Books with author Adam J. Williams

When death awakens there is nowhere one can hide.Kealin’s blades still reek from the blood of Vakron-Tur. He defeated the dark wizard but lost his elder brother.The god of death’s voice resonates in his mind and he struggles to control what little of himself that remains. He is close to reaching his sister but with so much lost already, he wonders what end will come from his quest.Journeying south with his companions, he meets Veora, a beautiful but sadistic necromancer. As an acolyte of the Five and a student from the High Sanctum of magic, she agrees to lead them to her masters. But while this practitioner of death magic knows what Kealin seeks, he senses a presence about her. Something she is hiding. When it comes to magic, is death no more than another path to life or a shadow of a darker and consuming evil?Many fans of fast-paced sword and sorcery and fantasy adventure, have loved the first three books in the Half-Elf Chronicles by J.T Williams. Do not miss Necromancer’s Curse, the fourth book in the series!

"Epic Fantasy at its best!" ★★★★★ "The battles, the magic, the looming threat of the coming darkness ... this one gave me an almost Mistborn/Six of Crows feel"★★★★★ "...Three epic books. Three times the awesomeness.★★★★★ How far will a wayward Ranger go to save his only son? Fadis the Ranger once served an evil king. Then he rebelled, ran, and lost everything he fought for in fire and blood... except his son. Hiding him with the elves he believed he could eventually return to be what he never was but he didn't expect the world he'd return to.When a chance encounter with a deadly rogue, her father, and a sickened dwarf that no magic can heal further spur Fadis towards the safety of elven lands, they find the way shut. Darkness is upon the woodland realm. Soon the Ranger is separated from his other companions, discovering a disastrous plot that threatens the Western lands and his lost son's home.Elves, dwarves, and men are about to clash in a bloody war but it is from the twilight realm of shadows that their true enemy awakens. Fadis must gain the trust of the very elves who may be the only ones able to stop this tragedy... but will his son even care he has returned after so long?Grab this boxset special edition of the Ranger's Revenge ebooks and get ready for an explosive ride of archery, magic, assassins, and the harrowing battles of the Stormborn Saga world!*These titles are written as a standalone and can be read even if you have not read the first three Stormborn books*

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.

A crown for a crown upon bloodstained ground.In the ashes of the attack upon the elven woodlands, the elf-king is dead. Now, the crew of the Aela Sunrise prepares to carry out an assassination against the King of Taria. Fadis and the Leaves of Saelmark have an impossible task, and it relies firmly on Kirla, the once mistress now turned rogue, and her very particular skill set.At the same time, Evurn and Aeveam race to secure the lost city of the vampires with a host of elves and rangers before the rise of the Black Moon. The armies of the west are gathering but the cunning Vampire Lords have fought elves once before and what truly awaits them is a horror unlike any they have faced in the ages of the world.The West tumbles towards its own destruction but can a few brave souls prevent the cataclysm?

Love knows no bounds.Two rival thieves guilds fight for control over a holy scroll of magic. For Millia, the leader of one of the guilds, this is her last chance to secure a life for her and her love. When a deadly attack sends them fleeing for their lives, they hold on to their hope in one another... Millia just has to get to the coast. But when a genie appears demanding the scroll and she refuses, he casts a spell on them.Waking in a world torn asunder, Millia and her love must escape the island before its imminent destruction but their old enemy has been hunting them and their escape will not be as easy as the hope.*This story can be read before or after any other story in this series*

Every plan has fallen apart. The Blood grasps the Shadowlands. Can any defeat the Great Seer?More importantly, can they stand against what she creates?Kealin can no longer be in the sunlight. Weakned and broken, he embraces the guidance of a Vampire Lord and has gained a new furry companion with a penchant for a magic he's never seen. If he is to help the others, he must learn to control his new powers but the goblins swarming his new master's lands will complicate that and his Master has his own secrets...Aeveam has been bitten. In the blackness if the land beneath Mandurlaku, her only hope is in an anxious half-elf that at least is good with a bow. But how long does she have until she becomes like Kealin?Evurn and Elie are sailing for Eliadel. Evurn is done hiding. If any will openly face the Great Seer and her thralls, it is a few brave shadow elves and their blades. But even this old wizard wonders of what awaits them.With so many working against them in the already precarious Shadowlands, how can they all possibly defy the odds and piece together the shambles that is the old Empire of the Shadow Elves?Scroll up and pre-order what will be an explosive second book in the Twilight of the Lich trilogy!

