Books in series
#1
Giants
2014
The Nephilim—the sons of fallen angels—have a find ancient, powerful weapons, storm Eden, defeat the guardian Cherub with his flaming sword and eat from the Tree of Life. Then they can rule the Earth as gods.
Gaining such weapons is highly dangerous, however. They will need ensorcelled humans to trip primeval traps for them, dying in their place.
Young Joash, a freed slave, knows nothing about these things. He trains to become a charioteer like the champion Herrek who freed him from bondage. But when Herrek’s band falls under a Nephilim spell, Joash will have to find the courage and wisdom to be like the mouse that freed a netted lion and save his newfound family and friends from a hideous and ancient evil.
GIANTS is the start of the Lost Civilizations Series that tells of the war between Nephilim and men in the days before the oceans overran the Pre-Cataclysmic World.
#2
Leviathan
2010
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Before the dawn of history, there was the first civilization with its gleaming spires and proud kings. In that distant era, the giants unleashed an ancient horror as they collected weapons once used by the primeval powers. They summoned a creature from the murky depths to destroy the humans plaguing them. Among the doomed are Herrek the Giant-Slayer, Joash, and Adah of Poseidonis.
LEVIATHAN is the second book in Lost Civilizations. It is a continuation of the war between Nephilim and men that occurred before the oceans overran the Pre-Cataclysmic World. LEVIATHAN is a fantasy novel by bestselling author Vaughn Heppner.
#3
The Tree Of Life
2010
The battle for mastery of the ancient Earth nears its climax. Giants march for the Valley of Dry Bones, Tarag of the Sabertooths unveils his new plan and Joash finds a terrifying artifact from the Celestial Realm, All the while, Lord Uriah, Adah and Zillith gather a desperate host to hurl into the final battle.
THE TREE OF LIFE completes the war begun in Giant Land. It is the story of Nephilim and men battling in the days before the oceans overran the Pre-Cataclysmic World. THE TREE OF LIFE is a fantasy novel by bestselling author Vaughn Heppner.
#4
Gog
2010
Keros is a crippled leper in pirate-haunted Shamgar, enduring a life of misery.
Then one day the soldiers of Gog march Lod through the streets. Keros crawls out to see Elohim’s fabled champion. Before the vast throng, Lod touches Keros and declares him healed in Elohim’s name.
Nothing happens…at first. But when ruffians come to kill Keros that night, he rises up and slays them, taking a Bolverk-forged sword the fools have stolen during the march.
Gog learns of this healing. It is his city. In a rage, he demands that his minions bring Keros to the Catacombs, there to lie entombed with Lod until he dies.
Keros has other plans. Lod healed him. Thus, he must rescue Lod from the Catacombs and slay the son of a fallen angel, if he can…
GOG is the fourth book of the Lost Civilizations Series that chronicles the war between men and Nephilim in the days before the oceans overran the Pre-Cataclysmic World.
#5
Behemoth
2011
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Desiring an invincible beast for his host, Gog sends his offspring Dagon to the Sea of Nur. Dagon has one goal: tame the fabled Behemoth and return it to Shamgar. But the mightiest beast of all lives in the shadow of a lost celestial power and in the primitive lands of the Rovian. The journey will surely tax even those of the blood.
Seeking their defeat is Lod, a white-bearded swordsman with burning blue eyes, his frame a twisted mass of muscle from twenty long years as an oar-slave. Lod is driven by his visions, and this is to be the battle of his life.
BEHEMOTH is the tale of man versus monster and iron versus sorcery. It occurs in the days before the oceans overran the Pre-Cataclysmic World.
#6
The Lod Saga
2011
Lod the fanatical pit slave ranges the Pre-Cataclysmic Earth to confront the Nephilim, the offspring of the fallen angels.
Where once seething Lod has passed, no one who lives forgets. Now, down the trails of past battles, Lod travels again. To the Stadium of Swords in Nod, where a god sits among his beauties, watching the slaughter in his glory. To the choking depths of the mines of Tartarus, where Lod faces a primeval terror that once roamed the stars. To the camp of a slave-hunting giant, seeking the perfect vessel to bear his seed. To the tree of death itself where Lod retrieves a woman to love.
