Bøger udgivet af R. F. Deangelis

Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven. Whatever weakling said that is beyond pathetic. I've ruled in Hell. It was easy. So easy I got bored with it after only two years. Evil is for the lazy and unimaginative. Being good? That takes real work, dedication, and self-reflection. I see the face of evil every time I look in the mirror. Now I am seeing a familiar threat here, back on Earth.Someone is using my plan for world domination to try to take over my new home.What they don't seem to understand is this.This world is mine. I won't let anyone take it from me.

Blackthorn Part Three, Chloe's Wars. Me, a Queen! Well, Crown Princess.Fine, but there are going to be some changes around here. First and foremost, I'm going to give the common people a voice. I'm going to get the great and the good - read the rich and the powerful - to actually pay for what they use. Then I'm going to do something about the laws that let the nobles rob us blind, but takes the hand off the man stealing bread to feed his family. Lots of Big Ideas, but reality hits hard. First, I need to know what the laws are. Second, I need to build a power base of the nobles and merchants I intend to tax. Third, I have to keep the people happy and let them know that my new position isn't going to change me. This isn't easy. No, it's an all-out war on many fronts. So I wasn't surprised when the Assassins came. Someone has put a price on my head, and I need to figure out who before I become Five Rivers' most beloved, dead Monarch. Even worse, if I don't win my other wars, I will become little more than a figurehead for the rich and powerful. So many wars, and I may not be able to win all of them... or any of them.All hail Queen Chloe Blackthorn, first of her name!Gone but not forgotten!

The world is on the verge of war, and suffering has caused the people of the frozen south to act out of desperation. They unleash something that will echo though the lands for the next 400 years. The specter of that decision touches the lives of many and echoes through the centuries. From the priestess that first had to come to terms with what they had done, to a historian who wrote the last page of his nation's history in the immediate aftermath. Destiny was changed forever with one dark ritual. Now in the present; a child of the streets finds her own way, a Spymaster looks for his godchild, a thief is given an impossible task and choice, a ranger and his hawk meet a bored guardsman, an orc faces off with her own demons, and the local Margrave finds out that evil is not only on the move but has an army. All of this and more fall under the Shadows of The Empress. What is her grand plan?What does a fable told to children have to do with it all? In this short story collection lays a history; living, breathing, and growing.Welcome to M'Diro.This short story collection covers not only my journey though the world I created, but my writing journey as well.

My name is Chloe Blackthorn, and I am a Thief.Lord Marcus Thunderhammer, High Lord Paladin of Ca'talls, a man of such noble birth, a man so beloved that people on the streets I ran said he should have been king, would have been king, if he were alive. Turns out, he is. He's now the High Marshall of Five Rivers, the Crescent City, city of trade and intrigue. He's also my Father. My past is catching up to me, and now that I know that, so is his. Things aren't adding up. A web of lies stretching back to before my birth and the ramblings of a mad woman are all connected, and my old mentor is at the heart of it. I need time to work out what it all means, time I do not seem to have. Forces are on the move in the shadows of my father's city. The question is, will it be destroyed from within or from without.I'm Chloe Blackthorn, a thief. I'm a thief damn it!Book Two in the Blackthorn Series Follows Chloe and her Crew as they try to unravel the mysteries surrounding her life.