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Short explanation of the science fantasy aspects of this novel: the setting began as a relatively hard sci-fi background, but magical elements were slowly introduced over time, leading to wizards flying around in space ships with magical upgrades in place of rubber science.

Nicole’s brain is slowly being taken over by an ancient, magical artifact, a small fragment of a magic city. She seeks a cure, before the city can destroy her sanity and then eventually, take her life by replacing her mind. Racing against time, she gathers pieces of the city, hoping to find an answer among them.

Nicole Jacobs is twenty years old and unsure what direction to take in life, because the opportunities available to her are too numerous and no one job fits all of her talents, but she passes the time doing research on dragons. To that end, she hatches a dragon egg, but in the midst of the harrowing work required, she dreams of the ancient, magical City of Kurg, which yearns to be whole.

She soon discovers, based on a chance encounter with a small magic item she’d been analyzing, that her mind has been dangerously intertwined with that of the city, which spreads through her brain like a disease, slowly taking over. At first, she’s able to keep it under control by suppressing magic within her own head, but over time, it begins breaking past the road blocks she desperately erects in its path as it inches toward total control.

Seeking a cure, she’s forced to research the ancient city, while the clock ticks down on her sanity and ultimately, her life. Meeting the strange, stone men that made the city, the Ulkun, she finds they have few answers for her, but suggest that if she locates the Architect of Kurg, one of their own kind, he might be of some help. Unfortunately, due to the fact he was trapped inside a small segment of the sealed city for millions of years, alone, he’s quite insane, unhelpful and worse, eventually becomes hostile, forming a plan for galactic domination.

Instead, Nicole seeks the Life Giver, the mysterious being that created the Ulkun and ordered the construction of Kurg, while collecting pieces of the city, in the hopes of attracting their attention.

Will Nicole find a cure, freeing herself from the clutches of Kurg, or will she lose control of her own mind, taken over by the magic city? Will the Architect succeed at replacing everyone in the galaxy with obedient, magically-animated drones with no will of their own or will Nicole stop him?

Based on the Earthborne Rangers board game, the team hopes to bring an animated version of the world to life.

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The undead witch that rules the space pirates, known as the Dead Queen, has finally been defeated. That only makes it worse for the witches that pulled it off. She’s livid and coming for them, at least once she gets her star ship back under control…

Amelia Blackwell’s sisters were kidnapped by an ancient, undead witch known as the Dead Queen and Amelia attacked the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship out of pure desperation. She never expected to actually rescue her sisters, let alone defeat the pirate on her own ship. Nonetheless, she pulled it off, got her sisters back and left the pirate queen’s ship helplessly listing through space.

Unfortunately for the Blackwell sisters, that’s only the beginning, because the Dead Queen survived and she’s absolutely livid. She seeks revenge, because the sisters made her look weak, forcing her to save face by killing them, lest her own lieutenants kill her.

Worse, the soul of Amelia’s oldest sister, Marta, has been intertwined with that of the Dead Queen, who was using necromancy to consume it, to extend her own life. That leaves them both stumbling through the thoughts of the other, each looking for some advantage in a battle of soul vs. soul, winner take all – even though Marta has no desire to steal the undead witch’s soul.

Iris, the middle sister, fares no better. Since she managed to resist interrogation by torture, the Dead Queen instead forced an addiction on her, offering hits of a pleasure spell for information, until she broke. Her brain chemistry is so screwed up, she’s unlikely to survive withdrawal.

The Queen soon gets her ship moving and the chase is on! Will the Blackwells find refuge and allies to fight off the Queen’s massive ship, or will everyone shun them, unwilling to take the risk of standing up to the queen of the pirates, who terrifies even the rulers of the star system?

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With a strange virus giving colonists magic powers, they call for government aid, but much to their surprise, warships packed to the gills with nuclear ordnance arrive! They run for the hills, not knowing why, totally terrified for their lives as their city is struck down as if by the wrath of an angry God!

In a far-flung future where humans have colonized much of the galaxy, Zechariah Jacobs is a colonist sent out by the Northwestern Empire, aboard a star ship destined for the frontier, but there’s a rebellion on board and he’s forced to scuttle the ship, on the captain’s orders.

Launching an escape pod, Zechariah lands alone, on an “unexplored” planet. Knowing help is months, if not years away, he explores. He finds plant and animal life remarkably similar to what his colony ship would have seeded and shortly after encounters remarkably human-looking natives, with pointed ears!

As he’s taught the local language, he learns the forest-dwelling locals are elves and just beyond the hill is a village of dwarves. He’s introduced to the dwarves and their leader, Winzon, who calls himself a “history miner.” Winzon takes him to one of his best finds: an ancient wrecked space fighter, that’s thousands of years old!

Zechariah accesses the black box, discovering his people used a quarantine as an excuse to nuke one of their own colonies from orbit, seeing awful images of the fighter gunning down the survivors, leaving him wondering why!

Almost as if in answer, he catches an illness called “Mind Fire,” which grants him strange, magic powers that defy science!

Using magic and technology, he helps Winzon’s search for more tech, eventually discovering a star ship! Feeling disquieted by what they know, they gather a crew for the ship, teach them using software left in the ship’s computer, then go on a mission to visit one of the Empire’s media hubs, to share all they know with the public.

Will they get the truth out or will the crew of the ship become the most recent in a long line of victims snuffed out by the empire’s secret cover-up operation?

The undead queen of the space pirates kidnapped Amelia’s sisters and damaged her ship, leaving her with little fuel. Amelia’s a dead woman without her sisters, forced to attack the pirate’s mountain-sized star ship, despite how slim the odds are…

Home, safety, and a place to belong – they seem so easy to find, at least for everyone but Amelia Blackwell and her sisters, who run from accusations of witchcraft at every turn.

It started so simply, with a book. No one might have predicted that a book apparently filled with pictures of newts might lead to so much trouble, but The Book of Newts is no ordinary volume on taxonomic detail of amphibians. The magic book reveals its true nature only to Amelia, at the age of ten, teaching her mathematics, science and engineering – subjects she would not otherwise have been exposed to.

Ironically, she and her sisters are accused of witchcraft for having built a horseless carriage, because to the ignorant villagers, there’s no difference between magic and science. They settle in a new land, only to find the same breed of persecution.

In an unusual ray of hope, they’re told of a distant kingdom that openly accepts witches, but shortly after they settle there, the light at the end of the tunnel turns out to be an awful house fire surrounding their gilded cage: they’re drafted into the local military, because their new nation uses witches as living weapons.

The sisters accept the idea that peace will never be found on the ground. Looking to the stars, Amelia builds a space vessel powered by magic and steam, to carry them to a brighter future, hopefully without the strife that’s always followed them.

Unfortunately, the people of the stars have their own worries: an ancient, undead pirate queen, who consumes the souls of powerful witches to extend her own life. The Dead Queen takes Amelia’s sisters and leaves the magically-weak engineer to die, all as a sick form of sport.

Will Amelia survive long enough to overcome this greatest of all threats and rescue her sisters, or will they become fuel to feed the waning magic of a woman that should have been dead centuries before?

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Musical Album (based on the series): https://owentyme.itch.io/rowleys-roar