THE LOD SAGA is the sixth book in Lost Civilizations, a fantasy by bestselling author Vaughn Heppner.
\*These early tales of Lod were previously published as three separate novellas: THE BEAST OF ELOHIM, MANUS FARSTRIDER and THE SWORD OF ESUS.
#7
Lod the Galley Slave
2014
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Lod the fanatical pit slave ranges the Pre-Cataclysmic Earth to confront the Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels.
They have supernatural size, strength and mystic powers. He has a sword, a knife or at times merely a fist. But in him burns visions from Elohim, giving him the courage to rise up and fight the invincible.
He began in the canals of Shamgar, trolling the waters as bait for the giant rats. Years later, he toiled in the galleys of Poseidonis, a chained beast rowing to face the dreaded fire ships that always destroyed their foes.
Lod faced the duel of his life on the Isle of the Dead, assassin’s attacks and the heart-freezing terror of the kraken.
Heroic fantasy’s mightiest warrior storms his way through five thrilling tales from prehistoric times.
#8
Cain
2019
Fallen angels came to earth seeking the most beautiful women, having children by them, the Nephilim. The fallen angels left, but their demonic offspring remained, thirsting to conquer the Pre-Cataclysmic World so they could rule as gods.
One of the most oppressive is Gog the Oracle, a pitiless monster. He has gathered his galleys and enforcers to crush those who have risen up to resist him. He also seeks Cain, the deadliest swordsman in existence, the first murderer and ageless wanderer. Cain will be his hidden blade to strike at his enemies.
Lod leads those who have thrown off their Nephilim shackles. He has vowed to break into Gog's swamp-city and end the creature's reign of terror.
Now the hour of retribution is at hand as Gog's enforcers sharpen their swords and as men train mammoths for the battlefield. Now the plans of demon and human clash head on, winner take all.
Sword and sorcery, mind and muscle, galley and catapult, Armageddon comes to the Pre-Cataclysmic World in this, the eighth book of the Lost Civilizations Series.
#9
The Blade of Elohim
2021
Fierce Nephilim riding giant reptilian beasts burst out of the Red Desert to raid the villages of the Negara Hills, collecting the young men as spears slaves and the women as harlots.In Armod, Brand’s mother resists, receiving a sword in the guts for her courage. With bloody hands imploring Heaven, she curses the Nephilim before dying.It makes Brand a target during the savage training, leaving him lonely and afraid, as all his friends abandon him.Although terrified, Brand yet has a spark of courage left. He escapes into the grasslands, meeting Lod, who claims his mother’s curses have brought him to teach Brand how to fight.Knowing Nephilim hunters are coming, the two seek an ancient ghost-city from the time angels warred on Earth. Lod hopes to find supernatural weapons to slay the evil ones.Is Brand going to die hideously or is Lod right? Can men really defeat the sons of fallen angels?Find out in THE BLADE OF ELOHIM, the ninth book of the Lost Civilization Series, set in the prehistoric world.
Author
Vaughn Heppner
Author · 83 books
You can visit Vaughn at www.vaughnheppner.com I was born in Canada and remember as a small boy crawling in my snow-fort. I closed my eyes, and when I tried to open them, they were frozen shut. I didn't panic, but wiped away the ice crystals, unglued my eyes and kept on building my tunnel. Those were great days! I moved to Central California before seventh grade and couldn't believe I lived in a land where oranges grew on trees and you could pick grapes from the vine. I used to wonder what I wanted to do with my life, what kind of work specifically. I was miserable not knowing and bordering on desperate. Then one day a friend gave me his typewriter. I began working on a novel. A different person told me it was much easier on a computer, so I bought one and began getting up at 4:30 A.M. each morning before work, writing for three hours. My eyes were unglued once again as the pang of misery left my gut. I knew exactly what I wanted to do: write. So now that's what I do, I write, and write, and write, and I love it.
