By Craig Gallant
Published 2023
The year is 1562, and the Caribbean is awash in blood. Storm winds are rising, threatening to destroy the precarious freedom the piratical Brethren of the Coast hold so dear. The Squadron of Tortuga has fallen on hard times; naval vessels arrive from the Great Powers of Europe, as the struggle for dominance in the New World threatens to tear alliances and friendships apart. Can Captain Eamon Maguire of the brigantine Bonnie Kate steer a course that will keep his ship and crew safe? Can an old Irish rebel and his first mate, daughter of a Spanish overseer and a murdered slave, count on the safety offered by an emerging Port Royal? A new world is dawning, new masters emerge. Will a steady hand and an oaken heart be enough, as new enemies and old break the horizon on all sides?
By Craig Gallant
Published 2023
Peace in the Human Sphere balances on a monomolecular knife’s edge. A sudden, brutal flurry of financial and datasphere attacks from within the Nomad Nations has nearly brought the State Empire of Yu Jing to its knees. Survival and honor demand immediate retaliation that will tear the delicate fabric of the peace asunder. Agents of the inscrutable AI ALEPH rush to discover the identity and motives of the attacker, but the tangled labyrinth of Nomad society confounds them at every turn. only the best men and women of the Nations can untie this bloody knot. Unfortunately, they’re busy. A tired, dirty little band of petty criminals is all that stands between the Motherships and disaster. But when a grave threat to the Human Sphere itself is revealed, maybe, just maybe, they will get their act together to save it all.
By Craig Gallant
Published 2021
A magical alternate history set in a North America shattered by a cataclysmic volcanic eruption and the brutal hatred of a single, maniacal genius. Rise of the Alchemist is the first novel in a shared-author universe where crystals promise to unleash ancient powers that might just change the world.
The story follows Nicholas Hawkes, a young, British scholar seeking some hope for his homeland, devastated by the relentless power of Albion, a kingdom established one hundred years ago by the arch-traitor Benedict Arnold. Nicholas’s search for England’s salvation takes him from the familiar, dusty libraries of Europe and into the strange, vibrant, violent chaos of North America. From the gothic halls of Haiti to the faded glory of
Napoleon’s final home in exile in New Orleans; from the wild, lawless Western Marches to the terrifying splendor of the Comanche’s Empire of the Summer Moon, he must trust to ancient clues and his own fading hope in his search for a power that might be capable of breaking Albion’s crushing grip at last.
By Craig Gallant
Published 2019
An epic dark fantasy set in the twilight years of a once-great people, now broken and fallen, victims of the vaunting ambitions of petty kings. Eirik Hastin has hidden from the horrors of his past for nearly twenty years, an itinerant tourney fighter and notorious drunkard. Maiara, an orphan raised by an aloof innkeeper and his bitter wife, has known nothing but drudgery and isolation her entire life. However, a seemingly chance encounter with a wizened stranger brings with it promises
of something greater for them both.
The Broken Kingdoms have all but forgotten the existence of magic after a century of warfare and intrigue. Into this chaos an ancient evil – the stuff of legendary nightmares emerges, bent on completing their destruction. The kingdoms as they now are, shorn of their past glories, cannot stand against this onslaught. The time of legends may be past, but when wizards and heroes are nowhere to be found, perhaps two wounded, flawed people can make the difference.
Legacy of Shadow
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By Craig Gallant
Published 2016
Aliens are among us; and they are not amused. Penumbra, a haphazard floating city of outcasts, rebels, and malcontents, has orbited a dead planet in a backwater system for longer than living memory can recall. Its towers are abandoned starships melded to an ancient, mysterious core. Penumbra is the last remnant of chaotic individualism in a galaxy where conformity to the will of the all-powerful Galactic Council has been paramount for millennia.
Mistakenly pulled from a dark Connecticut highway in the middle of the night, Marcus Wells and Justin Shaw, two humans of earth, are dropped into this dangerous mix without warning or preparation. Friends since childhood, Marcus has squandered his dreams and his potential living a life following the path of least resistance, a far cry from his adventurous friend.
Immediately entangled in local politics and targeted by a vengeful agent of the Council determined to drag the city back into the fold, Marcus is forced to make a dreadful choice: follow his passive instincts and allow Penumbra to fall, or grab the chance to show these aliens what a truly determined human can accomplish.
By Craig Gallant
Published 2015
The seventh book in the Wild West Exodus world takes a closer look at Dr. Carpathian’s family and the power struggles within his Enlightenment movement.
F.R. Caym wanted only to follow in his famous uncle’s footsteps. A successful scholar and scientist in his own right, F.R. admits to no limits in his research, pushing the limits of technology and human endurance. Looking west, to join Carpathian, F.R. is willing to abandon everything he knows to prove his worth. But gaining the attention of a living legend is not easy, even when you share his blood. The line between acceptance and dominance is easily blurred, and when two great minds clash, blood will flow.
By Craig Gallant
Published 2014
Steampunk in the old west.
Hidden deep within the western mountains, surrounded by the lands of the Warrior Nation, looms an immense, ancient fortress known as the Acropolis. This mountain stronghold is the New World home of the Holy Order of Man; a society as old as civilization itself. For thousands of years the Order has devoted itself to safeguarding mankind from the evil machinations of the Dark Council.
Giovanni Varro grew up in the twisted alleys of New York, where every day was a
struggle against despair and the violence of the streets. Fleeing in search of a new life in the west, Varro is recruited into the strange society of the Order, where he quickly learns that the violence and death that hounded him out of his home city is only a pale reflection of the great battle that has stretched down through history. Soon enough, Varro’s training plunges him into the center of this ancient conflict, and leaves him with far more questions than answers.
By Craig Gallant
Published 2014
The final installment in the introductory Wild West Exodus trilogy.
Jesse James has placed his flesh, blood, dreams, and perhaps his very soul upon the altar of his ambition. From bank heists and train jobs, the most infamous outlaw in the West has set his sights every higher. Now, nothing short of an entire nation will appease him.
With the Dark Council pushing him ever further down a dark and twisting path, it is clear what Jesse has to do. The Confederate Rebel Army founders under the guidance of old men and cowards. With that army and the power it represents, who would ever dare give him orders again? Not Carpathian and his eggheads in Payson, certain. Maybe not even the Dark Council itself. His thirst for fame and power leads him directly into the heart of the Union stronghold at Fort Knox itself. Could the secrets locked beneath the northern citadel contain powers strong enough to bend the Confederate Rebellion to his will?
By Craig Gallant
Published 2013
Book I of the Jesse James Archives, this is the novel that started it all.
In an alternate wild west twisted through the evil influence of shadowy, mysterious beings who refer to themselves as The Dark Council, the greatest figures of American history battle for dominance and control of a warped, war-torn nation. High tech machines and strange, devastating weapons devastate the land as the world changes daily with each new invention.
Within the turbulent churn two blood thirsty outlaws, Jesse James and William ‘Billy the Kid’ Bonnie, contend for recognition and their share of the glory, striving to carve their names in blood and fire across the west. With the promise of terrible new weapons and frightening technology that can place a man on top of the heap just as easily as it can throw him down, they race to find the secrets buried beyond the strange, dead-end town of Diablo Canyon.