Wine of the Gods Books

*First book* of the Wine of the Gods Wolfgang was a nice kid--until they decided he wasn't even human. Genetic engineering. First they cured the genetic diseases. Then they selected for the best natural traits. Then they made completely artificial genes. As the test children reached puberty, abilities that had always been lost in the random background noise were suddenly obvious. Telepathy, telekinesis. At first their creators sought to strengthen these traits. Then they began to fear them. They called them gods, and made them slaves. Wolfgang Oldham was sixteen when the company laid claim to him. He escaped, and stayed free for three years. When he was arrested, identified and returned to the company, they trained him to be useful. They didn't realize that they were training him to be dangerous

Three stories in the Wine of the Gods Series.Exiles and Gods is the direct sequel to Outcasts and Gods.The Exiles: Backlash against genetic engineering had resulted in their banishment to parallel world. All they had to do now was survive. Between the hungry wildlife and the prejudices they had brought with them, it wasn't going to be easy.The Gods: The test Kids for genetic engineering, they'd gotten every single improvement, every experimental gene. The results were ... unsettling.The city-states, a hundred years later: Backstabbing politics and war with celestial weaponry.Thieves, horses and disasters: Have they learned enough in three hundred years? Are they strong enough to save themselves from an indifferent universe?

*Third Book* of the Wine of the Gods series. Eight centuries ago the Wizards of Scoone rose in rebellion and overthrew the Tyrant Wizard. But not before he trapped the eight most powerful in a spellweb that chained their magic and changed their bodies into the form of goats. The deposed wizard took his goats with him into exile. And time passed. Ash is a quiet village in the foothills. The home of three Old Gods, a retired wizard herding sheep with his huge black goats, and the few surviving mages and witches. But two generations later, the young witches and mages are looking outward toward a world that has grown and changed. And while the Old Gods think of ways to increase the numbers of magically talented people, the old wizard loses control over the black goats. Eight powerful wizards, trapped in the shape of goats for eight hundred years. And they are about to prove that while they may have been fighting a tyrant, they were not themselves good men. And they haven't changed.

*Fourth book* of the Wine of the Gods Universe Genetic engineering lifted psychic powers above the random background of coincidence. Backlash and prejudice against 'magic' and 'demons' resulted in the exile of the genetically engineered to dangerous worlds, not-quite-parallel earths they weren't expected to survive. Thirteen centuries of turbulent Earth history later they've been forgotten. And rediscovered.

*Fifth Book* in the Wine of the Gods Universe The first cross dimensional diaspora was nearly mythical. A few colonies, and the exile of the genetically engineered abominations so unwisely created by scientists. Fourteen centuries later, the second diaspora was well underway before the Earth first encountered another civilization with cross-dimensional abilities. Their immediate violent clash was followed by a combination of avoidance and probing for information. Now, both the Earth and the Empire of the One have laid claim to the same World, and are not about to back down and look weak. Pity about the native population, which has some odd idea about owning their own World. The magicians of Ash and the King's Own Intelligence officers try to keep track of the Emire of the One's relationship with a foreign nation, while they monitor the spies from both the Empire and the Earth on their own territory.

Book Six in the Wine of the Gods Universe A thousand years ago the gods said a comet had fallen. Nearly everyone had died. Now a small one is going to hit in six months . . . and a planet killer in eight years. The young witches and wizards of Ash have a lot to learn, and a lot of growing up to do.Rustle Neverdaut is going to be a powerful witch, if she survives bullies, high society, rapists and her own greatgrandmother.

Six short stories and a novella. What was that about Ba'al, two naked women and a goat? Did Oscar and Bran ever return to Ash? What are the spies doing, with the comet coming? What happened at Comet Fall? Read and find out . . .

Book *Eight* of the Wine of the Gods series. She saved a world, but not perfectly, not everyone. Drained of her magic, exhausted, she could not block out the screams of the injured and dying. She could only flee through a dimensional gate to an unknown world. A town that accepted her. A town that needed all of her limping, injured, magic to save them when they came under attack.

Book 9 The cross dimensional world of Comet Fall was settled by genetically engineered exiles from Earth. Their deliberately designed paranormal abilities gave rise to an odd society, but some things never change. One of the first challenges a person has to meet is growing up. "Magic" doesn't make it any easier. It just makes it stranger. Whether they are the precocious son of a god, a farm boy who is much smarter than he looks, an orphan, or a prince—every child has to learn to make their own decisions. Even if they aren't very wise decisions . . . Four stories about Growing Up Magic.

