The Oasis Stone
The Adventure Begins Here
When the Vents erupted, they fractured Ralvera into lands of harsh desert and blistering ice. Eternal plumes of ash rise from the fiery calderas of the Scorch Vents, and great leviathans slither over the mountainous glaciers of the Frost Vents. The last forests grow where they can, far from the shadows of the unnatural volcanoes. These are the Verdants, the only remaining fertile lands of Ralvera.
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Mayve, a cutpurse from the desert city of Devar, has never known anything but ash, sand, and the sun's terrible heat. She works tirelessly to steal a better life for her and her mother, with grand plans to start anew where forests still grow and rain still falls. When a lucrative opportunity descends into nightmare, Mayve finds herself in possession of a strange artifact, sought after by everyone in Ralvera; the Oasis Stone
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Hunted by savage raptors, the mighty Oaken Legion, and a masked volcomancer who bends shadows to his will, Mayve must choose: follow a destined path, to bring the Oasis Stone to the Great Seer and learn its true purpose, or use it to avenge the death of her mother. Grappling between prophecy and vengeance, her choice will have apocalyptic consequences.
Short Stories
Ingo & Spotch
Set five years before the events of The Oasis Stone, witness the raptor twins Ingo and Spotch descend from pickpockets to hardened criminals. On the cusp of adulthood, the twins find themselves hunted by the ruthless Merchatzi. Backed into a corner, their tribe threatened, Ingo and Spotch must decide how much blood they're willing to spill in order to protect their family.
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It Watches from the Cold
Death leaves no footprints as it stalks atop fresh-fallen snow. In the town of Wilhem, something murderous walks the white woods, killing as snowflakes fall and disappearing as they melt. The people of Wilhem only know one way to stay safe; close your curtains as tight as you can. If the monster can see in, it will stop at nothing to break inside.
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It Watches from the Cold is Jack's first horror novel, still in manuscript form.