his stepfather's Empire. He finds more insidious spells invoked by the enemy, a society of magicians that has dedicated itself to domination. Pol has his own challenges as he navigates his way through drastic situations, not the least of which is a series of confrontations with old and new enemies. FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT

Jack Winder and Penny Ephram travel to Antibeaux, a cold land to the northeast of Corand to retrieve a hidden mask that allows the recipient to glimpse the future. With the intent of inserting themselves into Antibeaux society in the capital of Briston to find the location of the mask, Jack's group is joined by a mysterious wizard. They quickly learn that Antibeaux is embroiled in a clash of politics that may turn into an insurrection at the very time Jack's group is trying to find the mask. Jack finds himself fighting the factions and an angry goddess all the while as he tries to retrieve the ancient treasure.

Des Boxster changes his name back to Trevor Arcwin when he takes over the dukedom of Listenwell. He is summoned by the Head Seer of the church of Dryden and must travel to their headquarters. There he is appointed Dryden's Messenger, and so starts a campaign to eliminate those who would take over his world. Can he assemble the armies needed to defeat his enemy? He must put together a coalition of the affected nations, even though the enemy has infiltrated its minions into the very top of many countries. Trevor assembles old friends to fight new enemies in this last installment of The Adventures of Desolation Boxster.

Carrying an amulet given to him by his late mother, Pol Cissert seizes on an opportunity to travel to a far off city in search of his roots. He has no idea that the journey is no easy jaunt. Chased by magicians, thugs, pirates, and priests, he seeks his legacy by seeking the Cathedral of the Sleeping God. Pol finds that the truth isn't always something everyone wants.

Whit Varian wants to look past his last year at the University of Herringbone toward returning to the field to collect more parts of the long-lost Augur's Eye. However, life gets in the way as he must endure the presence of a pestilent prince and his serpent familiar. The execrable Greeb Deechie intrudes into Whit's life again even as Greeb's cousin arrives in Herringbone to continue the romantic relationship with Whit started in Coria. Before his schooling ends, events cascade as Whit's life is threatened, and the pursuit of the Augur's Eye becomes more dangerous than Whit could ever imagine. All this in the final book and conclusion of the Augur's Eye series.

Jack Winder ventures to the country of Bornan to find and eliminate a curse that has ruined the entire country. The Bornan wizard that accompanies him has a vested interest in Jack's latest errand and warns him that the buckle has been lost for two thousand years and won't be easy to find. Along the way, they have to survive hostile nomads, hostile wizards, and hostile lands to find the buckle and destroy it to eliminate the curse.

On his way to return Shira to her home in Shinkya, Pol Cissert is called upon to solve two mysteries. His reward is something he has no desire for, but he must put that aside while he travels to the exotic and dangerous country of Shira's birth. He finds that deadly politics badgers him every step along his journey.FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT

PANIX: Magician SpyDespite the pleadings of his magician-sister, Panix Gavid spurns his incredible potential to rise great heights at the Morwen Academy of Magic and takes a position at a metalworks magician in a far land. He clashes with the owner's daughter and finds that his services aren't as appreciated as much as he thought. Circumstances force him to leave his work and join the intelligence agency of his native land. He runs afoul of an enemy assassin-agent and is drawn into a larger conflict where war is brewing. He can use his prodigious powers to stir up trouble, but as he does so, he will expose himself to deathly danger as he deals with personal demons while circumstances take unexpected turns.

Jack Winder is sent on another errand by the mercurial Fasher Tempest. This time he heads south into the country of Tesoria accompanied by two Tesorian wizards. The country is rent into factions with each one rebelling against the king in their own fashion. In this turbulent environment, Jack must deliver a warded box to the grand wizard of Tesoria far south of the border. Along the way he must battle with armies, wizards, wolves, and betrayals of all sort as he pursues completing his task.

