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D. B. Jackson

    Tales of the Thieftaker
    Thieftaker
    Thieves'Quarry
    Small Moving Parts
    Galactic Stew
    A Plunder of Souls
    • 2021

      The Loyalist Witch: Thieftaker, Fall 1770

      • 274 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Boston - Fall, 1770 After a summer of conflict and innumerable delays, the trial of the British soldiers responsible for Boston's bloody massacre is set to begin. On the eve of the proceedings, however, magickal attacks on the lawyers representing both sides threaten to thwart justice yet again. Ethan Kaille-thieftaker and conjurer-is hired by Samuel Adams himself to protect the attorneys, a task more perilous than either of them knows. For a new conjurer has come to Boston. Ruthless, canny, beautiful, possessed of spellmaking talent that dwarfs Ethan's own, she is driven by dark ambitions that will brook no interference. Now Ethan finds himself fighting for his own life, the lives of those who matter to him most, and the very survival of his city. He must master new magicks and trust in powers he never knew existed. And he must do so before the Patriot cause and its greatest champions are destroyed. The Loyalist Witch: Thieftaker, Fall 1770 collects in a single volume the novella trilogy consisting of "The Witch's Storm," "The Cloud Prison," and "The Adams Gambit," the latest Thieftaker adventures from critically-acclaimed author D.B. Jackson

      The Loyalist Witch: Thieftaker, Fall 1770
    • 2020

      Galactic Stew

      • 238 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Join us for a feast!Step into a roadside diner run by witches. Attend a banquet with aliens who are as crass as they are brutal. Eat oysters on the half shell with a pair of conjurers, or scratch out a meal with warring pilots marooned on a desolate planet. Pity the ghost who must cook her way to freedom, and mourn with the warrior who seeks a final delicacy for his lost love. Search the far reaches of space for sustenance or descend into a hellscape of culinary horrors.In this volume, food is the star! Fantasy and science fiction authors Paige L. Christie, Diana A. Hart, A.L. Tompkins, Esther Friesner, Derrick Boden, Andy Duncan, Chaz Brenchley, Howard Andrew Jones, Mike Jack Stoumbos, R.S. Belcher, Mia Moss, Gini Koch, D.B. Jackson, Jason Palmatier, and Gabriela Santiago have prepared a GALACTIC STEW that will entice and tantalize, nourish the imagination, and sate the most ravenous of literary appetites. But beware! These dishes are not what they seem!

      Galactic Stew
    • 2019

      Temporally Deactivated

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      What does it mean to be "temporally deactivated?" Experience a historical moment through the intervention of a time travel agency. Be trapped inside a time bubble-willingly-so that you can save the universe from Darkness over and over again. Step outside of time at the order of your queen in order to stop a traitor...or to keep an assassin from destroying the future. Or travel forward into the future in order to kill off timelines to save your son...or backwards to halt an accident to save your relationship. Join fantasy and science fiction authors Ken Altabef, Alex Gideon, Stephen Leigh, D.B. Jackson, Faith Hunter, C.S. Friedman, Emily Randall, Gini Koch, Misty Massey, Rhondi Salsitz, Edmund R. Schubert, R.K. Nickel, Marie DesJardin, and Christine Lucas as they defy time and warp space in order to define what it means to be "temporally deactivated." So get ready and hold on tight. It's time to step outside of time.

      Temporally Deactivated
    • 2018

      Small Moving Parts

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      4.2(697)Add rating

      An unexpected encounter between an old man and a young boy, both grappling with profound loss, leads to a transformative bond that reshapes their futures. As they navigate their shared struggles, their connection unveils themes of resilience, hope, and the power of companionship in the face of adversity.

      Small Moving Parts
    • 2017

      Tales of the Thieftaker

      • 258 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Eleven encounters with characters from the critically acclaimed Thieftaker Chronicles, including previously unpublished stories.

      Tales of the Thieftaker
    • 2015

      A Plunder of Souls

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Boston, 1769: Ethan Kaille, a Boston thieftaker who uses his conjuring to catch criminals, has snared villains and defeated magic that would have daunted a lesser man. What starts out as a mysterious phenomenon that has local ministers confused becomes something far more serious. A ruthless, extremely powerful conjurer seeks to wake the souls of the dead to wreak a terrible revenge on all who oppose him. Kaille's minister friends have been helpless to stop crimes against their church. Graves have been desecrated in a bizarre, ritualistic way. Equally disturbing are reports of recently deceased citizens of Boston reappearing as grotesquely disfigured shades, seemingly having been disturbed from their eternal rest, and now frightening those who had been nearest to them in life. But most personally troubling to Kaille is a terrible waning of his ability to conjure. He knows all these are related...but how? When Ethan discovers the source of this trouble, he realizes that his conjure powers and those of his friends will not be enough to stop a madman from becoming all-powerful. But somehow, using his wits, his powers, and every other resource he can muster, Ethan must thwart the monster's terrible plan and restore the restless souls of the dead to the peace of the grave. Let the battle for souls begin in A Plunder of Souls, the third, stand-alone novel in Jackson's acclaimed Thieftaker series.

      A Plunder of Souls
    • 2014

      "Ethan Kaille isn't the likeliest hero. A former sailor with a troubled past, Ethan is a thieftaker, using conjuring skills to hunt down those who steal from the good citizens of Boston. And while chasing down miscreants in 1768 makes his life a perilous one, the simmering political tensions between loyalists like himself and rabble-rousing revolutionaries like Samuel Adams and others of his ilk are perhaps even more dangerous to his health. When one hundred sailors of King George III's Royal Navy are mysteriously killed on a ship in Boston Harbor, Ethan is thrust into dire peril. For he--and not Boston's premier thieftaker, Sephira Pryce--is asked to find the truth behind their deaths. City Sheriff Edmund Greenleaf suspects conjuring was used in the dastardly crime, and even Pryce knows that Ethan is better equipped to contend with matters of what most of Boston considers dark arts. But even Ethan is daunted by magic powerful enough to fell so many in a single stroke. When he starts to investigate, he realizes that the mass murderer will stop at nothing to evade capture. And making his task more difficult is the British fleet's occupation of the city after the colonials' violent protests after the seizure of John Hancock's ship. Kaille will need all his own magic, street smarts, and a bit of luck to keep this Boston massacre from giving the hotheads of Colonial Boston an excuse for inciting a riot--or worse. Thieves' Quarry is a stunning second novel in D.B. Jackson's Thieftaker Chronicles."-- Provided by publisher

      Thieves'Quarry
    • 2013

      Thieftaker

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.6(83)Add rating

      In 1765 Boston, as the British impose heavy taxes on the colonies, conjurer Ethan Kaille is drawn into political intrigue when tasked with recovering a necklace belonging to the murdered daughter of a prominent family, shifting his focus from thievery to the dangerous world of politics.

      Thieftaker