Bøker av Justin Bohardt

The Grand Duchy of Miraval is a small, picturesque country of great snow-capped mountains, rich alluvial valleys and plains, and grandiose sections of woods and waterlands strategically located between the world's two great powers. The past two decades have seen Miraval forced to go to war twice with the Dominion, their belligerent, saber-rattling neighbor to the north. Miraval ceded territory to the Dominion in each of those wars to earn an uneasy peace, but most Miravallians knew that the Dommies were just biding their time. The Dominion would come for the entire country sooner or later and every citizen would be called upon to fight.Raslan Dagenham, better known as Dag, was a simple hunter and an incredible shot who cared nothing for what went on in the world beyond his town of Harren Falls in the rocky, forested hills of the Crest. Since his father died fighting the Dominion in the Great Strife, his only interest had been seeing to the survival of his siblings and mother. The return of his brother Aleksian from university, bearing news that the rumors of an impending Dominion invasion are likely true, coincides with news that several northern cities have fallen to a Dominion advance of tanks and airships.Under cover of darkness, an advanced Dominion force launches a surprise assault on the Dagenham's home town, bringing a distant war into the brothers' back yard. Spurred on by Aleksian's patriotism and his own desire to protect his home, Dag picks up his rifle in defense of Miraval and goes to war. Allied with his brother Aleksian, a few National Guardsmen, a couple of constables, and a ragtag group of volunteers, Dag will make a stand to save his hometown and possibly his country.

With a series of murder mysteries solved, a potential war between noble houses averted, and a vile group of necromancers put to the sword, the King's Justice Everton Ward has little time to rest on his laurels. The King of the walled city-state of Havenhearth has been murdered, and Ward's friend Prince Xavier stands as the sole suspect. Blocked from the investigation by the encroaching forces of Pope Roland, who seems primed to claim the throne for himself, Ward must turn to his newest friends, Dalish investigator Pascal Vincennes and mage Androgast, to prove the prince's innocence. While war is threatened between royalist houses and those supporting the church, Ward, Vincennes, and Androgast must decipher a conspiracy that runs far deeper than a simple case of regicide. An incomprehensible power sits at the center of a spider's web of machinations, and the three men must unravel it all before Havenhearth is destroyed.

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For hundreds of years, the sprawling city of Havenhearth has endured, one of the last remaining bastions of humanity to survive a forgotten cataclysm. Amidst the political intrigue, religious zealotry, and the practice of dubious magical arts, Havenhearth is not immune to crimes which supersede the investigatory prowess of the local constables. For those mysteries, a more discerning approach is required, usually in the form of Everton Ward, the King's Justice, a bullish investigator and occasional executioner. However, when the body of a minor Dalish lord is found butchered and partially eaten in the wilds of Acredale, Ward finds himself with no shortage of questions and suspects while at odds with two investigators foisted upon him by the Dalish lords: a loudmouth battlemage by the name of Androgast, and a cryptic nobleman named Pascal Vincennes. While managing to provoke Ward's wrath at every conceivable moment, Vincennes begins to tug away at the loose threads of a sinister conspiracy, one that will shake the very foundations of Havenhearth.

Kept in an abandoned nuclear silo by his paranoid uncle, Huxley Vanden Bosch has grown up without any contact with the outside world, and only his uncle's collection of 90s era movies and games to keep him company. Years of isolation though are nothing compared to the nightmares Huxley has confronted in the sublevels underneath his home. Now, a massive scientific research company has built a town above the missile silo, forcing the modern world into Huxley's life, and bringing with it school bullies, a slew of twenty-first century, geeky, sci-fi pop culture, and an actual honest-to-goodness friend in the form of a diminutive fellow nerd named Mason Driver. Huxley will slowly reveal to his new friend what lurks in the depths of the missile silo. Together, he and Mason will come face to face with new terrors, both from the madness within the silo and a desperate, power-hungry goliath on the surface.

