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Volume 6 • Beginning with Round 307 • 7 January 2024 Wayfarer's Lamppost Book Club is created in partnership with the now-closed-forever Next Big Recognition Contest (NBR). Wayfarer's Lamppost Book Club aims to provide what no other book club has done-feedback on character arcs and plot progression across the entire...
Thomas Gown's connection to a group of powerful wizards who lived thousands of years ago is finally revealed, and he learns that he may be able to save his world and his civilisation, along with others beyond number, from a threat that will manifest itself in the far distant future, but that the only way he can do thi...
A young mother discovers that the long-lost high school classmate who contacted her on Facebook has been using a false identity with sinister intentions. And worse, her posts and profile have given him everything he needs to locate her family.
She's getting closer and closer... adrenaline pumping, mind bursting with anticipation as she nears the corner of the bar knowing I am about to see the face of the women who manages to occupy my every thought, and just before she takes that last step around the corner. -beep-beep-beep- I wake up.
The Rossem Project is close to success, and will allow a hand picked expedition to explore other worlds, searching for the threat that faces the planet Tharia, but as they begin their mission they discover that there are many other threats out there, and that the one they originally feared may be the very least of the...
Thomas Gown has become an important part of the Rossem Project and his contribution may be vital to its eventual success. However, he has also become a pawn in a desperate struggle between ancient powers who care nothing for the civilisation Thomas has sworn to protect. He gradually learns that his importance to them...
The immortal wizards were the most powerful humans ever to walk the planet Tharia, but the wars between them devastated the planet and the whole world breathed a sigh of relief when the last of them was killed. In an attempt to cheat death, though, one of the most powerful of them created a pair of atifacts of awesome...
A cunning Pirate's long-lost treasure. A three hundred-year-old curse. A wicked taste of rum. ------ When dangerous paranormal activity threatens her life, teen psychic, Lizzy Summers, decides to quit her job with Boston's Chills N' Thrills Ghost Tour franchise. She starts a new life in the Bay Area with her boyfriend...
His voice is the sweetest dream. Reminding me of Beltane celebrations. Luke O'Brien's joyful musings were warm. Like bonfires signifying summer's approach. They conjure up visions of wild forests and flourishing fields. Of the sun dancing against one's skin. I'd never had the privilege of gazing upon Luke's undoubted...
Lexandria University becomes the hub of a gigantic research project in an attempt to find a way to counter the new threat facing the planet Tharia, but spies and saboteurs are everywhere and one of their key men, responsible for one of the most important elements of the Rossem Project, dies with his work uncompleted...
Volume 5 • Beginning with Round 260 - 1 January 2023 Wayfarer's Lamppost Book Club is created in partnership with the now-closed-forever Next Big Recognition Contest (NBR). Wayfarer's Lamppost Book Club aims to provide what no other book club has done-feedback on character arcs and plot progression across the entire...
Pretty on the outside may not mean pretty on the inside. Parke Stockard was certainly sitting pretty. Blessed with good looks and business sense to boot, she should have been content. Instead, Parke makes trouble in her small town. When retired octogenarian schoolteacher Myrtle Clover discovers her body, no one in Bra...
Book one: FIRE Welcome to the Elemental Academy where powerful individuals are learning about magic and powers from which they were born. Here, people are trained to control their inner strength and use it for good. From hard classes, bad professors, evil that is spreading through the Torch, to th...
Born into the lap of luxury and a time of turmoil, Duchesse Eleonore Vigneron experiences her coming of age in the Court of Louis XVI . Embroiled in the chaos that surrounds Versailles, Eleni uses her unique blend of wit, charm, and beauty to ensure her survival. Proud and elegant even in the face of death, she escape...
\\COMPLETE// Book One A dead Earth. The past, forgotten along with it. There were no more gods and few supernatural beings left. Endless lives turned to a blur for the phoenix named Vatra. She'd had only one calling-dispatching out-of-control gods. Lacking a purpose, Vatra was lost to wander as a mercenary for hire. ...
[ONC 2021 Grand Winner] After the events of Ragnarök, the God Vidar has settled in the nice and quiet city of Antwerp where he keeps an eye on the local paranormal community. Nearly a millennium later, Vidar is a grumbling bookstore owner by day and a lazy paranormal detective by night (albeit a slightly furry one dur...
Dark Park is a sequel to Scrubber-Town, but if anything is worse than its next door suburb. There are more cat fights, vandalism, especially by the Spite Club Girls, grafitti and bad behaviour in general, particularly emanating from the Dark Park High School or the Tavern on a Saturday night. Dark Park should always...
Dana Halliday, Veterinarian in Space, finds herself struggling to recover after the events of Indentured. Also struggling is her cousin and employer, Adrian Travers, while the Earther colony of Magnolia Base suffers its own growing pains. To make matters worse, their friend Flynt receives an urgent message from his...
Tyrin, leader of Jacobson, has killed their father, forced them to live on the run, and now even when our heroes try to track down and help kids not taken by his organization, he sets out to hurt those children. Kyle and Jaden have both taken leadership roles in the Tracers, focusing everything on destroying the monst...
When a devious young woman cons two men into pulling off an easy heist, she's forced to run for her life when her plan goes sideways. To complicate matters, she grapples with a problem she's never before encountered. She's fallen in love with one of the guys. Rachel learns what all con artists eventually realize - the...
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Volume 3 • Beginning with Round 166 - 3 January 2021 Wayfarer's Lamppost Book Club is created in partnership with the Next Big Recognition Contest (NBR). Wayfarer's Lamppost Book Club is designed to complement the Next Big Recognition Contest by providing weekly feedback, resulting in the member's entire book being...
"Mankind lost the battle for its soul without knowing. Evil won. And no Chosen Ones are coming to the rescue. Enter Jestin Kase, a foster kid on the run in Chicago. He finds himself drawn into the underbelly of civilization, where the Three Great Schools of Magic are crippled by their own corruption and unable to pus...
Volume Three of the Ontogeny series. The human world is aflame with war. Nations clash with their neighbours, while the Kelvon Empire, bulwark of the human world, stands on the brink of civil war. The plans of the enemies of mankind to destroy human civilisation, to restore their own mastery of the world, are well on...
Volume Two of the Ontogeny series. A time of unprecedented crisis has come. During a mission to the edge of the known world, Brigadier Weyland James discovered that humanity faces a threat so terrible that the sane mind can barely conceive it. Failure to meet this threat would mean the end of human civilisation, mank...
The sequel to Her Terrifying Love. When Lyla finds herself committed to a juvenile psych ward after a mental breakdown, she must begin piecing together her life and find a way to stop her abusive ex-boyfriend's relentless attacks from beyond the grave all while keeping her terrible secret.