Trevor Arcwin, now known as Des Boxster, takes his little group of Soldiers of Fortune across the border into Viksar. After taking a job finding a stolen statue, Des finds completing the task is more difficult than he expects as he must expand his group to find the perpetrators. In the process, Des gets involved in graft, kidnapping, and murder as his investigation takes him all the way to the summit of the city's power structure.

Sunstone - Dishonor's Bane - Book Two of the Warstone QuartetShiro, a simple farmer, is discovered to possess stunning magical power and is involuntarily drafted into the Ropponi Sorcerer's Guild. He attracts more enemies than friends and escapes with his life only to end up on a remote prison island. He flees with an enchanted sword containing the lost Sunstone. Trying to create a simple refuge for an outlawed band of women sorcerers, he is betrayed by the very women he has worked to save and exiled to a foreign land. There, he must battle for his freedom as he and his band become embroiled in a continent-wide conflict.The Warstone QuartetAn ancient emperor creates four magical gems to take over and rule the entire world. The ancient empire crumbles and over millennia. Three stones are lost and one remains as an inert symbol for a single kingdom among many. The force that created the Warstones, now awakened, seeks to unite them all, bringing in a new reign of world domination--a rule of terror. Four Warstones, four stories. The Warstone Quartet tells of heroism, magic, romance and war as the world must rise to fight the dark force that would enslave them all.

A nuclear cataclysm pushed Grethia, a remote planet, into a dark age. A religion emerged to suppress technology by calling it sacred, holy and not for the world.A king broke the control of the priesthood in his kingdom and begins to bring crude technology back to life.Now, a young man, his ship sabotaged, finds himself marooned on Grethia. Through insight, courage and luck, he struggles with the static forces of the status quo and, together with the king, defeats the enemies of progress. His conflicts don't end as he finds a way off the planet and confronts those who want to end his very existence and destroy the planet's hard-won victory over the religion.The Hand of Grethia takes the reader from a Galactic civilization of space ships and high technology to the dark ages and back in an exciting space opera adventure.

Through odd circumstances, Jack Winder becomes a helper for his village's healing wizard. As part of his duties, Jack is ordered to travel the length of Corand to the capital city to bring back a priceless object of power, the Serpent's Orb. He soon finds that he is not the only one after the orb and someone is willing to kill to get it.

Quest of the Wizardess chronicles the travels and travails of young Bellia. After her wizard family is assassinated when she is fourteen, Bellia seeks anonymity as a blacksmith's helper. When that doesn't work out as expected, she flees to the army.Her extraordinary physical and magical skills bring unwanted attention and she must escape again. After finding a too-placid refuge, she takes the opportunity to seek out her family's killers. Revenge becomes her quest that takes her to a lost temple, unexpected alliances and a harrowing confrontation with her enemies.FANTASY - YOUNG ADULT/SWORD & SORCERY/COMING OF AGE

A SWORD OF SPELLS novel, at last!The world of Kellar has only one warrior mage. That's okay, since there really aren't any wars. So Brull, our warrior mage, makes his living hunting down evil magicians as a bounty hunter. But as his personal life begins to change, and not to Brull's liking, the world begins to crumble as his evil nemesis, Heron, assembles all of the magicians to help him bring a god down to Kellar to rule the earth with Heron by his side.What makes matters worse is that Brull's sister has been called to serve as Abbess at the Healer's Temple in the very city that Heron will perform his evil deed. The good gods are on Brull's side, but he finds that there is little they can do. It's up to him and a select band of others to save the day.

Jack Winder's mentor has come down with a magical sickness when on his honeymoon. The illness requires an object of power used as a cure. Jack is tasked to find Grishel's Feather and take it to the seaside village where his mentor and his new wife suffer from the debilitating effects of the malady. Jack has no idea where the feather is other than in the adjacent foreign country. He must retrieve the feather even though he is now saddled with his chief rival, the obnoxious Penny Ephram, and get the object to his mentor in time to save him.

