James N Vernon

A glimpse into the lives of magic users in the Three Moons Realm. These five short stories follow a variety of characters that reside in the Three Moons Realm or the Abyss, a connected world created by one of the gods of the realm. Each story is a small look at the lives, locations, cultures, and ...

Book One of a Two Part Story Arc and the First in a Series Ven Khilada is a land of magic and gods. Settlements abound, both large and small, each with a life of their own and hidden secrets. Except Rottwealth. A backwater village, surrounded by mountains and ignored by most, nothing of merit ever...

Hunger is as old as history itself. Indeed, it appears to be a timeless and inescapable biological condition. And yet perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. Hunger has a history, which can now be told. At the beginning of the nineteenth ce...

Esmerelda Ciantar was the eldest child of the most powerful of the Hawkpurse families. Her family's history could be traced back before the Plague and could have been the very first Hawkpurse family in existence. Trained from an early age to eventually take over the family business, Ezzy spent the f...

What does it mean to live in the modern world? How different is that world from those that preceded it, and when did we become modern? In Distant Strangers, James Vernon argues that the world was made modern not by revolution, industrialization, or the Enlightenment. Instead, he shows how in Brita...

Book Two of a Two Part Story Arc and the Second in the Series Ean Sangrave’s friends are gone. At least, his human ones are. Zin, as always, is by his side. Years of advice and getting Ean out of trouble has earned him the title of Ean’s closest friend, Joining them now is Azalea the Yulari, anot...