It's traditional for young lords in the Kingdom of Ash to spend two years in the army. Xen Wolfson is a young wizard, and Garit Negue a young prince. And the world is filled with adventures and danger . . . and learning experiences. Their world has been in sporadic contact with two different cross-dimensional worlds--generally as a target for conquest. When the Empire of the One returns, the young warriors are standing foursquare in their path.

A short story in the future of the Wine of the Gods Series, Saturday night, and her room mate has stolen her boyfriend. Good thing she was home when that very strange man dropped in.

The eleventh story in the Wine of the Gods Universe A fast paced thriller as an assassin with god-like powers targets the royal family of a magical world. Prince Staven Negue survived--mostly--the attack that killed his brother, the heir to the throne. And now he's determined to find the killer, and more important, the man who hired the assassin. Even if it's family.

Prince Staven had been born and raised to fight, to be the leader of the military. The death of his brother and his own crippling injury has changed his future. Why some people think being the heir to the crown is an improvement is beyond him. Staven is prepared to do his duty. Until he starts to face all the other things that are expected of a future king.

Wine of the Gods #13 Fean Withione had had problems on her internships, but she was still confident that her first assignment with an Exterior Directorate Science team would be successful and would be the start of her brilliant career. Until she she got the details of the job. Birds? Lizards? Nazis!

*Fifteenth Book* In the Wine of the Gods Universe Rael Withione was once one of the elite, a presidential guard. After the assassination attempt, she has a long recovery ahead. Investigating her brother-in-law's murder was not part of her scheduled physical therapy.

Wine of the Gods #16 A short story in the Empire of the One, shortly after the novel _Empire of the One_ As Fort Rangpur fell to the Imperial army, the last Warrior of the One and a half trained teenager were sent with the few dependents to shelter in a dimensional bubble. They emerged to find themselves in a very different sort of world than the one they'd left, just a few minutes ago. Just a thousand years ago. They weren't prepared for this world--and the world was not prepared for the return of two warriors, honed in a desperate war.

*17th* book in the Wine of the Gods Universe. Dimensional travel had brought the Earth immense wealth, but also a cross-dimensional war with the Empire of the One. Jaime Felis had been recruited by the United Earth Central Intelligence Agency and emplaced in the Army unit crossing the dimensions to a world that claimed to have magic. Magic created through genetic engineering, very like the genetic engineering of the One—and of Jaime's home planet. They hoped that his faint abilities would give them some insights into the magic of both this low tech Comet Fall and the high tech Empire. He hadn't expected to be marooned. Nor for rescue to be so fraught with problems.

Wine of the Gods #14. They crossed the dimensions to spy on the World that attacked their own. The "Oners" had been very high tech, very aggressive, as magic as their own people. They went to collect information, and found a world preparing for war. Can they use this strange world's social conventions to derail a war?

A Novella. Eighteenth story in the Wine of the Gods Universe. Falco Newton was a seventeen year old mage when he learned that the world was going to be hit by a comet. But he'd be safe, sheltered inside multiple layers of dimensional bubbles in the museum of the God of Art. For a thousand years. Now Falco and his friends have to deal with the new world . . . and deal with the trouble they've brought with them.

A Novella Twentieth story in the Wine of the Gods Universe The three sons of the God of Just Deserts have been getting into trouble. And now they've been booted out for their Young Gentlemen's traditional two year rotation through the military. Last words from Dad: Just. Grow. Up!

A Novella. Twenty-first story in the Wine of the Gods Universe. Lieutenant Kara Kitha is a loyal member of the Cove Islands Navy. Military Intel. She'll do anything to get the list of traitors back to her superiors. Including calling on the God of Spies for help.

The God of Just Deserts has realized that his wife is aging. He isn't taking it well. But what can a young magician do to help, and what will it cost him?

23rd story in the Wine of the Gods Universe. A novella Heliotrope is busy adapting tech from a parallel world for use by a batch of university professors. Too busy to sort out her feelings toward her infant daughter by a rapist. . . . until the baby goes missing. The Black Island Pyramid has recovered from their defeat, and they've started organizing again. And they want their children back. What are a few extra children, stolen here and there? Heliotrope is High Society. Moonlighting as a Geek in a Medieval kingdom. How can she find and defeat the witches who've stolen her child?

Three stories and some out takes. A collection of magic potions cascades through the lives of a desperate divorcee, the wannabe God of Thieves, a family of poor country trash, and an up-and-coming young officer.

Paer Withione, the daughter of the President of the Empire of the One is in a three way tie for a position on the Paris Division Olympic Show Jumping Team. Challenge enough, ordinarily, but it looks like someone is not content to let the best rider win. Magic is forbidden in the show ring, but out of it, she'd better be wary!

