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Brock Deskins

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Brock Deskins was born in a small town located in Oregon. He served as an M1A1 tank crewman, dental specialist, and computer analyst in the army. His military career completed, he earned his degree in computer networking. Brock is now devoting his full time and limited attention span to writing.

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​The Sorcerer’s Ascension

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Fantasy

Torn from a life of comfort and luxury, his family destroyed by political intrigues and aspirations, a young boy must quickly grow into a man before the deadly streets of Southport devour him. Follow Azerick through a page-turning adventure that pits him against thieves, thugs, murderers, and men of power that will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

Azerick must fight just to survive, but for him survival is not enough. A hunger to avenge the wrongs committed against him burns deep within. But that is not all that lies within the young man. There is a power waiting to be unleashed that may be the key to achieving the justice and security he seeks...if it does not destroy him first.
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The Sorcerer’s Torment

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Fantasy

Forced to flee The Academy after accidentally killing another student, Azerick sets sail to start a new life and a new home from where he can continue to grow in power so that he may avenge his father's murder.

However, the fates have not finished with the young sorcerer. After several days at sea, a massive storm blows his ship into the clutches of a terrifying creature with the power to control the minds of others and enslave them to its will. Azerick becomes the pawn of this creature but what happens when an irresistible force meets an indomitable will?
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The Sorcerer’s Legacy

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Fantasy

Azerick has found himself a home and tries to settle down. He takes on an apprentice and tries to put all the death and desire for vengeance behind him. But when the Rook finds him, Azerick is once again pulled back into Ulric's schemes. Azerick decides to put an end to it, once and for all.

Azerick strives to create something other than a legacy of death and pain. As he tries to create a home for himself and his new apprentice, he must deal with the stern Duchess of North Haven as he continually clashes with the city's elite. Duke Ulric terrorizes the land with a secret group of mercenaries to destabilize King Jarvin's rule and prop himself up as a protector of the people as he publicly drives the invaders off in a series of mock battles.
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​The Sorcerer’s Vengeance

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Azerick thought he had finally found peace and purpose beyond seeking vengeance against those he held responsible by creating a school of learning, magic, and trades for the less fortunate. That dream came to an end when an assassin tried to murder him in his sleep. Knowing that he will never be free and his friends and students will never be safe until he puts an end to the schemes and machinations of evil and power-hungry men. No man and no army, not even a journey to the very bowels of the abyss will keep him from his vengeance.
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​The Sorcerer’s Scourge

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King Jarvin is in exile and his only hope is for Azerick and his wizard friends, along with a small army out of North Haven, to ride to the rescue. But the traitor and his vastly superior forces are not the greatest threat to the kingdom. Far to the north, a lich of extraordinary power has been gathering dark energy for years and is nearly ready to release it upon the living. Back home, Azerick's apprentice finds herself in so much trouble she may single-handedly reignite the war between Valaria and their southern neighbor.
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​The Sorcerer’s Abyss

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Fantasy

Now the master of the Fifth Circle of the abyss, Azerick is challenged by another demon lord for supremacy. Azerick must face this threat as well as his innermost demons, all the while searching for a way to escape his hellish prison. Ellyssa fears she is going insane as she is plagued by nightmares of her capture and enslavement. Deciding that the key to saving herself lies in the total destruction of the object of her fears, she embarks on a crusade to find and kill the slaver, Captain Jake, and eradicate the slave trade.

Ellyssa's nightmares and battles spill out onto the streets of North Haven and gain the attention of the Academy. Fearing Azerick's school is turning out rogue wizards, the Academy decides to hunt down and destroy the rogue and place the school within its control.
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The Sorcerer’s Return

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Azerick has come back from the abyss in order to try to unite all the races against the return of the old gods who seek to destroy them and enslave the few that survive the brutal purging. However, fighting ancient gods may be the least of his troubles as he battles to unite a fractured kingdom, save a brilliant son traveling a dark path, and hold together the splintered soul of his own humanity.
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​The Sorcerer’s Destiny

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Brutally purged of his demonic influence, Azerick continues the struggle of uniting the kingdom to face the coming of the Scions, ancient gods banished by the mortal races during the Great Revolution two thousand years ago. The fallen gods’ prison is crumbling, and Azerick is powerless to stop them from breaking free and enacting their cataclysmic vengeance upon the world.

The humans must ally with the other races in a final battle against impossible odds while their entire world crumbles to the ground and is trod beneath the feet of an unstoppable foe. How can they set aside their distrust of each other when they fear the very person trying to save them?
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The Miscreant

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Fantasy
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Garran Holt is a troubled young man. Unable to tolerate his self-destructive ways, his mother sells him into indentured servitude as part of a work crew building King Remiel’s new trade road. When mercenaries sent to disrupt the road’s construction attack his work camp, Garran discovers an inner power capable of turning him into a warrior of unparalleled ability.
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When the leader of his work crew recognizes Garran as being one of the transcended (a fighter able to slip into the swifter currents of time), he is trained as an agent, one of the kingdom’s elite spies. Crude, abrasive, and deeply committed to destroying himself with drugs, alcohol, and debauchery, Garran might be the kingdom’s only hope against falling to The Guild, the powerful trade cartel bent on becoming the true and undisputed power in the land.
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​The Agent