A father’s love knows no boundaries. Especially, this father's.Fadis the Ranger left his young son with the elves many years ago. Once his enemy, they were his son's only chance then. Now, a changed man himself as part of a crew under a sacred descendant, he returns to seek out the one surviving member of his family. But the lands are more perilous than they were when he left and son doesn't even know him.When a chance encounter with a deadly rogue, her father, and a sickened dwarf that no magic can heal further spur them towards the safety of elven lands, they find the way shut. Darkness is upon the woodland realm. The elves have locked their borders to most travellers. While part of the crew is granted passage, old prejudices remain. Fadis, and the shadow elf, Evurn, are denied entry.Separated from the others, Fadis and Evurn discover a disastrous plot that threatens the Western lands. Elves, dwarves, and men are about to clash but it is from the twilight realm of shadows their true enemy awakens. Fadis and Evurn must warn their friends and the elves who may be the only ones able to stop this tragedy... but who will believe them?Return to the Aela Sunrise and the adventure of the Stormborn Saga, set before the events of the bestselling Half-Elf Chronicles and Rogues of Magic books!

They seek assassins but they'll find something worse. Fadis and the crew of the Aela Sunrise travel to the island of Aieclo seeking the Verit Gamblers, a nefarious guild of shadow elves. These mysterious warriors have helped the crew in the past but only a few nights ago they killed an elven king. Their only allegiance is to gold but paying for these assassins is the easy part of this quest. Aielco is a ruined island, once the haven of the infamous Scourge Siren, the island has become an unstable volcanic wasteland with many strange inhabitants and secrets. When a beloved companion goes missing, it's up to Fadis and Kirla to find their wayward friend. But a few arrows and some crafty parries might not be enough. An ancient evil grips the land and what before was thought destroyed has been festering and waiting... it will take more than a ranger to stop the rebirth of a demon. But tell that to Fadis...

An ancient enemy, a broken creed, and two men with no more gold for ale...The war is over. Two veteran rangers wishing to drown their memories and curse the king that caused the bloodshed of so many of their brothers are a step away from living on the streets. After countless nights in the same smoke-filled tavern, a mysterious old man arrives at midnight with an offer the rangers can't possibly refuse. But what is supposed to be an easy task for extra gold will quickly reveal a dark plot with immortal consequences that neither of the rangers could ever expect. Good thing they’re good with their bows...

"It is said that Darkness is empty and whatever vanishes into its depths is lost forever. I know this better than anyone. For I have suffered here in the shadows, and there are none who might find me.”Seventy years. Seventy years the elven prince has been lost to the darkness, assumed dead by his people and endlessly broken for a book that connects to the hidden realm of his ancestors, a land untouched by evil.And now a light in the shadows. A chance for freedom. But those willing to help him come from the unlikeliest of worlds.The orphan girl, yearning for a loving family, and the boy who won’t leave her side. A healer maiden given an unexpected chance for a life beyond narrowed expectations. A grieving creature flown far from home.They all search for something and now their fates are tied to his. If their quest for life can pull him from the dark mire in which his soul drowns, then perhaps he can be saved.Or else he will drag them all down to a fate worse than death.The beginning of an epic saga, MOONSCRIPT is a journey of innocence, despair, and redemption.

The classic children's story grows up in this tale of discovery. If you've only seen the movie and never read the books, you've missed a lot.Jacob is a drag queen from Ohio dressed as Dorothy Gale and getting ready for a show when a twister picks up his apartment and transports him into the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.Jacob decides to go along with what has happened and continues to pretend to be Dorothy to play his role of a lifetime. This is made easy because the people of Oz take everything at face value. But Oz is not quite like Jacob remembers.The longer he stays in the land of Oz, the more he gets confused with fiction and reality, with his role and his true self.

Trusting a stranger has its advantages.Valrin and his crew are captured. On an mysterious island, still locked in a dark cell underground, Valrin must work with a young female Dragonrider who has lost her dragon. A dragon Valrin believes is the only way they'll be able to break out the rest of his crew...But this island is not just sacred ground to the Cult of Marog but yet a ruin of an old warlock, feared by the local villagers who believe their own horrid death is upon them. As a lone volcano rumbles to life signaling the imminent destruction of the Island a deeper origin to a vile evil is hidden in the the dense jungles. The very jungles that Valrin must enter if he hopes to save his crew.The workings of the Clockmaster tick closer to a coming darkness and no one will be able to stop what is brooding within the inferno beneath the island...Not even a goddess.