Cary Keion is a detective who craves the puzzle, all the little pieces falling into place like notes in a melody. This desperate desire to create some sort of order out of the chaos comes not from a love of the work, from a keen need for justice justice, or to prove his own intelligence. The puzzles simply silence the memories in his mind, even for a short while. When a wealthy heiress dies from a bizarre allergic reaction, Cary is approached by the victim's sister to prove the apparent accident was murder. And that the victim's social climbing husband is the perpetrator. Intrigued by the idea that a death so clearly the result of a medical accident could be murder, Cary accepts the case and starts to dig. Suddenly, suspects are numerous, bullets are flying and murder becomes the only thing Cary is certain of.

What Monsters Lurk in a Child's Dream? Vincent Green is no ordinary nine-year-old. Every time he closes his eyes, Vincent runs the risk that his nightmares will invade reality when he wakes up, trapping him and his family in a waking nightmare only they can see. The curse has already taken his parents, manifesting nightmare pirates to abduct his mom and dad. Every guardian he has stayed with since has had their home destroyed by aliens, dragons, or giants- although Vincent and his brother Fawkes somehow always bear the blame for the chaos and destruction left in the nightmare's wake. As Vincent and Fawkes begin their stay with their last living relative, their grandfather Bill, the precautions they take to prevent waking nightmares fails. Zombies cross over from Vincent's mind, intent on destroying his family and capturing him. Now, the only things standing between Vincent and his greatest fears are his athletic older brother, his historian grandfather, and two pugs, one of whom is a coward... And his own courage, if he can find it.

Gaius Julius Mahler is a thirty year old bipolar pianist who exists in three states: Mania- when he is possessed of enough energy to stay awake for five straight days, playing piano, getting high, and finding unprotected sex in any location he can get it; Depression- where he wallows in his old familiar friend pathos and allows himself to be weighed down by his parents' suicides, the miseries of his own failings, and the iniquities done unto him; and the Middle- that purgatory known as Des Moines where he is capable enough of function, but is buried under enough phobias and anxieties to leave him socially crippled. His roommate is the ghost of Ludwig van Beethoven, and he is quite aware that it is a hallucination, but he finds Ludwig's presence rather comforting even though the composer is often quite annoying.Gaius is currently in the middle, waiting to see which direction the conductor will send him next: an accellerando to mania or a diminuendo to depression, when his few friends give him an odd impetus to head out and socialize. Certain that any societal contact will send him spiraling into a depression (and seeing nothing wrong with that- the middle can be awfully tiresome), he instead meets a girl named Lenore and goes on a manic trip through a night of zombie waiters, sentient hamburgers, stormtroopers in ambulances, shifts in planetary gravity, Papageno from Mozart's The Magic Flute, and the moon, which he stole from the night sky.

Welcome to the Maddest Madness Yet. For the first time, all three movements of Manic Sonata are available in one convenient package. Join bipolar pianist Gaius Mahler and his hallucinated best friend Ludwig van Beethoven as they find themselves caught up in an increasingly insane series of anxiety-riddled and possibly hallucinated adventures and a love story so epic, it can only be described as crazy.

Love is Always Sane.Gaius Mahler is coming down from his most recent manic episode after finding the love of his life, Lenore, in an insane asylum, yet depression lurks around every corner as his well-medicated mind is startling to comprehend the impossibility of being in love with someone crazier than him. Further complicating his efforts to free his lady fair from the men in white coats are the Armenian mafia who have their own reasons for keeping Gaius away from Lenore, a harpsichord tutor who incomprehensibly enjoys the music of Ottorino Respighi, his brain's insistence on providing incredibly lucid hallucinations, and the author of his story, who keeps inexplicably breaking the fourth wall.As Gaius discovers, there is nothing like the fear of death to put an end to suicidal tendencies, nothing worse than reality in the face of hallucinations, and when dealing with Armenian gangsters, it is best to have a healthy knowledge of Khachaturian.