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The Guild rules the kingdom through their puppet monarch, and Garran must race to save the last living heir to the throne before the powerful syndicate's assassins complete their extermination of anyone who could oppose them. Garran and Prince Adam Altena struggle to find allies in hopes of rescuing Adam's sister, who was forced to marry the usurper in order to prevent even the thought of rebellion, and raise an army capable of defeating The Guild. With The Guild now in control of Anatolia's powerful army as well as their legion of mercenaries, their future is grim. How can a disreputable agent and a deposed prince convince their neighboring rulers to oppose The Guild, an organization that has had them cowed for decades?
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Shrouds of Darkness

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Urban Fantasy

Leo Malone is vampire, part-time PI, part-time hired muscle, and full-time jerk, but he is very good at what he does. Leo deals with problems with sharp, sarcastic remarks, unparalleled violence, and "bullet diplomacy". Leo signs on to a simple missing persons case, as simple as a missing werewolf can be, but when ravaged bodies begin to show up in streets of New York, Leo finds himself wrapped within the dark, shrouded folds of an ever-expanding conspiracy that threatens to expose the shadowy existence of both vampires and werewolves.

Shrouds of darkness is a page-turning action thriller that will have you tightly gripped in suspense, laughing hysterically at Leo's unfiltered behavior, and begging for more.
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Blood Conspiracy

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Urban Fantasy

I’ve spent the last year cleaning up the mess Percy left after his failed coup. It isn't glamorous, but it’s a job, and it pays well enough. Percy altered the Cure in a way to make it easier to create his little vampire army, but his new vampires have attitude problems and are worse at playing by the rules than I am, and they are the mess I’m trying to clean up. No biggie, I’m pretty good at that kind of housecleaning. The only problem is that someone called the cops on Percy’s little house party. Homeland security got hold of the new and improved Cure, made their own vampire anti-terrorist unit, and dropped them into freaking Yemen. Like most ill-conceived government projects, this one went bad real fast, and guess who has to fix it? Now I have to hunt down and kill these rogue vampires, take on the U.S. government, and destroy all evidence of our existence. And, oh yeah, there’s a freaking bomb in my head.
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Primacy of Darkness

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Urban Fantasy

Jack the Ripper, sadistic madman of old London, once thought long dead, has returned to New York in an effort to quench his thirst for blood and mayhem. When the city's vampire enclave finds itself insufficient to deal with a madman of Jack's caliber, Vincent, the enclave head, enlists Leo Malone to put the maniac down before he reveals the existence of vampires as he throws the city into the throes of chaos and terror. Leo soon finds that Jack is not the only monster with which he must contend. A ghost from his past has also seemingly crawled from its grave and seeks to put an end to him and the rest of his kind.
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Highlords of Phaer

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Born a slave, descended of kings, Jareen Velarius just wants to provide the best life he can for his family, but Eidolan is a realm that challenges even the most stalwart of souls. Caught between his masters and those brave or foolish enough to strike against them, Jareen struggles to reconcile his role as a dutiful slave with that of a man who desires to be free. His goal: to return his people to a life stolen by the highlords more than a millennium ago.
Auberon Victore, sorcerer, alchemist, son of a powerful overlord, and Jareen’s master, creates an alchemic compound he is certain will change the world; he just does not know how. Jareen sees it for the weapon that could break the sorcerers’ iron grasp wrapped around the necks of every lowborn in the empire. It will change the world, but not in the way his master desires.

Across the Tempest Sea, a mighty storm has raged for a thousand years, keeping a terrible, long-forgotten enemy at bay, an enemy whose cruelty knows no bounds. Only the perpetual storm and their fear of the sorcerer highlords keep the Necrophages from returning to Eidolan and cloaking the empire in death and darkness. But the tempest is waning, and the dissidents’ freedom may well come at the cost of their total destruction.
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Amelia: Battle for Ardentia

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Fantasy

This novella is about Amelia, a precocious, ten-year-old girl with a vivid imagination. In her alter-ego guise of a demigoddess warrior princess, she fights against a powerful demonic sorcerer named Romut and his horde of monsters in a never-ending series of battles to protect the people of her imaginary worlds. However, the true battle strikes closer to home when Amelia is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Now Amelia must fight not just the evil living in her imagination, but for her very life.

The idea for this story came to me after my sister was diagnosed with cancer. This book, while not about her, is for her and everyone who battles this vile evil. 20% of all proceeds go to the LUNGevity Foundation or other cancer institutes. Thank you for your support.
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​The Portal

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Fantasy

The Portal is a lighthearted yet adventurous tale suitable for young and old. Drew and his friends are your quintessential nerds until one night, in an effort to create the proper ambiance for the evening's role playing game, Drew accidentally opens a magical portal using a powerful spell from an ancient druidic tome and is pulled into another world. It is up to his friends and older brother to cross over and rescue him from the clutches of evil. Drew's natural tendency to fight authority soon shows his captors that they may have gotten more than they bargained for.
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