A bounty hunter with a price on his head, Davrick Caliburn must evade the sorcerous reach of the Grand Imperium. Never mind the fact that his new employer is a vampiric blood-baroness—she’s promised him a pocket full of coins and a one-way ticket out of the occupied city of Kardre. The only problem: that “ticket” is aboard an Imperium battle-train. Joining forces with a dandy-dressed astral mage, a maladroit gearmeister, and an ill-tempered thief, the team will storm the battle-train to pilfer an ancient dragon stone powerful enough to turn the tide of war. But between the killer automatons, elite enemy troops, and the fiendish sorcerer who leads them, Davrick can only wonder what kind of a mess he’s gotten himself into this time. And what does a master vampire want with a mythical dragon stone anyway? Battle-Train Siege is the first novella of the six-part Siege Chronicles.

Following their daring escape from the battle-train in a stolen ornithopter, Davrick Caliburn, Sid Voltelion, and Talyaana Rae are out of fuel and forced to land. Pursued by enemy search parties, the trio sets off across the scarred battlefields of a kingdom crushed by unrelenting war. Finding refuge with an old farmer and his wife, they soon learn of the rival mercenary companies quarreling over a valuable alchemical refinery—a refinery that might just have what they need to refuel their thopter and make their escape. With an audacious plan to dupe the enemy mercs and snag the fuel, the venturesome team finds themselves caught in an all-out slugfest between sorcerous armies, elemental constructs, and juggernaut war machines. As their well-laid plans spiral into a free-for-all firefight through the heart of the perilous refinery, Davrick wonders at the wisdom of their dubious scheme. And was it really such a good idea to let a sell-spell sorcerer borrow the legendary Dragon Stone of Ethrasaur? Mercenary Siege is the second novella of the six-part Siege Chronicles.

In route to the last bastion of the Baronies of Ambricar, Davrick, Sid, and Talyaana fly headlong into the Grand Imperium’s blockade armada. When the last of the Baronial blockade runners go down in the sulfur shoals, they hasten to find survivors—and, with any luck, parts to repair their crippled ornithopter. But after rescuing a dashing captain and her crew from a fearsome enemy attack, they discover that all the blockade runners were decoys, save for one carrying a wondrous artifact vital to the war effort. With the artifact now in enemy hands, Davrick and the others must join the captain and her scrappy crew in a daring raid on the Imperium flagship—a colossal aircruiser commanded by the vile Tenebrean Order. Facing ranks of fanatical soldiers, sorcerous adversaries, and human-machine monstrosities, Davrick begins to question his foolhardy decision to help the dashing lady captain. Aircruiser Siege is the fourth novella of the six-part Siege Chronicles.

Having plundered a Kendes battle-train, liberated Harbrock, freed the prisoners of Cairagdun, and defeated the Imperium’s blockade fleet, Davrick, Sid, and Talyaana finally have a chance to catch their breath. But no sooner have they settled into their new digs than they are attacked by a coterie of vampire assassins searching for the Dragon Stone of Ethrasaur. Teaming up with the mage Athanneus and his Eldren assistant, they quickly unearth a sinister plot to awaken an unspeakable evil from a long-lost citadel-temple. Enlisting aid from Captain Naela and her daring crew, the team sets off for the Carsovian Mountains aboard the ship Skyjammer to thwart the Tenebrean Order’s twisted bid for world domination. Beset by vampire commandos, elite Vrholv troops, and brutish mercenaries, Davrick can only hope they’re not too late to foil the enemy’s diabolical plot. Blood Mountain Siege is the fifth novella of the six-part Siege Chronicles.