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    From Iron Dreams Press this Spring - A New, Complete Edition of Nat Rome's alternate history epic, A Wheel Inside A Wheel!

    In our world, three and a half centuries ago, two young men, Reinhard von Musel and Yang Wen-li, grew up to become Kaiser Reinhard von Lohengramm, the founder of the Neue Reich, and Fleet Admiral Yang, the greatest commander to have ever lived, and the last, great hope for the Free Planets Alliance.

    But in a different lifetime, at age sixteen, Yang Wen-li was forced to flee his father's debts and hide as an outcast in enemy territory, under an assumed false name: Hank von Leigh.

    And in a different world, at age ten, Reinhard von Musel and his family became political refugees-- running to the FPA to escape his sister's promised servitude to the Kaiser.

    Although Reinhard and Yang have traded places in history, neither of them can escape their destiny: to become the forces that shape the future of the galaxy.

    Nat Rome's sweeping saga, A Wheel Inside a Wheel, is a magnetic, operatic, and unforgettable journey through a world that might-have-been, realized with an unprecedented depth and clarity of vision.

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    19 Jun 2023

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    Ochako needs to get over the border into the neighboring kingdom. Her life depends on it. She is currently trapped in a tavern while a storm rages outside and begrudgingly sharing a drink with Katsuki, a hunter she had encountered on the road. She can’t get too close, no matter how trusting he appears. No one is ever who they seem.

    The more he gets to know her, the more Katsuki wants to help. He’s an outsider she wants to let in. Only the night can reveal true intentions and the past Ochako so desperately wants to hide.

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    11 Jun 2023

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    “There are two people I can think of who might know anything,” Lavellan said. “Experts - on the Fade, on the history of elvhenan. Unfortunately,” a grimace, “one of them has vanished, and if all the resources of the Inquisition can’t find him, I doubt you can.”

    “And the other?” Fenris demanded.

    “Something from my own history, for once. Not an Inquisition thing. There is - a criminal,” said Lavellan. “Exiled from the clans. She was the blood mage who murdered Clan Sabrae and its Keeper. Last I heard she was living in Kirkwall. A very dangerous woman - possibly insane, actually - but I met her once at Arlathven, and if anyone could help you -”

    Merrill?
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    Hawke was left in the Fade. Fenris goes looking for him. He doesn't go alone.

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    13 Apr 2023

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    In a world not so different from our own, a notorious research facility known as the First Order captures, detains, and studies monsters from around the globe. Rising in their ranks is Kylo Ren, a powerful telepathic empath who extracts useful secrets from subjects—the most recent of which is an unusual mermaid dubbed the Niima Siren. But things go awry when she turns his power back on him and the two form a most unconventional bond … with surprising results, not the least of which is her seemingly endless appetites.

    As William Shakespeare famously proclaimed, the course of carnivorous mermaid mating habits never did run smooth.

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    25 Jul 2022

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    When Ochako gets a lucky pin on Bakugou during a spar, he has to do her laundry for a month.

    Why does it feel like she's the one who lost a bet?

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    21 Jul 2022