The Bard's Tale Books

When the Count's niece is kidnapped by elves, Kevin, a bard's apprentice, agrees to locate the young woman, unaware that she is not actually the Count's niece and that the elves are not actually elves

Evil forces and temptations threaten the welfare of Gawaine, a young human, and his master, Naitachal, a Dark Elf who had abandoned the sinister powers of necromancy to become the first elven Bard. Original.

Training under the Dark Elf Naitachal, Prince Alaire is sent on a diplomatic mission to discover why a once-peaceful neighboring kingdom, whose ruler has banned the use of magic, is preparing to go to war. Reprint.

The Prodigal's unwilling return The Dark Elf Naitachal, once a Necromancer who gained power by depriving others of their life forces, is now happy in the more peaceful role of Bard. But shadows from his past linger. Naitachal's Dark Elf clan sees him as the worst of traitors for daring to turn towards the Light. They mean to take revenge. They create a trap, the Chaos Gate, a sorcerous portal that is meant to draw him into their lands and into their power. Only Kevin, once Naitachal's apprentice, now a full Bard and Count in his own castle, stands between the Dark Elf and certain doom. But can even the powers of Bardic Magic be enough to vanquish the Darkness? At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

When a peace treaty leads to shipwreck and disaster, the survivors, including the leaders of two mighty nations, advisors, ambassadors, sailors, and scribes, are forced to overcome the limits of state in order to survive. Original.

Kin Underbridge and Halleyne dar Dero have returned home to the continent on Feyndala--but not to safety. For the powers that shipwrecked them are now in control of Feyndala's kingdoms. Halleyne and Kin must arrange the rescue of those they left behind, but the forces of four nations are arrayed against them.

Asked to turn diplomat as the only man his brother, the king, can trust, Bard Alaire investigates the death of the previous ambassador and must journey to Suinomen, from where he once had barely escaped alive. Original.

Isbetta, the daughter of a legendary bard, calls on her own untrained powers to search out the mysterious figure called the Black Heron who murdered her father