KC May

author of fantasy & science fiction

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The Kinshield Legacy

Book 1 of The Kinshield Saga

All swordsman Gavin Kinshield wants is a few coins to buy a decent meal and warm bed...until a scholar tempts him with the letter written by his ancestor Ronor Kinshield, the last person to see the king alive.

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The Wayfarer King

Book 2 of The Kinshield Saga

Gavin Kinshield has no money or army, but he’s determined to protect his people from the beyonder attacks. With his new power of Wayfarer, Gavin has the ability to journey to all seven realms. To end the invasion, he must travel to the realm of chaos and summon the most powerful beyonder of them all. But can he escape before the beyonder champion kills him, devours his soul and takes his place as Wayfarer?

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Well of the Damned

Book 3 of The Kinshield Saga

A former member of an elite battlers guild, Cirang Deathsblade has a dark past. She sits in gaol, awaiting a sentence for her terrible crimes... but she’s not who Gavin Kinshield thinks she is. In exchange for leniency, Cirang leads Gavin to a centuries-old, hidden journal that holds the secrets of ancient kings and a magical wellspring with its own dark past... and an even more terrible future.

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Kinshield's Redemption

Book 4 of The Kinshield Saga

Dozens have been corrupted by tainted water from the Well of the Damned, including King Gavin Kinshield’s beloved wife. He’s desperate to reverse the water’s effects and restore Feanna to the kind and compassionate woman he married.

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Call of the Colossus

Book 2 of the Mindstream Chronicles

Condemned murderer Jora Lanseri is offered a chance at redemption in exchange for her silence. Driven to protect her only remaining brother, she must secretly uncover the dark and hidden forces that are smuggling the life-giving godfruit to Serocia's enemies and perpetuating the long and bloody war.

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Verse of the Vanguard

Book 3 of the Mindstream Chronicles

At long last, Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri has what she needs to unite Serocia’s enemies under a long-awaited peace treaty and end the hundred-years war. But she has opposition. She must battle her nemesis Ibsa Bervoets, who seeks to sieze power from Jora and the queen. When the diplomats sent to negotiate the peace fall suddenly silent, Jora is sent to learn what happened to them. On the Isle of Shess, beneath the shadow of the Tree of the Fallen God, she comes face-to-face with a powerful new foe whose only purpose for existence is her destruction.

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Requiem of Reprisal

Book 4 of the Mindstream Chronicles

Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri has emerged victorious once again, despite Dominee Ibsa’s refusal to help. Now Jora must journey to the neighboring city to recover the stolen godheart and bring Ibsa back to face justice for betraying the queen. But when Jora returns to the capital, she finds powerful forces have converged with one goal in mind—to force the Gatekeeper to do their bidding.

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Dirge of the Dormant

Book 5 of the Mindstream Chronicles

Having unleashed the darkness inside her, Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri has chased the enemy from Serocia’s shores. Now at the height of her power, she faces a new challenge—to rescue the abducted king and retrieve the stolen godheart before the war ship carrying them reaches harbor.

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Aria of the Awakened

Book 6 of the Mindstream Chronicles

When Gatekeeper Jora Lanseri learns the princess has been convicted by a vengeful enemy of terrible crimes, she must free the delegates trapped in gold statues on the Isle of Shess to trade for the captured princess. Now, with the enemy warships on her heels, Jora must protect the king while negotiating the princess's freedom... and keep the monster inside her from destroying them all.

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The Secrets Dragons Keep

Book 2 of The Dragons of Kudare, co-authored with India Drummond

Outcast from the temple, brothers Caden and Deshic journey with their family to the Plains of Fire to seek absolution for their crimes. There they endure cruel punishments under the unrelenting eye of the woman who rules over every soul at the temple compound.

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The Vows Dragons Break

Book 3 of The Dragons of Kudare, co-authored with India Drummond

Reeling from the losses of the past year, the Quelstow family must find a future in the shadow of the Strangbrouden aerie. Caden, haunted and broken, and Rane, in a state of frightening and ever-changing evolution, struggle to discover their place in a fractured world.

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Sole Sacrifice

Legends of Thendylath

Sithral Tyr watched helplessly while three of his children died of a strange illness. When his last remaining son falls ill, he gives up on his clan's shaman and, amid protests from the clan chief and his neighbors, Tyr sets out to find a cure for his son. His journey takes him to a land of danger and debauchery where he's forced to make the ultimate sacrifice in the hopes of saving not just his son but his entire clan.

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Star Fire Gem

Legends of Thendylath

This is the story of how a young Gavin Kinshield, seeking to better the lives of his beloved wife and daughter, came to feud with mage Brodas Ravenkind. Find out why Brodas and Gavin hate each other so much!

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When the God Went Silent

When the God Went Silent

The Mindstream Adventures

This novella collection tells two stories of people who were in communion with Retar the Last at the moment he went silent. Meet Tanira, a nine-year-old girl whose special skill enables her to see a person's true spirit. And then there's Jaika, whose new gift provides others the life-altering change that lets their true self shine through.

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