What Profit is There in Saving the World?A professional hired soldier who bears the scars and cynicism of his trade, Geraghty Milliner has love for few things in the world: a bottle to numb the pain, a lady to make him feel alive, and the gold that can buy both. After his most recent business venture lands him in prison, Geragthy sees potential profit in helping a lord's wayward mistress named Chiara escape from her cell. Once sprung from jail by his partner-in-crime Vrodath, they escort Chiara to the sprawling city of Aethene to collect a reward large enough to keep them in riches for a lifetime.However, when beasts from a forgotten realm, demonic creations of overthrown gods, are sent pouring forth from a tear in the fabric of reality, the length of a lifetime threatens to grow perilously short, and Geraghty plans to do the only sensible thing available: get the hell out of there. Not immune to making some gold even amidst an apocalypse, he agrees to escort Chiara, her noble lover, and Princess Emilia, seventh in line to the throne of Palladia and a powerful wielder of magic, out of the city even as they are hounded by every beast freed from perdition.What Geraghty does not know is that an ancient enemy of the free peoples of Geoserra, one thought defeated millennia ago, has reawakened, and it is Princess Emilia alone who can assure its destruction. Geraghty will need to make the choice between saving himself and saving the world, and the right choice seems obvious. What profit is there in saving the world?

Pain. Grief. Sacrifice. Honor. Necessity. Love. Every suicide has its reason. Every suicide has its story.In this poetry collection, Justin Bohardt explores the reasons and the rationales, the pathos and the suffering, the rituals and the rites, and the necessity and the love that goes into one making a decision to end their own existence.

For Dag and Alex Dagenham and their ragtag group of partisans, militia volunteers and National Guardsman, the defeat of the Dominion forces invading their homeland was but a small victory compared to the crushing defeats suffered by the hopelessly outmatched Grand Duchy of Miraval. Nearly a third of their country has fallen to the military onslaught of the mighty Dominion, and the mountainous woodlands know as the Crest, the Dagenham brothers' home, is now cut off from the rest of Miraval.The Dominion military, incensed at even a single defeat at the hands of a group of peasants, hunters and farmers, knows that resistance in the Crest must be eliminated before they can advance their army further into Miraval. A massive column of Dommie infantry and tanks, supported by newly designed steel-hulled airships, is being sent into the Crest from Dominion-occupied Miraval to quash the insurrection once and for all.Trapped behind enemy lines, the brothers Dagenham must scramble to prepare another defense of their home against a massive force that will not underestimate them again.

Out of the Straight Jacket and into the Asylum Gaius Mahler has never been more certain of his sanity. His pet hallucination, the ghost of composer Ludwig van Beethoven, is not entirely convinced. It does not help that the love of his life is confined to an insane asylum.Lenore Comte is locked away in more than a madhouse, more than the dozens of medications her doctors force her to take. She is trapped away with something far more violent and base, something she might even dare to call crazier: her own mind.As Lenore plots her next escape from the asylum to be with the love of her life, Gaius is desperately trying to find a way to free her, a way to exorcise the demons that torment her, and a way to make her feel as normal as he does.As with most things, however; normal is relative.

The Savant and the Orphan Jason Hartline and Michael Washington are as disparate a pair of friends as one is likely to find. A dedicated cynic and militant atheist, Jason is a scientific prodigy and an evident genius from an early age, who never fit in with anyone else throughout the course of his life. Michael, on the other hand, is a man of unshakeable faith, born from childhood tragedies which left him an orphan and, to some extent, an addict. Nothing about their friendship should work; and at times, it does not. Yet, when Jason makes a scientific discovery which will change the very nature of everything humanity believes, Michael and Jason will discover just how important each other's beliefs are to their own salvation.

