Books published by publisher Vanguard press

Emily, Kara, Adriane and their animal friends must retrieve the last remaining power crystals and assemble the mysterious puzzle that will open the gates to the home of all magic, Avalon. With time running out, each mage goes after a crystal unaware that the final pieces of the puzzle contain dangerous, dark magic. In order to use these crystals, each mage will have to bond with dark magic and face their deepest fears. Can the mages overcome the dark magic or will they turn to the darkness like their evil enemies the Dark Sorceress and the Spider Witch? The fate of Avalon now lies in the hands of the Dark Mage.

Eat, or be eaten. That is the world Yin lives in. Yet, despite her circumstances, Yin is a kind person - if a little restless. When, in a day, her kindness makes way for anger and she kills to protect something that belongs to her, the veneer of her small town life falls away, and her world is exposed as a lie. In one moment, her biggest dream becomes her worst nightmare, and her only family becomes a complete stranger. Yin is thrust into a world of magical creatures and complicated clans where everyone she meets is either trying to kill her, or convince her of a different and more bizarre truth.Not only does she have to decide who she wants to believe, but also who she wants to be. Join Yin on her journey to discover her truth in the fantastical The Lady of the Desert: book one of The Chronicles of Yutae series, where she discovers that family does not need blood, but that blood can change everything.

Charlie Daniels is more than six feet tall, allergic to almost everything, and has a pet dinosaur at home. His life in Arizona is relatively normal. That is, apart from the nightmares Charlie has...But when his dinosaur, Trike, gets kidnapped by a strange old lady and her cat-like sidekick, Charlie and his misfit friend Arty are sucked into a story bigger than both of them. Risking everything to rescue Trike, Charlie and Arty are flung into the past, landing in the chaos of New York City, 1865.Dodging the mysterious Nasten Cobblestine, and avoiding the perils of New York's nastiest street cleaners' strikes, test Charlie's wits as well as his courage. All he wants to do is reunite with his dinosaur and somehow find a way back home...As Charlie searches for Trike, he draws dangerously close to P.T. Barnum's eerie museum and the creature that lies within. Will he find Trike and get home alive? And who is the Ice Lady of his nightmares?

When Cassie falls head over heels in love with Daniel, she knows it will lead to disaster one day. Although she loves him with all her being, there is one problem...her being is not of the Earth, but of somewhere far more sinister. You see Cassie, otherwise known as Regan, is quite literally the Devil's daughter and that could spell the end for not only Daniel, but the whole human race.

Jenny never felt at home anywhere. Not at her house, not at school...Not even in her own mind.However, one fateful night she wakes with a jolt, surprised to find herself in the bathroom, with every part of her warning her to get out of there.But the human mind is cursed with curiosity, and Jenny stays for one second too long. Jenny is dragged into what she hopes to be a bad dream, but is in fact a new reality she wants no part of. A new reality where she has to adapt fast, or she'll die.Or maybe the people with all the secrets will just kill her instead? Shadows and Fire is a book where the unimaginable suddenly becomes possible. Where two opposites, magic and science, walk hand in hand.Is magic just a construct of the human mind, or is it perhaps a suppressed reality, ready to be revealed?But be careful, the human mind can only handle so much truth. When the veil of lies which surrounds us dissolves, we are forced to look at ourselves, and we might not like what we see.

Having moved from London and her old school, Trixie finds herself starting afresh. New town. New school. That'd be difficult for most of us at the best of times. But when you're someone with unique abilities, like Trixie, it's much harder. Especially if you don't want to be the weird girl, the one who is able to see and talk to the dead. How do you cope with that and still make friends? Luckily, for the first time in her life, Trixie bags herself a fun group of friends and maybe even a love interest or two (if you can count a ghost). All seems good until the murders start. At first, seemingly random. Until Trixie begins to see a connection between the murders and an ancient book of spells. Can she and her friends figure out who is killing these innocent girls?

The world's greatest heroic fantasy artist, Frank Frazetta teams with J. David Spurlock, the bestselling author of How to Draw Chiller Monsters Werewolves, Vampires and Zombies for the all-new art collection entitled, The Frazetta Sketchbook. In the revolutionary artist's extensive, May 10, 2010 obituary, The New York Times said, "Frazetta helped define fantasy heroes like Conan, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars with signature images of strikingly fierce, hard-bodied heroes and bosomy, callipygian damsels" Frazetta took the sex and violence of the pulp fiction of his youth and added even more action, fantasy and potentcy, but rendered his works with a panache seldom seen outside of Fine Art. Despite his sword-and-sorcery, science-fiction and fantasy subject matter, the quality of the work has not only drawn comparisons to the most brilliant of illustrators, Maxfield Parrish, Frederic Remington, Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, J. Allen St.John, and Joseph Clement Coll but even to the most brilliant of fine artists including Rembrandt and Michelangelo and major Frazetta works sell for over $1,000,000. The November 24, 2003 Forbes magazine article Schwarzenegger's Sargent led with the line, "Which artist helped make Arnold governor? Frank Frazetta, the Rembrandt of barbarians." Vanguard created the comics and fantasy artist sketchbook boom with editions on Al Williamson, Neal Adams, Wally Wood, Jeffrey Jones, John Buscema, John Romita and Alex Horley. Vanguard continues both their original sketchbook series and the Vanguard Frazetta Classics series with The Frazetta Sketchbook which was planned shortly before the icon of fantastic art's passing. The collection is brimming with rare and previously unpublished drawings and painting preliminaries of the subjects Frazetta is best remembered for including barbarians, wild beasts, Tarzan, buxom beauties, monsters and Conan.

Charlie Daniels is more than six feet tall, allergic to almost everything, and has a pet dinosaur at home. His life in Arizona is relatively normal. That is, apart from the nightmares Charlie has... But when his dinosaur, Trike, gets kidnapped by a strange old lady and her cat-like sidekick, Charlie and his misfit friend Arty are sucked into a story bigger than both of them. Risking everything to rescue Trike, Charlie and Arty are flung into the past, landing in the chaos of New York City, 1865. Dodging the mysterious Nasten Cobblestine, and avoiding the perils of New York's nastiest street cleaners' strikes, test Charlie's wits as well as his courage. All he wants to do is reunite with his dinosaur and somehow find a way back home... As Charlie searches for Trike, he draws dangerously close to P.T. Barnum's eerie museum and the creature that lies within. Will he find Trike and get home alive? And who is the Ice Lady of his nightmares?