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Described as American Gods meets The Avengers, Paternus combines myths from around the world in a modern story of action and intrigue that is “urban fantasy on the surface, but so much more at its core!”

Even myths have legends. And not all legends are myth. When a local hospital is attacked by strange and frightening men, Fiona Patterson and Zeke Prisco save a catatonic old man named Peter - and find themselves running for their lives with creatures beyond imagination hounding their every step. With nowhere else to turn, they seek out Fi's enigmatic Uncle Edgar.

She was just a lost girl when they found her. The circumstances are odd, that much is true. But she's just a child. She needs protecting. She needs guardians. Before long, strange magic manifests from the small girl, equally awe inspiring as it is terrifying. Does she control the fire and light? Or do they control her? Shadows are rising from Alfuria, the very world beneath their feet. Sometimes they call, wishing for an unending embrace. Dragons have risen as well, from myth and legend, stalking land and sky.

If a strange, beautiful woman offered to take you away from your dead-end life to a wonderful new world, would you go? What if, in this strange new world, your greatest talent was the key to restoring magic and saving a kingdom? Still on board? How about if you would win the hearts of a beautiful elven princess, a noble warrior woman, and a cunning fox-elf? All sounds good, right?

From Africa to Asgard, to an invisible island in the Pacific and the Bone Road of a forgotten realm, Fi and Zeke must come to grips with who and what they are - and accept what they are becoming: wielders of ancient and dangerous powers, warriors, and maybe even heroes. But the end of Worlds is coming, and time is short.... Titans will clash. Gods will battle. Monsters will swarm.

On the run from an ancient evil and his army of terrors straight out of myths from around the world, Fi and Zeke aid Peter in his globe-trotting quest to seek out the remaining Firstborn, uncover the enemy's plans, and gather the warriors of old for what may become the final battle in the world's oldest war. Along the way, Fi and Zeke discover they, too, have strengths of their own - though they come at a cost neither may wish to bear.

What if you were drawn into a magical world of elves and monsters, one where you had become an Ultimate Mage? Would you be ready to deal with the evil that dwelt in that world? Would you be prepared to do what you had to do if the vilest monsters of that world were resurrected, ready to lay waste to your friends, your lovers, everything you saved with your magical powers? And, if it came down to war, war against an entire army of fanged, magic-wielding monsters, would you rally the other two realms and put yourself at the vanguard of the defense?

If you wound up making your home in a fantastical world full of magic and mystery, would you teach your friends and companions the skills that made you an Ultimate Mage? And what if, while you were training a new generation of mages, a great evil rose up to threaten it all? What would you do then? Would you go on a great quest into an unknown land? What if the wrathful dead started to rise to stop you? Or if a terrible new kind of magic was unleashed upon the land, something even you don't know you can stop, even though you're an Ultimate Mage? Could you stop them?

“Deluge” is a stand-alone backstory of two characters from the Paternus trilogy. In this short story, myths, fables, and legends from around the world are combined to recount the adventures of Fintán mac Bóchra and Myrddin Wyllt in ancient Ireland and tell the “true” tale of the global disaster known as the Great Flood.  

When Dwayne "Glitch" Mitchell wins a contest to visit a NASA facility and view an alien gateway, his life seems complete. But then, a terrorist kidnaps the lead scientist and causes an explosion, pulling Glitch and Air Force Captain Scarlet Anderson through the gateway. Trapped on an alien world, Glitch Mitchell and his friends must find a way home before the planet's inhabitants can eat, crush, drown, or execute them. But even if they can escape in one piece, will they still have a home to come back to?

Book one disclosed the following: The true history of Earth, of mankind. Earth is a Refuge Planet and all that reside here are refugees. Humans have deceived and infuriated the true owners of Earth. Disgusted, they wash their hands of us. The Earth is sold. The new owners are "Uniquely qualified to deal with the Human problem." October 2020 - They arrive! One thousand breeding couples are taken.

Van Vanyushin doesn't see the point in ever leaving the beautiful digital world of the game he loves - and for good reason. In the industrial wasteland he calls home, it is often the only way people can experience life's simplest pleasures. But his allegiance to the game is tested when an ambitious CIA agent named Sang Ngo calls upon him to help as she goes undercover in the game to investigate Draco - the corporation responsible for creating the massively popular role-playing game Dragon Kings of the New World.

Since the beginning of time, Karmanic matter worked silently and unassisted keeping good and evil in balance, until growing greed in the world meant Karma couldn't keep up. As World War I rages, the secret Karmanic Sovereign Legion works behind the scenes to help Karma. A suspicious train accident and an odd stone-shaped object that belonged to his father thrust Cole McCarthy and two schoolmates into the middle of this battle to keep dark forces in check.

After the mysterious death of a senator's sister in the country of Megalos, master wizard Leozanthicus is tasked with solving her heinous murder and retrieving weapons stolen from her estate. After recruiting loyal companions - including a Dawn Knight and a Mystic Knight - to join him, the group embarks on a quest to discover the truth behind the chilling attack. But their investigation only leads to more questions and takes a harrowing turn when they discover that the Chaos Warriors are mounting a large-scale assault.

It's 1936 and the town of Ransom, Oklahoma is barely functioning after the Dust Bowl storm of the year before. Michael Wootten sits upon the porch of his dilapidated house and watches a caravan of trucks pull into town. "Melvin Mitchell Presents: Ruby and her Amazing FreakShow Friends." Maybe this is just the thing to pump a little spirit into the near-dead town. But everything comes at a price, and Ms. Ruby always takes her cut.

Tired of the same old clichéd hero? You're in luck. You won't find many people, human or otherwise, that fill the bill of a hero in Pandemonium. You will find, however, goddesses, immortals, demons, humans, and other unmentionables in the underworld streets. Because it is short, you'll also be thrust into the middle of the action. If you're in for a short ride through the endless night of Pandemonium, buckle up and get ready. Keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle for safety reasons.

If Asher Hearst had a superpower, it would have to be his ability to take a punch, laugh it off, and keep on swinging. So yeah, immortality comes with a few perks. As a college student slash small-time fixer, he's about to take a job that's best left to the pros. A proposition by a dryad to save witches from the Inquisition is a first, but he isn't one to balk when the odds are stacked against him. Especially not while he's drinking on someone else's dime.

Looking to get in out of a brutally cold night, Daniel enters the club, Smoke. What he discovers within will force him to make his greatest decision.

> Berserker is a stand-alone short story, framed as a missing chapter from Paternus, the urban fantasy, mythic fiction novel, by Dyrk Ashton. It tells of the time when one of the characters finally met his father, many centuries ago.

As a slave-girl's freedom beckons, a dark assassin infiltrates Castle Hiwot. Shioni lays her life on the line for her best friend, the Princess of West Sheba, but finds herself catapulted into an adventure in a faraway world - the Fiuri Realms. A deadly plot unfolds as Shioni battles to confront the evil Fiuri magician Tazaka. Can Shioni unravel Tazaka's plans for the Fiuri in time to save her friend Azurelle from a terrible fate?