As the history books teach us...1945. A trio of superheroes known as the Triumvirate have revealed themselves to the world. These people with powers only previously heard of in comic books- the ability to fly, superhuman strength and speed, and mastery of the elements- helped the United States to win World War II. With the blessing of the U.S. government and financially backed by the military-industrial giant CPI Corporation, the Triumvirate became fighters of crime and communism in equal parts while championing American values.1990. For the first time ever, new humans develop super-powers and an entire generation of meta-humans joins forces with the Triumvirate to form Operation Scimitar. While not nearly as powerful as the seemingly eternal members of the Triumvirate, these new heroes became the front line soldiers in a war against the supervillains who have replaced the Red Menace as the greatest threat to the American way of life. 2014: Gwendolyn Beckett was merely doing her patriotic duty, submitting herself to testing and training at CPI's Operation Scimitar Headquarters after her extraordinary power to melt metals with her mind manifested itself. That was the last thing she remembered, before she awoke bound and hooded, listening to a roaring crowd that is waiting to see her fight a fellow meta-human to the death in a gladiatorial arena. As Gwen battles to stay alive, a splinter faction within the U.S. government, led by a cryptic meta-human who calls himself Seether, is plotting her rescue because they believe that a secret is locked away in her mind. That secret could overturn everything that people thought they knew about meta-humans, could bring crimes to light that have gone long unpunished, and could shed light on a conspiracy millennia in the making. More importantly to Seether, that secret could answer the one question that has plagued him since he woke up off the coast of Nagasaki in 1945 with no memory and powers similar to the members of the Triumvirate: what the hell is he?

Robert Cotton is 99 years old and lying on his deathbed, his breath coming to him in ragged gasps. Decades ago, during the Second World War, he was a warrior battling a great evil. Never in a million years would he have guessed that he would be called on to fight the darkness once more. Certainly not after he drew his final breath. Now on the battlefield of Aetherium, he will face true evil once more with more than just humanity at stake.

How Do You Kill What Is Already Dead? Geraghty Milliner, mercenary and professional thief, finds himself in a place he has never before been: wallowing in self-pity. Unable to avenge the princess whom he failed to protect; unable to forgive himself for her loss; unable to derive enjoyment from his favorite vices- whoremongering, drinking, altering his brain's chemistry through a variety of illicit substances, and whoremongering; Geraghty is approaching the end of his rope. He finds himself dragged into a new job by Isolde, an old friend and frequent lover, in repayment for a favor owed. The job: break into one of the most secure palaces in the most fortified city in Geoserra and slit the throat of a mage who murdered Isolde's fiancé. Isolde believes that Geraghty will find avenging her loss an adequate substitute for the revenge he cannot claim, but he very much doubts that. Still, he owes Isolde a favor, and- not counting the barkeep- Geraghty always pays his debts.

This collection of poetry from Justin Bohardt is actually the combination of two separate collections that had previously been released exclusively as E-books under the titles Solar Tempests and We're All Gaijin on Mars. Although stylistically quite different, the two collections both reflect the same genre of speculative poetry- works in the science-fiction, fantasy and (occasionally) horror categories.

Jack Blanchard is just another self-pitying soul, drifting through life, not especially miserable, not especially content. Riddled by anxieties, he leads a solitary lifestyle, claiming a kind of self-deluded satisfaction with his station while presuming no one can tolerate him. Now, however, he is facing the most terrifying prospect of his life: a destination wedding where he knows almost no one while being absolutely confident no one wants him there. The destination: the quaint college town of Williamsburg where Jack attended university and the only place he actually felt at peace with the world Very quickly, Jack will start to find his world view challenged thanks to a chance encounter with a fellow guest at the wedding: a striking, acerbic, and witty sister of the bride named Jessica. Surprisingly, Jessica tolerates Jack's presence sometimes. Unsurprisingly, she is engaged and dismisses most of his life philosophy as utter nonsense. A fascinating woman with a strange appreciation for Carl Jung, Jessica compels Jack to serve as a kind of tour guide while she explores every aspect of the town and ignores the fact that Jack is falling for her.