Twenty-sixth story in the Wine of the Gods Universe. A novel of crossdimensional diplomacy. Captain Xen Wolfson of the King Own is a powerful wizard and an accomplished spy. But can he pull off a diplomatic coup and get the Earth and the Empire of the One to talk instead of fight? And whatever his hopes of stopping another war across the dimensions, it looks like he's also going to have to stop a crossdimensional criminal gang at the same time.

The Dancer is back with two novellas set in the Empire of the One. In "Just Following Orders" Rael is contemplating the necessity of creative compliance while she investigates the reasons for the orders. And keeps and eye on Xen while he "helps" remodel her house. And then preparations for "A Small Family Wedding" do not go smoothly. Rael has to investigate an attempted murder while her sister finally gets around to marrying the cop she's been dating for so long.

Four stories about the cross dimensional criminals who escaped from the raid on their headquarters at the end of of "Embassy" The ones who kept to their violent ways and the ones who turned away. The assassins who find themselves facing an invasion and the gang that robbed banks.

Warric Menchuro is a Prince Primus of Arbolia. The product of his mother's rape by an insane "god", once he reaches the age of twelve, he'll be adopted as a son of the Emperor and educated to become a useful part of the government. So long as they don't discover that he can do magic. Because the Priests control all magic, and they're always delighted to find a magician to turn into one of their chained and enslaved gods.

A Novella, #30 in the Wine of the Gods Universe. A world that cannot be saved. But Xen Wolfson is going to try. Some time in the near mythical past of the Helaos a cataclysm ripped their world out of it's universe and sent it careening across the the multiverse . . . and on a collision course with an unsuspecting world.

A Novella, 31st title in the Wine of the Gods Universe. Dancer Rael of the Presidential Directorate faces a dilema when a vote of No Confidence puts a Committee in charge of the Empire until a special election either confirms or replaces President Orde. Rael's never killed anyone in cold blood . . . and she really doesn't want to start with Xen Wolfson. Even if both the Committee and the One order her to do it. Bonus story: Government House is overrun with beautiful women during the recording of a vid adventure!

A short story in the Empire of the One. Scar—so nick-named because of his flawless baby-face—is just a simple Presidential Guard. He spends his time trying to get a date, walking hallways looking alert . . . and now he's investigating the poisoning of a politician, and the main suspect is the women he's been trying to get up the nerve to ask out!

Dancer Rael Withione is back at work after a spectacular flop of an attempted assassination. And researching the legends of the Warriors of the One. Hundred meter death punch. Check. Invisibility. Check. Telepathy over thousands of miles . . . Hmm. Fear spells than routed entire armies . . . Meh. Flying . . . Flying? Really? Now that was definitely something she wanted to learn.

Thirty-fourth book in the Wine of the Gods series. Xen and friends are trying to prevent a cross-dimensional disaster that could kill billions. Eldon is getting tired of gold mining and really misses being on a world where he can just drink beer and watch football. It’s going to take both of them to save the Empire of the One from the Helios Cannibals.

A Novella in the Wine of the Gods Series. Fleeing the aftermath of heroism, Eldon Denison skids into a new Parallel Earth, into a cute chick’s car, and right into new trouble. The life of a multidimensional criminal certainly gets him into some interesting places!

Thirty-sixth book in the Wine of the Gods Universe Ajha Clostuone Black Point has worked hard and earned an unequaled reputation in the Directorate of External Relations. Called home, he not only has to deal with a minor political campaign turning deadly, he has to deal with all his family, close, distant, nice, drunk, or deadly. With a topping of religion and cross-dimensional diplomacy, it’s a race to find the murderer and whoever hired him before more people die.

The Granite Peak Colony has been discovered, lost rediscovered, fought over . . . And now the Department of Interdimensional Security and Cooperation has informed all parties to come to an accommodation peacefully--or they'll impose one. Izzo Withione Alcairo had been appointed Director of External Relations and told to clean up internal corruption and nepotism. Now it looks like he's going to have to do it while engaging in cross dimensional diplomacy. With a pregnant wife, a gothic horror of a residence, and a sexy young princess throwing herself at him, it's going to be an interesting first year.

Rael's about to meet Xen's family. No problem. Just . . . the God of War and the Witch who invented the dimensional gates. And then there's Answer . . . Nil . . . Rip Crossing . . . and all the Royal connections . . . It might be fun, if only they weren't all wondering who she'd come to kill.

