ALL IT TAKES 

It’s there for anyone to see: There are dark forces at work on the world, working to destroy civilization. All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to stand by and do nothing. We need a good guy.

NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES—BUT SOME DO

For a generation, individuals have arisen with super powers, able to change the course of history, or at least save a few lives. But these people have free will—and not all choose to work for the forces of good. We want someone with an unblotted escutcheon, a Galahad for the 21st Century, someone pure of ethics and morality.

NOT THAT KIND OF GOOD GUY

What we get is Michael: the product of a broken childhood, raised in the foster system of one of America’s most dangerous inner cities, his wisdom comes from drug addicts and whores. Maybe he’s not the hero we asked for, but he’s the hero we need. And he’s about to hit puberty.

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COURTING & CONSPIRACY!

Thomas the Rhymer, immortal, shape-changing foe of the diabolical Elf Queen and her merciless Yvag knights, continues his one-man war into the reign of England’s “Faerie Queen”—Elizabeth I. When he learns of an assassination plot against Elizabeth, the Rhymer intervenes, only to find himself the object of the special attention of the Queen’s spymaster, Francis Walsingham.

Walsingham blackmails the Rhymer into joining his intelligence network. Allied with Walsingham’s minions and a mysterious shape-changing stage actress, Thomas finds he must deal with Mary, Queen of Scots, scheming Jesuits, and Italian bankers as well as further Yvag attempts against Elizabeth. He moves in the circles of William Shakespeare, John Dee, Giordano Bruno, and Christopher Marlowe, desperately defeating one conspiracy after another in defense of the throne, leading him to an inevitable final confrontation with the Elf Queen, in which to survive he must destroy the source of her power . . . and to do that, he must enter the mouth of Hel itself.

After all the sacrifice, will the Rhymer find peace? And, perhaps, even love?

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EMBRACE YOUR POWER AND FORGE YOUR DESTINY

All her life, Aelys of Brionne had been weak. As the noble daughter of one of the empire’s most powerful magic-wielding families, it should have been easy for her to live her dream of bonding with a warrior protector and joining the Imperial Battlemage Corps. But when her weakness robs her of her dreams, her best friend, and the man she loves, Aelys makes the only choice she can see: she takes her fate into her own hands and she runs, leaving her safe, protected world behind.

Now she must find a way to work with three dangerous strangers—a warrior, a forester, and a thief—to escape the bandits stalking her, fight through the dangers of the untamed forest, and make her way back home, where her family and her destiny await.

Only . . . her violent protectors might be the key to the power and freedom she’s always craved. Can Aelys find the strength to choose her own destiny and become the sorceress she was born to be? Or lose herself on the path to power?

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IN HONOR OF NOT THAT KIND OF GOOD GUY: THE FIRST TASTE COULD BE FREE TO FIVE LUCKY WINNERS!

With respect to the traditions of street pharmacists, the first taste could be free for five lucky winners who will receive an ebook copy of the first book in John Ringo’s new Shadow’s Path series, Not that Kind of Good Guy!

Find out how to enter the random drawing here.

Our congratulations to the winner of last month’s contest, Paul T. Goodz, who won a signed copy of Robert E. Hampson’s amazing Across an Ocean of Stars in this month’s drawing.

Coming soon to the Baen Free Radio Hour: Sean Patrick Hazlett interviews Gregory Frost on Rhymer: Hel, and Hailey “H.Y.” Gregor interviews Kacey Ezell on her new novel, Magelight! Later in the month, Griffin Barber will be presiding over an introduction to Baen’s Feral Fantasy Summer, with an all-star cast of authors including Wen Spencer, Marisa Wolf, Melissa Olthoff, Kacey Ezell, and A.C. Haskins.

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