Richard A Bamberg
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Wanderers: Ragnarök​
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Paperback: 360 pages
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ISBN-13: 978-1494477486
​Alone and friendless, the Wanderers, servants of Fate, maintain the balance between the supernatural world and mankind’s. For millennia the Wanderers protected that balance-but now a renegade Wanderer arises to open the doors between the Earth and our greatest nightmares. Years ago, Fate scavenged Rafe from the battlefields of Vietnam, handing him over to a mentor he barely knew before the rogue Wanderer slaughtered him. Skilled but only half-trained, Rafe tracks down a warning from a naiad in Alabama only to find a coven of witches probing deeper into dark magics than they ever intended. Rafe must stop the witches from destroying the already-fragile balance...but can he do it before the lovely young witch helping Rafe gets sacrificed for the greater good?
Wanderers 2: Apprentice
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Print Length: 354 pages
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ISBN-13: 978-1518822827
Rafe, the last of the nearly ageless Wanderers, survived the fight with the renegade Wanderer, Rowle, but was unable to defeat him. As promised, Fate finds Rafe an apprentice. He arrives at Wilford Hall expecting to find a seriously injured veteran, what he didn’t expect to find was a veteran missing a couple of limbs, who was female, the lovely Therese Sylvan. Regardless, his only way to convince her to leave with him is to heal her minor injuries and tell her that he can also restore her limbs.
Fleeing just ahead of the military police, they ride into the night on Beast, Rafe’s manticore possessed Harley-Davidson. While Tess recuperates, Rafe begins her training, a long process that is interrupted time and time again by Rowle’s machinations. Rafe knows he cannot defeat Rowle single-handedly, but can he train Tess fast enough to prevent the on-set of Ragnarök?
Wanderers 3: Garden of the Gods
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Paperback: 302 pages​
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ISBN-13: 978-1540302243
​The Wanderers have protected humankind for millennia against the forces of Darkness. Now, the last surviving Wanderer, Rafe Semmes, must again battle Rowle–the only Wanderer to ever go rogue and turn against his fellows–as Rowle attempts to kick-start Ragnarök, the battle foretold in Norse mythology as heralding the end of the world and doom for mankind and the gods themselves. Joining Rafe in his epic struggle to stop Rowle from opening a gateway to our world that would draw the old gods into the battle is the last Wanderer apprentice, Tess. Tess is a heroic young warrior fatally wounded on the battlefield in Afghanistan, saved in the moment of death by the Norse goddess of Destiny, Verðandi, so she may aid Rafe. Tess's training is far from complete, but the battle against Rowle won't wait. Together Rafe and Tess must overcome magical alliances and dark forces to turn back the hordes once again, or die trying.
The Hunters: Monster Hunting 101
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Paperback: 250 pages​
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ISBN-13: 978-0692572955
When Jesse's old girlfriend calls him requesting an immediate meeting late at night, he thinks of a lot of reasons she might have called. None of them are anywhere near the truth. Instead of a late night booty call, Gail brings him into a world he didn't know existed, ghouls, werewolves, and ghosts and they all seem to be after Jesse's blood. Gail wants Jesse to put a silver bullet in her heart to keep her from becoming the monster she hunts, but there's no way Jesse is going to kill the girl he once loved. He convinces her to let him restrain her for the full moon. Luckily, a local Adult Intimacies store has all the bondage gear he needs.
Now he just has to fight off a pack of werewolves single-handedly while keeping her from ripping his own throat out.
Sex, guns, and werewolves, what could go wrong?
Doors Without End
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Paperback: 354 pages
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ISBN-13: 978-1495215254
When Robert Randall encounters a teenager during a blizzard, he quickly learns that her strangeness is only a foreshadowing of her impact on his life. Within minutes of meeting Kira, Robert is forced to kill, something he had sworn to never do again. With her pursuers hounding their every move, Robert must escort Kira through the endless doors that connect the universes. All the while trying to get back to Kira’s dimension and rescue her mother from her captors.
ANCIENT ENEMY
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Paperback: 264 pages
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ISBN-13: 978-0692560860
When Greta and her husband move back to Ash Grove, they learn that they are not the only newcomers to town. An Ancient Enemy of Greta's family has finally found them and is there to destroy the family once and for all. For a hundred years they had been safe and now even though most of the family no longer believes in the Ancient Enemy, he is there to prove them wrong. Through the dark of night death haunts the Barlow family, killing all. No one can run forever.
STREGA
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Paperback: 252 pages
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Publisher: Invisible College Press, LLC (October 31, 2004)
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ISBN-13: 978-1931468213
Deputy Sheriff, Quincey Morris, thought the low point of his week was the twilight shootout between Albuquerque's rival drug gangs, but he was wrong. All of Quincey's training could not prepare him for the confrontation with the vengeful Morgan Stregocia. She has devoted herself to hunting down the descendants of Van Helsing's original "vampire slayers" who destroyed the legendary Dracula more than a century ago. Quincey must save himself and his family from the evil seductress and prevent her from using his great-grandfather's Bowie knife to spill innocent blood in an attempt at reviving the long dead Prince of Darkness.
THE PHOENIX EGG
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Paperback: 384 pages
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Publisher: Invisible College Press, LLC (July 1, 2003)
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ISBN-13: 978-1931468152
A science fiction mystery/thriller set in the immediate future.
The first time they tried to kill her she went to the police. The second time she knew better.
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Caitlin Maxwell is on the run. They killed her husband and now they are after her. Alone and desperate, she turns to John Blalock, the one man from her past she knows she can trust. John risked his own life to save her once. Would he - could he - help her outwit and outrun her pursuers long enough for her to unravel the secret behind The Phoenix Egg?
Phoenix (phoe·nix): from Greek phoinix: a legendary bird which lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period. The Phoenix symbolizes immortality, resurrection and life after death.
The Phoenix Egg - an impossibility; something that cannot exist.
Wanderers 4: A Tough Act to Follow
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Paperback: 314 pages​
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ISBN-13: 978-1979307826
If Ragnarök has been prevented and Rowle slain, then why are the Wanderers Raphael and Therese under constant attack?
Can a Wanderer survive the loss of his magic?
Fate, the Norse Norn, Verðandi, informs Raphael that another Wanderer has been reaped and that he has another new apprentice to train.
If only that were as easy as it sounds.
The life of a Wanderer has never been without its hazards. However, now not only are their supernatural foes out for blood, but the government has cast its controlling eye on the Wanderers.
Raphael, Therese, and an old friend must locate the new apprentice and bring him under their protection before an old foe can stop them.
The fourth novel in The Wanderer series delves deeper into the worlds of the gods and into the history of the Wanderers and their duties as Fate's minions.