Thirty-ninth book in the Wine of the Gods Series Ryol and Arno are teenage twins with a big problem. Sixteen years ago Xen Wolfson stopped an interdimensional invasion of his world by shaming the main warmongers. Seducing their wives, and getting them pregnant . . . It worked . . . but now twenty-seven teenagers need some training in a foreign style of magic, and they’re going to have to meet their father whether they want to, or not. And on a world dedicated to cross-dimensional diplomacy, an unknown father may be the least of their troubles.

A Short Story in the Wine of the Gods Series. Captain Dave ibn Daiki was badly injured as fort Rangpur fell. But he's determined to get himself, his younger brother and his commander out of enemy territory, hidden in a time dialating dimensional "Bag of the Prophets." All he has is stubborness,determination, and his legendary "Luck." But somehow he will get them all to safety. Rael Withione Montevideo is helping her daughter with a school project. She doesn't know she's about to become an escaping soldiers good luck.

Arno is a sixteen-year-old with a plan. The discovery of a world that split off from his own a mere sixty years ago has some interesting implications . . . and a few things that ought to be taken care of quickly. And since he had a few free days, he figured he ought to be the one to rescue a prophet.

Book 42 in the Wine of the Gods Multiverse Physics post grad student Peter Rhodan tracked down a magnetic anomaly and discovered a portal to a maze of worlds, with a city at the end, devoted to diplomacy. Unfortunately his world is interested in contact, but not friendly contact . . . A collection of stories from just before the establishment of Embassy to some years later.

Lucky Dave has survived, saved his Commander and his brother. Now he needs to learn how to live a thousand years in the future. How to fit in. How to continue to keep a Prophet alive in a world where the Prophets are nearly mythical. And after that . . . he has to keep a new friend alive through a violent presidential race. And learn more magic. And fall in love.

Fair is a witch of Scandia, and she has a serious problem. The city of Scandia was wrapped in a transdimensional bubble to save it from the comet impact. A thousand years later on the outside, a month on the inside, they're still trapped. Thirty-eight years ago, two army officers were desperately trying to avoid an attack by the God of Peace. They hadn't expected to wind up in a city everyone had thought dead for a millennia. If Fair can get everyone to work together, perhaps they can all escape.

A Novella in the Wine of the Gods Universe Empire Agent Kaat infiltrated the Enemy’s Homeworld. Hacked their computer system to gain an identity, and give herself a job. With everything a good spy needs, she throws herself into the role of her cover identity. She rents an apartment, and finds friends. Another year to get well established, and she’ll see about a transfer to the capital city, start moving up . . . Until an attack from her own world leaves her concussed . . . and remembering only her cover life. Not remembering the beacon she was supposed to place, to summon her world’s army. Not remembering where her loyalty lies. But when she does remember . . . is she going to continue living a lie, or start a cross-dimensional war?

Book 46 in the Wine of the Gods Universe . Xen Wolfson is a powerful dimensional wizard. With no idea how he wound up in a wilderness, bereft of magic, with what looks a lot like a lightning strike burn. If he doesn’t get killed and eaten by the wolf, and learns to make weapons, and hunt without magic, he can survive until someone finds him. Hopefully a friend . . . A cross-dimensional war is brewing, and Xen’s kidnapping was the first shot fired. As the unknown enemy continues to grab the strongest of the dimensional cops, Xen’s friends try to find him, and at the same time locate the enemy so they can stop the hostilities before it turns into open warfare.

Book 47 Wine of the Gods Rael’s doing what? The Multiverse’s hottest government agent, most incompetent assassin, deadliest woman warrior, and new mother is starting a new career, teaching at the University of the Empire’s School of Directorate Studies. With any luck she won’t have to kill any of the ultra-competitive, status-conscious, established faculty protecting their turf from the newcomer. But it’s going to be close . . . fortunately she has two secret weapons. Xen, the Master of the Multiverse, and Exzy, the cutest baby in the Multiverse. The halls of academia tremble in fear. But there’s something not right . . . And why does everyone assume she's really here to investigate her predecessor's murder? He wasn't murdered . . . was he?

A short story. #48 in the Wine of the Gods Universe Ice, a top notch Analyst has just been given a new assignment. To investigate his best friend, and find out if he's a foreign agent. Dog, an up and coming young analyst has a new assignment--to investigate his friend and Mentor, and find out if he's a foreign agent. Could get interesting . . .

Book 49 of the Wine of the Gods Eldon is a reformed cross-dimensional criminal. A genetically engineered Wizard. A movie star (Hey, a guy's got to earn a living somehow!) a father figure to a batch of kids (he's a sucker for any kid) and working with the government on their attempts at opening dimensional portals. So here's this body guard escaping through a portal with the royal prince and princess from the Cyborgs that are on the verge of conquering their world . . . And there's no way Eldon isn't going to help a couple of kids in danger.