Lightning in the Waste
A part-time sorcerer
desperate for true power,

and a being from beyond the worlds
who joins his quest...
Segnbora meets Hasai
A warrior scarred by loss and failure,

and a mysterious creature of ages past,
abandoned by his kind...
Freelorn begins the Nightwalk
...will join forces for love of an exile
from the land he was born to rule,
challenge the ultimate evil rising to stop them,

and save the world... or die trying.
Five lives. Four realms. One legend.
Five lives. Four realms. One legend.
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The Middle Kingdoms series

encompasses nearly half a million words of award-winning prose—
novels and short works that have engaged and entertained
a passionate readership for four decades.
In the house of uncounted
portals to other worlds...
one man seeks the Door that will forever change his own.
The Door into Fire


A warrior scarred
by failure and loss
searches for something to believe in
and gets far more than she bargained for
The Door into Shadow
Armies may win you a throne,
but the Gods decide
if you'll keep it.
Freelorn of Arlen plays out the king's moves
in the endgame of a world...
The Door into Sunset
This man may not look
like he's about to start
a bar fight with
ultimate Evil...
but appearances can be deceptive.
Tales of the Five #1:
The Levin-Gad
Saved the world.
Married the prince.
Forgot to quit her day job.
Tales of the Five #2:
The Landlady
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From chapter five of THE DOOR INTO FIRE: “Reunion.” After two years apart, #Herewiss and #Freelorn meet again… with a long difficult discussion of how to determine their paths forward still lying ahead of them. #MiddleKingdoms #Fantasy #EpicFantasy
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From chapter four of THE DOOR INTO FIRE: #Herewiss begins to prepare the house-of-cards sorcery meant to confine the power of emotions and memories he’s about to unleash on the Steldene forces holding his loved #Freelorn and his followers prisoner. Assuming, of course, that the #sorcery doesn’t kill him first… #MiddleKingdoms
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From chapter 4 of THE DOOR INTO FIRE: #Herewiss and #Sunspark scope out the remote keep in which Dusty’s boyfriend Prince #Freelorn and Lorn’s little group of followers are besieged by #Steldene-army regulars, preparatory to Herewiss beginning the complicated and dangerous sorcery that will free his loved…. #MiddleKingdoms #epicfantasy #epifantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyartwork #LGBTQ #swordandsorcery #DianeDuane #DazStudio #DazStudioIray #Daz3D #Herewiss #Sunspark #fireelemental #fireelementals ...

From chapter 3 of THE DOOR INTO FIRE: On the road to the ruined keep where his lover and his little band of followers are being besieged, Herewiss stumbles onto something bizarre: a horse-like creature that speaks to him in his mind, begging him for help as it collapses in the rain. So much of his attention is bent on trying to keep it alive that Herewiss realizes only too late how his good intentions have lured him into a perilous situation that could cost him his life... #MiddleKingdoms #epicfantasy #epifantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyartwork #LGBTQ #swordandsorcery #DianeDuane #DazStudio #DazStudioIray #Daz3D #Herewiss #Sunspark #fireelemental #fireelementals ...

From chapter 1 of THE DOOR INTO FIRE: #Herewiss kneels at the Flame Altar in the Silent Precincts of the Brightwood, attempting one final sorcery to make a sword that will channel the spark of blue Fire he possesses into a force he can use. But in his heart of hearts, he knows what’s going to happen next... #MiddleKingdoms #epicfantasy #epicfantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyartwork #LGBTQ #swordandsorcery #dianeduane #DazStudio #DazStudioIray #Daz3D ...

Working prince-in-waiting Herewiss Hearn’s son pauses while re-shoeing his horse and rereads the letter that’s sending him off on an unexpected quest: to get his errant, outlawed lover out of trouble *again*. He’s got no real choice but to ride out to Freelorn’s rescue and save his loved and his little band of followers from the crowd of opportunistic mercenaries who’re after the price of his scalp. The only question now: will the sorcerous knowledge he’s picked up in his search for the power he *really* needs — the blue Fire — be enough to do the job?

The #story that will change the destiny of the #MiddleKingdoms begins here in THE DOOR INTO FIRE. Find out more: https://bit.ly/MK-TDIFire #fantasy #LGBTQ
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The Instagram-formatted version of the revised #MiddleKingdoms map of the central "Four Realms" area, showing the Kingdoms as known in the immediate aftermath of the War of book 3. Unlabeled features (particularly south of the Highpeaks) are either as yet unknown or unexplored. ...The full-sized, wide-format version of this map can be viewed at bit dot ly slash MKMap. #maps #fantasy #LGBTQ #epicfantasy #epicfantasyart #MiddleKingdomsMeta ...

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