However, they soon find themselves fending for their lives against the dangerous groups who inhabit the old city, each one set in brutal opposition to the others.

On a stolen ship, he watched reports come in of the end of the world he once knew.After the dust settles from the Great Rebellion, Owen Deathstalker and Hazel D’ark find themselves working as bounty hunters for the tentative new democratic government, chasing down war criminals from the old empire, while still struggling with the nature of their mysterious powers derived from the enigmatic Madness Maze.

. These and other dark revelations have been dormant until now, when the web of deceit begins to unravel, with devastating consequences for the guilty and innocent alike.

Mother Superior Beatrice has taken on the holy mission of ministering to the poor victims.. And by the time the conflict resolves, Owen may have lost forever the one he holds most dear. It’s a brutally difficult task, but when the Hadenmen come to claim the planet as their own, Saint Bea’s pleas for help can only be answered by Owen Deathstalker and his unique squad of fighters.

.The Blood Runners are an ancient culture, possessors of occult knowledge and power.

Diana Vertue, known in an earlier life as the terrifying esper Jenny Psycho, had been a hard-core terrorist and a saint of the uber-esper Mater Mundi, but she'd outgrown both those roles. The Maze was thought to be destroyed, but has miraculously reappeared, and perhaps holds the key to humanity’s survival. As the relentless forces of the monstrous Recreated descend upon humanity, Owen Deathstalker and Hazel D’ark return to the Wolfling World, home of the Madness Maze.

Elsewhere, the Empire’s greatest Paragon begins assembling his network of treachery, designed to destroy everything Douglas Campbell holds dear.

Lewis Deathstalker’s struggle to hold honor above his own needs is put aside momentarily, as the riot on Parliament’s doorstep puts him in a battle to the death with Finn’s brutal assassin Rose Constantine, undefeated gladiator of the Arena. Emma Steel is the new Paragon of Humanity’s home world of Logres.Finn Durandal’s traitorous scheme is all coming together, as Parliament becomes the bloody scene of Finn’s carefully orchestrated civil unrest.

.In the royal inner circle, the immovable wills of Lewis Deathstalker, the King’s Champion, and Jesamine Flowers, the King’s betrothed, labor in vain against the most irresistible force they’ve ever known. In preparation for this vital mission, Lewis Deathstalker consults with the Artificial Intelligences of Shub, who have some disturbing revelations for the King’s Champion.

With the Empire hot on their heels, their mission brings them to the forbidden planet Unseeli, home of the mysterious winged Ashrai, as well as another legendary figure from Owen’s time.

Surrounded by traitors, King Douglas plays the role of the broken man while searching for an opportunity to retaliate.On the Empire’s home world of Logres, King Douglas deals with the beautiful Treasure Mackenzie’s seduction attempts while Finn Durandal, with Parliaments’ approval, wages war on the esper city of New Hope.

Elsewhere, the quest of Lewis Deathstalker and his weary band of renegades has finally brought them to the legendary planet Haden, home of the mysterious Madness Maze.

And the mightiest Deathstalker of them all plunges into the timestream to confront the relentless mad hunger of the being called the Terror..

And Owen Deathstalker’s quest to halt the onslaught of the monstrous Terror reaches its dramatic conclusion. The Empire and rebel forces must forge an uneasy alliance to battle a common enemy: the demonic Uber-espers, a conflict which leads to a startling revelation as to their origin.

Necromance-for-hire Dante Valentine is choosy about her jobs. There's just one catch.

The Devil hires Dante to eliminate a renegade demon: Vardimal Santino. How do you kill something that can't die?. It's an offer she can't refuse. There's just one catch.

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But that's only the beginning. Like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover's death.

Dante Valentine, Necromancer and bounty hunter, just wants to be left alone.

Saint City has always been Dante Valentine's home. But theone person she trusted has just betrayed her..

Unfortunately, he's just messed with the wrong Necromance. This time, the Devil will pay..

. A loose confederation of secret American Free Cities dots the countryside and awaits its time to rise and challenge the Soviet armies.The year is 2089.

Soldiers he will use to hunt down and destroy the rebels and their leader-Ted Rockson, the Doomsday Warrior..S.

If Rockson is to succeed, he must first brave nature's post-apocalyptic nightmare that is America 2089 and make the dangerous trek cross-country to the secret meeting in one piece. are about to unite and form a new nation with one goal: to forever drive the hated Soviets from America's shores.

. And then find himself an unwilling contestant in the Empire's barbaric gladiatorial games. Games so brutal and to the death that the emperors of ancient Rome would find themselves envious.

Only under the veteran leadership of the Doomsday Warrior do they even stand a one-in-a-million chance.

.. With devastating results.

. For the President of the Re-United States has been captured and sits in the hands of Zhabnov and at the mercy of his Mindbreaker torture machine.

But a handful of survivors escape the Russian net and choose to live-and give their lives if need be-for freedom's cause.. The onslaught of Russian invasion troops capture most Americans fortunate enough to survive the nuclear carnage, creating a slave labor force to serve every demand of the Russian overlords..

One hundred years after Russia's thermonuclear first strike, the radioactive wasteland that was once America has become a slave state crushed under the iron fist of the Soviet invader. Only a small, fierce group of survivors refuse to submit to the oppressive Red overlords.