The Nile City AdventurersinEgypt: Trouble With TemplesFifteen-year-old Samantha and Ian, her twelve-year-old brother, are whisked away to Ancient Egypt and must find a way back to the present. During their adventure they accumulate the town Peace Keeper, a High Priest of an ignored Egyptian god and a telepathic cat. The High Priestess of a rival temple is after them all. Can she destroy their lives before they can manage to escape? She really, really wants to. Will their newly-discovered magical powers allow them to fight their way 3,300 years back home?MIDDLE GRADE/YOUNG ADULT HISTORICAL FANTASY

Armed with knowledge of an insidious plot to assume power over the world, Ricky must battle religious zealots within the organization that took him in after begin branded traitor. Together with a secret society that Ricky never took seriously, he finds allies that he once thought enemies to fight against the enemy hidden among those he thought were allies. FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT

In an empire where magic has lost its savor, Justin Spede is reviled by his family and tolerated by his father. There is no magic in the family, which means Justin has no power. His life becomes worse when his family dies in an accident and he is passed among family members who don't want him.An uncle and aunt from a distant town are called to take him away, and so begins the young teenager's journey. As he recovers from his traumatic upbringing, Justin learns he has magic, and a host of mysteries confront him as he is pulled into a world of guns and power and forces he barely understands.

POWER OF POSES SERIES -Book OneMAGICIAN IN TRAININGTrak Bluntwithe an illiterate stableboy is bequeathed an education by an estranged uncle. In the process of learning his letters, Trak finds out that he is a magician. So his adventures begin that will take him to foreign countries, fleeing from his home country, who seeks to execute him for the crime of being able to perform magic. The problem is that no country is safe for the boy while he undergoes training. Can he stay ahead of those who want to control him or keep his enemies from killing him?FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT

Book Three: Bloodstone - Power of YouthWhen usurpers invade Foxhome Castle, Unca, the aging Court Wizard of the Red Kingdom, flees with the murdered king's only daughter, taking the Bloodstone, an ancient amulet that is the symbol of Red Kingdom rule. Unca uses the Bloodstone to escape capture by an enemy and is transformed into a young man, but loses all of his wizardly powers. Unca must reinvent himself in order to return the princess to her throne. Along the way he falls in love with the young woman and must deal with the conflict between his duty and his heart, while keeping a terrible secret. The Warstone QuartetAn ancient emperor creates four magical gems to take over and rule the entire world. The ancient empire crumbles and over millennia. Three stones are lost and one remains as an inert symbol for a single kingdom among many. The force that created the Warstones, now awakened, seeks to unite them all, bringing in a new reign of world domination-a rule of terror. Four Warstones, four stories. The Warstone Quartet tells of heroism, magic, romance and war as the world must rise to fight the dark force that would enslave them all. FANTASY - SWORD & SORCERY/EPIC

Trak Bluntwithe, is a young man possessing so much magical power that he is a target for governments. Some want to control him and others want to eliminate the threat of his potential.He finds himself embroiled in the middle of a civil war. He must fight in order to save his imprisoned father, yet he finds that he has little taste for warfare. Trak carries this conflict onto the battlefield and finds he must use his abilities to stop the war in order to protect the ones he loves.FANTASY - EPIC / SWORD & SORCERY / YOUNG ADULT

Des Boxster and his group stop at the town of Redwitzel to help save the citizens from a mad magician who lives in the ancient Blue Tower. Unfortunately, the task becomes much more complicated than it first seems, and Des is suddenly embroiled in a political battle that reaches all the way to the capital and the secret seal of power of the country. Will his magical immunity finally reach a fatal limit? Des is about to find out.

Des Boxster finds himself in a strange land. Alone and without any support, he is given an impossible task by a tribal leader and that takes him to the capital. He becomes an unwilling participant in another civil war, and Des must navigate in a totally unfamiliar political climate while seeking out the secret that can add fire to the already hot situation.