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Finalist - Independent Author Awards both Science Fiction AND Horror

“All I ask is that you love me... the way I love you.”

From Storytrade Award and Penmasters Global Fiction Award winning author Martin V. Parece II comes a masterclass in science fiction horror. “This is [Martin’s] love letter to Ridley Scott and Lovecraft. It’s Alien meets ...

2025 Storytrade and 2025 Penmasters Global award winner for Fiction: Horror

A killer stalks the shadows. A detective dances on the edge. And the only thing more dangerous than the truth... is desire.

Detective Sarah Murphy always believed in logic, evidence, and justice. But when a string of inexplicable, bloodless murders hits the city, her...

Advance Praise for The Oathbreaker’s Daughter!

“Teeming with adventure, THE OATHBREAKER’S DAUGHTER by Martin V. Parece II delivers suspense as it thrusts readers into an illustrative fantasy world...” -- IndieReader

Finalist, Fantasy - Independent Author Awards, LiteraryGlobal

Finalist, Fantasy - National Indie Excellence Awards

If you love the...

The Oathbreaker’s Legacy (The Dragonknight Trilogy, Book 2)

Jenna has learned so much in the last few months. After being discovered as a woman at the Trials to replace Sir Garond, she was forced to join the Protectresses of the South under Lady Ayn. She had to endure so many tests and chores, so much hazing, but she finally made it through. She...

The Dragonknight Trilogy
Book 3

Soutton is a burning ruin. King Rendor, Sir Tullus, and countless other Dragonknights are dead.

The world is collapsing around Jenna, and she knows it’s all her fault, all because she couldn’t accept the fact that women cannot be Dragonknights.

Thom has lost his right hand because she let him join her in saving her...

Five complete novels, over 470,000 words, now in one epic collection!

From Amazon Reviews of The Cor Chronicles:
“If you enjoy fantasy with a solid dose of bloodshed you can’t go wrong here”
“I had work in the morning and tried to stop reading but I just had to know what was going to happen next.”
“So they were right, the story is awesome. its 4 in...

The Shining West, free from the yoke of the Loszian Empire, has long stood as a beacon of freedom, guarding its people from the evils of the Loszians. Aquis is the largest of the Western Kingdoms, ruled by its benificent Queen Erella, High Priestess to Garod, leader of the gods of light.

The son of a farmer in the bountiful kingdom Aquis, Cor...

Dahken Cor Pelson has found and freed a score of his people from a Loszian necromancer, but now what can he do? With the help of a beauitful and dangerous sorceress, he must find a way to escape the Loszian Empire.

Even then will the Westerners and Queen Erella of Aquis accept the Dahken within their lands?

And what of the children he has...

In the wake of murdering Queen Erella, the kingdom of Aquis has turned wholly against Lord Dahken Cor Pelson. While Garod’s priests decide his fate and the kingdom’s future, Cor trudges his way back to Fort Haldon and finds that word of his treachery has arrived before he.

A wave of darkness forms on the eastern side of the Spine as Emperor...

A new Chronicler comes to the world, and he finds that all is not as it should be. He discovers the truth of Rumedia and how things have come to be as they are, and he is determined to spread that truth to all who would listen.

Meanwhile…

On some level, it amazes Cor that he has survived so long and managed to protect his friends and family. He...

The epic conclusion of the Cor Chronicles:

Years after defeating Sovereign Nadav and the Loszian gods, Lord Dahken Cor Pelson has shut himself away from the world. After all, where does one who wields such ultimate power fit in such a place? He wishes only to be left in peace by those around him.

But peace is not to be found, because Aquis faces...

Within these pages you shall find the tale of Dahken Rael – a warrior who struggles to find purpose and meaning. With no small amount of blood shed from both he and his enemies, Rael plods across the world to find his people or even an inkling as to what his life should be about.

Within these pages you shall find exploration and adventure, battle...

Years before Thyss the sorceress, Chosen of the fire god Hykan, ventured into the West to fall in with the Dahken known as Cor Pelson, she sought her own destiny away from the machinations of her father.

After surviving the dreaded d’kinde of the northern jungles (“Hunted” from Tendrils in the Dark), a young Thyss finds herself relying on the...

Eight stories of terror and horror from Lovecraftian cosmic horror to creature features to a modern ghost story. These tales will spur the darkest recesses of the imagination.

• Nazi Werewolves
• Weird Western
• Slasher with a Twist
• 30s Noir
• Modern Day Ghost Story
• Creature Features
• Cosmic Horror
• And more!

Read this book in the daylight lest you be...

After his unbelievable encounter in the Paderborn forest near Wewelsburg Castle (“Wewelsburg” from Tendrils In the Dark), Captain John Hartman of the OSS finds himself convalescing in Allied hands. Plagued by nightmares, he must convince his superior officer that Heinrich Himmler is up to something terrible while also trying to understand...

The war is over, and Major John Hartman has left active duty. He and Sergeant Margie Bywater have gotten married and are looking forward to the next stage of life, come what may.

But rest doesn’t come easily to heroes when Colonel Spivey, formerly of the OSS and now CIA, appears unannounced to recruit the newly married couple into America’s new...